Saturday, August 22, 2009

Paying Your Mortgage Off by Earning Additional Income

If earning additional income online was so easy that you could be paying your mortgage off just by using that extra income, everyone would be doing it right? Wrong. You have probably heard claims of just how easy it is to earn additional income online and make easy money by never leaving your house. But odds are (and rightfully so) you ignored those claims and advertisements thinking they were just too good to be true (because many of them are!). But just think for a second how great it would be if you really could be paying your mortgage off (or paying your rent) just by the money you make online...and not from your "real" job!

IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES

We all know money is tighter than these days than it has been in the past and many of us are feeling the effects of a slow economy. Jobs are being lost, budgets are being cut, but you and your family's expenses still remain the same. If you have not lost your job in the last year or two you probably know someone, or are affected by, someone who has. Homes are being foreclosed on at record rates because people like you and I are finding it more and more difficult to pay off our mortgages. But what if there was just an easy way to earn additional income, and what if that additional income was enough to make your mortgage payment every month?

HOW EASY IS IT?

The "too-good-to-be-true" advertisements for sitting on your couch and earning money often are, but the truth is there are real possibilities to earning extra income every month. People just like you or me that have taken advantage of these opportunities have earned anywhere from $400 to $5000 per month! On average, a typical $200,000 home probably has payments around $1000 each month. Just imagine being able to pay that whole mortgage (or at least some of it!) while still being able to hold on to your current paycheck! I'm not sitting here (on my couch) saying that you will earn $5000 your first month of trying this, but would you turn down a few hundred dollars of additional income?

HOW TO DO IT

Paying your mortgage off may be closer than you think. Online paid surveys often get immediately placed under the "spam" or "scam" labels because they got so popular so quickly that many bogus companies took advantage of this. There are legitimate ways to make additional money by participating in these surveys though. Read that last sentence again. You just have to know where to look. This is the part where I tell you to go to my review site, but the truth is there are many legitimate (just like there are many scam sites) places that will pay for your opinion. Earning additional income can be done, and you should start now!

Sunday, May 3, 2009

4 Tips You Should Know Before Joining Online Paid Survey Sites

These four tips for online paid survey sites will bring thousands of dollars to your bank account and completely change your life. OK that is a little bit of an exaggeration. However, these survey sites do give you the opportunity to better your lifestyle and pay off some of your bills, rent, or mortgage. Online paid survey sites have been around long enough now that millions of people have heard of them and thousands have tried them. Some have been paid a significant amount of money through them while others have not had as much success. So before you try for yourself, consider these four tips before joining online paid survey sites.

1. Unrealistic expectations of getting paid.

Many of these online survey sites promise that you can make tens of thousands of dollars just by completing surveys. While this is not out of the realm of possibility you should not expect this kind of money from an online paid survey site. Numbers such as $200, $400, or $1000 a month are very realistic numbers you can expect with the ability to add to that.

2. Like any other job, you need to invest time in the process.

You have a job already. You don't need to complete surveys from 9-5 every day to see a result, but expect to spend 20-30 minutes to an hour a day completing these online forms to get paid. Each survey on average takes anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes to complete so put in as much or as little time as you want!

3. Get a new email and a PayPal account.

These online paid survey sites are not scams (at least the good ones), but they do want your email address and some (though again the good ones do not) want your credit card number to bill you charges they put in the fine print. Get a new free email (such as Yahoo or Hotmail) account to use for all of your surveys. This not only will keep track of your survey offers but keep your regular inbox from flooding. A PayPal account lets the money get placed directly into your account after completing an online survey and your credit card number out of their hands.

4. Research the sites first.

There are literally dozens of different online paid survey sites out there that want your money. Some are great, some are just average, and some will not make you money. Find some reviews of the survey sites to find which ones work the best first so that you can start getting paid right away!

Monday, April 20, 2009

Make Money in Your Underwear: Getting Paid Cash For Online Surveys

Making money in your underwear in the comfort of your own home is just too good to be true. Right? Well not quite. You may have seen the offers of getting paid cash for online surveys before and the promises that you will make thousands upon just signing up for these programs. Now the thousands of dollars they say you can make may be unrealistic, but paying your rent, mortgage, bills, Christmas shopping, or your next vacation are actual realistic expectations for online surveys.

That's right. You won't be a millionaire overnight - or ever from these surveys - but you can get paid cash for your surveys, opinions, and insights that companies use to help shape their marketing decisions. You see, companies are always looking to be on the cutting edge on what their customers - or future customers - are looking for in their products and services. What used to be done in person with interviews, focus groups, or over the phone via telemarketing is now being done largely on the internet. This is cheaper and quicker for them because they save money in time and employees as the surveys are automated via the computer. The result? You getting paid cash for online surveys!

Now before you quit your job and lounge around in your underwear all day and night, you need to know the expectations on making money through the surveys. Do not expect the tens and thousands of dollars you may see on these sites. These are real cases, but they are rare and from people who spent every waking hour completing online surveys for cash. You probably have a real job, a family, and time in your day that you don't want to be filling out forms. But, if you took the 10 or 15 minutes every day to fill out a survey or two it could go a long way towards helping out your personal finances.

Most online surveys pay $5, $10, $15, or $25 to complete. Just one online survey a day for $10 adds up to $300 a month. Complete them in the morning before work, on your lunch hour, or at night before bed. I don't have to tell you what an extra $300 a month could do for you and your family in this economy! And if you complete more than one a day on average, then more power to you. Whether you complete these online surveys in your underwear or fully clothed is not my business, but you should make it yours!

Friday, April 17, 2009

3 Tips to Get Cash for Taking Surveys

You have probably seen all the offers to get cash for taking surveys and wondered about the legitimacy of them. They promise that you can get paid thousands of dollars for taking surveys and never leaving your home. Is it really that easy though? In a word, no. However, navigating through the mess of all the offers can help you to put extra cash in your wallet because you actually can get paid for taking surveys - and you really can make a lot of money. These survey sites will by no means make you a millionaire, but they can pay many of your bills.

No time than now has ever been more important for people to save money, be smarter about their money, and try to earn extra cash any way possible. These online paid survey sites have grown to be very popular in recent years because of their promises to offer you cash for taking surveys and participating in focus groups. Many less-legitimate sites have popped up though taking advantage of anyone looking to get extra cash. Whether you are new to the whole process or have been taking these surveys for years, the following tips will help not only to earn extra cash for taking the surveys but keep you safe through the process.

1. Get a new free email address. Hotmail, Yahoo, and Google are the leading sites for this, but just get a new email address to use for the survey sites for a couple of reasons. The first is that upon signing up for a couple of these programs, you will literally hundreds of emails with surveys you can take and get paid cash for. This will help you to not only keep the offers organized but to avoid cluttering up your regular inbox. The other reason is that many of these companies (although they say they won't) will keep your email in their database and you will begin receiving all of their mailouts.

2. Sign up for Paypal. You may already have a Paypal account, but most of these programs allow you to get paid cash through Paypal. That is, they will deposit cash straight into your account after you finish taking surveys. This eliminates the "hassle" (if getting paid is a hassle) of collecting checks and depositing them. Paypal is also a free, safe intermediary that is very secure and of course instantaneous.

3. Find a review site. Of course I'm going to tell you to go to my review site (duh!), but there are many sites which review all of these paid survey sites. There are scams out there, but there are also some great opportunities to get cash for taking surveys. Do not sign up for one without any prior knowledge of the best and highest-paying programs. Good luck!