After having tried and failed to make money using advertised systems, I decided that I wanted to make just a little money; just something for my troubles. It didn’t have to be a lot. I just didn’t want to have to pay anything to do it and I wanted to do something simple. I’m going to share this information with you. This is not a scam or some weird system; it’s just advice from me to you. Some of this advice may even be quite obvious for some of you, but if I can help just one person who is desperately in need of some money, then my job here is done. I don’t want your money or your personal information or anything like that. Also, I am not affiliated with the websites mentioned in this article. Using this advice won’t cost you anything other than your time. These are just several things that I’ve found lately that you can actually use to make some money online.
Set up a free email account. I prefer Google’s Gmail (gmail.com). This is important because some of the following suggestions will result in SPAM and you don’t want that coming to your regular email account.
Set up a free PayPal account (paypal.com) This will require you to have a checking account (your free one) and you have to verify your account by confirming two small deposits that PayPal will make to you.
Set up a free account with InboxDollars.com (Survey website) using your free email address. They pay you to sign up ($5 currently.) Use your correct contact information. One of the offers under InboxDollars is to set up a free EBAY account. Do this and then place a bid on a $.99 item that you will more than likely not win. Currently, this ebay offer is worth an additional $6 in your InboxDollars account, but you have to go through with at least one bid. There are other legitimate survey websites out there, but this is the first one that I have actually received money from.
Now, find several of your friends who want to make money too. Have them set up free email accounts and then refer them to InboxDollars.com. For each friend that signs up and makes it to their payout ($30) you will earn $5. It took me a month to reach my $30 payout because I didn’t participate in any of the high dollar offers ($10 and up) that require me to share my credit card number. I only participated in daily surveys ($1 each) and also signed up for the free offers that paid for me to sign up. The free offers are things like signing up to receive information from schools or signing up to participate on other survey websites. As always, use your best judgment and don’t give away too much personal information. Keep in mind that when you do reach your $30 payout point, you have to wait 30 days from the end of the current month before they issue your check. This is done for security purposes and it is a little inconvenient, but hey, it’s free money. Also, they will take $3 from your total balance for fees, but it’s not money that you already had. Be sure to continue to read the emails you receive from InboxDollars daily to keep your account active. This is something that you can do on a continuing basis to generate funds. It’s not fast, but it’s consistent. Also, you will start to notice a healthy amount of SPAM showing up in your SPAM folder in your Gmail account. Just go through and select them all and delete them occasionally. Aren’t you glad you didn’t use your normal email account? :) Hits4Pay is another website that pays you to read email. They are similar to InboxDollars. See below for a link to their website.
In the meantime, I used my EBAY account to sell random items throughout my house that were taking up space and that I no longer needed. Some examples of things that sell very easily are video games and systems, DVD’s, die cast model cars (very popular!), and books. There are fees involved when you sell things on EBAY, but I’ve found that if you regularly pay off your EBAY account using your PayPal account, you will stay fairly well ahead and never spend any money out of your checking account. Just be sure to leave enough money in your PayPal account to cover these fees. If you do not have enough money in your PayPal account to cover the fees, it will be withdrawn from your checking account. Do some research on ebay fees to find ways of saving money. If you are considering listing an item for $1.00, the insertion fee is $.40, but if you lower the price by a penny to $.99, the insertion fee is cut in half to $.20. Also, if you happen to have a website of your own, you can set up a folder just for EBAY pictures and then use HTML to link these pictures to your auctions and save even more money. PayPal also has their own fees, but they’re not too bad.
Another useful online tool is the website Craigslist (craigslist.org) Craigslist is divided into different areas of the country and it is comparable to the classified section of the newspaper. The only difference is that it’s free! You can list items for sale or barter that you no longer need. Do you have some exercise equipment or furniture that you want to get rid of? Why not make some money from it and have someone else take it away for you? You can also find items on Craigslist that people are giving away for FREE! All you have to do is contact them and go pick it up. What are you going to do with all this free stuff? Well, remember that free EBAY account that you set up? Sell these items for profit. Friends and family are also good resources for free things. Offer to help them clean out their storage areas and get rid of old junk. You’d be surprised how much of that “old junk” is very valuable to someone in another part of the world.
True, using these methods will not make you rich overnight and I don’t expect to be featured in Forbes any time soon, but these ideas do help to make some money. For example, using the ideas mentioned above, I’ve made over $600 in just a little over a month, the majority of it from EBAY and Craigslist. Granted, you and I may not have the same type of personal possessions to sell, but yours may be worth much more than mine.
One last tip, set up a blog on blogger.com, write articles like this one. Sign up for Adsense and and configure the ads to display on your blog. If your articles become popular,and someone happens to click on your ad, you will make money!
I hope these tips are helpful to you and that they make you as much money as they have for me!
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