eWealth--Paid discussion group

eWealth is a treasure chest of online money making oppurtunties. It is a paid to post site, similar to myLot, that is dedicated to online money making oppurtunties. Writers share their experiences with programs that make money and dish on those that don't.

Posters get 1 point per post, and points can be redeemed for cash and prizes. For 1500 post, eWealth pays $200. The same number of post on myLot or other paid discussion sites might, if you were lucky, pay $50.

If you are looking for information on what makes money and what programs are just scams, eWealth is the place to be. Registration is free and you are never asked to buy anything.

Best Paid Survey Sites

The trouble with sites that advertise paid surveys is that they want you to pay them something. About 99.9 percent of survey sites are ripoffs. Who hasn't seen the "Win a 500 gift certificate from Wal-Mart" survey? Where you have to signup for endless offers and then at the end find you are required to buy something.

Real survey companies, ones that conduct actual market research do exist and do pay cash. You aren't likely to make tons of money off any one, but by signing up for several you can easily make between $25-$150 a month. At least that has been my experience. I've seen people claim to make a lot more than that.

Below are five companies that I have been doing surveyss with for several months. I have received a check or paypal deposit at least once from everyone, so I know they are legitimate.

Hint: To qualify for more surveys make sure you feel out all the profile questions and surveys after registering.

Survey Savvy
Generally has the highest paying surveys; I've been paid $20.00 for a survey that took about half an hour to fill out.

American Consumer Opinion
I do one or two surveys a week from ACP. They generally pay between $4-$10. The nice thing is they send check within two weeks of every survey completed. There is no minimum and you don't have to worry about PayPay.

Opinion Outpost
Another good survey sight. Pays up to $5 per survey. Cashing out requires a minimum of $50 but they have frequent surveys; A diligent survey taker can hit the minimum fairly quickly. Be sure and fill out all the personal information surveys. You don't get paid for them, but by establishing a completer profile you will dramatically increase the number of surveys you qualify for.

Survey Spot
Has daily online surveys with most paying between $2 and $5 along with a chance to win instant prizes and entries into a quarterly $25,000 drawing. Best of all, the minimum cashout is only $5.

No legitimate survey company will ever charge you for a membership to take surveys. If you see such an offer run away.

How to increase profits from paid survey sites.
The key to making more money from surveys is obviously to fill out more surveys. Taking surveys can be time consuming, upto 45 minutes in some cases. Try to establish an hour a day to "work" your survey job. I find early in the morning is best for me, before everyone else is awake.

duno.com We Have the Answer

SCAM ALERT
duno.com We Have the Answer

Duno is a complete scam. You won't see a dime from this site.

Here is a copy of the email I received when registering:

Duno.com is a place to get answers to easy and complicated questions
 and at the same time you can earn money answering questions.
 Some of our members make a living answering questions.

Duno used to pay, or least promise to pay, for the top answer to every question. Now they hold a drawing for one payout a day which usually runs about $3.00. Not worth your time.

Daytipper: Welcome to Daytipper

Daytipper: Welcome to Daytipper

This site pays $3.00 for short tips on how to do things. Topics they are looking for include, cooking, employment, family, pets, and just about anything else you can think of.

By short I mean really short, 500 charchters or less; That is about 100 words. The tips need to be useful and well written. according to statistics on their site, they reject a little over half of what they receive.

I wrote a short tip on how to get free paperback books and it was accepted.

Give it a try.

January 2007 Web Income

January 2007 Web Income

Paid To Write
Associated Content $15.00
Helium $00.14
Squidoo $00.00

Paid Surveys
Survey Savvy $26.00
Survey Spot $ 3.00
Opinion Outpost $ 9.20
American Consumer Opinion $11.00

Paid Email
Send Earnings $25.82
Hits 4 Pay $10.67

Paid Discussions
My Lot $00.26

Adrevenue
Adsense $00.18

Total $101.07

Not too bad for my first month. I didn't really get rolling on My Lot or Adsense until the last week of January. My February goal will be to double my earnings to at least $200.

Paid To Write at Associated Content

There are no shortages of websites offering to pay you to write. The bulk of these involve some sort of revenue sharing agreement. They host your articles on their site and split any advertising revenue--usually AdSense –the article generates with the author. Depending on how much traffic your article draws, you could wait years to make any significant amount of money. Associated Content (AC) pays cash upfront for your writing.

The best thing about AC is that if you only sell them nonexclusive rights to your material you are then free to post it on a revenue sharing site such as Xomba or even your website or blog. You can get some money upfront while you’re waiting for those AdSense bucks to start rolling in.

I’ve sold six articles to AC and made ok money off of them considering all but one were originally written for a college newspaper.

1. $15 Nonexclusive opinion piece “Who Put the Hate in Christianity For God’s Sake?”

2. $6 Exclusive article about job opportunities fighting forest fires for college students.

3. $6 Nonexclusive article on environmental campaign jobs for students.

4. $10 Nonexclusive article on Oregon health insurance plan for the poor.

5. $7.50 Exclusive article on Crabbing on the Oregon Coast.

6. $16 Exclusive article on starting a pet sitting business.

Although AC will buy most well written articles they maintain a list of subjects that are of particular interest to them. Local attractions and events seem to pay well. Article like “The 10 Most Romantic Things to do in Abilene” are always in demand.

When writing for AC, keep in mind that they are making their money off Google AdSense as well. What they pay is based on what type of traffic your article will draw. If you have a keyword heavy article about a popular search term like, oh say, making money online, you will probably make more than an article on why the red tail lizard rat of South America is facing extinction.

In addition to the written word AC recently began purchasing videos and audio clips, so now wanna be documentary filmmakers have a market.

Signing up to use AC is easy and straightforward. Go to www. Associatedcontent.com and click the “Get Started” icon and fill in the form. When you’re article is ready to be published, use the “Publish” icon, which walks you through the process. Pictures can be uploaded with AC and help draw traffic. You’ll be asked for additional resources meaning websites, so you can link to any relevant sites as well as your own.

There is a minimal editorial period before AC pays you. Usually within a couple of business days you’ll receive a notice that your content is under review. I’ve found that I usually know how much AC is going to offer for my article ten days after submitting it. If you don’t like the offer you always have the option of declining it.

Under the “My Content” page you can check the status of all material you’ve submitted to AC at anytime.

After an author accepts an offer AC makes payment exclusively through PayPal. They don’t send out checks, so you will need to open a PayPal account if you don’t already have one.