Archive for October, 2008

Paid Surveys: Three Essential Tips for Making Money With Paid Surveys

Saturday, October 4th, 2008 at 10:39 pm  
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Despite the sometimes negative reaction paid surveys receives it is actually a legitimate way to make money online albeit it takes a bit of work. But if all you have is time then it is a perfect work at home job that doesn’t require any particular skill or aptitude.

Paid surveys are a great way of making money online but like anything else if you want to make good money from them it does take work. Here are three essential tips you will need to successfully make money online with paid surveys:

Tip #1 – Sign up to as many survey companies as you can

The trick to making it with online surveys is to sign up with as many companies as you can. You should join at least 50 but the more the better. The more you join the more surveys you will receive.

Tip #2 – Set up a separate email address

Setting up a separate email account purely for your survey correspondence will make it easier for you to keep track of what comes in as it won’t get mixed up in your personal email inbox. Register with one of the online email services like Google Mail or Yahoo Mail for a free email account.

Tip #3 – Complete the survey as soon as you receive it

Don’t wait around to complete a survey. Keep on top of it and complete them as soon as you receive them. These companies only send out a limited amount of surveys but they know that not everyone will respond so they will send out more than required. If you don’t get in first then it is more likely that their quota will be filled and you will miss out. Also the quicker you complete a survey the more likely you will be asked to complete more.

You might also like to read our review of Legit Jobs Online which is a site that amongst other things provides an extensive database of paid survey companies that you can sign up with.

My Favorite Blog Posts of the Week

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 at 11:35 am  
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I haven’t had much chance to surf the net this week but I did come across a couple of really good blog posts from a blog called Super Blogging Tips. Essentially they are about ‘stopping to smell the roses’ and there is some great advice here for anyone trying to make their blog a success.

  • Don’t Take Yourself So Seriously – Basically this one is about getting yourself to not take yourself too seriously and to relax a bit more particularly when it comes to your blogging business.

 

Tagfoot: Is it the next best social bookmarking site?

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 at 11:35 am  
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Just recently I was introduced to Tagfoot by someone within the Squidoo network. I had never heard of it before and was reluctant to even try it as there are already so many social bookmarking sites out there that it is getting difficult to keep up. Still I had to give it a go as it was relatively new – actually still in beta – and sometimes it is worth getting in early with these things in case they take off in a big way.

What is tagfoot?

Tagfoot is a social bookmarking site where people can not only bookmark their favorite websites, videos, news etc but also talk about and promote them.

How does it work?

It is simply a matter of registering and then adding any websites, news or videos that you like. I really like how easily it is to add Youtube videos and once added they are embedded automatically in Tagfoot so you don’t need to leave Tagfoot to watch them.

You don’t need to load yet another toolbar to your browser to make this work but I recommend it as it makes things a lot easier. Tagfoot also has a cool sidebar that you can download to your browser. It opens up on the left hand side of your browser with a click of a button and you can close it just as easily. It lists everything in the one handy place so you don’t need to have theTagfoot website open on your browser to do most things.

Making Friends

Making friends is a good idea in Tagfoot as you can easily share some of your best stuff with them and it is a way of helping to increase the rating on your blog posts, web pages, Squidoo lenses, Youtube videos or anything else you might have bookmarked in Tagfoot. The bigger your rating the more exposure that bookmark with receive.

Privacy Options

Tagfoot has an extensive array of privacy options which you can place on your bookmarks, your profile, your news – in fact, just about anything.

Make Money with Tagfoot

Tagfoot also allows you to make money by sharing in the profits made from Google Adsense ads. Of course you need to set yourself up with a Google Adsense account to begin with but once that is done Tagfoot will then display their ads 50% of the time and your ads 50% of the time.

Rankings

The ranking system is a fun way of keeping people wanting more by setting a score based on your activity level, how many bookmarks you add, whether your are tagging items correctly and your whether you are posting comments and rating other members bookmarks. Even so,Tagfoot ensures that you don’t go too crazy here by adding lots of stuff and rating other bookmarks in a short space of time. This can actually reduce your ranking.

Our Final Word

This is one of those very addictive sites that you can’t help but spend more time in there than you really should. I can see it becoming extremely popular. We definitely recommended it so give it a try – just don’t blame me if you don’t get any work done.

Since it is still in beta (as of the date on this blog post) you cannot register unless you are invited but I can invite you. So if you want to join just leave a comment below I will email you with an invite.

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