Make Money Without Paying A Cent. Worth it?

March 16,2008

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This post was guest blogged by Jake Cohen, a fourteen year old entrepreneur who founded TalkPrice.net and has made over four thousand dollars online in the last six months. His interests span a variety of topics including making money, running and starting a business, saving, investing, and domain-ing.

This post is for the stay at home moms, teenagers, and college students trying to pay of their debt. I’m only kidding, it’s actually for anyone out there trying to make money online. I’m not talking about millions, but an extra little bit of income on the side to help you pay off those bills.

Running A Blog

Plain and simple, this costs money… What you ask? Hosting and the domain itself. Hosting can cost up ten dollars a month while a domain will run you an extra eight each year.

I spend a lot of time surfing the web and I have realized that many people use free services such as blogger.com and wordpress.com to share their thoughts on certain aspects of life. What’s more… They put advertisements on them and spend hours upon hours of time updating and adding content. These people expect to make money but not pay a cent. Ever heard of the phrase “it takes money to make money”? Well I’m saying it right now. The best part though is that it doesn’t take that much, and when you pay for your domain you will get more recognition, visitors, and people will actually remember your site and be able to type it into the browser by heart. In the long run, I highly suggest that if your spending time updating a blog, you buy a domain for it. Only the dumb man wouldn’t, and it’s a small investment. For those teenagers out there, go shovel for an hour and you’ll have enough to start up a site. It’s worth it!

Surveys

Surveys are something that have continuously sprung up all over the place in that last year or two. They claim to pay as much as 7o per survey and offer to enter you into contests where you can win hundreds upon thousands of dollars.

Want to know my thoughts on it? Scam, scam, scam… Well actually that’s a bit of an overstatement. Some of them actually do pay money but not nearly as much as they claim and they take way to long and usually require credit cards. For the real ones such as FusionCash.net they only pay $1 per survey and they can take up to 20 minutes to complete. Now I don’t know about you, but that seems like a ridiculous waist of time. I mean it can be alright if you get a decent amount of referrals but it’s not worth the time. Also, If you do decide to really get into like I did at first, it gets really tiring. Imagine clicking on new surveys to do over and over again and half of the time they ask you the same thing. They also ask you to provide personal information such as your address and phone number.

Other Schemes - Make Money by Searching, Playing Games…

These can earn you a bit of money, but unless your willing to give up your time for little results, it’s not really worth it. There is a game called Moola.com that allows you to double a cent thirty times and make ten million dollars. It is by invitation only, but if you click the link that I provided it will give you one. You can also make money by searching the internet, the service that I am most familiar with, and from my experiences provides the highest revenue is MySearchFunds.com. They pay you about 1 cent per click and although that’s not a lot, it can add up over time. Don’t try to search repeatedly without purpose, because when I was testing the site I found out that their service has a really good anti-search program that can tell when you are trying to fake the system.

Referrals

Now all though the services I listed above aren’t that good by themselves, they offer great referral programs that pay a hefty sum. If your good at networking, you could tell all your friends about these services and give them a link with your referral in it. If you look closely above, you’ll see that all the links I provided were referrals. If your going to sign up for these services, you might as well get to them threw mine. If you don’t want to that’s fine, but keep in not that you are not going to be sacrificing anything that you’ve made, I’ll or in the future you’ll just get a little bit of profit as well. I did this as an example, to show you how much can be made. You can stick referral links everywhere. Be it on your Facebook, MySpace, or even personal website. If they’re well visited, you should see some profit racking up slowly, but surely…