Cashback Shopping!

  Did you know that with most free online survey sites you can get paid to shop?  Seriously!  Nearly all free survey sites out there reward you for shopping at some of the world's largest retailers like Petsmart, Walmart, Kohls, and Priceline.com.  Sites pay anywhere from 1% to 75% of your total purchase back to you.  If you're a frequent online shopper, you really are missing out on a substantial amount of free cash if you don't take advantage of the cashback shopping offers.

Here's a quick list of free survey sites I recommend using to get paid to shop!  Again, all of the sites I use are free to join and fee free.  Just sign up, go shopping, and enjoy your cashback savings!

SquishyCash not only has one of the largest assortment of international surveys, but they also have over 250 different online retailers that they will pay you to shop with!  Just use the banner above and click the "shopping" link to see all of the great online retailers they've partnered with and your possible savings! 

CashCrate is one of the top online paid survey sites out there. They also have an amazing cashback shopping area with great retailers like Babies 'R' Us, iTunes, Office Depot, and Petsmart.  Imagine the money you're wasting by not getting 3% cashback every time you download a new song from iTunes! 

GPTCashCow is one of the great up-and-coming paid survey sites.  It's free to join and free to use, just like all of the other sites I use, and quickly becoming one of my favorites!  Get amazing cashback deals like 2% from Kohl's, 3% from Barnes & Nobles, and many other great retailers. 

TreasureTrooper is a fun, popular paid online survey site with a twist--everything is adventure comic themed and very entertaining.  My favorite feature?  Of course it's the cashback shopping section!!  With online retailers that I use anyway, like 1-800-Petmeds, Avon, Park Seed, and Hotwire.com, I can save a ton of money on my everyday essentials. 

If you have any questions at all about any of these sites, or if you need help with the registration process or using the site, please feel free to contact me any time. 

How To Get Paid Doing Surveys

I posted this how-to over on my CashCrate blog, but I thought I'd share it here too. If you haven't tried CashCrate yet, you definitely need to check it out. It has one of the best support systems online, and the approval rate for free surveys is outstanding.

This is a walk-through of EXACTLY how I, personally, complete free surveys online. I have a VERY high confirmation rate (roughly 95% of my offers approve and I get paid for them), so believe me that you need to actually do most of these steps.

• At the start of every day, I create a new email address. Make sure it's short, so it's quick to type. This email MUST be a real email address. "Disposable emails" and using Gmail's "dot trick" can be detected by the advertising companies, and you won't be credited if you use them. Don't waste your time with cheats. You can use sites like Gmail, Yahoo, Mail.com, and Hotmail.
  

• Go to your website's survey/offer list. Clear your cookies. It works best for me to delete everything on the list except the cookie for your GPT website. If you delete it, you have to log back in again every time--which wastes time.
  

• Don't click 'Close' on your cookies window. Just minimize it to the bottom of your screen so it's easier to get to next time. (Close the 'Options' window if it's in your way).

• Click on the survey/offer you want to do. Make a note of what the web address is. Each company will only credit you once per email. So if you are doing the "Day Care Survey" for e-researchcenter.us.com, you won't get credited for "Swine Flu" later because it is also hosted by e-researchcenter.us.com. Make sense? So as you're going down your list of surveys, just make sure you don't do more than one per company.
  

• Creating a spreadsheet or checklist of the companies is handy, so you don't have to write all of the companies down as you go--just put an X next to their name. (You can have a copy of my spreadsheet, if you email me at Emma@PaidDoingSurveys.com...and beg.)

• If you click on a survey/offer from the list, and it's a company you've already completed, close it. Delete your cookies again (just opening the window gave you more cookies) and move on to the next survey/offer.
  

• During the survey, let every page load completely. This one's very important. If you don't, and hit 'skip' too soon, they'll assume you're a robot and not credit you.

• Fulfill the requirements of the survey/offer. If you are supposed to complete an offer or two, do it. There are plenty of free offers to do. Simply click on one that looks interesting, fill in your information, and click submit. If the directions say to "click" on offers on the final page, click them. Simply choose a couple, click on them, let them load fully, then close the windows.
  

• Make certain you go all the way to the end of every survey.

• When you've finished, close the survey window and any pop-ups. Click the submit button on the site.

• Start the whole process back over by clearing your cookies again.

• After I've finished doing surveys for the day, or am just taking a break, I go to my email I've set up and check on the inbox. Several of the companies (particularly the ones that pay the most) send you confirmation emails to verify that you gave them a real email address. Click on the link in the email, let the page load completely, enter your email and a password if they ask you, then close it.

• When you run out of companies, it's time to set up a new email address and start the whole process over again.

Contests!!!!

Wow. So much has happened in May, that I completely forgot to post my next CashCrate check! It was for $21.81. It's a little lower than my first, because I got very busy completing offers and doing surveys on some other new sites I've found.

One of the sites, MakeThatDollar, has some CRAZY contests. I spent most of the month doing what I could to be eligible for contests. It was SO worth it. Read on to find out my winnings....

The first contest was a paid-to-click contest for whoever could click on the most advertisers' banner ads within a set amount of days. This one was an easy one! I like to turn on a TV show online and listen to it while I do PTC ads - something I can just listen to in the background but don't have to watch to enjoy, like a sitcom or a soap (yes, I'm admitting I watch a soap...I'm not telling which one). I won that first contest and had $5 deposited instantly into my account! That's $5 for maybe 15 total minutes of my time, PLUS the money I made by clicking on the ads. I was hooked.

The next contest was an offer completion contest over the course of a few days. Also an easy one. I won $25!!!!

There was also a month-long offer completion contest, which I TOTALLY had in the bag right up until May 29th. Then, I got a really nasty cold and spent the next few days in bed and not working online. I only got 3rd place in the contest....BUT I STILL WON $100!!!! I'm a little disappointed that I didn't win the $500 1st place prize, but I was SO sick, and I really needed to rest.

I also completed a Paid-to-signup contest for StarReferrals and had $2 deposited directly into my paypal account. I'll definitely be writing about StarReferrals later--LOVE them.

So, in May, I earned:

• $2 from StarReferrals
• $20.50 from CashCrate
• $22.96 from TreasureTrooper (It was actually more, but I "bought" some referrals)
• $20.69 from SquishyCash
• $212.81 from MakeThatDollar

Holy Cow! Can you believe I made over $275 just doing offers and filling out surveys? And without paying for gas, or a babysitter, and in comfy clothes listening to my favorite music? And that's just these sites--I earned some smaller amounts on some other sites. Wow! And that was all just me. All of these sites offer HUGE referral bonuses. I'll be spending most of June getting referrals. I'll keep you posted on my progress. Can't wait!

Now, I'm off to make more money!

My Very First Check From Working Online!

Okay. Admittedly I was just as skeptical as you about all of this work-at-home industry hype. I thought to myself, "Seriously? I'm going to spend a little time on the internet, and some complete stranger is going to send me a check a month later?"

I knew my check from CashCrate.com was supposed to be processed on April 15th, and I'd seen everyone else's checks in the forums and in people's messages to me...but I just couldn't shake that feeling that I was going to be waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and eventually find out that I'd been duped and wasn't getting a check.

But then I got my check!!!!!

I barely put any effort into my first month of doing this stuff because I was so convinced it was a scam. But you can bet now, after getting a real check, I'm totally going to put more time into this. Can't wait!

(you can click on the check to see a larger image. $62.70! That was like 3 hours of work!)

Want to get your own check next month? Learn more at my CashCrate blog:

What is CashCrate?

CashCrate is a legitimate, GPT (Get Paid To) site that pays you to complete offers, trials, and surveys, and even play games online! Companies need consumers to test and review products, services, and view websites and are willing to pay money to have people do it. Most of the time, those other companies expect you to do this for nothing, or only reward you with"points" that can only be spent at their store, and usually in unrealistic amounts (30,000 points for 10 music downloads??? Geesh!)

What CashCrate does is take the money companies give us, and give you back up to 75% of it! You can also refer your friends to CashCrate to earn MORE money! That's right--ACTUAL money. You'll get an actual check in the mail!

Best of all, it's TOTALLY free to sign up and complete offers. You will NEVER have to give your credit card info, receive a bill, or pay any type of membership fee to be a part of CashCrate. That's right--FREE!!!


So what are you waiting for!?!?

Getting Paid By CashCrate

A lot of companies out there make statements about paying you for your time and either pay you ONLY in points that you have to cash in at THEIR stores, or they don't pay you at all. Or, you spend HOURS working on their site, only to find that you didn't even earn enough to cover their fees and charges. Who wants to waste their time on that? Certainly not me.

That's what makes CashCrate so great! It's TOTALLY FREE to earn money and you get paid ACTUAL money! That's right--a check will be mailed right to you. Check out our members forum sometime. We LOVE to show off our paychecks!

Best of all, there are no deadlines or "disappearing income" with CashCrate. If you don't meet the minimum payout ($20) for a single month, it simply rolls over into your next month's income! How great is that!?! The money you earn will ALWAYS be yours.

And with our referral program, your income capabilities are endless! So what are you waiting for???

Cash Crate Games

Probably one of my favorite parts about CashCrate is the free online games section. I spend easily an hour or more there every day.

Why? Because it's a fun, fast way to watch your CashCrate points grow exponentially. And more CashCrate points means earning fun things like gift cards, cameras, iPods, and LOADS of other great prizes.

Hey, you're probably already wasting time while dinner's cooking or you're awake at 3a.m. So why not turn that time into something fun? Sign up today and check out this fun, free feature of CashCrate!!!