Cash Crate – how it works

You can get paid to review and try products, services, and websites. You get paid when your account reaches $20. Some offers only reward you with points, but you can trade the points for gift cards and various other items. Sign up here

Different ways to make money on the site.
1. Complete offers. These vary from answering surveys to registering for free newsletters. Make sure you set the search to show “100% free” offers. You don’t want to get stuck in some sort of membership.
2. Go shopping. You get a % back when you shop online at various stores.
3. Refer friends. You get paid 20% of what your direct referrals make and 10% of what their referrals make.
4. Contests. Cash Crate rewards the top 10 ten users earning the most money through offers and daily surveys, as well as the users who refer the most people.

Earn Money Writing for Google Knol

Google recently launched a Wikipedia alternative. When an author writes about a particular topic they are also allowed to take part in revenue share for ads on their page.

How to get started.
1. Register with Knol
2. sign up for Google Adsense
3. log into your Knol account and clicking on the "Settings" link in the top of the page to connect the 2 accounts
4. Write an article about a topic that you have knowledge of that will also be at high demand.

Cheap Stingy Bargains

At Cheap Stingy Bargains they mostly list good deals on computers and electronics. They also have coupon codes. People comment on the items and let you know if they are really a good deal or not.

Cheaper Gift Cards

There are some sites where you can trade or sell your unwanted gift cards. Even if you don’t have a card to sell or trade, you can still get good deals on buying gift cards. Many $25 gift cards are selling for $20. Check shipping charges because they vary based on the site/card/seller. Sometimes it might not be worth it, but other times you could save quite a bit of money.

This would work out great if there are stores listed where your normally shop. These would make great gifts as well.

giftcards.com
plasticjungle.com

Do Small Jobs though Amazon

Though Amazon, you can get paid for odd jobs. They vary from rating restaurants to doing web searches. They don’t pay much, but it could add up over time. Click here for Amazon Mechanical Turk

Name this – get paid to come up with names

Are you good at brainstorming? On this site companies ask for your help in naming their product or business.

The payout varies on the project, but most times the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place names get a reward.

Check out Name This.

Get paid for your photos

Like to take pictures? Do you have some nice photographs? You could possibly make some money off of them.



There are many sites where you can upload your photos and start making money.



Here are a few: (I got this list from Site Point by J. Catone )

BigStockPhoto - 50 cents to $3.00/image

iStockPhoto - 20-40% for photos from $1 to $20 (for photos) - more if you offer them an exclusive on your work. Also sells videos, illustrations, flash, and audio. 3.5 million + photos.

Dreamstime - $ .35 to $8.40/image - more for exclusives.

Shutterstock - 25 cents per downloaded image. Refer friends and earn 3 cents/image sold by photographers you refered. Illustrations and video too.

StockXpert - 50% for $1 to $10/image photos.

123 Royalty Free - 50% and 36 cents/imaged downloaded. Refer friends and get 10% per photo sold for referred photographers.

CanStockPhoto - 50% and 25 cents/image download.

Fotolia - 33% and 64% of $1 - $3/image.

Shutterpoint - 70% or 85% . See what types of images are selling best. What’s Selling

Photo Stock Plus - 85% but takes a 3.25% processing fee. You set your own pricing.

CreStock - 30% for $5 to $15/image. See the best images and the worst images to get an idea of what types of photos they are looking for.

SnapVillage - 30% for $1 to $50/image.

Nature Photo Index - Not just nature photos and you get 99% back.

Scoopt - For selling images to the media. 40%

Citizenside - News/media images. Get up to 75%

Learn something new

Lots of universities offer free online classes. Here are a few places where you can learn something new for free.
http://extension.washington.edu/openuw/
http://uc.princeton.edu/main/index.php

These sites offer how-to videos and instructions on a wide range of topics.
E-how
How Cast

If you are already an expert on a topic, you can write an article on e-how and earn some money. Make money by writing articles on various topics.

Drivertise and get free gas

Driv•er•tis•ing [dry-ver-ty-zing]
–noun
A vehicle that displays advertising for the purpose of drawing public attention to a product or service

If you don’t mind having advertising on your car, you could make quite a bit of money.

To become a Drivertiser™, you must…..
• Own a vehicle that is between a 1998-current model year.*
• Drive an average of 1250 miles per month. (Roughly 40+ miles per day)**
• Be the registered owner of the vehicle.
• Have a valid driver’s license.
• Have valid insurance.
• Have a clean driving record.
http://www.gasforfree.com/driver-info.aspx

Video on how to make and save money

I made a video with some information on how to make and save money. Most of this are things I have already mentioned in previous posts, but here it is in video in case you are interested.

I talk about ways to make a little bit of extra income from your home computer and how you can save some money on your normal purchases.