Credit Crunch: Earning Money From the Internet

Chances are that the term Credit Crunch is not something new to your ears. It’s a sign of the times that has been echoed through time since records began, you’ll have years of good time and years of bad times. The World as a whole is approaching a bad time, spending is down, resources are in short supply and the population has become massive. Even the simple necessities of life like bread, milk and potatoes have gone up in price, and it seems everyone is feeling the pinch.

And while everyone tightens their belts, and begins to panic as the world as we know it spirals out of control, I kick off my shoes, abandon my job and look forward to making some decent money, setting my own time limits and writing about the things I feel passionate about.

In my life I have achieved little, I have no real education, I have worked pretty hard for most of my 20 years in the working world and I had attempted to run a number of businesses all of which have in honesty failed. Yet if you spend anytime online there is a chance you have encountered my name, and yes it is my name; I’m the only person on the face of the earth with my name, no doubles, no mistakes; Google me and you’ll find me. If you have Googled me, you’ll see I’m kind of hard to avoid, there are more links to my name online than some celebrities. Better still if you spell my name wrong, Google will correct you and ask “Do you mean….?”

There is a reason why I’m so well known online, and that’s through very hard work. All the time I’m branding myself and earning cash. As each day passes I earn more and more.

What’s Special About Me?

The answer is nothing, there is nothing special about me, but like every single person on the earth I know something that someone else does not know, I know something that someone else wants to know. This applies to all of us, even if you’re housebound and disabled the chances are you’re a bigger fountain of knowledge than you realise. And it’s this fountain of knowledge that you can use to inject an extra sum of money into your bank accounts every month.

This article your reading is just the first in a whole string of articles you’ll catch by me that might help you to earn some money from your knowledge, and the power of the internet. No payments, no catches, no special skills, no selling; you can earn a guaranteed sum of money each month that will help you to manage through the difficult times.

The series of articles I’m writing are designed to inspire you to earn from the internet, in stages and at your own pace. This first piece is about earning a sum of around £100 GBP roughly $190 USD, in your spare time each and every month. Follow my advice and you will earn, but deviate and you might as well have not bothered.

Writing Reviews And Interesting Articles

So this is where it begins, and this is where I began. This first article is designed for those like myself (when I started) with just a few hours to spend each week to pool in a little extra money.

Ciao

Ciao is a consumer website, it has two sides one side is based on surveys in which you are part of those quoted consumer panels you hear about on the news. The second side is based around writing, and specifically writing reviews/articles of products. Whether it be your latest computer or crisps you can write about it, if it’s not listed in Ciao’s vast library then request they list it.

We all experience things differently and this is the basis on which Ciao works, while I might buy a mobile phone and have exceptional experiences with it, your phone might break a fortnight after buying it. You name it, you can write about it, from your local pub to a tourist resort it is all here.

If you write just one review a day you can amass approximately £30 ($58 USD) a month. I used to spend three or four hours writing articles, now I can write a lengthy piece in 20 minutes, this is the wonder of personal development. If you answer all the surveys (subject to acceptance) you stand the chance to double this.
There are a number of country localised Ciao’s across the world I use the UK one, but there are Italian, German and other variants to aid you aid others in the region you live in.

Ciao pay once a month directly into your bank account.

I’ll come back onto Ciao after telling you about a similar site.

Dooyoo

Dooyoo works in exactly the same way, except where Ciao’s different products earn different payment prices, Dooyoo’s are set in stone. As an added bonus the earnings are slightly higher than Ciao, so I earn approximately £100 per month ($190 USD) from dooyoo alone.

Dooyoo pay via cheque or if you prefer in Amazon vouchers.

Dooyoo & Ciao

Someone once said a wonderful thing to me “Ah, the duplicity of multiplicity” that sticks in my mind and sums up this scenario to a T! The wonder of Dooyoo and Ciao is that providing you are the author of an article, you can post in both, exactly the same article. Now if you think about this, the sort of cash amount we are talking here is for some families a good chunk of a monthly food shop.

The key to making this work is not to be lazy, you need to write well. Don’t just write the minimum number of words, write exactly what you need to write to sell or ruin the potential buyer as best you can. My key area is writing movie reviews when I write a review I give a synopsis of the movie, an idea of who is in it, how the movie works, how it made me feel, if I would watch it again, and where a potential buyer can purchase or see the movie. These are essential elements to helping a potential buyer make an informed decision. Be careful if writing about a movie or a book not to give anything away though.

There is a two way element to writing on Dooyoo and Ciao and that is in order to achieve your best possible earnings you must read and rate the writing of others. This is essential, because it allows you to learn how to improve you’re writing as well as allowing them to earn too, don’t be selfish share what you have.

Let’s talk time, how long is this going to take? I used to spend 90 minutes a day reading and writing, I used to be strict with my time because outside of writing I also worked over 70 hours each week. Don’t just view this as a money making exercise, writing is therapy it helps you handle and release stress, plus you have the satisfaction of helping others. People suffering with cancer or heart illness often write about their illness, the drugs they use, and the products they encounter to make their lives better. Writing reviews is totally endless; you will never run out of things to write about.

Helium

This is slowly becoming one of the best known sites for individual writing on the internet. Though I won’t lie the money payout is much less than Dooyoo and Ciao. The benefit again is in multiplicity, those reviews you wrote elsewhere drag them across here too.

Unlike Ciao and Dooyoo, you don’t earn simply for writing and getting reads, here you earn when someone either uses Helium as a fountain of knowledge and stumbles on your reviews/articles, or use a search engine to look into what you have written about. For each time your review/article is read you get 1 cent. Not a big deal I know but these build up, and whereas both Dooyoo and Ciao reviews stop you earning several months after you wrote the article, with Helium you earn forever. Articles I wrote over a year ago still earn me money now. The more interesting or popular the subjects you write about the more you stand to earn.

But Helium works in other ways, Publishers might by your article, organizations like Pulitzer actively look to recruit through the process. For those up for a gamble use your knowledge against others and enter writing competitions for big cash payouts. This year alone I have earned $2000 through Helium (at the time of writing its June), and I’ll continue to earn through writing and entering competitions through the site.

Homepage Friends

When writing it’s important to research, you want to provide the best possible advice you can and in doing so to be factually correct. In order to do this I use internet search engines to help me research, now however with Homepage friends you earn 2.5p roughly 5 cents in US money for each search you do. Imagine being paid money to search, and each month I earn roughly £20 ($38 USD) just for searching. In doing so you’re helping others, your raising organisations profiles in the search ranks. Again it’s a two way street, but this is the easiest way to earn cash, don’t abuse the system though continuously searching for silly things, if they think you’re going to muck them about you’ll find your account will soon close.

Epinions

It works like Ciao and Dooyoo, but pays a little bit like Helium. For those looking for quick cash this is worthless, but if you can afford a bit of time to post you’re already written reviews here, and rate a few articles at the end of a year the money is worth drawing out. If you live outside the US it’s a long drawn out process getting paid from here, involving physically sending forms to the US. However through incentives and escalators over a year I have earned £450 about $850 USD, not bad for something you don’t think much about.
Ready To Go?

So there you go, this is the start a place to begin. You could pull in £100 a month; I personally draw in £500 a month from this. The key thing is you need no technical knowledge to use these sites, no HTML coding; no building of pages you simply write and submit the rest is taken care for you.

But this is just the beginning in my next piece I’ll write about how to earn money through more advanced methods. And I’ll also tell you how I get to review new movies and DVD’s without paying a penny.