Survey savy makes me mad

I like survey savy because you can make some good money through your recruits, but as far as actually taking their surveys? Yeah, this really frustrates me. I will say this for them though, I do get invitations from them very often, sometimes twice a week. However, every time I make the effort to actually click on the link, and give myself time to take the survey, I usually don't qualify. It could be for tooth paste, and either I don't buy the brand they want to get info on or they've reached their quota for my age group, but I don't think I have qualified for one of their surveys in a long time.

It also irritates me that if I click on their link more than two days after I have received it in my email, it is usually expired. I appreciate the fact that they pay you with real money, instead of other sites that credit with websites or free magazine subscriptions, but if I click on the link from survey savy and I don't qualify, they just enter me for a drawing that I never win. You would think that they would know what I qualify for from my membership information, but somehow every time, I just don't qualify.

Bored

I'm getting so bored of doing paid surveys. I don't know it just doesn't seem like it's worth my time anymore. Like I could be doing something that is more fulfilling. It has been a great ride though, I've made quite a bit of money from referrals, and some sites I get paid every time someone completes a survey like with SurveySavvy. So with those sites I will continue to make some money, which is nice.

Tax Time

It's about time I started on my taxes for this year. I am a master procrastinator and as usual I have waited till the last couple of weeks to rush through the tax forms.

I wish all I had to do was fill out the 1040 ez like I could back in college when I had a part-time job, but since I run my own paid surveys review website I have to wait until I receive my 1099s from the businesses I work with and then fill out a schedule C for my expenses.

Although I do usually get my 1099s in the mail mid February. I still like to wait till the last minute.

Swag Bucks

I can't believe it's been over a year since I last posted. Time does seem to fly by when you spend most of your time taking care of kids. Anyways back on topic. I got interested into these new types of sites called Search and Win.

They are pretty fun, instead of using Google or your regular search engine; you go to a site like Swag Bucks, Winzy, or Blingo.

I think Swag Bucks is my favorite so far, because you get points instead of just winning something, and also because I haven't won anything yet with the other sites.

With Swag Bucks you can win points for every search and then exchange the points for cash payment through paypal or gift cards. The search results are a combination of Google, Bing and Yahoo.

Vindale Research Scam

One of the lamest survey scams I have come across is Vindale Research. What really irritates me about their site is they advertise in the help wanted ads on many prominent job search sites like Yahoo Jobs, Monster, and many others.

Their ad reads something like make money taking market research surveys, but all they really do is spam your email address with tons of unwanted ads. They probably also sell your information to third parties, but I am not one hundred percent sure of this.

I know there are many websites out there that are trying to scam us, and I really hate it when I see a website like this.

Squidoo

A good website that I make extra money with is Squidoo. It's just a really easy site to work with and you can make as much money as you want, because you can write articles about any topic, and you can promote your articles with their groups.

Plus Squidoo is a great way to advertise your other websites. I use it all the time.

eHow

Recently I've been writing a lot of how-to's for ehow. It's pretty simple and I can bust out a couple of articles a day easily. I started writing for this site because I was intrigued by it's compensation program. I've written six articles so far and am waiting to see how much I make before I write anymore. I easily got over 200 page views for those six without having to promote them at all. I'm sure most of those page views were because of ehow's categories but it seems nice to know that people are actually reading what you write.

Hopefully I will be able to update this post after I find out how much money I've made. It only takes $10 to get paid through paypal.