Tips on using these GPT sites

Hi again, the last blog I talked about GPT sites, this time I'll give you some tips on using these GPT sites.

You really don't have to follow any of these advices except this one:

NEVER EVER DO AN OFFER MORE THAN ONCE EVEN IF IT IS ON ANOTHER SITE! The only other time you can do an offer more than once is if you never got the credit and you remove it from your pending list. The consequences are the you never get the credit and your account can be deleted.

The best thing to do is to keep track of all your completed offers, I use an excel spreadsheet to keep track of all the offers I do and what site I completed them on.

Voicemail and Phone

The one bad thing about filling out offers on these GPT sites is that these marketing site will bombard your email with spam and will blow up your phone with offers. The one thing you want to do before you get heavily involve in GPT sites is to get an extra local phone number that provides voicemail. There used to be free voicemail services but they're all gone and the cheapest one I've found was around $9.95 a month, please tell me if you know a cheaper one. However I would suggest another alternative and that is to get a prepaid cell phone. A prepaid cell phone with a local number is perfect since there are no long term contracts and those telemarketers won't be calling your regular phone or cell phone.

If you do decide to go that route then you should be looking for a prepaid cell phone that's cheap, does not charge for activation or the activation is cheap, don't charge for daily access, and the minutes doesn't expire quickly.

The best one I've found is T-Mobile with their cell phones as cheap as $29.99 for a Nokia 2610 with their Pay-As-You-Go plan. The Pay-As-You-Go come with refills of 30, 130, 400, and 1,000 minutes for $10, $25, $50, and $100 respectively. The minutes last for 90 days for the first three refills but if you get the $100 one your minutes won't expire for one year! This is very much a good plan.

However if you use your minutes very wisely you can use the $10 and refill three more times for the rest of the year, it averages out to only 3 minutes per day. You also need to take in account that the phone number is good for only 90 days after expiration before you lose it. So if you bought the phone for $30 and only spend $40 for the next year you will only spend $70 for the entire year, much cheaper than the $9.95 voicemail service. However if you think it's impossible to do the $10 per 3 months, then get the $100 one and don't worry about it for a year.

This is better than a voicemail because there are some offers that requires you to pick up and answer the phone. However there are a few offers that do not allow cell phones to be used.

Since you will get quite a few call from these telemarketers why not get paid for it? Brring is a free ringback service that will pay a short ad when someone calls a number they provide for you. The Brring number is linked to your number thus you get paid for every time they call. Give it a try!

The Gmail Dot Trick

Here's something I wish I have done in the first place, then I wouldn't get so much spam. It's best to do no more than 2-3 offers at a time so that you can get the credit for those offers. This may sound weird but the more offer you do at one time the less likely you'll get credit for them. After you finish doing that group and they have approved you should use another email for the next group, that way you reduce the number of spam mail you receive. However if you have a Gmail account you can use the dot trick. Here's how it works, you put another dot anywhere before the @ symbol.

For example say your email is foobar@gmail.com, so for the next 2-3 offers you would use f.oobar@gmail com and for the next batch you would use fo.obar@gmail.com and you will keep on doing this just before you reach the @ symbol, so the last one will look like this: fooba.r@gmail com. After that you will use 2 dots for the next one like this: f.o.obar@gmail, then the next one for the next batch will look like this: f.oo.bar@gmail.com and so on. The hint here is that the longer the email name, the better.

Proxies

Another thing you don't want to do is never use a computer that has a proxy. That includes mostly any computer that is for public use (work, school, library, Internet Cafe, Kinkos, etc.) Any computer that is not individually owned usually have a proxy. You can get you account deleted and you many never get your money, so it's best not to use a computer that has a proxy.

Forums

The forums at some GPT sites are usually great at obtaining advices and tips on completing offers and getting referrals. The ones at Cashcrate and GPTCashcow are very active. There are people on those forums who are willing to help you out if you have any problems or in need of an advice. I got a lot out of them.

For more info and tips on GPT sites go to the follwing sites:

Survey
Makin' Money from Home
Make Money Online with Cashcrate
The noob guide to making $$$!

GPT/Survey Sites

One way to make money is to join a Get-Paid-To site (GPT). It's a basically a site where you make some money buy completing forms, taking surveys, and buying products from other companies. You won't make a lot of money that way but it can give you some spare change to carry around so that you don't have to rely on you paycheck too much when you plan to buy that latte at a coffee shop :)

However I should warn you that some of these GPT sites are really scams and that you should avoid them at all cost. A website called GPTBoycott gives a good listings of GPT sites to avoid. Also you can refer other people to these GPT sites and make some money off of them when they complete offers or fill surveys, however it takes time and effort to make that happen. This is not a "get rich quick" scheme, just like anything else you reap what you sow. I'll talk more about referrals at a later date.

Here are some GPT sites you can check out. Click on the either the image or the highlighted text to visit the site.





CashCrate is probably one of the easiest GPT sites to use. It has a clean layout, easy to follow rules for completing an offer and they do pay!, however they don't update their offers very often. This is a good GPT site to start off with.






GPTCashCow is another GPT site where you could earn some money. It's somewhat difficult to navigate and the layout is not as clean but the site constantly have new offers and there's a lot of contests and an active forum as well. I recently joined this one and I liked it so far.





Your Action Pays is another GPT site worth visiting. It has three different compensation plans to choose from and there are 10 referral levels as well.

And last but not least is myLot. It is a bit different from the rest of the GPT sites, instead of filling out surveys and offers you get paid by posting new discussions or contributing to old discussions. I just recently joined this one so I haven't got paid from them yet, however it doesn't hurt to try it since it is free to join. It might turn out to be my favorite one since I rather be posting discussions than filling out surveys and forms.

Speaking of which if you're into Westcoast-AOR or Yacht Rock or late-70s/early-80s adult contemporary rock and soft rock then come and join my discussion board at myLot. I just started it but I want it to be an active discussion board of Westcoast/AOR music.

The next blog I will talk about tips on completing offers on GPT sites. Until then take care and make that money!

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