Scratch Back
Scratch Back is a nice and fun way to make money online. It relies on "tips", people giving you money and then showing up on the widget you provide on your site as being in your top spots. It's a lot like buying ad space, but you can keep it cheap. You'll notice that my site has a top spots widget on it, and I have set my price for "tips" at $1.00. You can use PayPal with it too. Nice site, with a good payout (90% in Beta, but will still be above 50% when out of Beta)
CONSTANT CONTENT
Here's another site for aspiring writers. Constant Content provides content for websites and ezines on a variety of topics. This site has some of the better payouts I've seen in a while, anywhere from $10 to $100 and up per article depending on the topic. Some things are specialized and some are general, so it's just a question of what niche you fit in. And as always.....free to join.
Stub Hub
Stub Hub is a great site, pretty much run by sports fans. You as a fan can buy and sell tickets to all manner of events, from MLB, to NBA, NHL, other abreviations, and concerts. They also offer an attractive commission structure of 8% per transaction completed. Check them out, you may even find something you like.
Voxant News Room
Here you can get video, text or slide show feeds that you can embed directly onto your site. All of the content is news related and comes from credible sources like the AP and Reuters, etc. If someone likes the feed they can click the embed feed icon from your site, and embed it onto theirs. Since the feeds are ad supported, you get a share of the revenue per thousand views, and if someone embeds from your site, you get that revenue as well.
Prosper
Prosper is a community driven lending site. Lots of folks don't qualify for loans from banks, or want to borrow less then some banks will allow. So they go to Prosper. They post a reason for wanting to borrow the money, you can review their credit worthiness (based on a bracketed system developed by Prosper for legal privacy reasons), their debt to income, how long at their job, if their bank account was verified by Prosper, if they own a home, etc. You can then loan them money in an Ebay stile bid format. You bid whatever amount you want at whatever interest rate you choose, the lowest interest rate wins. If you are below the rate that wins, your rate gets moved up to the winning rate. You can form groups and get rewards that way too. Some risk of default though, but a better return than a CD.
Letter Rep
Letter Rep is a neat site where folks who need letters written for their business or for presenting awards, etc, go to get the more suave writers to do it for them. You can make a decent commission for referring members to the site who download your letters. Best thing is that they stay on the site for a long time, so if you're good, you can make some real money.
Adbrite
Adbrite is great resource if you want to get those little pop over ads you see on other sites. Adbrite doesn't have a minimum page view requirement like some other sites, and they place ads according to your site content and keywords. I've always liked this concept, because the ads seem more targeted than your generic ad providers.
Blogvertise
Advertise for other sites on your blog and get paid for it. This site allows you to review other sites on your blog and recieve payments via Pay Pal.
Get Paid to Answer Questions
Here are two sites that you can get paid to answer questions online. ChaCha.com and I Want Your Answers allows you to research peoples questions and they pay you a set amount for online search time and SMS searches as well. Pretty neat.
ShutterStock.com
Shutter Stock is a great resource for budding photo artists. The consept is relatively straight forward, you take pictures and upload them to the site. People who want them download them and you get paid. Here's a tip, don't use too much zoom on a digital camera, you loose picture quality.
Cafe Press
Cafe Press is another good site if you're artistically inclined. You can create your own t-shirts, mugs, hats, etc. Just upload the image and put it on the product you want. Free to join, but you will need to promote your shop with friends and family.
Marketing Pond
Marketing Pond is a great resource for combining a multitude of affiliate programs into one site. There are tons of free programs to sign up for here, to include pay per email, survey, link referral, social networks, ad infinitum. This is an awesome resource to get paid for some really easy stuff, and keep it all in one area, sort of like your own make money back office. Check out the programs because, as always, they are free to join.
Paydotcom.com
Paydotcom.com is alot like Clickbank, but less wait to get paid. It's immediately linked into your Paypal so the money clears right in about 48 hrs. after the sale. Not a bad bunch of deals either.
LinkShare
Linkshare is a great free affiliate site who has partnered with some big names in every industry. This place has everything from movies, to Fredricks of Hollywood. They provide HTML code for some really nice banners, check out what they have to offer.
Moola.com
Moola.com has got to be my favorite so far, just because it's fun. The way I heard about it was pretty neat. I work at a financial institution and someone deposited a check with Moola.com in huge letters at the top. I got curious and checked them out. You sign up for free, and they give you a penny. You can wager that penny against other members in games of skill/chance and if you win you can double your money. You can download their search bar and, if you get lucky, you get to spin the wheel for more money (granted that sucker seems to land on $0.02 more often than not, I have hit a quarter once or twice). If you shop at some of the retailers they partner with you get cash back. The trade off, you ask? Before playing the games, you have to watch a video ad. But their ads you see on t.v. anyway, so why not. Plus the games are just so darn fun. I've caught myself saying "Just one more and I'll go to bed" more than once.
Hub Pages
Hubpages is a great community where you write web pages called "Hubs" on topics you know or like. You receive more traffic and higher scores for pages that contain original work, and that have a decent amount of graphics and video feeds on relevant items. I really like their click and add style features and they have Adsense, Amazon, and Ebay affiliate links built right into the pages for revenue sharing. You can also create a link and use it on another persons Hub and share in the revenue on clicks they receive, if they came from your site.
Pay Per Play
Pay Per Play is a newer concept of advertising. A five second audio clip is added into the HTML code of your site right before the closing tag. This way, no matter if someone clicks an add or not, they hear the add and you get paid. It's still in its early phases and won't actually launch until February of 2008, but it looks like a good program and it's always good to be on the ground floor of those.
ClickBank
Everyone should be familiar with Click Bank. You sign up and choose adds for websites or categories that strike your fancy and put the links on your site. If people click and buy, you win.
Sell A Band
Sell A Band is truely an awesome creation. Up and coming musicians that have a hard time getting the big name attention they deserve, sign on with Sellaband. They post MP3 files of some of their songs and, if you like them, you can invest in them. You become a "believer" and you buy a "part" for $10.00. Once they reach $50,000.00 in "believements" they cut a record and start promoting. All the believers get a slice of the action from add revenue and you receive one "limited edition" cd per part you invested. You can elect to keep all the cd's or you can let Sellaband sell them for you and keep some of the dough.
Helium
Helium is one of my favorite write for money sites. It's clean and orderly, professional, and fun. It will provide you titles to write about, and you can join contests or write in the marketplace. The contests have decent payouts and the marketplace editors will pay handsomely for those that win. I've seen payouts of $80.00 by respected magazines for one story. Also you could be discovered, as it were, by a marketplace editor, if your good, and land a position. You won't make a fortune off it, if you don't win contests and write for the marketplace guys, but it's fun and you can donate money to worthy causes. Just remember that you are required to review other articles.
uVme
uVme is a social web network that allows you to play games for money, or for free. Basically it's like a myspace with games and money involved. The games are fun, and it's always cool to win money. Check it out, the affiliate program is free to join, but I don't know for how much longer. If what I've heard through the online channels is correct, this one will be big.
Google Adsense
Ofcourse, no discussion on money programs would be complete without a spot for Adsense. Sign up and run ads on your site, that Google will find for you based on your site's keywords. They provide free analytics that are absolutlety amazing. I saw today that two people clicked on my site in Australia. Cool rush from that.
Forex Affiliate
Forex Affiliate is a program that pays you when folks sign up for Forex accounts. For those that aren't familiar with the concept, it's based on the exchange rate between currencies. They fluctuate rapidly, and people can make a good amount if they know what they are doing. You trade in lots of 100 contracts for whatever currency pair you want. For example EUR/USD is for Euro's and Dollars. If you buy, you buy Euro's (cause they are first in the pair) and are therefore selling Dollars to do so (cause they're second) if you sell, you sell Euro's and buy Dollars. Lots of risk and you can loose your shirt if you aren't careful, but lots of people have made their fortunes too. Read everything and make sure you understand the risks before trading or promoting.
Art.com
Art.com
The Art Store
Lots of people dig great, classy art. Now you can help sell it to them. Sign up for a store or a link and promote classy art.
Weblo.com
Weblo is an online community where you can buy and sell digital assets, like realestate, websites, or fan sites. You don't have to own the website in real life or anything, it just has to be available on Weblo (ie. someone else didn't already buy it). It's actually pretty fun, you do need some funds to be able to fully participate, but you're allowed 1 fan site as a free member and that can start earning you money immediatley, through ads. If you sign up please remember to use this referal code:
1b0a9
1b0a9
Yuwie
Yuwie is a social network that pays it's users for using Yuwie. It's all user generated and the payouts seem really good. What I like is that you get paid for pageviews and just about anything counts as a page view. Try it out and see what you can make. It's free after all.
