One of the big problems I see people making is that they are from some country other than America and they are NOT targeting Americans. Unfortunately for everyone that lives in the rest of the world, CashCrate’s advertisers (which means all the companies that are providing the surveys and offers) are American. That means they are only doing business in the USA and are only interested in Americans doing their offers.

If you are from Africa, Europe, Great Britain, the Philippines, Australia, or any other place in the world, the best way for you to make money at CashCrate is to do referrals. BUT YOU HAVE TO GET AMERICAN REFERRALS! Only American referrals will count and that means you need to target USA Internet users. How do you do this?

You need a blog or a website that is listed high in Google for your keywords in America. Most of the time if you live in another country, you spend most of the time surfing websites that are in your own country. If you are on http://www.google.it/ (Google Italy) for example, different sites are listed than on Google USA.

Additionally, if you are handing out fliers, business cards, or getting friends from your country YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME. Remember, referrals only work for the USA so promoting to your friends or anyone else in your country is not going to work. YOU NEED REFERRALS FROM THE USA!

CashCrate is something you can sign up for free and they will never ask for your money. Now, you can do paid offers that do require a credit card but THAT IS YOUR CHOICE AND YOU DON’T HAVE TO DO THEM.

Look around my site to see that I have indeed made very good money on CashCrate. I have done it all for free and never once paid anything. You can read my blog here from start to finish to see how I do it but you have to read and learn before you can make the kind of money I have been able to make.

The bottom line is though that CashCrate is one of the totally legitimate websites where you can get paid for surveys and doing other things. If you want to make money online, you have to start somewhere and Cash Crate is a great place to start. It all begins when you get your first real check they will send you after you make your first $20.00. It is at that point that a light bulb will go off in your head as you realize that it is real money and that you can make more of it every month!

This is in addition to a great referral contest as well and of course all the money making you can normally do and you can see the potential at my CashCrate check proof page.

The free ten dollar gift cards promotion is just one of many they seem to have most every month and if you want to get paid for surveys, you should sign up for CashCrate and get busy making money. Signing up is totally 100% free.

For my first 6 to 9 months, a $100 month would be a great month for me. And with all the time I was spending blogging, trying to get paid for surveys, and trying different ways to make money, a $100 was probably the same as $1.00 an hour. I was clueless. I made some money at CashCrate and sites like it but I knew that referring people was the best way to make money but I didn’t know how to get the traffic.

Now days there are all sorts of other diversions and time wasters that weren’t there when I started. You have Facebook and now the whole Internet world trying to tell you that you should be making money on Twitter. In my opinion that is bullshit and people are sheep. Of course some people are making money but the liklihood you can is very low.

I didn’t make money for my first 6 months because I didn’t understand that I needed targeted traffic and not just any traffic. If you want to make money you need to sell something and then find the people who are looking to buy what you are selling. If you are selling computers online, you need to find people who are looking to buy computers. Whatever you are selling, you need to find people that are interested in specifically what you are trying to sell.

If you are trying to make money with CashCrate referrals, you need to find people who are LOOKING for ways to make money. Period. Any other type of person is NOT going to convert. Having lots of followers on Twitter is NOT GOING TO CONVERT INTO CASHCRATE REFERRALS. Period again.

You hear that social media is the wave of the future and that you should be all over it making money.  You hear about traffic exchanges and all sorts of other things to get more traffic to your blogs. If only you had traffic! But until you learn how to get TARGETED TRAFFIC, you won’t make a dime.

Keep chasing that social media and hanging around the forums hoping for the big secret. It won’t get you anywhere but you can keep doing it. Most of what you really need to know is right here on this blog if you will just take the time to read it.