Cash Outs Second Month

Two months into my new venture now and I've gotten a few more cash outs  (I only use PayPal in case you're wondering). For the month of January, I've had the following cash outs:

Instant Cash Sweepstakes cashed out twice (as mentioned in other posts, you only need $2 to cash out): Jan 4th ($2.01) and on Jan 23rd ($2.06). 

With FusionCash (which has a $25 cash out limit), I finally got my first cash out! It was for $37.02!  To cash out, you need to have a minimum of $15 coming from offers, the remaining can be from bonuses.

And I made enough with ClixSense, to be able to buy the Premium subscription (which is $17 for a year). I guess I didn't mention the Premium subscription in my previous post about ClixSense, but what it gives you is more PTC ads,  more chances to win with the ClixGrid, higher commissions from your referrals, plus when anyone in your downline (up to 8 levels deep) upgrades to a Premium subscription, you get a $2 commission if it was a direct referral that upgraded, and $1 for any referral in the next 7 levels that upgrade.

Deals 'n' Cash Is A Sister Site

Deals 'n' Cash is a sister site to Hits4Pay. They work exactly the same (except that Deals 'n' Cash only pays 1 cent for each click, whereas Hits4Pay is usually 2 cents). See my Hits4Pay review here on my blog: Hits4Pay Is A Hit!

But, I'll do a quick summary of the highlights here:

1. I'm pretty sure that the referral system is the same as Hits4Pay, which is a 2-level downline (I don't currently have any referrals, so I'm not 100% sure about this). You will earn half of what your direct referrals earn, plus half of each of the referral's referrals. Getting a lot of motivated referrals really helps you with the passive income! 
2. Unlike some other sites, you don't have to have the site's browser window in focus. I'll typically go through these ads while I'm doing something else on my computer, makes it pretty simple.
3. Choose the maximum number of categories that you can (15) and diversify amongst the various types of categories ... you'll get more ads that way.

So check it out, and enjoy! Deals 'n' Cash

Hits4Pay Is A Hit!

I recently started using Hits4Pay. They have been around since 1998 (or so it says on their website)! I hear that they are pretty reputable. They have a generous signup commission of $5, but the thing I really like is their referral program, because they have a two-level downline. In other words, you earn money from your direct referrals PLUS you also earn money from each of your direct referral's referrals! The more the merrier, I always say!

Getting Started

1. First, you have to choose from 10-15 "interest categories". These will determine the kinds of email advertisements that you get sent. I recommend choosing the max number (15), even if it means choosing categories that you're not interested in, because it really doesn't matter if you care about the subject matter you receive or not. At least, I don't care about it (but, maybe you do).
2. Then you will start receiving emails (from 0 - 10 daily) titled "HITS4PAY - PAID e-MAIL". Click to login to your Hits4Pay account to read the paid ads that are waiting for you.
3. You may also choose to simply login to your Hits4Pay account directly via your browser, and click on "Paid Ads" | "New Paid Ads" to check for new paid emails (this is typically what I do, I just login and check once a day).

What Happens Next

1. If you have any new messages, the first one will be displayed, so click to open it. The message will have a button or link that says "Click Here" or something similar. You will then be taken to the advertiser's website (it opens in the same browser window).
2. There will be a Hits4Pay banner above the advertiser's website (in other words, their website is opening within a frame of the Hits4Pay website).
3. After 60 seconds, an orange button that says Click Here to View Next Advertisement will appear on the right side of the Hits4Pay banner above the website.
4. Click on this button to validate that email and to receive your credit (usually $0.02). You will then be taken back to the next new message waiting for you.

What I Like

1. First, as I already mentioned, I really like their referral system, with the 2-level downline. You will earn $0.01 for each validated email that your direct referrals read. Plus, you will earn $0.01 from each validated email that your direct referral's referral reads.
2. And here's the second thing I like about Hits4Pay: unlike some other sites, you don't have to have the site's browser window in focus. I'll typically go through these ads while I'm doing something else on my computer, makes it pretty simple.

Downsides

1. Cashout is $25.00 (which I think is high). Once your account balance reaches $25.00 or more, it will be "zeroed out" on the 1st of the following month to pay out your commissions and your Hits4Pay account will show a $0.00 balance at this time. Once your account has been "zeroed out", your commissions will be transferred to your PayPal account on or around the 15th of that month. In other words, once you reach $25, it could possibly take up to 45 days before you get paid! That would happen if you hit $25 early in the month. Even minimally, you're looking at 16 days or so. Ouch!
2. This is the one that a lot of people balk at: Hits4Pay insists on your filling out a W9 before they'll pay you. That means you have to give them your SSN. It's for tax reasons, blah, blah, blah ... However, they have been around for a long time (as I mentioned above, since 1998) and everything I've read say that they are totally legitimate and that they don't screw with your SSN. I haven't yet gotten to the point of being ready to cash out though, so I haven't filled out the W9 form yet.

Recommendation

I think that Hits4Pay has the potential to bring in some consistent money. The key is to get a healthy downline, so sign up for Hits4Pay today under my referral and then get to work getting your own referrals! It'll benefit us both!

FusionCash = DecentCash

I like the FusionCash site. It has the potential to net you a good amount of money fairly quickly. I've only been visiting the site for about 4 weeks (and initially, not every day) and my balance is already up to more than $13. Let me tell you something about it.

FusionCash has several different ways to earn money.

1. $5.00 Signup Bonus!
2. The Daily Cash email ($0.02, you need to sign up for it).
3. Paid To Click is a quick $0.15 every day.
4. Daily FC Surveys, which range from $1.00 to $3.00
5. Daily Tasks, range from $0.01 to $0.25
6. Various other Surveys, Offers and Videos
7. Paid To Post (get $3.00 per month for posting 30 times to the forum)

Once you've gotten familiar with the various offers, you can Bookmark the ones you like and then you can always start your day from the Bookmarked items. You can also "hide" the offers you don't want to bother with, so your Offers page isn't cluttered with offers that you have no intention of ever doing.

Cashout

Cashout amount is $25, but $15 of that must be in completed offers (not bonuses). They pay via PayPal (US and Canada), checks or direct deposit (US only) after the 20th of each month. One thing they require though: offers and bonuses expire if not cashed out within 180 days of being credited. Shouldn't be a problem, but don't forget about it!

Referrals

I don't have any referrals yet (that's why I'm posting this!), but it looks like a decent referral system:

1. Refer a friend who confirms his/her email address: $1 bonus
2. Your friend completes his/her first offer: $2 bonus
3. Your friend cashes out: $5 bonus (each and every time they cashout - for life)

My daily routine:

1. The first thing I do every day is click on the Daily Cash email I get. It only pays $0.02, but it only takes a minute and I have to login to the site anyway, so this is a quick way to get there.
2. Then I go the Offers page and my Bookmarked items.
3. First, I do the Paid To Click offer. It only pays $0.15, but it also is pretty quick (about 3 minutes) and painless.  All you have to do is click on four different items in the "STEP 1: CONTENT" section, one sponsored ad in the "STEP2: SPONSERS" section and then you have to wait for the countdown (from 3 minutes) in "STEP3: REDEEM" to complete. Once the 3 minutes are up, there will be two links under the Redeem section. You may have to click the Refresh (and you don't see the second one until you've clicked the first).
4. Next, I'll try a few of the surveys (and sometimes other offers). I always check the FC Surveys first, because they pay from $1 to $3. I like that they tell you how long a survey should take and I won't do one that takes more than 15 minutes (not worth my time and I get bored if they're longer than that).

Stuff I May Start Doing Regularly

1. I've only done the Paid Videos a couple of times, but I just recently became aware of the fact that you can click on all the videos, one after another, without waiting for each one to finish and still get credit for all of them (keep in mind that you do have to let them all finish at some point or you won't get credit). Videos only pay $0.01 to $0.03 which is why I hadn't been regularly doing them. However, I may give it a try again with this new way of doing it ... and I'll obviously want to turn off my sound!!  ;0)
2. There is a Contests & Promotions section in the Forum which I only became aware of today. Every weekend they have a mini-promotion giveaway for answering trivia questions or other simple items. Example right now is a "survey" asking what about your New Years Resolution is. They don't pay much (the New Years one is $0.02), but they don't take much time either. And every Tuesday/Wednesday, a sports-related promotion. Other items that will earn you money are things like posting a screenshot of your payout, following FusionCash on Twitter, etc.

Stuff I Don't Do:

1. I've not bothered with the "Paid To Post" forum postings that I mentioned at the beginning of this blog post. Too much of a time-waster in my opinion, but some people like forum posting. If you're one of them, then go for it. =0)
2. I also don't do any games for the same reason (time-waster), but I'm also not much into games, other than the Spider Solitaire game on my laptop. =0)
3. The Daily Tasks seem to me to take too much time for what you get paid. Maybe it's just me though, so you may want to take a look at it yourself.

This is fast becoming my favorite site (well, second behind InstantCashSweepstakes, which is definitely my favorite)! Take some time to check it out, here's the link: FusionCash

Cash Outs First Month

I've been doing this "Money For Nothing" stuff for a month now (although rather sporadically for the first 2 weeks), and I'd like to report the 4 cash outs I've received for my first month.

With Instant Cash Sweepstakes I've been able to cash out the most number of times ... I've earned enough to cash out 3 times (you only need $2 to cash out). On Dec. 6th ($2.00), 17th ($2.07) and again today ($2.85) ... only 4 days later! The reason for the quick turnaround this last time is because I just won the $2.00 coin drawing that is held every 4 hours (see my blog post review here: Taking Surveys to New Level).

However, ClixSense gave me a better dollar amount for my first cash out there on the 17th ($8.81). Minimum amount for cash out is $8. See my blog post review here: ClixSense Has Scenery Porn
I hope to post a new review soon about FusionCash, another one of my favorites.

ClixSense Has "Scenery Porn"

ClixSense is a pretty decent site. I've only been doing this free money stuff for about a month and I like ClixSense.

Complete the Daily Checklist bonus. The minimum you have to do is:

1. 2 ads a day (6-50 seconds)
2. 15 clicks on ClixGrid (150 seconds)
3. Visit a page on the forum (1 second)
4. 10 Tasks OR 2 Offers (Or a combination of 1 Offer and 5 Tasks)

It doesn't take all that long and you get a bonus for completing the Daily Checklist. The bonus amount appears to be based on how much you've earned from the various things in the checklist. I've only averaged about 5 cents each day from the bonus itself (looks like that's about how much my bonus was if I earned a total of $1 with the items in the Checklist).

I don't usually click the ads (except for the 2 needed to complete the Daily Checklist) because they generally don't pay much (a penny or less per ad).

The ClixGrid can be fun. There's a grid with a different picture on it each time. You click on a square on the grid and watch the ad that comes up (for 10 seconds) and you either win or you don't. Close that ad and you get a new picture to click on.  The pictures are really nice and you can even download them if you want to. Someone on http://www.reddit.com/r/beermoney/ refers to it as "scenery porn", an amusing description.

Between the offers or the tasks, the offers pay better and the Daily Surveys are generally the best ones to do (I've had problems sometimes with the others ... not always, but sometimes I don't get credit for completing them).

Payouts

Payouts are done twice a week, on Monday and Friday. Minimum payout is $8. These payments are via PayPal, Payza or Liberty Reserve (and also via checks, but checks are only paid once a month). I got my first payout today ($8.99). I joined about 4 weeks ago, but was not real active until about 2 weeks ago.

Referrals

As always, referrals are what help bring in the money for you! I have 4 referrals that I've had for about 2 weeks (only two seem to be currently active). They've brought in $2.50, which isn't great, but it isn't bad. Just think how much better that can be if I can get many more referrals!

Please give ClixSense a try! Here's the link: ClixSense

Get Paid For Your Opinions!

PaidViewpoint
Depending on your experience and your mindset you either love paid surveys or think they're a total waste of time or scam!

I can totally sympathize with the latter group. Let's face it, too often many market research companies will have you spending nearly 5 or more minutes on screener questions only to discover that you didn't qualify for the survey! I just lost minutes of my life that I could have used to earn guaranteed money on some other site! Because of this, many people start to resent these market research companies.

Another common beef is not getting any surveys at all. You spend all that time filling out demographic information about yourself and then you wait for those survey opportunities to come. But they never do! You end up feeling one of two things; rejected or pissed! I understand the sentiments either way, but market research is based on supply and demand. Some demographics are more valuable to certain companies than others. If you don't fit that demographic then you're outta luck!

But, never fear ... finally there is a market research company that seems to have heard our complaints and has created a paid online survey company with us in mind! PaidViewpoint! Like most market research companies they're in the business of gathering information and reporting their findings to businesses so in turn they can make better products, services, websites, advertisements, etc. All of which adds to a company's bottom line and why they are willing to pay us for our feedback.

What makes PaidViewPoint different?

I think they pretty much summed it up best in their own words:
"PaidViewpoint is the market research survey site built upon 4 principles:
- We pay cash for every completed market research survey.
- We never screen you out once you've been invited into a survey.
- We've cracked the code that takes "boring" out of the survey answering experience.
- Privacy – we never ask you to register your real name or complete physical address."

So how does it work?

Like most survey companies you'll usually get an email when there is a survey ready for you. At the time of this review, I usually get a paid survey from them every day! This may or may not be the case for you.

In any event, once you get an email, you just log in and answer a series of short questions. They are very short multiple choice questions. After answering maybe 10 questions or so you are then awarded some money, guaranteed!  If you've ever taken InstantCashSweepStakes polls, they're exactly like that! (you may want to see my blog posts about that site: Taking Surveys To A New Level).

How much money can you make?

Well at the time of this review I earn about $.10 per completed survey. There are times when they send higher paying surveys that can pay anywhere from .30 up to $2. Those surveys are usually limited time offers so you need to respond as quickly as you get them to qualify for the larger amounts. But it seems like $.10 per survey is the average. Again it could be different for you. What I do know for certain is you're paid for every survey which is a refreshing change!

Now you may think to yourself a lousy dime is nothing! No, not making anything is nothing! That's what often happens with other survey companies that put you through non-paying screener questions or surveys and then disqualify you! You get nuttin' honey! So it's all about perspective with this opportunity. You'd be surprised how fast .$10 per day can add up and considering it takes you less than 2-5 minutes to complete the surveys, why not!

When do you get paid and how do you get paid?

Currently there is payment threshold of $15 that you must reach before you can get paid! This is rather high, unfortunately. You can cashout only with Paypal (which is my preferred method anyway)! They usually pay within a few hours.

How to make more money!

PaidViewpoint understands that trusting us to answer questions honestly and consistently is important to their customers. So, they have a trust factor built into their surveys. Again if you've used InstantCashSweepstakes before, you might be familiar with this concept. On ICS if you respond to the same question the same way, they reward you for it. Well sort of the same thing happens with PaidViewpoint. Your trust score goes up as you answer the same trait questions in the same way.

But they really mix up the way the questions are asked to confirm that you are really consistent! So be honest! If you are, then your trust score goes up and allegedly once it reaches the highest level you'll earn a lot more money on the surveys. My trust score is getting up there. So we'll see if this is true or not but it takes a lot of time which I guess makes sense.

The next way you can earn more money is with referrals! Duh!! If someone you refer takes 6 or more business surveys you earn $1. Initially it sounds pretty sweet. But read the previous sentence again. The users need to be active for you to get paid! So, that's a bit of a downer, but I guess everything can't be perfect, right?

It's quick and easy and doesn't take up too much of your day! Give it a try: PaidViewpoint