Friday, June 22, 2007

SOME GREAT WAYS TO EARN

When you're low on cash and you need to pay your rent, bills and buy food, it's natural to jump online and look for a quick solution to your money crunch problem. However, once you start weeding your way through the vast information sludge pile of make money quick schemes, it's hard not to get discouraged.

Sure, they'll tell you up front that you can make money quick and easy, but then you'll quickly realize that the only ones making money quick are those same people selling you empty promises.

So, can you really make money quick online?

Yes, you can, although, making any specific amount of money isn't absolutely guaranteed. Below are five suggestions of how you can generate some cash fairly quickly if you're willing to do a little work.

Free Online Paid Survey

It's really easy to find companies online that are willing to pay you a small fee for answering questionnaires about their products and services. Companies need consumer feedback so that they can improve existing products and get ideas for how they can offer consumers new products in a particular market.

This is actually a valuable service you are providing the companies, but normally you won't make very much per survey. However, if you are dedicated to doing this every day, you can make a decent part-time income. There are no special skills needed to do survey work, you just have to be willing to give your honest opinion.

Now the one thing that you'll want to avoid is paying a survey for cash directory site money upfront to gain access to their list of companies who offer surveys. You'll find there are several of these sites that charge a fee (usually around $39) before they will allow you to access their online site to look for survey opportunities.

A survey company that has a great reputation online is CashCrate.com. CashCrate is free to join and you will have plenty of opportunities to fill out surveys and get paid. You only need to earn $10 to be issued a check, and that is pretty easy to do.

How it works is that companies pay CashCrate directly for this service and CashCrate will share 75% of this revenue with you. You'll get paid once a month, plus, they also have a great two-tier paid referral program.

Quick One Day Ebay Auction

If you have some clothes, jewelry, handbags, toys, etc. lying around the house that you want to get rid of, this is a good way to make some cash from your used items.

When you sell online auction goods this way, you want to first decide what you're going to sell, then go online to the eBay site to the Buy Now category. See what others are selling in your category and for what price.

Put up a one day auction for half the price of what others are selling their items for. Make sure you use the Buy Now button. Hopefully, this technique will sell your items quickly to those looking for a fast and easy bargain.

If you don't already have an eBay seller's account, you can go there now and sign up for one.

Paid Forum Posting

Another way to make money quick online is to get paid to post on various message forums. There are tons of forums online - many of them very good - that need to look active in order to attract new members. The fastest way for these forum owners to get things moving is to pay a service that hires people to make hundreds of posts about all kinds of interesting topics.

In order to be accepted by these services, you'll need a good command of the English language, time to do lots of posting, and be able to sound intelligent and engaging. A typical payment is $0.10 to $0.15 per post.

Here's three forum posting services that will pay you cash for your time.

ForumAdvantage.com

ForumBooster.com

PaidPosting.net

Warrior Forum WSO - Warrior Special Offers

If you are a good writer, you can make some quick cash at this popular online marketing forum by creating what's called PLR (Private Label Rights) content and selling it for a bargain price in the special WSO section of the forum.

It's a good idea to go there first and see what others are offering. There's a hot market for web site content. Lot's of people have websites in need of good quality content, but can't or aren't able to do the writing themselves. That's where you come in. You can do some research on a topic that's in demand, write about 10 articles or so, bundle them into a pdf and offer them for sale.

Note: You should join the forum first, and make about 20+ posts in the general discussion area, to give people there a chance to know you. It's a fact that people are more willing to buy from someone they know and trust.

It cost $20 to register a WSO, so you'll need to be prepared to pay this fee up front for access to all of these eager buyers. You'll also need to set up a Paypal seller account, which is easy. Just go to Paypal.com and follow the instructions.

After you've posted your WSO, if someone wants to buy from you, they'll click on the beer icon (it's called buying you a beer - or soda, etc.). This will lead the buyer to your Paypal seller's page where they will purchase the item from you. You'll need to monitor your email for sales notification from Paypal so you can email each verified buyer their information within a short period of time.

Digital Point Forum Services

Digital Point is a great forum that holds discussions on topics of interest to people doing business online. They also have a Buy, Sell or Trade area where you can either find people looking for help with various online needs or you can post an offer for your services. You will need to have a Paypal Seller account to receive money.

This is an active section and you'll find there are people there willing to pay real money if you can deliver what they want. Here are some services that you can offer:

  • Article Writing
  • Blog Posting
  • Copywriting
  • Forum Posting
  • Graphic Designer
  • Logo Designer
  • Programming
  • Translation to English
  • Web Site Designer

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