You Will Not Get Rich From This Blog

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.

Instant Cash Sweepstakes.Com

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.

Daily Babble, Promote This!

It’s really no secret that I love Paid to Click / Paid to Read programs. I honestly feel and have proven that they are not only an awesome way to earn money, but an even awesomer way to build downlines in other programs. Most of the PTC’s I’m involved in allow me to convert my earnings into advertising credits on any given day. Which means I get to advertise a few times a week. The more I advertise ( promote my affiliate links ) the more money I earn from my referrals. The more money I earn from my referrals, the more I get to advertise for more referrals and so on and so on. Basically, when my referrals make money, I make money. It’s really a win win for the patient and persistent.

So when do I get to enjoy some of that money my referrals have so graciously earned me?

Well if you read my last post ( after the talk about dogs, wieners and tee shirts ), that money came in handy this month when we were a bit strapped for cash. Sure I was a bit bummed that my ad budget wasn’t what I hoped it would be, but keeping food on the table, the internet bill paid and gas in my 4Runner was a bit more of a priority. June is going to be a lot more fun. More advertising for me ( $$ ).

Anyways…

Aside from loving and understanding the value of PTC / PTR programs. I also love down line builders. Throw the two together and you’ve got my attention. Which brings me to..

Free Internet Money.Biz

What is it?
It’s basically a downline builder just for Paid to Click programs, with the exception of one other non PTC program way at the bottom.

One of the main advantages of using “down line builders”, is that we get to promote several of our favorite programs at once through one convenient link ( URL ). Potentially gaining more referrals for multiple programs with less effort. The disadvantage is that we take the emphasis off promoting just one opportunity at a time.

Why I like Free Internet Money.Biz“, is because it focuses mostly on “well established” Paid to Click programs. Primarily my top seven!! Hits4Pay, Link Grand, “MatrixMails”, NeoBux, ClixSense, WordLinx, and “AdPaid”. I’m a bit bummed that “donkeymails” didn’t make the list, but until I create my own downline builder, I’m not going to complain too much. Although, I do question a couple of the PTC’s on the list, I did join a couple new one’s.

I’ll only endorse, for now, the program’s I mentioned above.

I also love the fact that’s it’s FREE to join and use, has some great instructional video’s and is “hype” free. The owner and creator of Free Internet Money never suggests that we can make any more than $600-$800 a month. Of course our efforts decide our actual earnings potential, six to eight hundred dollars a month is definitely an attainable and realistic goal.

So yeah, big thumbs up for Free Internet Money.Biz.

Hope everyone is having a safe and enjoyable memorial day weekend. My wife and kids are out of town so I get a bit of “me” time. Which means I get to work work and work. At least the house will be clean for a couple days.

Phil ( philsfault ) Ames

Oh and here’s a little tip. Don’t neglect your surveys! Building an advertising budget ( seed money, working capital ) to build your down lines is as simple as focusing on making an additional $2 a day ( $60 a month ). Where to spend that money is up to you, but I highly recommend ClixSense.

Promote This!, Will Work for Pennies

So we’ve been throwing around the idea of getting a dog the last couple weeks. I sort of had my heart set on a Shiba Inu, but since I have young children I’ve learned that, that particular breed might not be my best choice. Another breed we’ve been tossing around ( not literally ) is the Dachshund. Although I really don’t want a Dachshund, I would love to have a shirt that says “Beware of my Wiener”. It sort of fits my sense of humor and a Dachshund would easily fit through our cats ( Gray ) cat doors. Unfortunately Dachshunds ( badger dogs ) our born diggers, and I’d be pretty pissed if I came home one day to find my garden looking like a mine field. So I’ll sadly give up the opportunity to wear an almost offensive tee shirt…..damn.

We’ve pretty much decided that an Australian Sheppard would be a perfect fit for our family. Unfortunately our back yard is a bit small and since my wife and I really aren’t home most of the day, it would be totally selfish of us to own a dog ( of any breed ) at this point. So until one or both of us are work at home parents and buy a house with a much larger back yard, adding a new family member will have to wait. Don’t tell my four year old daughter that though, she thinks we are getting a puppy for Christmas. Which according to her calender is sometime tomorrow.

So yeah. Add “To someday own a dog” to the list of “Why I want to succeed online”. Also, add.. “to someday have a lawn large enough to justify a riding lawn mower”. That’s really my little dream. Me riding around cutting the lawn for an hour listening to the Giants vs Dodgers. Of course I’d have an ice chest and cup holder installed, just in case I got thirsty ( just in case ).

Anyways. Anyone who owns a home knows that you don’t actually “own” your home. Rather your home owns you. Luckily we purchased our house newly built so we haven’t had to make any major repairs or renovations in the last six years. Although little things like property tax’s pop up a couple times a year. For us it means $1500 twice a year. Or something like that ( ask my wife she writes the checks ). So that was $1500 less this month that we normally would have enjoyed. So our funds were a bit short this month.

Now, if you’ve been following this blog for the last couple months, you know I’ve been ranting about reinvesting the money we make online back into making more money. I look at it like stocking a store full of inventory. If I don’t keep my shelves stocked ( referrals, subscriptions, etc..) I’ll never see the real money in the future. Well the last couple weeks saw very little growth in regards to “inventory”, or rather growing my earnings. Since we were a bit short on funds, my paypal debit card and the earnings I’ve been making online all went for things like gas, food, and the occasional beer. So Paypal saves the day! Or rather, my efforts saved the last couple weeks. A minor set back in my plans for internet domination but I’m glad I had those online earnings to cover things the past couple weeks. Really sucks though because I had some brilliant plans for that money.

Oh well, stay the course and move on to the next week.

That’s all for me tonight.. just wanted to get a post up and ramble a bit. I think I’m all caught up with email and comment reply’s. Hopefully I didn’t forget anyone.

Phil ( philsfault ) Ames

Oh crap… I’m not going to be available for the next couple days and I totally almost forgot to share the hot news this week ( mostly according to me ).

Hits4Pay is throwing a ton of daily emails at us the last couple weeks. It’s nice that a few ( dozen ) of my referrals that I picked up five years ago are still active. Cha Ching for me!!

I was cleaning up my bookmarks a few days ago and ran across a cool little website I joined a few months ago. “Instant Cash Sweepstakes”. I think I’ll keep this one. Basically, you complete short questionnaires and are rewarded with tickets, coins, and even cash ( my biggest reward was three cents ). Coins are used to purchase tickets, and tickets are used for the daily $50 lottery draw. What I really like about this simple program is that I earn a matching bonus from my referrals wins ( You ). Payout to PayPal is at $2 and I don’t see a limit on how often we can cash out. Cool, guess I’ll add this one to my list of “98 things I want to promote today”…

Okay, really going to bed now. There’s more I wanted to get to, and share.. but I’m really tired. Perhaps next week I’ll write before One A.M.!!

Daily Babble