If you read my Project Payday Review, you would know that there are three ways to make money using freebie websites:

1. Complete offers to go “green”. The person you’re trading with will then pay you when all the required offers are credited.
2. Pay referrals to complete offers to go “green”. You make money through the freebie website.
3. Sell the gifts you receive from freebies. If you prefer not to receive the cash prize when you get enough referrals, you can choose to receive a gift and sell it instead.

Honestly, I prefer Method 1 and 2, but everyone is different. It’s good to first decide which methods you want to do before you get started. My personal favorite method is Method 2, since it’s less stressful and easier to do. However, you need to do Method 1 before you can do Method 2, just like how you need to do Method 2 before you can do Method 3. For this tutorial, we will focus on Method 1.

Trading Terms

By now you probably have a lot of questions running through your head. Let’s discuss trading terms before we move forward.

• IFW – Incentivized Freebie Websites
  An example of an IFW is the forum Anything4Free. Signing up for an IFW is where you’ll start to begin trading. IFWs advertise a variety of different companies, which you’ll use when trading.
• Freebie Websites – Companies you complete offers for to receive a gift
  Many people refer to these companies as “freebies”, since they receive free gifts once they complete the required offers and refer other members to the company. In Method 2, freebie websites will be your main source of income.
• Going Green – Completing and receiving credit for all the required offers on the freebie website
  This is what you ultimately want to do throughout your trading business in order to get paid from both the freebie website and other traders (if you’re in Method 1).
• Going Red – Getting your credit revoked on freebie websites
  This is what you ultimately don’t want to do while trading. Traders get their credit revoked in a variety of ways, but mainly it’s because they gave fraudulent information.
• Trade – The process in which you complete offers for a specific freebie website for another individual on an IFW.
  By doing trades, you’ll increase your trade rating. This will become handy later on once you start doing Method 2.

Trading Using Method 1

Before You Trade
Before we get started with Method 1, you should clear your cookies first. The purpose of clearing cookies is to insure that you get credit for the offers you complete. If you use Firefox, you can clear your cookies by going to Tools -> Options -> Privacy tab -> Remove Individual Cookies -> Remove All Cookies.

Also, it’s good to keep a notebook nearby or a text document open so that you can record what offers you do in the freebie websites, especially if you’re doing free trial offers that you may or may not be interested in. I’ll explain more about recording your trades later on in this tutorial.

Now, you’ll first want to sign up for an IFW. For this tutorial, we’ll use the forum Anything4Free. Click the link and complete the sign up page. You can view loads upon loads of useful information in the Freebie University section of the forums. Browse the pinned topics if you’d like. You can also ask your own questions here, though you probably won’t need to do that since I’ll be here to help you every step of the way.

After you browse the Freebie University, I suggest introducing yourself to the Anything4Free community in the Introductions section. This way, everyone gets a feel of who you are. It’s also always good to interact with the community in the beginning to prepare for Method 2 when you’ll be needing your own referrals.

The Trading Process
To start, you should visit my Beginner’s Trading Post if you have a trade rating of 3 or below. More experienced traders will benefit more from my trading post here.

You’ll need to decide if you want to take part in my Fast Fifteen Package or my Beginner Package first. I strongly suggest completing the Fast Fifteen Package before you move on to my Beginner Package, since the Fast Fifteen Package is quickest and easiest to complete. It should also take no longer than fifteen minutes to go green. You’ll receive a $5 bonus after completing each package ($10 bonus overall), along with a payment after you complete each specific trade. You can view more details of each package on my Beginner’s Trading Post.

Each package has a list of trades that will need to be completed in order to complete the package. Once you’ve decided on the package you wanted to complete, simply click the link “Click here to start trading!” next to the first trade in the list and you’ll be taken to a form where you’ll need to fill out your PayPal email address (so that I can pay you) and the email you’ll use to sign up for the freebie website (so that I can check your progress and confirm that you’ve done the trade). Check “Yes” next to “Commit to trade” (or else you won’t be able to start the trade) and click the button “Initiate Trade”.

Once the trade is initiated, you can then go to your Trade Manager (the blue tab at the top of the page). Here you can check the progress of all your trades, add trades of your own, and so on. From the Trade Manager Menu, click the “My Trades” link and you’ll notice the trade you initiated with me in the list.

• Offer(s) Completed – Waiting for Credit: Use this update when you’ve completed all the offers in the freebie website, but have no received credit yet.
• Offer(s) Completed – Green: Use this update when you’ve completed all the offers in the freebie website and have also received credit for them.
• MCR Submitted: Use this update when you’ve submitted a Missing Credit Report on a specific offer (explained later in this post).
• Completed: Use this update after I have paid you and the trade is completed (don’t forget to comment and rate the trade).

Keep a Record of All Trades
Another tip that will help is to keep a record of all the offers you complete so that you have something to look back on if you need to file a missing credit request and so that you can cancel trial offers in time before you get charged. In my record, I like to include the name of the person I’m trading with, the freebie website link, the names of the offers I completed, a link to each offer, any deadlines I need to be aware of (when the free trial ends, for example), and how much credits I should receive for each offer.

Once you’re done completing offers for the required credit (I’ll let you know how much credit you need beforehand for the trade to be completed), update the Trade Manager and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can. You’ll receive payment once the trade is approved, which will usually only take a few hours.

If you have any additional questions or concerns, don’t hesitate to send me a private message on the Anything4Free forum (view my profile here), respond to this blog post, or send me an email (chrisanimelo444@gmail.com).

Once you complete the Fast Fifteen Package and Beginner Package, you’ll be ready to move on to Method 2.

Good luck with Method 1!

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Some Things to Remember

• You can put up a trading thread, which will become one of your main sources for getting referrals, when you’ve reached a TR of 4 or higher.
• Don’t spam, for this will more likely hurt you than help you. No one wants to trade with someone who has a negative reputation and, if you get banned, you won’t be able to trade with anyone at all!

How to Get Referrals

1. The best advice for getting referrals is to be patient.
   You won’t get 10 referrals overnight when you’re new (unless you’re extremely lucky). Yes, I know, we all want those referrals to start banging on our door as soon as we put up that first trading thread. However, this just cannot be possible. Having patience and not giving up will reward you in the months to come, so hang in there and keep trying! Whatever you do, though, do not spam.
2. Take advantage of your signature.
   I can’t stress this enough! Many people overlook their signatures, and this can be a big mistake! Your signature will become one of the major tools that will drive referrals to your profile (and later, to your trade list). You want to be as creative and informative (while also brief) as you can in your signature. It also doesn’t hurt to spice it up with a picture, adding color while you’re at it. Many traders prefer to use flash pictures. Whatever you do, it’s up to you, but you should always describe how you intend to help fellow traders in your signature.
3. Put up an avatar!
   It might not seem like an avatar will help you much, but it can if you make use of it. With an avatar, viewers will get a sense of what kind of person you are. Many traders also like to use flash images for their avatar and make the avatar similar to their signature (in terms of describing the services they intend to provide). However, you can also put up a personal photo (like I did). Personal photos help others warm up to you and a personal photo will also help others relate to you as a person. Another option for an avatar would be a creative representation of your name (almost like a logo). For example, someone with the words “cat” in their name may put up an avatar with a picture of a cat.
4. Spice up your trading thread!
   After all, what’s the use of putting it up if no one is inspired to trade with you? Don’t just put up a trading thread describing the various trades you have to offer. Tell everyone who you are, what you intend to achieve, and how you’ll help the trading community. You can even tweak it by adding personalized images (everyone likes a bit of color). I also suggest to include bonuses every now and then to further entice traders to trade with you!
5. Tweak your profile!
   For some traders, your profile will be the final decision on whether or not they’ll trade with you. If someone clicks your name and sees that you didn’t really put the time in to add any information about who you are, he/she might think that you’re trying to hide something or you just might not be experienced. If you’re reading this, then you know that is the last thing you want! So, spend time on your profile. Let others know your interests, who you are, and how traders can contact you if they need help.
6. Interact with the community!
   Just registering on the forums and trading with fellow forum members are quite different than actually interacting with the community. Start posting around the forums and you’ll discover that more people will visit your profile. Don’t just post nonsense either. Try to help and your help will be returned. Interacting with the community will also help members discover the real person behind that avatar of yours, and they’ll be more likely to trade with you. The main thing to remember here is to have fun and enjoy yourself! Usually, the most successful traders enjoy helping out everyone else.
7. Increase your TR!
   As awful as this may sound to some of you, increasing your TR will definitely help with picking up referrals. Your TR will be one of the major things that will show that you’re an experienced trader. Even though you can start recruiting for referrals after a TR of 4, it might be beneficial to wait a bit and increase your TR a little higher (like 10 or 15). This way, you have an advantage over members with lower TRs and you have a larger variety of trades your referrals can choose from.

If you do all the tips above, eventually you’ll start getting a good stream of referrals. Just remember: Don’t give up. Referrals will come eventually. It just takes time.

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The following is a complete list of my overall earnings on eHow since being a member. Are you a good writer? If so, you should definitely join eHow and take part in this wonderful writing opportunity. The key to success on eHow is quality and quantity, so you must have enough time to write quite a bit of how-to articles and edit each article to perfection. If you need examples of a how-to article, feel free to give my collection of eHow articles a look.

eHow Payment Proof 1

Earned money on September 9, 2009.

eHow Payment Proof 2

Earned money on October 8, 2009.

eHow Payment Proof 3

Earned money on November 9, 2009.

eHow Payment Proof 4

Earned money on December 10, 2009.

eHow Payment Proof 5

Earned money on January 11, 2010.

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After opting to do the free offer, instead of paying the $34.95 fee to join, I went straight to the video tutorials and got started. The next hour, I had enough credits to receive $15 in earnings. In a few hours afterward, I received an email stating that $15 was deposited into my PayPal account.

Don’t forget to check out my other payment proofs from Project Payday!

What Exactly Is Project Payday?

Project Payday is a program designed to help you earn extra income online by signing up for promotional offers. Basically, Project Payday teaches you how to make money by completing offers and/or gathering referrals to complete those offers for you. Unlike CashCrate and FusionCash though, earnings are a lot better for the time spent and you can really make some decent money.

As a member of Project Payday, you have access to tons of videos describing the step-by-step process where you can make that $500 a month. The videos are very thorough, along with the other information in the member area. I highly recommend that you look at each video carefully after you join, so that you’re not left in the dust. There’s even a free bonus pack (if you do the free offer), which gives you access to 16 additional sources of information to further earning extra income online.

How Does It Work?

Besides from gathering Project Payday referrals, there are three methods to earning money with Project Payday, described more fully after you register on the website.

Photo by Photos8.com (flickr)

Method 1
This is where you start when you first join Project Payday. This method mainly consists of you completing offers for someone else in order to receive payment via PayPal. There are various forums where this transaction can be done, and Project Payday does a great job listing and explaining each forum. Once you choose a forum to work with, just search for a potential trader (there will probably be a “Beginners” area for those of you just starting out), set up a trade you’d like to complete, register for the website listed in the trade agreement via the Trade Manager, and complete offers until you have enough credits (usually 0.50 or 1 credit needs to be completed, where each offer is worth around 0.30 credits more or less). Then, you “go green” by letting your trader know that you have gotten credit for the offers you completed (should usually take an hour or two for the offers to be credited after completion) and your trader will give you money (the amount of money you earn is listed in the trade agreement) for completing the offers as his/her referral. Offers usually consists of free trials and promoted products to be bought. If you intend on taking advantage of the free trials, you should keep a list of all the trial offers you’re part of and don’t intend to keep, so that you won’t be charged after the trial ends. It’s also a good idea to wait until at least the 6th day of the free trial before canceling, in order to prevent credit from being taken away from you. Money earned can be anywhere from $15 to $50 per successful trade. It’s really quite simple and only takes about an hour to do each trade. In the end, your trader is happy because he/she gets paid for referring you and you’re happy because you get paid for completing offers for the trader.

Method 2
This method is mainly for more experienced traders who already know the basics (Method 1). In this method, tables are reversed and you are the trader paying people still in Method 1 to complete offers as your referral. Why would you want to pay people to be your referral? The money is just an incentive to help your referrals get the required credit so that you can earn cash prizes located on the website listing the offers. It’s a good idea to pay your referrals half of the money you’ll be making with the cash prize, or you can just look around the forums to see what other members are paying their referrals for the specific website you’re using. For example, if the cash prize is $400 and the requirement is 9 referrals, you pay each referral $22 ($400/2 = $200/9 = $22) and you’ll earn $200 for yourself in the long run. After using this method for a few websites, you should notice some nice cash flooding in.

Method 3
This method is basically the same thing as Method 2, only you’re recruiting referrals for gift prizes (such as an i-pod) rather than cash prizes. Gift prizes may be quite profitable if you sell each gift on eBay. The earnings you receive may vary however, so it could be difficult to decide how much you intend to pay each referral.

When Will I Get Paid?

If you’re earning your money from Project Payday referrals rather than other traders, you’ll be able to receive your payment via PayPal every Friday, as long as you make the $30 minimum requirement. If you don’t, your earnings will just carryover and continue adding up until you do. If you’re earning money from other traders, the time in which you’re paid will vary. Most traders are prompt, though, and you should get your earnings within 24 hours of the time you “go green”, or get credit for the offers completed.

Can International Users Join Project Payday?

No, unfortunately. Project Payday is only open to United States users.

Does Project Payday Have Any Cons?

As always, Project Payday isn’t perfect, and there are negative aspects of the money making technique that you should be aware of before deciding that you want to join.

• You need to be aware of free trial deadlines to prevent being charged. This can be a hassle, but it’s well worth the trouble, considering the money you’ll be making. Most often than not, you’ll encounter a free trial offer that you don’t really need, other than making the money from the offer once it’s completed. In this case, it’s necessary to keep a list of which free trial offers you do, so that you’re not charged after the free trial ends.
• You can’t cancel free trial memberships immediately after you receive credit for them. Promoters want you to at least try the services before you cancel. So, if you cancel too early after you receive credit, you may get that credit taken away. It’s a good idea to either cancel the day the trial ends or after the 6th day of the free trial period to be safe.
• Almost all of the offers available to complete will require some sort of cost. Most offers require you to purchase a certain product. Even if you do a free trial offer, it might require a small fee. However, you can find some completely free offers, though it won’t be easy if you plan to do offers for multiple websites. It’s not that bad, though, when you consider your potential profit. For example, if you complete 3 offers for a 0.50 credit $15 trade and you spent $5 on those offers, you’ll still be earning $10 overall. So, don’t be afraid to spend a little in order to make more.
• You might run out of offers. Most of the websites you sign up for from the trading forums you’re using will have the same offers more or less. Since you can’t do an offer twice, no matter if you did the offer on a different website or not, you might run out of good offers to do. In this case, just move on to Method 2 and start recruiting referrals.
• In order to refer others so that you can receive the gift or cash prize, you need to do a certain number of offers first. For example, some websites require you to complete 1 credit worth of offers and recruit a certain number of referrals in order to receive the prize. This is why you start off on Method 1, so that you can complete the required offers before moving on to Method 2 and recruiting referrals.

My Story

I haven’t been a Project Payday member long, but I’ve already received $30 for 2 hours of work, which isn’t bad at all. My main struggle is finding new offers to complete (that I don’t have to pay a large amount of money for) before I move on to Method 2. So far, besides eHow, Project Payday has been the best opportunity I’ve discovered to earn extra income online. I’m glad I was able to give Project Payday a chance.

Photo by Photos8.com (flickr)

If you think you might benefit from this opportunity, I strongly suggest joining. After all, Project Payday is free to join (if you do the free offer), and there’s even a $100 guarantee! As you can see, there’s literally nothing to lose!

Contact Me

Do you have any further questions regarding Project Payday? Don’t hesitate to ask them via email at christina@cashcampfire.com. I promise I won’t bite.

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• How much have you earned?

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I highly recommend joining Project Payday if you’re interesting in building a steady income by putting in a few hours of your time each day. Once you do, let us know what you’ve earned in the comment section!

Project Payday Payment Proof 1

Earned money on January 6, 2010.

Project Payday Payment Proof 2

Earned money on January 7, 2010.

Project Payday Payment Proof 3

Earned money on January 17, 2010.

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Once you know the basics of getting paid to click advertisements, you should consider joining UpBux to take advantage of your new knowledge and actually start earning some decent cash online – that is, if you haven’t already joined. When you receive your first payment, let us know in the comment section!

UpBux Payment Proof 1

Earned money on December 24, 2009.

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If you’re not yet a member of LinkGrand, I strongly suggest joining. For more in-depth information about LinkGrand, check out my review! Don’t forget to fill us in on your earnings in the comment section!

LinkGrand Payment Proof 1

Earned money on December 28, 2009.

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Don’t hesitate to join Clicksia if you want to start earning some extra cash online. I completely recommend doing so! You can also let us know in the comment section what you earn.

Clicksia Payment Proof 1

Earned money on November 22, 2009.

Clicksia Payment Proof 2

Earned money on December 11, 2009.

Clicksia Payment Proof 3

Earned money on January 3, 2010.

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On a side note, I’m still going to display my weekly goals in each monthly Goals and Achievement post. The weekly goals will build up to my overall goals for the month. In this way, I hope upcoming Goals and Achievements will be more easy to read and better put together.

Goals for the Month

• Get 500 Twitter followers
• Make $500 online

Week By Week Analysis

Here’s a break-down of how I will achieve my overall goals in the Goals for the Month section. The Week By Week Analysis consists of 4 weeks, since the month is usually broken down into 4 weeks, more or less. So, I’ll be repeating the below goals 4 times.

Weekly Goals

• Follow 150 people on Twitter (about 22 members daily)
• Write 3 eHow articles (should make at least $40 by the end of the month from all articles already written.
• Continue clicking advertisements on paid to click websites (should make at least $93.50 total with just clicks alone, including referral clicks).
• Complete free offers for various websites like CashCrate, FusionCash, and SendEarnings and make a total of $64.50 ($258 for the month).
• Take surveys on websites like GlobalTestMarket, Lightspeed Panel, and Surveyhead and make a total of $25.25 ($101 for the month).
• Read email for get paid to read websites like InboxDollars, DonkeyMails, and No-Minimum (should make at least $2.40 for the month).
• Complete tasks on websites like Amazon Turk and MyLot and make a total of $7.70 ($33 for the month).

If everything goes to plan, I should make $527.90 by the end of the month! Completing my goals won’t be easy, but, with enough motivation and endurance, I can follow through. What are your goals? Feel free to post them in the comment section.

Last Month’s Achievements

• I made around $43 on eHow, which isn’t too bad. However, I could have done better, since I made $80 the previous month. I’m still waiting for my earnings from eHow. I should get them by the 7th, since that’s when they usually arrive.
• I was able to receive earnings from a few paid to click websites. Earnings can be viewed in the Payment Proofs section of this blog.
• I qualified for a few surveys and managed to request my $50 GlobalTestMarket check. I’m still waiting to receive it in the mail, but it should take a few weeks according to the website. I’ll post a picture of the check in the Payment Proofs category once it comes.

Post Your Input

• How do you like the new version of the Goals and Achievements post? Better? Worse?
• What are your goals for the month?
• What are your achievements from last month?

Have a wonderful New Year’s Day everyone and stay safe!

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This is where paid to click (PTC) websites come in. While you can’t make a living off of paid to click websites (most of the time), they do help you financially. But, what exactly is a “paid to click” website?

Get Paid to Click: The Basics

A paid to click website is mainly a work at home opportunity where you get paid to click advertisements or links. In other words, advertisers pay you to visit their website. Most PTC websites require you to stay on the advertiser’s page for a set time limit. Once the time is up, you’ll most likely see a message at the top of the page stating how much you’ve earned from the click and a link to go back to the PTC website so that you can surf more ads. As you click advertisements, the number of displayed ads will diminish. Some PTC programs have more displayed ads than others, while other PTC websites require you to upgrade your membership for a fee in order to be able to view more ads. Usually, the more ads a program has (without a membership upgrade), the lower the value of each ad when viewed.

Many paid to click websites will offer an affiliate or referral program where you can earn money for promoting the website and having other people sign up under you. Affiliate programs vary depending on which PTC website you’re a member of. Some affiliate programs will allow you to earn cash per the clicks your referrals make, while others won’t. Some affiliate programs will also pay you a percentage of each advertisement purchase your referrals buy.

Get Paid to Click: The Pros

Besides the most obvious reason for signing up for a paid to click program (the money), I’ll describe a few reasons why getting paid to click might benefit you.

• Paid to click programs are generally free to join, unless you opt to upgrade your standard membership.
• Only a computer mouse and Internet connection are required to click ads.
• You don’t need to be knowledgeable about a topic in order to participate.
• The sheer numbers of PTC websites available don’t make it difficult to find an online money making opportunity.
• Clicking ads is one of the easiest things you can do to earn money online and doesn’t require much time to do so.
• You can make some pretty good skyrocketing cash with the affiliate programs if you really work at it.

Photo by Dan Foy (flickr)

Get Paid to Click: The Cons

Like all job opportunities, there are negative aspects. Let’s take a look at some of them.

• Most of the time, payouts are hard to reach.
• The money you earn per ad click is usually low (generally 1 cent or lower).
• There are tons of PTC scams out there, so it’s important that you know more about the website your joining before you join.
• Some PTC websites require a small fee when sending you money.
• Some PTC websites require a waiting time to receive your earnings.
• A very annoyed roommate with your constant clicking.

Conclusion

Now that you know the basics of a paid to click opportunity, feel free to put your knowledge into action and start testing a few programs for yourself! If you try out a program and you don’t seem to like it, don’t worry. You can always quit the program and stop clicking ads. For a compilation of some of the most popular paid to click websites out there, I strongly suggest that you read my list. If you feel lucky, try giving Google a whirl. Keep an eye out for PTC scams, though, and do your research before joining any paid to click website.

Post Your Input

• Which paid to click websites are you a member of?
• Is there anything you especially like or hate about paid to click websites?

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