As I said in my previous post - my focus for my online income earning has shifted from the 'get paid to' programs to more of an internet marketing focus.

But, I did want to do a quick update on the 'get paid to' programs that I am using. First, I'm going to be dropping Hits4Pay and DealsNCash from the programs I'm using. I finally hit the payout threshold for Hits4Pay. I never did any real intense promotion for Hits4Pay, but I did have about 20 referrals in my downline. With 20 referrals it took me about 2 months to hit the payout level of $25 bucks. And that was with a $10 dollar sign up bonus! Here's a breakdown of what it actually took to hit that $25 bucks.


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One of the things I like about fellow up and coming blogger Angel, is that he says what he thinks. He's not afraid to try something out and give his honest opinion on it. For example - he recently tried out CashCrate and Treasure Trooper using my referral links and gave his opinion on the program.


As you can see by the title of his article - he's not a big fan of the "get paid to" sites. But that's ok - like I've said before, it's not for everybody.

I do disagree a little though. I agree that sitting and clicking those ads isn't fun. It's boring and you might make more money if you went and got a job at McDonald's. But for about 15 minutes of my time a day, I could make a couple of bucks which at the end of the month might be 30 or 40 dollars. Yeah, not a good hourly rate, but I could watch a show on television everyday for 30 minutes and not have any cash at the end of the month for it.

But I don't spend 15 minutes a day on it.

I've written a few posts about it - made a few comments in a couple of forums with a link in my signature line. That's about all I've done with those - because I really think the power of these programs comes when you can build a large referral pool. I mean really - Amy of My Debt Free Goal makes $1500 bucks a month from a couple of weeks she spent getting referrals (she also wrote this great review that had a very high conversion rate). Now that's a nice passive income.

So, fill out the surveys yourself and you could make enough for a dinner at a not so fancy restaurant each month, or try to get a few referrals and you might be going out for sushi. A few times.

Anyways - thanks for trying it out Angel. At least Harper can thank you because the fifteen or thirty minutes you spent laboring over those surveys on the other side of the world bought Harper a cone at DQ here in hot Las Vegas. And ice cream is always a good thing.


Speaking of Angel - he's having a contest and this week I'm all about the contest so I guess things in the universe are just lining up. So. It's a pretty simple contest.

• 50+ words in a post and a link to the contest page
  
• Stumble his site
• Subscribe to the site's feed

That's it. $100 bucks. How you like that?

Check his site out - it's one of my daily reads.


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Both Harper and I took the weekend off of the computer. Well, I guess he didn't really take it off as he still likes to walk up to the computer desk and bang on the keyboard when I'm not looking. He's getting pretty good at doing things when I'm not looking. In fact, that's how most of our days are spent, looking for things to do when dad's not looking. Climbing on the chairs to get on top of the table, taking all of the pots out of the cabinet, putting dad's keys in the dog's water bowl...

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You have to be proactive if you want to blog.

It's always important to know where your readers are coming from. It's important to know what they're clicking on. It's also important that you don't spend too much time trying to figure it all out.

I'm really bad about this. I love watching my traffic stats. I like making a post someplace else and watching what kind of traffic it generates. In elementary school did you ever release groups of balloons with your class's information to see who would find the note attached to the balloon and contact you?

Or - when you were a kid did you ever send signals up into the night sky with a flashlight in case aliens might pick up your signal?

I'm still waiting for a response on that one.

I always wonder if I'm just waving a flashlight around in the sky when I'm blogging.

That's why when you look at your stats, you'll be able to see what is actually having an effect, and this is good because you can do more of that.

Make sure you know what activities are directing traffic to your site. Is it the comments you left on a fellow blogger's blog? Is it the link in the sidebar that you exchanged for? Is it an article you wrote that had a link back to you?

I also like to know which links are being clicked. Do you know which is your most popular? Out of every link I have, text or image, this is my most popular, it's one of my referral links - though lately I've had it linking to one of my reviews:



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A quick little blog upkeep post. Some odds and ends that I've been collecting to put into a single post.

I've had a few readers contact me in the last couple days with some questions. I'm always happy to get emails or comments from anybody with any questions for me. If I can I'll reply through email, or perhaps if it's something I can address on the blog itself - I'll do that.

And with my participation in the 30 Day Challenge there are all sorts of new ways that you can reach me.

Facebook Profile - Add me as a friend, I could use a few.
Twitter - follow me and I'll do the same.
or good old fashioned email - chewingglass(at)aol(dot)com

For everybody looking for my RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed, fret no more. Like a scavenger hunt or Easter Sunday I've taken the liberty of hiding a button on this page that will beam all this wonderful content directly to the feed reader of your choice. Look carefully and see if you can find it - it looks a little like this:


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It's easy to earn a hundred bucks in a month with a program like CashCrate. You'll spend a few hours on the computer completing the surveys and such - but in the end you'll have a nice check for $100 dollars American for your time.

I've spent time completing offers and blogging about that process on CashCrate as well as other programs like Treasure Trooper. They're easy money - if you have the time.

Now, I've got a few referrals and I've made a little bit from those referrals. Which got me to wondering exactly how powerful are those referrals? Are they worth the effort?

Yesterday I had a conversation with a fellow blogger who does nothing with those programs besides the referrals. Her first month with one program she made over $1500 bucks. Now, she has a ton of referrals, but I was surprised by how quickly she actually accumulated those referrals and how easily. Now, she just sits back and collects a check every month.

This made me rethink some strategies for gaining those referrals. My fellow blogger gave me a few tips which I'm going to try out. I started by writing a review of CashCrate to which I'll spare you the details. My next step is I'm going to start working some forums with the link to the review right in my sig line. Usually in a forum I'll just have the sig point to my blog, but I'm going to see if pointing it to the review will make a difference.



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So I have a lot on my plate. Harper does too - he's busy messing with the dogs and causing havoc in general.

Today the 30 Day Challenge officially kicked off and I've spent a lot of time reviewing the material and doing the 'homework' assigned for today which consists mainly of brainstorming ideas for niche sites. There's still time to try it out - it'll just take a little work to get up to speed, but you could do it if you wanted to.

Yesterday I was driving and listening to NPR and heard a story about people being addicted to FaceBook. Now I've been on Myspace and did it for a while, but became rather bored with it and got tired of my account being constantly flooded with crap and spam. Now I don't know if this is going to happen on FaceBook - but I'll tell you this - I really like it. It's a really neat way to interact with friends and other people. It's definitely working it's way into my daily online routine. If you want to add me as a friend on FaceBook - here is my profile - add me as a friend and let me know you're coming from my blog.

After I heard the story on NPR - I also came across this video in the 30 Day Challenge Forums. It's one of the founders of Facebook speaking to a large group of developers (I know, who cares if you aren't a geek?) about how FaceBook is basically starting a revolution in how information travels. I'd consider myself a semi-geek so I found this video super interesting, but I think most anybody interested in how the internet works would find it informative. Though I guess, if you're interested in that you're probably a geek or a semi-geek as well.

Ok. Despite having all of this new stuff to work on. I'm determined to continue the path that I had been traveling already as well. By that I mean I'm going to spend some time today catching up on some other things like writing some articles for Associated Content, updating my blogs, and completing some offers on CashCrate and Treasure Trooper. I think I have some ads to click on in Hits4Pay as well.

I haven't written a whole lot of articles for Associated Content in about a week. But I got a few more offers, including a couple that were over 5 bucks (I'd been averaging $4.50) so that kind of sparked my interest to write some more today. I'm hoping to kick out 4 or 5 articles tonight. If you like to write check out AC. It's a great way to make a little extra cash - plus it always feels good to get paid for something you write. I'd say it takes me about 20 minutes to write a decent article on AC, but it's hard to sit down and write article after article - so I probably average 2 an hour which comes out to 9 or 10 bucks an hour. That's not too bad - I guess I could go get a job at Dairy Queen and not make that much - or I could turn on iTunes and write a couple articles. Hmmm...decisions decisions.



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I've been spoiled by the ease of use at Treasure Trooper. That's why when I started on CashCrate I was extremely happy with how clean and easy the site was to navigate. Don't you hate those sites where it seems like everything is a big secret and you have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out how not to get run around in circles trying to unsubscribe?

Cash Crate's site is on level with Treasure Trooper's, which I love. It also works almost the exact same way as Treasure Trooper. Of all the sites that I've been researching - I think CashCrate has the most positive reviews of any other site that I've found. The site is easy, the affiliate program is excellent, and payments are always on time.


Speaking of affiliate programs - CashCrate's is excellent. You're paid on two levels of referrals. The first level is the people you sign up, and the second is the people your first level signs up. And they pay 20% and 10%. Excellent. As you get more referrals your percentages rise all the way up to 30% and 20%.

Here's a picture of a check that my friend Amy received from CashCrate:


Notice the total? $1855.84! Nice. Amy is actually my sponsor and has helped me a lot with getting started with CashCrate - even loaned me this photo of her check - I told her it was just until my check looked like hers! Take a look at Amy's review of CashCrate here - she has some really interesting stats in hers.

Can you make any money without referrals? Of course. It's like any other pay to click program. CashCrate has a daily $0.80 survey that you can take every 24 hours. Just doing that is an extra 25 bucks a month for 3 minutes of work a day. Can't ask for much easier than that - but of course you can always do more as their are a ton of programs.

So what the negative in all of this? Spam. It's like any other pay to click site - you give out your email to a lot of advertisers. That's why CashCrate can pay you - it's basically an information gathering service and advertisers pay for that, that's how you make $0.50 or $2.00 bucks an offer. I have a separate gmail account set up just for this. I give them my info, that email, and just log into that email every few days to delete the accumulated spam. Nothing really to it. As far as telemarketers - go to privatephone.com - you can get a free phone number with voicemail, so you don't ever have to worry about anybody calling you.

Anyways - if you've been wanting to try a pay to click program - give this one a shot. I'm giving CashCrate a serious thumbs up for now. Here's my referral link - http://www.cashcrate.com/296022. Would love it if we both make some money on this on!


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