3 Fast And Easy Ways To Make Money

Seems like everyone is looking for the fastest and easiest way to make money on the internet.

Over the last 5 years or so, I’ve tried literally every technique there is. Here are 3 quick and easy ways to make *some* money online.

Side note - because these are fast and easy methods, it means the amount of money to be made is somewhat limited. The most money you can make online will be from long term efforts requiring hard work (but who wants to do that?)

The following list is in no particular order as far as ease or money making potential

1) Write website articles and content.

I don’t mean just start a blog and write content that floats around the net like the billions of other websites. By writing content, I mean to get paid for writing content for others.

One thing website owners lack is time. Time to write good, entertaining, educational, and grammatically correct content for their websites. If you have decent writing skills, you can write for many different types of companies and individual website owners (ie - your clients).

A mistake I see a lot of writers make is choosing the WRONG clients. When you decide to become a paid content writer, pick your customers, don’t have them pick you. Don’t go to those freelance sites and beg for work bid for work. You’ll end up getting paid much less than you are worth and have annoying clients that expect you to work for peanuts from that point on.

Instead, contact existing websites that you want to write for. There is a trick to this however, if you want to be successful. Don’t have your first contact be an email asking if they will buy your articles or asking how much they will pay for your content. Those kinds of emails are viewed as spam and will get you nowhere.

Instead, take the higher road and sacrifice your early profits. First, read what their website or blog is about. Try to get a feel for their style of communication. Then, write the most amazing article you could possibly imagine that would blow away their readers. Finally, GIVE THE ARTICLE TO THE WEBSITE OWNER FOR FREE.

What? You mean go above and beyond what the other 75,000 freelance writers will do to get work?

Absolutely! Let the website use your article or blog post on their website WITHOUT giving you credit for it. When you submit the article to them, be sure you tell them it’s a completely original article that is exclusive for their website. Tell them you are a freelance writer looking for a couple extra clients, and this article was to demonstrate your skills which will hopefully lead to more articles for them. They will be amazed by your generosity, and that’s when reciprocity comes in. They’ll WANT TO HELP YOU because you helped them first.

Once they post your content to their website, you can follow up with them to see what they thought about your work. That’s when you can pitch your services to them. Do you see how this technique will get you much better results that shooting an email saying “I write website content, $25 per 800 words. Would you like to buy some articles?” (You laugh but I get emails like this everyday!)

Be sure to pick websites that a) have money to spend on content, and b) will need lots of fresh content to stay competitive in their market. If you do this simple technique, you can easily make $1,000 per month writing for one single website. (based on 40 articles per month at $25/article)

2) Be An Offline Affiliate Partner.

Affiliate marketing is a great way to earn a part time income. The problem is, internet marketing as an affiliate is pretty competitive since there are so many people doing it.

Instead, try promoting affiliate programs offline. Here’s how you do it…

Search online for an affiliate program you want to be promoting. You’ll want to pick something that your local city/town would be interested in. For example, you can go to clickbank.com and search all the various products your can promote from their Marketplace.

Let’s pick weight loss for this example. In clickbank, you can open up their “Health & Fitness” category and see all the programs you can promote. They are sorted by popularity, so typically the first 10 products listed in each category are the best sellers.

This makes your job easy as an affiliate, because you won’t have to guess which products are best and easiest to sell.

Let’s say we decide to promote the first one, Fat Loss For Idiots. Clickbank says we will earn about $30 for each sale of this product as an affiliate. Not bad.

To promote this product offline, it’s pretty simple. All you do is go to godaddy.com and purchase a domain name. Preferably something short and easy to remember since we will be promoting this link offline and people will have to type it in.

Once you purchase the $8 domain name, you need to get your affiliate link. If you are using clickbank, you’ll need to sign up for an account with them and then click the “create hoplink” link to get your affiliate referral link.

Now that you have your affiliate link, you take that affiliate URL and go back into your godaddy account to find the domain name you bought. There will be an option there to do a “redirect”. Choose that option, and it will ask you which URL you would like people to be redirected to when they type in your domain name. Here, you simply enter your affiliate link.

That’s all there is to it. Now that you are officially an affiliate partner, you can begin promoting “your” new website.

You can print up a flier or business cards with your URL on them, and post them on those corkboard message boards in your local gyms or grocery stores, stick them in fitness magazines in your local bookstore, anywhere you think people who are interested in weight loss will find them.

You can place classified ads in you local paper or pay a flier distribution service to put fliers on people’s mailboxes.

Your income will depend on how many people find your marketing materials and how many of those people actually go to the website to learn more. There’s no reason why you couldn’t get 2-3 sales per week from this technique. So, 10 sales per month @ $30 each would put $300/month in your pocket and you can be up and running in about 3 hours from now.

3) Implement The Latest Internet Marketing Tricks For Others.

If you are like most people in the internet marketing niche, you have a hard drive full of ebooks teaching all the latest “tricks” to make money online. Many of these tricks actually do work, even if it’s for a short period of time. The problem is, a lot of these techniques require you to already have an existing website setup or have an existing email subscriber list, etc.

If you don’t have these previous requirements, it can be frustrating for you because you know you can use these tricks if you just had the existing website or just had a subscriber list to start with.

Well, I’ll be the first to tell you that I hardly ever get caught up in the latest tricks and fads of internet marketing. Not because I don’t think they work, but instead because I don’t have time to learn them and put them into use. I’m too busy running my businesses (like most website owners) to get sidetracked by these new ideas.

That’s where you step in. Let’s say you just bought an ebook teaching you how to use Youtube to generate lots of traffic to a website. You’ve read this ebook 2 or 3 times and know this stuff inside out. Guess what? Now, YOU’RE CONSIDERED AN EXPERT.

Becoming an expert is pretty easy. In fact, if you know more than someone else about a certain topic, you are an expert compared to that other person. So, you being the expert on a specialized topic such as generating traffic from Youtube, can come to me as a website owner and propose an offer.

You can word is something like this…

Hi website owner,

My name is Tom and I specialize in generating traffic to websites from Youtube. I think I can generate a substantial amount of traffic to your website from Youtube if you are interested in letting me try.

I don’t charge any upfront fees or anything like that. If I’m not able to send you traffic, you don’t pay me a dime. If I do send new traffic to your site from Youtube, then I’d only charge $0.05 per visitor (about 1/4 what you would pay for pay per click traffic).

Let me know if you are interested in trying this cutting edge marketing strategy for your business.

- Tom

In this case, everyone wins. You get to earn money by implementing your new skills, and the website owner gets cheap traffic without doing any work.

If you can get just 10 clients to agree to your terms, and you send each client 500 visitors per month from Youtube, you’ll make $250/month.

So there you have it. Three simple ways of making some money from the net…

The REAL Secret To Making Money Online

I just got an email from a reader who asked a very good question. I’ll copy it below rather than summarize it:

Max - I’m really struggling here. It feels like I work so hard and nothing is working. I made a blog and have been adding lots of content. I’m trying to make money selling ads on my site, but it’s not doing much. I spent hundreds of dollars on search engine optimization ebooks and I am just starting to get some rankings. I spend a lot of money on other marketing ebooks to try to get an edge. I tried Adwords, but never made a profit. I tried the article submission thing and that didn’t do much either. I’m doing everything the gurus are telling me to do, but I’m not getting results anywhere near what the gurus are getting. What gives? You obviously know the secret to making lots of money online. Can you help?

- Richard

Richard’s not alone. Everytime I look at internet marketing forums, blog posts or comments left by readers, this same sort of topic comes up a lot. Most people don’t know where to start, so they just try to do everything at once, hoping *something* works.

Well, I didn’t want to give Richard a “Guru” type answer such as “Try to use the method. I’m sure it’s not the techniques he’s lacking. Maybe his niche topic sucks? Nope, based on the URL he sent me, it’s a pretty decent market.

So, I started thinking back to all of my successes (and huge failures) to see what it was exactly that made me the most money over the years. I thought back over all of my online businesses, and there was one thing that kept popping up over and over again.

I honestly feel this is THE SECRET for the average “little guy” to make a lot of money online. Ok, maybe the second secret to making lots of money (the first would be to sell your website)…

Here is the one thing you should do to make the most amount of money online:

** Develop your own product **

I don’t care if you decide to write an ebook, create a huge cookbook, make training videos, have software developed or make wire jewelry to sell, YOU NEED YOUR OWN PRODUCT.

There are hundreds of things to distract you online when it comes to internet marketing (search engine optimization, pay per click advertising, list building, blogging, link building, forum chatting, etc). Most people spend all their time trying to master these “things”, but these “things” really don’t put money in your pocket. They are simply pieces to the larger puzzle of making money.

I’ve said it many times before, blogging is not the way to make money. It’s a great way to “help” you make money, but blogging by itself just won’t do it. There are a few rare exceptions obviously, but for most people blogging is not the best way to make an income.

If you have your own unique product that nobody else in the world has, you have a great way to make money. Since you own the product, you have an incredible amount of flexibility to work with.

There are plenty of other people out there who are experts in getting traffic to websites or building email subscriber lists or search engine optimization. Let THEM focus on their area of expertise while you focus on creating the best possible product you can.

Once your product is made, you can then have all these other people sell your product for you (as an affiliate or by buying ads from these people). It’s called leveraging the assets of other people, and it’s probably the most important tip on making money there is.

Look at it this way. You could spend an entire year on your website trying to get its search engine rankings up, learning about Adwords and building a list of subscribers. At the end of 12 months, sure you have ONE website that is ranked in the search engines and you have SOME subscribers. Big deal.

What if you spent 6 months working on one product full time, making this product absolutely amazing. Then you spent 6 months building relationships with website owners who are ALREADY ranked high in the search engines, who ALREADY know Adwords and ALREADY have subscriber lists.

At the end of the year, rather than you having ONE “decent” website where you try to rely on making money from advertising, you can instead have your unique product selling on HUNDREDS of websites.

I think many people make the mistake in thinking they have to do everything the “gurus” tell them. There is no reason to master every single marketing technique out there. It’s impossible to do that anyway because you will be so distracted and confused, the results will be horrible. So stop wasting your time. You can’t possibly be good at everything.

It’s better to be a master of one thing (your product) than a jack of all trades, master of nothing.

Of all the online businesses I’ve started, bought or sold, the most profitable ones were those that had their own unique product. It makes perfect sense looking back on it.

You can spend all your time on one website, whether it’s a blog or a content site, doesn’t matter. Even if you get that site to become hugely popular, it’s still only one site out of the tens of billions of sites out there. There’s no way you can reach everyone who is interested in your topic.

So to reach other people in your market, how can you do that if you just have a content based website? You can ask for a link exchange from other websites in your market (good luck on that one). You can pay for links on other sites (doesn’t make financial sense if you have nothing to sell). You can leave comments on other blogs hoping others will follow your link and become a loyal follower (not likely).

When you have your own product, it’s much easier to get exposure on other sites. Related sites will WANT to promote your site (to earn money as an affiliate). You can afford to buy ads because you can directly see income coming in as a result of that ad.

Let’s run some numbers (I’m a numbers guy if you couldn’t tell)…

Option 1 - Build one content website

After one year, you have a website getting 20,000 visitors per month.

You sell 10 advertising blocks at $40/month = $400

You have an email list / RSS readership of 1500 people.

You make $150/month from Adsense

You make $450/month from affiliate promotions.

After one year of hard work, you are up to $1,000 per month in income. Yippee!

Option 2 - Create your own product - in this case an ebook

After one year, your ebook is selling on 300 different websites.

The price of the ebook is only $20 (to be conservative in this example). You pay your affiliates $10 per sale and you keep $10 as profit.

Of the 300 websites that are promoting your ebook, lets say each one only makes 1 sale per week (again being extremely conservative, some affiliates can make 5+ sales per day easily).

So, 300 sales per week x 4 weeks per month = 1200 sales per month.

1200 sales x $10 profit per sale after paying affiliates = $12,000 per month.

Which one makes more sense?

Think this example isn’t realistic? Guess again. Imagine if you spent all of your time for 6 months ONLY promoting your ebook, trying to get affiliates, etc rather than what you are doing now. No more fussing with SEO, wasting money with adwords, struggling to build a subscriber list, all that stuff.

6 months of nothing but promotion is pretty powerful. Getting 300 websites on board over 6 months is less than 2 new affiliates/website partners per day. If you had nothing else to do but try to find affiliates and websites to partner with, do you think you could find just TWO per day?

I’ll tell you right now, creating your own product and marketing that one product is LESS work than trying to build a massive content site. Hmm, less work and more profitable too? What a concept…

So, to answer Richard’s question, I think there are two things he is doing wrong, maybe you are too?

First, he’s not doing things that will directly put money in his pocket. He’s spinning his wheels trying to do everything at once, and while he is getting ok results, it’s nothing to get excited about. He needs to develop his own product first, then spend his time promoting that product.

Second, he has to stop buying the latest “fad” techniques that come out. Yes, perhaps you can make $500 per day making silly Youtube videos this week, but next week that technique will stop working (it always does). So, you gotta buy the next groundbreaking trick and repeat the process over and over.

It’s no wonder people get frustrated trying to make money online…

What do you think about this “Secret”?

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6 Ways to Increase Email Subscriptions

Having a large subscriber list can be highly beneficial in any online endeavor. This is because you will be able to send marketing materials to your target audience directly to their inbox. Some people worry about the technical aspects of setting up the subscription form on their webpage but this process is actually quite simple; e-mail management services will give the HTML needed for the subscription form. The real concern is related to marketing.

1. Premium placement – it is recommended for you to put the sign-up form prominently on the home page. It should be visible to the reader before the break (towards the top of the page without the need to scroll down). You can also use graphics or even animation or rotating images to draw their eyes to the registration form.
2. Use multiple forms – you can put the subscription form on most of your web pages. Putting the form at the end of the article after the reader has read the content has been proven to be effective. Not only will the added reminder help your subscription rate, but if you place forms after your content there’s a good chance prospects have already been exposed to your information and enjoyed it (otherwise why would they keep reading?).
3. Provide incentives – you hear this tip all over the internet but I will repeat it here because it works. You should offer something for free such as free articles, free e-books, and free contests. You can even offer discount coupons to your products if you are selling something.
4. Provide rationale – information overload is an inevitable part of being an internet user. Realize that your readers suffer from information overload as well so take time to explain why they will benefit from subscribing to your site.
5. Offline methods – exhibits are a great way to solicit subscriptions. When people visit your booth, you can ask them to sign up personally. Many of the methods I discussed in Take Blog Promotion Offline can also be effectively applied to list building.
6. Co-registration – this is a great way to get subscriptions from other websites. You need to have partners who will place your form at their “thank you page” when their readers have already subscribed to their newsletters. Take note that you will need to return the favor.

What other methods have you used for list building? Have you tried any of these that I listed? If so, please feel free to share your experiences with us in the comment section below!

How To Triple Your Current Adsense Income

How many of you have Adsense ads on your site?

You know, those little ads you proudly display, hoping to earn an amazing $0.04 each time someone clicks on them…

What a joke. Granted, when Google first came out with adsense, it was a great idea. The payouts were high (I used to get over $2 per click in some niche markets). The click through rates were high because novice web users didn’t know they were ads. Many website owners got rich, and Google’s success stories flooded the media.

Then reality set in. Advertisers started paying attention to the lack of ROI they were getting. Click fraud started taking over and advertisers were getting fed up.

They dropped their bid prices as a result. This began hurting Google’s pocket, so Google reduced the percentage split they were paying to their publishers like us (just my theory, no actual proof on this, but it makes sense).

The result: A couple years later Google has millions, maybe billions of websites serving their ads for them and they can hand out a few pennies per click and get away with it because of their saturation.

It was a brilliant plan on Google’s part. They used the power of first mover’s advantage and took over the market of contextual ads. Other companies tried to get a piece of the action, but it was too late. Change is difficult for many people, so removing the adsense ads and trying a new company is just too much work for most people, so they settle for whatever money Google wants to throw their way.

Publishers like us are now feeling the pain. The websites we put so much effort into are now earning $20 a day from adsense, down from the $200 a day they used to make.

But don’t worry, I have a solution that works like pure magic. I’ve been secretly using it for months, and now I’m going to share it with you. Can you keep a secret?

Ok, here it is…

As you probably know by now, I’m not a huge fan of using advertising as a monetization model because of what I just explained above. But, if your site DOES depend on advertising to make money, especially via adsense or Yahoo Publisher’s Network, here’s something you need to test (here are some action items you can put into use immediately).

Selling advertising can be tough sometimes, well at least it used to be. This is a super sneaky way of finding an unlimited number of advertisers for your website.

• Step 1 - Put Google Adsense on your website.
• Step 2 - Wait.
• Step 3 - Write down every URL of the advertisers that shows up on your site (you can usually keep hitting refresh on your page to get new ones)
• Step 4 - Contact these websites and sell them direct ads instead.

Here’s why this method works.

Website owners want to get the most bang for their buck. When they advertise through Google, they are paying both Google and you to display their ads on your site. Why not cut out the middle man? This also works with Yahoo Publishers Network or any other contextual ad program.

Here’s an email I use to convince website owners on the idea…

Hi (name of contact person I find on website),

I see you were placing Google ads on our website www.mywebsite.com. I hope you were having great success with these ads.
The reason why I’m writing is to let you know we are in the process of removing the Google ads from our site. We’ve had websites contact us asking if they could put an “adsense like” ad on our site directly rather than going through Google. It makes sense considering Google takes their cut of your advertising dollars, which is an extra cost for you.

So, aside from getting the same high quality traffic from our site that you are getting now, you would be able to write better ads (not limited to whatever number of characters Google limits you to). Plus you get the search engine optimization benefits of have a direct text link. In other words, you get three times the value you are getting now, for probably less than you are currently paying Google.

Anyway, we’ll be pulling off the adsense ads shortly, so I wanted to touch base to see if you wanted to continue advertising with us. We are limiting the number of advertisers we can accept because we will be displaying the ads in premium locations on our site, and obviously there’s only so much room available.

Let me know either way if you would like to stay on our site. The spots are available on a first come, first served basis.

Thanks for your time and wishing you success with your business.

Yourname

When they write you back asking what your rates are, you can give them a breakdown of different options. For example, you can write a paid review of their site which will give them a permanent link from your site. You can offer a monthly “inline” text link that is part of your website’s content and doesn’t look like an ad or a paid link. Or you can setup a Sponsored Links section very similar to the google ads they were using on your site previously.

So how do you determine how much to charge for advertising? Easy, just look at your adsense account and view the report from the last full month of earnings.

Let’s say you made $202 last month from adsense by selling 3366 clicks @ $0.06 per click. This means you need to make at least $200 to “break even”.

In this case, I’d try to sell the private ads for $40 per month. Getting 15 advertisers to take you up on the offer is fairly reasonable, which will triple your income compared to what you were making from adsense (15 x $40 = $600).

Think $40 per month is too high? Let’s see how much that comes out to for the advertiser.

Assuming the number of clicks is the same, take the 3366 clicks you got last month and divide it by 15 advertisers. Each advertiser would get about 224 clicks each give or take. $40 divided by 224 is about $0.18 per click.

But wait, $0.18 per click is more than $0.06, so it would cost more to the advertiser, right?

Wrong. The $0.06 per click was YOUR CUT of the income the advertiser was paying. The advertiser paid google much more, exactly how much more nobody knows. Some say Google keeps 50%, others say they keep 25%, I’m guessing it’s probably around 70% to keep their shareholders happy.

That means the advertisers are paying google about $0.20 per click and you are getting $0.06 of that.

So, by having 15 websites pay you direct for ads, you will triple your income, your advertisers will save an average of $0.02 per click PLUS get a static text link AND more flexibility with their advertising message. Looks like a win-win to me…

As long as your site gets reasonable traffic for your niche market, this should be an easy sell. You may have to provide some traffic stats to the advertiser to convince them to go direct with you.

If you know your site gets weak traffic and the click volume to the advertiser is going to be low, then be reasonable with the pricing. Provide value to the advertiser and you will have a customer for life. Then you have a guaranteed income each month, no matter what kind of changes Google makes with their adsense program in the future.

Oh, and an even more important benefit of having direct advertisers vs an adsense site is when you try to sell your site (you are planning to sell aren’t you?).

What sounds better to a potential buyer?

a) We have a strong relationship with advertisers who pay us $600 each month consistently,

or

b) We have adsense ads on our site, which make anywhere between $90 and $250 each month, depending on the mood of Google.

Makes sense?

Let me save some time for the skeptics and critics real quick. I’m sure someone will say “Doesn’t this violate Google’s terms of service?”

I have no idea. I haven’t had my attorney read through their thousands of lines of legal jargon. It may very well be, probably somewhere in the same section where they state they can close your account at any time for any reason and you forfeit any money accrued in your account. Yup, it sounds like they play pretty fair too.

If you still have issues with putting adsense on your site and writing down the ads that show up, then don’t do it. You can just as easily do a search for a keyword related to your site and get advertisers from there. Or go to your competitors sites and see which ads are showing up on their sites. Or see who is advertising on Yahoo’s network, or MSN’s network, or…ok you get the point. Just find websites that are already paying for ads. You know they have at least some kind of ad budget.

PS - Only use this method if you want to make more money…

Has anyone else been doing this, or is it just me?

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Join Ask Agent and make money asking &Â answering questions. Earnings are based on Ask Agent Dollars, which can be used to buy gift vouchers & SMS credits. AA$ can also be traded for US Dollars, used to get better & faster answers and used to advertise on the network. Members can also place Google ads their profile page and earn revenue.

If you have a website or blog, join Ask Agent’s Publisher’s Program and get paid for the questions or answers your site generates. Revenue will depend on the amount (of questions & answers) and their ratings.

http://www.bitwine.com

BitWine allows people to give advice on their topic of expertise by video-chatting. Here’s how it works: BitWine advisors download the BitWine Taskbar and create a profile. In order to start receiving calls from clients, they login and set their account to active. Advisors set their rate and can decide when to start charging a client during a session.

Clients pay directly through PayPal and may also schedule an appointment in advance. BitWine is still in beta period and is therefore currently not charging any fees.

http://www.brainyyack.com

Get paid for giving homework help and giving advice on various topics. Also, earn money for proofreading papers.

http://www.bumperbrain.com

Get paid to answer questions. Bumperbrain charges experts a commission of 15% of the fee earned for answering a question, 15% of the fee earned when someone buys one of their answers or solutions from the BumperBrain Library of Questions, and 10% of the fee earned for jobs won using the “Invite Bids” service. Earnings can be withdrawn at any time.

http://www.eacademichelp.com/askexperts/become-an-expert.php

Answer questions related to your field of expertise. Earn 25-50% of what customers offer for answers. Minimum payout is $20.

http://werlive.com

Become a videochat expert at weRlive.com and give advice on your topic of expertise. Your fee per minute is determined by your seniority and ratings. Earn 50% commission. weRlive pays twice a month by check if a minimum of $50 has been made.

http://www.ether.com

Make money selling advice online. Get a free Ether phone number. Set your rate and hours. Promote your service on your website, blog, business cards, etc.

http://studentoffortune.com

Earn money helping students with homework. Receive 82% commission when anyone purchases your solution.

http://guruza.com

Experts give answers via chat and are rewarded by the asker if the response is satisfactory. There is a 20% fee when cashing out.

http://www.studentquestions.com

Get paid for giving homework help in your topic of expertise. Set your own price.

Paid to Listen

http://www.promosquad.com

Get paid to listen to new music. Promosquad members receive points for rating and reviewing songs & artists. Points can then be exchanged for a variety of prizes including CDs, DVDs, posters and videogame systems.

Members can also win great prizes by entering ongoing contests and raffles. Prizes can only be shipped to U.S. mailing addresses.

http://www.musicresearch.com

Music Research is a marketing research company that’s devoted to the study of popular music and consumers. U.S. members are eligible to win monthly prizes including CDs, DVDs & MP3 players for rating new music. Members can also win prizes by participating in special surveys, contests and events.

http://www.sonymusic.com/rewards/index.html

Join Sony Music USA and earn points for entering contests, watching video clips, visiting websites and more. Members also receive weekly e-newsletters containing additional point-earning opportunities. New members get 1000 points just for joining. Points can be redeemed towards savings on Sony gear, CDs and DVDs.

http://www.countryhitsongs.com

Earn points for rating and reviewing new country music in Country Hit Songs polls and on their message boards. Members can exchange points for CDs, DVDs, electronics and ‘insider’ prizes such as autographed merchandise directly from labels and artists. Members can also win prizes in ongoing contests.

http://www.songpeople.com

Rate new songs & music videos and win prizes of your choice such as mp3 players, Amazon.com vouchers, CDs and VIP gig tickets. Also, refer three friends and receive a SongPeople radio capsule after they each complete a survey.

http://www.radiomusicsurvey.com

Radio Music Survey is a market research company that helps radio stations play better music. Rate & review new songs and qualify to win prizes, such as an Apple iPod Shuffle, in ongoing contests.

Paid to Blog

http://www.blogherads.com

Own a blog for women? Join BlogHer’s Ad Network and get paid for placing ads on your blog. BlogHer accepts blogs that are at least 90 days old and updated 2-3 times a week.

You determine the size of the ads you’d like to run and earn money based on the number impressions or page views of your blog. BlogHer also helps bloggers increase traffic and visibility by promoting their blogs across the network.

http://craftgossip.com/write-for-us

“CraftGossip is an independent craft website and provides information about everything new and craft worthy. We are a network of blogs, each of which is managed independently by an editor. Each sub-blog concentrates on a particular craft topic or idea and we are always looking to start new sub-blogs and editors to manage them.”

CraftGossip pays bloggers on a revenue-sharing basis. Visit the site for more information.

http://www.webbleyou.net

The people over at WebbleYou.net regularly post blogging jobs for those interested in being a part of their blog network. Most recent posts including opportunities to blog about blogging, coffee, food and animals.

They are only looking for blogs on general interest topics and don’t include blogs about religion, politics or adult entertainment. WebbleYou bloggers earn 70% of advertising revenue and are paid via Paypal, check, Amazon or whatever’s most convenient.

http://www.linkworth.com

Join Linkworth.com and earn money for reviewing products and services on your blog. Linkworth partners can also make money by placing text-based advertising on their site(s) including in-content pay-per click ads, in-text ads, hosted content ads &Â multi-URL rotating ad, and earn 70% of revenue. They pay via Direct Deposit, Bank Wire Transfer, PayPal or check on a monthly basis.

http://www.paymetoblogaboutyou.com

PayMeToBlogAboutYou.com is an online marketplace that allows bloggers to earn money for reviewing advertiser products & services and placing links on their blog. PayMeToBlogAboutYou uses a messaging system that allows bloggers and advertisers to negotiate on price and ad placement. They provide a secure way for bloggers to receive payment, which is via PayPal.

http://www.wisebread.com/make-money-writing-for-wise-bread

Wise Bread is looking for articles on topics such as savvy shopping tips, frugal living, financial advice, career advice and money-making advice. Writers earn 100% revenue from Google advertising revenue generated from their articles.

Wise Bread is also working on placing other text links and site wide ads on the site, allowing writers to earn a share of revenue based on the amount of traffic their articles bring.

http://www.cheezhead.com/cheezads

Own a blog about employment-related topics? Join the Cheez Ads Network and get paid to place permanent text links on your blog posts. As a member, you’ll receive emails when offers are available and are under no obligation to accept them.

CheezHead pays an average of $5 to $35 via PayPal (or check, if necessary), typically within 24 hours. Earnings depend on your blog’s link popularity, age, frequency of posting and more.

http://www.gabopia.com/bloggers-needed.html

Gabopia Blog Network is hiring bloggers to write about a variety of topics including television, technology, consumer products, celebrities, sports and general interest.

Gabopia pays at least $100 for 30 posts a month, plus a bonus of $1.50 per post afterwards. They also pay a performance incentive of $1.50 per 1000 page views.

http://www.bloggerjobs.biz

Check out Bloggerjobs.biz for regularly posted jobs for bloggers. Recent posts include jobs for a search engine blogger, tennis blogger, home design & architecture blogger, music blogger, Los Angeles entertainment blogger & political blogger.

Also, find advertising jobs, blog design jobs, BlogMedia, Inc. jobs, marketing jobs, media jobs, podcasting jobs, tech jobs, job resources and more.

Paid to Play

http://www.worldwinner.com

Join Worldwinner.com and compete in card games, arcade games, strategy games, word games and sports games for a change to win cash prizes. Players receive competition scores based on how well they play each game and the player with the highest score wins.

http://www.gamesville.com

Play free online games, inluding bingo & casino games, card games, puzzles and word games, for a chance to win cash and other prizes. Participate in cash competitions with other members for a chance to win more money. Any registered member (18 or older) from anywhere around the world is eligible to receive prizes.

https://club.live.com/get_prizes.aspx

Join the Live Search Club and get rewarded for playing games. Members earn tickets by playing a variety of trivia & word games such as Flexicon, Clink, Chicktionary & CrossWire.

Tickets can be exchanged for prizes such as ringtones, songs, t-shirts, headphones, usb drives, videogames, movie tickets and more. Prizes can only be delivered to valid U.S. addresses.

http://jackpot.netwinner.com

Join Netwinner and win cash or points by playing a lottery-type game. Points can be redeemed for gift cards from Target, Home Depot, Bath & Body Works, Walmart, Barnes & Nobles and more, when a minimum of 25,000 points ($25) has been accumulated.

Members earn 500 points for each person they refer, as well as 10% of referral winnings. New members receive 1000 points. You must be 18 or older and from the United States or Canada (except Quebec) to join.

UPDATE: Netwinner might be a scam. I’ve read a number of complaints about members not getting paid for months or getting suspended for no reason. Some reviews can be found here and here. If you have any experience with Netwinner, feel free to leave a comment.

http://www.moola.com

Win money by competing in games with other members and searching the web. Get paid for signing up for free trials. Earn cash back for shopping at popular online stores through moola’s shopping mall.

http://www.drquiz.com

Earn credits (points) for taking quizzes, referring others, submitting facts, submitting questions, posting on the forum, and sending quizzes to friends. Redeem credits for prizes.

http://www.weblo.com

Weblo.com is a virtual copy of the real world. Members create relevant pages on their favorite people, places and things and earn money when people visit them.

http://www.exodus3000.com

Exodus 3000 is an online strategy game. Members earn Mars Dollars (MD) for performing actions in the game, such as mining volcanos, searching ruins, and attacking other players. At the end of the month, you can exchange your MD for real cash.