I've been busy....

Yes, I have committed the cardinal sin of blog ownership: I have not done a new post for a few weeks. I have "been busy".

That busyness has been in part to my moneymaking efforts on the cashback sites, as they have lots of free money for filling in insurance quotes. I have not had time to explore new ways of making 30p a day, and therefore have not had anything to report!

I do want to make sure that my ways of making 30p a day are achievable. I have not just listed 80 ways to make money in the knowledge that 60 of them will not - mainly because I don't have time to attend to them all!

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Setbacks....

I had a setback with Mylot. I logged in to see that all my friends, discussion history, referrals and money had disappeared!

I'm not sure why this is, and have contacted Mylot. The good news is that I did not lose much money. Presumably, I can just start again!

Also, I sell some ebooks on Ebay. Yes, I'm one of those crooks! My ebooks are a product that people want and are moderately priced, so I am not "one of those Ebay ebook crooks", if you are wondering. Ebay banned "digital delivery", i.e. selling ebooks and then emailing them to people; so I simply send my ebooks via CD now.

There are setbacks; but they can be overcome, and I did not lose much money, which is the main thing.

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Making money from your own websites/blogs

I have a few websites and blogs; some I make some money from, some I have just started so they do not have that much traffic.

I'm not sure how to add these to my list. Should each individual blog/website be part of the list? Or should "making money from blogs/websites" be a general earner which takes one place on my list? Or, I could just mention the ways I make money from the blogs and websites, such as Voxant and Adsense.

I'll have a think and decide how to add them, although at the moment they are represented by earners such as Voxant and Adsense!

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Napoleon Hill quotes....

Here are some quotes from the famous (pre-internet!) "money maker" Napoleon Hill, which will hopefully inspire you to continue on your efforts to earn some extra money.



“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”



“Don't wait. The time will never be just right.”



“No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.”

Achieving 80 ways of making money...

My main aim is to find 80 ways of making 30p every day. The difficult thing is to find 80 diffent money making ideas and schemes.

It would be easy for me to just list 80 different money making schemes. Type in "make money online" on Google, and you will see lots of pages listing 101 weird and wonderful ideas for making money; one site I looked at suggested that you could sell your own urine to make money!

So, I try to list things that I actually make some money from. I saw an online article from the Times which listed 10 ways to make cash online for students. Yuwie and Fotolia were mentioned. Yuwie is a social networking site you can make money from. Fotolia pays you for adding photos to their stock - you get paid if someone buys the right to use your photo. These are two prime candidates for inclusion. But, there is the danger I will sign up, add them to my list and forget about them. So I will have a look at them in the next few weeks - but not add them to my list!

A small update

I have been a bit busy lately due to the bumper amount of daily recurring clicks on the cashback sites. This means I have not been able to develop those money making programs outside of my "regulars"!

I do a number of cashback and survey sites. Dooyoo is also a good earner for me. It's easy to scrape £20 a month off Ebay, and Google adsense is one of my few passive earners. I have referred a few people on Mylot so hopefully they will become big users there! So, I have a number of ways of making £9 a month and 30p per day.

It's difficult to develop other ways of making money beause of time contraints, and I lose interest a little if I do not get an immiediate return. But, a money making idea or program should probably be tested over a few months!

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Earn £30 an hour?

When I tell people about the opportunities to earn money on the internet, a common repponse is: " you spend all that time and effort earning little money - you may as well get a part time job".

This may be true. People do spend ages on sites like Mylot earning the about 30p an hour, far below the minumum wage. But you can earn lots of extra money for minimum effort, and get a good return for your work. "Passive" income programs such as Google adsense and Voxant allow you to earn money without doing any work - apart from setting up and promoting your webpages of course.

On Topcashback, the cashback site, you can earn £1.10 a day for 5 mins work per day. That is £12 an hour, which to me is a fairly good hourly wage. On Cashinco you can also earn £1.50 for about 10 mins work per day - and earn around £10 an hour. Unfortunately, you cannot do 10 hours a day on these cashback sites!

Maybe these amounts of money are not enough for some people to justify devoting some of their precious spare time. But I think it is worth it! I do draw the line at reading emails for 0.001p per minute though!

Amazon

Amazon associates - the affiliate scheme of Amazon - is a popular way of making money online. I get the impression that it is one of the first programs - along with Adsense - that people use to monetise their website or blog. It's a well known, respected website that many people use, and the affiliate program is very easy to use. You can create targeted ads using specific items and type of product. Amazon has a huge array of different ways to create your ads, from search boxes you can put on your website, and videos, product clouds, deal widgets.....

You earn money when people click on one of your ads and visit the Amazon webpage and buy something.

From what I have read, they are a bit mean with the commission rates.
I have had Amazon on another website I have, and have not earnt anything! I have Amazon.uk on my other website - maybe I should switch to another Amazon country site to promote.

I'll have a tinker with Amazon, and add it to my list of 80. For a a start, I've added a serach widget, which you can see on this blog.

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March earnings

Another month - March - has gone already. I have earnt a similar amount to February.

I still have around 25 money making ideas so far! I've added a few more.

I easily achieved my target with the cashback sites. I have eleven on my list, and made over £100 combined on them, meaning that on average I earnt 30p + every day on each one.

I've had a go on Mylot, and earnt about £3 in March.

Again, I earnt about $13 on Google adsense: still near my unambitious target of 30p a day.

Ebay was a good earner and is easily above the £9 a month target.

As for last month, If I take my month's earnings and divide them by 25, then I have earnt around £9 for each one, which is on target! I now need to find more ways of earning £9 a month!

As other people may have found, I have found a few favourites that seem to work and are easy to use. I have dabbled with a few others and found them difficult to use, or have not had the time - or found them to be useless! Because of time constraints and because of "routines and habits" I am concentrating on a few programmes. So, I must try to give a few more programmes more time, and continue to add more schemes to my list. Some passive income money makers would be great......!!

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Friend Finder

Friendfinder is a large group which is now owned by Penthouse.

They have a number of dating websites ranging from Friend Finder to Christian dating. They also have some more adult orientated sites - Adult Friend Finder, webcams and soforth.

It's a respectable company and you have a lot of sites to promote. Each site is treated differently, so you will only get paid when you reach the payout amount in one specific niche. If you promote six sites, then they will be treated as six seperate accounts, so it's best to concentrate on one or two programs.

You can be paid per click, a percentage of the money spent by the person you refer, or a specific amount. I always go for the percentage as you will get more money if they spend more in the future.

I'd recommend Friend Finder or one of the other dating sites. It's up to you if you want to delve into the more adult sites!

I'll add this to my list!

Centsports

Here's an interesting new site! Centsports is a US betting site where you can win money but do not lose any!

They give you 10cents to start off with. If you get up to $30 and lose it all, then you can start again and they give you another 10cents. After you have made your bet, you can increase your potential winnings by watching a short ad.

Centsports has an affiliate system - your affiliates are called "cronies"! - and you earn 5% of your affiliate's earnings.

I'll give this one a go - it sounds fun! - and add it to my list. I'll tell you if I have made any money - i.e. at least £9 a month - later on.

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Dooyoo

Dooyoo is a site where people review things. Anything can be reviewed - from chocolate bars to DVD's, from local restaurants to Charles Dickens novels: the choice is yours!

It's a friendly site, and it's quite easy to submit reviews. Other people rate your reviews, and you get paid every time someone leaves a comment on your review.

Payout is £50, which is easily achievable, The payout system was changed recently and you get 50p per review - which has led to some people submitting lots of reviews!

It's similar to Ciao (but a bigger earner I think), and you can paste your Dooyoo reviews onto Ciao.

I can easily make more than £9 on Dooyoo (considerably more in fact!), so I have added this to my list, and suggest you join up,


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Review of my earnings so far

"How are you doing so far?" you may ask!

I have around 25 money making ideas so far; another 55 to find!

For the month of February:

I easily achieved my target with the cashback sites. I have eleven on my list, and made over £100 combined on them, meaning that on average I earnt 30p + every day on each one.

I've just started Mylot and have 50c in my account! On Bux.to I earnt a few pence from testing it out, but I have just started this and need to get some referrals.

The Moon real estate idea predictably earnt nothing. I need to be a bit more pro-active on this one!

I earnt 30p in the month of February on Friend Finder - not every day but for the whole month, unfortunately! Perhaps getting my referral link on a website that people look at would help....

Dooyoo was a good earner, especially with the new payment scheme. I earnt £40 + for the month for this. I'll do a post on this in the next few days.

No one joined Winzy using my referral link and won me an Ipod unfortunately.

I earnt about $13 on Google adsense. Not much, but near my unambitious target of 30p a day.

I earnt around £10 from Voxant. Not much, but again a step in the right direction and around 30p a day.

I received a cheque from Global Test Market. The survey sites are quite good. Onepoll offers at least an £7-8 a month. Yougov sends lots of surveys. It's Your View sent £12 of surveys in one day!

I have no idea how to use Squidoo. I have about $1 in my account. Maybe I should make some more lenses and put the link everywhere!

I managed to earn around £60 from Ebay in February, so that is one scheme that is above the £9 a month target.

If I take my month's earnings and divide them by 25, then I have earnt around £9 for each one, which is on target! I now need to find more ways of earning £9 a month!

Mylot

A popular way of making money online is through MyLot. I've heard a lot about Mylot, but never actually knew what it was. Upon joining, I realised it's very similar to Yahoo Answers except you get paid!

I joined and started to respond to a few discussions, and it's actually quite good fun. I'm not sure of the payment system. I responded to a few discussions and had 30cents in my account after 2 days. From reading some blogs it seems you can earn, on average, 50 cents for an hour's work on Mylot. Maybe that time is better spent elsewhere, but the site is quite good fun. You can use Mylot to publicise your websites. I'm not sure what the policy on affiliate links is.

Mylot has a referral scheme where you earn a healthy percentage of your referrals earnings!

I'll test out Mylot over the next month, and I have addded it to my list.

Winzy

Winzy is a search engine which offers you the chance of winning prizes for searching the web.

The prizes include free Ipods, Amazon vouchers and cash.

If you refer a friend and they win a prize, you get one too! So if someone you referred wins an Ipod, you win a free Ipod too!

Personally I still use Google most of the time, and I'm not sure that I could earn £9 a month from Winzy.

But I'll try to invite some friends, and do the odd search and may win something!

There is a Winzy search box on the right of this page if you want to try your luck!

Bux.to

I've decided to do a "paid to click" site, where you get a small amount of money for having a page open for 30 seconds.

I normally hate these types of sites, such as Archerfish, as you have to put a lots of time in just to earn around $0.005 dollars for each click! But I saw bux.to on the Cashinco referrals section; for some reason that suggested that this is more worthwhile than the usual Paid to click site, so I thought I'd give it a go!

With Bux.to, you get 1cent per page viewed, which I think is more generous. Not very, but more generous!


Here is their Earnings Example
» You click 10 ads per day = $0.10
» 20 referrals click 10 ads per day = $2.00
» Your daily earnings = $2.10
» Your weekly earnings = $14.70
» Your monthly earnings = $63.00

The payout is $10.

The trick is to get some referrals!

I'll give this a go - I will have to get some referrals to make my 30p per day - and will add it to my list!

Bux.to

Review of the month's money earnt...

I do plan to have a monthly review of the money I have earnt each month. I will do this at the start of March...

Bizarre ways to make money

Apparently, someone placed a picture of a rabbit on a website stating that they would eat this rabbit if they did not receive a specific amount. People paid monney via Paypal to make sure this person did not. The website owner had no intention of eating the rabbit - it was just a picture of a rabbit and there was no real rabbit to be eaten!

This is an unpalatable way of making money; maybe many of the donations came from people who were aware that it was a joke, but gave him some money to reward him for thinking up a new money making idea.

What this proves is that There are many ways of making a little bit of money. If you have any money money making ideas that do not cost much - either in time or money - then have a go!

Thinking ahead.....

A few years ago, I made a selection of ecological cleaning products, candles, breads and Christmas wreaths and sold them at a Christmas craft fair. I made a little bit of profit, but naturally came to the conclusion that I would have to invest a little bit of money in bulk purchases of the things needed to make my products to ensure I made a worthwhile profit. Like many money making ideas, I got bored with that and moved onto the next one. I thought of reviving this money making idea the last two Christmases, but did not because it was late Novemeber when I thought of making some stuff to sell, and I only had a few weeks to make things.

What I should do this year is start to plan for the Xmas craft fair season NOW, and then I can go along to the craft fairs (along with some snacks and and a flask of tea of course) and make some money. I did notice more people selling Xmas wreaths this year. Ecological products are more popular now, and maybe as a result real wreaths and decorations are more popular. Is does make me laugh when people buy small branches of holly: but I actually saw people buying them....

I like the television programme Lost, and read a few websites and forums devoted to the programme. One of the websites I read - a blog (with a domain name, not a free blog) - was sold by the owner last year. One day he had a message on his site saying that the blog was for sale for about $4000, and a few weeks later someone bought it and continued the blog. I thought I could start a website or a blog and sell it. There are probably too many Lost websites now, so I probably couldn't make lots of money building a website/blog now (or could I? Please comment!).

Maybe the trick is to find upcoming actors and actresses whose career may take off in a few years. Or find the next big TV show - look at websites like Aint It Cool News to see what shows in production are tipped to be the next big thing. Then build up a blog or website which is one of the most respected visited in that field and sell the domain name content and advertising potential to someone else.

These are two ways of thinking ahead....

Ebay

Ebay is a popular money maker for some. I can at least scrape together 30p a day from Ebay, and therefore I'm going to add it to my list!

What do I sell in Ebay? Anything! Just put something on there, and you will make some money! You have a huge marketplace, so someone will want to buy your item! For example, go on a freebies website, send off for all the freebies and stick them on Ebay.

You may find the elusive niche product to sell. I haven't found one yet!

Ebooks are quite lucrative. Be careful to state that they are ebooks otherwise you will have to give a refund or get nasty feedback. Beware that you are not breaching copyright, or you will get your Ebay and Paypal account suspended. Maybe you could write your own; you can download PDF makers for free which turn your Word files into great PDF ebooks.

I'll also have to explore the Ebay affiliate scheme more. I have not had much luck with the familiar Amazon scheme though - more on that later.

I'd like to explore selling books more. The trick is to find those subjects which are the most popular. I think looking on Ebay (naturally!) and seeing which types of book have the highest bid is a good idea.

Get paid to take surveys

There are quite a few survey sites on the internet which pay you for completing surveys online.

The first thing to remember is that there are a few scam sites. Do not pay a registration fee - there are plenty of reputable free sites.

Surveys are sent to your email address (a good idea is to get a free email address for your surveys from Yahoo or another free email provider), and you complete them online. The fee you get for each survey ranges from 5p to £2 on average - and sometimes even more. You could sign up for as many survey sites as possible. Due to time constraints I prefer to concentrate on a small number of survey sites. It's best to do every survey that is sent, and if you join up to lots of sites you may start skipping surveys. Concentrate on as many sites as you can manange and you will get to the payout sooner!

I currently do these survery sites, which I have added to my list:

Onepoll - a great site; you can do the surveys on their website by simply ticking boxes. They have surveys virtually daily too!

Yougov - If you only join one survey site, join this one! Quite high paying surveys, although you may have a long gap between receiving surveys. You receive a £1 for joining. Payout £50.

Treasuretrooper - Treasuretrooper now have a 75 cents daily survey for UK members.

Ciao Ciao is a famous survey site. You can also earn money from reviewing products. They send surveys regularly - although they have been a bit mean with the money they pay me for surveys lately! You can cash out your money when you reach £5, which is useful.

Global Test Market Global Test Market is a US site. You earn points; 1000 points = $50. I have just earnt enough for my first cheque.

I'll join a few more soon!

Voxant

The Voxant Newsroom provides news feeds for you to "embed" on your blog or website. Every time an embedded news feed is viewed on your site, you earn some money. Other people can embed your content on their site and this will earn you more money; on the feed there is an "embed code" button which will give your visitors the html code to cut and paste on their site.

There is a lot of content to choose from. News providers include: CBS, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, The Associated Press, PBS, The Sports Network, MTV, CNN, BBC, HowStuffWorks as well as others.

You can embed individual Youtube style videos as well as text and image feeds. You can create your own feed which shows a selection of the latest stories in a particular area. I have created a text feed as an example, and you can view it at the bottom of this blog!

Voxant pays $4.00 for every thousand plays of a video; for text and images, Voxant pays $1.00 for every thousand times it is viewed. I've just started to experiment with Voxant, and have about 5p in my account!

I think I'll add this as another one of my ways to make 30p per day - although I'm not close to achieving that!

Selling land on the moon

This may seem like a crackpot idea that someone like Arthur Daley would try, but there are people selling land on the moon.

You may have seen the recent UK TV programme on C4 on the 4th January 2008 called First Cut: A Piece of the Moon.

A Mr Dennis M. Hope founded the "Lunar Embassy" and has been selling Lunar real estate for a number of years. He has received a lot of publicity, and has appeared in the media. He has a person in the UK selling his Lunar Embassy land on the moon, and this man has got British supermarkets and high street shops such as WH Smith selling it. He featured in the C4 programme - at one stage taking a pro-active approach to selling his moon land by approaching people in the street dressed as an astronaut!

I registered as an affiliate for the Lunar Embassy via a website called Planetaryinvestments. This domain subsequently disappeared (it is now for sale if anyone wants to buy it); I emailed the Lunar Embassy who denied all knowledge of PlanetaryInvestments! Luckily, I hadn't earned any money.

But there are other companies selling land on the moon, such as the Lunar Registry. I have signed up to their affiliate programme, and this makes up another of my eighty ways of making £9 a month.

You could sign up to their affiliate programme, or even sell your own moon land, making your own moon land certificates and sales packs. Some of these moon land companies may have a valid claim to the moon; but, I think most people realise it is a bit of fun, and moon land certificates make a great "tongue in cheek" gift.

I've made a Squidoo page about land on the moon, if you are interested!

http://www.squidoo.com/buyinglandonthemoon

Land on the Moon from The Lunar Registry makes a great gift!
Includes personalized deed, actual satellite property photo
and detailed information sheet.
Please click here to learn more!

Cashback sites

There are a number of cashback sites in the UK (and abroad I believe) where it is easy to earn at least 30p a day.

These cashback sites pay you a percentage back of any purchases you make through their site. For example, if you bought a computer from Misco, you would get around 3% of the cost of the computer paid into your account. If you bought some form of insurance - such as car or household - you would get £20 plus paid into your account.

These sites also offer one-off money for signing up to newsletters and registering on websites. For example, ordering a brochure from a company selling windows could earn you £1.50. You can do recurring clicks which entails searching for a product on a site such as Kelkoo and clicking through to a retailer to earn a reward such as 5p.

Without spending anything and doing the recurring clicks, you can earn 20-30p + a day on each cashback site. You can also get a bonus from any one-off offers. And if you you want to purchase anything online via a cashback website, you can earn some extra money.

You receive a sign up bonus on many of the sites - they range from £1.50 to £10. You can cash out your money when you have earnt a certain amount: payout levels range from 1p (!) to £30.

These cashback sites are not as lucrative as few years ago when you could earn around £3 a day in recurring clicks on many of them. I think they have become more well known with reports in the media advising you to buy insurance etc. through these cashback sites; and more and more people wanting to earn some money at home have joined these sites meaning that the affilites can pay less money for clicks in their campaigns.

But they are still worth doing, and provide at least ten of my 30p a day opportunities.

Here are the ones I currently use. Others are available, but some have hardly any recurring clicks.

Cashbag
Freefivers
Rpoints
Linemypocket
Topcashback
Loyaltyshopper
Myshoppingrewards
Cashinco
QuidsinUK
Cashback-Rewards
E-cashrewards

Google Adsense

Most people have heard of Google Adsense by now. You simply cut and paste their ad code, incorporate into your site and make money every time a visitor to your website clicks on one of the ads. You can see an example on this blog.

The trick is to incorporate the Adsense ads into your site, so they are not "obvious" ads. Don't click on them yourself or you will be banned. If you are not that familiar with Google Ads, look out for them next time you are browsing websites; you can also pick up tips on where to place the ads on your page by seeing where other people have placed theirs.

I have adsense on another film-related website I have, and earn around £5 per month. Hopefully with this blog and a few other sites, I can get this up to £9 a month

Welcome

Welcome to my new blog!



Like many people, I would like to make some (easy!) money off the internet. Some people would like to make a fortune; others simply want to make a few hundred pounds (or dollars) a month as a small bonus.

To be honest, I fall into the latter category. If I manage to find a way of making £50,000 a month off the internet then I will pleased. But like many people, £500 a month would be a nice bonus.

Like others who have scoured the internet looking for ways to make some extra money I have found the familar ways of making money: Ebay, Adsense, Cashback sites, and all the other affiliate schemes. Like many others, I have received money - but not a lot. Many of these schemes earn between £1 and £50 per month.

What I want to do is find eighty ways of making the rather miniscule amount of 30p every day. If I could do this, then I could make £720 a month (30 days), which means that each scheme would have to make £9 a month. That should be achievable, shouldn't it?

What I plan to do is find eighty ways of making money, list them, and see how much each one makes a month. Some may make more than £9 a month. Some may make less. Can I make £720 a month? I will include some easy ways I find making money in real life too, although the fun part is finding ways to make a little extra money from the comfort of my own home.

Hopefully I will make lots of cash and retire to the Swiss Alps? Or hopefully just be able to make an extra £700 a month!

I hope you will read my blog and find out.....