If you’ve tried to make money online, it’s likely you’ve come across the various ‘Get Paid To’ sites online. These are the sites where you can fill out various offers online for different things (Surveys, Offers, Etc…), and for registering for these things - you make a few dollars.

Now if you’ve tried these sites, it can be frustrating because of the way the surveys are set up. They can be tedious and repetitive, and sometimes not worth the buck or two you are going to make.

Well, if you want to make money with these programs - the key is to gain referrals. The more referrals you have, the more money you will make. This is the big secret - how do you get referrals for these programs? Well, here’s how I built up my referral base on a ‘Get Paid To’ program to over 1000 referrals in about 4 weeks. I am now receiving monthly checks from that program ranging from $400 to $1200 bucks a month. And I spend about 15 minutes a day working on this. That’s it.

1. Step one - obviously you have to register with a ‘Get Paid To’ program. It’s important to choose one with a good referral set-up as that’s how you’ll make the most money. The program that I’ve had the most success with is CashCrate. If you haven’t signed up with a program - please, use my link, as it’ll help me buy that Ferrari I’ve always wanted. Ok, maybe not, but it’ll help me out somehow - perhaps diapers for the kiddo. But regardless - this system will work with any ‘Get Paid To’ program that has referral payouts.

2. Sign up for a Gmail Account. It’s a free email that we will be using to drive traffic to a review page.

3. Write a review of your site on a free host. You can use a blogging platform like Blogger, or find a site that lets you create free web pages like AwardSpace. If you have your own blog already, you can always write a review on that blog.

In your review I’ve found that the more you write - the better. I’m not saying fill it with crap, but you need to let your personal experiences come out and let the reader know that you’ve worked with the program. Give them some pointers on how to use the program - I always liked to emphasize the ‘daily surveys’ that most sites have. Most of these ‘daily surveys’ pay around 1 dollar and take about 5 minutes to complete. On sites like CashCrate, you can do up to 2 of them per day. So, if a person does those and only those everyday, they’ll make 50 or 60 bucks that month for 10 minutes work.

Other points to mention:

• The time it takes to complete an offer - on average for most of these sites it’s anywhere from 5 - 10 minutes
• How you get paid - check or paypal generally
• When you get paid
• How easy it is to make some extra cash on these sites

Be sure to include your affiliate link in the review so that they sign up and you get credit. The more info you give out in the review, the better (in my experience). My more lengthy reviews have always converted better. I have one review that converts about 1 in 3 readers…

4. Find a classified site that allows you to post ads. I’ve always used and had the most success with Craig’s List. Register an account with the gmail account that you created in step 2.

5. Write 5 separate ads. An example:

Online Surveys - P/T

Complete Surveys and offers in your spare time from your home computer and make a little bit of extra cash each month to help with bills. No selling and no fees of any kind. Email for more info.

That’s it. Here’s another example:

Offers and Surveys Part Time

Do you have an extra 10 minutes each day? Use that 10 minutes to make an extra $50 bucks each month by completing online surveys and offers. No fees and no selling of any kind. Email for more info.

Write 5 ads. Be as explicit as you can in 3 sentences or less. Don’t try to fool anybody by not making it clear what they are going to be doing. Tell them it is for surveys and offers. That way, when they read your review, they’ll already have a little expectation on what they’ll need to do to make money. Don’t try to be fancy - simply tell them what it is for, and how much they can make.

6. Post your 5 ads in 5 different cities every day. Don’t do more than that, there’s no need to and you’re ads will simply be flagged. Also - I would always post in the ‘etc’ sections of the jobs board. Don’t try to post in other sections - nobody will be interested and they’ll just flag your posting. After a week or so posting 5 ads a day, I was getting anywhere from 10 - 20 new signups for my program each day. Some of your ads will be flagged or removed, but the majority of them won’t, and over time you’ll have a bunch of ads placed that will be drawing interest.

7. Once or twice a day go into the gmail account and reply to the emails. In your reply simply say thanks for your interest, here’s a page I set up to explain the program. Give them a link to your review.

You could set up the vacation responder - but for some reason I’ve had more success by simply doing it one at a time. I have a draft email that I simply cut and paste into the reply - sometimes I’ll say something responding to their interest email if they’ve asked a specific question. I’m not exactly sure why this works better, it just has - you can try it either way obviously - I’m just sharing my experience.

8. That’s it. That’s all you have to do to build a large referral network for your ‘Get Paid To’ program. Like I said, I spend about 15 minutes a day on this - tweaking and placing ads, responding to the interest emails.

I completed a total of 3 offers myself when I first signed up for the program. Since then I’ve made all the money simply through getting the referrals. And that’s a lot easier than filling out the offers anyways.