Ok I've decided to try and earn some easy money online doing surveys, clicking adverts and watching adverts. After a little research I decided to try some of the options which looked the most promising. Here's what I've found so far:
Surveys
I've been signed up for YouGov surveys for well over a year, it may be almost two years now, but I've never really taken it too serious. I'll do the odd survey that they invite me to and then I'll miss a few. Consequently I've yet to reach the minimum £50 payout level, I'm about half way there. Now that I'm trying to generate a little (or a lot) of extra cash I've decided to hunt out some other 'paid to take survey sites' and signed up to the ones which looked the most promising. I'm also going to take the YouGov surveys more seriously from now.
This system works by collecting information from you about your views on various topics from shopping habits to politics. There's usually a screening process and if you're not what they're looking for you'll not get to do the survey or get paid for your time. The surveys take around 15-20 minutes to complete.
Paid to click
I'm trying some 'paid to click' (PTC) websites and I'm already beginning to think these aren't worth the effort. I've been registered with two PTC sites for about a week now and have earned a whopping $0.15 combined (I don't know how much that is in English money but at a guess I'd say about 10p).
This is an easy thing to do. You're presented with a list of links to websites which you click, a timer makes you watch it for a few seconds then you get paid. It's usually around $0.001 per click and there's a limited number of clicks per day so it's going to take a lot of clicks and days to make a decent amount of money.
Paid to watch
I like this system it's easy and the site I use (getjam) pays 5p per view. The problem is there aren't enough paid adverts to watch. To get paid you simply click on the advert and watch it. They seem to range from 30 seconds to around 3 minutes long. I've been using 'getjam' for this for a while and have racked up a few quid so far.
Summary
My intention is to find out if this actually works and if the payouts are worth the time spent completing surveys, clicking links and watching adverts. My initial feeling is that despite the promises of wealth they advertise I'm unlikely to make much at all. But time will tell and if I do okay I'll let you know. If you have any ideas or know of any really good sites please let me know.
Monday, 15 August 2011
Sunday, 14 August 2011
A day once dawned
"A day once dawned, and it was beautiful" (Nick Drake).
I sat for a while trying to find something to do. It's been one of those lazy can't be bothered to concentrate on anything type of days, I seem to be having a lot of them lately. I have an excuse today though, I was out round town last night and drank a lot more falling down water than I should have and now I'm feeling very lethargic. Anyway I sat surfing the net not looking for anything in particular and decided that this blogging thing might be an interesting way to waste a bit of time without exerting too much effort. It was easy to set up until I was asked for a title for it. I couldn't think of anything descriptive for something that has no real purpose. After a while spent searching for title ideas (that was a waste of time) I decided to look through the music on my iPod and stole the title for my blog from a song by Nick Drake called "From the morning". A good choice I think.
Today I've done nothing of note except hammer a couple of nails into my damaged fence in an attempt at fixing it. There's lots of things I should have done but I didn't. Back to work tomorrow and I guess I'll have to force myself to do some studying after work as I've an assignment looming, it's the last one for this course though :) (Open University, T175 if you must know :p).
If anything unusual does happen I'll no doubt post it but don't expect too much drama as it's usually quiet around here.
Random thing:
Sms joke from a mate:
I sat for a while trying to find something to do. It's been one of those lazy can't be bothered to concentrate on anything type of days, I seem to be having a lot of them lately. I have an excuse today though, I was out round town last night and drank a lot more falling down water than I should have and now I'm feeling very lethargic. Anyway I sat surfing the net not looking for anything in particular and decided that this blogging thing might be an interesting way to waste a bit of time without exerting too much effort. It was easy to set up until I was asked for a title for it. I couldn't think of anything descriptive for something that has no real purpose. After a while spent searching for title ideas (that was a waste of time) I decided to look through the music on my iPod and stole the title for my blog from a song by Nick Drake called "From the morning". A good choice I think.
Today I've done nothing of note except hammer a couple of nails into my damaged fence in an attempt at fixing it. There's lots of things I should have done but I didn't. Back to work tomorrow and I guess I'll have to force myself to do some studying after work as I've an assignment looming, it's the last one for this course though :) (Open University, T175 if you must know :p).
If anything unusual does happen I'll no doubt post it but don't expect too much drama as it's usually quiet around here.
Random thing:
Dave Starsky and Ken Hutchinson (Starksy and Hutch) patrolled the fictional Bay City, California mostly in Starsky's red and white Ford Gran Torino which Hutch nicknamed the Striped Tomato. Information found on the Starsky and Hutch wiki
Sms joke from a mate:
My mate Paddy was among the rioters who ransacked Argos in Manchester last night...he's got 500 catalogues if you want one!!
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