I Was Paid By PineCone Research

I joined PineCone Research recently and was given a couple of household surveys to complete right away. They do these to get an idea about what types of surveys you might qualify for. Anyway, the household surveys aren't paid, but they do pay for the other surveys, and so far I have received two checks from them during the short time that I have been a member.

The surveys ask for your opinions on a variety of things, mostly about new products and product ideas. I can't go into any details but the surveys should take no more than 15 to 20 minutes depending on your internet connection, and I earned $3 for them. So far I have been paid twice, and from what I have heard from other members, they get a survey or two every month or so. They also send out free products from time to time so that the survey panelists can try new products. I think that it is a good program, and would recommend it.

I had heard about it years ago and was told that the only way that you could sign up was by finding a banner somewhere and clicking on it. The trick was to find the banners, and it was a big mystery where it would turn up next because PineCone Research would not disclose this information. I was just discussing this with my sister a couple of weeks ago because my nephew was looking for some good paid survey sites to join. I came home and checked my email and found an email from them stating that they were looking for male participants over the age of 18, so of course I passed the information on to him. They don't accept all applications, but you can apply here.

Take a Free Ride and Earn Points

I have to admit that I had forgotten all about one of the first programs that I had ever signed up with. I don't recall what ever became of them... Maybe I wasn't earning points as fast as I thought I should, probably because of my ridiculously slow dialup connection that wouldn't stay on long enough to accomplish anything (but that is another story) but anyway, I ran across them again and decided to give Free Ride another shot.

As with a couple of other programs that I have joined, one thing that I am disappointed with is that they don't seem to have an affiliate link available to place on my website. It seems that the only way that I can invite anyone to join me is to send them an email. I would really appreciate it if you would allow me to send you and email invitation. To do this, simply contact me with your email address. I promise that I will only use it to send you your invitation. If you don't wish to do that, I will understand and you can just follow the link below. Nobody will get the 100 referral points, but at least you can still join Free Ride.

Signing up for Free Ride is easy and you start out with 500 bonus points. You can earn points by clicking links on their emails, shopping through advertisers on their site, and various other actions.

Signed up Today... Best-Price.com

I just signed up for Best-Price today, but it sounds like it might be a pretty good program if you like to get paid for your opinions. I am still looking around the site, and from what I have seen you get paid for writing reviews and having other members rate them. The more members rate your reviews, the more money you earn. The minimum payout is $5 via PayPal, and it seems that they pay rather quickly according to other members. I can't vouch for that myself since I just joined today, but I will let you know for sure once I reach the $5 minimum payout and request my payment.

As far as earnings go, they say that you earn money for your reviews based on quality, so in order to earn more money for your reviews, you get paid according to the ratings that they receive from other members.

It looks like you can also earn money by referring others, although from what I can tell so far, you can only refer them by sending an email through the site. I wish I had a referral link to add to this post, but unfortunately I can only get my referral money if I have your email address...

I guess that leaves a couple of choices... Of course I would appreciate it if I could get the $1.50 that they pay for a referral, so if you want to give me your email address, I promise that I won't spam you or anything. I will not use it for anything other than to send you and invitation. You can contact me at kelly60@gmail.com Please put "refer me to Best-Prices" in the subject line so I don't miss your email.

Otherwise, you can follow the link and sign up at the Best-Price website and nobody will earn the money. The choice is yours, but as I said, I would appreciate it if you would consider allowing me to send you an invitation so that we can both benefit from this offer.

Blog Directories - Submit Your Blog For More Exposure

This is part one of a two part segment on submitting your blog to various blog directories. I have included a nice variety of blog directories here where you can easily submit your blog. Just go through the list and submit your blog to them, one at a time and this will help to increase your exposure, and along with it, your page rank. I hope that you will make good use of this list of blog directories and watch the traffic to your blog increase dramatically. Feel free to let me know in the comment section whether or not you found these blog directories beneficial in increasing your blog traffic and/or page rank...

LS Blogs

Blog Directory

Globe of Blogs

Blogarama

BlogCatalog

BlogRankings.com

Blog Directory

Digerati Directory

Blog search directory

BlogDir

Blogs Directory

My Blog Directory

Feed Shark

Blog Directory Submit

BloggerNow.com

Blogs by category

Increasing Site Exposure - Directory Submitter Review

You may or may not know that Website Directory Submission is quickly becoming a very popular and easy way to get quality, one way links to your website.

These kind of links are exactly what the search engines are looking for. The websites with more quality, one way links are typically the sites that rank the highest, period.

With that said, there are several websites directory submission programs on the market. The best and easiest to use is a new program created by Brad Callen, called Directory Submitter.

The software currently contains around 1700 website directories, all free. It is the most straightforward program that we've come across, in that all you need to do is:

1. Input your website details (i.e. title, description, URL, etc.) into the software

2. Click on the directory you want to submit to

And then the program will automatically fill in your website details. Then, you simply click the submit button and your website is instantly submitted to the directory. Then, you can move to the next directory, go through the list, and by the time you're finished you'll have roughly 1500 one way links pointing to your website.

I can't think of an easier way to get links. Of course, if you're going to get links this quickly, it's important to vary your website title (anchor text) every 20-30 links or so, to make things look more natural to the search engines.

You can do this very easily via Directory Submitter when you create your project in the beginning.

The software is constantly being updated and their is an incredible community of users established that all work together to make the software better and better, so you know you're getting great value for the money.

Click here to check out the Directory Submitter Software

Happy Halloween

There are lots of interesting and different ways to promote your choice of income opportunities. This is just one of many. I thought that you might like to check out my latest promotion. This one was made for the Halloween season, but the concept could work any time. It was quick and easy to put together, so you can make your own in just a few minutes.

For this video I uploaded my own photo, then chose a Halloween costume. There are also several backgrounds to choose from. If you don't want to use your own photo, you can choose from one of the pictures they have available. You can see the last video I made here.

Anyway, to add the voice you can either record your message using a microphone or use the text to speech option. I have used the text to speech option because the house was pretty noisy while I was making my video, but I will probably make another one later on when I have the house to myself and put my own voice into it.

In any case, I thought it turned out rather well, so I wanted to share it with you, and let you know that you can make your own by clicking the link at the bottom of the video screen. Don't forget to watch the video first so that you can see how well it turned out.

Don't forget to tell them Kelly60 sent you!

Yuwie - Social Networking That Pays!

Yuwie is a new social networking site, only a couple of months old, but they are really starting to take off. Like MySpace and Friendster, you can invite all of your friends to visit you at Yuwie to do the same activities that you would be doing at the other sites. The big difference with Yuwie is that YOU get a piece of the action. With MySpace and Friendster, all of your activities earn money for THEM. With Yuwie, they share the revenue with members.

Like some of the other social networking sites, you can send and receive messages, meet and make friends with other users, upload your pictures, upload your videos, start a blog, add your old schools, start or join onsite clubs, but with Yuwie you get paid for doing all of this and you also get paid when your referrals do any of these activities.

Besides getting paid for your own page views and the page views of your referrals though, you also get paid for page views from other members and from non-members as well.

I won't lie to you, the money won't come rolling in fast because this isn't some get rich quick scheme. You will have to put in the effort to get started, but it looks like it could have real potential for those who are willing to work at it.

It’s new, so get in on the ground floor. Watch the video, and if you’re really interested in earning some good money for doing a bit of work, I don’t think you’ll be disappointed. It’s entirely FREE.