Trying Out: Minute Workers...

I've just recently joined Minute Workers. Pays you to do little online tasks, from $0.10 per task upwards. Not sure what the tasks involve yet, but will update when I find out. For now, I can see a scrolling thingymejig showing some of the tasks that have been completed by members, including:

- a download and install task for $0.72

- a posting task for $0.90

- a sign-up task for $0.09, which is basically less than the minimum they advertise on their site. I quote:

"These tasks will pay a minimum of $0.10 per task".

Anyway...

Minimum payout...

...is low: $2.00.

Payment method

Well on the homepage, it mentions Paypal, but when I went into the forum, it mentioned Paypal and AlertPay.

Pay frequency...

...weekly, as long as the minimum payout's been reached of course.

Signing up...

...was quick - took me a minute or two. I was then sent an email to activate my account, which I did. So I'm in now.

note: for anyone who plans on joining, your log-in details are in the activation email so don't delete it.

They also pay for posting on their forum...

$0.01 a post/thread, but you have to create 50 posts as a tester first. Hmm. Not really feeling that amount of posts. I’d understand if it was 10 posts, even 15....but 50?


100,000+ members...

Minute Workers boasts over 100,000 members (it says on the home page), so I'm hoping it's an indication of how good the site is. I guess I'll find out soon enough, good or bad.


Will keep y'all posted.

UPDATE: So far, I'm not terribly impressed with MW. A lot of the available tasks on there seem to have been created by 'employers' looking to earn from referrals once you complete them. Of these, several are download tasks, sign-up tasks and survey tasks. I guess there's nothing wrong with that per se (as long as it's not against the rules of the site they want you to join), but it's not what I was expecting when I joined MW - I thought there'd be a wider variety of tasks. For now, sign-ups, surveys and downloads seem to be a running theme.

Some tasks ask you to click on ads, which I'm not comfortable with. Other tasks, I noticed, don't seem to be paying enough for what they require you to do (in my opinion).

I've completed one task worth $0.54 so far (currently pending), which was a sign-up to a GPT site I've heard of before and know is legit. I then had to complete one offer once I joined the site.

Minute Workers apparently add new tasks every 4 hours, so I hope there'll be ones I feel like doing over the next few days.


UPDATE 2: The task I did has been approved. I noticed it was initially $0.60 not $0.54 and wondered why I got less. Turns out for every task you do, 10% admin is taken off. I don't know if there's also a fee incurred when you request a payment, but if so, then I won't be feeling the whole double-charge thing. Saying that though, Fiverr charges 20% for every service you sell through them - quite a significant slice. Anyway, I've completed one more task on Minute Workers, plus I've a few more I might do. Will keep you posted.

UPDATE 3: The 2nd task I attempted has been approved. I've now earned a total of $0.63. Onwards and upwards. Gonna look for another task to do.


Ebele.

September: How I'm Doing So Far?

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Hey :-)

How do?

In terms of earnings, September's looking better than last month. I'm at $94.27 at the mo', which is about $20 more than I made last month.

With roughly 2 weeks of Sept left to go, I have time to make more. Where that's gonna come from:

 - well, the blog writing I'm doing for a client will bring in the chunk of the money.

 - Swagbucks: I'm inching closer to reaching a $5 payout (Paypal). I need 700 swagbucks to request it and I'm currently at 549.

- I might look into doing a bit of forum posting, though it's not really one of my favourite things to do. I mean, I don't really mind it, but it doesn't make me go "Oh gee, I can't wait to snap out of the wet dream I'm having about Kermit the Frog so I can forum post". You know what I'm saying?


Also gonna spend what's left of the month looking into what else I can do online to earn money. Something that's creative, enjoyable.


Anyway, hope you're having a productive month, y'all. If not, you're human, it happens, forgive yourself.


I'm out. I'm pink. I'm a cookie.

Ebele.

Review: UniqueRewards...

It's been a while since I reviewed a site, so I thought I'd try out this one: UniqueRewards.com.

UniqueRewards is one of a truckload of GPT (get paid to) sites I've seen out there, so in that sense the site's not that 'unique'. You get money for doing a variety of things including reading emails, taking surveys, checking out sites, shopping online and trying out products.

Who can join?

Only folks in the UK, US and Canada can join, unfortunately. Maybe they'll open it wider in the future. Cashle used to be open to the UK/US only, then it opened its doors to all countries, so you never know.

Registering...

Registration didn't take me longer than a few minutes. When you register, UniqueRewards gives you a $5 sign-up bonus.

Note: When you fill in the registration form and get to Step 2, you don't have to complete the offers on that page. I unchecked any checkboxes that were checked, clicked on FINISH and that was that. Also, on the page after that, I was asked to complete one of 2-minute offers in order to receive the $5 sign-up bonus. I didn't. But I still got the $5 bonus in my account.

Minimum payout/Payment methods...

The minimum payout is $20, which I think is quite high. However, the $5 sign-up bonus helps.

Payment methods are via Paypal and cheque. I’m obviously gonna opt for Paypal.

When do they pay?

Once you reach minimum payout, you're paid the following Monday. I'm not a big GPT person, so if I manage to drum up the patience to reach the minimum, I'll keep y'all posted on how long it actually took from the time I requested payment. They do have a referral program so that might help me reach the minimum quicker. We'll see.

Their referral program...

- you earn $1 when your referral completes his/her first offer

- $5 per active referral. ‘Active’ in Unique Rewards land means for every $20+ your referral earns.

- you also earn 10% of all your referrals' earnings

- there's no limit to how many referrals you can have


Anyway, now I've joined the site, I'm gonna take a look around, see what's up. Will update soon.



UPDATES... 

10TH SEPT:

 - I went to a section of the site known as Cash Clicks. There were 9 sites for me to view. For every one I clicked on and viewed for at least 30 secs, I got a cent. New balance: $5.09.

 - Went back to my account and saw there were a group of Hot Offers for me to complete. I only did one worth 10 cents involving a travel site.

 - Went to the Cash Offers section - completed one offer (joined Maximiles) - worth $0.50+ 10%. Not sure what the 10% means though.

 - Offers take 12-48 hrs to be approved, so I'll give it that and see what happens.

There are lots of offers available, but there aren't many I really wanna complete, which is probably why I tend not to do that great with GPT sites. Some of the offers also look familiar as I've seen them on other GPT sites before. I'll probably stick to the cash clicks, maybe try a survey or two every now & then aaaaaaand look out for the odd offer that I actually wanna join.


12TH SEPT:

 - The offers I did (worth $0.60) were approved yesterday. That's pretty quick and is in line with the 12-48 hrs UniqueRewards says offers usually take to approve. I also received an extra 10% on top of that (6 cents) 'cos they're doing a promo for two days where you get an extra 10% on top of every offer that's completed.

- There was a fresh batch of Cash Clicks to view - 11 this time - worth a cent each. So that's an extra 11 cents.

New balance: $5.86.


14TH SEPT: Clicked on more cash clicks. I've done enough to notice that a fresh batch of clicks tend to appear every 24 hours b/w 12am-1am (GMT) ((scratch that - I assumed wrong)). I've also had a few cash emails to view (1 cent per email). Apart from that, nothing new to report.

New balance: $6.12.


17TH SEPT: Haven't been doing anything else really but cash clicks and viewing a few cash emails. Might attempt one offer or survey today.

New balance: $6.51.


23RD SEPT: I'm at just over $7.00 now. Cash clicks, the odd cash email, that's it. I've earned $1.32 in cash clicks since I joined, so that averages about $0.12 a day. I wanna speed things up, so I need to look at completing some offers.

New balance: $7.05.


28TH SEPT: I was at $7.50 or so yesterday. Then I logged into my account today and it had jumped to $8.76! Mama got an active referral, that's what! (thank you, whoever you are - hope you earn good change).

New balance: $8.76.


5TH OCT: Edging closer to the halfway mark. I noticed I now have an image that appears in my account, showing someone walking towards a bag of gold - a measure of where I am regarding payout. Cute lil touch. :-)

Another thing: once you receive your first $20 payout, you automatically earn more from completing offers. I think it's something like 40% more. Will double check that and confirm.

New balance: $9.49.


10TH OCT: Halfway mark reached!

New balance: $10.00.


22ND OCT: I'm at just over $11 now.

New balance: $11.03.


30TH OCT: Surprise $5 bonus for an active referral!

New balance: $16.62.


16TH NOVEMBER: Getting there!

New balance: $17.79.


11TH DECEMBER: Just under 50 cents to go now til I can cash out!

New balance: $19.51.


18TH DECEMBER: $20.00 MINIMUM PAYOUT REACHED!

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Payout requested. Paypal. From reading UniqueReward's FAQ, it looks like they pay every Monday, so I should be receiving it soon.

19TH DECEMBER: Got paid!


Ebele.

I'd No Idea I Had Money in my Cashle Account :-)

Cashle's one of many GPT sites out there: get paid to complete offers, do surveys, watch videos, yada yada yada. I've been with Cashle for a bit, but haven't logged in for a good many months.

Anyway, I logged in recently and to my surprise found $3.44 sitting in my account! Had no idea.

As Cashle's minimum payout via Paypal is only $1.00, I cashed that baby out quick time!

$3.44 ain't much - it's not exactly gonna solve a debt crisis, is it now? But it's a nice little surprise. Here in the UK, $3.44 converts to £2.14. That's a local bus or train fare and some change. Or it can buy me a generous portion of chicken and a can of tomatoes I can use to make myself a mean spicy stew. Enough for two or three dinners. Orrrrr I can use it to treat myself to some tiramisu!

Anyhoo, here's the proof of my Cashle payment (click on image to view larger size):

I've started checking all my accounts I haven't visited in a while. You never know, there might be some money sitting there waiting for me to cash out! No harm in checking, methinks!

Ebele.

August 2011: Online Earnings - Didn't Do Too Well...

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I really didn't do well in August in the online earnings department. Not well at all. Made less than $100.

But, ho hum, that's the reality of making money online - it comes with its peaks and dips. Or maybe I'm just telling myself that.

Also, things were quite good for me offline, so I guess I didn't put myself under as much pressure to work online.

Plus, I'm not doing CloudCrowd anymore, so that had an impact on my earnings.

August Earnings: $75.64

Breakdown...

- Blog writing - $74.24

- Squidoo - $1.10 (Create single pages of info. Range of topics. Each single page is called a lens. I only have one lens there at the mo'.)

- CloudCrowd - $0.30 (more about CloudCrowd)

...and that's it.


On a more positive note, my August earnings pushed my total online income for this year to over $3000, plus my total earnings are better than last year's by about $330 ...and the year's not out yet!


My offline funds are steadily decreasing so I need to get back on top of things online. Every little really can help.

September's a new month so we'll just see how it goes. :-)


I'm out,

Ebele.