Paid Survey Success

When consider ways to make money online, online survey money is some of the easiest you can come across. Anyone just starting out online can easily get started with paid surveys and start making money right away. There’s no need for special programming skills or understanding of internet marketing like in so many other online money making ventures, all you need is an internet connection, an opinion and a desire to make more money from home.

If you’ve been looking for a quick and easy way to make money from home then you need to give online surveys for money a chance. You may not know it, but lots of people started their online careers with these types of paid surveys. It can be a way to supplement your current income or a way to get funds for more ambitious projects, either way you win with online survey money, because it is so darn easy.

In fact, the hardest part about making money online with surveys is actually finding the survey sites that pay. And I’ve taken care of that part by rounding them all up and putting them in one easy list that you can just browse through and use to sign up for over 300 survey websites. With a list like that you can get some online survey money without doing any of the research to find the survey companies.

A free list is definitely the way to go since you don’t want to have to spend your own money just for information that is freely available on the internet. It’s these paid services that have given the paid survey industry a bad name. The survey companies themselves all pay very well and why not, they are making their money from your answers and they want to keep you around. That’s why they are willing to pay you for surveys in the first place.

I have yet to find a quicker, easier or safer way to make money online than with paid surveys. It’s how I got started and I am so glad that I took the time to put together a list of paid survey sites and to register with them all. Having so many options meant that I could pick and choose my surveys or work a little bit more during times I needed more money.

It may not be glamorous, but I can tell you that online survey money spends the same as any other money you can make.

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I’ve been exploring ways to make money online outside of paid surveys and todays post is a tried and true money maker.  If you haven’t heard yet about Squidoo you should go and check it out because there are lots of people that have been making good money by authoring Squidoo lenses.  You probably won’t get rich, but it is another way to make some cash from the internet and it’s a good way to diversify your online income.  And if you’re just getting started making money online Squidoo is a great way to build confidence, get motivated and start learning about internet marketing.

One of the major reasons people give up on trying to make money online is they don’t have the patience required to market and establish a new blog.  As a consequence they lose their confidence, motivation and faith in their ability to make money online.

How Will Squidoo Help You Get Started With Internet Marketing?

Squidoo is a free platform that allows you to author what they call ‘lenses’.  These lenses are really just web pages and they have one big advantage over starting your own website.  The advantage is that Squidoo is already highly regarded by search engines which means it is much easier to get your lenses indexed.  This means you should start seeing traffic to your new lenses quickly which will be a big confidence booster and motivator.  There’s nothing like that first sale or seeing people view your site to boost your morale and motivation.

What makes Squidoo a good way for anyone to start making money online?

1. Once you create an account and get used to working with Squidoo you can create a lens in as little as 10-15 minutes.  Try doing that with a blog or website.

2. Squidoo will allow you to rank well in Google almost right away because the site has high authority and trust.  Getting your own site in the top 10 results in Google can be very difficult and requires hours or marketing work, but with Squidoo all that work has been done for you already.  By doing a little bit of keyword research you can get a highly rank lens page pretty quickly and easily.

3. Unlike other free web authoring sites Squidoo allows you to promote affiliate products.  You can put your own affiliate links into your lens and start making money from day 1 with Squidoo.  Some popular affiliate networks include Clickbank and Commission Junction.  Just find a product and build your lens around it.

4. Since the lenses are so quick and easy to set up Squidoo is a great place to experiment with different offers, layouts and ads to see what will convert for you.  You can use Squidoo to identify profitable niches before taking the time to build an entire website around them.

5. Along the lines of yesterdays post Squidoo is a good way to diversify your online income.  It gives you one more way to get some additional cash each month.

You can get started with Squidoo here

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You may have heard that diversification in the stock market is a good thing to reduce risk.  Well, the same thing applies to your online business.  The more ways you have set-up to make money the safer you’ll be.  That’s why I’ve started sharing additional ideas outside of paid surveys with you.  I want you to be able to make money in a variety of ways.  This not only makes your income safer, but it’s a lot more interesting too!

Yesterday I introduced you to the idea of freelance writing to make some extra money online.  I want to drill down on this idea a little bit today by focusing on just one of the websites I highlighted for you yesterday.  I’m going to give you some tips for using Associated Content to add to your online income fairly easily.

Associated Content is a website that pays their authors in two ways.  First, they will pay you an ongoing commission of $1.50 per 1000 views for every article you submit to them.  This is forever so the more you submit the more this passive income stream will grow.  I don’t know about you, but I love to keep getting paid forever for work I only have to do once.

The second way they pay is through direct payments to the article authors.  That’s right, they will pay you for your articles!  There is just one condition your article needs to meet; it must be original content written by you.  That’s it.  In my experience you can get paid anywhere from $3.53 to $7.50 per article.  Keep in mind I have only been writing for them for less than a month so these numbers could be higher or lower.

In the past two weeks I have had 4 articles accepted for a total of $19.43.  Not bad considering the articles were fairly short (400-500 words) and took me just a bit over an hour to write.  I am also getting commissions based on page views now and after 10 days the total there is a whopping $0.58!  I know not much at all, but keep in mind it is only 4 articles over 10 days.  Imagine 400 articles over the course of a year

There are several things I think you can do to maximize the amount of money you make with Associated content.

• Make your articles specific and focused, not general.  For example, it’s better to write about fancy blue widgets rather than just widgets.
• Write articles in batches.  Since you’re doing the research now it is easier to write 3-4 articles at a time while everything is fresh in your mind.
• When you submit articles you will be asked for optional information like images and reference links.  Include these and it seems like you’ll get paid more.
• If you haven’t already start participating in social sites like Digg and StumbleUpon.  Good articles submitted to these sites can get you thousands of page views.

Again, this is not something you can use to quit your day job, but it is one more thing you can do to make some extra money quickly and easily online.  Combined with other strategies like paid surveys and you’ll start to see your monthly earnings increasing.

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