For anyone that wants to earn money doing offers and surveys online, this “live” contest is a great place to get started as you can earn extra money. This month it takes place on January 23, 2012 during the hours of 7:00 PM and 11:00 PM Eastern Time Zone in America.

If you miss this month’s contest, there will undoubtedly be one in February as these have been going on every month now for awhile with great success. CashCrate continues to show that it is one of the premier survey and offer websites out there and it is in my opinion, the first place to get started if you want to make some extra money every month. The checks I get from them come regularly in the mail and I’m sure that will continue as they are extremely reliable.

There are a ton of surveys for money websites out there and some are better than others. If you are looking into doing surveys and offers, why not go with one of the ones that has the best track record? CashCrate has well over a million members and they pay right on time every month. You can go into the forum and read the “Payment” thread to prove that to yourself.

I got started making money way back in 2007 on CashCrate. Their check was the first check I ever got from any online website. It was a real check that I took to my bank and cashed just like I do today. For more proof of how legit they are, poke around my blog and you will see videos and pictures of some of my latest checks. Like here—> CashCrate Check

CashCrate is NOT a job but it is one of the few online surveys for money sites that allows people under 18 to sign up. With your parent’s permission, anyone over 13 and can sign up and start making some extra cash.

Lots of teenagers have signed up to CashCrate and make anywhere from $20 to $100 a month doing the surveys, offers, and referring others. If you can learn how to refer others to the site, you can make even more than that. Starting a blog (like this one) is the best way to refer people although there are lots of other things you can do if you think creatively.

CashCrate isn’t the only survey site out there but it is one of the most popular and reliable. After about 4 years with them, they have never missed sending me my monthly check and now I even get one every week. I have the proof to show that they pay real money to their members so take a look at that.

Student jobs in 2011 aren’t going to get any easier to find but that doesn’t mean you should give up looking. Always keep a positive attitude and keep applying for real jobs. On the side you can try things like CashCrate to make a little extra money and if you are good with computers you might even start your own blog and try to get some referrals to sign up under you.

I started 4 years ago knowing nothing about making money online and having never made a penny. Now I’m getting big checks from CashCrate and I am very thankful that I never gave up even when I wasn’t making much.

You can see by the picture of my check below what kind of money you can make on CashCrate and you will get paid as soon as you reach the $20.00 mark. My check comes in the US mail like clockwork every month and for 4 years now, it has never been late. You can also choose to get paid via direct deposit to your bank account if you like and that is even quicker than the check.

Please watch the video below of my most recent January 2012 check (I covered my name for privacy) and below that is a picture of another check I got last year:

There is a great forum on CashCrate that will help you with any questions you may have and everyone there, including the moderators are very positive and helpful. If you ever get stuck, the forum is the place to go to get all your answers and to see how others are doing.

You can make money by doing surveys, free trial offers, signing up for things, getting referrals, and by doing paid offeres (totally your choice). Additionally you can win points playing games and use those points to get gift cards from Amazon, iTunes, and many other retailers.

CashCrate is the very first place I ever got a check for anything I did online. I am still there today, as you can see, and they now have over 1 million members. When you try to make money online, there are a lot of choices and a lot of scams but in my opinion, CashCrate is the best survey site out there and I have the payments to prove it!

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You can try to make money doing paid online surveys or you can try to make a lot more money with lead generation. The art of getting CashCrate referrals is nothing more than online lead generation: you get leads for CashCrate and in turn they pay you a small commission. CashCrate is compensating you to go out and bring back potential customers to them. This is, in a nutshell, what affiliate marketing is all about.

CashCrate isn’t the only online surveys for money site that has a referral program and beyond surveys, there are thousands of other companies that you can make money generating leads for. This is why learning how to get CashCrate referrals is really learning how to make money online. If you can figure out how to successfully make lots of referrals for CashCrate, you will then have the knowledge of how to make money doing the same thing for other companies and “niches”.

When I get asked how I make money online I tell people I have a few websites and make money from them. People then invariably jump to the conclusion that I sell something (Ebay always comes to mind) as they have no idea that you can make money without having or selling a physical product. Usually the more I explain, the more confused they get as they just can’t grasp the idea of getting paid to lead someone to a product.

Lead generation is nothing more than another form of advertising. Advertising in one form or another has been around since the beginning of man and it is what makes the Internet tick. People seem to understand the concept of advertising on television, radio, and print media but they begin to get confused when confronted with the different types of advertising online.

The online world is different from any other media in that it is more immediate and produces results right away. When a company places an ad on TV, they are merely getting the word out and increasing brand awareness. They don’t make any immediate sales as a person viewing the ad would have to actually go somewhere where the product is sold and then buy it.

The online world is different in that it is both the viewing medium and the store. If you have an ad on the Net, someone can see the ad and immediately decide to buy the product right then and there. This opens up the opportunity for advertisers to make a lot of money and know exactly where that money is coming from. It lets them get detailed feedback right away as to whether an advertisement is working or not. The offline world of advertising involves a lot of guesswork and delayed numbers as to efectiveness while the online world gives an advertiser immediate and detailed results.

Since detailed tracking is possible online, the world of affiliate marketing has opened up where someone can get compensated for sending customers to a product or service of a company. This is what CashCrate referrals are and their affiliate prgram is one of the best for affiliates. If you doubt that please take a look at a couple of my CashCrate checks as proof of the amount of money that can be made.  

The Cash Crate affiliate program is run in house but many other affiliate programs are run through a second party affiliate network. Market Leverage is one such network that has many different affiliate programs under it and that makes it very easy to have a wide variety of things to promote. They have a check sent to your address every month by FedEx which goes way beyond what other networks do. When you start to reach the level where you want to promote things in other niches besides paid surveys, I recommend Market Leverage as one of the first networks you should sign up with. (it is free to sign up of course as they want your business)

Online lead generation can make you some very good money if you understand how to get targeted visitors to your blog(s) that are interested in the subject at hand. Much of this blog has been written to help you understand what you must do to make that happen. If you want to learn more about how to start earning money with CashCrate, please go to the beginning of this blog and read it from the start.

I’m not selling you anything and all you need to do is start reading this blog from the first post to see how you can get started. A lot of money can be made online if you know how and put your mind to it. Making money from paid online surveys like CashCrate is only the beginning as once you learn how to do that you will know how to make money with any online affiliate program. If you are motivated, you can do it!

But many of these paid online surveys sites are legitimate and you can make money from them. Actually, a lot of money if you know how. This blog is going to show you how to make more money than you ever thought possible when you started looking into doing surveys for money.

I am only going to talk about CashCrate at least for the start of this blog. The reason for this is simple: there are dozens upon dozens of survey sites but if you want to make money by referring other people, CashCrate is the best. Referring others is the single best way to make money with surveys. Yes, you can and should make some money by actually filling out the surveys, but if you want the big bucks, you need to learn how to refer other people.

Why is CashCrate the best survey site for referring people? At the top level (Elite) you will be getting 30% of what your 1st level referrals make and 20% of what your 2nd level referrers make. In addition to that, you will also get $1.00 every time any 1st level referral does their first offer. No other survey site gives that much money back to its participants. That is why CashCrate is the best paid online survey site.

Who am I and why should you believe me? In fact, why should you continue reading this blog? For the month of February  2009, I came in second place (as shown below) in the CashCrate contest and won an extra $200.00. As you can see. I had 675 referrals that completed their first offer or survey and that is in a short 28 day month. Only one other member did better than I did and he really kicked my butt.

The next screen print is how many referrals I have as of the date of this post:

Finally, the picture below shows my  CashCrate check for February 2009 in the amount of $1,491.28. That amount includes the $200.00 bonus. During February I did not do 1 survey and all that moeny was made from the people I referred. Do I need to say that again? All that money came from my referrals. Every penny of it.

So you could be thinking to yourself that these pictures might be faked. If you have spent any amount of time online I am sure you have come across dozens of faked “proof” pictures. It is easy to fake screen prints now days but harder to fake the picture of that $1,491.28 check. Anyway, I am not trying to sell you anything. I am just trying to show you how to take your surveys for money experience to the next level.

There is something you should understand right from the start. I did not get to the point of getting a check like that overnight. In fact it has taken me over a year to learn and understand what I needed to do to get that many referrals. If you do what I will be teaching you on this blog you will not make much right away either. You will have to be patient and keep at it knowing that the end result will be worth it. Is getting a $1,400 check in one month worth it? Only you can decide.

Let me sumarize by saying that not everyone is going to have the desire to keep at it and work at it until they get to the point where they can be making a $1,000 or more a month from paid surveys. Some of you will get bored and lazy and quit. But what I am going to show you can be done with other things as well and you can truly learn to make more money online than you ever thought was really possible. In times like these with the economy being what it is, it seems you might want to pull up a chair and pay attention.