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Surveys.com has just started accepting applications today. If you’re interested in making some money taking online surveys, this is a great opportunity – but act fast – they’re only accepting applications for a limited time.

Here’s a little bit of information about Surveys.com…

Surveys.com is an Online Research Community operated by GfK. GfK is a top-ten market research company, uniting some of the most renowned US and European research firms into a single global organization.

In addition to cash rewards, most surveys offer rewards that range from 375 to 750 points. You also get 25 points for any survey you don’t qualify for.

The reward points can be exchanged anytime by selecting from a huge variety of prizes. They can be as simple as a single MP3 digital music track or $25 dinning certificate, all the way up to major rewards like a Panasonic 12 Amp Canister Vacuum with HEPA or a Maytag Ice2O Series 27 cu. ft. French Door Refrigerator.
Obviously, the more time and effort you put into Surveys.com, the more you can get out of it.

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InboxDollars: $5 Sign Up Credit!

by Mr Frugal on December 16, 2011
Working From Home

Right now if you sign up for InboxDollars through this link, you’ll get a $5 signup bonus. Also, if you sign up for the MyView survey program through InboxDollars, you’ll earn another $4 in your account!

About Inbox Dollars:

InboxDollars is a free online rewards club that lets you earn cash by reading emails, watching videos, searching the web and participating in other special offers. InboxDollars has been operating since 2000 and has paid out more than $15 million to members.  Unlike other online rewards clubs that operate with virtual currencies or points, with InboxDollars you earn and receive your payout in cash. Earn $5.00 just for signing up with InboxDollars and request your first check when you reach $30.00 in earnings.

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Here is another survey company, you won’t get rich but a few dollars here and there from home is always helpful. With Toluna you earn points worth $1 to $5 each time you qualify for and complete a survey! You can also earn for the polls and opinion topics you create. Each time you participate in or complete a survey you’ll be entered into a monthly $4500 prize draw! Also just for signing up you’ll get an entry in this month’s $4500 drawing!

Head on over and sign up for Toluna - a few bucks here and there sure do add up!

  • Earn points worth $1 to $5 each time you qualify for and complete a survey! You’ll also earn for the polls and opinion topics you create! Each time you participate in or complete a survey you’ll be entered into a monthly $4500 prize draw!
  • Create your own polls and opinion topics to host on Toluna, or export them to your own blog or website!
  • Voice your opinion by participating in other community members’ polls and opinion topics! There’s no catch! Your membership is free, and all information you provide is strictly confidential and will never be used to advertise or to sell you anything.
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Synovate
Synovate is accepting new participants to join the Synovate Panel again, this filled up within hours the other day.  I’m surprised to see they’ve opened it again so quickly – but lucky for you guys!

Synovate is among one of the most popular testing panels because they give out FREE products to test!  They’re often full size products too.  You earn points for your reviews which you can also redeem for  cash or prizes through Synovate.

Here is a sample of what you’d do…

  • Help companies improve everyday services, products, and household items
  • Be the first to test new consumer goods
  • Help design new products before they appear on store shelves nationwide
Being a Panel member is easy, fun and provides many rewards. Rewards are easy to earn by simply spending some time each month answering questions about your likes and dislikes.
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SYNOVATE: Hurry on over they’ve opened up the panel are are accepting new participants again!  GONE!

NIELSEN: Nielsen is also accepting applicants!  Head on over to apply for Nielsen while they have openings.  I just got 2 crisp $1 bills in the mail randomly from Nielsen, Starbucks here I come :)


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I just got an email that Nielsen is open again today, but not for long! So if you’re interested I’d sign up now!  The exciting part is that you are no longer required to have a landline phone!  I know many of you have given up your home phone in exchange for a cell, now you too can take advantage of this program!

Join the Nielsen Consumer Panel & you could earn CASH & PRIZES!

Panel members that are accepted with Nielsen Homescan will be sent a small hand-held scanner. You’re asked to scan all the bar codes of everything you purchase. Weekly they ask you to send them the information from your scanner and in turn you’ll earn points which you can redeem for prizes.

They call the Nielsen Homescan Consumer Panel a “mini-USA”, meaning that you are a part of a select group representing the average purchases of Americans nationwide. The point of it all is make sure we’re getting the products we want! Manufacturers and retailers will look at the information you send to them to decide what products to make and sell to consumers all across the country.

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This is the last post in our “How to Start a Blog Series” here are the first 3 posts:

  1. Starting A Blog, Part 1: Getting started with a platform, hosting and plugins
  2. Starting A Blog, Part 2: Blogging basics and no-nos
  3. Starting A Blog, Part 3: How to Make Money Blogging

Ok, so you’ve started your blog, learned some things NOT to do, found out how to become an instant millionaire, and now your audience is growing. GREAT!

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I got an email from my contact at Synovate, they’ve opened up the panel are are accepting new participants again!

Synovate is among one of the most popular testing panels because they give out FREE products to test!  They’re often full size products too.  You earn points for your reviews which you can also redeem for  cash or prizes through Synovate.
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Here is a sample of what you’d do…

  • Help companies improve everyday services, products, and household items
  • Be the first to test new consumer goods
  • Help design new products before they appear on store shelves nationwide
Being a Panel member is easy, fun and provides many rewards. Rewards are easy to earn by simply spending some time each month answering questions about your likes and dislikes.
This post may contain affiliate links. When you use them, you support The Frugal Find. Thank you! Disclosure policy.

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Here is another survey company, you won’t get rich but a few dollars here and there from home is always helpful. With Toluna you earn points worth $1 to $5 each time you qualify for and complete a survey! You can also earn for the polls and opinion topics you create. Each time you participate in or complete a survey you’ll be entered into a monthly $4500 prize draw! Also just for signing up you’ll get an entry in this month’s $4500 drawing!

Head on over and sign up for Toluna – a few bucks here and there sure do add up!

  • Earn points worth $1 to $5 each time you qualify for and complete a survey! You’ll also earn for the polls and opinion topics you create! Each time you participate in or complete a survey you’ll be entered into a monthly $4500 prize draw!
  • Create your own polls and opinion topics to host on Toluna, or export them to your own blog or website!
  • Voice your opinion by participating in other community members’ polls and opinion topics! There’s no catch! Your membership is free, and all information you provide is strictly confidential and will never be used to advertise or to sell you anything.
This post may contain affiliate links. When you use them, you support The Frugal Find. Thank you! Disclosure policy.

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Juice In The City contacted me and asked me to pass the word on about an opportunity they have for moms to work from home.  They are looking to hire Local Business Consultants.  LBC’s are the ones who contact local businesses that they love and frequent and work out deals with them for JITC, which means great deals for the rest of us!  They have a unique program in that all LBCs also get to personally test each and every deal before it goes live.

Juice in the City is currently in 17 markets and plans to hit 50 by the end of the year.  Turns out after my first post about JITC hiring several Frugal Find readers jumped at the opportunity and are now working for Juice In The City.  Isn’t that fun?

Are you interested?

  1. Become the local “go to” mom by discovering great local gems
  2. Earn hundreds to thousands per month while being paid to experience the best local businesses
  3. Have a fulfilling career from home that you can do during just a few hours a day
  4. Have a fulfilling career the kids can tag along on
  5. Instantly be a part of a hot Silicon Valley start up (See our press coverage from NBC, USA Today, The New York Times on our website)
  6. Join a highly passionate team started by two very passionate moms

I’ve personally worked with JITC for over 2 years now and can highly recommend them.  I haven’t worked as an Local Business Consultant myself, but I have worked with them in many other fashions.  They pay promptly and respond to emails personally.  Not to mention they never fail to bring us GREAT local deals for moms, by moms!

If you’re interested in applying or for more details, head on over here. Make sure you let them know Julia from The Frugal Find sent you – they’d love to work with more of our readers!

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SYNOVATE: Hurry on over they’ve opened up the panel are are accepting new participants again!

NIELSEN: Nielsen is also accepting applicants!  Head on over to apply for Nielsen while they have openings.


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Here is yet another company that comes highly recommended to me by both readers and other bloggers I’ve worked with. With Toluna you earn points worth $1 to $5 each time you qualify for and complete a survey! You can also earn for the polls and opinion topics you create. Each time you participate in or complete a survey you’ll be entered into a monthly $4500 prize draw! Also just for signing up you’ll get an entry in this month’s $4500 drawing!

Head on over and sign up for Toluna – a few bucks here and there sure do add up!

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Surveys.com has just started accepting applications today. If you’re interested in making some money taking online surveys, this is a great opportunity – but act fast – they’re only accepting applications today.

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This is the third post in our “How to Start a Blog Series”, here are the other 3 posts:

  1. Starting A Blog, Part 1: Getting started with a platform, hosting and plugins
  2. Starting A Blog, Part 2: Blogging basics and no-nos
  3. Starting A Blog, Part 4: Optimizing your blog

By now everyone knows that running a blog is the fast-track to easy money and a life of leisure. For just $50 a month, we’ll show you how! Ok, just kidding… on all counts. Blogging, at least frugal blogging, is a VERY time consuming endeavor. You spend tons of time just finding the deals, and then once found you have to write them up so that it makes sense for everyone else! With that said, blogging can bring in an income.

Affiliate, Cash-back and Advertising programs

There are many kinds – don’t get super caught up in this at first, if all you do is promote affiliate deals, you probably won’t have much of a reader base.  Your readers WILL see through your blogging if every other post feels like a sales pitch. Here at TFF we pass on MANY deals regardless of what we might earn if we don’t believe in the product/company or if it doesn’t align with our values.  This has to be a personal decision you make.  On the other hand, you can also make money promoting deals you would promote anyways – a complete Win-Win situation!

Here are some of the programs we use/recommend, in alphabetical order, along with a note of some affiliates found there:

Amazon.com
AvantLink – C28, REI, Sierra Trading Post
Commission Junction – All You Magazine, Restaurant.com
eBates – Almost every online store (cash back)
Escalate – Coupons.com, lots of survey companies
Flex Offers – Starbucks.com, iTunes, Mint.com, JCPenney.com
Google Adsense
Google Affiliate Network
Impact Radius
Integrate
Linkshare – Walmart.com
Logical Media – Coupons.com, Survey sites
My Savings
Pepperjam
ShareASale
Swagbucks

Group Buy Sites

With group buy sites, each one is a bit different. Most of them offer credit for their site for signing people up under you; some of them offer credit or cash (say $5 in credit, or $1 cash); and others run their affiliate programs through outside affiliate programs like Logical Media and Escalate. Which route you decide to choose is up to you – if the payout is good, you may want cash. In some cases, you might prefer to build up some credit first.  Buying stuff for free with your credit can be really nice.
Update: If you decide to get credit, be sure the site is well-established like Groupon or Living Social. It seems like everyone thinks they can run a daily deal site, and many of them are going out of business – and taking any credit you earned with them.

So here’s a list of my current favorite group buy sites, again in alphabetical order:

Deal Chicken
Got Daily Deals

Groupon
KGB Deals
Living Social
Mamapedia
Moolala
No More Rack
Plum District
Saveology
Tippr
Target Daily Deals

Selling Advertising:

This always seems to be where most people want to start.  They think I’ve got a blog and there is some space on the side bar – I’ll sell advertising!  NO.  First of all – you have to build a community on your blog that brings a value to the company you’re going to sell ad space to.  They will want to see an ROI (Return on Investment) when they advertise with you.

If you find that you do in fact have a consistent reader base then you can consider selling ad space.  There really isn’t a magic number as to what you should charge – often times, it’s simply what will the company pay and whats the lowest you’d accept?  We’ve spent quite a bit of time tracking our various ad spaces.  We’ve monitored our click-through to the company ratio and have a good idea of what the company can expect and that’s what we’ve been able to build our prices on.

Don’t create a blank “Advertise Here” space and hope someone will bite – when companies see that they think that you can’t sell the space and so it may not be as valuable as you’re saying it is.  Fill it with something, anything.

How much can I make?

This is the biggest question by far for readers and bloggers alike.  The simple fact is that like any profression it’s taboo to ask someone you don’t know very well how much they’re making per year.  I will say that we didn’t see a penny (well maybe a few pennies) in the first year.  Sure we could have possibly made some money, but that isn’t why I started the blog – I had no idea that it was possible to earn an income blogging.  Now Mr. Frugal and I earn a full time income blogging and we are TRULY blessed and honored to be able to blog for a living and provide for our family in this way.

Do we make six figures blogging? No. We’d love to though and it’s entirely possible.

This is the third post in our “How to Start a Blog Series”, here are the other 3 posts:

  1. Starting A Blog, Part 1: Getting started with a platform, hosting and plugins
  2. Starting A Blog, Part 2: Blogging basics and no-nos
  3. Starting A Blog, Part 4: Optimizing your blog
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It’s a been a week since I was at the Savvy Blogging Summit, I’ve had some time to let the info settle.  Mr. Frugal and I are working on our next round of goals and crossing things off of our to-do list right and left.  We’ve been sharing over the past couple of weeks “How to start a blog” and will be sharing next week about making money while blogging.  The simple fact is that unless you’re blogging as a hobby – it can quickly take as many hours as part time or full time job.  We will be sharing next week about various ways that your blog may be able to support your family financially – here at TFF we are incredibly blessed to be able to run The Frugal Find and pay the bills.  It wasn’t easy and it took years to get to this point but it is possible!

Going to conferences like the Savvy Blogging Summit is a great way to network with other bloggers, learn the in’s and out’s of blogging such as writing code, working with brands, and so on.  If you missed the conference, soon you’ll be able to purchase the live recordings!  The 2010 recording are also available here to purchase. I was so thankful to have a sponsor for this year’s Summit, it was Savertime.  When you have a sponsor they’ll cover anything from your conference ticket to all of your expenses for the trip.

I’ve shared many times about Savertime, they are a daily deal site that was born from the Penny Saver.  Their mission is simple: Provide the deals that make everyday expenses affordable and cost-efficient.  What I love about Savertime is all of their giveaways! I’ve seen trips to Disneyland, Justin Bieber tickets, $1,000 cash, and several others!

The latest giveaway?  Just by signing up for Savertime you’re entered to win a trip for 4 to one of the following destinations:

  1. 5 Days in NYC
  2. 4 Night Cruise in the Carribean
  3. 3 Days at Yellowstone National Park
  4. 4 Days in Maui

EVERYTHING is included – airfare, and all!  So take a minute and sign up, I think it would be so neat if one of our TFF readers won!

Now we want to thank Savertime for their support and for believing in The Frugal Find enough to send me on my way to the conference!

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