Summary of My Online Earnings in 2008

Hey everyone,

I hope you all are having a good New Years Eve or maybe it is already 2009 and you are just reading this. In that case I hope you have a wonderful New Years Ever/New Year celebration.

I am just here to give a summary of my online earnings for the year of 2008 and I want you all to keep in mind that I just started to do this earlier in 2008 (around March) and did not make a breakthrough till around April/May.

In this last year I have seen so many sites of many types come and go, especially those PTC (paid to click) sites. But there are still a few which I click at. Only three, which can be all be found under my list of money making sites on the sidebar. They are Ara-bux, Clixsense and Wordlinx.

There are so many other sites which have come and gone and not just PTC sites. HYIP (investment sites) and Auto-surf sites (which I have personally never ventured into) start off nicely but quickly turn into scams. I think the key with some of these sites is to get in on the ground floor but don't take my word for it.

Now, on myLot there have been few discussions where people have been asking, "Are you satisfied with your online earnings this year?" and other discussions along the same lines. This prompted me to calcuate and add up all my earnings for 2008 (I keep a ledger book and excel sheet with records) and I have to say that I am pretty surprised at how much I actually made in 2008. So without further ado, I shall give you all a rundown of my earnings for the year of 2008.

Review Stream - $296.40Usd
myLot - $56.29Usd
Money4Banners - $30GBP changed to $45.32Usd
Freelance work - $199Usd. (If you have graphic skills you can do logo/banner designs for cash)
Burnbux - $1.06Usd :- turned scam shortly after I got this payment
Paid Profit (HYIP) - $0.66Usd :- Not sure what happened to this site
LevelInvest (HYIP) - $3.50 :- ended up closing down/scam
Ucash.in - $0.10Usd
Ara-bux - $341.91Usd (This is only some profits which I withdrew, I made about $393 in actual profits . This figure does not include the $209Usd initially invested)

Amazon Mturk - Almost $200Usd which I used in my gift certificate account to purchase stuff from the Amazon website.

Now unfortunately I never made a profit from Crewbux, in fact I operated at a loss. So I decided to include absolutely no money into these calculations from that site.

Now all this (not including Amazon Mturk money) comes to very close $1000Usd.
Actually $944.24Usd and having Amazon Mturk money to spend made it easier for me to buy gifts for some of my international friends and relatives during birthdays and the holiday season.

I also won a prize from the contest I recently blogged about which Bob, from ChristianPF.com, was holding. Besides the Ipods, there were other goodies being given away. I won a copy of The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets by Peter Schiff. It looks like a very informative book and I will give a review of it when I am finished reading it.

I hope your year has been as good as mine and I wish you all much success in 2009.

Roxanne

Win something for the New Year!

The owner of ChristianPf.com is having a Christmas giveaway which ends on December 29th 11:59pm CST time. Among the goodies being given away are two iPods! An 8 GB iPod Nano and a 1 GB iPod Shuffle. Who doesn't want one of those for Christmas or better yet, the New Year!

All you have to do to enter this contest is mention the giveaways on your blog or website, or even your Facebook page and then post the link in the comment box under the original article. It doesn't matter if you think your webspace is not popular enough for this sort of contest. It is still fun to try.

So I wish you good luck and here are a couple pictures of the iPods you could win along with so many other goodies! So enter before the deadline hits. Good luck everyone!

Another Money4Banners Payment

I have to say I was very surprised when I woke up today and saw in my email inbox and payment from Money4Banners!

I was expecting payment around Christmas Eve and frankly I didn't expect to get paid before, but rather after the holiday season had passed. I am quite happy that I got payment upfront though, I am definitely not complaining. So don't hesitate to sign-up.

If there is anything you feel you need to know, feel free to leave a comment asking me and I will get back to you as soon as possible on it.
Good luck and I hope your holidays are coming along nicely!

Got back my intial investment from Arabux

Well as you guys know, I have been investing into one PTC (paid to click) site as of late, by the name of Arabux.

If you guys read my last post about this site then you guys know that I made a considerable profit from them. I requested $254.96 from them after I got that last payment and $209. basically covers my investment. Well I am a premium member there and have been paid within the TOS stated. So, I officially got back my initial investment along with nearly $380+USD in profits, just from one month investment.

Not too shabby if you ask me! Here is the proof of payment for this cashout and if you haven't joined Arabux yet, what are you waiting for?
Start earning now!

Money4Banners Payment!

Wow, November is really going great for me. I have to say, I wasn't expecting payment from Money4Banners till the end of the month but when I finally got around to checking my emails today I was pleasantly greeted by one of the emails saying I recieved money into my Paypal account from Money4Banners. I was pretty excited as it was my first official payment from them besides the Sign-up Bonus Incentive they offer new members.

I signed up using my Dessert Blog and under the Navigation Menu you can see what the banners look like which you need to keep on your site to get paid once your site is approved for their program. It is a good site to join for low traffic websites or just if you want some extra pocket change each month.

Here is my 1st payment from Money4Banners.

Payment from ARA-bux after Investment

I spoke about a PTC (paid to click) site by the name of ARA-bux a few times before. I posted my 1st payment from them as a Standard member which still came within the TOS specified on their site even after going through a hack attempt. I also mentioned investing $200Usd into this site for renting 500 referrals for one month before the hacking occurred.

The site was fully back online on October 24th with the rented referral system in place. My 500 referrals were already in my account when their site fully re-opened. Today is one day before my rented referrals expire and I requested a payment of $310.58Usd on Nov. 10th. I was now a premium member there (upgraded for one month @ 9Usd) and got my payment within their specified TOS for premium members.

I love that ARA-bux pays on time and quickly to their members! I wasn't expecting to see the payment in my Alertpay account till tomorrow really but this was a nice surprise. Also, about my investment. I came out $300+Usd in profit for one month.

I am definitely re-investing there. But it is up to you all to decide if you want to join and if you want to invest there like I did. You don't need to start big, you can start small. All I have to say is, for a PTC site that doesn't pay instantly, they are absolutely my favourite PTC out there at the moment.

Here is my 2nd payment from ARA-bux.

Matched.co.uk Closing it's Doors

I know I have never spoke about Matched.co.uk before but I always had it listed under the "Money Making Sites" on the sidebar of my blog. This site is one similar to Money4Banners but I never got advertisers for my blog and eventually they just sent me an email saying they could not find suitable advertisers for my site and all together removed the website I had pending there.

Now on their website they have a message saying they are unfortunately closing.
They were a genuine site while they lasted though.

Here is their message on their homepage

"It is with much regret that we announce that Matched.co.uk has closed.

Matched has been running as a beta experiment for some time and, after much careful consideration, it has been decided not to progress the project to the next stage.

As a result, Matched will not be accepting new sign-ups and will no longer be assigning adverts to its current publisher base.

All publishers who completed their latest payment run before November 19th 2008 will still be paid, but please note that no further payments will be made after this. Therefore, we recommend that all publishers remove any Matched ads from their websites.

Thank you very much for being part of the Matched.co.uk experience and we wish you the best of luck for the future success of your websites.

Kind regards,
Matched.co.uk"

For users looking for a site similar to Matched.co.uk, try Money4Banners and for those who never heard of this type of advertising, check out the site and see if you like it.

Ucash.in Payment

This may seem really silly and frankly I chuckled and even let my dad in on the laugh who just looked at me like he couldn't believe that I got a payment for only $0.05Usd. Yes you read right.

What can I say...I don't have high traffic websites but frankly I wasn't expecting to get paid from this website till I reached their $15USD minimum payout. But I guess they are doing some calculations before the new year hits.

Although it is only $0.05Usd cents, I am just happy to report that they are serious and paying.
Here is a payment proof from them and if you have a high traffic website, you can make the $15Usd payout easy! So feel free to join Ucash.in and place the links on your website.

Here is a payment proof from them as well

myLot no longer using MoneyBookers

myLot, which is a paid to post and discuss type forum, had two ways of paying it's members. They paid through Paypal and Moneybookers. But recently they dropped Moneybookers as one of their payment processors and only now use Paypal. This was a disappointment for many members who doesn't have access to a Paypal account in their country.

Currently, you can still earn at myLot even if you can't be paid through Paypal. The earnings will just build up till they implement another payment processor in the near future. They have not named which one but just that they have plans to do so. I think it may just be Alertpay. We will have to wait and see.

OnePoll

OnePoll is a survey site which is based in the UK. They accept international members but only has a one time referral plan. They pay in pounds and also pay through check or Paypal. With a payout of £40.00 It takes a while to get there admittedly. But if you are lucky you can make an extra £80.00 for the year. Not bad for some pocket change.
They also give a generous £2.50 sign-up bonus.

From what I have noticed, they usually have surveys available Monday-Fridays. You need to log into their website to see what surveys they have available to you each day, they do not send emails informing you when they have new surveys up. They also seems to always hae new surveys up during the day. Surveys are worth anywhere from £0.05-£1.00 and are very easy and fun to fill out.

LevelInvest.net

I wrote about an HYIP program by the name of LevelInvest.net quite a while back. If you try to open the link they are now unfortunately gone. In the previous post I made I gave advice on how to invest in these HYIP sites and I was lucky enough to get a $1.50 profit from them before they disappeared. Like I have said before.

Never invest more than you can afford to lose.

So simply put...if you cannot afford to "play with" even $1 dollar. Then these sorta programs aren't for you. When investing, even if you get paid one time, a couple times, etc. Do not get greedy cause there may come a time where they might cease paying and you may lose everything you invested and earned (profits re-invested)

If you can afford to play with that $1 dollar. Do not go looking for programs that promise you double or even triple earnings in one day, one hour! You are just looking for trouble for like that.

Go for the sites that promise small amounts of interest. So the earnings might be slow and you may not have much to gamble with (well it technically is like gambling) but if you do run into a good program. Keep the investments small and do NOT get greedy.

But I wouldn't recommend many of these sites. As with everything else. They don't last long or turn scam in no time. So be careful!

ARA-bux paid me today

As you guys know, I mentioned ARA-bux in a recent post
and it was news that they had undergone a hacker attack.
I also mentioned that I invested $200USD there a couple days
before the attack happened.

Ara-bux has been back up and running since the 24th of October
and I had a pending payment there (as a standard member) since Sept. 15th.
They pay standard members in 30 business days
and even though they went through this ordeal, has still delivered my payment on time.

I was quite shocked to open my email this evening and see an email telling me
I received money in my Alertpay account because I did not see anyone
else mention getting paid since the site has been back online fully.

This is a screenshot of my payment from them!



Ara-bux offers a minimum of 10 ads per day to standard members
so it is not too hard to reach payout.

Roxanne

Money4Banners

While looking for ways to make money online I ran across a website that pays you for just placing banners on your website. I thought "Wow, this is an awesome opportunity!" But of course they do have their rules and such.
They do not accept unfinished/incomplete websites or blogs and they do not accept adult content websites/blogs.
I decided I would submit my dessert blog to their website and within 24 hours I was sent an email saying my website was approved!

I don't know if they will approve free websites or blogs because my dessert blog is not a free hosted site in any form. But it is still worth a try, so check out Money4Banners and earn £5.00 every month just for having the banners there! No clicks, sales or sign-ups needed to get paid.

Just make sure you place the code correctly on your website or blog (if you are unsure that you placed the code correctly - like I was - just email them asking if you did it correctly)
If you don't place the code correctly you won't be paid. It is that easy though!

So give it a try! If you blog gets rejected they will provide the reason why it was and maybe you can look into remedying it so you can re-apply again. Don't get discouraged!
They pay via Paypal and Amazon Gift Certificate.
To get paid via Paypal select the radio button next to the word "Cash"

From their website - How it works

• Enter your contact information
• Tell us which 3 pages of your Website you wish to display the adverts on.
• Within 24 hours we will provide you with your advertising banner and code.
• Place these on to your site.
• Once this banner is on your site you will receive £10.00 and a further £5.00 for every month the banner is displayed on your site.

Here is my bonus sign-up payment from Money4Banners!

So, what are you waiting for?
Join Money4Banners and start bringing in some extra cash!

Roxanne

Updates on Some Paid to Click Sites

The other day I posted a General Update for you all about some paid to click sites and a few other sites which have good potential for some extra income each month. Well, as each day passes new things are happening on these sites and I am going to do a small update on some of the Paid to Click sites and what seems to be going on.

Neobux

My last update about Neobux was when they ran into some problems with Paypal. Well it has all been resolved and you can read the full story straight from the Admin of Neobux in this post entitled Karma. Not too shabby. Good work Neobux.

Crewbux
I'm not sure what is happening over at Crewbux at the moment. Because they promised instant payments and it still has not been fulfilled. They extended payment times, they have tons of ads, like over 50 at a time for premium members (this might be because people are converting their balance to ads) but I cannot be sure of this and now their whole forum boards have been stripped bare! I would really like to know what is happening there. I am happy to have recouped my investment, but I would really love to know what the hell is happening now. So I'll try to keep you all updated on this one.

ARA-bux

This site unfortunately recently underwent a hacker attack (not a DDos attack) and what timing for it to happen as well, because a couple of days earlier they started taking pre-orders for rented referrals, so it was easy for some people to think they packed up and ran away with their money. I mean hey, I could have thought the same as I have invested $200USD there a couple days before it happened. But I kept my eye on the site and they were giving updates and not just totally missing from the world of the internet, plus they were a part of another community that has been around for awhile. So I kept my faith and was very happy to see the site return. It is not fully back at the moment though. The site will relaunch completely on October 24th with the rented referrals system in place. I will keep you all updated on my progress with this site in the future.

Paid-Profit, another HYIP site

Paid-Profit is a HYIP or High Yield Investment Program. I do not have a lot of experience with these programs and I have just started investing into them. This is one of the first programs I invested into and I have to say I am happy that I got paid from them.

Paid Profit only accepts Liberty Reserve e-currency as their method of depositing and withdrawing fund. They have different plans which offer you 5-7% Daily For 30 Days, 200-300% After 30 Days, a Monitoring Daily Plan. I liked that they accepted low $1Usd deposits and they offer a sign-up bonus of $100 dollars which is added to your account after you make your first deposit. They were very prompt in adding my bonus and even emailed me to let me know it was done. I invested $1 dollar into the 5-7% Daily For 30 Days plan but I see they have raised the minimum deposit to $10 dollars since then

My start investment was $1.00.
So I do nothing for 30 days, just leave it there to build interest.

How much would I earn by the you ask...well only $1.50 which is only $0.50 cents profit.
But I have yet to see how or when I will get to withdraw the bonus they gave me.

Now for the question that is on everyone's minds...are they really going to pay?!

Well I requested a payment of $0.66 cents from them on October 13th and
I got my payment into my LibertyReserve account on October 14th along with a mail from the informing me that my payment was sent. I am happy to see that they were so prompt. I am going to let the rest of my investment build interest till the end of the month and see what is happening with the bonus as well.

Now if you interested in HYIP sites

Never invest more than you can afford to lose.

So simply put...if you cannot afford to "play with" even $1 dollar. Then these sorta programs aren't for you. When investing, even if you get paid one time, a couple times, etc. Do not get greedy cause there may come a time where they might cease paying and you may lose everything you invested and earned (profits re-invested)

If you can afford to play with that $1 dollar. Do not go looking for programs that promise you double or even triple earnings in one day, one hour! You are just looking for trouble for like that.
Go for the sites that promise small amounts of interest. So the earnings might be slow and you may not have much to gamble with (well it technically is like gambling) but if you do run into a good program. Keep the investments small and do NOT get greedy.

Here is a proof of payment from Paid-Profit.

I will keep you all updated on how this goes for me.

Roxanne

Level Invest - HYIP program

Levelinvest.net is a HYIP or High Yield Investment Program. I do not have a lot of experience with these programs and I have just started investing into them. This is one of the first programs I invested into and I have to say I am happy that I got paid from them.

Level Invest accepts many different payment methods; E-gold, E-Bullion,Pecunix,Liberty Reserve,V-Money and Alertpay. Paypal and Moneybookers are not payment options for this website. They have different plans which offer you 10% daily on your deposit for 15 days or 200% after 15 days on your deposit. I liked that they accept low $1Usd deposits and decided to take a plunge. I invested $1 dollar each into both plans.

My start investment was now $2.00 total.
So I do nothing for 15 days, just leave it there to build interest.

Plan 1 - $1 @ 10% for 15 days = $1.50
Plan 2 - $1 @ 200% after 15 days = $2.00

Total earned after said period = $3.50

Now here is where it gets sticky...are they really going to pay?!

Well I requested a payment of $3.50 from them on October 2nd and
believe it or not...I forgot that I did so, but I have it all recorded anyway.
Imagine my surprise when I woke up one morning (October 8th) and saw an email from Alertpay saying that I recieved money. The first thought that crossed my mind was a PTC site
paid me, but which one?! But instead, to my delight, it was the money I requested from Level Invest. I was now $1.50 in profit from my investment. I decided I would re-invest $1 dollar of that profit into the 200% after 15 days plan again.

Never invest more than you can afford to lose.

So simply put...if you cannot afford to "play with" even $1 dollar. Then these sorta programs aren't for you. When investing, even if you get paid one time, a couple times, etc. Do not get greedy cause there may come a time where they might cease paying and you may lose everything you invested and earned (profits re-invested)

If you can afford to play with that $1 dollar. Do not go looking for programs that promise you double or even triple earnings in one day, one hour! You arej ust looking for trouble for like that.
Go for the sites that promise small amounts of interest. So the earnings might be slow and you may not have much to gamble with (well it technically is like gambling) but if you do run into a good program. Keep the investments small and do NOT get greedy.

Here is a proof of payment from LevelInvest.net

I will keep you all updated on how this goes for me.

Roxanne

General Update

Hello to all my readers,

I know it has been a while since I posted on this blog. The last post I made was about Usernames and Passwords - which I highly recommend reading.
That post was done over a month ago. Life has been really busy for me so September wasn't much of a month to celebrate earning something online. I must have only earned about $80USD.

Well, since this is a general update, let me cut straight to all the websites I want to tell you all about - good news, bad news, updates, etc. I will also be posting some payment proofs that I have lying about from September/October as well and I will be informing you all on my Crewbux venture and my newly undertaken venture with ARA-bux.

Clickin' Me - Scam Site! Beware!

I'll start with a website that must have made fame overnight with their sudden decision to only use Bank Wire Transfer as their payment method. They started off paying members quickly (via Alertpay) and updating ads every 8 and 12 hours. Meaning you would be earning a lot in a little time. Soon their payments began to get slower and they also held a sale on their referral packages via Alertpay. I stupidly invested into one of their referral packages for $20Usd. and thought I had lost that money.
Luckily I filed a complaint with Alertpay who told me to contact the admin of the website. I have done so and till this day, NEVER got a reply from the admin (yet on the forum some people posted proof of refunds) but when I complained to Alertpay again they simply reversed the transaction and I got my money back.

Three Cheers for Alertpay and their customer service and good riddance to a scam PTC site!

IsabelMarco

This is another Paid to Click site but if there are young ones in the house don't click there or while they are around. They have adult links present. But now for the real issue. They have stopped paying standard members and would only pay those members who choose to upgrade. I guess you can click as a standard member but don't even think of getting that money unless you upgrade. I cannot say too much on this whole situation as I never truly liked clicking at that site. So I only had about $2Usd in my account anyway. But I do not like the idea of having to upgrade just to get paid! Now, let me put this clear...IsabelMarco is NOT a scam because they are paying...but I repeat again. You need to upgrade first.

Thinkbux

Now Thinkbux is a paying site and this post by their admin says it all really. You decide if it is worth clicking there or not. They also have a donation section, but you are never obligated to donate to the site. But this seems to be a growing trend among many sites as of late though.

Neobux

The first instant payment PTC site on the scene which paid both via Alertpay and Paypal have run into problems with Paypal. Paypal really does not allow PTC sites and quite a few other types of sites to use their payment processors. Once they catch wind of this though, they immeadiately freeze the account of said website or website owner, which means whatever funds were in the account just sit there for 180 days doing nothing. You cannot use this account in any way. They also put in a donation post on their site as well since they said most of the site funds was in the Paypal account. I am happy that I just stick to Alertpay with these sites and Neobux is currently NOT a scam.

Crewbux

Oh my, so many things to say about this site. I think the best thing to do is to just direct you to their News Forum so you can read all that needs to be known. But they are also paying and have NOT turned scam even after all the stuff they have been through. I cannot wait for when they implement the instant payment script though. Good news as well. I have recouped my investment and I am in profit with this site but only by about $10Usd. Not much I know. My referrals (which I bought months back) seem to be dead, so I requested for a replacement of 50 of them (Premium member) I am waiting to see when they will be replaced.

ARA-bux

I personally have not heard much complaints about ARA-bux and they have recently implemented a system for renting referrals every month. This site is a relatively new PTC so I hope to see that it has good potential with it. I plan on buying 500 rented referrals for the first month to see what type of profits I can make from them. I will keep you all updated as best as I can on this.

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Well, that is all I can immeadiately think of. I will try to post more often about sites if I have time. With Christmas coming up and a few other holidays before that one, I might be quite busy. I love to bake and stuff. Hopefully I can help you all on the right path to make some extra cash for Christmas. I am hoping to get an extra $200Usd between now and December from Review Stream. It will definitely come in handy for Christmas or even New years celebrations. So take a mosey on over there and see for yourself. I have been paid four or five times (I've lost count) from that site already!

Also do some Mturking if you feel it suits you. Even if you cannot get the cash in hand, you won't believe how handy the cash comes in when you can use it as a gift certificate on their website. If you have family, relatives, friends in the USA...you can find lovely gifts with free shipping if you don't want to pay shipping costs and send them something nice for Christmas time. If you have friends in the UK, you can buy nice things for them and so you might have to pay some shipping, but it is more convinient and best of all...No Out Of Pocket Costs!

I might actually order myself some gourmet chocolates this Christmas using some of my Amazon Gift Certificate funds and since my friend from the UK loves chocolates so much, I may order some for him as well! I still have to decide what I will be getting my relatives and friends in the USA. But it is nice to have this extra cash at hand!

Well have a good day/night.

Roxanne

Usernames and Passwords

Hey fellow readers,

I know I haven't updated for about a week when I promised I would do so by posting a tutorial on how to take a screenshot for when you want to post payment proofs for your readers to see.

Well, I have been quite busy. I am working on a passion of mine and setting up a new website for it, so I haven't had much time to dedicate to my online money making lately.


But I want to address something of great importance in general and not just in sites where you are looking to make money from.

This has to do with your username and passwords.

As we all know, the internet isn't 100% safe and you need to be careful in many ways while here.
Now the main concern is your password. Never use the same password/PIN for two sites.

I use many sites and I have a completely different password for each one of them.

You can look HERE to find some tips on how to create strong passwords.
Having different passwords is one thing, but making them strong is another.

You never know which site can be a scam and which is not.
If you use one password for most of your sites or even all of them,
you could fall into lots of trouble if someone gets their hand on your password.

I also never use the same pin number on any site!
Some sites require a pin number to determine if it is really you
and not an intruder. You usually cannot access any of the more important
features to withdraw money or edit profiles (email addresses), etc without this PIN.

Remember, it's your safety. So take the necessary steps. It may seem like extra work
but it is worth it. I have read about some people who didn't get off too easy cause of having the same password or pins for their websites.

Hope this has been some useful information.

Have a good one and keep safe!
Roxanne

Earnings Update: July/August 2008

Good day fellow readers!

It is now September 2nd, 2008 and I am here to update you all on my current earnings for the months of July and August 2008.

My purpose of doing this is to show you that making an extra income online is possible. I have not yet figured out how to make a living from online earnings and I am by no means a "guru" but I do hope reading my blog would help you along the way and inspire you on your own quest for an online income.

As you all can clearly see I have a list of "Money Making Sites" linked on the upper right hand corner of my blog. Lately, I have added alot of PTC (Paid to Click) sites to this list. So, let's see how they go!

So without further ado, here is what I have earned online for the months of July/August.


July/August 2008 Earning Stats

*Review Stream - $152.00USD [Status: Paid] ~Need to formally request payment via email. Paid same day. Note: Total of $152 is for both July/August.
*Mylot - $12.37USD [Status: Paid] ~ Pays automatically on 15th of following month.
*Burnbux - $1.06 [Status:Paid] ~ Need to request payment.
*Crewbux - $3.08 [Status: Paid] ~ Need to request payment.

*Crewbux - $128.03 [Status: Paid] ~ Need to request payment. Note: It took much longer than I anticipated but I got paid - look out for payment proof soon!

The payouts from these 4 sites come to a total of $296.54 USD for July/August 2008.


That's a little over $145.00USD per month if I divide the earnings by 2 which is my highest yet.


Gift Certificate Funds...

Amazon's Mturk - $45.02USD

I already have plans for using my Amazon Gift Certificate funds for September.
I am going to surprise my mother by buying some of her favourite cosmetic products and
my grandmother's birthday is coming up around the middle of the month. So I am going to
order a nice piece of jewelery for her and have it gift wrapped and sent straight to her address.
All with no out of pocket costs to me! How great is that?!

So remember, just cause you cannot get cash in hand sometimes does not mean it won't come in handy. Just got to weigh the pros and cons sometimes and this is definitely a plus for me.

Everyone has their own preferred methods of earning and I am just sharing my methods.

If you are a beginner to this online earning thing, don't think you'll make it big overnight...it's a case of slow and steady. I learnt this firsthand and quickly and as you can see I am slowly but surely making progress.

On that note I wish you good luck on your online money quest...

Remember it takes cents to make dollars

Roxanne

Proof of Payment: Burnbux

Hi readers,

So I updated my blog a couple days back talking about lots of different sites
which I use to earn some money on the net.

Burnbux was one of the sites I happened to mention
which is a PTC (paid to click) site.
They have a very low payout of $1USD and pay via Alertpay.

Yesterday night I was lucky enough to make it past the required minimum to request a payment from them. When I checked my emails this morning I got a nice surprise.

I had received money into my Alertpay account from Burnbux!
A small $1.06USD but that is okay.
I am happy to see that they do pay and quickly too!
Must have been less than 12 hours and I am a standard member there.
Making it to their payout target is easy, so I would recommend giving Burnbux a try.

Here is a screenshot of the payment from them.

Happy earnings everyone!

Roxanne

Just a General Update

Hi readers,

Lately Crewbux has been all the buzz on my blog. Well one more note about Crewbux before I move on to my other updates. They have changed their payout back to $5USD. Their $2.99 payout was an Olympic special and it began to slow down payments considerably. But all is well and payments are being made in the promised time frame again, with lots of happy members as a result of this.

I had written that I would request a payment from Crewbux when I hit $50USD, which I have hit today, ($52USD and slowly but surely climbing) but I have decided I am going to wait till I make back my $96.08 investment before requesting.

This week I have come across a nice little site which you earn points and can exchange it for gifts (such as Ipods, laptops, etc.) or even money into your Paypal or Moneybookers account. You get points randomly for logging in, for playing games, completing offers and referring people. The name of the website is Prize4Planet and is said to be legit.

I am going to be writing up a tutorial sometime next week on how to create Payment Proofs. I have seen a lot of newbies on myLot asking about how to do this, so I decided it would be a good idea if I had instructions on how to make one, available on my blog.

I haven't been using Amazon's Mturk too much lately but with the money I have made since my last update I decided I would treat my mum to some of her favourite cosmetics products when September 1st comes around. Also, my grandmother's birthday is in the middle of September, so I may treat her to some jewelry all compliments of Amazon's Mturk earnings!

Review Stream has been doing well for me. I come home and review a few stuff I have encountered during the day (usually food I have for lunch or the place which I visited for lunch - like their customer service, efficiency, etc.) This earns me an extra $2USD a day, sometimes more if I decide to write about music I've heard during the day, etc.

I like to visit myLot and have a look around and sometimes do a few posts if I have the time or don't feel too tired. It's an extra ten dollars a month if I am lucky.

There are also a couple PTC Sites on the scene which are getting some good reputations built up. Thinkbux is one of them and Neobux is said to have been getting better with more clicks and of course their infamous instant payouts!

I have recently come across a PTC Site with a low $1 dollar payout. It's name is Burnbux and another PTC site which gives you a $1 dollar bonus when you sign up; Ara-bux. It is a limited offer, so get in on it quickly!

Clixsense has added a feature to their site called the Clixgrid which you can win from one cent up to 5 dollars instantly by playing. It is free to play but you get a limited number of chances per day. They are 20 for standard members and 50 for upgraded members.

Well, I wish you all good luck with your online earnings and I hope my blog does help you all along the way! Any questions or requests for me to write about or check out a site, feel free to leave a comment and I will get back to you.

Have a good day/night
Roxanne

Crewbux Update

Hi readers,

As promised I said I would keep updating you all on my progress with Crewbux. A few days back, August 16th to be exact, I purchased 50 referrals from Crewbux. I got the referrals in my downline that same night! Talk about quick, I like that and already earned $4.01 dollars from them on that first day as well. Enough for another payout (which I have not requested to date)
On the second day my referrals earned me $4.03USD. That was a nice surprise. But yesterday alot of them got lazy and I only got $3.23USD in referral clicks. So, not counting my clicks I made back $11.27USD in three days. Not too shabby.

With my clicks added in, it comes to a total of $12.25USD since my last payout.

Last night I decided to get adventurous (note to self, never keep money in Alertpay account, you'll just want to spend it! LOL.) But seriously though, I decided to sit and calculate my potential earnings and how quickly I would earn back $96.08USD if I invested in 100 referrals and this would bring me to a total of 156 referrals. But not all of them click, so investment is a risk!

I tried to average $8 dollars a day, although I would personally prefer $10-12USD a day from all those referrals. At an average of $8 dollars a day it would take me two weeks to earn back $96.08. So by August 31st, I should be very close to making back my initial investment into the 100 referrals and 1 extra week to make back my overall investment into Crewbux. I do hope this site goes well for me because I want to keep investing over and over into them.

Now, I invested into 100 referrals on August 19th which I got in my downline during the night once again! I also woke up to see my earnings jump by $6.80USD. I was not too worried as the stats usually updates during the day (I hear they do this manually, that's alot of work if you ask me!)

So after the next update my referral earnings for today is $11.25USD total.
I am happy with this amount. I hope it keeps up!

I'll post once again by weekend on how my stats are doing. I plan to request a payout once I hit $50USD which should be by this weekend.

Good luck with your online earnings and if you haven't joined Crewbux yet, have a look and see if you think you'd like it.

Have a good one
Roxanne

Update on my Crewbux Venture/ Payment Proof

Hey readers,

So earlier this week I posted about actually investing into a PTC (Paid to Click) site named Crewbux. I purchased their premium member package and got five referrals with it. Their payout is at $2.99USD and it has been 4 days since I made that purchase and I have been happily earning more and more each day.

I actually made it past their payout amount this morning and requested a payout for $3.08USD which I found comfortably sitting in my Alertpay account when I got home this evening.
I just invested into 50 more referrals on Crewbux. Let's see how this goes! I will of course keep you all updated on this as much as possible.

On another note, here is the payment proof from them!

So, what are you waiting for?
Join Crewbux and start earning!

Have a good one
Roxanne

My Crewbux Venture

Hey readers,

I am here to talk about Crewbux, one of the newest PTC's on the scene that has really caught my attention because I have been seeing so many good things written about this site in a past couple days. I heard about Crewbux from one of the discussion boards on myLot.

I decided to check out the website and forum and quickly joined. On the first day I got 7 ads to click as a standard member at 1 cent a click. Their premium member package really lured me in because it is a nice reasonable price (only $20.08USD) and you get 5 free referrals with your purchase! I decided to get in on it early before they raise the prices.

I had requested payout from Review Stream earlier in the morning so I had money to invest without dipping into my bank account. Later in the evening after giving it much thought, I purchased a premium membership package on Crewbux with some of the money.

I woke up this morning and since I had a bit of time before heading off to work I decided to check up on my Crewbux status. Well how delighted was I when I saw they already upgraded me to a premium member with my 5 referrals that already earned $0.30cents for me. I decided to surf the banners before heading to work (as a premium member you get $0.0125 from your clicks and $0.01 from your referrals clicks) I had $0.12 cents after i finished clicking yesterday as a standard member and $0.6175 cents this evening after clicking as a premium member with 5 referrals. Not too shabby. If I keep going at that rate I should make my first payout by the end of this week. Their payout amount is currently set at $2.99USD and they pay through Alertpay and Paypal.

I personally never thought I'd ever invest in a program online so let's see how this will go! I Have to admit, I have a good feeling about this PTC though. Let's see. I will keep you all regularly updated on my progress with Crewbux.

Have a good one
Roxanne

Just an Update

Hi guys and gals,

Wow, it's been a while since i had time to update my blog. I usually do a monthly earnings post on the first day of the month. But I have obviously missed out July.

I have been super busy since July. Doing some job training, did some volunteer work which actually kept me on my toes and gave me no time for myself. So July's earnings weren't so hot.

If I had to estimate I probably made a total of $66USD that I got cash in my Payment Processor (Review Stream and Mylot) and about $32USD with Amazon's Mturk which I use on my Amazon gift certificate account. I hope you all found my last post on how to withdraw funds to your gift certificate useful.

I have also been quite busy since August began. But I am looking at new ways to start earning besides my usual myLot, Review Stream and Amazon's Mturk earnings. I do click at a few PTC (Pay to Click) sites, but do not get time to click everyday. I have recently been hearing alot of good things about Crewbux. So I decided to join today. After having a look around they seem like a very good site. I will keep you all updated on this site.

I have plans on writing a few articles on Payment Processors and also those scam emails for newbies out there. Don't be pulled in or get alarmed when you get emails from Paypal claiming something is wrong with your account. Just go to a new window and type in the address, log into your account and check the resolution center to determine if it is true or just a scam email trying to get your details. Let me tell you, those scammers are persistent! But they have not yet caught me. Just be careful. I have not yet received those type of emails for Alertpay or Moneybookers, but since Alertpay is becoming quite popular among PTC sites and PTC'ers just be aware!

I will be posting an update of my earnings for July/August 2008 on the first day on September so look out for that. In the meantime I shall keep you all updated on my other ventures. I click at a few PTC sites but don't get time to everyday. A good friend of mine also recommended IsabelMarco to me as well. They always pay her on time. So I am also hoping to test this PTC site out too. But since Crewbux has been getting all the hype lately I am going to join the crew (yes, lame pun) and keep you all updated on how it goes for me.

Well I hope your online earnings are coming in nicely for you all!
Remember is takes cents to make dollars

Have a good one
Roxanne

Cashing Out from Mturk to Your Amazon Gift Certificate Account

Hi fellow readers,
For those of you who are interested in using Amazon's Mturk Gift Certificate Feature I decided to post a little tutorial on how to go about cashing out from your Mturk Earnings balance to your Gift Certificate balance. Your earnings balance from Mturk are instantly credited so you can start spending your gift certificate balance right away!
To see a bigger screenshot, click on the image.

This first screen shot is my previous gift certificate account balance (also Mturk earnings!)

Below is the screenshot of my Mturk dashboard. You will be clicking on Account Settings to access your current balance and the screen in which you can choose to cash out to your US bank account or Amazon's Gift Certificate Account.

As you can see, below is the screen in which you can choose to cash out to your US bank account or Amazon's Gift Certificate Account.
You are going to click on the link highlighted on the screenshot.

For security purposes they ask you to enter your password and then you just sign in.

Next is a window which shows your Mturk account balance. You may enter how much money you'd like to transfer from your Mturk account to your Gift Certificate account. I choose $53.50 to even out my $30.50 figure. Next from the drop down menu, you choose where you would like the money to be sent. I choose Amazon.com gift certificate balance and hit Transfer.

They then ask you to confirm that you are doing this transaction, so you have the choice to click on Yes (if you want to proceed)
or No (if you are unsure about proceeding or want to cancel the transaction)
Next you'll get a screen which tells you that your transfer has been initiated and it shows your current balance in your Mturk account.Now, if you once again sign in to your Amazon Shopping Account and check your gift certificate, it is instantly credited and as you can see it added my two transactions together and I now have $84.00USD in my gift certificate account to spend. Without using a penny from my own pocket!

I hope this tutorial has been of help to some of you.

On that note, have a good day and good luck with your Online Money Quest

Roxanne

Incomebux.net a scam?!

I had stumbled upon a Pay to Click site earlier in the month of June and I decided to give them a try because they had a low payout...$1USD. The first thought that came to my mind was, "Hey if it's a scam it wouldn't take me long to find out." At the same time I went around the internet looking for reviews on this site and most of them came back quite positive so this made me feel confident that this site wasn't a scam. I even read a blog where someone got paid 3 times by them...all small amounts just a bit over a dollar.

Well I had started clicking and actually forgot about the site for about a week or so during the month of June but was still able to reach payout before the end of June.

I requested a payout of exactly $1.25USD on June 30th and they gave me a message saying I'd have to wait 1-14 days before receiving the money. "That's fine" I thought. They also stated they would check for fraudulent clicks and that was fine by me. I didn't do anything wrong and I had no referrals, I got there on my own! I kept clicking happily till July 9th! I tried logging into the site and it gave me an error message that my account was disabled. I dismissed the situation and of course it was resting on my mind a bit but I had important work to do and could not bother myself with such a small situation at the time.

I came back online today and finally did some more research this time looking for anyone else who got their account suspended and I found some evidence that incomebux.net wasn't as rosy as it first seemed to be. They had lots of complaints of people not getting paid and the site disappearing and of course, others who have suddenly had their account disabled too.

That sucks! I never thought I'd be caught up in one of these sites. I wasted precious time when I could have been making money on another site that I am SURE pays me. But that is okay, at least I can inform you all first hand so you guys won't waste your time on this site. This is the purpose of my blog, to provide you all with genuine paying sites.

Alot of PTC (pay to click) sites don't seem to last very long. But Clixsense and Wordlinx have been around for years and they always pay and don't seem to be going anywhere anytime soon! They serve ads all through the day so if you are on the computer you can always keep checking for new ads.

Well, I am disappointed to add incomebux.net as a scam site on my list, but this is my personal experience with them and if you are someone who has gotten paid by incomebux.net I'd love to know!

Have a good day everyone and remember it takes cents to make dollars.

Roxanne

Proof Of Payment: Second Mylot Payment and Review Stream

So July meets me in the midst of this being my fifth month trying to earn some extra cash online and it is so nice to come home and find in my email inbox a message saying that I have been paid by one of the websites I use to make some spare change on here.

Yesterday (July 9th) I came home to see I got paid $11.82 by myLot into my Moneybookers account, same as last time. Not bad as I just use the site to pass some time being helpful, just responding in what interests me or just to ask for tidbits of information to get personal views from others on the topic. I've also made some very nice friends on myLot too! So give it a try if you aren't already a member.

This is my second payout from Review Stream, as you can see. I got paid $60.88USD within an hour of requesting payout and they pay through Paypal. I earn the bulk of my online money from Review Stream at the moment and it does come in handy at the end of the month. So if you try a new product, write about it and earn some cash back! You can write about anything, as long as you have first hand experience with whatever you are writjng about. They like you to explain your personal feelings about whatever you are writing about. Be sure to read their TOS & FAQ's before getting started. They aren't long or hard to understand. Good luck to you all and I will be putting more updates soon. I hope you all find my blog to be useful.

Have a good one
Roxanne

Utilize Your Resources

So, we all want extra money. But where do we want it? I think the answer is pretty clear!
We want it in our hands, pockets, wallets or bank accounts!

But money which you can earn yet not ever see a dime of in your hand, be of use? The simple answer is Yes!

Now, I have encountered this question a few times by friends who are also looking for potential ways to earn some cash online and I always give them MY train of thought on the matter of using Amazon's Mturk, yet, not being of the USA or India, I cannot withdraw this money. So why do I dare persist? For money I may never get to see...

There is always the possibility that in the future they may decide to implement the check system worldwide or even go as far as to pay through online payment processors! But, if it never happens, then what?

Well, I did not realize the full potential of Amazon's Mturk till my friend's birthday came up recently. I used to use Mturk sparingly and therefore did not maximize my earning potential with them in the first month of using this website.

My second month with them is when the realization truly hit me. They have an option that allows you to withdraw money to a gift certificate account where you can purchase stuff off their website and my friend's birthday was slowly creeping up around the corner. Even though he is living thousands of miles away from me, I had to get him something! We have been friends for over 5 years so how could I forget him or his birthday, he doesn't forget mine!

A thought literally leapt into my head at that moment and it hit me, Amazon. They have some items where you can add a gift wrapping option so it was perfect! I sat for a second and thought about what he may like and I searched it on their website. It came up with over 500 results, each one being just as hard to choose from as the other.

I finally found an item I thought he would like (he loves it by the way!) and in the process found stuff I would like to get myself! Unfortunately, not utilizing my resource on the first month of using Mturk, I did not have enough to buy him the present I was looking at. So, I began...
Everyday I'd make a little time in the evening to do some HITs. I was surprised to learn at the end of June I had accumulated $81 dollars! in addition to my previous month of earnings which brought me close to $100USD total!

I withdrew about $30 bucks to the gift certificate account and bought him a birthday present with no hassle to myself. So the shipping cost just a bit...but so what?! I wasn't going to be seeing a penny of that money in my hand anytime soon anyway!

Now by utilizing this website, I just recently ordered myself a cake decorating tip set I was eyeing for a few months at another website no less (they have a store on Amazon!) A pair of high heels that I just can't find in my country at all.

Now, I have a friend in the USA and her birthday is soon and it crossed my mind to get her a pendant with her birthstone. Well I happened across a lovely sterling silver pendant with her birthstone in and it comes with a chain and FREE Shipping!

So as you can see, this could come in really handy for buying presents or just getting yourself items you want without having to dip into your wallet, weekly salary or bank accounts. No need to pull out that credit card either!

Personally I like this idea, but as usual it is always up to YOU to decide what you believe is good for you and what is not. But I do hope this article has given you some nice ideas and if you have websites with the same potential as this one, I'd love to hear about them.

I'd love your feedback on if you found this article helpful, dull, a waste of time or even if you just have questions, feel free to leave a comment and I will get back to you all as soon as possible.

Remember it takes cents to make dollars.

Good luck with your online money quest.
Roxanne

Earnings Update: June 2008

Good day fellow reader
It is July 1st 2008 here and I am going to post my monthly earnings update to show you that yes it is possible to earn money on the internet. It may not be enough to live from yet but we all have to start somewhere.

Now keep in mind the earnings for June may not seem to surpass my last earnings by much because the last update was done for TWO months (April and May) whereas this is going to showcase ONE month.

I do hope reading my blog would help you along the way and inspire you on your own quest for an online income.

So without further ado, here are my stats for the month of June 2008.

June 2008 Earning Stats

* Review Stream - $60.88 [Status: Paid] ~Need to formally request payment. Paid same day.
* Mylot - $ 11.82 [Status: Paid] ~ Pays automatically on 15th of following month. Paid on July 9th.

* IncomeBux.net - $1.25 [Status: Scam Site?!] ~ Requested payout and is said to wait 1-14 days to receive payout. After 9 days of waiting they closed my account. I wasted my time. I saw other people claim to have been paid but alot of bad reps about this site after some more research. Well my first hand experience...not good!

All site status results updated.


The payouts from Review Stream and myLot would come to a total of $72.70 USD for June 2008.


*Other ventures - $14.00

So this is now a total of $86.70Usd for June alone


My Gift Certificate Funds...

Amazon's Mturk - $81.08Usd for June


Amazon's Mturk earnings are going towards my Gift Certificate Account, since I am unable to withdraw money to my bank (You can withdraw if you are from the US or India - cash in your hands or bank!) for international members you can add the funds to your Amazon Gift Certificate account (like I am doing) to purchase stuff from their website.


If I was able to withdraw funds from Amazon I would be at a grand total of $167.78 USD. Not bad for my fourth month at this.

I hope you guys found this post useful. If you did, I would appreciate some feedback and if you have any questions feel free to ask them.

If you are a beginner to this online earning thing, don't think you'll make it big overnight...it's a case of slow and steady. I learnt this firsthand and quickly (thank goodness) and on that note I wish you good luck on your online money quest...

Remember it takes cents to make dollars

Roxanne

My Birthday Today but Online Earnings Still Don't Stop!

Hi fellow reader

As you can see from the title it is my birthday today, June 27th!
I'm going to be 22 today and I know you guys must be thinking, "Why isn't she out celebrating? Instead she is updating her blog?!"
Well this is only because since it's Friday, all my friends and family are working (including myself) so nearly all celebrations will be put off for Saturday and Sunday! We will have a little get together tonight for immediate family only not relatives, etc.

Now even on my birthday, while I am just here, reading texts and emails from friends, both offline and online, all wishing me Happy Birthday. I am slowly but surely making some spare change on the side.

I am also working on a little tutorial to post sometime soon. I am just getting the bits and pieces of it together right now and it is to follow a post which will be called "Utilize Your Resources."

I have made payout minimum at a website this morning so I hope to be posting a payment proof from them soon - have my fingers crossed! and I did a bit of earning on Amazon's Mturk today. I will be making my payout minimum on myLot by tomorrow and at another PTC I'm testing by July 1st.

So as you can see, July will be a busy month of posts to help you all maximize earnings potential if you see that method fit for your use and hopefully, a few payment proofs will accompany the 2 posts I mentioned above. I will be trying to update regularly on payment proofs so you can see which websites pay regularly and which don't.

I don't have much to say at the moment and I have some stuff to do and get myself ready for later. So I wish you all luck on your money making ventures and I do hope my blog helps you on your way! If you ever have any questions feel free to leave them in my comments and I will get back to you as soon as possible.

Remember is takes cents to make dollars.

Have a great day everyone.
Roxanne

Chat in Online Forum Community, Make Money!

Hey Guys!

It's me again, Roxanne. Here with another post on methods I use to make cash online. This is my 4th month of searching/trying to make cash online. It was actually the first thing I ran across to start earning a bit of spare cash that didn't ask me to invest money upfront or after I joined (and they will never ask you to invest money) and is available internationally as they use two different payment methods.

As you all have seen in my previous posts I have mentioned a few sites before and I have posted a proof of payment from myLot as well.

myLot is a site that pays you to "talk" on their online forum community. Basically the same thing you'd be doing at other forums, just you get money for doing it here! The topics vary and there are many interest sections, you will find your interests easily and you can even add new interest groups too.

myLot pays on a basis of quality posts and not quantity. Don't jump into myLot expecting to make a ton of money each day either. Although there are some people who make up to $80USD a month without referrals!

The minimum payout at myLot is $10USD but can be changed to $25, $50, up to $100USD. As soon as you pass your chosen payout minimum myLot will automatically send you your money on or before the 15th of the following month.

The payment methods used by mylot are Moneybookers and Paypal.

In my opinion this is one of the best ways to earn money for beginners, you just need to remember that this website definitely won't make you rich or pay all the bills. But last month I earned enough to purchase a skirt I was eyeing for a couple of weeks with quite a few dollars left over!

As I talked about referrals, you earn 50% of what your referral makes, so if your referral reaches their $10 dollar mark, you would have earned an extra $5.00 to your own earnings!

You can easily make $10 dollars a month by getting at least $0.35 cents a day. But of course the earning potential doesn't stop there. It all depends on you and how active you are. Some users make up to $5 dollars a day!

So, if you are a newbie to this internet earning thing, try myLot.

Always keep in mind, you need to walk before you run and on that note,
it takes cents to make dollars.

Good luck to you

Roxanne

Top Ten Friday the 13th Facts and Myths!

I know this is a blog about how to make money online for beginners or if you just haven't had luck with it. I'm just trying to be somewhat of a guide while you decide what's right for yourself; such as what programs to use, etc.
But today is Friday the 13th and I thought it would be nice to put up a little list of stuff that I read about this day. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

So, do you believe that this day is bad luck or not?


1. It's been estimated that $800 or $900 million (U.S.) is lost in business on this day because people will not fly or do business they would normally do.

2. No historical date has been verifiably identified as the origin of the superstition. Before the 20th century, although there is evidence that the number 13 was considered unlucky, and Friday was considered unlucky; there was no link between them.

3. The first documented mention of a “Friday the 13th” is generally listed as occurring in the early 1900’s.[

4. A Friday occurring on the 13th day of any month is considered to be a day of bad luck in English, German, Polish and Portuguese-speaking cultures around the globe.

5. Many people are so paralyzed by fear that they are simply unable to get out of bed when Friday the 13th rolls around. The Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute estimates that more than 17 million people are affected by a fear of this day.

6. The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia.

7. Every year has at least one, and at most three Fridays the 13th, with 48 occurrences in 28 years an average of 1.7 times per year. The reason, this is the evidence: twenty-eight years have 336 months and 336 also equals seven times forty-eight.

8. A study published in The British Medical Journal (1993) has shown that there is a significant increase in traffic-related accidents on Friday the 13ths.

9. Friday the 13th is also known as “Dooms day” all around the world.

10. Many popular stories exist about the origin of the concept: The popular painting of the Last Supper, with stories that Judas numbered among the thirteen guests (Jesus plus his 12 apostles), and that the Crucifixion of Jesus occurred Friday. The Knights Templar is another popular theory: recently offered up as historical fact in the novel The Da Vinci Code, holds that it came about not as the result of a convergence, but a catastrophe, a single historical event that happened nearly 700 years ago.

I hope you enjoyed.

Review Stream

Alright guys, I have shown you all the payment proof from Review Stream and promised to write a more detailed article about this site, so here it is.

When I first started looking for ways to earn money on the internet back in March 2008, I took quite a while before I stumbled across Review Stream. I honestly cannot remember how I came across this site but hopefully you stumbled upon my blog to find this oppurtunity to earn some extra cash.

Review Stream is a "get paid to write reviews" site.

►The nice thing about this site is you can review absolutely anything! but your reviews must be exclusive to their website. This means you can not publish the same review anywhere else on the web.
►Their pay rate is $2USD for well written/detailed reviews on your personal opinion and $0.40USD for all others, as long as they are also clear in what they are describing.
►Their payout minimum is at $50USD. But this is not hard to reach.
►You don't have to register for the site. All you need is to pick a Pen Name and put in your Paypal email Address. Then write in the name of your review, pick a category for it and start writing! Make sure to use the same Pen Name and Email Address each time to be credited correctly.
►If your review is too short, it will not be processed. They have a certain amount of words you need to write per article. If I am not mistaken it is at least 200 words.
►When you submit a review, they send you an email with a copy of the review you wrote, with a note saying it takes up to 72 hours for your review to be approved. If your review was rejected at the full rate, don't get down...just submit it again at bulk rate.
►When you get a confirmation email that you review has been accepted the email will contain how much you got paid for it and the amount your account has in it. It will also have a list of the most recent approved reviews you wrote.
►It is important that you read their Terms&Conditions and FAQ's before you get started. It will help alot.
►When you reach $50USD. You need to formally request payout. This means you send an email asking for your payment. Preferably using the email address you use for your Paypal account as they usually don't send back an email but just send you your payment.
►When I requested payment from them I received it the same day. So there is no worries about waiting for a certain amount of days before getting paid.
►They have a referral program and you can earn $0.02USD for each review your referral submits. You can find this link on the upper right hand side (along with other links) on the Write Review Page, if you need to get your referral link. Your referral commissions are added onto your current earnings and there is also an option to get your referrals earning under another Paypal email address.
►They also have a pay per vote program in which each vote earns you $0.10USD, which is calculated separately...I have yet to figure out how this earning incentive works. Bur each review can earn up to a maximum of $5USD in votes. I will keep you updated on this as I go along.

Those are the main points I can think of readily but if there is anything else you need to know or feel I should add into this post, please feel free to leave a comment.

I would love to know if you found this post helpful or not.

I hope your online money quest is successful.
Have a good day and remember, it takes dollars to make cents

Roxanne

Proof of Payment: Mylot

Since I have began looking for ways to earn from the internet, myLot is the second site that I've made payout at and have been paid a sum of $25.69USD to my Moneybookers account for the months of April/May 2008.
I will do a more detailed article in the future about this site. But if you enjoy forums communities then give myLot a shot.
Please click on the image to get a larger view.
Good luck in your journey to make money online and remember, it takes cents to make dollars.

Roxanne

Earnings Update : April/May 2008

Good day to you.
It is now June 1st, 2008 and I am here to update you all on my current earnings for the months of April and May 2008.

I missed 10 days in April due to my computer being down.

My purpose of doing this is to show you that making an extra income online is possible. I have not yet figured out how to make a living from online earnings and I am by no means a "guru" but I do hope reading my blog would help you along the way and inspire you on your own quest for an online income.
So, it has been a little over 3 months since I began looking for ways to earn some extra cash online and May 2008 has proven to be a breakthrough, if you want to call it that, for me.

As you all can clearly see I have a list of "Money Making Sites" linked on the upper right hand corner of my blog. I am not fortunate enough to make the payout minimum from all of them this month but I have made payout from 2 sites and Amazon's Mturk earnings are going towards my Christmas Presents Funds, since I am unable to withdraw money to my bank (You can withdraw if you are from the US or India) for international members you can add the funds to an Amazon Gift Certificate to purchase stuff from their website.

April/May 2008 Earning Stats

* Review Stream - $52.46 [Status: Paid] ~Need to formally request payment. Paid same day.
* Mylot - $25.69 [Status: Paid] ~ Pays automatically on 15th of following month. Got paid on June 6th 2008

The payouts from these 2 sites come to a total of $78.15 USD for April/May 2008.

I will be updating this post as soon as I get my payment from Mylot.

Update: I got payment from Mylot on June 6th 2008! 9 days earlier than I expected.


My Christmas Funds...
Amazon's Mturk - $16.67


If I was able to withdraw funds from Amazon I would be at a grand total of $94.82 USD. Not bad for a beginner huh? I hope you guys found this post useful. If you did I would appreciate feedback and if you have any questions feel free to ask them.

If you are a beginner to this online earning thing, don't think you'll make it big overnight...it's a case of slow and steady. I learnt this firsthand and quickly (thank goodness) and on that note I wish you good luck on your online money quest...

Remember it takes cents to make dollars

Roxanne