This GetPaid4Surf.com blog post is a little different than usual. I will mention my favorite sites to make money online.

Affiliate marketing

In the last e-mail I mentioned my favorite affiliate networks. Affiliate marketing is the next level in the make money online world. Like paid to surf programs it takes no money to start and it’s all upside if you succeed. For example one can start a blog absolutely free. Let’s say you like to start a blog about dog training, you could start posting relevant ads on your web site for pet toys. If you make a sale usually commissions are around 10% you would make $10 off $100 sale. In the last blog post I mentioned PeerFly.com as one of my favorite affiliate networks… for following reasons they have great affiliate offers for you to promote, pay on time, and most important they pay weekly. I can’t stress enough how important fast payments are in the affiliate marketing industry.

If you’re interested in affiliate marketing PeerFly.com is a good place to start. They do want to limit their fraud risk so there are a number of hoops you have to jump through to get your account verified.

Another good network for affiliate offers is HydraNetwork.com I’d check them out as well. They have great people working for them, and are very helpful.

Get paid for surf

My 2 favorite get paid to surf sites that are actually paying me daily income and send the checks out on time are CashCrate.com, and SwagBucks.com. The other program that pays well is InBoxDollars.com, but don’t sign up for the “Paid to read e-mail program” sign up for their affiliate program which pays $1.50 up front for each member. If you would like to sign up for the InBoxDollars affiliate program go to NeverBlueAds.com.

More advanced ideas for making money online

Do you like to write or have a product to sell? An effective way to make money online is by selling a product such as an eBook or software though ClickBank.com. The eBook could be as simple as how to train your dog in 1 week… or something to that effect. You post the product on the ClickBank.com web site and potentially millions of affiliate will try to sell your product on your behalf. They of course get a commission as do you.

More ideas coming soon!

Thanks

http://www.getpaid4surf.com

I've made some updates on GPTS

Hi everyone! I wanted to let you all know that I've made some important updates on GetPaid4Surf.com. I have undated the main home page and my get paid to e-mail page. The main update I made is warning you if the paid to surf program is paying or not. There are a lot of paid to surf/paid to e-mail programs that are not paying their commissions to users. This has to stop! I do not and you should not support and promote a company that doesn't pay it's valuable users. Please check http://www.getpaid4surf.com for more details. These companies should not be allowed to get away with this. TitanClicks.com is one of the biggest culprits guilty of this crime. Under new ownership LAST YEAR they haven't paid. Great job TitanClicks on finding great new owners.

SwagBucks.com Review

SwagBucks.com was recommended to me by a GetPaid4Surf.com visitor a couple weeks ago. The lady that e-mailed me said that she regularly cashes Amazon.com gift certificates. I decided to move the program to the main GetPaid4Surf.com home page and feature it as an "Editor's Choice" program.

So far I've noticed that the points ad up super fast. Also, it doesn't take much time to accumulate enough points to get something. The lady that e-mailed me gets a $5.00 Amazon gift card weekly (Not bad).

Here's the breakdown of the SwagBucks.com program:

Your Pay Out: Swag Bucks are periodically awarded as you search the web.
Referral Tree: 100% up to 100 Swag Bucks per referral
Information: Just search using SwagBucks.com, search results are provided by Google and Ask. Swag Bucks are randomly rewarded as you search. Redeem those Swag Bucks for products at the store. Amazon.com gift cards run only 45 SB. Points add up fast I've noticed.

I highly recommend SwagBucks.com.. it's the best "Paid to Search" program out there right now. Winzy.com used to be promising, but now they don't pay out and it's a paid to ask question program now.

Sign up for SwagBucks.com

Winzy.com Switches From Search to Answers

Sign up for Winzy.com (Now a "paid to ask" program)

Winzy.com in my opinion is on the road to bankruptcy. In a last ditch effort to save the site Winzy moved from their search engine concept to a Yahoo Answers type concept. Now instead of earning points for searching the web Winzy gives you points to answer questions.

Why I think Winzy is going down

They once promissed $100,000, now down to $500 a quarter. Lame... $500 that's a few meals at McDonalds. On top of that $500 a quarter?! Winzy must not be making that much money.

Changed concept mid stream. Winzy is now a points to ask/answer concept not the points to search site it once was.

Why would I go to Winzy.com and ask or answer questions? What's the benefit? Why would I do this daily?

You can still sign up for Winzy while it lasts visit Winzy.com

Mahalo Answers Better Than Yahoo Answers?

If you're the one answering the questions than Mahalo Answers is better than Yahoo Answers because you get paid. You can earn a minimum of $1 per best answer, there is no maximum set donation for a best answer. You earn when someone asking a question offers a "tip." A tip is the money a person asking a question agrees to pay via PayPal for the best answer. There is no obligation for the person asking a question to grant a best answers to anyone. Once you earn more than 40 Mahalo Dollars, you can request to be paid via PayPal. Each Maholo Dollars is worth $0.75 when paid via PayPal. Sounds promising and I know Maholo.com is a good company with a lot of funding behind their web site. Lets see if anyone actually gives a "tip" to anyone. It could be a lot of work for not much reward.

In these dire economic times is paid to surf dead?

It seems all around the world now, starting in the United States, economies are weakening. I remember back in 2000 when the Internet bubble burst virtually all paid to surf companies went out of business. It will be interesting to see how paid to surf companies weather this new economic storm. The paid to surf genres of web sites is already an anemic industry in which light patches of economic weakness tends to lead to bankruptcy with a quickness. The winds are picking up… how many companies will get blown away?

Visit my web site GetPaid4Surf.com for paid to surf programs, but choose them wisely. One side note in the best of times with paid to surf in 2000 companies rarely if ever kept their "promised" level of compensation $$$. General rule of thumb in the paid to surf industry payout levels are most of the time lower than the company promises, if they pay at all. These are usually not professionals you're dealing with, it's amateur hour business 101.