Easyhits4u update.

So I still like the site, don't get me wrong, but I think I miss spoke on my first post.
I don't get $0.10 for every 100 sites viewed by my referals, rather just for the first 100. I guess that makes a bit more sense. But I do get a share of their credits toward my own advertising pool, so that's still cool.

In a similar vein, did anyone realize you only get 1,000 Swagbucks from your referals... and that's it? I didn't.

GagaBux, so far so good.

So far, $0.17 per day of clicks!

Ok, I only have 2 days of data so far, but that sounds promising. It has a neobux style dot to click at the begining of the ad, instead of a picture-match at the end, so I like that, too.

Only real complaint is that they want you to have an AlertPay and a Paypal account. Why do you need both, guys? Ah well, there might be a time when I need it anyways.

Give it a try.

...at Work or not at Work, that is the question...

Are you stuck in a cubicle 35 hours/week? I am, it's a secure job, but my lunch & breaks suck. I want to take advantage of all those survey invites I get before they meet their quota, but sometimes having outdated browsers and really strict browsers can be a pain.
Granted, most surveys do work at work. It's mostly the PTCs that get you down. Liberty Dollar Reserve usually has 2-3 gambling ads to click on, but as soon as I do, my work filter redirects me to the big blue corporate no-no page, and I get to look at that for 30 seconds. It's not like I'm doing anything wrong, but it looks like I was going to.
Alot of the bux sites don't even load since our browser isn't the most recent edition.
I can't spin the peoplestring wheel or scratch the tickets.
Last, if I start a survey at the begining of my 15 minute break, and it says it should only be 10-15 minutes, then I start to look bad when it takes 25, lol.

The stresses of modern life.
Anyone else have better luck?

PeopleString (did it finally happen?)

I've never uploaded an image to a blog, so bear with me.
I think I finally got some money from all my peoplepoints. Anyone else notice thing and/or know what it means?

EasyHits4U.com and why I'm obsessed.

It’s a simple concept. For every website I visit, someone will visit mine. Sounds solid. I know I can do that in my sleep… but then again, all the people visiting my site will feel that way too, they’ll be doing it in their sleep. Well obviously the trick is to make sure your site has something different to offer. But you say, I don’t have a web site. Well, you can also send people to any of your referral links. In fact, you can have a whole list of them, and assign your visit “credits” to any of the sites you have listed, in any portions you want.
What makes it even better, is that you can convert those valuable visits to banner impressions. This means that anytime someone visits a site (not necessarily yours) your banner could be shown at the same time. I like using this since many referral programs offer professionally made banners to use. I’ve been using my Swagbucks banner.
Now you say that a site visit is better than a banner, but I say, I get a hell of a lot of banner for just one visit “credit”.
Here are some miscellaneous benefits that add up to make this site quite something.
First, there’s no pop-up windows where you’re viewing the sites. As soon as your done with it a site, it takes you to the next without having to close anything.
Next, every 25 – 50 pages you view, bring up a bonus page with a random prize of more credits or banner impressions.
Also, for those of us that are interested in the money first, and the site exposure second, they do pay for viewing. It’s a ridiculously small $0.30 for 1000 sites, but it’s better than nothing. In fact, what is even better is the $0.10 for every 100 sites viewed by a referral. Weird, eh?
Lastly, you never run out of things to click. It just keeps bringing you to the next one.
I have my blog listed with them, as well as my Clixsense, Swagbucks and Opinionoutpost referral links. My Star Wars Swagbucks banner is working for now, but I’m going to try some of their other ones soon, too. Try it out. It’s surprisingly fun and addictive. If nothing else, it's worth a look around. I believe my blog has suffered due to this site, lol.

Ok, Toluna, not happy, but will still try.

60,000 points only equal $20USD. Not pleased. That 1,200 point surveys I just finished... worth $0.40!

I guess it's all resting on how quick I can cashout now.

Toluna, why I love it, even though I can’t remember how to spell it.

Right off the bat, I don’t know if it’s available in the states, and it’s a bummer that they don’t have a referral incentive, but it’s got so much else going for it.
The profile surveys already got me 20% of the way to cashing out, so that’s a good start. Also got a bonus when I filled out the last one. It also has poll questions, some by the site, and some buy users, that also give you points. It’s not much, but it’s fun and easy.
Next, I’ve been sent at leave 5 survey invites since I signed up last week. Not all qualified, but it’s still not bad.
Detractors are that finished surveys aren’t credited right away, even though they are on a points system, and I don’t know how much money you got for the 60,000 points you need to cashout to PayPal. You’d think that would be an obvious piece of information to provide. So I guess maybe I don’t love it, but I sure do find it fun and easy!

Out of town for 5 days…

And what do I find waiting for me? A $6.00 survey from Opinionoutpost.com. Qualified and completed in less than 15 minutes. Cashed out for $10. What a treat. Also, a lot of my pending Focusline money became earned while I was away, so I was able to cash out for the first time, $25. Those were the only highlights though. Did not qualify for any of the 5 Clearvoice ones waiting for me, most had closed already. I think I got $0.30 out of them. But there were lots of ads to click at Clixsense and Libertydollarreserve. So it wasn’t all bad.

PineCone Research

JimFred mentioned this is a good site, but that you can't invite others, or just join on your own. You need to find a banner ad for them first, aaaaand only when registration is open. So I did some digging.

This site will tell you when it's open, and where to go;
http://mysurvey123.com/index.php/Paid-Surveys-Reviews/Pinecone-Research.html
Available to US, UK, Canada and Germany. All are separate sites, so find the one that is for your country. Sadly I haven't tested it yet, since Canada is the only one currently closed.

You-Cubez.com (catch-up #5)

So this did seem like a bit of a waste of time at first. JimFred initially told me that the “point” of the site was a bit unclear, and I had to agree. But yesterday I poked around again for the first time in a while and started to get the hang of the site.

I found $5 new in my paypal account yesterday from Swagbucks. I decided that, if I could get away with a very small investment, I would give You-Cubez a real go, just so I could understand it. Well it turns out the minimum to put into the site is £2, which, yesterday, was $3.12. Not bad, let’s see what I found out.

I’ll start at the beginning. The gimmick. Ads (links) embedded in colourful, customizable 3-D cubes, listed 10x10 per page. Click a cube, go to the page. The most “valuable” cubes are the ones on the first page (more specifically, the top left cube is the most valuable).

If you don’t feel like investing, or reinvesting once you’ve made some money, then this site is nothing more than a lame PTC. The vast, VAST majority of the cubez don’t give you anything for clicking.
You have “cash cubez” that become clickable occasionally when the coin logo appears on it. Like any PTC, you click the cube (ad) and view a site for a certain amount of time to get some money. Except the money here is between 0.5p and 0.25p ($0.01 to $0.005), and this used to be once, maybe, per day. Recently, they’ve added 15 or so “budget cubez” that you can click twice per day, but they offer even less cash per click (roughly $0.0004). So it’s still not a very good PTC.

So how have they survived? Well the lure is part investment opportunity, part cheap ad space, both of which are fighting for dominance in my head right now.
You see, you can buy a brand new cube, from the site, for £1. It starts on the very last page (since it’s only valued at £1). Now you have an ad for you site, all be it a hard to find one, for 1 year, for really cheap. But how do you get the ad higher on the list, and therefore, more noticeable (and get yourself more traffic)?
Well since the cubes are listed in order of “value”, you need to add value to your cube. You can do this by earning “cube funds”. It’s basically fake money that you can buy or earn, and then add onto your cube, effectively raising it’s status and position in line to the top. (Note: you can’t buy cubez with cube funds, only increase the value of cubez you already own) Also, you can’t cash out cube funds. How do you earn it though? Click 100 standard (non-cash) cubes per day. It’s actually way easier than it sounds, since you don’t have to wait for a window to load before you click the next cube. (I usually click 15 at a time, and then close them all when they’re done loading.)
So that’s how you get a cheap ad and make it more prominent. But where’s the investment? Well you can sell you’re cube (and therefore your position on the cube list) to other members. Currently I have a cube for sale on page 9 for £15. I originally bought it for £2 (on page 10), then added to its value twice. I might be asking too much for it, but whatever, I’m still learning.
Now I should make one thing clear. A cubes “value” and what it will sell for, are two very different things. I bought my cube for £2, but its “value” was £233.

So what do I have now that I didn’t have before? Well I have a cheap ad for my blog that’s good for a year, if I don’t sell it. I received 12 hits within the first hour or so… I’m sure no one stayed more than 20 seconds, but whatever. I’ve also added “value” to my cube, and put a for-sale sign on it right away. If it sells, I’ll lose my ad, but I’ll have earned a profit. Maybe I’ll buy two different ones instead and cash out the difference. It’s a fun experiment even if it doesn’t go anywhere, and it all only cost me $3.12.

The Time to Join Swagbucks!

If you're not on Swackbucks.com yet, now's the time to join. They have upped the amount of bucks you earn per win until Friday, and have also increased the frequency of wins. I won 24 & then 25 within 15 minutes doing my normal amount of searching. I also found 2 swagcodes yesterday. In all, I earned over 100 SBs in one days!

April (and March, since you asked)

April was exciting. Although all the pending funds in Focusline ($23) still haven't become earned yet, which would put me way over the mark and on my way to the next one, I cashed out twice on 2 sites this month. Still no referals on anything.

Swagbucks.com $10 into paypal.
OpinionOutpost.com $11.70 in cheques on their way.

March was simple, and small. Learning the ropes. No referals. No upgrades. Lots of ground work.

Swagbucks.com $5 into paypal.