Thursday, November 27, 2008

Pending offers, and what they REALLY mean!

Here's some good info about pending offers from the Cash Crate Forums:

Q: What does it mean when an offer is Pending?

We provide the “Pending” feature only as a way for you to track the offers that you’ve done. Just because an offer is Pending does not mean it will be credited, and even if you forget to submit an offer to us, you’ll still receive credit for the offer when the company reports to us.

You may have noticed that it’s possible to submit offers to us (and give them Pending status) even if you haven’t completed them. Remember that you will only be credited for the offer when the advertiser notifies us that you have completed the offer.

Q: How long do offers stay Pending?

An offer stays pending until we receive credit for it or until two weeks have passed. If two weeks have passed without crediting, it will be removed from your Pending list and put back into your Available Offers list so you can complete it. If that same offer is eventually credited to us, we’ll credit your account regardless of whether it’s Pending or not.

How to Sort Offers

When viewing offers to complete, you are given 2 sorting options. The first is by type (100% Free, Trial, or Both), and is pretty self explanatory. The second sorting option is what I will be going into detail about.

Rating - This sorts the offers by their rate of approval. This is, to me, the most important factor.

Newest - Sorts by when the offer was posted to the site. Great if you'd done offers previously that hadn't confirmed and you don't want to re-do offers that don't work for you.

Payout - Sorts offers by their how much you get paid if you successfully complete the offer.

Cost - I always do just the 100% free offers, so I've never used this. But it sorts the trial offers by what you have to pay,

Name - Sorts the offers by name. If you go on the forum and see a lot of people having success with a particular offer, it's easy to sort by name to find that offer.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Referrals

Swiped from the Cash Crate forums. I take no credit for this work.

100 Unique Ways to Get Referrals: Complete and Revised!

1. Post on GPT forums.
2. Tell friends and family.
3. Guild members and online friends.
4. Door-hang around neighborhoods.
5. Walk through parking lots putting flyers on cars.
6. Write a blog.
7. Keep your referral link on your Sig. on all forums with a brief explanation.
8. Find chat rooms and groups that have the sole purpose of "Easy Money Making"
9. Write a classified ad.
10. Talk to students at high schools and colleges.
11. Put a flyer up at work.
12. Advertise while you drive with flags, bumper stickers, etc.
13. Post your link at the end of your YouTube videos.
14. Attach a .txt in an RAR file with that you can upload with your referral link.
15. Give flyers for local businesses to hand out.
16. Send out flyers in a mailing list (ex.: http://www.usdatafax.com/)
17. Get a bot/macro to post your link with a simple explanation on any server you may be hosting/running
18. Make a website.
19. Tell people thru IM/PM
20. Link-Exchange
21. Paid advertising on other people's websites
22. Advertise on on-line games.
23 Print business cards and include your phone number to enter into business drawings (like you find in a lot of restaurants)
24. Buy "paid to sign up" at other GPT sites
25. Buy an expired domain with traffic and "redirect" to your referral link ex: www.realstat.info
26. Buy banner space. Impression in high PR forums/groups.
27. Buy text links on blogs/forums/groups
28. Offer cash or other incentives for sign-ups
29. Add your ref. link or website to a filename of an mp3, video, or program and share it over a file-sharing network like Bear Share or a torrent program.
30. Free traffic exchanges
31. Paid traffic exchanges
32. Google Adwords (makes website ads that link to your website or ref. link)
33. Mention that you get paid in US funds
34. Rent a billboard (Approx. $8-$15 per day)
35. Get a tattoo with your referral link on it
36. Go door-to-door and ask in person
37. Add your site/blog to digg, stumble upon, Bumpzee, del.icio.us, etc
38. Have a friend or network digg your site/blog to digg, stumble, etc
39. Get a custom made shirt with advertisement on the front and/or back
40. Radio advertisement for your referral link or website.
41. Set up an info-kiosk in front of your local store or empty lot.
42. Attach your referral link in your email address or sig.
43. Road-side signs & banners
44. Have people sign up through CashCrate in order to play a fun online-game.
45. Optimize your website for excellent search engine ranking.
46. Add regular content to your site or blog. Keep it updated with new info.
47. On your banner/images, use the "alt tag" with either your webpage/blog or "keyword". Search engines can index/spider images, so adding the "alt tag" helps "define" the image!
48. Put a cheap ad in your local penny saver or thrifty nickel in the help wanted or employment section
49. Make a fake wallet out of fabric and put fake money in it with your ref link or website written all over it.
50. www.stormpay.com - For a fee, they will send targeted, unique visitors to your page.
51. Put up an advertisement that says “free money”.
52. Put an E-book up for auction on Ebay with your blog or other website info in it.
53. Before shipping eBay items, put an ad with your ref. link in the box.
54. Send email to all your contacts, and tell them to join with your referral link.
55. Tell people at school
56. Send your MySpace, Friendster, Facebook friends a message with your ref. link.
57. Use the dot.tk so you can change your referral link completely.
58. Make a sign to put on a row of shared mailboxes
59. www.reftraders.com
60. Sign up for a virtual business card. www.entrecard.com and list your blog under the money making forum. Once you sign up, visit other money making blogs and drop your card on their site.
61. Build a huge MySpace friends list and dedicate the profile to your blog or website.
62. Place business cards with your referral link in shopping carts.
63. Put up a flyer that has your ref. link with tear off tabs on store bulletin boards.
64. Go to the library and place business cards with referral links in books about financing, debt, home businesses, etc.
65. Place business cards with referral link in public restrooms.
66. Place your referral link on counterstrike.
67. Text your link to all your friends/family.
68. Make a tag to your CashCrate link or your blog.
69. Set your in-game username to a shortened link or your referral link.
70. Hold up a sign on a street corner just like a car wash.
71. Write a song about it
72. Put your URL in your PS3's comment.
73. Point out that this is not a scam such as "free to sign up”, post testimonials, or "doesn't require confidential information such as credit cards, bank account, or social security info.
74. Register to www.getref.com where you can earn referrals.
75. Print off fake/dummy checks and leave them at heavily populated places.
Make it out to Uncle Sam for $23,000, sign it, and just below the dollar amount, put in case this check is found, please visit www.”yourwebsite”.com.
76. The idea is that if you have ever lost Money you can make it back at this website: http://www.ccsinternet.org/lostnfound.gif.
77. Hold a raffle drawing for a cheap product and give out raffle tickets with your ref link or website on it.
78. Advertise on Craigslist
79. Have a pilot write your ref. link in the sky with his plane.
80. Put business cards in the credit card slots at gas stations.
81. Make business card coupons with your website or ref. link and leave at different stores with a Take One – Free sign.
82. Buy a pack of blank CD’s and burn a run file of your website or a notepad file with a copy of your blog or ref link.
83. Print free business cards at Vistaprint.com
84. Get pencils, paper, pens, magnets, etc printed with your link on them and "leave" them lying around. (Free at VistaPrint.com).
85. Start up a free online game site full of free java and flash games and embed your banner into the top of each game.
86. Paint your referral link on your car and go on a road trip across America.
87. Put the link on your msn name.
88. Pass out cards at a trade show.
89. Write your link on the back of a restaurant paper placemat.
90. Threaten people to sign up
91. Tell them if they sign up, and use the forums, they can see a dancing banana!
92. Get a rubber stamp and stamp your ref. link or website on envelopes that you use to mail bills.
93. Offer to help find their first referrals after signing up under you.
94. Write an article.
95. Paint your referral link on the street
96. "Brand" yourself with a familiar name on forums, articles, etc.
97. Reserve a booth at the next festival or fair and set up a wireless laptop for demos.
98. Cross-link your website, blogs, articles, posts, and classifieds.
99. Get custom-made ink-filled shoes with your ref. link embedded on the bottom so everywhere you walk, it acts like a pen and stamps your link everywhere!
100. Open a CashCrate store with your website name or ref. link!

Original post can be found here: http://forums.cashcrate.com/showthread.php?t=16840

Types of Offers

Participate in the survey. and Complete the survey. - These are long, boring surveys. Go through and decline all of the offers unless you really want one. Sometimes it'll say "You must select at lease ONE of these offers." If that happens, select one, then decline it on the following page. Once you reach a CONGRATULATIONS or THANK YOU page, you're done!

Click the banner and complete the form with valid information. and Fill out the form with valid information. - Self explanatory.

Fill out the form with valid information and complete the survey. - Again, self explanatory. I'm not sure of any tricks for these surveys, so I complete everything just to be safe.

Register and confirm your email. and
Register for free. - Just register for the site. Although checking for confirmation e-mails are always important, it is absolutely VITAL to these offers.

Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. - Once you click the offer you will be prompted for your email. When you put it in you will get a silver offers pop up. All you have to do is click any two of the offers on the pop up, leave them open, and then fill out the form on your original window, then submit. You don't even have to do the survey!

Cookies

How do cookies affect your earnings? The sites you visit place a tracking cookie on your computer. You NEEd to allow these cookies to be placed in order to be credited. However, a huge tip I learned was that you also need to remove these cookies once you're done.

As you know, many sites have multiple offers. Take a look at this example:

Say you go to OFFER A on COMPANY1's website. COMPANY1 will place a tracking cookie to register that you were there. Move down to your list of offers, and you'll come across OFFER X which also happens to be from COMPANY1. If that cookie is still there, COMPANY1 will just say "Oh, she's already been here." and you won't be credited. But, if you've already deleted that tracking cookie, COMPANY1 will not see an already placed tracking cookie, and you will be seen as a new visitor and credited for the work.

Your E-mail Address

You will need a junk e-mail address for using Cash Crate, unless you want your regular address constantly spammed. Since many Cash Crate offers come from the same site, you may be not be credited if you use the same e-mail address on multiple offers. I recommend G-mail because they have one feature other sites do not.

With Gmail, you can set up an e-mail address consisting of up to 30 characters. Gmail's special feature is that after you set up your e-mail account, you can edit the address by adding periods. This changes your e-mail address on the sites you input it into, but all mail is delivered to the same address.

For example, you can sign up with an e-mail address of myemailaddress@gmail.com. When you enter it into a webside, simply alter the address by adding periods. You can use:

m.yemailad.dress@gmail.com
my.emailadd.ress@gmail.com
mye.mailaddr.ess@gmail.com
myem.ailaddre.ss@gmail.com
myema.iladdres.s@gmail.com
myemai.laddress.@gmail.com
m.yemail.address@gmail.com
my.emaila.ddress@gmail.com
mye.mailad.dress@gmail.com
...and so on, adding as many periods as you'd like!

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Which offers approved for me - November

Lotto Prize Network Register for free. $0.60 $0.00 11/30/08
The Dumb Test Participate in the survey. $0.40 $0.00 11/30/08
Victoria's Secret Card Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.25 $0.00 11/30/08
Superhero Quiz Participate in the survey. $0.40 $0.00 11/29/08
JCPenney Visa Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.30 $0.00 11/29/08
Legalized Gambling Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click atleast two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.30 $0.00 11/29/08
How Dumb Are You Participate in the survey. $0.35 $0.00 11/29/08
MemoLink.com Participate in the survey. $0.75 $0.00 11/29/08
What Drink Are You Participate in the survey. $0.50 $0.00 11/29/08
Pirate or Ninja Participate in the survey. $0.50 $0.00 11/29/08
The Final Payoff Complete the survey. $1.25 $0.00 11/29/08
IQ Test Participate in the survey. $0.50 $0.00 11/29/08
Classic TV Quiz Participate in the survey. $0.35 $0.00 11/29/08
Star Trivia Participate in the survey. $0.35 $0.00 11/29/08
Free Jelly Beans Participate in the survey. $0.50 $0.00 11/29/08
Celebrity Quiz Participate in the survey. $0.50 $0.00 11/29/08
Elmo Live Doll Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.30 $0.00 11/28/08
$1000 JC Penney Card Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.30 $0.00 11/28/08
Visa Card Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click atleast two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.25 $0.00 11/28/08
Baby Place Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.30 $0.00 11/27/08
Dove Samples Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.25 $0.00 11/27/08
Holiday Shopping Spree Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.25 $0.00 11/27/08
Gas Card Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.30 $0.00 11/27/08
Blackberry Storm Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.25 $0.00 11/27/08
Wii Plus Wii Fit Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click atleast two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.25 $0.00 11/27/08
Hard Rock Cafe Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click atleast two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.25 $0.00 11/27/08
Backyardigans vs Sponge Bob Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click atleast two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.25 $0.00 11/27/08
JC Penney Gift Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.30 $0.00 11/27/08
Washer and Dryer Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.30 $0.00 11/27/08
ATT vs Sprint Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click atleast two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.30 $0.00 11/27/08
Dollar General or Dollar Tree Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.25 $0.00 11/27/08
$500 JC Penney Card Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.30 $0.00 11/27/08
Xbox 360 and Halo Wars Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click atleast two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.25 $0.00 11/27/08
Neutrogena Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.30 $0.00 11/27/08
Elmo Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.25 $0.00 11/27/08
Coach Bag Giveaway Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.30 $0.00 11/27/08
SouthWest Airline Ticket Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click atleast two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.30 $0.00 11/27/08
Designer Bags Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.30 $0.00 11/27/08
Vizio vs Panasonic vs Samsung Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.30 $0.00 11/27/08
John Deere Mower Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.30 $0.00 11/27/08
Sony Bundle Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.25 $0.00 11/27/08
Jessica Simpson Clothing Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click atleast two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.30 $0.00 11/27/08
Nascar TShirt Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.30 $0.00 11/27/08
CVS vs Rite Aid Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.25 $0.00 11/27/08
Kay Jeweler Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.25 $0.00 11/27/08
Ikea Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.25 $0.00 11/27/08
Laptop Choice Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.25 $0.00 11/27/08
Coach Bag and Wallet Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.25 $0.00 11/27/08
Free Plasma Television Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.25 $0.00 11/27/08
Tanning Card Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.25 $0.00 11/27/08
JCPenney Gift Card Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.35 $0.00 11/26/08
Nikon Coolpix Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.25 $0.00 11/26/08
Home Depot vs Lowes Register with valid information and complete the survey. Click at least two offers on the "Final Steps" page. $0.35 $0.00 11/26/08
Paid Marketing Panel Register for free. $0.50 $0.00 11/26/08
Hunt For The Money Register for free. $0.40 $0.00 11/26/08
iWon Sweepstakes Register and complete the entire survey. $0.35 $0.00 11/26/08
Safe Medicine Click the banner and complete the form with valid information. $0.50 $0.00 11/25/08
Instant Approval Now Fill out the form with valid information. $0.50 $0.00 11/25/08
FreeSites Newsletter Register for free. $0.20 $0.00 11/24/08
Recipe Rewards Complete the survey. $0.20 $0.00 11/24/08