Just Another Writer

Okay.

I finally have a few moments. I still can’t tell you how much money I’ve made from promoting these sites yet, because I’m waiting to see how much time it takes me to deal with canceling the “offers”. In other words, I don’t want to be horribly unethical and inflict something terrible on others, so I’m waiting to see if it is (A) merely a pain in the ass or (B) a royal time-sucking pain in the ass that I would never repeat in a million years.

Here’s a list of the offers I had to take to make the money I made on the first site I did:

Blockbuster (1/2 credit)–free to sign up, but I have to cancel the service in two weeks or I’ll be charged….something.

Lifelock (1/2 credit)–free to sign up, but if I don’t cancel by in thirty days, I’m out a billion dollars or something.

One credit makes you “Go green” on that site. This one was really easy, and I’d recommend it to others. So, if you’re an organized person who’d like to make $20, contact me and I’ll hook you up.

Of course, once you’ve completed the referral, you can do the same thing yourself. I’ll be going for $450, which by the time I pay for completed referrals will be a grand total of $230. This is not looking like a way to get rich, but it IS another source of income. You know, multiple streams and all that.

I completed referrals on three other sites and chose the following “offers”. It says something that these are the best ones I could come up with:

Bella Clear–It cost about seven dollars to have it sent to me, and I have to send it back within 15 days or my credit card will be charged nearly eighty dollars. A month. You can see how organization is important if you are going to do this.

eAuction Success–This one cost $1.95, but if I don’t cancel in 14 days, I’m out sixty bucks a month for this informational product. There are several other informational products offered by this company, but you can only order one. I am starting to see where the real money is in this, though. I have it on my list to see what it takes to get myproduct offered on one of these sites.

Allure Patch–This contains green tea or something, and set me back a couple of bucks. It will cost me $89.95 a month to continue with this weight loss effort if I don’t cancel in 10 days.

Boca Java–I paid $19.95 for a cute set of mugs and a bunch of expresso. It’s going in the pile of gifts for people I don’t know I’m giving gifts to yet. If I don’t cancel in 14 days, I’ll get expensive shipments every month.

Web.com–This is a hosting service that I have no gripe with. Their customer service was great when I called to get my $25 in Adwords. I paid about $10 to sign on with this one, so that was a really nice perk. Of course, I will continue to be charged every month until I cancel.

Girls Gone Wild–It was seven dollars or so to order the video. Subsequent monthly videos cost $19.95. I suppose watching the same girls all the time gets a bit tame…I am ticked off at them because they haven’t given me credit yet for signing up, so I haven’t went “green” on that site yet.

So you can see how this is a way to make actual money, but that it might not be the easiest way. One thing I am learning about making money online is that there isn’t an easy way. I enjoy writing, so PPP seems easy to me, but it might not for someone else. Completing these offers makes me want to tear my hair out, and I’m not going to do it anymore. I’m going to promote the sites I already have in “green” status. Also, you can keep those sites green without having to complete any more “offers”, which means you keep your cash machine going.

I’ll let you know how it turns out once I start canceling things.

I really love how much easier it has gotten to have a home business over the past few years. Gone are the days of standing in line for hours at the post office. I purchase
online stamps, which can definitely be a timesaver. As someone who has sold quite a bit of goodies on eBay and Half.com, these perks mean a lot. There’s a gadget that I have my eye on now, as I still sell books. It’s the Dymo LabelWriter 400 Turbo, which is pictured above. It is a device that will make labels at the speed of light. Well, actually, I don’t remember what the speed of light is, but it can print 55 labels per minute, which is pretty darn fast, whether it takes you to another galaxy or not.

You don’t have to be one of those super-organized people to love this thing, either. We all know those people are freaks, and aren’t to be trusted. You’d be amazed at how often ordinary people print labels. We need them for files and folders, envelopes and packages, and to label our children for field trips. The thing I really like about the LabelWriter 400 Turbo, though, is that it can print…
postage! How cool is that? Imagine it spitting out those stamps at a rate of one per second! Post office, beat that!

Another bonus is that when you are
printing, you can your own fonts and graphics. These will be printed directly from programs like Word and Outlook, among others. Now that’s a timesaver!

The Dymo site has other labelwriters to choose from as well, and is very easy to navigate. Best of all, the 400 Turbo is affordable for the average small business owner or super-organized OCD person.

Photo by Marie ll, another grrrl.
$25 may not seem like much, but believe me, it all adds up. I try to make at least a little bit of extra money every day. If you think about it, either spending or earning $25 bucks a day adds up to over $9000 a year. I’d rather earn it!

Anyway, this latest thing is an alternative to PayPal, called Revolution Money Exchange. I heard about it at Wise Bread and decided to give it a try. The fact that they give you $25 for signing up was incentive enough.

Signing up was really quick, and the money was credited to my account within an hour. If I want to add my bank account, it can be direct deposited, or I can request a check. Not bad for three minutes work!

They have an affiliate program as well, although I’m not sure that I like it. You get $10 for every person you can get to sign up, but here’s the catch, you can only use their email form to send people emails asking if they’d like to sign up. And if they do decide to sign up, they have to use the exact same email address that you entered in the form. It’s a lot of work, and unless you know people who are almost sure to go for it (and who don’t have a zillion different email addresses) it’s probably not worth it. I sent a couple of invitations out, but only to people who met that criteria. You may know more people in the market for a PayPal alternative than I do. If so, $10 bucks a pop isn’t bad. They have a $500 limit per year.

Anyway, $25 more bucks in the vacation fund…