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....