Miss Money Hunter's Guide to Making Money Online

Spotlight On: PandaProfits

2015-12-20T08:00:00.000-06:00

Wow, I knew I hadn't updated here in a while, but I actually thought my last update was earlier this year... only to find, upon further examination, that it was actually LAST year in the summertime. I really didn't intend to go this long without a new post. Whoops!!! I'll try to do better in 2016.

Well, obviously there has not been a lot new going on for me in the world of PTR/PTC/GPT - a few sites have come and gone in that time but for the most part I spend most of my time at the same old sites I always have and that continue to pay me, like ClixSense, Fusion Cash, Legacyclix, WordLinx, and some others I remain active on daily or, if not, at least weekly.

Which brings me to my latest site to share with you and I'm really excited about this one because it's run by some really good friends who are trustworthy, reliable, stand-up kinda folks...

PandaProfits is a new paid to click site that recently opened and is owned by four longtime and respected members of the online traffic community - Tom Wacker, Janelle Pineau, Patrick Griffin and Bill Gorcsi. I could never say enough good about this group of folks, and that's why I know this site is honest and will be reliable for a long time to come.

Here's the quick 411 on PandaProfits:

$2 minimum for first cashout, then increases by $2 up to a fixed $6 cashout minimum
Instant payout via PayPal (initially available once user has reached 250 minimum clicks)
Up to $0.02 per ad viewed
Earn 10% on referral clicks for free members, 25% for upgraded members
Detailed statistics on referral clicks available
Rented referrals - to be available at a later date as active membership grows
Members welcome from all countries

I'm very excited about PandaProfits as I know the owners will take excellent care of their new baby and will be responsible and reliable PTC owners for a long time to come. Check out PandaProfits for yourself today!

Site News and Updates, Brief Version - 26th July 2014

2014-07-26T17:49:00.000-05:00

I'm way overdue in updating here, sorry. Mainly just wanted to update real quick this weekend to remove ClickOrSignup from the active programs lists, as the site appears to now be gone.

Not sure about CashPirate right now as the site appears to be inaccessible, but maybe it's just one of those temporary things. We'll see.

I'll be back on Monday with another new site you might wanna check out. Stay tuned and have a great rest of your weekend!

MY PTC Downline Builder: Build Big Downlines With This Super New Program

2014-06-03T09:19:00.000-05:00

Hello again! I wanted to hurry up and get this posted, 'cos this is something cool that's brand spanking new and you'll want to check it out ASAP.

My activity in PTCs and such things has lessened somewhat in recent months, but there are still a dozen or so that I ontinue to actively work daily. I also passively maintain some memberships in various "paid to" sites that have continued to earn me commissions on a regular basis, and have for now literally years.

To bring in more than just a few pennies here and there, though, you need a downline, and hopefully and preferably a fairly active one. That's where MY PTC Downline Builder comes in, and it's a brand new program that just launched on Monday.

MY PTC Downline Builder is owned and was created by two friends and colleagues of mine in the traffic exchange industry, Kevin Williams of DoubleNice Traffic and Russell Stockley of Cup of Traffic (and Kevin and Russell also together own Force Hits).

Here's some of what you can do with MY PTC Downline Builder:

Promote ALL your programs using just ONE link
Build downlines in ANY PTC program you choose
Earn up to 40% direct commissions

The program's free membership allows you to add two PTC programs of your choice to the downline builder and earn 15% commissions on referral purchases. That's really nice.

But the huge value (and massive downline building ability) is in the Premium membership, which allows you to add up to twenty (you read that right - 20!) programs of your choice to the downline builder, gives you 40% commission on all referral purchases, and lots of other great bonuses.

And here's what's really terrific - the Premium membership is only $20 per year. That sorts out to basically about $1.67 a month, for extreme downline building ability in 20+ programs AND 40% commissions. Cool, no?

MY PTC Downline Builder has a $10 minimum payout on commissions by PayPal (after a 14-day waiting period). The site is open to members of all countries.

Take a moment check out MY PTC Downline Builder today and see what you think! Be back again soon!

Clicksia and Incentria Have Closed

2014-06-03T08:55:00.000-05:00

Hi there! Been a while, but until now I really didn't have anything newsworthy or any new sites to post about.

I did, however, discover yesterday that longtime established PTC site Clicksia, and its sister site Incentria, had been shut down effective immediately, apparently due to some chronic serious health problems of the owner as well as lack of profitability of the sites for some time. That's what's been reported, anyway.

I have since moved them both to the "Closed Programs" section of the site.

So I just wanted to post that news up, and have another post cooking as well, so I'm not through for today quite yet. Stay tuned!

(PS if you're interested, you can also check out what earns me real monthly income these days right HERE.)

Site Update - April 2013

2014-04-12T12:36:00.000-05:00

(UPDATED 28 April 2014)

Hi there. My apologies for not having updated the site in a while - I have been incredibly busy since the last update in August.

That said, I have just updated the Quick List pretty thoroughly, with the exception of adding payment proofs of payments since August 2013. There's quite a large number of them to be added (as well as updating the "Been Paid" amounts earned for a large number of sites) - eight months' worth! - so that part's going to take a while longer, but hopefully very soon.

In any case, for the most recently updated info regarding what sites I'm still working these days, head on over to the Quick List. I've done quite a bit of "housecleaning" over there today, as well as adding a few new sites to the PTC section.

I'll be back as soon as I can to upload some payment proofs and update payment amount info on several sites, probably within the next few weeks.

In the meantime, feel free to check out this PTC site that opened in December 2013, Legacyclix. It is run by reputable, reliable and honest owners in the traffic exchange industry (and who also happen to be good friends and colleagues of mine) and has been steadily growing since it opened.

While there has been a lot of upheaval in the PTC arena of late, these owners are even more committed in the face of all that upheaval to running their sites honestly and for the long term, and are well worth checking out, and the time and effort. I'll be posting some more detailed "Spotlight On" info on both here very soon (the main details are already posted over on the Quick List).

'til then, hope life has been treating you all very well, and I will definitely be back very soon, I promise. And I am hoping to keep the sites better updated regularly once this backlog of payment proofs goes up.

Thanks for your understanding, and have a great rest of your weekend - more coming very soon!

Spotlight On: NeoBux

2013-08-21T11:00:00.000-05:00

Yes, I've given in and rejoined NeoBux once yet again. It's included in the training at ClickTrackProfit, so I felt I had to, and it has indeed paid me before and been reliable and paying for years.

My only issue with NeoBux is their policy of account deletion due to inactivity. Previously I think it was 30 days, now I've been hearing it's 15 days.

As anyone who's been dropping by here for long likely knows, I've had long periods away here and there, so I've been deleted for inactivity at NeoBux repeatedly over the years. I think this is either the fourth or fifth time I've re-registered.

Now that I'm back in the groove and exceptionally active in several online areas again, I don't foresee this being a problem again, so I'm doing it again. We'll see.

That said, my advice basically is DON'T sign up if you don't think you can stick with it and log in at least every 15 days. If that's not a foreseeable problem for you, then you should be in good shape.

And there is quite a bit of money to be made with NeoBux, especially through referral renting. A lot of people have made lots and lots of money with it, and it is indeed probably the largest and most successful PTC site there is.

Here's the 411 again on NeoBux:

$2 minimum for first cashout, then increases by $1 up to $10, then $10 minimum cashout thereafter
Instant payout via verified PayPal, Payza, or Neteller
Established for many years and popular, with good reputation for reliability and payments
Up to $0.015 per ad viewed with 20+ ads available daily
Earn 50% on referral activity
Referral renting available
Upgrade to earn more
Members welcome from all countries
ACTIVITY REQUIRED: Log in at least every 30 days and view ads or account will be deleted (I have had to re-register several times due to this)

If you're not already a member (I know most people already are, but maybe you're not), check out NeoBux today!

BEEN PAID: Since 2009, I've been paid by NeoBux - ~$2.00

Spotlight On: Twickerz

2013-08-20T11:34:00.000-05:00

Another PTC site I fairly recently joined because it was included in the training for ClickTrackProfit is Twickerz.

Twickerz has a lot of similarities to other Paid to Click sites, and a lot of differences. I'm not quite as enthralled with this one as I am some of the other newer ones I've added to my working portfolio lately, mainly because the amount paid for each ad you click is not listed on the ad itself, as it is with most other sites.

Still, you're getting paid something per click and if you generally click all available ads on PTC sites, my issue is not really an issue. (LOL) It does have an exceptionally low minimum cashout of $1.50, so that's a cool perk.

Here's the scoop on Twickerz:

$1.50 minimum cashout
Instant payments via PayPal, Payza, Perfect Money, or Egopay
Up to $0.002 per ad viewed with 20+ ads available daily
Earn 30% on referral activity
Referral renting available
Upgrade to earn more
Members welcome from all countries

If you're not a member yet and enjoy making money through PTC, be sure to check out Twickerz today!

Spotlight On: ClickTrackProfit

2013-08-09T12:01:00.000-05:00

Here's something a little different again for Friday and the weekend. I'd like to introduce to you one of my favorite money-earning sites of all time ever, ClickTrackProfit.

ClickTrackProfit opened a couple of years or so ago from the Timtech family of sites (the PTC site Nerdbux, tracking program trck.me (formerly TE Toolbox), and long-established traffic exchanges StartXchange, Sweeva, ILoveHits, and Thumbvu).

While CTP is built around some of the most successful and popular traffic exchanges online (which are of course always very useful for promoting your PTC/GPT/PTR sites), it's also got some basis in Paid to Click sites and other sites as well - and guess what, you can earn real money too!

Members can earn real cash by finding CTP money badges while surfing the traffic exchanges included in CTP's Nerd Surf section, as well as other fun badges to collect, and there are also other opportunities to win prizes of real money in CTP's daily Vault & Key games and the Submarine Game. Money badges and cash prizes generally range from $0.01 to $1.00, but occasionally there are even $10 money badges in rotation.

Can you really earn money here? You sure can. Within my first hour of surfing the Nerd Surf sites the other day, I found three or four money badges that morning alone, including a $0.03 one. In just barely a month, I've already racked up over $2 in money badges and game winnings from CTP.

(You can click HERE to learn more about CTP's money badges - this is a superfun video to watch!)

The great thing about CTP is not only can you earn money, but you can earn while you learn if you want to take making money online a step further and to the next level with CTP's training program, which includes extensive fun and entertaining videos (mostly short ones) that teach you how to build downlines and earn commissions, among other very useful online money earning topics.

Even if you're not all that interested in the traffic exchanges, this is still very useful training towards building downlines in PTC sites and really almost any online program. CTP is also just a really fun community to be a part of!

Here's the 411 on ClickTrackProfit:

$10 minimum cashout, paid automatically on Fridays via PayPal (14 days after money is earned)
Surf traffic exchanges for money badges (real money earned) as well as game badges
Earn cash & other prizes from the daily Gold & Silver Vault 'N' Keys games and the daily Sub Game
Take making money online a step further with this fun game-based training program & learn while earning
Built around the most successful and popular traffic exchanges, but includes some PTC & other sites too
Extensive, fun & often entertaining video training to learn how to build downlines & earn commissions
Owned & operated by Timtech (includes the owners of 2 top traffic exchanges, StartXchange & ILoveHits)
Timtech also owns the traffic exchanges Sweeva & Thumbvu, trck.me, & ListNerds
Reliable - Timtech has been established in advertising services for 11 years without missing a payment
Members welcome from all countries

If you're not a member already, you really should be, especially if you're interested in learning how to make money online efficiently and build your downlines. Check out ClickTrackProfit today!

BEEN PAID: I have been paid multiple times since 2009 by Timtech sites, including the traffic exchanges Sweeva and Thumbvu

Spotlight On: Cash Surfing Network

2013-08-02T08:00:00.000-05:00

Today I want to share with you something that's a little bit different from most of the programs I recommend here, and something really exciting - the Cash Surfing Network.

Cash Surfing Network just recently launched, and is a new program that was put together by the owners of six of the best, well-established, and top-ranked traffic exchanges in that industry. The six TEs included in CSN are LegacyHits, SocialAdSurf, NinjaSurf, TopHits4U, PowerCashStream, and LobbyHits.

You earn money from the Cash Surfing Network immediately from the start with a $12 signup bonus just for joining ($2 from each traffic exchange). Then, you can earn more money with a guaranteed cash prize of $0.15 daily from each exchange ($0.25 if you upgrade) for surfing a specified number of pages that day at each traffic exchange.

The rules at present for the guaranteed cash prizes are currently for surfing 555 pages at Legacy, SAS and Ninja, and 777 pages at the other three TEs, although I have been told by some of the owners that the group is in talks about modifying the rules to 555 pages at all six (which to me would be a little more consistent across the board and less potentially confusing to members).

But wait - you can also earn even more money regularly and other benefits from the CSN program. All six of these traffic exchanges, as well as the Legacy group's fourth TE (TE Racing League) are well known in the industry for their generous prizes on games and jackpot prizes you come across while surfing.

The Legacy group has jackpots at each of their four sites (currently around $2-3 that I have recently seen), as well as a Mega Jackpot if you're surfing all four that generally has a much higher prize amount (when I saw it mid-week, the prize was a little over $36). All of the six TEs in CSN, though, have plenty of opportunities to earn extra beyond the CSN's signup and daily guarantees.

So yes, if you like or are interested in surfing the traffic exchanges, CSN can be very lucrative to anyone willing to sign up and put in the time and effort. You'll also have the potential to earn money on referral upgrades and purchases at each site once you become a member, as well as earning TE credits on your referrals' activity.

Here are the specifics on the Cash Surfing Network:

$12 signup bonus for joining ($2 from each traffic exchange)
$10 minimum cashout at Legacy Hits & NinjaSurf, $15 at the other four traffic exchanges
Cashout varies by site; all pay via PayPal, some automatically when required balance is reached
At the ones that don't pay automatically (usually on Fridays), payout issued within 24-48 hours of request
Payouts are issued or can be requested 14 days after money is earned
Earn money daily by surfing and viewing ads at the six traffic exchanges in the program
Guaranteed cash prize of $0.15 cents daily per site for surfing a set number of pages daily at each site
$0.25 daily instead of $0.15 if upgraded (only at the sites you've upgraded on)
Plentiful jackpots and games while surfing to earn more money on at each site in the program
Operated by two groups of well-established and respected owners of 6 top-ranked traffic exchanges
TEs in program include: Legacy Hits, SocialAdSurf, NinjaSurf, TopHits4U, PowerCashStream & LobbyHits
Earn $ on referral upgrades and purchases at each site, as well as earning TE credits on referral activity
Members welcome from all countries

And remember - the signup bonus and the daily guaranteed cash prize are both just that - guaranteed earnings if you sign up and surf the minimum required number of pages daily! (You also get to sign up to all six with one click once you initially register, which is really handy!)

Interested? Sign up at the Cash Surfing Network today!

Spotlight On: PTCProfessor

2013-08-01T08:00:00.000-05:00

Whoops, I really didn't mean to let the entire last half of July go by without a new post, but am squeezing this one in on the first of the new month, at least.

A quick side note first: I added several things to the Quick List last weekend, mainly to the PTC and Other $$$ Opportunities sections, as well as an addition to the payment proofs. I'm going to be going over the new additions individually here in the coming weeks, but if you want a head start, you can jump on over to the Quick List and check out what's new.

In the meantime, let me give you a quick introduction to PTCProfessor, a new program from Eric Goettman, a really great guy who has become a very big mover and shaker in the traffic exchange industry over the last few years. Like me, Eric got his start in PTC, so he knows the programs well and has some really good takes on what people can do to be successful and earn well with Paid to Click sites.

PTCProfessor is, on the surface, a downline builder for some of the most popular Paid to Click sites, but it also includes some really nice training and organizational tools, tips and tricks, a section for other advertising resources, and a lot more.

Besides the earnings you make via the PTC sites in the program, you can also earn from PTCProfessor as well by commissions from referral upgrades and their advertising purchases, as well as some other neat things that can add to your balance (hint: log in once every 24 hours and see!).

Members from all over the world can join for free, but upgrading will of course earn you more in commissions, and the upgrade is very reasonable. The cheapest option at present is a monthly upgrade for $4 per month. Upgrading also gives you access to the advanced downline builder and PTC tracking sections, the latter of which you can use to track exactly how much profit you are making from the PTC sites in the program.

All that said, here's the 411 in brief on PTCProfessor:

Free to use for the PTC downline builder and (very informative) PTC training resources
If already a member of an included site, just enter your current referral ID
Upgrades start at $4 monthly - access to advanced PTC tracking & advanced downline builder
Earn directly from site on referral upgrades, advertising purchases, etc.
Ability to also earn on Login Spotlight award for logging in (usually about $0.01 per award)
Payments made automatically on Fridays via PayPal when balance is $15+ after 14 days of earning
Members welcome from all countries

If you haven't already joined, check out PTCProfessor today!

Got Paid Update #139: Gomez PEER

2013-07-16T13:34:00.000-05:00

It's been a while, but I finally have a new payment to report from good old Gomez PEER! I got paid $6.00 today (16th July) for my June 2013 PEER payment. Previously, for the last few years, I had been averaging getting paid about every three months (about four times a year).

This time, however, is the first time I've been paid by Gomez in about ten months, but that's totally my fault, not theirs. Around the time I would have normally been looking for my usual payment in December of last year, I was using a program on my computer daily and for hours at a time that Gomez didn't really interfere with, but it was a little too much hassle to have both running at the same time so I shut the PEER off for a while, and did so several times over the course of the next several months. When I eventually turned it back on full time, I was relieved to see that I was still at active status despite my not running it nearly as often as I had been.

That all said, the PEER really doesn't interfere with anything at all or slow my computer down at all, at least that's been my experience in running it (pretty much non-stop all the time, for the most part) since the summer of 2008. It really just doesn't and I pretty much don't even know it's there and running most of the time. When I had it shut off last winter and this spring, it was mainly because of the OTHER program I was using that took up so many resources, not because of anything the PEER does or doesn't do.

The only time I ever even notice it's there is the rare occasion my Internet burps for a second, and when everything rights itself the little PEER window will pop up. That is pretty much it, otherwise I'd forget it was there altogether (except for when they pay me, of course!!).

You can install the PEER on as many computers as you have access to do so. I'd have it running full-time on my significant other's laptop too, except it was an old slow one and now it's broken anyway. Whenever we get around to replacing his laptop, I plan to install the PEER on it too (and thus make even more money with the PEER).

Gomez was acquired by a company called Compuware a few years ago but they apparently just now got around to revising the Gomez PEER section of their website, and apparently some of it was real recent because all of a sudden referral links were not going to the proper page for people to sign up and banners had disappeared, but since I noticed the problem (and had emailed them about it) I notice it's all fixed back right now. So if you tried to sign up before fairly recently and couldn't get to the registration page, try again!

Gomez pays by PayPal and pays you automatically the next month (usually between the 14th and 17th) whenever you have accrued $5 or more in your account. They also accept members from most countries.

You can read my previous post about the Gomez PEER to see in more detail what it's all about.

And if you haven't tried to sign up before, check out the Gomez PEER today!

BEEN PAID: Click HERE to View Payment Proof

Got Paid Update #138: ClixSense

2013-07-15T08:07:00.000-05:00

Just yet another payment from ClixSense to report today, which pushed me over the $200 total earnings mark. Hooray!

I requested the most recent payment of $16.17 last Friday morning and received it that afternoon. This payment brought my total earnings with ClixSense to a grand total of $206.34.

Certainly if ClixSense had had as many earning opportunities as they do now back in the first couple of years I started with them - and if I'd been more diligent and active over the past couple of years since they added more and more opportunities - I'd have hit $200 sooner, I feel sure.

Mind you, though, I have earned over $150 of that $200 total just since this past February, when I started actively working the site again after a very long period away, so I'm right happy with that. I am to the point now where I'm cashing out with ClixSense twice a month on average, and sometimes more.

The majority of my ClixSense earnings come from doing what's required on the Daily Checklist Bonus almost every day, which generally consists of clicking a few ads, clicking the required amount on the ClixGrid, reading a forum post, and doing at least two offers, or five Crowdflower tasks and an offer, or ten Crowdflower tasks. As far as the offers/tasks, I usually do a couple of offers surveys (or more if there are some available) or some other short-ish offers, and am normally through with my ClixSense activity for the day in a minimal amount of time and move on to something else.

To be completely transparent here, I also have one pretty active referral (who is also upgraded) who has a couple of active referrals under them, but those commissions just make up a little less than half or so of my total earnings since February.

And (important to note) - all of the above is only with ONE active direct referral presently (and only a handful of additional direct referrals who are mostly inactive at present).

So yes - you really can reach cashout pretty consistently with ClixSense even with only a small number of referrals, and probably even with none at all if you are pretty diligent about the Daily Checklist Bonus and maybe putting forth a little extra effort too. (And of course especially if you're upgraded, but the difference between cashouts for upgraded Premium and free Standard members is only $2 as it is.)

I've been a little behind on processing cashouts in recent weeks so this was the first one I'd had to report in a couple of weeks, but I've got a few pending ones that should be showing up shortly. And I still have that (now slightly long-awaited) big announcement to make soon, so stay tuned and keep checking back!

Not a member of this long-established and reliably paying site? Check out ClixSense today!

BEEN PAID: Click HERE to View Payment Proof

Spotlight On: AdPaid

2013-07-09T08:00:00.000-05:00

AdPaid, which has long been a favorite site of mine and has some of the nicest admins around (one of which unfortunately recently retired), has been going through some server issues in recent months but that appears to have been resolved now and the site is back up and running as usual. That's great, because they have always been reliable and always paid fast, with a super low $3 minimum cashout.

It's also been one of my favorites because for many years they have always had a lot of regular paid emails sent to members. Apparently the paid email system is still being worked on, but one of the admins recently posted that it should be back up and running very soon, so that's good news as well.

Here's the basic 411 on AdPaid:

It's been online and paying since May 2004
$3 minimum cashout ($5 for gift certificates)
Payment via PayPal, or Amazon/BestBuy/Wal-Mart gift certificates within 7 days
PTC, PTS, paid surveys, & paid e-mails
6 referral levels
Points converted to cash monthly
Upgrade to earn more
Members welcome from these countries/territories: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guam, Guernsey, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Luxembourg, Maldives, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Puerto Rico, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, US Virgin Islands
Awarded Diamond Seal of Approval from BeenPaid.com

If you're not already a member of this great site, you should check out AdPaid today!

BEEN PAID: Click HERE to View Payment Proof

Site Updates: Global Test Market (correction), MatrixMails & Traffic Wave Profits (deletions)

2013-07-08T08:00:00.000-05:00

Hi there! Just a few notes (and a correction/clarification) on some changes I've made here and on the Quick List over the weekend.

I previously reported that Global Test Market had lowered their minimum cashout, with their recent addition of PayPal and other new payment options (instead of as it was previously, by check only), from $50 (1000 points) to $10 (230 points). One would have assumed that was the case when the PayPal addition was made and the addition of payment options as low as $10, especially since that's more along the lines of how their competitors in the survey site industry operate.

I have since found out that what I reported was incorrect - Global Test Market's minimum cashout is still $50 (1000 points), but you now have the large variety of payment options including PayPal. I'm not quite sure why they made the addition of PayPal and other options, and things like offering $10 via PayPal for 230 points, if they were going to still require a cashout at $50 and 1000 points. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Still, adding PayPal as a payment option (as well as the many others they've added) is a great improvement, GTM is one of my favorite survey sites as many surveys I've gotten have been interesting and pretty lucrative, and even with the $50 minimum cashout, I was able to cashout in only a matter of months once I got diligent about doing surveys again. So, a good thing all around (but it'd still be nicer and more in line with their survey site competition if they lowered the minimum cashout).

In other news, I made the difficult decision to remove MatrixMails as an active site. It's been pretty much dead since late 2011 and really all but closed entirely, as it's been completely inactive for months. My balance hasn't moved in nearly a year, there have been no ads on the site in that long or more, there's been no news posted since November 2011 on the site, and their Paid to Read mail section has been inaccessible for at least six months or more.

I hate to remove it, as it was one of the best sites around for nearly a decade and was reliable and paying, and was one of my best paying sites for years. All things considered, though, I feel have no choice but to refrain from promoting it further.

I have also removed Traffic Wave Profits from the Quick List, as it appears to be dead as well. The site hasn't been accessible at all in at least six months, if not more. I've also removed (at least for now) Marketing Pond and Viral Pond - somewhat puzzlingly, both sites are now showing domain holding pages, VP for nearly a month now. Very puzzling, and I hope nothing bad has happened to the sites' admin. MP used to be extremely active.

Fortunately the majority of active sites on the list appear to still be highly active, reliably paying, and just booming, especially the PTC sites (like the brand new Nerdbux) and PTR sites! And all of the survey sites I have kept in my stable to work on, including Global Test Market, are continuing to send survey invites regularly and have been increasing my balances regularly, at least as long as I continue to be diligent about checking my email for invites regularly.

If you're not a member and like earning through paid surveys, check out Global Test Market today!

BEEN PAID: Click HERE to View Payment Proof

Spotlight On: FusionCash

2013-06-28T08:00:00.000-05:00

I admittedly had been sorta down on and felt somewhat negative towards FusionCash for several years now, but I've become much more positive about and thrilled with the site of late. I'm not sure if the changes and improvements in the site that have made me feel more positive towards it have actually been there in place for a long while or more recently, because I just hadn't been a very regular visitor/user there in several years.

FusionCash was actually one of the first, if not the very first, site I worked on and cashed out on, but after my first cashout, I was finding it hard to find enough to do there to get my balance back up close enough to the site's $25 minimum cashout. By then I had found lots of other sites with lower cashout levels and plenty to do to earn on, so I mostly ignored FusionCash and spent my efforts elsewhere.

In any case, a couple of months or so ago I took some time to poke around the site at length for the first time in ages, mainly to see what I might be able to do to be able to get my balance up closer to what is what I generally consider an overly high cashout minimum (which was pretty much the reason I had stopped being very active there). For a while there, it just seemed like too much trouble or nearly impossible to reach their $25 minimum cashout very efficiently or on any regular basis, so I just mostly stopped visiting except for purposes of keeping my account active.

And, over the years, I lost quite a bit of referral commissions and payments for offer completions in the process since, unlike most other sites, your offer completions on FusionCash expire after 180 days (~ six months) if you don't or aren't able to make a withdrawal. I basically lost somewhere around or over $35 since 2008 due to those earnings having expired.

So upon visiting again a few months ago, I was really pleased a few months ago to discover that FusionCash had made additions and improvements that actually make it pretty simple to increase earnings regularly that are much more to my liking - i.e., a fairly small amount of effort daily or so.

I think I had less than a dollar in my balance when I started getting more active on FusionCash again in April, but since April 8th, I've managed to get my balance up over $15 with really only a fairly small amount of time and effort every day (or almost every day). At that rate, I could pretty easily pocket about an average extra $75 yearly, give or take, in virtually free money - and probably more, of course, if I wanted and had the time to put forth more effort.

How have I made $15 or so in less than three months? Well, I was already signed up for their Daily Cash Email, which is $0.02 daily for a minute or two's effort. Then basically I've been earning the rest daily or so with their daily Paid to Click, which is a whopping $0.15 per day; watching a few videos, which earns another $0.01 to $0.02 per video; and their FC Surveys, also found on the Daily Offers section, which pay $1 to $3 and sometimes even more per survey if you qualify for the survey. In addition, most of the FC Surveys also pay you a $0.01 bonus even if you don't qualify for the survey.

All of that can really add up over time, and that's just stuff from the Daily opportunities page, which also has tasks, a toolbar you can install and earn from, and several other things. So that's not even counting all the other sections of offers on the site!

Anyhow, I'm way closer to cashing out at FusionCash again than I have been in many years thanks to all this stuff, so I'm feeling much more positive towards the site again these days and actively working it again.

Another sort of difference with FusionCash as opposed to most other similar sites is that you can cash out at $25 or above, but at least $15 of your balance must be from offer completions - which was another reason I had so much trouble getting anywhere close to cashing out again there before. I had money from referrals and some other earnings from a few offer completions, but just never enough for their cashout requirements.

The $0.01 bonuses from the disqualified FC Surveys don't count, but I still have at present nearly $14 in offers, so again, I am way, way closer to being able to cash out there again than I have been in years and years (I haven't cashed out there since 2008).

UPDATED & CORRECTED INFO, 07/12/2013: FusionCash pays by PayPal (1-3 days), check, or bank direct deposit. Yet another difference (as opposed to most sites nowadays) is that they still only do cashouts once a month, and pay you on or around the 20th of the following month for any cashout you make the previous month. (Example: If you cashout any time in July, you will be paid on or around the 20th of August.)

FusionCash now accepts members from Canada, as well as the United States. (Not sure when they added Canada, but apparently they did since the last time I checked!)

I finally feel good again about recommending FusionCash, after all of their additions and improvements since I last really paid attention, and actually, this experience has motivated me to go poke around some of the other sites I still promote and recommend but haven't been very personally active on in years (again, mainly due to higher cashout minimums) to see what they too may have added to make earnings easier since I last thoroughly reviewed the site! Stay tuned!

(And as mentioned in recent posts, I still have a rather large announcement upcoming (but it's not quite ready yet), so keep checking back! I'm excited and I hope you will be too!)

If you're not already a member, feel free to go check out FusionCash today!

BEEN PAID: Click HERE to View Payment Proof

Got Paid Update #137: Global Test Market

2013-06-27T16:59:00.000-05:00

And yep, it's another post (with payment proof) about how since I got more diligent about and focused on paid survey sites lately, it's been well worth the additional effort and diligence.

This'll probably be the last of the survey-related posts for a little while since I don't think I have anything close to cashout right now that's outstanding, but I'm pleased to be able to report my first payment ever from Global Test Market.

Global Test Market actually a few years ago acquired a survey site I was a member of for a long time but never reached cashout on, so I've really only been working much on GTM since the early part of this year and therefore it was nice to be able to reach cashout fairly easily after only a few months.

Since I had made my cashout request just before they made the change to pay via PayPal and other options instead of (previously) only by check, I had to cashout by check (which happened to me with Toluna recently too) so I had to wait for that. No biggie.

Anyway, I requested my payment of $52 from Global Test Market on May 25th, and received my check about a month later (28 days to be exact).

The good news, again, about Global Test Market is they don't pay only by check anymore. They now pay via PayPal or check, as well as many other gift card/certificate and other options.

UPDATED 07/08/2013: I previously reported here that the minimum cashout had been lowered with the PayPal addition and was now only $10 (230 points). I have since found out this was incorrect - Global Test Market's minimum cashout is still $50 (1000 points), but you now have the large variety of payment options including PayPal.

I'm not quite sure why they made the addition of PayPal and other options, and things like offering $10 via PayPal for 230 points, if they were going to still require a cashout at $50/1000 points. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me, and if they had made these changes AND lowered cashout that would have been more in line with their competitor survey sites. Still, adding PayPal as a payment option (as well as the many others they've added) is improved and a good change.

In any case, great improvement adding PayPal and other options to what has been a really nice system that I've gotten several lucrative and interesting survey invites from in the last 4-5 months. Global Test Market has definitely become one of my favorite survey sites, I kinda like it better than some others.

Once again, it has really made it worth my while to be a little more diligent about actively dealing with the 11 legitimate and paying survey sites that I work through on a fairly regular basis, as I've earned over $130 from those survey sites this year alone, as well as an additional $75 in Amazon gift certificate earnings (so over $200 this year, basically).

If you're not a member and like earning through paid surveys, I highly, highly recommend checking out Global Test Market!

BEEN PAID: Click HERE to View Payment Proof

Got Paid Update #136: Toluna & MySurvey

2013-06-24T08:00:00.000-05:00

As I mentioned at the end of last week, now that I recently got much more diligent about working through my email from paid survey sites, I've found it's really been worth the better effort, seeing as how I've managed to squeeze out over $100 in just the last few months from the 11 legitimate and paying survey sites that I work on fairly regularly.

That all said, I received two new payments last month from both Toluna and MySurvey. I requested my $20 payment from Toluna on May 9th and received it (by check) on May 28th, and requested my $15 payment from MySurvey also on the 9th and received it ten days later.

MySurvey made the change from check payments to PayPal a while back, which has been wonderful. The site is US only, but the company has sister sites in both the UK and in Canada. Unfortunately they have not been accepting new applicants for a while, but hopefully they will again before too long.

Toluna, on the other hand, has grown exponentially over the years and continues to make lots of improvements to their program, and is always accepting new members (from the US and Canada). Toluna acquired the old Your2Cents survey program several years ago and later acquired Greenfield Online, which way back when seemed to consistently send out survey invites that were hard to qualify for the actual survey, but since the Toluna change, I get and qualify for paying surveys regularly, which has been great.

Toluna also just added payments by PayPal (added pretty much right after I requested my payment by check, which was the only option for cash payments at the time - figures!). This is a huge and wonderful improvement, in any case! They also have a lot of neat extras on the site which are worth checking out too.

If you're not a member already, head on over to Toluna and check it out today!

BEEN PAID: Click HERE to View Payment Proof (MySurvey)

BEEN PAID: Click HERE to View Payment Proof (Toluna)

Got Paid Update #135: Ipsos i-Say

2013-06-21T08:21:00.001-05:00

I've been spending a little more time doing surveys lately, probably more consistently and diligently than I ever have, really. I don't necessarily check the mailbox I use for surveys every single day, but usually at least every other day or close, and try to make a point of going through them every day when time allows, so they don't pile up quite so much and take loads of time to work through.

I've found that my recent focus and diligence regarding paid surveys has really been (pardon the pun) paying off. I have 11 legitimate and paying survey sites that I work regularly, and while I don't have the amount off the top of my head right now of how much I've earned from all 11 sites altogether, I know I've managed to eke out over $100 since mid- to late March.

That said, I'm happy to report my first payment ever from Ipsos i-Say (or i-Say by Ipsos), a site that's been around for a long time but I didn't join until fairly recently. I requested my payment of $20 on 6th June, and received it about a week and a half later.

The site pays via PayPal, and also has a number of gift card and other options available for payment. Members are welcome from the US and Canada, and apparently also some other countries, though the initial documentation on the website doesn't say which ones, so if you're not in the US or Canada, you can just try to sign up and see if your country's accepted.

If you're not a member already, feel free to check out i-Say and join up!

BEEN PAID: Click HERE to View Payment Proof

Got Paid Update #134: Three Recent Payments from ClixSense

2013-06-19T08:34:00.000-05:00

I have managed to get really behind again, and had high hopes of being able this morning to create a bunch of new posts that would publish throughout the rest of this week and next, but alas, I've only had time for just the one, so here's a quick post to (rather belatedly) report some recent payments received from good ol' ClixSense.

Usually I report them as they come in and one at a time, but since I'm so behind anyway, I'm just going to make this post about all three in one, since I've got other payments and other stuff worth reporting or commenting on coming up soon. (I also have a VERY big announcement on the horizon, so keep checking back for that!)

In all three cases, I requested the payments early on Monday or Friday morning and received them later that same day in the afternoon. The most recent was paid to me on June 10th (I was able to cash out three times in April), and the three most recent payments (of $11, $6.56, and $9.02, respectively) have now brought my total earnings with ClixSense to $175.17.

Reasons to join ClixSense, if you haven't, include the fact that they issue payments twice weekly (on Mondays and Fridays) and the site has a low cashout minimum ($6 for upgraded Premium members, $8 for free members) that's super easy to reach with all the opportunities to earn they have available, plus the daily checklist bonus that helps you get there.

Check out ClixSense today!

BEEN PAID: Click HERE, HERE, and HERE to View Payment Proof

Got Paid Update #133: Hits4Pay

2013-05-21T07:00:00.000-05:00

I'm really stoked to be able to report a new payment from a longtime favorite that has paid me twice before, the (very long established) Hits4Pay.

I actually should have gotten paid last month, but had changed Internet providers since the last time they paid me and, due to an oversight on my part, wasn't able to get paid last month as I'd planned. But that's OK, they paid me what was due last month this month, and the money spends the same no matter when it arrives!

Hits4Pay has a minimum payout of $25, and the way their system works is they pay you (via PayPal) the next month if your balance hits $25 or above by the end of the previous month. I had a balance of $26.36, which I received on May 15th, and brought my total earnings thus far from Hits4Pay to $78.45.

Hits4Pay (and its sister site, Deals 'n' Cash, which is pretty great too, though it has a payout minimum of $30 instead of $25) is one of the easiest sites out there to make totally free money on. They send you an email when there are ads available for you to view, you go view them, and boom, you're done!

It's $0.02 per ad viewed, so it takes a little while to get to that $25 minimum, but it's certainly attainable. I've done it three times, and will likely continue to... and at no cost to me!

If you're not a member already and you enjoy doing paid emails (one of the easiest ways to rack up free cash online, by far), I highly recommend it! Check out Hits4Pay today!

BEEN PAID: Click HERE to View Payment Proof

Got Paid Update #132: Miscellaneous Survey-Related Payment

2013-05-20T07:00:00.000-05:00

So I have another survey-related payment to report, but I don't really have a category to record it under on my sites, so I'll just tell you about it. (lol)

If you do very many surveys at all, you probably know that a lot of the survey sites often send out invitations to "screener" surveys to see if your basic personal stats and experience match the people/topic/etc they need to survey. Often what I call the "general" survey sites will credit you with cash (or points towards cash) to fill out the screener, though sometimes the screeners are unpaid - but if you meet the requirements for the survey they're screening for, the site (or other research group the site is screening for survey respondents) usually pays a pretty hefty amount for the survey itself (or for focus group participation, sometimes you get invited to participate in a focus group about a topic or a product).

I've seen them go for around $8 per survey to up to around $175 or more, though I personally don't usually have a lot of luck qualifying for those super high-paying ones.

But every once in a while I get lucky and do qualify for the high amount ones! And indeed I did qualify for a big one recently, and when I finished, I was awarded with a $75 Amazon gift certificate for my trouble... which wasn't really any trouble at all, I basically got $75 for two days of just a little bit of time spent, and it was super easy.

All that said, I've added that total to my running total of how much I've made since 2008 - since it is, after all, money earned from being active on sites that are listed here on my blog and the Quick List.

The only thing is that I was invited into that project, which was being run by another company/research facility, after filling out a screener given by one of my usual paid survey sites I remain active with... and I don't know which one it was now (lol).

In any case, it was definitely one of the 11 paid survey sites I am actively working these days that sent me the initial screener that got me into the project that paid me $75 in Amazon funds so yes, surveys can be really worthwhile!

I really really need to do a major revision post (or series of spotlight posts, probably) on the survey sites sometime soon, but when I got active here on the blog again I did make a list of all the GPT/PTC/PTR and other sites, as well as survey sites, that I continue to actively work in an update post here on the blog. Click this link to that post and take a look (the list of survey sites is toward the bottom of the post):

Current List of Active Sites

The majority of my 11 active survey sites have been REALLY lucrative for me lately - I'm projecting about an $100 or more take from several of them for May (or May/June), mainly because I've been really making a point of checking my email most every day and going through the survey invites and doing them, instead of being lazier and only checking my email every few days or only once a week. It really does make a difference!

Check back tomorrow for more blog updates, I have another bit to report tomorrow!

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Got Paid Update #131: ClixSense (yep, once again)

2013-05-17T07:00:00.000-05:00

Yes, it's gotten to be a weekly or at least almost weekly thing lately, but happy as always to report I got paid once again by good old reliable and lately very lucrative ClixSense.

I requested my most recent payment of $18.77 early Monday morning and received it that afternoon. This latest payment has brought my total earnings with ClixSense to $148.59.

It has just gotten extremely easy to be able to cashout with ClixSense weekly simply by working the site's daily checklist bonus, and I'm usually doing at least one, if not two or more, surveys there daily to help reach (and some days exceed, when I have time) the checklist requirements.

As mentioned before, it's super easy to reach cashout ($6) there now if you're upgraded, but even with just a little extra work doing an extra survey or a few tasks it wouldn't be all that hard to reach the $8 cashout minimum weekly that there is for free members. And they do pay twice a week, so even better if and when you have more time to spare to work on more things available on the site!

If you're not a member yet, give ClixSense a try today!

BEEN PAID: Click HERE to View Payment Proof

Just an Additional Note About SurveySavvy

2013-05-16T07:00:00.000-05:00

Hi there. Life's been a little turned upside down the last few weeks and busy, busy, busy since the beginning of the month, so I've not really had a chance to post stuff 'til now.

Today I mainly just wanted to drop a note sort of as an addendum to my post last month regarding SurveySavvy, when I received my first payment from them. I have mostly been saying all along that their surveys are usually $1 or $2 - and they usually are, for the most part - and this isn't exactly a correction since what I've usually said about them is "$1 or $2, and other surveys in varying amounts".

I mainly wanted to revisit what I said before, because just in the past month I've received two or three invitations from SurveySavvy for $15 surveys!

As I mentioned before, I initially signed up with the site pretty much right before the long period when I got too busy with offline work to be able to properly focus on most of the online money stuff, so I think I really just didn't realize some survey invitations might be that high an amount. For all I know, really, there may be some even higher!

Anyway, that was kind of a pleasant surprise. I didn't qualify for any of the $15 ones I got invitations to, but a lot of other people certainly would have... I somewhat unfortunately (for me) have a relative that works a particular industry that winds up disqualifying me from many surveys on a regular basis (I'm kinda hoping they will retire early, lol, so I can answer "no" truthfully and not keep getting disqualified on some surveys). Luckily I don't get disqualified from all or even the majority of surveys I receive invitations for, but that relative's career does disqualify me from some.

In any case, I just wanted to clarify that, that SurveySavvy does indeed send out invites to some that are at least up to $15. Granted, the overwhelming majority I see are usually $1, $2, and the occasional $5, but it was nice to see some really high-paying survey invites from them cross my desk recently.

If you like to do surveys for pay and aren't already a member, they are certainly one worth signing up with. Check out SurveySavvy today!

BEEN PAID: Click HERE to View Payment Proof

Got Paid Update #130 - ClixSense

2013-04-30T07:00:00.000-05:00

I waited a little longer than I had been to cash out this time around, but wanted to drop in and post that I'd requested and received yet another payment from good old ClixSense this week.

I requested my payment of $23.50 in the early hours of the morning today (29th April) and received it later in the afternoon. This payment brought my total earnings with ClixSense to $129.82.

Since I got active on the site again and started actively working the checklist bonus on the site and doing other offers and things on the site to earn, and been working to get paid weekly or close, in the past month and a half or so alone I have earned $73.93. Pretty sweet!

The site has tons of members so you may already be a member, but if you're not, be sure to check out ClixSense! It's well worth it (and well worth the upgrade, if you're not upgraded already).

BEEN PAID: Click HERE to View Payment Proof

Got Paid Update #129 - American Consumer Opinion (ACOP)

2013-04-25T07:00:00.000-05:00

I received a payment from American Consumer Opinion, also known as ACOP, this week. I've been a member there a long time (long before I ever started tracking my online money earnings) and actually have made more money from their surveys than I have a current record of, it's been so long and some of those payments were so long ago. My current "total" I keep up with is what I've been paid by them since around 2008 or so.

In any case, ACOP has always definitely been in my top five or so favorite survey sites because, even though you don't generally receive as many surveys from them as some others, they generally pay much more (usually $8 or more per survey) and they're normally pretty high quality, interesting surveys.

They also do a fair amount of sending out products for you to test out too, which is not only lucrative with more $ per survey but you get to use and keep products, which is neat.

They changed a while back from checks only to making PayPal payments (yay). It took a little while - I requested my payment of $15.55 at the end of March and received my payment about 23 days later - but like I said in the last post, the money spends the same no matter when it's received, so that's not a big giant deal to me!

This recent payment brought my total earnings (at least what I've kept up with from them since May of 2008) to $31.55.

If you like doing surveys and are not a member of this program yet, I highly recommend joining ACOP today!

BEEN PAID: Click HERE to View Payment Proof