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How to make money online

March 2nd, 2010

Almost anyone can do it…

This is probably the most-asked question among job seekers and net surfers today. The internet is so vast and covers so much that there must be a way of making money there. There just has to be. In reality, there are ways to make money but there is still work involved in pulling in a few extra hundred dollars every month.

Online Paid Surveys

Online paid surveys will never be counted out as a great way to make money online simply because it is rewarding for the amount of time you put into taking the surveys. Compensation for taking each paid survey can range from $1 – $7 depending on your age, profession, health, birth, income and more. It generally takes around 10-40 minutes for each survey. Beware of fraudulent paid survey panels that dilute the image of paid surveys because they are scammers that don’t pay their survey takers.

Blogging

Although blogging is not for everyone as it involves both patience and passion for the topic you are writing about before your blog will really take off, it can prove to be a great source of income if done right. If you can write and you want to make money from your computer, blogging may be your answer.

Writing

Many large user-run communities such as Examiner.com and About.com pay bloggers to simply write about something of their own expertise and field. What you are joining is a network of writers. This can pull in an extra $600 a month.

Chatting

If writing isn’t your style, be a guide for chatting with anonymous people who need help or guidance at ChaCha.com.

Affiliate Programs

Some well known reputable affiliate networks are Commission Junction and ShareaSale. In affiliate marketing you get compensation for telling or influencing someone else to make a purchase or take action. Affiliate marketing is typically great for blogs, webmasters, and large network owners such as YouTube activists.

Your Own e-Commerce Storefront

Tired of selling on E-bay and Amazon and paying for those auction entry fees? Open your own e-Commerce storefront if you have something to sell. The Internet is in need of more storefronts simply because all the buyers go to Amazon and E-bay. If you have products worth buying, you could be making money and building credibility for your own store brand at the same time.

Make Money Online With Mineeds.com

Mineeds is relatively new. Simply, Mineeds.com is a place where job seekers and people who need tasks done, can come together to negotiate a price that is both fair for both sides for doing a certain task; such as, planning a wedding, web designing, logo designing, almost anything goes. Posting an ad offering a job to job seekers is absolutely free. Since there will of course be competition, getting a job won’t be so easy. The bid that is the cheapest usually wins the job unless you are a reputable member of Mineeds with good user feedback.

Tags: Blogging, Jobseekers, Making money online, Surveys, Writing
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My personal finances and designer coffee

February 15th, 2010

Can a Payday Article pay for 2 coffees and pastries?

I sinned this morning. Somewhere in the Bible there is a commandment, a lesser one, perhaps, but nevertheless a commandment, that says, “Thou shalt not forget”. I forgot, so I paid. This morning my wife had a chore in the adjoining town, saw me sitting blankly in front of the computer and asked if I’d like to come along. With a gasp of relief at having an alternative, I grabbed my car keys and off we went. The business was over in a few minutes and as we walked back to the car she said, “how about morning coffee in the mall?” That was the moment of my sin. Now, too late, I remember the last time we had morning coffee in the mall. But things were different then.

The mall

The mall is huge. Two floors of intense shopping, and to my surprise as a Recession Writer, thronged with people. And most of the people were carrying shopping bags, a sure sign that they are buying or exchanging something they bought that doesn’t fit. The other alternative, I think, is that they are all out there operating on Cash Advance Loans which gives them enough money to make a shopping trip.

The coffee shop

The coffee shop is out of a designer handbook. It features the latest in coffee shop architecture and serves designer coffee to designer housewives wheeling little designer babies. The place is busy and the noise drowns out the coffee music.

We order

My wife orders a small cappuccino and a Danish. I order a medium latte with a shot of caramel syrup and a Danish. The Danish arrive on plates with miniature mounds of cinnamon dust on the side. Delicious! Then we got to the finances.

An article writer

I write articles. An article takes me between 40 and 60 minutes to write, read and send. The average article brings in about $25. The coffee bill:

1 small cappuccino 4.75
1 medium latte with a shot of caramel syrup 5.50
2 Danish pastries with cinnamon in the side 10.00
Tip 2.50
Total 22.75

I’m satisfied

I never do exercises like this in case I come out losing. This particular one came out just fine – I’m quite content to devote an article to a coffee morning in pleasant surroundings which make me feel temporarily flush. Dinner, of course would have been a 3 or 4 article affair depending on the menu. Has my financial life been reduced to an “article scale” in personal economics? I don’t think so, but the article writing side of my life definitely affects the daily pattern.

Last time in the mall

I thought back to our last coffee morning in the same coffee shop in the mall. I was newly unemployed and hurting. The bill for the coffee was probably the same but at that time there were no Payday Articles to the rescue. I cried.

Tags: Coffee, Coffee shops, Malls, Unemployment, Writing
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