Paid Opportunities

Just an update;
Here’s a few payment screenshots that I have gotten in the past 3 days –



ConstantContent - $12.00
MagnaWeb, Inc (Mr.Rebates.com) - $22.35
ExtraMoneyNetwork (Points2Shop.com) - $10.05

Labels: constant-content, Mr.Rebates, points2shop.com

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www.RateYourDemo.com is offering artists a chance to submit tracks, beats and lyrics for REAL industry professionals to not only review, but possibly obtain song and track placement on future albums as well as potentially landing a record deal.

Creating an account with www.RateYourDemo.com is 100% FREE. After creating an account you will be able to see what tracks are currently in the lead and being reviewed by the hottest producers, looking to sign new talent. If you want to submit tracks or albums you can. I suggest submitting your hottest track for $7.99, but if you want you can submit more for a higher amount. Site is def. worth checking out for anyone who is looking to get their music out there or possibly get a big break.





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Hey guys! There's a new contender stepping into the t-shirt design competition arena...ShirtFight!

ShirtFight is a weekly themed t-shirt competition site that is 100% driven by the community of artists and fans of cool artwork. Every Thursday at midnight they announce a new themed contest and the community votes on their favorite design submissions. After a week is up (the following Thursday at midnight), they look at the voting results and announce a winner. That winner is paid $500, and his/her design is printed on high-quality t-shirts to be sold on their site. And the whole wonderful cycle starts alllll over again! :)

There's no cost to submit a design or vote on designs. Just a really cool site that is quite a bit of fun! Totally worth checking out! Plus you can order awesome Tees for as little as $5 - no joke! Check out ShirtFight here.
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I wanted to test myself to see just how much money I could make in a matter of minutes using a combination of Paid to Read email programs in a 10 minute period:

2:49pm:
Hits 4 Pay - $0.03
DealsNCash - $0.02

2:50pm
Hits 4 Pay - $0.01
DealsNCash - $0.05

2:52pm
Hits 4 Pay - $0.01
DealsNCash - $0.02

2:53pm
Hits 4 Pay - $0.02
DealsNCash - $0.05

2:55pm
Hits 4 Pay - $0.02
DealsNCash - $0.05

2:56pm
Hits 4 Pay - $0.05
DealsNCash - $0.02

2:57:
Hits 4 Pay - $0.01
DealsNCash - $0.02

2:58pm
Hits 4 Pay - $0.01
DealsNCash - $0.02

2:59pm
Hits 4 Pay - $0.04
DealsNCash - $0.03

RESULTS: $0.50 in approximately 10 minutes. With that in mind, if you read emails for 10 minutes a day, you have potential to make $15+ a month– just by using two programs. BUT...

As you can see from the screenshot below, I read 11 emails through Hits4Pay. My direct earnings are only $0.22 cents (which I’m not complaining about – it’s $0.22 more than I had 10 minutes ago) but my INDIRECT earnings (referrals earnings) are much greater:



In 14 days I have made $133 off referrals reading their emails.

PTR TIPS ‘N TRICKS
Making the most of PTR programs is important to making really good money off of them. Here’s a few tips –

1. Always use multiple PTR programs at the same time. Just log into 2 to 3 different PTR programs using different screens on your computer (as shown in first screenshot). By using 2-3 programs at once, you are tripling your earnings. It’s a time effective way to make more money. I also “read emails” while I blog, use myspace or do whatever I am doing on the PC.

2. Don’t get caught up in “reading emails”. The purpose of the advertiser paying you to “read” their email is because they’re trying to sell you something; a $30 “Make money kit”, a vacation package, a domain name…whatever it may be, they want you to buy it. If you decide to buy the item you’re being pitched you’ll end up defeating your purpose of reading the emails in the first place (remember…you wanted to MAKE MONEY, not SPEND money?)

3. When you get to emails that say “Are you sure you want to exit the page”, click “ok” then click “read next email”. The site tries desperately to confuse you into staying on their webpage and ultimately investing in some kind of product. Once you have been paid, it’s time to make more $!

4. Make the most of referrals. Put your referral links everywhere you can insert a link. Email them to friend, post them on social networking sites or in forums, etc. Referrals = long term $$$. Make use of them! Building thousands of referrals may take a while, but its worth it long term!

5. If you notice that a week or two has gone by and you're not getting any "paid emails" sent to you, make sure you log into your account. Often times if you are using a free email (gmail, yahoo, etc) the paid emails that are sent will "rebound" and the paid email company will hold your account until you log in and verify it.

Check out DealsNCash here or check out Hits 4 Pay here.

Labels: best PTR, get paid to read, referral email

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Today I decided I wanted to spend some time figuring out Points2Shop. Since joining Points2Shop on June 11th, 2009 I have been able to cash out twice, for a total of $19. Today is July 1st, so I’ve been a member for about 20 day; making my earnings about $1 a day. BUT in ADDITION to the cash pay I saw that I have accumulated about 700 “Points”. Previously I was under the assumption that the points WERE cash earnings, but I was incorrect. The points are IN ADDITION TO your cash earnings. You can use your “points” to buy goods from Amazon.com.

So I logged into Points2Shop again today and decided that I wanted to try and get something with my points to see exactly how it works. I did a search for “eyeliner” through points2Shop/Amazon. I found an Almay pack of 2 black liners for 699 points . I selected it and went to figure out the ordering process.
It turns out that you also have to have enough points to cover the shipping costs. Which in my case, shipping is about 525 points; meaning I can not afford this item:



I then revised my search and found a two pack of brown Neutrogena liners for only 300 points. With shipping this item comes to 649 points; meaning I CAN afford it:



Problem being, it’s brown. But either way, it’s free. Good item to give as a gift or resell.
After making my purchase I was given an “order ID” number and link. The link takes me to an order summary that is contained in my Points2Shop account. All purchases are processed and shipped in 1 to 2 business days and tracking numbers are provided.

I’ll update you when my liners arrive! Check out Points2Shop here.

***IMPORTANT INFO: When you sign up for Points2Shop you MUST "complete your profile" before you can begin earning money. This is simple, just fill out your details; address, pay pal address (or eGold or whatever means you want to get paid by) and so on. You don't have to enter any credit card info or anything like that.

And below you will see my current, up to the minute, earnings:

Labels: amazon gift cards, amazon.com, points2shop, points2shop.com

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If you’re a college student looking to buy, sell or trade your used text books, check out DealOz. On the main page you can get an instant (FREE) quote of what your books are worth simply by typing in the ISBN:



You can locate the ISBN on your books by looking for the barcode that contains a series of numbers:



After you enter the ISBN into the search box you will be given a list of places that will purchase your book(s) off of you for cash (or occasionally trade in value).
You also have the option to sell your books online through DealOz:



If you’re looking to sell through DealOz you are able to list them in the marketplace or you use “sell to store” as mentioned previously.

Great way to make some $$$ off your unwanted books! Have a friend who would like to read this article? Click below to send them this page -

Labels: college books, sell books, sell text books, sell textbooks

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Many eBay sellers are outraged over Auctiva now charging for their “free service”. If you have sold on eBay you may be familiar with Auctiva already – it is a “free” program that allows you to use templates, work easily in html, upload multiple photos for free, schedule listing, etc – all at no charge.

I discovered about a year ago that Auctiva and KickItBack were actually eBay – not independent companies. At this time I assumed something was up, but since the services remained free I had come to conclude that it was just a method eBay was using to try and make more money off new listings and final value fees…I was wrong.
Auctiva is now forcing users to choose a plan. For about $3 a month you can list a whole 15 items and use their templates (crappy). For $10 a month you have unlimited usage. I find the whole thing to be disgusting. As if eBay sellers aren’t already losing enough money as it is!

I have done the math before, and I’ll do it again for you;
For every item you sell, you’re losing 20% - 30% of your sale, not to count the hours you spend photographing, listing, responding to inquires, shipping, etc = time.

FEES, FEES and… NEW FEES…
First, you have listing fees. Lets assume you just list everything at a penny – no reserves, no upgrades – you are paying $0.15 per listing. If you list 20 items, you have lost $3.00 right off the top.

Out of 20 items, lets say 15 of them sell for $10 a piece. You have grossed $150 in sales, and you now owe 8.75% of each transaction, which is $1.32 ($1.32 x 15 = $20)
Now you will need to ship your items. If you chose to get free boxes from USPS – cool. It isn’t cost effective if you are shipping light items, but the boxes are free. However, you still need:

• Packaging Supplies
• Tape
• Paper to print or handwrite shipping labels – or you can buy sticky labels for even more money

Assuming you use old newspaper for your packaging supplies (not very professional, but it works) and assuming you hand write your shipping labels to save money, you will still need to buy a tracking number which will run about $0.50 per item ($0.50 x 15 = $7.50) OR you can print your postage through Pay Pal which gives you tracking numbers for free but you now have to add in cost for:

*ink
*computer paper

So either way you are still paying for some kind of paper, some kind of tape and some kind of ink. We can guesstimate these costs will be around $.50 per item shipped = $7.50.

If you own an eBay store, you are paying an additional $16/month (basic store) $50/mo (premium store) or $300/mo (anchor store).

Now you will also be paying $10/mo for Auctiva.

Revisiting the math, in a months time, if you list 20 items a week for 4 weeks and 15 of them sell, you will have grossed approximately $600. You will have lost $12 in listing fees, $80 in closing fees, $10 in Auctiva Fees, $16 in ebay store fees and a minimum of $30 in shipping. Most likely, if you are listing 80+ items a month you will be buying your own shipping supplies, so your shipping costs will double.

TOTAL MADE: $600
TOTAL FEES: $148
NEW TOTAL MADE: $452
*TOTAL LOST: APPROXIMATELY 25%

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BUT WAIT! We forgot to account for the cost of the items. Unless you have hundreds of free items laying around your home, you likely paid money for the items you are listing. Let say the items you’re selling for an average of $15 each cost you only $2; in order to list 80 of them a month, you will have spent $160 cost on your items. Meaning, even though you walked away with $452, you also paid out-of-pocket $160 in goods to sell –

NEW TOTAL: $292
* TOTAL LOST: APPROXIMATELY 50%

AND, remember, the math is also considering that you are not using any reserve prices (costs more money) or listing your items with starting bids over $0.01.
As you can see, the fees just keep coming. eBay is NOT a fair place for the seller. The only one who makes money on eBay IS eBay…and now Auctiva.

Labels: auctiva, Ebay, ebay tamplates, free ebay, free templates

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If you want to drive traffic to your site, it's important to focus on keywords. A keyword is a word or phrase that is used on a website. The goal of "keyword density" is to make your website fit into its niche. For example, if I run a "work from home site" I will want to make sure I use "work from home" keywords. In this specific article, I am writing about a "free keyword density checking tool", so my primary focus is to use words like "keyword", "density", "free tool", etc.



Keyword density is important because search engines use this information to categorize a site and determine which terms the site is relevant to. The perfect keyword density will help achieve higher search engine positions. Keyword density needs to be balanced correctly (too low and you will not get the optimum benefit, too high and your page might get flagged for “keyword spamming”).



Check the keyword density of your key web pages with by using FREE Keyword Density Analyzers .

WHAT THIS FREE TOOL DOES:

* Check the keyword density of your web pages for FREE
* Get 1, 2 and 3 word - search term analysis
* Vital FREE SEO tool for people writing and reviewing web page copy
* Get a FREE email report of your web page keyword density

Check out the Free Keyword Density Website Checking Tool here. There's no cost and the results you find may surprise you.

Labels: analizer, free tool, keyword density, keywords

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ONLY one week left to enter the 100% FREE (no games, no gimmicks) Walt Disney All-Inclusive Vacation Raffle!

Vacation package includes1:

•· Round trip coach class air transportation for four
•· Four (4) night accommodations at Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge
•· Four (4) 5-day Magic Your Way tickets with Park Hopper® option which include, access to the Magic Kingdom® Park, Epcot®, Disney's Hollywood StudiosTM, and Disney's Animal Kingdom® Park
•· PLUS special enhancements to make your celebration even more magical including a personal itinerary planner, a VIP Tour Guide for six hours, a Disney's PhotoPass® package and a Disney Gift Card worth $200 USD

All you have to do is register for the 100% FREE (never any charge...ever) eco-friendly newsletter through IdealBite.com. The newletter is sent out on weekdays and contains little snippets of ideas on how you can do things to cut your costs, help the environment and other cool news about energy efficient products. The newletter is awesome - the free vacation is just a heck of a bonus! The winner of the vacation will be chosen June 30th, 2009 and announced the following day.

Only one entry per person. Cool stuff, make sure you sign up.

*Also is a great way to get ideas of things to write articles about! Lol!

Labels: Drawings, Free Newsletter, free prizes, free raffles, give-a-way, Idealbite

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Although Points2Shop is a semi confusing site due to the earnings points = cash concept, it's still pretty cool. I've been a member for a whole 11 days and I've made $10.50. When I hit $9.50 I decided to cash out and make sure pay really does come.

Here's my Points2Shop proof of payment:




MISUNDERSTANDINGS
1. You do NOT have to spend your earnings on Amazon.com. The banner ads and stuff make it appear that all the points you earn can only be cashed out on Amazon, but, as you can see, I took a Pay Pal payment for mine. However, you CAN spend them on Amazon if you'd like.

2. International users CAN earn referral money off Points2Shop. Referral pay is available for USA, CA and UK members.

3. You don't have to refer people to earn extra points. You can complete merits, complete offers, take surveys, etc. Or, just shop and earn points.

Check out Points2Shop here. As always, its free.

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