Showing posts with label money. Show all posts
Showing posts with label money. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Challenge Day 4 of 30

Challenge Day 4 of 30
        The I have cataloged my results from my sample polling and here they are:
Houses approached: 25
Persons appearing very interested: 3
Referrals Made: 0
I believe the processed of typing the complete url http://www.swagbucks.com/refer/mleonc 
is where I am losing the people I believed I had. I believe too many people are simple googling swagbucks, and  signing up. That is of no help to me. I am going to put all my eggs in the basket of this blog, this now reverting back to an internet only challenge. 


I'm expanding this blog to include:

  • The Eye on the internet
    • We'll be turning the eye to all manners of relevant news in the hopes that we will never turn a blind eye to an important issue
New Pages will include:
  • Swagbucks tips and tricks 
  • Mechanical Turk tips and tricks
  • Guide to making money during college
  • As well as other helpful fiance topics

If this blog catches on quickly I could still win my 500 dollar Challenge
If you would like to learn more about how you can earn small amounts of cash .10-50 cents a day using a search engine click here

Current Challenge (make 500 dollars in one month from www.swagbucks.com) Progress:
Total needed 62745
Current total 563
points needed 62182
Approximate monitary value  $   4.49


Search & Win

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Challenge Day 2 of 30

Challenge Day 2 of 30
         Today I went door to door handing out swag buck referral strips to people. It was certainly interesting, my personal favorite being people that claim they don't use a search engine when online. In an attempt to see if this is a profitable method I visited 25 houses in 45 minutes time. Out of those people 7 appeared to be interested and 3 out of the 7 were very interested. If only 1 of those three stays with it for the long haul it will make me $8 which works out to be ten dollars an hour not bad for ringing doorbells. If you want to start making money from Swagbucks click the link the ad at the bottom to sign up.
             If you are trying to sell anything door to door here are a few tips:

  • Smile all the time, it makes people more likely to be receptive to anything you are sell
    • example   
  • Knowledge Know your product, inside and out, you should be able to answer any question instantly
    • example Q: How good are the search results?
    •               A: Swagbucks is powered by Google and Ask and provides similar search results                                                                                 
  • Positives Understand the best thing about your product and center your pitch around that.  
    • example   Swagbucks is free, and provides you an opportunity to make money doing something you already do.
  • Numbers Tracking your progress allows you to remember where you've been and to track the amount of money you have made. If your numbers show you are only getting paid $1.25 an hour that means you need to change your methods or your product
  • Persistence if 25% percent of your customers simply listen to what you have to say you're on the right track. Remember you are trying to sell something they didn't even know they wanted and you will get dozens of NOs before you get a YES!

Search & Win

Current Challenge (make 500 dollars in one month from www.swagbucks.com) Progress:

Total needed 62745
Current total 506
points needed 62239
Approximate monitary value  $ 4.03


-HowEyeSeeThings

Saturday, June 9, 2012

Challenge day 1

                This is day 1 of 30 in my quest to make 500 dollars from swagbucks.com. I have started this blog in the hope that i can inform my readers about free ways to make money on the internet and to refer people to swagbucks to help reach my total requirement of 62,745 swag bucks, or 500 dollars. If you'd like to sign up for swagbucks.com follow this link http://www.swagbucks.com/refer/mleonc or you can click the link in the top right hand corner of the blog to sign up, you get a small bonus for being referred and so do I. For a description of swagbucks view the previous post. 
            If swagbucks isn't quite your cup of tea fear not there are lots of other ways to make money on the internet. One of my personal favorites is becoming a Mechanical TURK for Amazon. I do this for a little bit of extra cash. The basic premise of a a Mechanical TURK or mturk for short is that you complete simple tasks that computers just can't do effectively. These Human Intelligence Tasks or HITs come in all shapes and sizes; some HITs are very quick and easy but pay very little while others are more difficult or timely and pay more. Oh yes did I forget to mention that Amazon pays you cash? Well its true, cash can be deposited directly into a checking account. No swag buck no points just cash.
             The tasks are very diverse, you could classify school systems or right 90 word descriptions of pornos. The choice is yours. Mturks make on average 2-6 dollars an hour depending on how well you complete the HITs. The system also records your accuracy, so the more accurate you are the more high paying HITs  you are offered. To sign up to be a Mechanical TURK for amazon.com follow this link: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome

I will end every post with my current progress toward my swagbucks goal:
Search & Win
Total needed 62745
Current total 393
points needed 62352
approx $3.31 made
-Howeyeseethings-




Intro



This my first blog will talk about my first attempt at getting money from the internet, swagbucks.com. The premise of the website is simple enough. They have a search engine, nearly identical to Google’s, that companies pay money to be at the top of. They then take a small portion of that money and use it to persuade people to use their search engine. This money comes in the form of swag bucks (1 swag buck ~.008 dollars)   Or at least that’s how it began…
Currently you can earn swag bucks by taking surveys, watching videos, playing games, or all of the above. You can also earn swag bucks through referrals:
Search & Win

All in all swagbucks.com seems too good to be true, however it’s not. You’re not going to become a millionare, but you will get an easy 500 dollars a year spending about 5 minutes a day clicking a mouse.