Getting Started with QuickRewards

QuickRewards is going to be one of your "busiest" sites. That is, I recommend logging on every day, as there are ways to make money every day there. If you can't login every day, at least login every other day, or every 3 days, because some of the offers will expire after 3 days.

I have to say that QuickRewards is my FAVORITE of all the sites. The reason for this is, if you request a cashout via Paypal, you are going to get it either that very same day, often within a few hours, or some reasonable time on the day after. The webmaster is Dmitri, and he is the QUICKEST one out there. I have been paid by Paypal over 100 times from this site. You can also get $5 Ebay or Amazon Gift Certificates sent to your email at no extra cost! Dmitri will also answer any question in email very quickly - you can reach him at "webmaster at freedvdforyou.com". Just about every day, there are new offers, so you are going to make a steady income with this site. I recommend cashing out when you get up to at least $1.00. You could do it sooner, but then you'd be making Dmitri work too hard. Remember, you want to cash out to a Personal Paypal account so that you don't get taxed 2.9% and $0.30.

There are 6 ways to make money with QuickRewards:

1. Clicks/Search - clicking on websites every day
2. Paid Emails - every day one or two offers you can click on
3. Basic Signups - do these as they come in, every week or so
4. Paid to Signup - bigger paying offers that you can do only once a year
5. Trivia - a new question each day
   
6. Paid to Shop - if you do shopping on the Internet, QuickRewards is one of the best places to get cashback

1. Clicks/Search: When you login to QuickRewards, you will see a bunch of columns on the right hand side of the page under "Earn Cash". Click on the one that says "Clicks/Search". There you will find about a dozen or more links that you can click on for "RefPoints". Each RefPoint in QuickRewards is equal to 1/10 of a cent. Currently, you can make about 55 refpoints per day, which is worth 5.5 cents. The various offers come and go, so sometimes it's 30 refpoints a day, sometimes it's 60 refpoints a day. Once you get 10 or more refpoints, you can convert them to cash by clicking on "Convert Points" in the upper right corner of the web page.

I recommend using Mozilla Firefox with QuickRewards, and all the other sites as well. That way, you can click your middle mouse button to open each Clicks/Search in a new tab. Some of the Clicks/Search are going to make you wait 15 seconds to credit you; others will credit you instantly. Use the tab feature of Mozilla to go through them one by one, to keep your Windows organized.

There are also some Clicks/Search hidden in the different categories on the right hand side of the page: Under "Contests", you can click the Yahoo HotJobs APPRENTICE contest for 5 RefPoints. Under "Free Stuff", you can click on Yahoo HotJobs - Free Job Search for 5 RefPoints. And under "GROCERY STORE COUPONS", you can click on the single link there for 2 RefPoints.

This is not that much money, but it is only the first way to make money on QuickRewards, and you can do it every day; it adds up!


2. Paid Emails. On the top, in the blue text links, click on [Paid Mail]. A new window will open up showing entries for each day of the current month. Click on the most current date. Usually there will be 2 offers. Sometimes an offer will pay $0.02 just for clicking the website and visiting it. Easy fast cash! More often than not, there will be a site that pays $0.25 or $0.35 for some extra work. Click that link, and you will have to fill out a small form with your name, address, phone number, and so forth.

Here again, Mozilla Firefox comes in very handy. Once you have filled out one form, Mozilla will remember what you typed in, and the next time you come to a similar form, it will be really easy to fill out. Here's what you will do. Click inside the first form element (usually First Name). Push your down arrow on your keyboard two times. You will see a dropdown list of what you put in that form before. Just hit Tab to select the first item in that list. It fills that form element out for you, and then you go to the next form element (say, Last Name). Repeat this process again and again!

Now here's the cool part - you don't have to give real information if you don't want to! As time goes by, however, I notice the forms get pickier and pickier. You will have to give it your quickrewards email address for the offer to credit properly. But for all the other form elements, you can kind of fudge them. The phone number seems to want the area code and the first 3 digits to match up to your zipcode. But you can type in anything for the last 4 digits. For the address, many forms will want a real address that checks out with USPS.COM (the United States Post Office website). You can either use your own, or put in somebody else's if you are worried about receiving junk mail. Do what you feel is necessary.

Also, many of these forms will want you to click on "Yes" for a specific offer. Try and do a different one each time you do a different offer; that is, don't click "Yes" on ClickIQ on two separate offers. If you do that, you might not get paid for one of those offers. Most of the time, you don't have to click "No" for each offer you don't want; you can just click "Yes" once for the one offer you must click.

You will want to check these every day if you can, but do it at least every 3 days, because after 3 days, the offers usually expire.


3. Basic Signups. When you first sign up for QuickRewards, there are a lot of basic signups you can do to get your balance up to $5.00. Click the big black text "New Offers" to see the latest ones. For example, currently you can click on Glade FREE Coupons to make $0.15. In this case, I recommend right clicking the offer, and selecting "Open Link in New Window". Then fill out the form, usually you will have to do one or two pages, but sometimes it's 3 or more.

Then come back to the QuickRewards window, hit REFRESH on your browser, and you will see that now for that offer there is a link that says "Confirm Signup". Click on that link. A new window will Pop Up, giving you instructions on how to complete that offer. IMPORTANT! You must follow those directions or you will not get credited for that offer! In most cases, you will need to cut and paste using your mouse whatever final message you get from completing said offer into that Confirm Signup Window. Other times you will just type in "I REGISTERED". Be sure to finish the offer first, before finishing the Confirm Signup Window.

Besides the New Offers, I recommend you to go through each of the following entries on the right hand "Earn Cash" column, doing all of the offers you can: Contests, Financial Services, Free Catalogs, Free Magazine Subscriptions, Free Stuff, Newsletters, Reward Sites, and Survey Sites. If you go through enough of them, you should be able to build up to about $5.00. This is a nice start indeed! It will take about a day (or less) for Dmitri to credit you.

4. Paid to Signup. If you click on the "Huge $ Offers" entry under "Easy Cash", and then click the single link there, you will see what are known as MetaReward signups. These involve a little more work, and usually always require a debit / credit card, but can be worth a significant amount of money.

For example, you can sign up for a free trial of Blockbuster Online and get $7.00 from QuickRewards. You'd just click that offer, and fill out the form, giving your debit/credit card info to Blockbuster. IMPORTANT! You will get a 30 day trial to blockbuster, and can get some DVDs sent to your home to watch. However, make sure to cancel after about 25 days, UNLESS you really want this service - otherwise you will be billed a fair amount of money for the service - you will now be a member of that service. But there are many offers which give you a free trial, usually from between 3 days or 30 days, depending on the offer.

However, I don't recommend doing this just yet until I post the tables with the offers. The other sites that you can sign up for sometimes have the same MetaReward offers, but pay better money. In future posts, I'll show you which ones pay the most, so you can maximize your cash for each one.


5. Trivia - Get paid $0.01 (maybe) every day there is a new trivia question. You can usually find the answer if you are proficient with Google. If not, take a guess. If you get it right, you aren't guaranteed $0.01 - only half of the people who get it right get that $0.01. But it's a fun thing to do, and you will get paid half the time you are right. :)


6. Paid to Shop - if you are shopping online, you might as well get a commission for it! For example, if you bid on Ebay, you can get 2% of what you bid from QuickRewards. In this instance, you would need to first click on "EBAY REWARDS" under the "Easy Cash" tab on the right. Then click the link that says "EBAY BID/BINS (Buy it Now)". Then click on the "EBAY" link. Now you can log in to Ebay, search for items, find something you like, and either use Buy It Now, or bid on the item. NOTE: You must go through this process every time in case you are outbid and have to rebid in order to get credit.

For other offers, just click on the "Shopping" tab on the right hand side, and the process is similar. Click on the letter corresponding to the first letter of the merchant you are interested in, and it will show you what % you can make. For example, you can get 2.1% cash back on Circuit City, or 1.1% on Best Buy. Be sure to read the comments on each merchant. For example, with Best Buy, it says you cannot get a commission on items that require in store pickup. In that case, you could only make cash back if you shipped your order to yourself.


Of course, when you have build up your balance, and want to cash out, simply click on the "[Cashout]" link. I usually type in what I want and hit Submit; for example I type "$1.07 Paypal" if I want a Paypal payment.

Well, that covers QuickRewards for now. I'll be posting more information later on comparing all the MetaRewards offers that are out there, comparing them site by site.

Getting Started Part II: Signing up for the sites!

OK, now that you have a Paypal personal account, it's time to get ready for signing up for the different sites that are out there.

Now I am going to recommend something that may seem strange at first, but it will make sense soon. For each program you sign up for, you are going to need a new email address. Again, I recommend Yahoo, since it's so easy to set up an account there, and you can have as many accounts there as you want.

You can use the account you created for your Paypal Personal Account as one of these emails for one program. For each other program that you sign up for, you're going to want to create a new email address for it.

Why is this? Because the different programs out there often will have the same offer to sign up for, but you're going to need to give each one a different email address. That way you can be paid multiple times for doing the same offer, once for each site it appears on! I will go into the offers in the next set of posts.

Now for the signups. These are the main programs I am recommending. First I will give the signup links, and then I will tell you more about what you can expect from each program. Don't sign up until you have a unique email ready for each program.

1. QuickRewards: Signup Link
2. CreationsRewards: Signup Link
3. ItPaysToLearn: Signup Link
4. InboxDollars: Signup Link
5. FusionCash: Signup Link
   
6. SearchCactus: Signup Link
7. CashCowFiesta: Signup Link
8. QuizPoints: Signup Link

So you're going to need 8 emails! Don't worry, it won't take that long to create them. And here's a scheme I recommend: Come up with a base username you like, let's say for example, it's mrbill. Then create 8 emails based on that name; for example, you could use qrmrbill@yahoo.com for QuickRewards, crmrbill for CreationsRewards, idmrbill for InboxDollars, and so on. Or if those were taken, you might try mrbillqr, mrbillcr, and so forth. Just use your common sense. That way it will be a lot easier to remember these many emails.

For each program you sign up for, it will send you a verification email that you'll need to click on to validate that program. You'll do this once for each program, under each of the 8 email addresses you create.

In the next set of posts, I will go into each program in detail. Each one has its own quirks, and different ways to make money.

Getting Started Part I: Setting up your Paypal account

Basically, I am going to show you web sites that you can sign up with and do things to get paid.

The first thing you're going to need is a Paypal account. But not just any Paypal account. There are two types of Paypal accounts: Business and Personal. If you are a seller or buyer on Ebay, you probably already have a Business Paypal account. However, you are going to need to get a Personal Paypal account for the programs I am recommending. Why is this? Because if you cash out on a given program, if you get paid to your Business Paypal account, Paypal is going to tax you 2.9% + $0.30 of the amount you cashout. Lame! But if you cash out to your Personal Paypal account, you will get every single penny that you earn! If you already have a Personal Account, just skip to the next post!

This is why I strongly suggest you get a Personal Paypal account. You're going to need to create a new email address to go with this account. I recommend Yahoo over Hotmail for this, since Hotmail will erase all your email if you don't log in every 10 days. Yahoo lets you slide for a few months. However, GMail is also fine if you can get an account there. So go to the free email site of your choice, and sign up for a new email (it may take many tries to find a user name that's not already in use - if that is the case, try adding your favorite numbers after your preferred name to see if you can come up with a unique name). This will be your email for your Personal Paypal account.

After you've got this new email address ready, go to Paypal.com and click on the Sign up Now button. The first choice you will make is to select Personal Account - as of this writing, that will be the default selected type, so just make sure your country is correct and hit the Continue button.

If you already have a Paypal Business account, you're going to need another checking (or savings) account to sign up with Paypal Personal. If this is your first ever Paypal account, then just use the checking account of your choice. I believe, but I am not 100% sure, that if you have a checking and savings account at a given bank, then your checking account could be hooked up to the Business account, and your savings account could be hooked up to your Personal account. If anybody has done this, please contact me and let me know. If you only have one checking account, and it is connected to your Business Account, go ahead and open a new checking account at another bank. Pretty much every bank out there has some kind of Free Checking account, so this should not be a big deal. Just pick one that's physically close to you, and make sure that when you sign up there won't be any monthly fees. Don't get any perks - you just want the basics. In my case, I used a bank at the local Wal Mart, Woodforest National Bank. Be aware of this: some banks will charge you an annual fee for having a debit card; that's the way Woodforest was. I found out I was going to be charged, so I just went in and had the account representative destroy my debit card and cancel that feature - that way there will be no fees associated with the account. Make sure you ask about this. Then you can just go the bank physically and withdraw money when the time comes...

Of course, you're going to have to give Paypal your account number and bank routing number. You can find those on your checks, or you can give your bank a call and find out this information. Be sure to have your social security number, drivers license, etc ready when you call your bank, as they will probably ask you for this and other personal information to validate you. After you enter this info into Paypal, Paypal will make two small deposits into your account. This will take a few business days. If you have online banking associated with your account, just check every day for the 2 deposits. If you don't, then call in and ask the representative what the deposits were. Once you get these 2 numbers, enter them into your Paypal Personal Account - then you are verified!

That's all for part I. Next I'll post about the main programs out there that I am making money with. Note that you will be able to sign up for these programs and start building up your balance before your Paypal account is verified.

Welcome to InetBling

This is my first post to the InetBling Blog. I will show you reputable sites that you can sign up to and get paid real cash into your paypal account, or you can get paid with things like Amazon / Ebay / Wal Mart / etc. Gift Certificates.

I do a lot of searching on the Internet to find these sites, and spend a lot of time comparing which sites have better deals. Every site I promote has either paid me, or I have seen enough on the 'net to know that they are reputable sites.

Soon, I will post a basic intro on how to get started. All I ask is that when you sign up for these sites, you do it under me with my link so that you can be my referral.

Looking forward to posting more,
Corey