Credit Sesame Is Giving $150 Amazon Gift card to users who get six referrals!

The website Credit Sesame is offering a $150 amazon gift card if you sign up and get six people to sign up under you. I imagine that many of you know six people that would be willing to do this. I know this seems like a scam, and I even thought that as well, but I went ahead and did it and should receive my gift card soon. Many people on reddit.com/r/beermoney have already discussed receiving their card very quickly after they got their six referrals. I really think this is something great and I thought that the least that I could do is share it with you.

The link to sign up to the site is here, the site is 100% free. The site did not ask me for anything other than my address and SSN for the matter of getting my credit report. No payment information was requested and there was not even a place that it had to be put in. The site looks to be well trusted. I believe that this is a good opportunity for us all prior to the Christmas season.

Like Football? Want to earn some quick cash? Check out Victiv!

Hey Guys,

Just stumbled on this new site called Victiv where you can enter a free (100%) football fantasy league for a chance to win up to $25 per week. You can of course win more if you would like to deposit some money but this was not the route that I was taking when I first signed up to the site today. It did not require me to put in any payment information in order to use the site and I had already picked my roster to prepare for tomorrow's matchups in a matter of minutes. I will keep you posted on the results of the first week I am doing this but I felt I would let anyone know that wants to try the site as well the chance to do so.

Good luck to all on Victiv that try it!

Smart Trick for Quick Swagbucks

For those of you that use Swagbucks and have been curious as to how to get swagbucks quickly, yet passively I wanted to share one of the things that I have started doing to get some swagbucks with minimal effort. Swagbucks offers 10 swagbucks per coupon that you clip and use, while some of these coupons may be useful and relevant to you, not all of them are, so what you can do is print them all off and put the coupon next to the item. You will not use it, but it may be of use to someone else. During your shopkicking or grocery shopping trips, simply drop the coupon off by the item and wait. If you have access to a free printer like I do at university then this makes this trick even sweeter. With the 438 coupons that are currently available this equates to 4,380 swagbucks just for putting coupons around in a store if they are all used. To me this is a significant amount of passive income for minimal effort. Hope this works for all of you as well.

Have a great week!

Updated Mturk Stats

Hey Everyone, since school has let out it has given me the opportunity to focus a little more on Mturk for some more extra money; after I had been mostly focusing on clickworker with my busier schedule. Here's my updated dashboard to start off the summer:

If there's any questions about Mturk, or the work that I do feel free to leave a comment.

Consistent $4-5 Daily Via Microworkers / Gomez Peer

As of late I have been checking up on the site microworkers.com a lot just to see if there's any steady work there and to my surprise there actually is. Each and every day about 10 AM CST there are search hits where you search three different keyboards, then paste the code into the box on microworkers for $.18 per hit. There are usually around 30 hits available of this format to do and this has been a great boost for me. Doing these hits along I will net around $150 a month just from microworkers and this is more than enough to pay my gas expenses that usually come from my eBay selling. 

As for my other sites and money making opportunities,  at the end of February I finally got accepted to Gomez Peer. I had been a member for awhile but not had my accounted activated until now. They pay you to just run your PC, which is something that I have going all of the time anyway so it does not matter to me that much. I have made $8 in a couple weeks on there and am pretty satisfied with that. They pay via paypal. 

Due to Midterms last week I had been quite busy keeping up to date with the blog here but I will be able to post a little more now that they're over. Hope everyone has been making some money!

BTCJAM - Invest Your Bitcoins

If you are someone that is looking to grow your amount of bitcoins without actually buying more then the website btcjam.com may just be for you. On this site, you can request a loan in bitcoins and lenders will pay you that money and then you have to pay it back on a certain percent every so often. If you own a decent amount of bitcoins then this site would be great for you to invest in. I will probably be doing some myself even though the amount of bitcoins that I have is not that great. I have seen that they pay back 5% or more. This is a steady, good way, to increase your bitcoin total.

If you have experience with this site, good or bad, or just have any questions feel free to ask.

Artistic? Post your Photos to Deviantart & Make Passive Income

If you have any artistic talent you may have heard of Deviantart. This website brings together all things art and it also allows you to sell your art on the site. This could be a great way to get some passive income if you are passionate about drawing, photography, or anything of that nature as a hobby. I currently have a few of my own photos on that site and they are listed for sale as prints. There is no work involved for you, all you do is upload the image and then select print. Deviantart themselves will take care of all of the work and then they will give you commission being the owner of the piece of art. Hopefully some of you can sell some of your great art and make some passive income at home too. In the long run this could lead you to being a primary seller of art and being able to quit that 9-5 Job just from commissions!

My photos are not great, but here are some of the examples that I have listed on the site that can be bought as prints:

Slice The Pie. Make Money Listening to Music!

Today I decided to try out a new money making website just to make a little more extra per month as I always am and although I have heard about Slice the Pie I had never tried the site. The website, which is here allows you to listen to music, 90 second clips at a time and you must write a review of them. I write my reviews while the music is playing and I am always over the character limit before the song ends. I find this site very easy to make some money, and I am no audio expert. I tested the site for 11 minutes today and I managed to make $1.33. This isn't much, but you can do this site in your down time as much as you want and this definitely is much more of a money maker than other sites and apps I have talked about. I usually set goals for myself which each site/app I use to reach each day and I feel like $10 would be reachable on slicethepie in just over an hour. I made an average of 17 cents per song, and this took only 90 seconds. This is the start out pay for everyone I believe and it is already what is the minimum wage in most states, just to listen to music. If your reviews are good, you are able to move up in time and make even more. I plan to work on Slicethepie more to see my results and I will report them here. The minimum payout for Slicethepie is $10, paypable via paypal and I am hopeful to make this amount each day with a little work.

Good luck and happy listening everyone.

Jingit Update -- Debit Card Received!

Yesterday I received the debit card that you are able to order with the rewards app I wrote about earlier this month called Jingit. It came very quickly, and the card looks better than expected. It is a Visa with the Jingit logo on the top left. This is pretty handy for the rewards app since you can simply load the Jingit card as you make money on the site and then use the card as you please. The activation was quick and easy as it should be.

So far my experience with Jingit has been pretty mediocre. I have made around $5 on the site, and so far it has been difficult to make much more money using it. Still, I make a few cents here and there and it may not seem like much but this could add up to around $100 a year, which if spent wisely could turn into much more.

I found a new rewards app that deals with QR codes that I will be writing about soon after my initial tests of it.

Update on Mining -- New Pool / Hardware Updates

I have realized that Triplemining may not be the best site for me when it comes to long term mining simply because of the pay per 24 hour method that they use. They only pay you for the shares you solved in the last 24 hours, which is great, if the block ends in a decent amount of time. However, this current block is approaching 700 hours and at this point if you have a Jalapeno miner like myself all that run time is netting you close to nothing. I have decided the new pool I will be using is called Multipool. They also allow you to mine for other coins that use a similar algorithm as bitcoin and they pay based on how many shares you solved compared to the number of shares total, which is much better. I will update on the type of money that I am able with my miners using Multipool in the near future.

As far as my hardware, all is doing well since I got it. I have 6 ASIC erupters that are constantly going and I also have the BFL jalapeno which runs at a constant 50 Celsius  I have fans on all my equipment that is running to ensure that it stays cool. I am so far satisfied with how quickly it can produce, going over 11 GH/S almost all the time!

Bitcoin ASIC Miners!

About a week ago I decided to invest in a Butterfly Labs ASIC Miner as well as a group of six block eruptors that came as a set. I knew that there was a good chance that I would not gain back my investment but I figured it would still be a cool experience to see what this thing can do. I paid around $700.00 for everything that I got and it came in the mail today. I use Triplemining.com as mentioned in a previous post as my mining pool. Well, 3 hours into the mining I am throughly impressed. The machine has already made me $5.50 worth of bitcoins in just 3 hours. This is 1/2 of what a calculator said it would make in 24 hours so it is well above the pace. I read many articles saying a small miner like this, the Jalapeno, was not worth it anymore because of the investment not being able to be returned. Even with the difficulty going up I believe this mining setup will still be able to make back what I have in in less than a month. If you have been discouraged about investing in a small miner please do invest! Using triplemining seems to be good and is outdoing any calculations I had seen before. If you are wondering how to get started mining I have a previous post that briefly explains it and I am willing to answer questions too!

Happy Mining everyone!

I will keep up to date how this miner is doing as well as how much income bitcoin mining can really make with a small investment.

1/4 Million Hits Reached

Just wanted to share a milestone I reached today. 250,000 submitted since end of September 2012. Work has been a lot slower lately but starting to gain some steam again.

Microworkers - Work From Home

Microworkers.com is another site that is similar to mturk in a sense that you do small tasks for not a lot of money but this money can add up quickly. While I would definitely not suggest microworkers as a site that will get you a lot of money, it is always nice to get a few dollars extra. I have earned about $50 on the site since starting to use it in May 2013 and this is hardly working on it at all.
Microworkers will pay you via paypal and you must have at least $10 made in order to get this money. While this is not a lot, it still has been taking me several weeks to get this $10. I would recommend doing this site daily to earn an okay amount, but there is only about 200 tasks available for me at any given time.
The earnings that can be made on microworkers is similar to what I make on swagbucks.

Smartphone Users! Shopkick!

     This is a post that will be strictly for those people that have access to a smartphone, whether that be Android or iPhone. There is an app available in both app stores that is called Shopkick. I have been using this app for 4 months now, so I feel I finally am able to spread the word about it and how it can benefit you today! If you get your groceries at Walmart, Target this app will really come in handy for you.

How it works!

     Shopkick is quite simple. All you do is scan products that they show you on the app and you get "kicks". Each product is usually worth a different amount of kicks. The kicks can be exchanged for gift cards to those stores you're shopping at or other stores of your choosing such as Starbucks. The way they are calculated is $2 for every 500 kicks you obtain. This may seem like a lot, but I usually am able to get this much each trip to Target, and this only takes me about 10 minutes of scanning items that I am already near while I am shopping! There are several items worth 100 kicks alone, and you even get kicks for walking into the store.

Redeeming & Using the Money

     The way you get money from this is that it allows you to trade in the amount of kicks that you have for giftcards. Being able to get $2 almost every single time I go to Target is very helpful on my grocery bill. I find myself making nearly $20 a month just using this app. While this may not be a lot, combining this with couponing, I save over 50% almost every single grocery trip compared to when I did not shopkick or use coupons! This is incredible savings over a years time and I have not changed the food or beverages that I buy.

     There are some times when there will be products that you are not able to find on the app, but do not panic, the products do not go away and they actually become worth more kicks the next time that you come to the store. The cashiers at Target and Starbucks that I have used the giftcards at are always willing to be patient with you. I have used multiple giftcards at once before and they gladly accept this, one time one of the cashiers even did shopkick herself! Go out and try Shopkick for yourself today if you have not already!

Area With Mturk Hits

A few of my readers that are new to Amazon Mechanical Turk may simply wonder where do you find hits that you can do? Well if you are new and starting out, I would actually recommend reddit. They have a subforum that is called hitsworthturkingfor which can be found here. This is where I started in the beginning and from there I worked my way to forums. This subreddit has many hits that are mainly surveys, and they post the time. The great thing is that almost anyone that is new can do them and they are a way to get your feet off the ground without suffering and doing hits that seem like they will last forever. I myself have gotten away from surveys a bit because I find most to be underpaid, but this subreddit is wonderful for everyone starting out. You do not have to have an account to view the hits that are posted.

Have a great Wednesday everyone.

Updated Mturk Earnings

For the longest time I thought about giving up on this blog because I did not think it was worth my while. As of late I have seen that there are a lot of people that are trying to make money online and they do not realize the true potential of Mechanical Turk. I have been on the site 13 months now and I have some astounding results. Any one can achieve this as well. Here is my updated report. Work has been very slow for me the last week, so that explains the low numbers.