Selling a gift card on Gift Card Rescue is simple, all you have to do is create an account and enter the type of gift card and the exact amount of it’s value.  Gift Card Rescue is currently offering an additional 5% redemption value on any Amazon.com gift cards that are sold through their website.  Then all you need to do is ship the gift card to Gift Card Rescue and within 5 business days you will receive your check via USPD first class mail.  When you are sending out your gift card be sure and get a tracking number so you can ensure that Gift Card Rescue has received your card.

 You can also purchase discounted cards from others who are selling them on Gift Card Rescue.  Let’s say there was a $300 fishing pole that you wanted at Bass Pro Shops – you could purchase a Bass Pro Shops gift card at a discount of 12% and save a whopping $36 of your total purchase price.  This is a great way to save money on items that you planned on purchasing anyway.  

Overall it looks like Gift Card Rescue is a great place to buy and sell gift cards.  If you read through their customer testimonials you will see a list of many satisfied customers.  So the next time you get a gift card that you don’t want to use – send it to Gift Card Rescue and put a little “green” in your pocket

 You can visit Gift Card Rescue’s website here: Gift Card Rescue

 Let us know what you think about this review of Gift Card Rescue, if you have compliments, complaints, comments or you think it is a scam – let us know by commenting below…

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 Michael-John Wolfe

 TAGS: Residual Income, Make Money Online, Royalties

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You can also write keyword based, flat rate articles for StarReviews that pay anywhere from $8 to $10 per submission.  StarReviews demands excellence from its StarWriters. All submissions must be topical and 100%, completely original. The StarReview’s editors will assist in deciding what their users want to read about and then work with StarWriters to optimize articles for maximum page views. 

StarReviews has a list of major channels that you can choose to write from, these channels include Business and Finance, Education, Entertainment and Media, Health and Beauty, Communications, Software, Shopping, Travel and Social Networking and Dating. 

You should also browse around StarReview’s website – they have some interesting videos that feature many of the “As Seen on TV” products.  (Maybe some day my “NO Splatter Ring” will be listed on this page!)  You can also look through thousands of product reviews or browse the StarReviews coupon page for some great deals. 

If any of my readers have written for StarReviews, please let us know about your experiences with their writing style, editors and exactly how often you get paid for your completed submissions.  It looks like StarReviews might be an excellent way for freelance writers to make money online or earn residual income from their revenue sharing program.

You can visit StarReview’s website by clicking here: StarReviews

Let us know what you think about this review of StarReviews, if you have compliments, complaints, comments or you think it is a scam – let us know by commenting below…

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Michael-John Wolfe

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Linkwheeler.com is different than other SEO programs and to tell you the truth I don’t understand exactly how it all works.  They will be creating an in-depth “link wheel” for me with multiple links to my blog.  I do know that I will be getting inbound links from sites with PR rankings of 4 to 9.  I am hoping this helps me get to where I need to be in Google’s rankings.  If this system fails, I am pretty much done with paying for backlinks – I will simply create them on my own.

I opted for Link Wheeler’s Gold package which includes the following…

Link Wheel Gold Package – 52 Total Backlinks Created – $229

30 Web 2.0 Properties with 30 Unique Articles of 200+ Words (PR 4 – PR 9)
15 Article Submissions with 15 Unique Articles of 200+ Words
6 Blog Posts with 6 Unique Articles of 200+ Words – All unique IP’s
1 Custom Video (Uploaded to YouTube.com & used across the link wheel)
RSS / Feed Submission to 100+ ping list
Up to 4 Keywords / 4 URLs

I have chosen four keywords: make money online, residual income, paid online surveys – these will all link to the Residuals and Royalties blog.  I have also chosen the keyword “how to start a limousine business” which will link to my ebook landing page.  I am currently on page 8 of Google for “make money online” and at the top of page 2 for “residual income”.  I expect to be at the top of page 1 for “residual income” after this experiment.  Anything less would be unsatisfactory. 

As far as the term “make money online” goes, I cannot expect linkwheeler to magically get me to the top of page 1 on Google for this very difficult search term.  I would be satisfied simply winding up on page 3.   Only time will tell if linkwheeler is able to achieve these goals for me.  For now I cannot recommend linkwheeler to any of my readers since I don’t know what the results will be.  I will post my current Google rankings today and then I will post my improvements in two weeks, one month and in two months.  So you can consider this review of linkwheeler.com a work in progress for now.

Target Term                Currently          2 Weeks          1 Month        2 Months

make money online          Page 8                                                 

residual income             Top of Page 2

paid online surveys       Page 40

You can visit Link Wheeler’s website by clicking here: Link Wheeler

Let us know what you think about this review of Link Wheeler, if you have compliments, complaints, comments or you think it is a scam – let us know by commenting below…

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My first patented product is called The NO Splatter Ring and I came up with the idea while micro-waving a bowl of spaghetti and sauce.  We all know what happens when food like this goes into the microwave uncovered – the microwave winds up a splattered mess.  So what do most of us do?  We rest a paper towel atop our meal and hope that it stays there for the duration of the cooking time.  In most cases, as the microwave turns the paper towel gets hung up on the walls of the microwave and within a short time your food is uncovered again.  This results in more messy microwaves.

So, someone thought they were smart and invented the plastic microwave food dome.  This would seem like a great idea – it covers the food while it cooks.  BUT once the cooking is complete, the inside of the dome is a splattered mess.  Now we wind up with TWO things to clean – the spaghetti dish and the microwave food dome.  The last thing anyone wants is more dishes to clean after a meal. 

This is where The NO Splatter Ring comes in.  This is a plastic, microwavable ring that clamps down on an ordinary paper towel.  Simply open the ring, place a paper towel inside and close.  Place the ring on top of your food and microwave.  The weight from the ring keeps the paper towel in place and your food stays covered for the entire cooking time.  Upon completion simply open the ring, remove the soiled paper towel and discard.  Simple, easy and there’s nothing extra to clean! 

This entire idea hit me while standing in front of the microwave.  I told my wife, my mother and my mother-in-law and they all thought it was something I should pursue.  I called a local plastic injection molding company and the guy basically said that it would be nearly impossible to pursue selling such a product by manufacturing it myself.  He recommended that I hired a CAD designer to design my product and then have a prototype made.  Then he said that I could try and sell my idea to a major product distributor.

 I followed his advice and had a CAD design made – I used a freelancer and it only cost me $160.  I then paid $700 to a company called Protogenic to create my plastic prototype.  Then I took the images of the product to a local patent attorney and got a provisional patent which protects me for up to one year while I try to sell the product.   The patent attorney had me write the product description in a manner that would cover the NO Splatter Ring on any variation of manufacturing.  In other words, when we filed the patent we used terms like “may be circular or other shaped” and “may hold paper towels, plastic wrap, wax paper or other retaining materials” and “may or may not have a clasp or hinge located on the product”.

Once these steps were complete, I filmed a video that show me using the product and explaining its benefits.  I posted this video on YouTube and I just submitted my video to four companies that specialize in those “As Seen On TV” commercials.  Since my product seems to have the feel of one of those “$19.99” products that you see on TV all the time – I though that was the best place to start.  I found four companies that I was able to submit my product to and many of these companies had a “product submission” page right on their website.  Here is a list of the “As Seen On TV” companies that I submitted The NO Splatter Ring to…

As Seen On TV Companies

TV Winners
Sullivan Productions
As Seen On TV
Tristar Products
TELEBrands

Now I simply have to sit back and wait to see if one of these companies contacts me with interest in my product.  Most of this companies indicate on their website that the product review time can take 4 to 6 weeks, so I don’t expect to get a response anytime soon.  My product should be attractive to these companies, because there is not much to making these NO Splatter Rings.  There are no electronic components or major moving parts.  A simple plastic mold can make the NO Splatter Ring and my guess is that the mark-up will be more than enough to profit off of the manufacturing cost.  

You can see the demonstration video that I created for the NO Splatter Ring here:

 You can visit the NO Splatter Ring website by clicking here: The NO Splatter Ring

I guess if none of the afformentioned companies call me back — there’s always The Shark Tank!

Any feedback on the NO Splatter Ring would be greatly appreciated!  Good idea?  Bad idea? Needs changes?  Please let me know what you think!  If any of you have patented a product in the past or if you have experience with manufacturing or selling your product – feel free to give me your advice by commenting below.  Also, if you or anyone that you know has ever produced an “As Seen On TV” product — I would love to hear about it!

Best regards, 

Michael-John Wolfe

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When confronted with the idea that you can make money online by playing games, it seems like a scam.  What fool would pay you to play games on their website?  It’s usually the other way around and you have pay to play.  The trick is that the owners of Moola.com make so much money by hosting advertising that they can actually pay you to play games.

The concept of the site is unique.  If you were to take a penny and double it 30 times, you would have over 10 million dollars.  The reality is that you probably will won’t make 10 million dollars, but you can make a decent amount of pocket money each month on Moola.  There are many different ways that you can go about doing this.

Play Games

The first, and most obvious, way to make money online with Moola.com is to play games.  There are four games that you can play from the start, and after you have earned at least two pennies, more are available to play.  When you play these games you will be playing another person online.  You will wager your pennies against this person, and if you are able to beat them, you double your money.  If you lose, you will lose the money that you have wagered.  So make sure you keep tabs on your play account.

Complete Offers

You can complete offers for Moola bucks.  These bucks are eventually turned into real cash when you transfer them to your account, so it is wise to do that often.  You can complete offers on anything from taking a survey for .50 Moola bucks, to signing up for Direct TV for 112 Moola bucks.  It is up to you and you don’t have to sign up for anything if you don’t want to.   However, this is how people make a decent amount of money on Moola.

Using the Moola Search Engine

If you need to search for something on the internet, just use the Moola search engine.  You can make money online while you search.  Does Google pay you to search?  Usually you will only win a few pennies, but it is possible to win up to $100.  You will want to search as much as possible to increase your chances of winning the $100.  Be careful not to search just to win.  Unnatural searching is frowned upon by Moola.

Referrals

You can make some extra money by referring your friends.  The site offers a four tiered referral program.  You will get paid a percentage of any money that someone puts into their savings account on Moola.  Here are the payouts per tier:

Tier 1: 4%

Tier 2: 3%

Tier 3: 2%

Tier 4: 1%

Making money online can be a stressful process when you consider all of the work involved.  It’s nice to know that you can take a break and play some games and keep earning money.

 Making money online is a job, if you don’t have the conviction you will fail.  You can learn how to make web money with a lot of research and determination.

Let us know what you think about this review of Moola, if you have compliments, complaints, comments or you think it is a scam – let us know by commenting below…

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Michael-John Wolfe

Tags: Make Money Online, Residual Income, Royalties

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While many content writing websites want to dictate what you can and cannot write, Triond seems open to anything.  Obviously, it is in their best interest to publish as many articles as possible in order to increase the revenue created throughout their network.  Writers currently earn 50% of the advertising revenue earned from each article.  These earnings come from display and contextual advertising that appears on the pages of your content.  Payments are made each month via PayPal, check or Western Union transfer. 

It seems to me that Triond puts a lot of effort in getting your articles seen.  I have not yet written for Triond, but their website seems very user friendly.  Triond also accepts photos, audio and video files for interested publishers.  If any of my readers have had success writing for Triond, please let us know about your experiences and monthly earnings.  It seems like the number of writing websites that offer this type of revenue sharing program are steadily growing.  I often wonder which of these websites are the best way to make money online and create residual income.

You can visit Triond’s website by clicking here: Triond

Let us know what you think about this review of Triond, if you have compliments, complaints, comments or you think it is a scam – let us know by commenting below…

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Michael-John Wolfe

TAGS: Residual Income, Make Money Online, Royalties

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Last month, the Residuals and Royalties blog had almost 12,000 unique visitors and 1,012 in one day on February 2nd.  I am doing everything that I can to make this number continue to grow.  A quality guest post should definitely get the author some traffic to his or her blog.  I am willing to allow one link within the body of the post and another link at the bottom of the post along with the poster’s name and the name of their blog. 

The chart below shows my visitors for last month…

Not all guest posts will be accepted to the Residuals and Royalties blog, in fact – the post should be something that really catches my attention in order to get published.  Below is a list of requirements for any guest poster who wishes to write for the Residuals and Royalties blog. 

1. Must provide the reader with a legitimate way to make money online or earn residual income.
2. No MLM schemes, PTC websites or other sketchy programs.
    
3. Must include one of the following keywords: make money online, residual income, royalties.
    
4. Must be your own original content that is NOT published elsewhere.
    
5. Can include two links – one in the body of the post and one in your signature.  Affiliate links are allowed.
    
6. Must be at least 400 words.
    
7. Must be highly readable and well written with excellent use of grammar.
8. Must not be written about a website or money making idea that I have already covered in a prior post.  (Go back and check my past posts before submitting!) 

I will only be posting about one guest post per week.  Feel free to submit your post to me at residualsandroyalties@yahoo.com .  Please include your name and the anchor text that you want used on your two links.  If you have a special photo that you want included in the post – please attach it along with your email.  

I think this can be a win-win situation for both the guest poster any myself.  I will be getting quality content and hopefully the poster will get an influx of traffic to his or her blog. 

I look forward to your posts! 

Best regards, 

Michael-John Wolfe 

Tags: Make Money Online, Residual Income, Royalties

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Well, I found another winner! For those of you looking to make quick cash, there is another website I found that is extremely easy to sign up for and start making money online immediately and build residual income. This website is called Cash Crate and you literally can watch the four minute introduction video, sign up for the website and start filling out free offers that take only a minute or two.

For each free offer you fill out you will get paid between 25 cents and all the way up to $15.00 – but it looks like the average offer pays about 75 cents. That may not seem like much, but you can honestly fill out about 20 of these per hour. That would equate to $15 per hour and possibly more if you have fast fingers! You want to have the “auto-complete” set on your computer so you can breeze though offers as fast as possible. Be sure and read the description next to each offer to see what is required to get your payment credit for the completed free offer.

Considering that many people across the nation are working for $10 an hour in these hard economic times, I would say that CashCrate is a great way to make supplemental income online.  Also, their referral program can be an excellent source of residual income. Simply refer your friends, family, co-workers and watch the residual income roll in!

Even if you are at work and have some free time – you can sneak in four free offers per hour and bring your hourly wage up by $3 per hour!

Like I mentioned before, I highly recommend Project Payday and it has some great payouts of $20- $60 – but it can be a little difficult for some. If this is the case with you, then Cash Crate would be a great alternative. You don’t have to keep track of the offers that you sign up for and cancel them before the trial period ends like Project Payday. You simply fill out the free offers and make money!

You will want to open a separate email address just for filling out CashCrate offers – because the advertisers who post these offers will fill your email box with spam.  But as long as you open a different email address, you won’t mind if it fills up with unwanted emails.  I don’t even check the email address that I use on CashCrate.

If you want to make money online as soon as possible – then CashCrate might be the perfect website for you. Don’t get me wrong, you won’t get rich from Cash Crate, but you can earn a few hundred dollars per month to supplement your income. In this economy every little bit helps!

You can view Cash Crate’s website here: Cash Crate

Let us know what you think about this review of CashCrate, if you have compliments, complaints, comments or you think it is a scam – let us know by commenting below…

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Michael-John Wolfe

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There was not much of an increase in my monthly total – but my ebook was only for sale for one week.  I am eager to see what a full month of sales will do for my totals.  I am hoping that adding a second ebook will bring me up and over the $1,000 a month plateau.  I also will have a guest post going live on a very popular blog soon and I am interested to see how the additional traffic will affect my earnings. 

On February 2^nd, I had the most unique visitors to my blog in one day – the total was 1,012.  If I can get to that figure on a consistent basis, I am bound to have some advertisers knocking on my door soon.  One thing to note, StockXpert is no longer on my earnings report because they closed up shop this past month.  Which is too bad, because I really liked their website.  I also have four new sources of income listed below: SquishyCash, Treasure Trooper, YouData and my eBook sales.  I was ver happy to have my CashCrate earnings go up considerably this month, especially since there is no effort on my part.

February 2010, Earnings Report

1. Ehow:                            $66.94
2. Constant Content:    $36.98
3. Shutterstock:             $54.97
4. Dreamstime:              $33.32
5. BigStockPhoto:        $9.71
6. iStockPhoto:             $24.41
7. Fotolia:                       $10.01
8. e-Junkie:                     $4.98
9. CashCrate:                  $72.21
10. SquishyCash              $9.91
11. TreasureTrooper:    $10.80
12. YouData:                     $2.55
13. ProjectPayday:         $33.00
14. Google Adsense:       $116.70
15. Blog Advertising:      $0
16. AuthorHouse:           $26.58
17. ebook Sales:            $100.00

 TOTAL RESIDUAL INCOME:  $613.07

+/- January Earnings: +$65.42

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I could go on Craigslist and post an ad for a logo designer to create a logo for Residuals and Royalties.  This would probably result in hundreds of emails from graphic artists as well as spammers, and I would have no way of knowing who the best candidate is to create my logo.  Once I chose a designer to create my logo – I am stuck with that very same designer, whether I like what he or she creates or not.

I have recently found a much better way to get a logo made.  I will start a logo design contest at LogoMyWay.  If you have not heard of LogoMyWay, let me tell you how it works – you sign up to purchase a logo and create a rough description of the logo that you would like.  The minimum price to start a logo contest is $200 plus a 10% fee that goes towards operations.

Once you have paid, your logo contest will begin and designers will start to compete for your business.  There are over 4,000 designers registered on LogoMyWay – so you can be sure that you will have many choices when it comes to selecting your logo.  As designs are created specifically for you, it’s a good idea to spend time rating and commenting on the various logos.  This feedback will help the designers get enough information to help you obtain that perfect logo. 

At the completion of the contest you will select a winning design and the chosen designer will upload the logo for you.  You can simply download the logo and your contest is complete!  LogoMyWay will take care of the payment process to ensure that the selected designer receives his or her payment.  In my opinion, there is no better way to get a logo made for your product, website, business or blog. 

Now that you know how it works, please take a moment to view the logo contest for the Residuals and Royalties blog.  As logos are created, I would love to get your feedback on which logos you like best and why.  After the 14 day contest – I will have my new Residuals and Royalties logo completed and up on my blog!

 Click here to view the Residuals and Royalties logo contest at LogoMyWay: Logo Design

***UPDATE: The LogoMyWay Contest is complete and my new logo is atop this blog!***

If you have used LogoMyWay and you have any comments, reviews or information about your experiences – please let us know by commenting below….

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Michael-John Wolfe

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