One Cheap Dingle

Copywriting Ain't Easy...

2010-12-20T07:25:00.000-08:00

Well, this has been awhile. A lot has happened since the last time we all spoke. Winter has hit, how depressing. With that behind me life has been a carousel. Work has left me with not so many days of internet work done.

I have recently started dabbling into the art of copywriting. The whole idea is INCREDIBLY interesting, and jobs and money seems easier to come by! I have already have had three clients and made three emails for $97 a piece!

The thing is about copywriting is that it takes some serious skill in selling products. You can't be an everyday article writer to make a sales copy. It takes time and effort, trial and error to see what really works. More questions? Just comment below!

At Home Leg Strength Training

2010-10-13T15:26:00.001-07:00

Strength Training - Leg Workout

When dealing with strength training you must always remember balance. You must work on all parts of the body not just focusing on one area such as the arms. Leg training and exercises can be a great warm up, and can be fun as well! Just remember to always stretch out all parts of the body before starting any exercise.
To start you are going to start by just warming the muscles. This is a very simple exercise and can be practiced pretty much anywhere. Start by walking up and down a flight of stairs, depending on the size of the fleet you can adjust how many times you go up and down. Now as you continue this exercise gain speed, start by walking quickly, and than a more fast paced speed. Just be sure that you are keeping your balance and make sure you are not going to trip on a stair.
If you own any free weights an excellent exercise is doing squats with a barbell. All you have to do is spread your feet should length apart and have the barbell behind the shoulders with both hands firmly on the barbell. You than squat down as if you are going to sit down with the barbell resting on the shoulders and upper-back. Immediately after reaching a sitting position raise back up once more. Do this exercise three times in sets of fifteen.
If you are low on funds, or do not own any free weights, there are some exercises you can do at home that can be just as productive. You can simply modify the last squatting exercise without the barbell, you can just hold things like books or something with weight to make the process more difficult. Another exercise you can try is a lunge. A lunge is preformed when you simply “lunge” your upper body in front of the rest and kneel to the ground until your back leg is touching the ground. Move up, like taking a step, and continue the process.
Always remember diet is another important part of strength training. Be sure you are eating plenty of protein foods, and instead of eating three steady meals a day, do six smaller meals throughout the day. With all of these things executed correctly strength training will become an easier part of your day and it will begin to show before you know it!

Domain Purchasing and Monetization

2010-10-08T03:41:00.000-07:00

HEY GUYS! Sorry it has been so long I have been really busy at work for the past three weeks (not a day off ack!). Anyway I have been trying something new and let me know what you think. I have bought 7 domains from GoDaddy.com. Now, 5 of them are currently being parked on GoDaddy's cashparking. I know I have heard about not much revenue from domain parking but hell I am gonna let it fly until I get to some of the sites. One of the sites is currently being sold on google (can be checked out Here)

Now on the other two I am doing legit work. My frist site is Stopmethadone.com This site will deal with methadone addiction and facts and different methods to get off methadone. Another site I recently purchesed is Dlekt. This so far is my FAVEORITE domain name, you know sounds like "delect". This so far has been pushed as "underground music" but it will be added onto soon.

Keep intouch to the blog I will update soon, I promise ;)

Cash Crate Smashed By Pissed Off Young Adult

2010-09-27T00:52:00.000-07:00

The cash crate scam is one that is very well hidden. You visit popular blogs and they are telling you how you can make a $1000 dollars with Cash Crate referrals or by doing all there offers, sadly none of this is true.

A few things I first noticed when visiting the Cash Crate website:

The site has a very sleek look.
Looks very professional.
Easy access, with a $2 bonus!

Oh my God! Sounds like a dream come true, huh? This is probably one of the most deceiving parts of the whole site; it looks so good it has to be legit! So being one of the few million people I joined the site and started going right at it.

After signing up, you get a $1 bonus, and when you activate your account you get another $1 bonus. Afterwards, they give you an option to watch a movie on how to start making cash right off of the bat; I personally did not waste my time.

After doing about 20 offers, a quick pattern has shown through. Spam, spam, spam. Nothing but junk deals. “Win a free IPod” type shit, completely low brow. The surveys being just as bad and sometimes sneaking in “SSN:” AHAH! No thanks. The nice thing I saw about Cash Crate is the community. The whole community is aware of the Cash Crate scam.

The community itself has threads where people share what deals worked for the day and how much they made off them. So it looked like I could at least make a little off of all of this. I did 10 more offers that were accepted by other people and let it sit. That was Sept. 16^th and 17^th. Now it being the 27^th, I have lost all hope of that little bit of cash that I never really expected to begin with (something you learn with finding new ways to make money).

Now if there is a chance that you made $20 dollar cap to get payed out, congratulations! What was it 2 or 3 months? Most people obviously quit way before this and you never see a penny of the money that is why the $2 bonus was set in place so it entices you to want to keep going.

A few things to learn about from this article:

Looks are deceiving.
Don’t believe in free upfront bonuses.
Sometimes what may work for one person, may not for another

If you want to try Cash Crate out, there is really no harm in trying. They do not ask to disclose any incredibly juicy details about yourself, unless you want to than you can email them to me. Here is my referral link: Cash Crate Referral

OCD

Best Requesters for Amazon Mechanical Turk!

2010-09-20T04:09:00.001-07:00

While on my Amazon Mechanical Turk phase of life I noticed there are a lot of BS requesters. Many of them you have to watch out for and ignore, go through 10 extra pages to get past “Dolores Labs” and find the quick and easy $.02 hits that you can do a 1000 of.

Today I am going to tell you just a few of the trusted requesters I look for on a daily basis, hopefully this can help you out with your Mturk habit:

Amazon Requester Inc. – This is a fantastic requester. One of their most popular hits is the “Quick Survey: evaluate a short phrase”. Each hit takes about 3 seconds asking if the two words are offensive, if you like the phrase, change one of the words to make a new phrase, and than how many syllables are in the phrase. Sound simple enough? I hope so I just busted 500 out in 2 hours. $.02 a hit.

RelevanceQuest – This is another great user with a simplified scheme. On the “Web Search Quality” hits it shows a statement and a link, if the link shows relevance to the phrase you rate it on a scale of 1-5. $.02 a hit.

Tal Lev-Ami – This requester has a hit “answer a given question” not too hard, takes a little bit but the payout is decent: $.10.

Those are just a few if you know a few good more requesters comment on the blog and let us know! We all must share for the sake of money!

But lastly, I am sure people out there using Amazon Mechanical Turk spend a lot of time (wasting) looking for a good hit to do. Well, if you have a favorite requester just look ‘em up!

Today I am going to tell you just a few of the trusted requesters I look for on a daily basis, hopefully this can help you out with your Mturk habit:

Amazon Requester Inc. – This is a fantastic requester. One of their most popular hits is the “Quick Survey: evaluate a short phrase”. Each hit takes about 3 seconds asking if the two words are offensive, if you like the phrase, change one of the words to make a new phrase, and than how many syllables are in the phrase. Sound simple enough? I hope so I just busted 500 out in 2 hours. $.02 a hit.

RelevanceQuest – This is another great user with a simplified scheme. On the “Web Search Quality” hits it shows a statement and a link, if the link shows relevance to the phrase you rate it on a scale of 1-5. $.02 a hit.

Tal Lev-Ami – This requester has a hit “answer a given question” not too hard, takes a little bit but the payout is decent: $.10.

Those are just a few if you know a few good more requesters comment on the blog and let us know! We all must share for the sake of money!

But lastly, I am sure people out there using Amazon Mechanical Turk spend a lot of time (wasting) looking for a good hit to do. Well, if you have a favorite requester just look ‘em up!

Requester Nation is a great site to just hit ctrl+f and look up your best requester, click on the name and it will bring up a list of all the current hits for that requester! Sweet sweet lordy lordy.

is a great site to just hit ctrl+f and look up your best requester, click on the name and it will bring up a list of all the current hits for that requester! Sweet sweet lordy lordy.

Amazon Mechanical Turk - Making Slave Work Trendy

2010-09-17T02:37:00.000-07:00

It seems like every review I found for Amazon Mechanical Turk were at least three years ago (???)! Well here is a new 2010 review of Mechanical Turk (Mturk)!

Want to put a quick five bucks in your pocket to put a dent in that dime bag you have wanted to get but mom hid her purse and was making sure you were not getting of it. Well Mturk would definitely be something for you! I stumbled upon it from a friend talking about it; going on the site it seemed easy enough answer some questions or decide a category for a video, simple enough right? Well, kind of.

Signing up is very easy just the normal set up, confirm from email and boom, Thunder Cats AGO. After the activation was complete the first thing I noticed was the utter lack of beauty this website contained. While background blue boarders and that’s about it. For the sake of optimization it was definitely a key choice (low loading times and not too many distractions) so for that sake I am willing to give up.

It seemed to take me like a half hour to get that half of the big money HITS were scams, sign up for this, check your credit score for that, blah blah blah. You can try to guess from the title if the HIT will be easy or worth your time but I end up having to keep track of some of the big name requesters and ones that actually give out easy jobs. This is the big thing. Most requesters will ask you to answer up to like 20 questions sometimes for 2 cents, not worth it at all.

Requesters like “Amazon Requester Inc.” Is one of my favorites because most of his HITS are 3 or 4 questions and, boom. You have to wait for any requester to accept or deny the submission before payment and they are always prompt. They still only pay out about 2 cents but you can open 5 or so tabs with the same hits and do them all in a row to minimize time used.

So your sick of reading all this, want to see something a little more simple?

Like dollar signs?

This is 9 days after my Mturk account was started, you can see I have a few rejected, watch out they will filter you out of content if you have a high rejection rate, and quite a few accepted. I am waiting for about $16 more dollars in mending.

One thing good I should note is that if the requester is being a douche and doesn’t want to pay, after a certain period of time it will automatically drop into your account.

So here is a quick little brake down for my ADD/ADHD friends:

Amazons Mechanical Turk:

Positives:

Free and simple setup
Free freaking money
Some of the stuff is pretty simple
Great for in between hours and free time on the computer
You can get payment deposited into your bank account or a Amazon gift card!

Negatives:

Slave work, oh yeah.
Arthritis of the hand from clicking twelve million times
Zoning out for hours doing the same…damn…thing
Could never be a daily job

Yes, please do not think that you could make an honest wage with Mechanical Turk. I personally use it on my inbetween time at my overnight job, which I am currently at. I really think Mturk is a great site and should be utilized to its full potential. My three week goal is to make at least $100 with Mturk on my spare time, can you beat me?

Amazon Mechanical Turk: 3 half cigarettes in an ashtray, out of 5

http://mturk.com/

One Cheap Dingle Intro - Welcome from OCD!

2010-09-15T01:34:00.000-07:00

"I Guess I just have always been cheap and that’s what I enjoy being. "
I tend to pinch pennies every second of the day when an opportunity arises, and it brings a stride to my step. Hours searching on internet sites looking for a hopeless romance of a job to come along and soon enough I could be a suit and tie man, purely get quick rich scheme. It grew like my addiction did and when addiction got mixed with money, drugs were involved, many many drugs.

Regardless of the past, I have moved on since than. Grown up to be a new man. And that makes me One Cheap Dingle. I have researched, set a flame, physically abused, and self mutilated every strain of the internet and daily life for ways to put green in my pocket [money]. And for you I would like to present a comprehensive review on what I believe to be the most legitimate, easy, pick up and go methods on either saving or banking. What method you may ask? Well obviously blogging, as you see here but soon enough there will be video podcasts.

The first article is coming soon,

O.C.D.