Worst experience when trying to make money on the internet?
For example, I used to fill those paid surveys but figured they are scam, maybe someone has some similar experience and can provide more detail. Not only that but there were some 'methods' like MLM which promised to make me $$$ (millions) when in fact I didn't make very much (or not at all.)
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I was pretty happy at Associated Content until they stopped offering up-front payments for most of my research-type articles, and although I haven't submitted much the last few months I'm still earning about $60/month off page view bonus for doing basically nothing but stopping by to read a few other writers there, so that's not bad. It puts a few groceries on the table.
I've been with Constant Content for about the same amount of time and have done rather well with them, but they operate a bit differently than paid-to-write sites because they sell your content to third party customers who are looking for content for their own sites.
CC is VERY particular about grammar, spelling, etc., you have to have the skills to write professional-quality content to be accepted. But I find it an excellent place to market articles because you get to set your own price and licenses. Some of my stuff sells as soon as I get it listed, but other articles sit there a while before they're purchased. You can also earn residual bonus for signing up other writers.
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Now for my worst experiences. I have found writing at Bukisa to be a waste of time with very little pay. I also find the residual pay at Associated Content (Again a writing site) to be horrible.
My favorite places to make money online are Ebay and Zazzle (Ehow comes in 3rd.)
Great question! It helps many of learn where NOT to go and waste time!
Personal experience!
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Wow sounds interesting. I can put my paint shop pro to good use.
Thanks Iklilian:) And Jason Yes, I am finding mahalo fun!
Yes, Zazzle is fun, and free to join. I have been there since September, I believe, and designed some T-shirts, posters etc. then October, November and December, Ebay was so busy I did not get a chance to add more to my Zazzle store. I have since added products. I spend a couple hours a week there and the past two weeks I have made about $70. It is super easy and super fun (nice break from writing!) Here is my store, if anyone just wants to get an idea. http://www.zazzle.com/jeffandjess?rf=238175575342623937
Nice store Gina
Associate Content is horrible, I agree.
I suggest asking a LOT of great questions on Mahalo Answers because of the revenue sharing: where the first M$300 in adsense goes to the users!!!
http://www.mahalo.com/answers/health/what-is-the-best-deodorantantiperspirant-on-the-market
Jason, you are such a PIMP!!! ROTFLMAO!!
cool never heard about zazzle didn't know you can make money with such sites.
I have also wasted several minutes with the surveys that you watch their advertising for 30 sec. and get paid. Yeh !! In three or four years if your lucky to reach their pay out of $20.00. I also seen on a work from home site that you could watch porn for free and get paid. LOL, a bunch of us tried it for a month and sure enough no pay out !! They even offered an incentive program, that who ever you got to become a member you got paid so much a month for their activities too. NOPE none of us got paid !!
I do however have a few that I belong to and get paid every time I do a survey or view new web pages. I have never had any trouble getting paid from these two and they are paid to your paypal account. (My secret rainy day money LOL).
I do belong to this one, but I just signed up before coming here to Mahalo and I just do not have the time !!
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eHow has by far been my worst experience. Their payout is anything but transparent. It fluctuates so much that something is beyond screwy. Also, they added content to a UK site without properly compensating their writers.
I felt taken advantage of when I was putting quality content on their site - benefiting them as well as me. eHow in my opinion, has a lot to learn about how to treat their writers.
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Basically, between that and my various other ventures, I was typing around 10,000 words per day on a cheap keyboard. The keys had a little resistance to them, which meant to do the speed, I had to really hammer the keys.
Long story short - I ended up getting shooting pains in all of my fingers every time I hit a key. It wasn't so bad that I stopped, but it was quite painful. It got worse, until I almost couldn't type and I had to reduce my workload. In the end I had to pretty much stop working for two months. In which time, I completely stopped the content writing because it simply wasn't good for me.
I now type pretty much the same amount of content, but I do it on a good quality keyboard - I learned my lesson.
I've been scammed a couple of times before, but my short bout of RSI was my worst experience making money on the Internet.
Experience
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Can someone remind me, do Demand Studios pay writers outside the USA? And if so, do they pay upfront as well as revenue share, or only one or the other? I can never remember which is which. So far I thought I hadn't heard of one that pays you something decent upfront if you are outside the USA.
Go for Demand Studios as I've mentioned somewhere else. 500 words is about $15. I had a huge strain similar to yours when I first started working at home.
The most common mistake MOST people will make is paying for something that they don't fully understand. They will pay for "get paid to X" where X could be data entry, surveys, etc. 99% of all of those are total scams. Other ones are programs specifically designed so that you start off excited and happy (so you don't get a refund) then after a couple months, simply lose motivation to continue or purchase the next item in a series.
You can check my blog for legit opportunities (I've checked em all).
http://www.onlinewritingjobs.net
I work at home full time.
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Most data entry jobs you'll find only offer you some kind of list of companies that "may" hire you. Odds are you have to pay for the list then also pay to apply to each one. Huge scam.
You can get a data entry job on a site like Freelancer.com but the pay can be low. Check there though and you can luck out.
can you give more detail...why do you think those data entry stuff are scams? What do they promise and what they give in reality?
After three years, in 2004 I left my job as the “Design Engineer” for a company that has the
maintenance and service contract for Fire Alarm and Fire Suppression Systems at Pope
AFB, NC. For someone doing all the drafting, ordering parts and supplies, shipping and
receiving parts, and estimating jobs offered through the US Army Corps. of Engineers, the
pay was lousy!
I decided to go into business for my self, and started my company East Coast CAD Solutions
http://eastcoastcad.netfirms.com. After pleading with my wife for days upon end, I finally
persuaded her into letting me drain our bank account so I could buy the Design and
Engineering Software AutoCAD. It’s not cheep either! It’s a whopping $4,000.00 computer
program.
I was now the proud owner of AutoCAD 2004, but I was living in the Dog House! As many
of you know, starting your own business takes time and for me it seemed like an eternity. I
spent almost all of our savings through advertising and so forth, but I hadn’t made a single
dime yet, not even a penny for that matter! Finally, I got an email from someone who
needed a full set of Fire Alarm Drawings. Yahoo!
Installation drawings for a Fire Alarm Systems include, but are not limited to:
1. A Device Location Floor Plan
2. A Point-to-Point Wiring Diagram
3. A Riser Diagram
4. As-builds (Conduit run floor plan)
5. Egress or Evacuation Plans
I charged this person $900.00 for the set, and after the OK on the price I started working on
the drawings. Because of my inexperience with working through the Internet and self employment in general, I failed to get any money up front, or even sign a contract with someone whom I had never met before. I finished the drawings and emailed them to him. I told him to look them over and let me know if
there are any problems or changes I need to make. I also asked him to please send me my
check. Well, here it is 2010, and I’m still waiting for that stinking check!
So, this is “My worst experience when trying to make money on the Internet.” I’m finally
out of the Dog House, but I still have the key. I learned my lesson, so now I have contracts
signed, I get 20% up front, and I encrypt the drawings I email my clients. They can open the drawings and look at them, but they can’t print them. When I get my money, they get the unlock code. Smart
Hun?
Thanks for reading!
Cadguy016
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M$Another experience that a friend of mine had was when he decided that Google was not smart enough and started to click on his own ads and asked for friends to constantly click on his AdSense ads as well. He was all happy about it as he reached very quickly the $90 mark. This all happened in a matter of weeks and he said that soon he will get paid. Well surprise, surprise, days after that he received an email from Mr G saying that his account was a "risk to their advertisers" and got his account banned. Needless to say he never got paid.
A word of advice. I blog about MMO and everything related to this subject. There are numerous and legitimate ways to make money on the internet. You need hard work, perseverance and lots of patience. Provide quality stuff and work on your SEO. All this combined will get you there. Avoid "get rich fast" schemes and everything else within the likes. They don't exist. You will only make the scam artist richer and you poorer. There are no secret systems. Period
Personal experience
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was wondering which paid-to-read program you embarked on and what was the minimum payout? How did they measure whether you read the message or not...couldn't you just go fast and read like 100 messages in a minute?
When I was 17 I did a lot of those PTR programmes. I literally spent every afternoon after school clicking on those things like I was about to die. Didn't see a penny of it. The only PTR programme I was ever paid for was CashCrate, but that was when I was a few years older (and wiser, perhaps).
To be honest with you I can't really remember which one it was. As a matter of fact I do not even know if they are still online. To answer about the speed reading, no it is not possible because you had to read everything form their website and the time was controlled by them. This means that you can only move to the next once the designated time has lapsed, normally and average between 15 - 45 seconds. Not really worth it.
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Two clients in a row asked me to rush a large batch of articles to them in only a day or two, and then both of them let my payment sit in escrow for weeks while i sent bill after bill and email after email asking for payment to be released. Understand: They'd already made the payment to Elance--they just wouldn't release it to me--it was just sitting there. Finally I threatened to email the site administrator and when I did that, they both released the payment immediately.
I also had two repeat clients at Elance within the past couple of months who kept asking for rewrite after rewrite on articles that I knew were perfectly fine the first time around. (I've been doing this for over three years--I'm not an idiot.) Both of them asked me to first add information to specific articles then asked me to take out THE SAME INFORMATION in a rewrite. One asked me to include incorrect information about a health product and asked me if I'd done my research and I said, "Have you?" Again, both clients withheld payment for weeks until I threatened to report them, at which point payment was released immediately.
My last (and final) client at Elance completely disappeared for three weeks after I delivered the work ASAP as requested (everyone seems to be in a big hurry at Elance lately), and AGAIN, my payment sat in escrow that whole time where I could not touch or use it. AGAIN I threatened to report her and immediately she released the payment after I sent that threat.
I used to be able to drum up three cents per word at Elance and most of my clients were really nice. These last six jobs or so barely paid two cents per word and the clients were horrible. One repeat client recently emailed me and asked if I'd write a 35,000 word paper on a complex financial topic for $12. (I said no.)
Elance has turned into this snake pit of sleazy little net-preneur liars and the Third World writers they exploit and jerk around. It's too bad, but I think the net is just getting saturated with content and that particular market has pretty much dried up. Stay away from there, seriously.
I still freelance, just not through them.
www.Elance.com
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M$I looked at a lot of possibilities in addition to Mahalo. I've stopped now. This is a great place to be, psychologically and financially. It's a very positive environment and I feel like I've made good friends here - although I've never laid eyes on any of them!
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M$Thank God ! that I'm not the only one who has worst experience around internet money making schemes. I spent lot of time on Paid to click websites on internet because I was new to this business and thought this type of websites are really offering big money only by clicking some adds. But I didn't figured out at that time that they are just making money for them by driving huge amount of traffic to their website in that way. Then I started reading about such kind of websites and understood they are just scams and useless. You know, I created a paypal account thinking that I would become rich within few days because those adds were paying around $10 per click but until now I'm hanging with only $0 :) and it was the worst phase of my money making days online but now I think I can earn some good money through this mahalo and I would be happy if you can select me as best for this...so that I can raise my balance $0 to atleat $11.64 for this question...
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M$1. I had plans to set up a niche-market gourmet website. I had the domain for a few years, and the item I needed had to be drop-shipped from either farms or the processors. I spent 2 years sending out the same e-mail to the customer-service e-mail addressees of poaces that sold tyhe stuff-The pitch was that I'd send them stickers saying it was a gift from that club and they'd put it on the product and invoice me.
The most surprising note I got back was from a farmer who worried he couldn't meet demand--and I thought, "For a not-yet-created business?". -I had the CEO of one big company on board. One guy really pushed me to sell his creation, a related product, but the whole idea of it was gross--I wouldn't eat it-- and I kindly declined.
When the domain came up for renewal, someone at my internet provider emailed me to ask if I was renewing it, because he wanted it. doing a fast search online, it looks like one year after I dropped the domai9n, someone added "the" to the beginning and built the site I never did build--with some people I'd contacted (but not all). I still have the emails stashed in a gmail folder so something may come of it yet. (Thanks, darenet, for the idea.)
2. ether.com - the idea was there, but I just couldn't figure out a good way to market it:
http://www.ether.com/CallButton/Gary-Allen/7232798.aspx
It's also a bit cumbersome because it customers need to first do a free sign-up on their site--but it's a phone service.
3. A friend, then in his late 60s, wanted to create a site as a calendar to list free or low-cost events for seniors in the area. I spent the better part of an entire 2006--in between neurosurgery 5 times--developing a framework. One thing was that he wanted to do was to just copy info--particularly pictures--from other sites. I put my foot down, and I spent the time and did it the right way, so we would not have the potential to get sued--I got permission to republish or link to the sources, such as local universities and theaters.
We had "creative differences" from the start--from the name (I had to explain how domain names are first-come, first-served, and how a unique, short, catchy name would be good) my desire to use something that might generate profit--like Google Adsense or even affiliate links to a local bookstore--where some of the authors who came to town were speaking and doing book-signings.
Then we met with a periodical publisher, who didn't like our concept at all and after a year of work, wanted to assume editorial control over it from 500 miles away.. Their website's pages,which look like forgotten internet items--I had to search around for online because the main page shows nothing but a logo--show that their most recent publications were done in 2008. I think they folded.
It turned out that a similar site already existed here, and we were re-inventing the wheel.
4. At one point, I was selling stuff on an auction site. The merchandise was from a retail store I co-owned . I spent a lot of time photographing the stuff and one night I got ambitious and put 20 things on at the same time. The e-mail was non-stop, 24/7. From then on in, I successfully sold higher-ticket items individually, putting one on only after one sold.
5. I had picked up doing voiceovers as a hobby--I had been in radio but it was severalyears. I had a website up for about 6 years. I'd done some radio spots and even 2 TV spots..
The mistake I made was using on a free server, and I found my site shut down a x couple of weeks ago.
6. I was invited to compete in a contest on a a freelance site's writing assignment Not only was the pay incredibly low, the contract had no end date--I could have been contractually bound to provide content, and re-write it upon request--for the rest of my life. My writing sample, suffice it to say, pointed all this all out.
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M$It was a horrible nightmare.. It's a damn shame we have those kinds of people in the world that scam people instead of just getting a real job like everyone else!
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Oh my! That sounds really awful. A friend was banned from Google because somebody clicked all the ads on her blog! Can you believe that?
Yeah, but we aren't paid directly by Google.
Just thinking, Rolling Spring, maybe that's the source of Mahalo's problems paying us. Nobody else has all these problems with PayPal. Maybe Google just isn't paying Mahalo, so they can't pay us.
Seems ironic that Mahalo uses Google Adsense.