Some Actual Ways To Make And / Or To Save Money Online | A List Of Legitimate Resources.

HERE IS A DISCLAIMER: In this weblog post, I have only mentioned websites and / or applications that I have actually used, myself, and that have actually work for me. I do not plan to endorse any websites and / or any applications that I have not actually used and / or that have not actually worked for me.

Do you feel like you just don't have enough money?

Do you feel like you just want to make some more money?

What would you do just to make a little bit more money?

Hahaha. Okay, but ... seriously, enough with the infomercial-like talk. Here we go [already / finally]!

- EBATES (ONLINE & WITH THE APPLICATION).

Purpose: Cash-Back & Coupons.

Threshold: $5.01.

Instructions:

Log into your Ebates account, choose and click on the website that you want to shop from, and then you just make the purchase. (The cash-back percentage might vary based on the different product categories.)

It might take a few days to see the transaction in your account, but you can just report the missing cash-back if it doesn't show up, and then it should show up right away.

Reliable? Yes. I have used / still use this website before I make any purchases online.

Get Cash Back & Coupons With Ebates.com | No Forms Or Points! Just Cash Back!

- INBOXDOLLARS (ONLINE & WITH THE APPLICATION):

The Purpose: You can earn money by confirming paid emails, "watching" videos, using the TV feature on their application, doing daily paid searches. It might take a while to get to the $30.00 threshold, and it might charge a $3.00 processing fee, but it does work.

HERE IS A SIDE NOTE: From my experience (when I first started out), it kind of took a while for me to build up to a reasonable sum of money, but that's what will most likely happen if you only stick to doing one of the activities or two of the activities and not even all that often. If you stick to it and do a few of the [easy / simple / fast] activities almost every single day, the paid searches, watching the paid videos, taking the daily poll[s], and watching videos with the TV feature), then it will all add up even more quickly.

The Payment Threshold: $30.00.

The Withdrawal Processing Fee: $3.00.

Some tips:

- Don't just focus on the daily paid emails, because then then they might cut it down to once a week.

- You can earn a lot more money by using the TV feature on their application.

- Don't stop using their search engine when it gets to 4/4, but try keep on searching until you stop getting rewards for it.

- Don't even bother with trying to do the surveys (unless you really want to do so). So many people just get rejected from the surveys, so it might not even be worth it.

- You don't have to do any of the cash offers.

AN EDIT / AN UPDATE: I was actually paid by them not that long ago. It did take a little bit of a while, because I used to just stick to the basic things. And I still don't really do the surveys. Also, they added a new feature called "Scratch & Win", so instead of earning some stuff the regular way with *some methods* that people used to be able to (for some things), now they'd earn Scratch & Win progress in order to be able to win some more earnings (usually 1 cent - 15 cents at a time ... depending). Not for everything. So ... yeah, it's almost kind of like less earnings in a way, because I used to be able to get a decent amount of cents through watching videos and doing searches. The Spin & Win feature also seems to stick to the Scratch & Win progress as its reward (rigged?), but money is money. You can also click on surveys without actually taking them to get extra spins.

My InboxDollars Referral Link (Extra Money For You And For Me).

- SENDEARNINGS:

There is also SendEarnings (which is very similar to InboxDollars in layout, in design, and just overall ... so I guess that it doesn't really need very much of an explanation).

The Payment Threshold: $30.00!

AN EDIT/ AN UPDATE: After a few months of inactivity, they de-activated my account, and I lost all of my earnings. I didn't get any notices, any emails, any notifications. NOTHING. That's a rather shady thing for a money-making website to do. If you still decide to use their website, then maybe don't go inactive for long periods of time.

- FIVERR.

First of all, yes, there is usually going to be some social interaction required for this one. But - when I was a teenager - I was lucky enough to be "hired" to just write some animal-related "reviews" on their website. But I ended up cancelling some of the other gigs that I would get. So ... it doesn't all just have to do with writing for people that just want to steal your work and the credit for it.

Reliable: Yes. I have gotten paid by them before (but they take a percentage of the payment), but I don't use this website anymore.

- GOOGLE ADSENSE (SOCIAL MEDIA, WEBLOGS, AND / OR YOUTUBE).

Sign up for an account with a blogging website (Blogger / BlogSpot, WordPress, Tumblr, et cetera) and / or for an account with YouTube, do some research, decide on what you want to create and what you want to post, and then set everything up.

Make sure that you also sign up for adsense, learn how to connect it to your weblog and to your social media accounts (there is a Google Adsense ID that you'll need to use for them), and then eventually apply for a YouTube Partnership.

One of the biggest tips that I can give to you is to re-share your stuff a lot! Don't just share it once and then forget about it! I started to utilize this strategy recently, and I have been getting around 1,000-ish weblog views on the days that I mass-re-share a lot of my weblog posts (whether they are old or they are new) ... and that's just by re-sharing them on Google+.

You can also get the CrowdFire application to help to increase traffic to your online content and to schedule for your posts to be shared online! (You can also be selected to join CrowdFire's Creator Program, too!)

And ... trust me, it's not all about the count of followers and the count of subscribers. It's actually more about the count of views and the count of clicks.

And you can also add a "donate" button to your websites. (I actually have a PayPal donate button on my weblog right now, so you can look at that one for an example, and you can also do some research on it as well.)

 

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HERE IS A SIDE NOTE: I would actually advise for you to stay away from multi-channel networks (MCNs). It may work for some people (if they're really popular online), but it's not always going to be the best bet for everyone. I have some experience with this one, myself, but I'm not going to go into much detail about it for right now (at the least, until I can actually get the whole situation resolved ... like, until I'm not under a signed contract with an MCN anymore, myself).

- PATREON:

You can also use Patreon, which is a website for creators to use to make money for their content. It can also sync up your YouTube content to your Patreon account, too. People can subscribe to you to pay you a certain amount (whether it's just once or it's a continuous thing) for your content (and you can set up some rewards for them in return). I originally did have a Patreon account, but I didn't stay with them for very long. But I do know about a few people that use it, and it seems to work pretty well for them. Usually, some people would use this website to raise funds for some of the creative equipment that they need (such as: cameras for filming, lighting, editing software, et cetera).

- ACHIEVEMINT.:

The Purpose: Achievemint is a website that will pay you to stay healthy. How will they do so? You just have to connect some of your accounts (such as: My Fitness Pal, FitBit, Google Fit, Twitter, et cetera) with your AchieveMint account, and then they will track your health-related activities through that. In turn, you will earn points for those health-related activities. ("Earn 10,000 points to be rewarded with $10!" - AchieveMint.)

The Payment Threshold: $10.00.

- LISTIA:

Okay, so ... this technically isn't a website for making money, but it can help you to save your actual money (in the sense that you can earn points to buy stuff [by selling stuff and / or by doing activities], because it's an auction website that focuses on credits and not on cash). (Some listings might also charge for shipping costs, though, so be aware of that.)

You can see the proof of a lot of things that I "bought" with Listia in some of my old weblog posts and in some of my old YouTube videos.

Would you like to get free things for points?! Not even kidding!

{REPOST} Things that I have won from Listia.com

{REPOST} Getting Started with Listia.com | Auctions for FREE stuff!!

{REPOST} Received and Reviewing Listia Items + Haul Videos!

GET FREE STUFF WITH Listia.com

- INFLUENSTER:

Another website that is kind of like Listia is Influenster. You can sign up, do a bunch of activities, and after a certain amount of time and / or after a certain amount of points, they will send you what they call a seasonal "VoxBox" (which will consist of a bunch of items for you to test and to review). I don't really use their website anymore, but I did get their Violet VoxBox a few years ago (although there were some products in that box that I would not actually endorse due to ethical reasons).

Influenster | Where You Can Earn Free Things!

Influenster | The Violet VoxBox Review!!!

*This weblog post has been edited / has been updated as of: 28 May 2018.*

My Language Exchange | A Miniature Review.

Hello, Everyone. Today, I am going to be doing a miniature review of a website called "My Language Exchange", so be prepared ... because it might get just a little bit negative up in here. (Eek! I'm kind of sorry. Hehehe.)

First of all, what is My Language Exchange? It is a website for people to join so that they can find language partners and / or language pen-pals. The formatting is kind of simple, but they could probably do with just a little bit more simplification in some areas. (Like when you're trying to find certain things on their website ... or if you want for your searches to be even more specific [*Cough.* Only show me the people that actually have profile pictures. *Cough.*].)

PC World magazine quotes them as one of the "'Top 101' websites'", and - from my experience - it's not so hard to understand why they weren't chosen as one of the "'Top 10' websites" (or even one of the "'Top 50' websites" ... and so on ... and so forth).

Right off of the bat, one of the main problems with this website is that you cannot really get into contact with people (other than sending a "Free Hi!" to them and / or posting in the forums) if you are not a "gold member".

Oh, and did I mention that you aren't even allowed to write any of your contact information in your profile's description? (No, I know that I didn't even do so until now. So ... now I did do so.) Yeah! I got a wall of text ... I mean ... a warning notice ... just for putting "(@VeganAmyRose)" next to my name in my profile's description.

I mean, I guess that I was kind of debating about it to myself. I wrote it in there, and then I took it out of there, and then so on and so forth. I mean, I ended up leaving it in there, and then it was removed by someone (a moderator / an administrator?), and then that's when I got that intimidating warning notice.

By the way, I'm 21 years old, I'm already pretty careful about who I talk to on the internet, and I should probably add that I'm already pretty selective about the websites that I choose to join in the first place. Why is it wrong to put my username in my profile's description? Hmmm? Why is that a part of the policy? Oh, and tons of other people do it without getting into trouble ... so why was I particularly singled out?

I know that this probably doesn't really count as censorship, but - in a way - maybe kind of ... just a little bit. Blah. Whatever. Maybe it's like they're trying to so-called "shame" people into compliance (A.K.A.: into buying their little $6.00 gold membership). (Yeah, I know how that sounds. Hahaha. Okay.) "You can be banned." Intimidation tactics, Man. And, apparently, it (not being able to contact people without paying for a gold membership) works for some people, I guess, because some people actually do buy the gold memberships to talk to people (when they could just join Italki ... or something like that).

And, by the way, even if I was more specific in my description, it seems like *some people* didn't really care that they didn't match it. (Someone contacted me, saying that they knew Persian ... and that they owned a goldfish. Like, what? I didn't even mention anything like that at all.)

Honestly, it's not necessarily that I didn't like the website (at first), because it was actually okay (at first), but how are the members supposed to get into contact with each other? Hmmm? That's what we were there for. It's inconvenient as all fudge.

"Thou hast sinned. Now click on the little box near the red asterisk to show us that you are forfeiting your own personal will(s) to us."

*Sigh.* Honestly, all of this covfefe over a silly little username. Oh my gosh. Where are the priorities here, you guys?

Okay, it's whatever. It's their website. It's their policy. It's their choice. But they should care some more about the opinions of the people that use their website. I think that putting a username into your profile's description is kind of a trivial issue (especially to be banned over). Okay, whatever. I did delete my information from that website ... and my account, too.

Well, that's it for now. Thank you so much for reading this wall of text. I know that it might have seemed kind of negative, but I don't necessarily "hate" them (or anything like that). Good-Bye, Everyone.