First things first, before you sign up to any of these programs a good idea would be to open up a paypal account (for free) at
Paypal.com
. That way all your earnings will be sent here, and then if you wish to your credit card.
Ok, on the Internet these days there are literary loads of sites which promise an avalanche of cash but rarely pay.
First thing you absolutely must know and remember is this: Never, never, never, pay upfront anything to do any job; if someone asks for your money it's probably a scam.
Keep in mind the sites I will introduce do pay, they accept all international members and you will not have to pay to join, you will not be paid in only points (unless convertible to cash). Another thing you must remember is that no-one gives anything for free; any site that claims they will pay you large amounts of money for doing essentially nothing it's because they want to steal your time, they don't have any intention of paying you whatsoever.
There are various ways of earning on the Internet, and I've dealt with a lot of them.
The lowest paying ones are PTC (Paid To Click) sites. These sites pay you around 0.2 to 1 cent for very ad you click. In order to get the money you have to wait on average of 30 seconds. Some of these sites include
Gainpay.com
,
Gainmail.com
,
apairof.com and
fastcashemails.com
(which pay in cash and points, but the points are converted to cash every month).
I do NOT recommend signing up to these sites, they are a huge waste of time and usually weeks pass by before you can cash out (when minimum cash out is set at $1).
There are also PTS sites which pay you to use their search engines,
zotspot.com
(where I never managed to earn a dime) and
slashmysearch.com
. The latter site pays really little but it does pay. It also offers a free email service where you also get paid (as long as you are reading/writing).
A second free way of making money is by joining
getafreelancer.com
. Here you post your capabilities (design, legal, translation, C++, advertising etc.) and you bid on projects (the bid is how much you want to be paid). Then the job poster will decide who get the job usually basing his decision on the persons experience, cost, how long it takes to do the job. The average bids go anywhere from $10 to $5000+ depending on how long and complex the job is.
A third way, for designers/photographers is to post their images/pictures on the internet to try to sell them. There are two very competent sites which do that,
bigstockphoto.com
and
dreamstime.com
. Here you upload your photos, you decide how much you want for them. There are different prices for different actions; for example full rights over a good photo can be sold at around $200. You can also decide to sell them for one time use, limited use or whatever you want.
Agloco.com
is a site that pays you to surf the internet. Basically what you do is you download a toolbar which monitors when you are online, as long as you are online you will get paid for a certain amount of time. There is also another site, a scam site known as
surfjunky.com
, which pays you about 50 cents per hour, unfortunately though that money will never be wired to you.
A good way to make money, if you have a specific, active blog is to use
reviewme.com
and/or
payperpost.com
. These two sites work on the same principle, they basically put you into contact with people who will pay you to review certain products. The price ranges on these vary drastically from $5 to $100's.
If you have your own blog/website you can also sign up to a free
Google adSense
program. You just submit your site/blog, if they approve it they will give you a code to insert in your site/blog which will activate their ads. Now whenever someone clicks those ads you will earn money; Don't click your own ads or else you will be banned.
There are two more sites where you can get paid to review, but you get paid very little:
ciao.com
(Make sure to sign up for the right country or else they won't pay you) and
dooyoo.com
(same as ciao). These two run on the same circuit, so the reviews you published in ciao can also be posted here through cut/paste; assuming of course that you are the author.
Yet another great way to make money, if you got the luck to get the gig and the skill, is to sign up to two free sites, thevoice123.com and voices.com. These two sites offer you the possibility to do voice-over jobs, these are probably the easier jobs you can get (assuming you get accepted by the job offerer) and they pay quite a sum of money, usually around 100 - 500 for short clips.
