Paticipate in online competitions and win prizes

Taking part in quizzes and competitions is a process of challenging ourselves and it is a creative process of brain storming. Winning prizes of gifts is another factor of taking part in competitions. Awards and gifts encourage us to win the competitions. Many of us love to challenge themselves to take quizzes and for this purpose they search through newspapers, magazines to find competitions. Now internet has provided a good solution for those people as there are many sites which offer the news about quizzes and competitions around the net.

'The prize finder' is one of the biggest and best online resources for competition enthusiasts (compers) anywhere.

We offer a fantastic, regularly updated directory of free to enter competitions, in addition to tips and advice on how to improve your chances of winning and a chat room where you can meet other keen compers.

The website is brought to you by Accolade Publishing Ltd, the UK's leading publisher of competition and publishing magazines including: - Prize Draw Winner and Competitor's Companion.

You can register for free at the site and get the newsletter or offers at your inbox.

"Online Money Buzz" - A blog helping you make money online for free

Blogs are a good source of useful information as they offer fresh and upto date content to their readers. People usually trust blog contenet rather than sites. I was inspired towards creating my own blog by visiting some very nice blogs. I was really amazed to see that blogs offer free information which you can't expect from professioanl sites. As this blog is related to an important topic which is 'online money making' I would be reviewing blogs and sites which I find myself useful.

"Online Money Buzz" is a blog from a stay at home mom from South Carolina. She has created the blog to help people find ways to make money online for free.

Meka loves to learn new things, surfing the internet and networking. She has many good posts which are useful for people interested in online earning. Meka has discussed many online money making opportunities like as get paid (gpt), paid surveys, paid to click, gpt sites, getting referrals, scams etc.

Few of her post titles are:

- 5 Ways To Earn $20 Online Today
- Free Paypal Money
- Paying You To Earn Money
- Time Is Money: Legitimate Paid Surveys
- Guide To Completing Offers

The reader of this blog would notice that topics discussed at "Online Money Buzz" really match with the theme of this blog.

Isn't it?

Get tips and ideas of online money making at 'Earners Club"

Online money making is a reality if you are clever enough to choose the reliable sites. You don't need to spend any money to earn online as many sites only need to register for free with them. Legitimate sites offer a low amount to earn but if you don't want to waste your valuable time then just sign up with those sites.

'Earners club' is a community based site with useful links, articles, tips and ideas on online money making, plus internet marketing.

- You can earn more from your adsense by registering free with them. Just register there and submit your ad sense Id.

You get the opportunity of submitting tips, resources and ideas about internet marketing, blogging and making money online. Your tips would be placed with google ads and when a surfer clicks on those ads, you get the money.

Which kind of useful tips and articles you can read at the site can be estimated by reading few post titles like:

101 Link Building Tips to Market Your Website
The Monster List of Freelancing Job Sites
35+ Online Shopping Cart Solutions for Your Business.
13 Marketplaces for Buying and Selling Websites
26 Affiliate Marketing and Webmaster Forums
102 Ways To Make Your Site A Back-Link Superstar
101 SEO Tools
Top Search Engine Marketing Tool
101 Ways To Make Money Online
23 Affiliate Networks for Monetizing Your Website
35 Tips Tricks To Manage and Handle Multi-Author B...

These links or post titles are may linked to other sites, but it is nice to have those useful posts at one place.

Learn the ways to make money online at -"Get paid guides"

There are many ways you can make money online, but you need to search for hours if you start searching for it and there is a chance that you become a victim of scam by joining or signing for any of those sites which try to waste your time or fetch your money.

Better to bookmark the sites which help you to learn about online money making schemes.

There are many ways you can easily make money online:

Taking Surveys
Reading Email
Playing Games
Working at Home
Surfing the Web
Searching
Visiting Websites

Get Paid Guides helps you learn how to make money with all the systems. It provides a guide for every money making system. Navigation to different topics is easy and instructions are in simple English.

Author's note: It is a good site with easy to follow instructions, and as far as I have searched the site, they are suggesting good resources.

Open an account with Online money processors to receive your money

If you are one of the surfers who want to make money while working at home, then you should first get an online money processor's account to receive or send money. Online money making systems prefer to send your earning via a money processor like 'PayPal', 'AlertPay' etc.

There are some online payment processors where you need to open an account to get your money. I am providing link and essential information which you may need to open an account at these online banks. Most of the PTC sites accept the payment option of these banks. Registration is free but it is recommended that you should first read the terms and conditions of the site.

1- Most popular way of online money transaction is paypal.

PayPal is the safer, easier way to pay and get paid online. The service allows anyone to pay in any way they prefer, including through credit cards, bank accounts, buyer credit or account balances, without sharing financial information.
Located in San Jose, California, PayPal was founded in 1998 and was acquired by eBay in 2002.
Link: PayPal


2- AlertPay.com, a privately owned and managed company founded in 2004, is an electronic wallet (e-wallet) payment system enabling any business or consumer with email to send and receive internet payments securely, quickly and cost-effectively. With its office headquarters in Montreal, Canada, AlertPay is available to users all around world.
AlertPay is a Canadian Registered Corporation voluntarily compliant with the regulations of the OSFI (Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada), FINTRAC (Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada) and FinCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.

Link: Get your FREE account with AlertPay



3- Moneybookers Limited is a money transmitter regulated under UK law.
Moneybookers enables any business or consumer with an email address to securely and cost-effectively send and receive payments online – in real-time!
Moneybookers delivers a product ideally suited for small businesses, online merchants, individuals and others currently underserved by traditional payment mechanisms. As a true global payment solution, we welcome customers from every nation of the earth!

Link: Moneybookers







4- E-gold is an electronic currency, issued by E-gold Ltd., a Nevis corporation. It is integrated into an account based payment system that empowers people to use gold as money. E-gold fees is very low as well at around 1% the most.
Link: E-gold

Note: I have tried to open account with 'E-gold' but they say that they are not accepting new sign ups.(It might be the case that I am from an Asian country)

Earn easy money with trusted PTC site 'Neobux'

PTC or pay to click programs are millions but most of them are not honest as they don't pay to their members or delete their accounts for no reason. It is a very easy way of making money online, as you have to click on advertisements and view it for few seconds and you get a little amount credited in your account. Usually these sites are free to join.

'neobux' is the first PTC site I am going to review because upto now I have got positive reports about this site. This is one of the paid to click sites where you are asked to browse the sponsor's ads.

Their goal is to innovate and reach the needs of users and advertisers.

What you get as a member:

Earn up to $0.02 (2 cents) per click.

Earn up to $0.02 (2 cents) for every ad your referrals click.

You can check statistics of your clicks, earnings and even of your referral's clicks and activities from the site.

Minimum payout details:

The minimum payout amount is set at $2.00 (two US dollars) for your first payout request, $3.00 (three US dollars) for the second, $4.00 (four US dollars) for the third and so on until $10.00 (ten US dollars).
This means that when you reach or go beyond this limit, you can request your earned money.
Amount of time for payment processing:

After you request your payment, you'll receive it instantly upon request or in less than 48 hours if AlertPay services are down.

These pay per click sites are created on a system which requires more members, so you need to earn 'referral' because more members you bring to site with your link can earn you more money.

Online 'Work at home' opportunities at 'Legit Online Jobs

If you are searching the net for online work at home opportunities then you should first do an online search, because internet offers scam opportunites which can waste your valuable time and may be in some cases your money as well. But how to search for legitimate online work at home opportunities?

LegitOnlineJobs.Com is one of those sites which provide access to many work at home opportunities. They have spent over 10 year compiling all the money making opportunities at one place.

I am a member of this site and I found this site really helpful. The best part of the site is their 'live chat' where you can chat with a real person and ask whatever you have in your mind about the site.
To know more: Click Here!




How it works?

It is a site showing you how to work at home and make money online. These opportunities are practical and you need to follow the directions. For example they talke about ad cash system and the process is: When you become a member, they will show you which companies you have to sign up to and where you need to enter the data. When you post an advertisement, people will see it, click on it and purchase the product and you earn a percentage (as high as 75%). The company does all of the selling. You can easily make numerous sales for each advertisement. So for example, if you submitted one advertisement, and it paid $30 per sale and the advertisement generated 10 sales, you have just earned $300.

Can you trust this site?

As they are a member of Honest eOnline, Trust Guard and verified by HackerSafe. All of these companies specialize in guaranteeing the safety, security and integrity of websites in order to protect consumers.

How many ways the site guide you to make money online?

There are various ways, site can guides you to make money online:
- 'Ad Cash System' Learn how to make great money typing ads for companies.
- 'Real Home Jobs' Real no-fee jobs. Get paid by the hour. Includes data entry jobs.
- 'Paid Surveys' Give your opinion on various products and get paid for it.
- 'Paid Shopping' Get paid to shop in stores or eat out at restaurants.
- 'Paid Driving' Get paid to drive your own car or receive a brand new free car.
- 'Paid Email/Surf' Get paid to read email and visit websites.
- 'Paid Offers' Get paid to complete free offers from various companies.
- 'Paid TV' Get paid to watch TV for companies.
- 'Paid Photos' Make money taking pictures.
- 'Paid Bloging' Make money with your own blog.
- 'Wholesale/Ebay' Access the best wholesale sources and make money reselling.
- 'Advanced Money' Money making secrets for advanced users.
- 'Gov. Auctions' Access government auctions all across the US.
- 'Gov. Grants' Find the best sources for all types of grants in the US.
So whatever the way you choose to make maoney you get the essential information to get start.

with a one time fee of few bucks you also get free bonus e-books which are very useful and help you learn more about online money making systems.

To know more about 'work at home' scams you can check the useful links given below:

Useful links:

* ScamBusters.org

* BBB alerts and news about 'Work-at-Home Schemes'

* 'Work-At-Home Scams' from AARP.org

Related posts:

* Learn the tips to avoid work at home scams

How to download everything for free online?

I could not believe when one of my uncles told me that you can literally download almost everything online from the net. I searched for torrent sites and found that it is true that you can easily download anything from the net. The softwares or games which I can't find from stores, I search at torrent sites and download it. My internet connection is not very fast so I prefer to download only e-books. You can download softwares, e-books, audio books, games from these torrents sites.

Let's learn about 'torrents':

Torrent is the most popular way of downloading large files, including movies and games (remember legality of downloading)

What the term 'torrent' means ?
'Torrent is a small file (around few kilobytes) with the suffix .torrent, which contains all the information needed to download a file the torrent was made for. That means it contains file names, their sizes, where to download from and so on. You can get torrents for almost anything on lots of web sites and torrent search engines.'

With torrents you can download almost everything on the net.
Every file (or set of files) need to have an unique torrent file to download it. To download through a torrent you need a torrent client

Mininova is the biggest torrent search engine and directory on the net. They provide the answer to many questions related to torrents.

Is downloading torrent files illegal?
No, torrent files are not copyrighted, so this is allowed. However, opening a torrent file in your BitTorrent client may start the process of downloading (and possibly uploading) copyrighted content. Depending on the circumstances, such as the content in question and the country you're living in, this might be illegal. In some countries, it is illegal to download and upload copyrighted material. In this case, make sure that you only download unlicensed content via BitTorrent.

What are seeds?
A seed is a client that has a complete copy of the data of a certain torrent. Once your BitTorrent client finishes downloading, it will remain open until you click the Finish button (or otherwise close it). This is known as being a seed or seeding.

What are leechers?
A leecher is a client that is currently downloading the data of a torrent. A leecher does not have the complete file, otherwise it would be called a seed.

What is a tracker?
A BitTorrent tracker is a service on the internet that assists in the communication between BitTorrent clients. When you open a torrent file, your machine contacts the tracker and asks for a list of seeds and leechers to connect to.

What are all those .rar, .r01, .r02 files?
These files are so-called RAR archives. You need to install WinRAR or 7-Zip to extract the data of the files. WinRAR can be downloaded from the WinRar website, 7-Zip from 7-Zip.org.

Useful links:
* 'What is torrents?' for everything you need to know about torrents.

* 5 Best Torrent Search Engines + Google Trick for Torrent Search!

* Best Torrent Search Engine Sites of 2008

Finding reliable paying sites for online work at home opportunities

Many people search the net to find out earning opportunities, online work at home sites but most of the times they don't get the reliable information.

When you first start searching for online earning, it is very difficult to find the reliable resources. There are millions of scam sites which can snatch your money and wasting your time as well. I have wasted a lot of time searching and then working for online work at home sites. Most of the sites which offer pay per click, pay per sign up, survey sites don't pay you as they promise. Best way to know the truth is to search the net for reliable resouces and sites which could help you in this regard. I would be reviewing many sites and useful resouces which would help you learn about scam sites and how to search for reliable information at the net.

"Fraud.org" provides these tips for avoiding work at home scams:

- Know who you’re dealing with. The company may not be offering to employ you directly, only to sell you training and materials and to find customers for your work.

- Don’t believe that you can make big profits easily. Operating a home-based business is just like any other business – it requires hard work, skill, good products or services, and time to make a profit.

- Be cautious about emails offering work-at-home opportunities. Many unsolicited emails are fraudulent.

- Get all the details before you pay. A legitimate company will be happy to give you information about exactly what you will be doing and for whom.

- Find out if there is really a market for your work. Claims that there are customers for work such as medical billing and craft making may not be true. If the company says it has customers waiting, ask who they are and contact them to confirm. You can also ask likely customers in your area (such as doctors for medical billing services) if they actually employ people to do that work from home.

- Get references for other people who are doing the work. Ask them if the company kept its promises.

- Be aware of legal requirements. To do some types of work, such as medical billing, you may need a license or certificate. Check with your state attorney general’s office. Ask your local zoning board if there are any restrictions on operating a business from your home. Some types of work cannot be done at home under federal law. Look for the nearest U.S. Department of Labor in the government listings of your phone book.

- Know the refund policy. If you have to buy equipment or supplies, ask whether and under what circumstances you can return them for a refund.

- Beware of the old “envelope stuffing” scheme. In this classic scam, instead of getting materials to send out on behalf of a company, you get instructions to place an ad like the one you saw, asking people to send you money for information about working at home. This is an illegal pyramid scheme because there is no real product or service being offered. You won’t get rich, and you could be prosecuted for fraud.

- Be wary of offers to send you an “advance” on your “pay.” Some con artists use this ploy to build trust and get money from your bank. They send you a check for part of your first month’s “pay.” You deposit it, and the bank tells you the check has cleared because the normal time has passed to be notified that checks have bounced. Then the crook contacts you to say that you were mistakenly paid the wrong amount or that you need to return a portion of the payment for some other reason. After you send the money back, the check that you deposited finally bounces because it turned out to be an elaborate fake. Now the crooks have your payment, and you’re left owing your bank the amount that you withdrew.

- Do your own research about work-at-home opportunities. The “Work-At-Home Sourcebook” and other resources that may be available in your local library provide good advice and lists of legitimate companies that hire people to work for them at home. You may discover that these companies hire only local people and that there is nothing available in your area.

Resouces helping you find online reliable 'work at home' sites

* PTC Talk is a site which helps you finding the sites which pay you really. They bring the proof of payments from pay to sites, and they also show the top 10 paying sites which are voted by visitors.

* 'Been Paid' is a reliable resource, a directory of get paid to programs that are verified by their members. This site is online from 2003 and helps its members to earn online. They have around 10,000 members, and by subsrcibing to their newsletter you get the updated information about the scam sites and the links to reliable online work at home, get paid to sites.

There are more sites which you can check by visiting this blog. I would be reviewing those sites or links in seperate posts.