Online Payments For Week #1 December 2009

Here's another quick update on some December 2009 payments from online companies:



$10.40 from Constant-Content. Cool company; similar to Associated Content. Get paid to write articles. Pay isn't amazing, but you can without a doubt earn $50+ a week if you are able to produce good content. If you're a slacker, you should have no problem earning $5 - $10 a week (AKA: me at the present time).

$30.67 from Mr.Rebates. If you have been reading this site for a while you probably have heard me rave about Mr. Rebates at leaste a dozen times, and this is exactly why. Great program! Earn cash back each time you make a purchase online. By far the highest paying program out there with absolutely no catch.

Two payments from Lang Tech Crop (Blogsvertise) for a total of $19.00. If you are looking to make a few bucks off your blog, Blogsvertise offers opportunities almost weekly. Earn $4 - $10 per post. Super simple.

So in 48 hours I got paid $60 from these three companies. Can't complain one bit.

Going from Nothing to Something; How I Did It

Sorry for the crazy delay on posting new opportuinities! I have been so exceptionally busy. As you may know, I opened a store a little over a year ago and also have been selling the same products, in bulk, online. Today I wanted to share with you a brief overview of my journey going from Stay At Home Mom who's working online to make grocery money to a successful business owner who is on top of the world. I hope my journey can be inspirational to anyone who is that Stay At Home Mom, struggling to make ends meet, dreaming of better days.

...If I can do it, you can do it.

About three years ago I had basically nothing besides this site that had just opened and whatever crumbs I made online. Sticking to blogging and sharing my money making ventures online made me cash - not a ton, but enough to live off of.

I had always been fortunate that I could make extra cash here and there by taking various modeling gigs. It wasnt enough to retire off of, but I'm not exactly Heidi Klum either.

I did whatever it took to make a few bucks while staying home with my children; 8 to 10 hours a day of blogging, promotional work, etc.

As the years progressed, so did the money. By the end of my second year blogging I was making over $30,000...with no investment. It was such hard work to get to that point because for the first year and a half the time invested far outweighed the income earned. Work 10 hours, make $8...it sucked. But I figured the $8 I made was free and I might as well just stick it out.

By the end of 2007 I had saved enough money from my online earnings to start making little purchases. I would buy brand name items for ac cheap as possible and sell them on ebay. By selling items online I was able to test market my master scheme of what would ultimately be where I am today.

I continued to save money and invest in products every week; no exceptions. From 2007 till 2008 I felt like I was living pretty much next to poverty because every cent I had was tied up in inventory. I think in a year I bought myself two purses and maybe 3 pairs of jeans,. It was terrible. I was so thankful to have $100+ checks from Google come and $50 checks from Vindale Research.



2009 turned into my year to shine. After so much hard work, scraping by and sleepless nights of stressing out over if I am doing the right thing; everything is starting to pay off.

I opened my retail store a little over a year ago. Even in the terrible economy of Detroit, Michigan my store was a success. Despite the struggle I managed to succeed. I opened my store with $0 in my bank account and about $8,000 worth of inventory.

Every week I would sell items online and also in my store. I started turning profit almost instantly to the tune of $700+ a week.

By mid 2009 I was making a fortune online and everything started falling into place. I won't even go into numbers but if you've followed me on Twitter for the past year, you've seen me go from nothing to something.

It's been an amazing ride and a truly incredible process and is finally to the point of being rewarding and worth all the hard work.

I got to appear in the Royce Da 5'9 Video for the song "Clash of The Titans" -

(me on the way to the shoot)

I also got to do a bunch of promotion work for various websites and companies -

Then everything started getting REALLY great!

The online sales were coming in so fast that I couldnt keep up. $3,000 orders, $7,000 orders...over $10,000 per week, just online; not counting the actual stores sales. It turned insane. The money was amazing. It was so good that my free Blogger.com site couldn't even support the amount of orders that were flooding in.

I finally launched my new ecommerce website; WorldsSexiestWholesale.com. My goal was to take the success of my retail store and previous Blogger.com site and turn it into a fully functioning ecommerce site. Like Overstock.com, but geared towards women only, like Burlington Coat Factory but without the Factory Seconds, WorldsSexiestWholesale.com carries a gigantic selection of authentic designer wholesale merchandise; Victorias Secret Wholesale, Victorias Secret Liquidation, BCBG Wholesale, BCBG Liquidation, Betsey Johnson Wholesale, Betsey Johnson Liquidation, Betseyville Wholesale, Betseyville Closeout, Betseyville Purse Wholesale and more - Fragrances Accessories Clothing Jewelry Bras Panties Makeup Gift Sets
Home & Garden Small Business Items Under $10.00 Specials WHOLESALE & BULK. I wanted to find a way to make authentic designer merchandise available to the general public who doesnt have the money to spend on these items. It's a great way for people to save money or do as I have done and get into resale.

Now I am so busy that I am constantly traveling for work;
Texas two weeks ago:

All over Michigan

And I'll be headed to Ohio, New York and Florida shortly.

I never thought I'd be the girl that can walk into any store and buy anything. I never thought I'd be able to eat steak everyday if I wanted,

Three years ago I would window shop Saks 5th Avenue and wish I could actually afford a pair of D& G Glasses. Now I own shoe boxes full.

I can't say it enough; all it takes is a dollar and a dream. If you don't have a dollar, take a penny and make it into two pennies. Then take those two pennies and make four - and working online is the best place to start. It takes time, but it's doable. There's nothing to stop you from achieving your dreams.

My plans for the future; revamp PaidOpps and continue to post as frequently as possible. They say "never bite the hand that feeds you" and I don't want to lose the one thing that allowed me to be successful today.

I also want to focus on helping people do the exact same thing I have done to become successful with selling online. I'm going to be working on publishing free series of articles about this crazy venture - basically a "how to", written in my "no B.S" fashion.

I want to expand WorldsSexiestWholesale.com - I am going to be opening an affiliate program soon for anyone who wants to earn comissions. I expect it to do rather well based on the results from the free blogger.com version of this site. So for now, anyone who wants to help me succeed will be rewarded; you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours; If you write about WorldsSexiestWholesale or any of the products on your site I'll post a link to your article and site on my Twitter, Facebook and this site; you'll be getting access to over 4,000 readers instantly. Yes, I am willing to pimp myself out to build page rank, lol!

My goal is to see how fast I can drive traffic to this site. I pretty much have building PR and SEO standing down to a 72 hour process (unbelievable, but true). I will also be sharing that after I complete this section of my research.

So, if you want me to shout out your website on my Twitter, Facebook and this site; Write your article and post the link as a comment on this article or Email it to me.

SmartPhoneResearch.com: Get Paid to Use Your Blackberry

I'm back from Texas! Ready to get back to Paid Opps!

I came across a program that anyone with a Smart Phone may be interested in trying. It's a program that allows you to earn money by allowing SmartPhoneMate to monitor the ways you communicate using your phone. Now before you worry about your privacy being intruded on; let me say that according to SPM they DO NOT read or collect your email, text messages, SMS messages, or phone calls. They DON'T view or save any photos files or anything of the like. What the monitor is HOW you use your phone to communicate. They use the research data to prepare research reports and studies. The data includes how oftern you use the internet, possibly what pagers you view, how long you talk on the phone, how many texts you send, etc. Nothing "personal" per say.

SPM combines the data from many thousands of participants and gives the results to all mobile phone users using statistical projection methods. Wireless industry manufacturers and designers use their reports to learn more about consumer preferences and to make better decisions about new product development and marketing.

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By participating you are able to earn money. Registrants earn a certain amount for installing SmartMeter , and earn a certain amount for each month that SmartMeter is running on the phone. Each registration site includes the specific dollar amounts that apply.

Payments are sent at the end of each calendar quarter to registrants who have SmartMeter running on their phone. I believe the monetary compensation comes in the form of amazon gift cards that never expire.

As far as I know there isnt an affiliate program of SPM and I'm not yet sure of what the pay is. I am still looking for more information. If you like to check out the program, you may do so here: SmartPhoneMate

Sponsored Reviews New Features Allows Bloggers to Make More Money

If you're a blogger, especially a beginning blogger, looking to make money off your site, getting paid for reviews is a great way to go! Sponsored Reviews is a great site that allows bloggers to connect with advertisers and make quick cash.

As you can see, in 2007 and 2008 I did decent off Sponsored Reviews:



I was pretty selective about which tasks I accepted and applied for. You can make far more than I did if you are willing to write about any topic on your blog. I prefer niche material only.

Anyways, here's the latest info from SponsoredReviews about their newest updates to their program:


* Filter Templates - These allow you to save your filters to be used at a later date. You will find these in incoming bids and find bloggers.
Language Filtering - We have updated every blog in our system with the language that it is written in. You can now filter for blogs written in English, Spanish, German, etc... Etc...

* Pagerank Filtering in Opportunities - While you have always been able to filter your bids by the pagerank of the blog, you can now request to only recieve bids by blogs with a certain pagerank. This will reduce the number of total bids you are recieving.

* In-Line Bid Rejections - You can now reject bids on the fly in the incoming bids screen. This was a big request by many advertisers.
New Filter - Blog Sign up Date - You can now filter to find blogs that have recently signed up. This will allow you to identify blogs that you have never seen before in our system.


I really suggest registering. It's a really easy process and you seriously can have money in your account within 7 days if you register now. Sign up for Sponsored Reviews here.

Payments for November '09 - Vindale, MaxBounty & BigCrumbs.com

Here's a few more proof of payments for Novemeber, 2009 that arrived in the past four days -



MaxBounty - $75.96 - Great program for affiliate banners and such.

BigCrumbs - $3.26 Cash back shopping site. I rarely use BigCrumbs because MR. Rebates offers higher pay, but occassionally when BigCrumbs has good promotions I'll buy through them.

Vindale - cool site to refer people to who want to make money by signing up for trial offers. You get $5 for each person you refer. Easy cash.

And I just requested a payment of $44.25 from SurveySavvy and a $30 payment from Mr. Rebates. I'll post them as soon as they arrive.

Forward Email / Texts to Raise Donation Money for Charity SCAM

I’m sure you have seen emails, text messages or even people on Twitter posting things that say:

“If you forward this message so-and-so will donate a a penny for each time it is forwarded!”

I have had numerous people ask me if this is real.
Here’s the truth:

1. EMAIL. “Such-and-such foundation will donate $1 for each time you forward this email!” – FALSE. FALSE. FALSE.
Before you even consider raising money for charity by forwarding emails take this thought into consideration: How the HELL is the company that plans to “donate” going to know how many times the email was forwarded? See, emails are considered private property. Nobody is allowed to enter your email unless you have given them permission. If a friend, coworker, even spouse enters your email without permission you can sue them for “invasion of privacy”.
Even when a court case arises against a suspected criminal, the company who hosts your email account (yahoo, gmail, Comcast, etc) will NEVER provide information unless a subpoena is sent requiring them to hand over the info. AND even in the event that they ARE sent a subpoena, they can ONLY give the info to a police officer/detective, lawyer or judge; again, this information falls under the privacy act and they are not allowed to give it out; NOT EVEN TO A “CHARITY”.

So with this in mind, please tell me HOW any charity is going to know what YOU do in your PRIVATE EMAIL?

BOTTOM LINE: THERE IS NO WAY TO TRACK WHAT YOU SEND…unless it is subpoenaed. Now, to take this one step further; a subpoena can NOT be sent at random. A court case has to be opened in order for a lawyer to request legal information. A subpoena costs a minimum of $600 and can cost thousands for A SINGLE subpoena. The cost of the subpoena is based on the amount of time it takes to recover the information. Meaning, if a company was to “offer to donate funds” for each email forwarded, they would need to have a reason to open a court case and send subpoenas to the email providers FOR EVERY user in the world to determine if they ever got the email and if they ever forwarded it…

This makes no sense. They would be spending billions and billions to donate a few thousand…? What?

2. TEXT MESSAGE. Again, you’ll see texts stating that popular companies will pay a penny or two for each time a text was forwarded. AGAIN, FALSE. Just like with email, cell phone records are private information that require a subpoena to be released. It is IMPOSSIBLE for any company to find out what you do on your private cellular account. You can send messages, receive messages, etc and nobody will ever know…unless there is a legal need for the information.

3. TWITTER. If you use twitter, you probably have seen people post tweets saying “Retweet this and such-and-such company will donate a penny for each RT” or “So-and-so will donate a penny for each time #topic is posted”. Twitter does not fall under the privacy act. Since Twitter posts are public record, it *is* possible, to an extent that a company *may* be able to count each time a topic was posted. However there are a few doubts I have about this actually working…

A.) Cost. In order for a company to tally the amount of times a #topic was posted they would have to pay someone to search twitter and by hand, tally up each time the topic was posted. This could be an endless job. If the company is donating a penny for each time a topic is posted, depending on how long it takes to tally the topic, they may be paying more in employee wages than the amount of the donation.

B.) Inaccuracy. What about profiles that have been blocked to the public and only allow friends to view them? A large amount of Twitter profiles are set to “private”, so I have no idea how these companies plan to tally the amount of times these people participated in “helping the cause”. How would it be fair to discount people who have chosen to keep their information private but have still helped aid in the supposed donation campaign?

C.) Why aren’t these GIANT companies ADVERTISING their campaigns? Why have none of us ever heard direct from the company who is sponsoring these campaigns that they will be donating?
When companies make large donations, they make sure it is known to the public – it’s kind of a marketing campaign. The company knows that by making a donation they will get tons of free publicity; so they make sure that they broadcast their donation all over the internet, radio, television and newspaper. If a company was planning to make a large donation based on Twitter #topics, you’d think they would announce this on their website and so on.

IN THE END…
Yes, it is likely all a bunch of scams. I have yet to see any “donation” made.
If you see an email or get a test message that talks about donations, you can always contact the company directly and ask if the donation info is legitimate. 99.9% of the time they will have no idea what you are talking about.

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If you genuinely do want to help a cause, instead of forwarding scam emails or text messages, research the charity and find out what you can do to help. If you don’t have the finances to donate a dollar, then consider offering your time or expertise.

Please do not forward these scams. You are not only wasting your time but you’re also wasting other peoples time; time that could be used to REALLY help a cause.

How SponsoredTweets.com Works - No Scam! Real Cash For Tweets!

Today I accepted my first Sponsored Tweet offer; pay is $15.98 to post ONE Tweet on my Twitter account! Not bad, eh? I thought this is the perfect time to allow my buddy CKFighter to explain how Sponsored Tweets works and the financial success he has had being a Sponsored Tweets member


In this blog entry we will be talking about sponsored tweets. This third party platform allows you to set your own price for tweets. Advertisers look at your profile and analyze it to see if it is worth the money that you are charging. If you are, then they will make you and offer than you can accept or decline. You then get paid your price for sending out the tweet. So let’s start with the basics, and that is making your profile and setting your price.



1. This is where you set your charge for a tweet. There is a suggested price beneath it that I suggest you stick to, if you are going to bump it only do it by a little no more than 10%. Keep in mind what you charge is not what the advertisers have to pay. They have to pay double, in which half the money goes to you and the other half goes to sponsored tweets.

2. This is where you put your keywords so that advertisers can find you better. Zero in on your niche and use those key words. When an offer comes it will be emailed to you at the email you give.




In this screen shot you’ll notice there are three tabs that show the process of the sponsored tweet. The first is the one that says, “open”, this is where you offers are waiting for you to accept them. The next is the one that is labeled “pending” in which any offers your accept go back to the advertiser for final approval. Once it gets to complete it means the advertiser has accepted your condition and will send out the tweet from your profile and then pay you for your service.

3. This is very important; in order to get paid the CPC (cost per click) for the advertiser needs to reach below $1.50. The lower the CPC the better since this means that the advertisers are getting a lot of views for the money they are paying for. If you don’t reach below 1.50 CPC then the program will retweet twice until it gets there. If it still doesn’t reach you will still be paid but it might hurt your ability to get future offers, so really set that price right! You want to consistently be below $0.50 CPC

Now for some tips on how to get more offers than your competition. What it comes down to is how powerful your twitter profile is. Take a look at the screen shot below:




4. Ratio - You want this number to be as high as possible. I would recommend no lower than 2. You could have 800 followers but it doesn’t look good when you are following 1700 people. This makes you look like a spammer and it also tells advertisers that you don’t have a true following to a given niche and that instead you have a high follower count only because of random action.

5. Klout Score - This is a MUST have. The kscore is the best tool you will have in the bag for getting offers. You can get a klout score by going to kloutscore.com. This site measures the influence you have on Twitter. The closer you are to 100 the better. Try and get to at least 35, which will put you ahead of a lot of people. A high kscore shows advertisers that you are involved in the Twitter world and that your opinion is respected increasing the odds of clicks on the links you send.

6. Grade – This is calculated automatically; obviously the higher you are the better. If you can get your grade to 95 or higher you are looking pretty good.

As you can see from my profile, I may not have the most followers. I only have 360. However I have received more offers than accounts that have much more followers than me. This is because I have a great grade, a good kscore, and a solid ratio. My advice is to work at getting a strong base and influence in twitter and then look to build your audience from there. If you do that, then you can up your price as your account becomes more and more attractive. If you want to sign up, here is the link http://bit.ly/165WcN. If you have any questions, hit me @CKfighter on twitter. Good luck and have fun!

Squidoo Lens: Easy Online Money to Write About Anything!

As predicted, this month was a giant increase in Squidoo earnings - and it didnt take much at all, just a simple updating of my page.



As you can see, the payment is for the September earnings, so I expect to be getting a larger payment in another 60 days.

I totally recommend Squidoo to anyone who wants to promote their ventures, get paid to write and so on. It's truly the best way to get totally free links and even earn a few bucks while driving traffic to your site(s). If you have nothing to promote, then make a few pages about people, places or things you love and earn some cash! Check out my last article about Squidoo here or you can check out my Squidoo "lens" (Squid terminology for "pages") here:
Victorias Secret Wholesale lens I made.

Making a lens isnt hard at all. Its pretty fun. You can add all your fav features - Twitter, Facebook and just about anything else you want to it (I think the weather channel was even an option). So if ya have some good recipes, sign up for Squidoo and post them and earn cash for visits. Or, if you know how to make crafts, why not share them on Squidoo and earn a few bucks to cover some of your supplies!

SharedReviews.com: Get Paid to Write Reviews PLUS Bonus Cash Give-A-Way

I got another payment from Shared Reviews -



Not a huge one, only $25.00. However, that does put me over $113 so far.

In addition to earning cash for writing reviews and profit sharing based on how the websites advertisement revenue does, Shared Reviews is also giving out "Cash Rewards". Here's the blurb on it:

"Heading into our fifth month of Cash rewards, and the cusp of the holiday shopping season, we're excited to continue with another $2,000 in cash rewards this month, and to pre-announce some changes coming for the December cycle. The first set of changes will be a category overhaul, we hope to clean up, consolidate, remove redundant, and add new relevant categories.

The second big change will be the addition of a new referral program here at Shared Reviews. We will add a new interface for you to track all of your referrals going forward, and you will earn referral bonuses on any earnings of anyone who signs up listing you as a referral! You will earn a bonus of 10% of all of your referrals earnings for a given cycle for a 12 month period from the date they sign up. This will only count for referrals who sign up after the new program goes live.

Here is the breakdown of how each category's share of the $2,000 will be split in November:

1st: 40%, 2nd:25%, 3rd: 20%, 4th: 10%, 5th 5%

1) Vote allowances are going to remain with the same amount allocated last month.

Here is the current structure:

ShareScore: Amount of votes per category
0-24: 1
25-74: 2
75-94: 3
95-100: 4


ShareScore: Total amount of votes available to you
0-24: 100
25-74: 200
75-94: 400
95-100: 800

2) Vote bonuses for publishing new reviews and referring new members to the site remain at 15 additional votes for a newly published review, and 20 additional votes for a new referral.

3) This Month’s Contests will remain the same as last month, they are:

1) Most Votes Cast:
1. $25
2. $20
3. $15
4. $10
5. $5

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2) Most Published Reviews:
1. $25
2. $20
3. $15
4. $10
5. $5

3) Most Votes Received:
1. $25
2. $20
3. $15
4. $10
5. $5 "

So check out Shared Reviews and write about stuff you love, pimp your ventures and get paid!

SponsoredTweets SupaTweeta Challenge: $1,000 CASH PRIZE

Check out the email from Sponsored Tweets that came today:

"We had some people complain that SupaTweeta II was limited to U.S. residents only. I am proud to announce a new SupaTweeta Challenge that is open to U.S. Residents and our international friends as well. This program will be similar to our previous challenges, however it is not a contest. The top referrer in this challenge will get the opportunity to be hired for a $1000 sponsored tweet which will be facilitated through the system. You can transfer the $1000 to your PayPal account from Sponsored Tweets and do what you like from there.

The Challenge
Use your referral link inside Sponsored Tweets to sign up new Tweeters to the system. You can use the standard tweet, display ads or get creative and make something new.

The challenge starts today at 12:00pm EST and ends November 16th at 12:00pm EST.
The person with the most valid new referrals during the challenge period will be bonused with the opportunity to be hired for a $1000 sponsored tweet.

Your referral Tweeter accounts must be over 120 days old by contest end (you can’t just setup a bunch of Twitter accounts and refer yourself).

Referrals prior to today do not count for the challenge. Everybody starts fresh!
Valid for people 18 years of age and older only. Void where prohibited by law.
Do not use Twitter bot spamming (or any spamming for that matter) to drive registrations. Doing so will make you ineligible, you will be reported to Twitter and your SponsoredTweets account will be suspended."

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Totally worth the try! So sign up for Sponsored Tweets and tweet away! Not only will you get cash for posting Tweets but you also have a chance to win $1,000!