Are you looking for the Lost Dutchman mine on line?
………Or are you looking for the next way to make your next million dollars on the internet?
Pssst……Yes you. Hey don’t be shy come here. Do you want to make $3000 to $9000 per month taking online surveys? Hey hey hey Shhhhhhhhh………be quiet….I am telling this to you because I like you kid. This is your lucky day.
Now let me tell you a trite phrase. “You can’t get something for nothing” Really, you can’t. Yes I know you are the exception right? I am not really trying to be sarcastic but I have discovered a few things while doing some online surveys which are:
1) The best surveys pay anywhere from $3.00/hr to around $7.00/hr for your time. Some surveys may pay as high as $10.00 per hour but these are very infrequent.
2) It is hard to qualify for surveys. In my time taking surveys, I only qualified for about 20% of the surveys. This seems to be consistent from what I have read from what others have experienced. Now I do believe that it will vary on the demographics there may be people who will commonly get more opportunities than others. However, bottom line is that a person will not qualify into all surveys.
3) Many sites pay you for your valuable time in sweepstake entries. Now imagine planning on getting paid and finding that all the points you earn are only good for entry in sweepstakes. This in my opinion is a monumental waste of time.
4) The surveys are inconsistently dispersed to you. You have no way to effectively plan your time. The surveys come without a set frequency and if you do not participate when they come, they fill and are no longer available to take. You cannot plan for a set amount of work. The surveys are there………..Well when they are there.
So a person cannot make money online with surveys right?
No, a person can make money online with surveys. It is hard to take these surveys and retire rich folks and that is my main point. I have heard the same with filling envelopes and selling Amway. The problem with all these is that the pay is almost never worth the time expended (Plus it is always way over stated). Now, I honestly think that it could be possible for a person to make more on focus groups and higher paying surveys. Heck it may even be possible to make $10/hr to $15/hr. The thing is that these rates would not be available for a typical full time effort of 40 hours per week. In fact a person would be real lucky if they could sustain thees rates more than 1 or 2 hours per day.
Now someone, who is a night clerk at a hotel/motel, could take a survey on the computer while they are sitting at the desk bored to tears. A person who is a homemaker could take these surveys while their kids are sleeping.
Don’t take this the wrong way. I am not saying that a person should not take surveys. If a person were to take $10.00 worth of surveys a day, in a 30 day month that would be $300.00 per month. There are also some focus groups and surveys that pay more money.
I’ll tell you what……….I won’t chastise anyone for taking surveys. Heck, I make less money writing this blog (I will be lucky to make a penny from add revenue on this post).However, for those who are interested in taking surveys, let’s find the best survey sites and separate them from the non-worthwhile sites. Folks, one more thing..........
............"If you want to get rich, you have to work for it"
Friday, August 22, 2008
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Can you make money writing a blog?
There are some fantastic stories of your of people who write blogs. After a year, these people are making a full time income writing blogs and enjoying what they are doing.
Well, unfortunately if you aren't "The Huffington Post", "Tech Crunch", "Gizmodo", "Engadget", or "Boing Boing" you are most likely not making money. I am not trying to be sarcastic here but the long and the short of it is the internet is a free place. There are some great ideas and I do not want to step on the toes of someone who is actually making money out in blog land.
How many people make real money writing blogs? Okay I am looking for a show of hands. I don't see too many people.
Now this is not a post to bad mouth blogging as it is a good way to communicate and share with many people in the blogging community.
The plain and simple fact is the vast majority of people are not going to make money writing blogs. For those who do, my hat is off to you.
Lets all have fun and write and share.
Well, unfortunately if you aren't "The Huffington Post", "Tech Crunch", "Gizmodo", "Engadget", or "Boing Boing" you are most likely not making money. I am not trying to be sarcastic here but the long and the short of it is the internet is a free place. There are some great ideas and I do not want to step on the toes of someone who is actually making money out in blog land.
How many people make real money writing blogs? Okay I am looking for a show of hands. I don't see too many people.
Now this is not a post to bad mouth blogging as it is a good way to communicate and share with many people in the blogging community.
The plain and simple fact is the vast majority of people are not going to make money writing blogs. For those who do, my hat is off to you.
Lets all have fun and write and share.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Cashcrate the first GPT site I tried.
It is hard to figure out what is a worthwhile opportunity on the internet and what is not. Well is Cashcrate worth your time?
I took a look at cashcrate and it was kind of interesting and I was able to earn about $10.00 in about a half an hours time. I ended up watching you tube and seeing what others had done first and how they surf through these ads quickly. Now I read some people in the forums on the cashcrate website and some people were saying that they were making around $100.00/ month with very little work. Now at this point I would have to say that I have no way of refuting this but I am a little skeptical.
First I am going to explain what cashcrate is. It is what is called a GPT (get paid to). This is exactly what it sounds like. You get paid to go through a bunch of advertisements and have them served up to you in waves. Now Cashcrate separates the offers into offers that require a credit card and those that don't.
How to do the non-credit card offers work. Most of these are like 15 pages of ads that you must surf through to get the bronze, silver, and gold offers. Each one of these ads are yes or no and you must click through these until you reach the silver and gold offers. At this point you can submit this to get paid. You will be paid anywhere form $.25 to $3.00 for doing this. Now each one of these series of adds will promise something like a $100.00 to a $500.00 gift certificate. To get one of these offers you must sign up for a service. Now you do not need to sign up for the service to get your credit at cashcrate.
How to do the credit card offers. These are offers to sign up for a service for a free trial period. This would be something like Stamps.com or Netflix. These require a credit card and are suppose to be able to be canceled (within a set period of time) without a charge. These pay anywhere between $3.00 and $20.00. I have not done any of these offers because I do not like giving my credit card out like that.
As far as I have heard, cashcrate is a reputable site and people can make money there. It is open to people 13 and older. I will verify how this works. The jury is still out as to whether people can make a $100.00 per month. In my opinion, this is not a nice way to make money. It is just to annoying for me to click through all these ads to make a dollar.
The one thing I will say, however, is that the money looks real and I think that someone could easily make $20.00 in a one hour sitting. Maybe more if they try the offers that require a credit card. If you are interested in finding out more about this site, the site is in the two hyperlinks at the top of the page. I will report more as I find out more.
I wish you success.
I took a look at cashcrate and it was kind of interesting and I was able to earn about $10.00 in about a half an hours time. I ended up watching you tube and seeing what others had done first and how they surf through these ads quickly. Now I read some people in the forums on the cashcrate website and some people were saying that they were making around $100.00/ month with very little work. Now at this point I would have to say that I have no way of refuting this but I am a little skeptical.
First I am going to explain what cashcrate is. It is what is called a GPT (get paid to). This is exactly what it sounds like. You get paid to go through a bunch of advertisements and have them served up to you in waves. Now Cashcrate separates the offers into offers that require a credit card and those that don't.
How to do the non-credit card offers work. Most of these are like 15 pages of ads that you must surf through to get the bronze, silver, and gold offers. Each one of these ads are yes or no and you must click through these until you reach the silver and gold offers. At this point you can submit this to get paid. You will be paid anywhere form $.25 to $3.00 for doing this. Now each one of these series of adds will promise something like a $100.00 to a $500.00 gift certificate. To get one of these offers you must sign up for a service. Now you do not need to sign up for the service to get your credit at cashcrate.
How to do the credit card offers. These are offers to sign up for a service for a free trial period. This would be something like Stamps.com or Netflix. These require a credit card and are suppose to be able to be canceled (within a set period of time) without a charge. These pay anywhere between $3.00 and $20.00. I have not done any of these offers because I do not like giving my credit card out like that.
As far as I have heard, cashcrate is a reputable site and people can make money there. It is open to people 13 and older. I will verify how this works. The jury is still out as to whether people can make a $100.00 per month. In my opinion, this is not a nice way to make money. It is just to annoying for me to click through all these ads to make a dollar.
The one thing I will say, however, is that the money looks real and I think that someone could easily make $20.00 in a one hour sitting. Maybe more if they try the offers that require a credit card. If you are interested in finding out more about this site, the site is in the two hyperlinks at the top of the page. I will report more as I find out more.
I wish you success.
Types of ebay businesses..The Scrapper
In the last post, I spoke about eBay in general. To create a successful eBay business a person first needs a product to sell.
Now there are two classes of people who sell on eBay and they are:
1) Those who are their own merchandisers.
2) Those who get a commission based on selling items for other people.
In formulating a product offering, we are only going to concentrate on people who merchandise their own products. How do people become merchandisers? Lets paint a story first of someone who has a specialized knowledge.
Dennis is a machinist and has been in the machining trade for over 20 years. He has a wide knowledge of many different types of industrial machines as well as their usage in industry. He frequents auctions, company and government surplus stores, and classified ads and craigslist to buy equipment for his home shop.
Lets stop the story for a moment and observe a couple of things. Dennis has a specialized knowledge which is machinery that is used by machinists. He also has a source to buy these items.
Dennis has accumulated a lot of machinery as well as odds and ends. He decides to start using eBay to buy more things. While browsing through eBay, he sees that the things that he buys sell for quite a bit more than he pays. He thinks to himself, "Why don't I start selling the stuff that I buy on eBay?"
He starts selling on eBay and finds out that he can make a better living as a merchant than he can as a machinist. He starts a business buying and selling used machinery.
Now this story may sound far fetched to those who are not familiar with industrial surplus (also known as scrapping). In Seattle, there is company surplus store called Boeing Surplus. They sell their surplus items machinery, computers, office products, scrap metal, etc. There are people who turned over a million dollars of merchandise per year on eBay just based on the surplus of Boeing.
Before you start jumping on this band wagon, remember what I said in the beginning of the post........Dennis has a specialized knowledge in the field of machinery. If you don't have this knowledge, you will not know what is used and what has value in a particular industry which in our example was industrial machinery.
So I am going to set some guidelines for what I will term scrapping (buying used items and reselling them):
1) A person must have a specialized knowledge in the area that they want to merchandise. It does not need to be industrial machinery. It could be books, clothes, automobiles, office equipment, home appliances, antiques, etc.
2) A person must have a source to buy this merchandise.
3) A person must be able to sell this merchandise for an amount higher than they bought.
Before the internet there were people who would go to garage sales and many different types of auctions and buy items in which they could resell at a profit. So this was a valid merchandising effort long before eBay came on the scene.
This is one way to start an eBay business that will make money. Just remember that your key to being successful in this type of venture is that you must have the knowledge of the value of the items that you buy.
Now this type of eBay business is not for everyone but there are other types of eBay business that can be started to make a person money.
I wish everyone success.
Now there are two classes of people who sell on eBay and they are:
1) Those who are their own merchandisers.
2) Those who get a commission based on selling items for other people.
In formulating a product offering, we are only going to concentrate on people who merchandise their own products. How do people become merchandisers? Lets paint a story first of someone who has a specialized knowledge.
Dennis is a machinist and has been in the machining trade for over 20 years. He has a wide knowledge of many different types of industrial machines as well as their usage in industry. He frequents auctions, company and government surplus stores, and classified ads and craigslist to buy equipment for his home shop.
Lets stop the story for a moment and observe a couple of things. Dennis has a specialized knowledge which is machinery that is used by machinists. He also has a source to buy these items.
Dennis has accumulated a lot of machinery as well as odds and ends. He decides to start using eBay to buy more things. While browsing through eBay, he sees that the things that he buys sell for quite a bit more than he pays. He thinks to himself, "Why don't I start selling the stuff that I buy on eBay?"
He starts selling on eBay and finds out that he can make a better living as a merchant than he can as a machinist. He starts a business buying and selling used machinery.
Now this story may sound far fetched to those who are not familiar with industrial surplus (also known as scrapping). In Seattle, there is company surplus store called Boeing Surplus. They sell their surplus items machinery, computers, office products, scrap metal, etc. There are people who turned over a million dollars of merchandise per year on eBay just based on the surplus of Boeing.
Before you start jumping on this band wagon, remember what I said in the beginning of the post........Dennis has a specialized knowledge in the field of machinery. If you don't have this knowledge, you will not know what is used and what has value in a particular industry which in our example was industrial machinery.
So I am going to set some guidelines for what I will term scrapping (buying used items and reselling them):
1) A person must have a specialized knowledge in the area that they want to merchandise. It does not need to be industrial machinery. It could be books, clothes, automobiles, office equipment, home appliances, antiques, etc.
2) A person must have a source to buy this merchandise.
3) A person must be able to sell this merchandise for an amount higher than they bought.
Before the internet there were people who would go to garage sales and many different types of auctions and buy items in which they could resell at a profit. So this was a valid merchandising effort long before eBay came on the scene.
This is one way to start an eBay business that will make money. Just remember that your key to being successful in this type of venture is that you must have the knowledge of the value of the items that you buy.
Now this type of eBay business is not for everyone but there are other types of eBay business that can be started to make a person money.
I wish everyone success.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
eBay a great way to make money online
............but you can make money offline also.
In this series about eBay, I am going to explore ways to make money with eBay. Now everyone has heard make $7500.00 a month or make your millions on eBay. You know what, it can be done but you do not need to pay these fools to tell you how.
There is a wide spread belief that there is a magic blue print for making money on eBay but the simple fact is eBay is just one of many vehicles to sell items. There have been people who have succeeded well before eBay and will continue to do well without eBay.
This may sound sarcastic but for a person to succeed in any retail venture they need to be a good merchant. You must sell things that people want to buy and you must also sell it at a price that is appropriate for the people who are buying. Lastly, a person needs to make a profit. There you go that is the big secret in a nut shell.
eBay is a very inexpensive mass market so it can bring your product to a mass audience. However, the big draw back of eBay is that it is a place where there is a lot of competition and also most all people who shop there are looking for a deal. So the big key again is to have a product that people will buy and to sell it at a price that is appropriate for the market.
In the following series, I will be exploring these topics:
1) Researching what sells and what doesn't sell on eBay.
2) How to find products to sell on eBay.
3) Running eBay as a business.
4) The investment that will be required.
5) How to run your eBay auctions like a business.
In this day and age, there are ways to make money on the Internet. One must be wary though of false claims and get rich quick schemes. eBay is the real thing but one must understand that to succeed they must treat it like a real business. For some people, eBay is not appropriate for anything other than getting rid of junk in the basement. As in any other vocation, a person will need to spend time and invest money to make money. The people who think they will be sitting on a beach relaxing while their millions come in are going to be very disappointed.
In this series about eBay, I am going to explore ways to make money with eBay. Now everyone has heard make $7500.00 a month or make your millions on eBay. You know what, it can be done but you do not need to pay these fools to tell you how.
There is a wide spread belief that there is a magic blue print for making money on eBay but the simple fact is eBay is just one of many vehicles to sell items. There have been people who have succeeded well before eBay and will continue to do well without eBay.
This may sound sarcastic but for a person to succeed in any retail venture they need to be a good merchant. You must sell things that people want to buy and you must also sell it at a price that is appropriate for the people who are buying. Lastly, a person needs to make a profit. There you go that is the big secret in a nut shell.
eBay is a very inexpensive mass market so it can bring your product to a mass audience. However, the big draw back of eBay is that it is a place where there is a lot of competition and also most all people who shop there are looking for a deal. So the big key again is to have a product that people will buy and to sell it at a price that is appropriate for the market.
In the following series, I will be exploring these topics:
1) Researching what sells and what doesn't sell on eBay.
2) How to find products to sell on eBay.
3) Running eBay as a business.
4) The investment that will be required.
5) How to run your eBay auctions like a business.
In this day and age, there are ways to make money on the Internet. One must be wary though of false claims and get rich quick schemes. eBay is the real thing but one must understand that to succeed they must treat it like a real business. For some people, eBay is not appropriate for anything other than getting rid of junk in the basement. As in any other vocation, a person will need to spend time and invest money to make money. The people who think they will be sitting on a beach relaxing while their millions come in are going to be very disappointed.
Monday, June 23, 2008
So you want to make a million dollars online.
So you want to make a million dollars online.
Well folks I don't want to disappoint you but that is not likely to happen.
We all have this view that there is a way to make money based on not having to work real hard.
Is this really possible online?
I have found out that it is easy to find sites where you can actually make $10.00 to $30.00 in one sitting. Not too bad huh?
Well lets just look at it this way. If you were paid $15.00 per hour and you worked 2 hours you would make that $30.00. If you are spending 4 hours to get $30.00, then you are really working at half the rate.
In the early eighties, there were a proliferation of multilevel marketing programs that promised........You will not have to trade your time for money. A few people did well but most of the people on the bottom rungs never made money and they traded a lot of time for no money. I have known people in Amway, World Connect, Primerica, Nikken. I remember a lot of people started out and said that they were making good money. With the exception of Amway, most of the people lost down line as the trends in the US changed. Is it possible to make money with a MLM? The answer is yes but for most people the odds are fleeting.
The online revolution came along in the late nineties and promised to decimate the whole brick and mortar retail business. Everyone is going to be shopping online. Of the few survivors, there are Amazon.com and eBay. Thousands of .com failed at the year 2000. Was this the y2K? No it wasn't. It was just a failed business model. Yes it was. The few that survived to today are the ones that had good business models. Alas, brick and mortar is still around
When blogs hit the web with force, a person could write what they wanted and sell advertisements on his/her blog. Many people thought that they could make good money just writing what they wanted. It turned out for most as the old saying goes, "You are lucky to earn enough to buy a good cup of coffee with your monthly earnings" As with the MLM's only a few sharp people make money with blogs.
Now there are a lot of new ways to make money on the web and I will research these.
Right now I am starting many of these programs and my hunch at this point is that there is not anything out there that will make a person really wealthy quick. There are some sites that a person can make some pocket cash but that is likely about all they'll make.
There is off course eBay and online investing where a person can make a lot of money. To make money on eBay, a person has to be good merchant. This is the same as any other brick and mortar retail establishment. To make money on online investing, a person needs to have a lot of money behind them and a lot of experience.
The old adage, "You can't get something from nothing" applies here on line. In almost all cases, you are going to need to put time in to make money.
I wish everyone success.
Well folks I don't want to disappoint you but that is not likely to happen.
We all have this view that there is a way to make money based on not having to work real hard.
Is this really possible online?
I have found out that it is easy to find sites where you can actually make $10.00 to $30.00 in one sitting. Not too bad huh?
Well lets just look at it this way. If you were paid $15.00 per hour and you worked 2 hours you would make that $30.00. If you are spending 4 hours to get $30.00, then you are really working at half the rate.
In the early eighties, there were a proliferation of multilevel marketing programs that promised........You will not have to trade your time for money. A few people did well but most of the people on the bottom rungs never made money and they traded a lot of time for no money. I have known people in Amway, World Connect, Primerica, Nikken. I remember a lot of people started out and said that they were making good money. With the exception of Amway, most of the people lost down line as the trends in the US changed. Is it possible to make money with a MLM? The answer is yes but for most people the odds are fleeting.
The online revolution came along in the late nineties and promised to decimate the whole brick and mortar retail business. Everyone is going to be shopping online. Of the few survivors, there are Amazon.com and eBay. Thousands of .com failed at the year 2000. Was this the y2K? No it wasn't. It was just a failed business model. Yes it was. The few that survived to today are the ones that had good business models. Alas, brick and mortar is still around
When blogs hit the web with force, a person could write what they wanted and sell advertisements on his/her blog. Many people thought that they could make good money just writing what they wanted. It turned out for most as the old saying goes, "You are lucky to earn enough to buy a good cup of coffee with your monthly earnings" As with the MLM's only a few sharp people make money with blogs.
Now there are a lot of new ways to make money on the web and I will research these.
Right now I am starting many of these programs and my hunch at this point is that there is not anything out there that will make a person really wealthy quick. There are some sites that a person can make some pocket cash but that is likely about all they'll make.
There is off course eBay and online investing where a person can make a lot of money. To make money on eBay, a person has to be good merchant. This is the same as any other brick and mortar retail establishment. To make money on online investing, a person needs to have a lot of money behind them and a lot of experience.
The old adage, "You can't get something from nothing" applies here on line. In almost all cases, you are going to need to put time in to make money.
I wish everyone success.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Can you make money on writing sites part 1.
I see a flower
growing under a tree.
Sense was living inside
creating a unique sympathy.
I paint the flower as I see it
and the flower gives color.
Beauty is found in rendition
and set in silence.
I dare not pick the flower.
Death will cause it no care
and causes it to be the same
as any flower laying in wrap.
Definition shall not revoke
the will of one so silent.
Come to me and cause
parity in my spirit.
Take care of the flower
old tree.
I am ready and shall
find the flower that is inside me.
My fiction writing online actually started on a site called thisisby.us. This was a great experience for me because I was able to learn how to write creatively. I always had this inside me but let tell you I did not write for most of my life. I would say that my experience was actually very good at this site. Unfortunately, as this site grew it became more of social site and good writing became secondary.
Thisisby.us shares 50% of its revenue with authors on the site. Now the way a person gets paid is by both views and how many people vote for the post. This is called goodness which is equal to the number of votes of registered users times the number of views. Now by looking at my earnings, I would say that a person makes about $3.00 to $4.00 for every 100,000 goodness. If you are a really good writer, you could expect to make about $3.00 to $10.00 per month.
Your time spent is not worth the payout. It is definitely not about the money. It is a good site to meet people. If you can wade through the rants and flame wars between authors, this site can be fun. There are not that many people anymore, however, helping others with their writing skills.
People can ascertain if their posts are doing well by the comment section and how many views and votes they get. A person who is able to self analyze themsleves will be able to determine if their writing is good or bad. Writing is something that takes practice. If you practice your craft, you will become better at it.
Thisisby.us in my opinion is a social site and you will not make any appreciable income there.
growing under a tree.
Sense was living inside
creating a unique sympathy.
I paint the flower as I see it
and the flower gives color.
Beauty is found in rendition
and set in silence.
I dare not pick the flower.
Death will cause it no care
and causes it to be the same
as any flower laying in wrap.
Definition shall not revoke
the will of one so silent.
Come to me and cause
parity in my spirit.
Take care of the flower
old tree.
I am ready and shall
find the flower that is inside me.
My fiction writing online actually started on a site called thisisby.us. This was a great experience for me because I was able to learn how to write creatively. I always had this inside me but let tell you I did not write for most of my life. I would say that my experience was actually very good at this site. Unfortunately, as this site grew it became more of social site and good writing became secondary.
Thisisby.us shares 50% of its revenue with authors on the site. Now the way a person gets paid is by both views and how many people vote for the post. This is called goodness which is equal to the number of votes of registered users times the number of views. Now by looking at my earnings, I would say that a person makes about $3.00 to $4.00 for every 100,000 goodness. If you are a really good writer, you could expect to make about $3.00 to $10.00 per month.
Your time spent is not worth the payout. It is definitely not about the money. It is a good site to meet people. If you can wade through the rants and flame wars between authors, this site can be fun. There are not that many people anymore, however, helping others with their writing skills.
People can ascertain if their posts are doing well by the comment section and how many views and votes they get. A person who is able to self analyze themsleves will be able to determine if their writing is good or bad. Writing is something that takes practice. If you practice your craft, you will become better at it.
Thisisby.us in my opinion is a social site and you will not make any appreciable income there.
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