Instant Cash Sweepstakes. Got a Minute?
I think I figured out why you guys are getting some of my older posts sent out a couple times a week. Even though I haven’t published anything new in a couple weeks, I’m always writing, tweaking and editing new posts. I’ll usually publish a post in “private” just to see how it looks before I actually share it with the world. Sometimes I forget to change the status of my unfinished work to private before hitting the “publish” button. Once I realize that I’ve just published an unfinished post, I race back to my blogs back office ( dashboard ) and make sure you guys don’t see whatever lame ( but soon to be brilliant ) post I’m in the process of writing.
So I think whats happening is I’m confusing “Feed Burner”. Feed Burner is the service I use to manage my blog subscriber list. When I publish a post, Feed Burner sends my subscribers an email.
Um, soooooo… yeah. I apologize for the random older posts hitting your inbox this week. I know you get all excited and stuff when you see that I’ve published something new. Sorry, I guess that makes me a tease ( I can live with that ). Also seems that while deleting a couple of the posts that I was working on and decided I didn’t like, I also inadvertently deleted a couple of the posts I actually wanted to keep. Crap!
Anyways… For those of you still with me. Lets move on to today’s post.
I joined this site a few months ago and forgot about it. A couple weeks ago I was cleaning out my bookmarks and came across it again. I decided to give it a second look. Remembered why I liked it in the first place and then decided to give it a good test. Lets get to the “test” in a minute.
What is Instant Cash Sweepstakes?
I’m not going to add a bunch of fancy words and try to over explain how market research works. The powers that be are working behind the scenes, gathering our opinions, ideas, and even our responses to simple and quick three question quizzes. In return we are often rewarded with a bit of compensation for our time and effort. See “It’s just a Survey. Don’t quit your day job”.
How Instant Cash Sweepstakes ( ICS )works, is you are given a few quick quizzes a day. The quizzes are a very short three questions. You literally spend less than a minute completing each one. Compensation is in the form of tickets, coins or a few cents. Tickets are used in the daily $50 draw, coins are used to buy more tickets and the few cents is added to you account. When you reach a balance of $2 or more your considered “vested” and can then cash out via PayPal.
When you invite friends and family ( referrals ), you get a matching bonus of whatever they win. Of course I love a good referral program so I wanted to see what damage I could do and give it a good test. Plus I wanted to see if and how fast they paid.
One of the downsides to ICS is they don’t have much in the way of promotional banners. Just a large widget and a referral link. So I put together a quick page using Splash Page Maker and Instant Banner Creator. My Promo page.
I use ClixSense for ninety percent of my advertising, so that’s where I focused my attention for a week. Using only the earnings I had from everything else I do online, I placed my standard $24 ( 2000 view ) ad on ClixSense. Normally I expect a 1% return from my ads. That means for every 100 views of whatever I’m advertising I expect at least 1 new referral ( for Free to Earn Programs ). My first ad pulled over forty referrals ( NICE!! ), and I was able to cash out later that evening.
A couple more ads later and I’m now requesting payments every day. So far I’ve received all of my payments within a few hours.
How much can you earn if you Don’t refer other people?
I racked up over a dollar in just over a week just participating a couple times a day. Usually the cash prizes range between one and ten cents. Of course we all get a chance to win the $50 daily prize. So although referring others is a faster way to increase our earnings, the minimum $2 cash out is an easy mark to hit for those of you who prefer not to promote.
Talk to you guys this weekend. I have a lot to share so I’ve got to do a better job of finishing and publishing posts.
Phil ( philsfault ) Ames
Oh I forgot to mention. My Wife and seven year old son left for France yesterday to visit family. So it’s just my daughter and I for the next two weeks. Although I’m going to miss not having half of my family around, less laundry to do every night is always a good thing.
Wow,
This is easy money Phil. I’m in there! I hope they have tiered program where you earn from me and the gang of referrals I’m about to get for you. lol Thanks for sharing brother. This will be one of my new post in the near future once I can show that I’ve actually cashed out. Obviously you’ll be getting a shout out! Keep it up brother. Show us all more simple and easy ways to make money like this.
Well I have seen you around alot on the net I really like your humaness approach to everything your daughter is adorable I have already received big help downloaded the anti spyware programs in one of your blogs as my computer is old also,
Just joined Instant Cash Sweepstakes now how do I get those referrals and can I use your promo page if now could you give me help actually click in my website link that’s me but that is instant splash page I belong to I can make a page there what do you think??
Love your blog need to do one myself one of these days
Well you take care
See around the net
Linda Giacomozzi
Hey Eddy.. thought I’d reply to your comment before heading out for the day.
Unfortunately there is only level of earnings but hey asking anymore of an already simple to earn program would just be plain greedy, now wouldn’t it…; ).
Thanks for chiming in as usual. I’ll send you an email in the next couple days.
@Linda Giacomozzi
Hi Linda! Sorry for the late reply to your comment, my Thursdays and Fridays are usually pretty busy and I usually have a hard time keeping up with comment and email reply’s.
Thanks for your comment and kind words. Yes, I am a human. It took me a long time to figure out that people actually like “Humans” more than “affiliate links”.
Picking up referrals for “Instant Cash Sweepstakes” or any other Free to earn program is actually quite simple. EARN MONEY FROM FREE TO EARN PROGRAMS and Use that money to promote whatever it is your promoting. I don’t encourage using our own money or credit cards to buy adverting. Clicking your ads everyday, completing offers on GPT sites occasionally for things we really are interested in and of course taking part in market research ( surveys ). I’ve done the work and continue to do the work to keep my ad ( working capital ) budget flowing.
Focus more on advertising on long running and established programs like ClixSense and WordLinx and I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the results.
Your splash page looks great! Great job branding yourself! I’ll send you the code for my ICS splash page. I’m not sure how it’s going to look with the Splash Page program your using but it’s a start.
Thanks again..
Hey Phil,
I faithfully went there for over a couple month period and then sort of lost my way. I’ll have to go checkout how much I racked up(without referrals unfortunately). Thanks for reminding me. OH AND HIYA EDDY!! I’m a new reader and Phil mentioned your name in an email so I thought I’d send you a hello ;-) Don’t worry it wasn’t anything bad :x Anyway, I look forward to talking to both of you more!! I’m slowly making my way through your site Phil and taking in all the good advice as I come along it.
Christina
@Christina Ellis
Hi again Christina…. Oh gosh, you might not want to look to far back when reading my earlier posts. I’m sure I have some I need to delete.
Anyways, thanks so much for the comment. Make sure you visit Eddy’s blog and say hi to him personally.
Talk to you later.