Earning free money with Goozik

Center of Prizes review and payment proof

2011-01-07T01:04:00.009-05:00

Center of Prizes is a general get paid to site that is proving to be better at offering some of the highest paying offers in the paid to sign up section. Free daily Wheel of Fortune spin gives nice bonus and makes the site a daily visit to earn. Active chat on site with some helpful members and admins. Easy to complete tasks and E-mail submits means earning can be done easily. Complete other tasks for free spins on the wheel as well.

Center of Prizes payment proof Jan 3rd 2011

Sign up bonus: $0.50
First completed offer bonus(over 10cents): $0.25
85 cents or more total in your account after just one offer
Earn Free Wheel of Fortune spin for logging in. Just go to offer and Click submit, then go spin.

To find the easiest offers to complete click on the "earn money" tab to see a list of offers. Above the offers will be a few options to sort by. Choose the "sort by" drop box box, and select "descending-Offer rating".
These offers mostly require just a valid E-mail address. But make sure to read the job details and click the sites link to make sure you get credit when you click "submit" when you finish whats required.

The referral system is very nice, but remember only people from USA and Canada can join. From what I understand, they check into sign ups carefully. So please don't try to scam center of prizes to gain a quick buck.

USA Referral Bonus: $0.10
USA Referral first completed offer bonus(over 10cents): $0.25
Default Referral Rate: 10.00% (3 Tiers of membership to earn)

Chat with me about getting free money from me with Center of Prizes

$2 minimum payout (instant once verified) for paypal. $5 Amazon.
USA,Canada only

Final Note about Center of Prizes payments
You will need to receive a phone call or text message PIN# to verify your account and cash out.This is just an extra step to help prevent scams, but it's required in order to get paid. If this is proving an be an issue, please chat with me and I may be able to help.

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QuickRewards Review

2010-12-29T21:23:00.003-05:00

One of my favorite sites where I enjoy earning money daily is Quickrewards, it offers the general get paid to ways of earning daily with regular sign up offers, cash back shopping, printable coupons and array of small daily tasks to complete.

The main attraction is the Survey section. The site is partnered up with several of the top online survey companies and together they offer upwards of fifteen surveys a day to complete, and never less then four. Varying in range most are worth 50c-$1. With a extra few occasionally worth upwards of $10. It's all updated daily. Because of the partnership with same survey sites, you can answer your basic info questions just a couple times a day, allowing you to spend more time doing the actual survey questions.
Survey Success tip: Take note of which partner survey companies you complete surveys with, they often target the same general demographic meaning you will qualify for more surveys with them in future.
Survey Success tip #2: Start each day with a goal in mind, a certain number of completed surveys or amount of time. Knowing when you will be done allows you to focus on the task of answering questions in a timely manner.

The Daily clicks/tasks section offers 3-5cents of earning, and you visit sights that are way different then your typical advertisements. Here you earn for viewing things like your horoscope, lotto results, and the recipe of the day. Along with other simple tasks like watching a video clip.

Make sure to answer the daily Trivia question for 1/2cent, it's one of four multiple choice type of general knowledge question, and they are user submitted.
Tip: Use a search and win site to double check the answer and possibly earn a little more.

Facts about Quickrewards:

Site has been around since 2002,
NO minimum payout for Paypal. Feel free to do it after earning 2cents in less then 2mins.
Paypal payments are made next business day, so anytime during the week and it's less then 24hrs for payment.
Surveys also credit next business day.
Other then paypal it offers gift certificate options starting at $5, including Amazon,Best Buy & Ebay.
Open to residents of USA,UK,Canada.

Final Note about Quickrewards: The currency system has three forms for tracking your earnings and is shown in real time at top right of the site.

Money,Quick Points(QP) and Tokens

The money is shown as your current balance that can be cashed out.
Quick Points is fractions of a cent. So when you reach 100QPs it'll add one cent to your money.
Tokens are like a long term rewards program, pretty much everything on the site you do you will get some tokens. Use them to claim prizes, like gift cards and magazine subscription.

QuickRewards Payment proof for December 2010

Join QuickRewards , They have a 5% on direct referrals earnings. So I really appreciate it when you experience success with the site. Feel free to chat with me now if you have any questions.

Another Free $5 gaming contest. Get paid to play mini-golf and 9 Ball Pool.

2010-12-16T20:49:00.002-05:00

Back in mid November I won the first contest on Great Free Online Games and got paid to play games online (payment proof) with a prize of $5. They have started their second gaming contest. This time we are competing for another $5 reward by playing a nine hole Mini Golf game, along with a traditional Nine Ball Billiards game.

Game site is free to join and play, there is no downloads. Two hundred plus games and this game site is still relatively new with few members to compete with, in fact I'm probably your biggest competition. So come beat me at mini golf and a game of 9 ball and you can win $5. Otherwise I'll be posting my second payment proof in January :)

This free contest to win money playing games is set up the same way as last contest, play two games and submit your high scores. The winner will determined by using the total high scores from the two featured games and getting the average of the two. The person with the highest average out of the two games wins the money prize.

All high scores must be submitted by January 14, 2011 12:00 AM CST to qualify. It's open to anyone from anywhere, but Paypal is the only prize option. Link for complete gaming contest rules.

Tip for playing: The 9 Ball Pool game is click once to set angle, click second time to stop the cue to determine your shot power.

Surveys as a way to make money online from home

2010-12-11T21:51:00.001-05:00

Doing surveys online at home is something most have heard of. It can be done daily and under no circumstances should you ever invest your own money. Good earnings as a extra source of income in your free time.

By nature of surveys who you are as a person really determines if the surveys to earn money is right for you.
Can not stress that enough. The sites and surveys what to know info about you. Your current location, gender, age and income are just some of general things that will determine if you qualify to take a particular survey. No one can tell you one site is really better for you in this field, some may offer a higher pay rate for some surveys, but then less people get to do them.

How to be earning money by doing surveys from home comes down to three things.

Diversity in the start and sticking with the sites where you regularly experience good earnings.
Consistency in how often you do them. A regular amount of time, a certain number of surveys, goal amount of earnings. Have something to keep the "end" in sight.
Persistence. Trying to do every survey on every site will become overwhelming and a few days in a row will burn you out really quick. But attempting just a few on a site and then giving up entirely gets you nothing. Have the drive to find to find a good flow of earnings for yourself and then stick with it.

This is a Survey review site and community. Been around helping anyone make money from home for many years. Personally recommend trying out three of the top 10 survey sites they recommend to start. It's been in my go to place to check survey websites.
SurveyPolice.com

Recommended GPT sites that offer surveys:(both for USA,UK,Canada only)
QuickRewards - Get paid to site, featuring 5-15 surveys a day.
Swagbucks - Search and win site, 1-7 surveys a day.

Earning more with Swagbucks, a deeper review

2010-12-06T21:17:00.002-05:00

In the introduction review of swagbucks you were introduced to the easiest daily ways to earn SB's. The rest of the common ways to earn are covered here. The site is interactive with the community, having ways to earn extra SB's by interacting on the SB Blog, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube pages. Along with the odd way to earn by doing different tasks with a sponsor like playing a sponsored game or checking out a mobile app. So make sure to visit the SB site and blog on occasion to take advantage of those type of free offers to earn.

Additional ways to earn extra Swagbucks:

Cash Back Shopping- There is 100's of name brand shops. Get 2sb's for every $1 spent by visiting site through their link. Also has info on coupon deals you can take advantage of here.
Trade in- Old phones and video game stuff to be recycled or refurbished.SB amount varies based on product. But easy to check what you will get with product info before committing to anything.
Special Offers- General get paid to sign up type of stuff here. Subscribe by Email and trial period offers are here. Some free, some require money investment. Easy sorting, and all the info is easy to find on each offer.
Fridays- Mega SB day every friday, use the Search engine for chances at winning 20+SB's for performing a search.
Toolbar- You can install the Toolbar in addition or instead of the plugin for the search box. It offers everything you would expect from a website toolbar, one click access to most of the site. Plus it also has an additional message inbox seperate from the site where you occasionaly find a SB code.
Widget- Place the widget on your blog or website, acts like a referral banner and a way for you to check to see if there is any codes available at the moment.

To see if there is a code you simply check the widget or their social pages. Right hand side of my blog you can see the widget. One of the five options inside the widget is "swag codes" click button, then check button, then read if there is a code and where to find it right inside the widget. Otherwise it says no code available.

The Codes are usually a sort of treasure hunt. Usually resulting in you checking their twitter, FB or Youtube page. Find a certain word or phrase and enter it on the Swagbucks homepage(copy/paste codes as they are case sensitive). Each code is only good for a certain amount of time, usually 2-3 hours.

Spending your Swagbucks is very easy, visit the swag store or the swag stakes. The swag store usually has 1500-2000 different items available for redemption from digital items like music downloads and wallpapers to big ticket items like TV's and video gaming consoles. With lots of stuff in between including nice sections of movie/music posters, jewlery and gift card options.

The Swag stakes area has limited entry and limited time prizes to be given. Usually it's an assortment of things found in the normal swag store being offered to everyone as a chance to get it at a fraction of the price. Occasionally though they offer some really awesome items like autographed sports memorabilia. For those of you who want a chance at more swagbucks and don't mind taking a chance there is SB swag stakes where you could win 10K SBs, for 50sb per entry into drawing.

All the free gifts you get are usually received in less then 14 days. Most the virtual items are instant or less then 24hrs. Gifts cards are codes that will be given to you on the Swagbucks site.

If you want to sign up for SwagBucks, please use click here.

Earning money by making games. Also a Great free game site.

2010-12-01T15:06:00.003-05:00

Playing free online games is something almost all of us do. Some of us make money money playing skill games or a single game like Dungeons and Treasure. For a flash game maker trying to get money from your game making efforts, this is the site for you. Instant player feedback, well supported site and plenty of ways to test out new games and earn money.

This free game site Kongregate pays the amateur game makers. Every week the top rated new upload that week get's $250, the top game each month get's $1,500. There is other methods of earning on the site as a game maker as well. Here is link about complete earnings info for game makers.

As a game player on the site, you give game ratings and comments directly to the game developer to help create a better game for your enjoyment. There is occasional rewards/sweepstakes offered by the site to the players. It varies, but I've seen gift cards, video games and clothing given away.

The site is a member of the Gamestop network, has over 34,000 games in all genre's including MMO's. There is active forums, chat and moderators making a nice game site to enjoy spending time or starting your game making career.

Microworkers payment proof and review

2010-11-20T21:08:00.001-05:00

Microworkers is a micro job site. Sometimes called micro tasks. Just like it sounds micro jobs are very simple tasks you get paid to complete online. They are often able to be done in just a matter of clicks. It's small jobs for small amounts of money. It add's up to a nice bit of extra spending money. Here is Microworkers payment proof.

The tasks are given by individual people and some online websites and businesses. You can also spend the funds you earn to create tasks of your own for other people to complete.You are given $1 bonus upon sign-up that can only be spent on creating a campaign.

With each task being unique the requirements to complete each task, amount paid, and expected time to complete are available before accepting a task to complete. Some tasks are only available to people in certain locations across the world. But the tasks will never require spending money of your own, the site has strict guidelines about the type's of tasks you can ask people to complete. The site does a very job making sure that you aren't sent to anything trying to scam you.

Getting paid to do really simple things you already do is the easy way to make money. Pressing the "like" button on Facebook. Earn money posting on twitter. Write a short article. Sign up to a new one and get paid to post on forums. You can even get paid to write things on your own blog. Obviously some of these tasks are more suited to you then others. Just make sure to check in daily as there is a limited number of people that can complete each task.(minimum 30)

Payments are made through Paypal, Alertpay or MoneyBookers With $9 minimum payout and each task completed being worth 30cents to a dollar. You can easily get paid with-in 30 days of sign-up. There is a small delay in payment. Once you reach minimum payout and request it, the site sends a letter in the mail (snail mail) with a personal "pin" number for your account. You must enter the pin one time before your money will be sent. They say it taks 4-24days to get the letter depending on location. I got mine 12days after requesting. The money was in my paypal account shortly there after.

Join Micro Job site Microworkers

Fact: Anyone in the world can join and use microworkers. There are plenty of tasks avilable to everyone. However there are more jobs avilable for people from Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and the United States.

Great new game site has competition for it's launch, I won!

2010-11-18T15:18:00.002-05:00

I came across this great free game site that just launched on October 13th, 2010. To celebrate they had a gaming contest. Play two different games and submit your score. The person with the highest avg score between the two would win $5 paypal. The competition closed on Nov 15th. Here is payment proof. Notice the date? I was paid almost instantly after confirming my paypal address.

The site has 100's of flash games that are all free to play. Just sign up to the site so you can submit high scores and keep track of things. I recommend rating games so we can get more contests featuring good games.

When E-mailing with the admin he informed me that he would like to run simliar contests but the site need's a bigger playerbase. I can win again, but I need more compeition. So join through the link, play some free games and soon we can have more contests to win money playing games.

Join this great free online game site

Get paid to write site Triond payment proof

2010-11-13T20:09:00.001-05:00

Get paid to write or review anything you want. Promote almost anything with your own referral links. Quick article approval time. Connect with your Google Adsense for more earnings and low minimum payout of 50 cents by Paypal. Make for a great site to write on in your spare time. Here is my Triond payment proof that was requested after earning the low minimum of just 51 cents.

I've written a few things on there, my most popular being Making Money by Posting on Forums which have allowed me to get payment proof. I'm not a expert writer so getting any money for writing makes me happy.

The site allows you to see how many visits your articles get each day, along with the top sites your traffic came from. Connect your Twitter and Facebook accounts for easy updating about new articles you write.

Join the paid to write site Triond by clicking here.

Free game continues to pay me to play

2010-11-05T19:20:00.007-04:00

The free online game Dungeons and Treasure continues to pay me 14mths later.My total withdraws with no investment is almost $50 now, all in my Paypal. The day I found the free game I was very happy to add such a unique online game to my bookmarks, but never did I think it would turn into such a fun thing where I get paid to play and for my referrals each and every month. Seeing my Gold grow each day in the game just knowing at the end of the month it was going to be converted into real dollars. September 2010 Dungeons and Treasures paid me for playing for the 4th time, picture is paypal payment proof.

Time constraints, and a good supply of referrals have kept me from playing a whole lot.While a lot of my referrals quit playing for their own reasons, I still have many active referrals who have cashed out now as well. It's fun to look at my referral list there, 500 or so people now long with 10-30% being active most months. Thanks to any of you reading this.

Dungeons and Treasure Guide.

If you'd like to sign up for Dungeons and Treasures click here.

Leave a comment here or message me with your user name on D&aT and I'll send you some free items in the players market.

Interest in other ways to earn money with gaming?
Amateur game designers upload games and earn, players compete in contests for gaming merchandise.
New flash game website has gaming contest open until Jan 14th,2011. $5 prize.
Skill Gaming FAQ

SwagBucks Payment proof and review.

2010-11-02T17:39:00.001-04:00

Finally got around to spending some of my Swagbucks again. This time I got $5 paypal , and a 2in1 Laser Pointer/LED light they sent to me in the mail. Here is a picture of me and the free gift.

Essentially the site rewards you with SwagBucks for doing some things online through their site. Trade your SB's in for prizes. All completely free there is no buying of anything to get your free gifts and Paypal money,they also offer various gift card prizes. Shipping and handling is free on gifts sent in the mail as well.

The daily ways to earn SwagBucks is a pretty good mixture of options:

Search and Win Engine- Use SwagBucks site or install plugin(highly recommend) for the search box on your normal toolbar. Get 5-20 every few searches most the time, upto 1K possible.
Daily Poll- Simple question, multiple choice answer. Get 1-2sb's each day.
Surveys- Amount available and pay rate really varies based on your basic info. Worth trying a few times.
Swag Codes- Several times a day you can enter a code found somewhere in the swagbucks community. Usually getting 5-15sb's per code entered.
NOSO - No Obligation Special Offer, earn 1SB each day for taking a look at a few offers(5-10) from some large established company's, with option to sign up for their newsletter by Email. Click skip button at bottom on things that are of no interest.

Newly added Swagbucks TV. Watch a video clip from their library of videos. Sometimes you get 5SB's at the end of the video. I'd say about one in three or four videos get's you SB's. No limit to daily videos watched.

My activity with the site has always been about every other day I'd go through the list above. Good amount of earnings from my referrals as well, thanks to any of you reading this. For referrals you get 1sb for every 1sb earned through the search engine by your direct referrals. Up to 1,000 per referral.

If you want to sign up for SwagBucks, please use click here.

Goozik is blogging again and still earning money online

2010-11-02T01:09:00.000-04:00

The blog is going to be updated again with some new articles, site reviews and 2010 payment proofs. Few changes to the look for the blog, mostly to help loading speed. Apologies for not keeping the blog updated, I've never been a big writer and being the blogs general niche I had some issues posting new material.

But I've got some new posts about earning money online saved to make sure the blog gets new posts. Should be able to post a few times a week for a while. I'll be moderating the comments to get rid of spammers, but you can still post instantly w/out my approval for now. Please be nice and feel free to comment on things with your experiences.

Looking forward to helping out some people again and sharing knowledge I've gained in another year of earning money online.

Speed up Firefox, quick and easy.

2009-09-11T19:57:00.000-04:00

Came across this program couple days ago. It's a firefox booster, 100% free and easy.
Very small 0.3mb download, then start the program, 5mins or less most the time. 20-40% speed increase from what friends and I can tell.
Does not delete cookies, passwords or anything.
It's like defraging Firefox, it just organizes things better for the computers benefit.

http://www.crystalidea.com/speedyfox

Make sure firefox is shut down when you run the program.
It's 100% free, it's not a trial offer of anything.
Recommend to do once a month. Parhaps twice a month for really heavy surfers.

Earning more money with Skill Gaming

2009-09-08T20:01:00.003-04:00

Read the Skill Gaming FAQ first

The best way to maximize your profits with skill gaming is to become a master of one or two games or game types. I personally play the brick/paddle/ball games the most, and a few of the classic arcade games, like Pac-man.

What you want to do is practice for free (the more the better) on which ever site you plan to deposit on first. Play for hours on end, as much as you can. Play for a week or two before risking a single penny.

By doing this you are going to be able to dominate the lower rankings of the site and guarantee a solid profit to start you off before you reach solid competition and take a loss here and there.

If you joined one of the sites with larger tourneys, you should be able to finish top 10 of one of the tourneys in the lower ranks and at least double your deposit.

Continue to dominate the larger tourneys while you can and try to avoid the 1 vs 1 battles. The 1vs1 tend to move you up in rank to quickly, thus minimizing your profit from the large tourneys at lower ranks.

When you finally reach the medium to high rankings. begin to play 1vs1 games. Play 3 games, if you face the same opponent and keep winning 2 outta 3, then continue to play until you face a new person that you don't beat. Picking different times of the day and days you play, you will find a bit weaker competition. It varies from site to site so mix it up.

Last more arguably the most important. NEVER deposit more then $20 per site.
If you can not practice a game enough to turn a profit on $20, then you should not be risking that much money.At that point you are instead playing a game with a slight rush, but you are playing for fun, not to turn a regular profit.

Once you Turn $20 into $60 or more, withdraw double your deposit($40), and begin the process over on a new site, and pocket $20, while still leaving $20 on that site.

Follow that process and you'll be able to turn a nice profit while still having plenty of sites to choose from, for when you decide to master a new game type and run the ranks for the new game.

Find more Skill Gaming sites to play on

Why Paid to post site Mylot is so great.

2009-09-07T13:38:00.003-04:00

Looking around my Google Analytics today to check up on traffic sources and activity on my site, I noticed just how great of a factor MyLot is for this blog. I've been using Google's tracking for 30 days now, since Aug 7th. I'm really liking the options it gives me to review activity on my site, and to see where people are coming from.

Here are some quick numbers to dwell on about the traffic I get on my blog from MyLot:
10.68% - The amount of my overall traffic that comes from MyLot.
4:07 - The amount of average time the person coming from MyLot spends on my blog.
81.97% - The percent of people visiting my blog for the first time via MyLot.
3 - The number of days in the past month MyLot has not produced any traffic for me.
43.97% - The increase in percent of pages visited by MyLot traffic compared to other traffic sources.

Why are these numbers so much better when compared to other traffic sources of mine?
1) I post on MyLot about topics related to my blog, so the traffic that it brings is highly targeted.
2) When I post, I often make reference to my blog in one form or another.
3) I'm active there, posting 3-10 times on most days.
4) It's a paid to post discussion board, so the people there are interested in making money at least a little bit. Very much related to this blog.
5) It's one of the first sites many people find when they enter the world of earning money online. So a solid portion of the site is looking for guidance.
6) Since posting of promotional links is not allowed. Their is a highly customizable profile page for each member can use to promote their sites and blogs. This has a large effect on posting and the number of people that visit each others profile and because I took the time to make my profile nice and neat and provide multiple links to my blog, many find my blog.

Want to know more about MyLot?

It's a paid to post discussion board.
Over 180,000 members
Been online since 2003.
$10 minimum payout, via paypal once a month.
The "earnings per post" is not public information.
Because it's not public, the way to go is with a mix of quality and quantity.
They allow people from all countries in the world.
You can discuss pretty much everything, there are 100's of active interest groups covering pretty much every topic there is. You can create one if you can't find one!
Highly customizable profile, and no self promotion linking in discussions, results in people viewing your profile.
Highly customizable home page too, allows you to view what you want of relevance.
Private message system, but you have to be friends with someone to send message, means no spam on your site inbox.
Upload photos with your discussions to provide more info.(and earn more doing so)
Great 25% earnings of first level referral program

Join Paid to post site MyLot

New Users Guide to MyLot I wrote to help you get maximum benefit from it.
(guide will show you how to setup your profile among other things)

As always, feel free to leave a comment or contact me if you have any questions.
You can also contact me on MyLot, I'm known as "2earnmoney2" on that site.

How to get Referrals Part 5 - Advertise

2009-08-24T17:22:00.005-04:00

Tip: To get best results and understanding of the how to get referrals series I suggest you read them as I have written them, starting with part 1 and working your way up to part 5 because you will not benefit from certain steps until you have completed the previous ones.
If you already read parts 1 thru 4, click the "read more" button to continue your learning with Part 5 of the How to get Referrals series.

How to get Referrals step 9 - Advertise
"Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read."
Leo Burnett

Great quote about advertising that really sums up this entire series. Many of the things I've already told you involved in getting referrals is about doing everything involved in the quote by the late great Leo Burnett. Don't hype things up, give them the facts, put it in places people are already looking and keep it organized in one location that's worth visiting.

Did you recognize the name of Leo Burnett but not sure why? He's responsible for some of the most well known advertising icons like The Jolly Green Giant, the Marlboro Man, Toucan Sam, Charlie the Tuna, Morris the Cat, Pillsbury Doughboy, the 7up "Spot", and Tony the Tiger.

So when you are doing your advertising for your blog/site, and articles you have written consider who's going to be viewing it, and why they are viewing it. Are they new to the field of earning online, or do they have experience? Are they viewing it because they gain from the view, or are they viewing cause they are interested? If you don't know who and why the ad's are being viewed by then you are wasting your advertisement.

Getting more referrals from your ad's is a compilation of everything you've already learned in the first four parts of this series. Rereading everything is suggested to make sure you write everything on your blog for a purpose.

How to get Referrals Step 10 - Blog or Single Site Advertising

There are lots of places you can advertise online for free. Some of them have already been discussed. Your blog/site is what you primarily want to promote because you will be consistently updating it, build trust with it, and people will be available to contact you for help.
When to promote a single site instead of your blog is really dependent on where you advertise and why you want to promote the single site.

Reasons to promote a single site instead of your blog/site:

A site is having a referral contest.
You promote like sites on each other. I.E Promote paid to post forum on another paid to post forum. You know they like to earn that way, so promote alternatives.
Doing a referral swap where you help a referral build a line.
The site just changed something that will attract new users who may have overlooked the site previously. Like new countries allowed or new payment processor.

Places to advertise for free:

Some PTC's allow you to spend money earned on advertising rather then cashing out. After your blog has been going for a while and is producing decent results, spending this easily made money is a great way to get the word out and develop some constant readers. My personal favorite PTC for this is DonkeyMails.
Traffic Exchanges are great for getting lots of lower quality traffic for free. Once you have a solid blog to promote, it will generate referrals through TE's. But remember that TE's will produce small amount of referrals compared to number of visitors that visit. But if you promote your blog this way over a month or two, it will produce better results. The more often someone see's your blog with new content being provided then the more likely they are to visit it and sign up under you. It's a Trust thing.
My personal favorite TE's are these two. Both have great admins and extra prize pages for more credits. First one even has chat and surf feature. HorrorMovieHits, TipTopTraffic.
Forums have already been discussed in part 3 of the series.
Social Networks also discussed in part 3.
Social Bookmarking sites also discussed in part 3.
Classified Ad sites like Craigslist.
Your profile where ever you go, always fill it out.
Chat Rooms
Blog Directorys, my favorite is Link Referral
Local stores, create a 1 page flier and ask if you can put it on a window or bullentin board.
Telephone poles around town, again 1 page flier make sure to put little tabs people can rip off with your blog address.
Other blogs of relevance to yours, exchange links to each other. Make sure it's a fair trade though, A-list blogs won't do this with new blogs.
Don't be afraid to comment on other people's blogs to advertise as well, but just like forums this should be done with care and should add to the conversation.
If you do a bunch of downloading and/or have people directly download from you, add a simple text document to the file with your web link and brief site description.

I promise if you follow the 10 steps here in the series it will translate into referrals for you. If you are having any problems implementing anything or have questions about something. Feel free to contact, I'm willing to help you. You can use the contact me form, contact me through IM, or use the chat box on left to leave a message, or use the chat box on the right to IM with me privately right away.

How to get Referrals Part 4 - Incentives

2009-08-21T09:18:00.007-04:00

Is the site stable? If you give them money to be in a scam site you both lose.
Will it benefit you enough to do it for just 1 person, and 100 people. Look at both ends of the spectrum.
Is the offer worth sharing with their friends? Consider this: Would you sign up under you then tell a friend about the deal, or would you sign up, then offer a better deal to your friend?
Is their better offers by more reputable people for the same site(s)? Do your research on possible competition.
Will it get people to just sign up and stay active minimum amount of time, or is it a nice long term deal.
The larger and longer the site has been in existence, the more you should offer. Stability is a powerful factor.
Why should they trust you? Have you given info about the site and helped them?

Types of incentives to offer:

25-75% of what they earn you. So if you earn 10% of what they do, give them 3-8%.
10-30% upfront of what you expect them to earn you in their first month.
A few cents or dollars each month they are active.
A contest for all your referrals, giving money and/or advertising to the most successful of your referrals in a given time period, or first to reach a given goal.
If the site has multiple down line levels, give them something for each new referral they find.

Types of incentives to avoid:

Giving more then 80% of what you will get from them being under you. Giving more then 80% does not make it worth your time to keep track of everything and will attract people that will try to scam you by singing up multiple times.
By offering a set amount to each person that signs up under you that you will not earn back in the first thirty days you will really short change yourself because not everyone will stay active the given time needed to recuperate your losses.
Any deal where a lot of extra is required from both of you, if a site doesn't show how much work each of your referrals does, then you will need screen shots/proof from them. Making the entire process much more involved then needed.
Avoid offering deals on sites that will require a lot of work from your referrals w/out any referrals themselves to be able to cash out or see reasonable gains. It does no good to have 50 referrals sign up under you because of the great offer you have, if none of them will have any success and soon quit using the site.

How to get Referrals Step 8 - Swapping

Swapping referrals can be a great way to gain active referrals, if you find the right people or site to do it with. There is two main forms of swapping, and one lesser done way that is only effective once you've become very solid in your own forms of gathering referrals.

The first and most common way is simple one-for-one swaps. You sign up under a site for someone, and they sign up under you. As long as you both stay active then you both benefit. The only downside of doing this, is if you don't do your research on both the sites involved and the person you are doing it with then you are likely to get scammed. If one site requires 20mins of work a day, and the other takes an hour, one of you is likely to quit because they feel it's not fair. So make sure you know what site you are joining, and that the site you want the other person to join are roughly the same in amount of daily work involved and potential earnings. Also make sure to investigate the person you are doing the swap with, do they have a good reputation on the site you found them, do they have a blog, can they show payment proofs and a good explanation of what all is involved in the site they want you to join. A good person will be willing to answer your questions and be available for any additional questions you may have.

The second most common way to do referral swaps is with referral exchange sites. These types of sites usually have 100's of sites available to work with and work on a credit system. When you join a site through the referral site you gain a certain amount of credits which can then use to spend on getting referrals on sites you want to promote. The biggest drawback of these types of sites is that often the referrals you get will not stay active for a long time in your site. But you can say in order to get the credits from you for signing up under you they have to do a certain number of things on the site, like stay active for 7 days or complete X# of things. Just remember to keep it "fair" if you require 1yr of membership, no one will ever sign up. But what's great about these sites is the fact you can find some really great sites to join through them, as the referral exchange sites often check on the sites allowed to be promoted for their paying status. So when you sign up, it's not in vain and that you will be able to cash out from the site.

Finally the least used way is really only available if you have a successful blog or another form of gaining guaranteed referrals. This way also should only be used on sites that have multiple down line levels. What you offer is that when someone signs up under you, you will then help get them a referral or few of their own. Usually by replacing your referral link on your blog with their link or by using credits on a referral exchange site to have someone join under them. When you do this you are increasing the chances your first referral will stay active cause they are earning more and you both will still gain if the site has multiple down line levels.

Recommend places to do referral incentives:

Your blog, create a blog entry with specific's of what type of swaps your willing to do. If a site has a referral contest, make a blog entry about it and put a time limit on when people can sign up.
Forums, Most forums have a open advertising section and some even have a a section specific for referral exchanges. Post your offer and remember to not ask for to much, and be specific in the sites your willing to join.(make sure to read forum rules to not violate them and get banned)
Social Networks, Put the offer on your profile and make sure people have a way to contact you.
GetRef , My personal favorite Referral exchange site. Been around for years with over 1,000 sites you can spend your credits on to get credits. Blog entry with more details.

Important things to remember about doing incentive based referral getting:

Not all sites allow you to get referrals through the process of offering incentives. Some also only allow some forms of incentives. Traffic exchanges are notorious for banning people for doing this. So always make sure to check the site's Terms and Conditions and the FAQ section. If you can't find any answer contact them asking about which ways are allowed.
Make sure to know the countries that are allowed for the sites involved, it does no good to get referrals if they won't get you credit.
Always make sure the sites you want involved are worth it, if you will only gain a penny or two from them over weeks, it's probably not worth your time or theirs.
Always give the other person a way to contact you, remember that helping is important.
Don't allow yourself to become overwhelmed by making things to complicated. Simplicity is best when it comes to incentives for both you and them.
Most importantly don't give up to much, stay below 80% if it's a continuing process of giving to them, and below 30 days worth of work to make your money back if a one time payment to them.

As always if you have any suggestions or questions go ahead and contact me or leave a comment.

Part 5 on how to get referrals is titled Advertising and discusses some pros and cons of different methods to advertise.

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How to get Referrals Part 3 - Social

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Tip: To get best results and understanding of the how to get referrals series I suggest you read them as I have written them, starting with part 1 and working your way up to part 5 because you will not benefit from certain steps until you have completed the previous ones.
If you already read parts 1 and 2, click the "read more" button to continue your learning with Part 3 of the How to get Referrals series.

How to get referrals step 5 - Social
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the
small ones."
Phillip Brooks

This is a great quote that directly correlates to being social online, you don't have to have a million dollar idea to share, just a lot of little ideas to sprinkle every where you go.

There are lots of ways to be social online, all of them offer us many things. Perhaps the largest benefit to social marketing for finding referrals is that no matter what way we do it the people reading and interacting with us have a certain amount of interest already.

Think about all the forums you read, why did you sign up to them? Why do you still visit them daily? If you answer those two questions you will understand why the people on the forum are there as well.
With most forums being about a very specific topic, like sports, or finding things to do online worth your time, and my personal favorite are the ones that pay you to post and talk about making money. This gives us a great way to find very specific people that need and are actively looking for help. (You remember how crucial helping people is right?)

It's pretty easy to find forums about any topic you want, and find knowledgeable people on a given topic. This fact alone makes them so bountiful. You need to be one of those experienced people sharing their knowledge on a number of forums. That doesn't mean you have to have 1,000's of posts on each forum to gain peoples trust, but you do need to have more then 2 posts. All forums show post counts of each member, if someone reads your post and finds it helpful, but then see that you only posted a couple times they are not likely to act on your post.

Take a look at this article for a really good guide to forums, along with a short list of some of the best paid to post forums out there. The article is about paid to post forums, but all the tips directly help increase the effectiveness of all the forums you post on. Make sure to read the final tip in the article for a really good trick to help make forum posting easier on yourself!

Few things to remember about forums:

As discussed in part 1 of the series, these are a great way to increase your "brand" online.
Utilize your signature to promote your blog/site and any articles you have written.
Some forums do not allow your signature to contain referral links, so make sure to read the sig rules of each forum.
Always fill out your profile, and write a quality introduction. Both are sure fire ways to increase your trust and a great way to offer help.
You don't have to post everyday on all forums, but you should try to post at least several times a week. Consistency is key to build forum presence that translates into trust.
Not all forums will be effective for finding referrals.
Posting on 10-15 forums at least once a week is recommended. (paid to post are great, but regulars are fine)

Tip: Don't stress yourself out about forums, Find 5-10 to start if you aren't already on any. Post some things, if you get some activity stick with it. After you weed out the good from the bad, if you don't have at least 10 forums. Then find another 5-10 and repeat until you got a solid list of around 15 forums.

How to get Referrals step 6 - Networking

The popularity of Social Networks makes these something you simply should not ignore!
There are some really large Social Networking sites out there we all know of like Myspace,Facebook and Twitter.But there are literally 100's of them. These are some of the greatest free ways to find referrals by sheer numbers alone.

Like a blog or forum, this is another great way to create establish your "brand" and build trust.
Just like your blog though, you want to build peoples trust with content that gives information, but then being available to help.

Taking the time to create a complete profile on 3-5 social sites will take a few hours, but is very much worth your time because it's like having a extra blog on each site that you don't have to regularly update. You can create a profile on all the networks you want, but you want to focus on being really active on about 4. Any more and you will find it difficult to keep up with them, and any less then your missing a large free advertising source.

You can put any number of links about anything you want on your profile. You can build friendships through any number of ways. You have the ability to connect with these people and help them. Each network has groups that are about a specific topic just like a forum, make sure to join the groups about money to share your knowledge and find referrals.

Things to know about social networks:

Unlike forums, not everyone on them is looking for knowledge or information, many just want social interaction. So when a person doesn't respond to you, move on.
Filling out your profile is crucial, just saying visit my blog will not work. You need to build that trust for them to want to care about your blog.
Being at least semi-active is a must, log in no less then couple times a week to approve friend requests and reply to any messages.
Be very careful about spamming friend requests or on groups. These sites have lots of spammers already, you don't want to blend in with them and risk getting banned from them.
Some are very specific in the region of the world or age groups there members are, so some will not work for finding referrals no matter how hard you try.
You do not have to actually have to "be social" on them talking about the latest news or gossip. But you do have to be willing to talk with people about what it is you promote.

Recommended Social Networks to join:

Twitter - This one is HUGE, you simply can not ignore this site. It's the 14th most used site worldwide! I won't go into how to use it from the sign up process to get more followers. But here's a few quick tips, you should have it set-up so you send a direct message to everyone that follows you. You should post at least once a day, people pay attention to people that post more often. Not all your posts should be promotional, mix in questions, jokes, and general thoughts. Like all sites, make sure to fill out your profile and link to your blog.
FaceBook & Myspace - Easily the two largest Networks out there. Both are great sites and have some highly receptive people that can be your referrals.
Mypage5 - One of the larger get paid to Social Networks. You earn a cent or few for everything you do on the site, uploading pics, posting comments, active in the forums, logging in each day, even just rating other peoples profiles and pics. Make sure to upload a picture when you sign up to start off with $5.
Wiki Page listing 100's of them. Find Social sites that are primarily region specific that would allow sign ups to the sites you promote.

As always if you have any suggestions or questions go ahead and contact me or leave a comment.

Continue on to Part 4 of the how to get referrals series titled "Incentives"

How to get Referrals Part 2 - Give

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On your blog, when considering what all to say about a site go through your daily routine and explain why it is that you do that, and why you don't do other things on the site.
Write about the Pros and Cons, there is no need to hype things up. The truth is always good.
Show your payment proofs and prove it has worked for you.
If the site is simple, then give the few steps needed.
If it's complex, take your time and make it as easy as possible for those to use it.
Whenever possible, provide links to blogs of the site so they can see the admins care and keep you updated.
Give recently added features to show the site is always being improved.
If the site has been around for years, make sure to note it. Everyone likes consistency.
On a Article site write the basics with a few extra tips provided about a particular way of earning that will link back to your blog or have referral links directly in it. When someone sees you know that field of earning and get's a overview, they will be interested to join those sites, and most likely as your referral.
(make sure to fill out your profile on the article site)

How to get Referrals Step 4 - Help
"Always think in terms of what the other person wants."
James Van Fleet - Great Author on the subject of talking and dealing with people.

There is a difference between Giving and Helping. When you take the time to connect with someone and help them, you make an impression for life. When you give info it's your words that make the impression. You want your referrals to know that you are there for their benefit, and not the other way around.

Helping is perhaps the most important thing of all when it comes to getting referrals.

Think about coupons you see in the daily newspaper, they are helping you save money. So you are impressed by the store and as such will go to the store even with out the coupon because you know they are trying to help you. With or with out the coupon, you will buy more then the one item because of the helping factor.

Whenever possible you should make yourself available through any number of means online to connect with a person by helping them. Instant messaging and E-mails being two of the easier and most efficient ways to do so(which is why it's important to provide that info on your blog). By helping someone set-up their account and learn their way through a site, you are likely to gain them as a referral in many sites because they have direct access to you and your knowledge anytime they need it. This is another great example of building trust from step 1 of the series and why it is so important.

Recap of part 2:

You must give and help in order to receive. Failure to do both will result in many lost and only one time referrals.
Their is tremendous power in truth, always do so.
People like numbers like payment proofs and length of site success.
Write overview and how to articles for an entire field to broaden your Trust and Help factors.
Always make yourself available when asked, taking the time to help one active referral in many sites is better then multiple one time referrals that may quit for any number of reasons at any given time.
Remember that the more you give the more you shall receive is not always an overnight thing. Patience and consistency are both powerful virtues.

Recommend sites to write articles on:

Squidoo - One of the largest and most friendly article sites out there. Very easy to use with lots of different options to earn money through your articles. Allowing referral links and international members make this a must use. Decent referral program. Slow earner with a $1 minimum payout. But has no waiting period for article publication.
Example of article I wrote on Squidoo: Guide to game, Dungeons and Treasures
Triond - Not as well know as some other article writing sites but this one is bound to make you happy. Low 50 cent payout once a month through paypal. Earnings based off of ad's clicked on your articles combined with page views it's fairly easy to make the minimum payout off one or two articles each month. Allowing referral links make this another favorite for our field.
Newly added: Connect with me widget that's put on all your articles that links to your Twitter, Blogspot and Facebook pages.
The only downsides are no referral program and takes 12-24hrs before your article is manually approved for clean content.
Example of article I wrote on Triond: Guide to Paid to Post Forums.
Bukisa - Earnings based off of total site revenue from ads divided by your articles page views. A reasonable $10 minimum makes this a steady residual income with some quality articles. Takes roughly one day for manual approval of your article for clean content. Biggest downside, does NOT allow referral links. So it's best used for generalized overviews of earning fields and very site specific guides to give your referrals.
Example of article I wrote on Bukisa: Guide to MyLot to get the most out of the site.

Couple of things to know about writing articles. They do not allow you to gain page views to them through the use of Traffic Exchanges or Paid to Click sites. This is false traffic for them, and as such will not get you any extra earnings and can result in a ban from the site. Do not try to cheat the sites through false traffic of any kind, they are a great way to build trust and increase your branding. If someone see's an article and then later it's gone cause you got banned, you instantly lose anything you gained just because you wanted to make a few extra cents from the article.
Post your article on your profiles, Social sites and forums. If your friends got Twitter accounts, ask them for a simple tweet about it with a link.
When possible also have friends submit the article to social bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon and Delicious. Then you go to the same social bookmark site and give your article a plus rating, by having your friend do this first it will carry more weight then if you did it first.

Doing all this with each article will take only a few minutes and will drastically increase the traffic to your articles over time, and sometimes instantly. The more places you can put it with out spamming the better chance potential referrals will see it and come to you with trust already built.

Part 3 of how to get referrals is titled "Social" has to do with using Social Networks and forums to increase your trust with others and increase the presence of your "brand" to help gain referrals.

How to get Referrals Part 1 - Trust

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This is part 1 of 5 in How to Get Referrals.
Getting referrals can be tough for anyone even the most experienced have to try new angles and techniques as old forms of getting referrals produce less results. So in this 5 part series of how to get referrals I will look at different methods I've read up on, experimented with and had success with, so that you can benefit from all the knowledge with out having to do a bunch of searching.

In each part two different steps will be discussed centered around one theme for each part.
This series on how to get referrals will primarily be written assuming you are looking for referrals in your free to join sites and programs, but many of these tactics will be productive in your affiliate sales or online business.
I'm going to assume you are reading this because you already know how important they are.

Tip: To get best results and understanding of the how to get referrals series I suggest you read them as I have written them, starting with part 1 and working your way up to part 5 because you will not benefit from certain steps until you have completed the previous ones.

How to get Referrals Step 1 - Trust
"Love all, but trust a few. "
William Shakespeare

Truer words could not be spoken when it comes to getting referrals online. We all love to see and read peoples experiences and recommendations, but who do we actually trust?

You need to give people a reason to trust you, the more ways the better. When you are looking to get referrals in your programs you are asking them to give their time and possibly money. You need to do everything you can to make sure that is not in vain or wasted.

Things you HAVE to do in order to build trust:

Have a Blog or Website, free sites are easy to make and maintain in your spare time. If you don't have anywhere to promote, how do you expect to get referrals?
Somewhere on your site you need to have an "about me" page, or fully complete profile. People want to know who they are dealing with.
Ways to contact you, a "contact me" form is the standard in blogs and sites, but having your IM,Twitter and E-mail is also needed. Not everyone likes to use one specific form.
Give info about the sites you promote, at the very least this should be minimum payout, payout options, who can join.

Recommended to build trust:

Show payment proofs.
Share personal experience with the site.
Don't sell what you promote, show how it helps.
Focus on them, not you.
Give quality contest on a regular basis. If it's never changing they have no incentive to come back.
Don't overdue advertisements on your site. To many and you look desperate to just make a buck any way possible. Earnings from referrals are greater then advertisement earnings.

I personally recommend using Blogspot.com to create a blog as I feel it's the easiest to pick up and go with and allows for plenty of customization. I can also help you in this process as I'm very knowledgeable in this.
But if you prefer to go with a free website:

Weebly - Drag and drop stlye of creation allows for easy pick up and go, but not a whole lot customization. Example of a site I made with this host.
Freewebs - Easy to use, set-up and maintain, allows for a few more things then the one above, like having a forum. Example of a site I made with this host.
000WebHost - I personally haven't made a site with this one, but it offers a bit more customization for those with a bit more know how. Not recommended if this will be your first site.

Another Key Point in building trust is "Branding". For example "Nike" when you read that word you think the "Nike Swoosh" and "Just Do It". That is clever and proper branding, several different things that people can recognize that all relate to one product.

When it comes to personal branding online this is accomplished by Avatar pictures, User name's and sometimes a slogan. If you use the same unique Avatar picture and name on all the forums, social sites and IM's you use. Then when they come to your blog or site and see it, they know they are dealing with you and have arrived at the right place.

Suggestions for branding:

Don't use some picture a lot of people do, I.E Homer Simpson, a cat or the latest movie release poster.
Pictures of yourself CAN work, but make sure it is an identifiable close up with no distractions in the back round.
If you can include a clever slogan in the pic that is readable do so, but don't force it. The Image is what's important.
Use the same User Name Everywhere you go. Do not use numbers! User names with numbers are often treated as uncreative and do little to instill trust. (Think of all the Major company's you can, how many of them have numbers?) If the user name you usually use is taken, A simple trick is to have the first letter appear twice both capitalized. Also make sure to use proper Name grammar, I.E Bill, not bill or biLL.

How to get Referrals Step 2 - Content
Few things can turn readers off like badly written content.Like content that is full of misspelled words and short hand type like "u" instead of you. When people are getting information from you and your site they don't want to be treated like a child, or think they are learning from one.

Lack of informational content is arguably the biggest way to turn your possible referrals off. Have you ever visited a website that is just full of banners? You didn't stick around because they did nothing to build your trust. That site lacked content, now if they had a couple paragraphs or even sentences about the site, then had a banner. You would've been more inclined to stick around to read the info and join the site they were promoting.

Good content is always going to give them something they need to know about the site. Provide helpful tips where you can, if a site has a great section that you check daily mention it. Don't be afraid to give them your full daily routine on the site. If it works for you, it may work for them.

Hyped content that is misleading may get you the initial sign up but it won't get you trust or active referrals. Once they quickly realize it's not what you promised, they will quit using the site and no longer look to you for other sites to join up under you.

Having a referral that signs up to one site because you gave accurate and quality information will get that same referral to join many of your sites. So if the site is only going to make them a few quick bucks, say so. But if the site isn't going to produce results over night, don't say it will.
Tip: Instead of saying the site will make you 100's. Say the site won't make you 10 overnight, but it will make 100's overtime.

After creating the original content, make sure to come back and edit it if something changes. If they just added a new feature come back and put "Newly added: new info etc". You never know when a repeat reader will visit your site and see the new feature and that will make them join. Staying on top of the sites you promote is important.

Recap for better content:

Always use spellchecker and reread your stuff. Make sure links work as well. If you have good friends, have them proof read it.
Do not use shorthand.
Inform them what the site is with minimum payout, payout options, and who can join.
Give them something they need to know about the site outside of the basics.
Share personal experiences.
Do not over hype or lie about the site.
Give accurate info and make sure it's current.

I recommend you to create a blog, (or website) and make your first entry or two about who you are and what types of things you do to make money online. Take a look at my about me page for ideas.

If you feel there is any more tips you can add or have questions, please leave a comment or use the contact me form.

Part 2 of How to get referrals is titled "Give" and discusses how to give away info and helpful things to gain referrals.

The Blog Get's a New Look!

2009-08-08T01:17:00.004-04:00

I really hope you all enjoy it and will take a minute to answer the two polls in the top left.
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I made this Template change for many reasons:

This new template should load much faster.
It's much better for SEO on the back end.
There is a now a Side Bar on both side's so you get more info.
Much more Professional look.
Most Importantly, I will be able to give you much better blog entry's.

So what's in store for the blog and what will you be learning?

Starting Sunday Aug 9th there will be a contest happening for as long as needed. Prizes include Money, Free Advertising on this blog, and your referral link in place of mine for this blog. Everyone will be allowed to win twice, and up to an additional 10 times.
While the contest is running I will be releasing a 5 part series on "How To Get Referrals". Each part will cover two different ways.
More Free Blog Tools will be shared.
An in Depth entry at how to organize your time spent online for maximum use.
More Tips to increase your blog traffic.
Most Importantly a commitment from me to you that I will be sharing some of the best ways I know to Earn Money Online with no investment.

Thank You for being a reader of Gooziks Blog and hope you will continue to read here and share with your friends.

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2009-07-17T19:57:00.007-04:00

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An adventure game, where you have a character that is on a constant quest to find gold, crawl dungeons, upgrade and level, sell items and compete in contests for prizes.
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Join this free game and get paid to play

Dungeons and Treasures guide

Paid to Post site Mylot

2009-06-08T01:31:00.009-04:00

Mylot is a Paid to Post Discussion Board. It's not your average forum, as it cashes out members every month with a minimum amount of $10 by PayPal and is available to International members.

You earn money from making quality posts and starting new Discussions. You also earn money from referrals(25% of all their earnings for life). The site is huge and offers so much to discuss, it's not all about money making. Everything from cooking to movies to comedy to life decisions is discussed. But there are tons of actives discussions about making money.

Absolute must use discussion board if your into making money online with no investment!

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Paid to search, Search and win

2009-06-08T01:16:00.006-04:00

There are many search engines out there, we all know the Google and Yahoo ones.
But you may not know, there are many search engines out there that use the same systems as Google and/or yahoo, but also reward searchers for using their system. You can win money, Gift card, Electronics and much more.
Use them like you would any other Search Engine, and don't try to "cheat" them by posting lots of searches back-to-back, or else you can and will lose your account.
The two I promote here I've personally won and received stuff from.

Swagbucks - Search and win "swag bucks". Get 3 free for sign up and your first search get's you another 2. Which means right away, you can claim 5 different $5 gift cards! You claim prizes with the Swag Bucks, and each prize has a price listed right there available for viewing. You can even get free game consoles with enough swag bucks!
Newly Added $5 PayPal withdraw option for just 70 SwagBucks.
Make sure to check the Twitter,Facebook,Blog and Myspace pages of theirs for Daily Swag Codes to enter on the Swag Buck home page for free SwagBucks.

Blingo - No registration is required, only first 10 searches per day are eligible for prizes. They have given away over $1.7 Million in cash and prizes already.

How to avoid getting scammed

2009-06-08T01:08:00.006-04:00

Find out if a site is a scam by using a few different sites. Taking two mins to search on these sites before joining any site where you think you can make money will save you time, money and headaches.

scam.com - No sign-up required. Huge forum, been around for many year. Goto "search" and enter in the website w/out the www in front. Enter in the lil passcode (don't worry it's not case sensitive) and click search. You will likely get a few results from other users sharing positive or negative experinces and sometimes payment proof if it's a good site.

gptboycott.com - Again same thing, no sign up required, click "search" enter passcode and get results.
(clicking links takes you directly to search feature)
Using these two sites and 5mins before joining ANY site will save you money and time.

Survey Police - Specific for surveys, find out which ones pay, which ones don't.

Poker software to profit

2009-06-08T01:03:00.004-04:00

Using poker software and sites to help make more profit.
There are tons of software that poker sites online allow you to use.
Ways to find out Tight or Loose your opponent is, how often they check raise, when they are likely to bet and ways to make the optimal plays.
Most are free, some require a small investment, while others require a monthly membership.
If you wanna know more, including prices, and links.
You can find more info here.

Ways to make money with gaming, Skill Gaming

2009-06-08T00:59:00.008-04:00

Posting this for anyone who may be new to the Skill Gaming Scene and wondering what it truly is.

Skill gaming is usually played in one of four ways:

1. Puzzle games where logic and math skills play the biggest factors. Like Bejeweled and Connect Four
2. Arcade games are usually puzzle based but require equally quick reflexes with the mouse and/or keyboard. Like Pac-man, Billiards and mini-golf.
3. Word games testing your spelling. Games like Scrabble.
4. Quiz games testing your knowledge about something.

When you give a game a time limit like most arcade games, along with in game bonuses and such. You can make a nice score table for people to play against each other, that is based on skill. Since you can make sure both/all people playing that game for money play that same exact game with same conditions, this isn't considered gambling by the USA and Paypal.

Unlike the poker sites there is no laws to avoid provided you aren't in 16 different states in the USA, as they have state laws saying it is gambling according to them.
Those states are...
Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Vermont.

There are a few REALLY big skill gaming sites, along with plenty more for Americans to take advantage of with the largest having 50K+ people online at a time.
The three largest are: (in the USA)
King.com (Free games calender, Huge site, Lots of ways to compete.)
Worldwinner.com (You can even earn a kick back threw another site playing here)
Gameduell.com(Free Games calender)

The list of games is endless but here's a few examples:

Battleship
Bejeweled
Billiards
Bowling
Brick+Paddle+Ball games.
Card games- Any! Solitare, Gin, Spades, Hearts, Pyramid,
Chess
Couronne
Darts

Mah Jong
Mini-Golf
Minesweeper
Quiz games
Pac-Man
Scrabble and word games
Sudoko
Tetris
Wheel of fortune
Zuma

What types of tourneys there are:
Most Skill Gaming sites do Head to Head battles, You each pay a entry fee, most sites have tourneys starting at under a dollar. The two people play the same game, with the same game conditions, the higher score wins the money after the site takes a small fee for the sites upkeep/hosting.

Most sites also offer larger Jackpot tourneys sometimes above $10,000, where any number of people can play and the tourney ends on a given date/time. Everyone pays the same entry fee and it goes into a prize pool which is split amongst the top finishers for the tourney. Again everyone plays the same game with same conditions so everyone has a level playing field. Most of these tourneys also have a buy-in starting at a dollar with larger buy-in tourneys once you get more experienced. Usually a top 3 finish in these types of tourneys get's you a nice three or four digit pay day.

About Deposit and withdraw.
All sites have a min deposit and min withdraw amount so they aren't doing 100's of 50 cent transfers. This is usually $10 at the low end, and never more then $25. All accept Paypal if they are US friendly. Some also offer credit card,money transfers and other online payment processors for funding and withdraws.

Pay to play every time?
Most sites have a free play option so you can learn the game, practice and get better with out risking anything. Some will even give you some free money to play with, but will require a deposit before they let you cash out the free money.

You can easily play with 100's of games for money with a single $20 deposit on most sites if you spend just a little time practicing.

If it's based on skill, how do I stand a chance as a newb?
All sites implement some kind of ranking system based off your past performances in each individual game on their site. Your rank determines which opponent(s) your against when you play. As the site will pair you with someone from the same rank/skill level as you.

For each game you play on a site, it will keep a running tally of how you do in that particular game title while you play there. When your in the top X% of that particular ranking, the site will move you up one rank to keep you playing against roughly same skilled people as you.

Each site has it's own system they use, most are fairly simple to understand and a simple read through will be enough to understand it.

Final Thoughts about Skill Gaming online.
Skill Gaming is a a realistic money maker. But it's based off skill, if your unwilling to practice. Your not gonna win. You can make some nice extra income off it. But w/out devoting lots your computer time to playing games and becoming masters at them, you are not gonna make a living doing it.

Ranking systems usually put a "limit" to the profitability of only playing one or two games on one site. Eventually you will be playing fellow Masters at the game, and it becomes ever harder to win. But good thing about this, is your ranking is only one site. If you become really good at one version of a game good chance you can find same game at another site where your skills transfer easily. So play around a few sites and a few games to maximize your profit.

Understanding that the games you play are based on skill with little luck involved is key in not getting frustrated or overly confident. With anything where you risk money, never risk more then you can afford to lose.

Poker Training for tourneys

2009-06-08T00:51:00.004-04:00

Poker coaching site. Roughly a dozen very good online pros shoot videos and explain things about and while playing online poker, with "Skype" you can have interactive learning sessions. I personally use and recommend this site. If you are a MTT player, this is by far the best investment you can make, don't bother buying books!

48-free trial available.
Weekly $5 members only tourney where top 3 finishers win 1 on 1 coaching from a pro!

I've wrote a more detailed review that can be found here

Sign up right away threw this link

Squidoo

2009-06-08T00:35:00.004-04:00

Squidoo is a popular publishing platform and community that's been around since 2005, where you create lens and earn income.
Lenses are kinda like 1 page fliers you would see in a newspaper written by people who have something to say about the topic of their Lenses.

It's pretty easy, kinda fun and allows you to earn income for writing about stuff that you choose. Literally anything you want.

Facts about the site:
Nearly 1 million lenses (as of June 09)
One of the top 300 sites visited in the USA
100% free
If you don't wanna earn money, or just wanna help out, you can donate any money you make to charity. Approx 35% of ppl on the site choose this option.

About money:
They give 5% of everything earned on site, directly to charity. Use 45% to cover their costs.
Leaving 50% that goes to the owner of the Lens that created the income.
Pays to Paypal
Min Cashout is $1

Paid for writing please join threw my referral link

A few examples of Lenses I've made:
Skill Gaming FAQ
Poker Training site for Tourneys
Inboxdollars

About Me

2008-08-08T01:57:00.004-04:00

Welcome to the About Goozik Page.
I'm a 25yr old Male located in Michigan, USA.
I've been into making money online for about 8 years now.
I love to share info and help others any way I can and that is why I have been getting very serious with my blog.

My general concept for making money online is Diversify. Making money online is a goal for many, to often I see people give up because one thing didn't work. So I tell them Diversify!
I'm sure you've heard the expression "Don't put all your eggs in one basket". Nothing could be more true for earning money online for the average and new person.

Earning $100 or $200 is more then enough to make most people happy for their earnings, so earn $5-10 on 10 different sites is much easier then doing so with just one site and type of earning.

Here is list of some things I have done and continue to do online to earn money.
1) Poker
2) Surveys
3)Paid to post written knowledge
4)Paid to post forums
5)Make Money from links
6)Paid to Review
7)Playing Games
8)Search and Win
9)Paid to Upload
10)Data Entry
11)Paid to Click
12)Micro Jobs
13)Paid to blog
14)Traffic Exchanges
15)Social Networking
16)From ads on Blogs/websites
17)From Pictures
18)Affiliate marketing products
19)Ebay
20)Get Paid to Sign-up

Arguably the most important thing in earning money online is referrals, problem is most people don't know how to get them. The best tip I can give this is, "Give and you will Get". Give helpful sites, information, and tips. You will get referrals. That is a basic premise of my blog. By sharing my knowledge and sites, I earn more and feel better knowing I have helped people. Even if I never get a person as a referral, I still wish to help. Everyone need's people to trust that have gone through the process of Earning Online, I aim to be one of those people for anyone and everyone that needs it.

Well I hope you like the blog because I do give you what I can. If you ever have any questions, need guidance or just want to talk about earning online.

Here is how to contact me. I prefer to do it through MyLot, Email or IM's.
AIM= ryanguzik
YIM= ryanguzik
MSN= ryanguzik@yahoo.com
Myspace= ryanguzik@yahoo.com
ICQ= 596905684
Google Talk= GGoozik (yes two G's @ the front)

Twitter= Goozik(But I do not use it)
E-mail= ryanguzik@yahoo.com
MyLot= 2EarnMoney2 (Best way)