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.....