Chasing Riley: Doing Surveys Part Two

Well.....qualifying for surveys on a new survey website was not the thing I hoped it would be. As I'm sure I've said before, the survey website I was a member of closed and I had no choice but to join another one, and the promises of making a certain dollar amount a day, did not happen. I have a small monetary goal that I hope to reach this week, and I will let you know if that happens.

I did find one winning strategy, though. Go for the high-paying surveys first. Some of them are long, I finished one today that was nearly two hours, but I got the points. Suveys are good for pizza money, bus fare and saving for Black Friday to get Christmas gifts. They really stink at paying bills. I am working on a bigger income stream and I will tell you all about it later in the week. So, surveys are just one thing that I am doing. Tomorrow, I will talk about the other income streams I am doing. 

Chasing Riley Income Streams

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Chasing Riley: Doing Surveys Part One

 One of the things that I'm doing that's bringing in some income is surveys. It's not a get-rich, life-changing way to make money, but at the moment while I'm working on the big stuff, it is helping out a little.  I am going to share the best Survey websites out there that work. First I have to share the pros and cons.

Pro's and Cons of Surveys

Pros

• They pay fast
• Perks and Prizes
• Free to sign up

Cons

• Not qualifying for surveys (there are good days and bad days)
• Getting to the end of an annoying survey, and it gets stuck and stops, or you end up on a broken link
• Low pay

The best survey website that I'm in is Swagbucks. ==> Sign up for Swagbucks here

Every Christmas a portion of my gifts are bought with a hundred-dollar gift card. I haven't mastered earning more than a hundred, but I'll try for next year until I don't have to anymore. I earn points from my referrals, but all I do is play the free games, shop, surveys, and search. Come black Friday, I will have a hundred dollars for gifts! There are a lot of gift cards to choose from from the lowest to highest amount. 

PRIME OPINION

==> Sign up for Prime Opinion Here

Next to Swagbucks, this is my favorite survey website. You can get paid from a bank transfer, Paypal and nine other reward cards. There are prizes and levels with perks. You do a survey each day, at the end of the week you get a chance to earn more points or a higher percentage more on the surveys you take. I love this website! Yes, just like Swagbucks, you can get more points for referrals.

ZOOMBUCKS

===> Sign up for ZoomBucks Here

I have to be honest and say that this website was a bit of a surprise. The former website I was on, GCloot was closing and turned into Zoombucks, but I must say that there are many survey sites to choose from and they say you can earn $100 every day and there are over a thousand ways to earn. I will keep you posted on this one.  Okay, I am going to set a goal for myself. (seriously, I always try, but never quite make it...) Zoombucks said over a hundred a day, well, let me see how much I can make by next Friday. I'll be posting tomorrow revealing another income stream

Let's Start At the Very Beginning...

 At the beginning of this blog, I had a day job. I wanted to become an independently published author, which would replace my day job. I could wake up when I wanted to and do what I wanted while earning a passive income. No matter what I did, I could only earn very little, but most of the time, it was just crickets. Seriously, I never did earn an income to replace my former day job. So what did I do? I tried anything and everything that I could to earn money.

Mistake #1

 Rehashed information

Everyone who tells you how to make money online is not always telling you the truth. I would do free programs and some paid Internet marketing opportunities to make money. I was scammed so many times it would make your head spin. I didn't buy every gimmick, but some I did and it cost me big time. Do you want to really learn how to make money online? You must go to a verified source.  Look in your public library, but if the book isn't current, don't bother reading it. Here's one that got over a hundred good reviews. 

Mistake #2

Internet Marketers 

I'm not talking about the people who tell you that if you don't buy their $1,997, $997, $497, etc. course then, you just don't want to help yourself. The kind that tells you it's okay to use your credit card to buy their course. DON'T DO IT.

Mistake # 3

Applying for Loans to Pay Off Your Credit Card Debt

All it does is ruin your credit and have all sorts of companies accessing your personal information. Big mistake. 

What to do and What I am Doing Now

My new game plan is to have weekly pay,  at either a side hustle or another day job while I am building my publishing business. Ever since the pandemic hit and I lost my job I have been to dozens of virtual job fairs. I even applied to a few jobs, did a couple of interviews, but to this date, nada. I recently applied somewhere else and I'll see where that takes me, but I am now promoting affiliate programs so on this blog some links will be affiliate links and I may get a commission if you decide to make a purchase.  I am also doing surveys.

So, yes. I am still Chasing the Life of Riley, and time is speeding ahead. I have to be successful this year or I am in big trouble depending on who will be the next president of the United States. So, there you have it, and I know I've been horrible at keeping up this blog, but I am going to do three posts a week, unless 'Life' happens, which means work takes second place. I'll be keeping updates, and seriously focusing and continuing my journey Chasing Riley.

Make Money Online With Earnably

You know me, I am always looking for ways to earn money online. Finding all the ways to make my life easier is closer to the goal of having the life of Riley. Well, I found this new website that is quite fun and easy to make cash from. You think Swagbucks is all that, this website is like Swagbucks on Steroids!

Earnably  is free to sign up and earn money. Each point is 0.1 Cents, so 100 points is $1.00. They have a level system. How that works is each member starts at "0" and you can work your way up by completing goals. Going up levels gives you more perks to get more points. One perk when you reach the first level is getting daily prizes. If you want to get to the first level, you will have to: complete 25 offers, Earn 1000 points and redeem your points and get your first payment.
There are many ways to earn points, the best one I like is the Actions category. In the actions category, you can do things like write a blog post, put the website in a forum signature, and Tweet about it. If you have a phone, you can download apps. Unfortunately, I don't have a phone, but I can do surveys, watch videos, play games, use the offer wall, listen to the radio. Bottom line, there is plenty to do!
How you get paid is awesome as well. You can get paid by either Paypal, Amazon Giftcard or Bitcoins. When you set up your account you are able to choose when you'd like to be paid. You can request $1.00 (100 points)  up to  $30 (300 points). What is cool is that you can choose to be paid automatically! So every time you make $5.00 for instance, (which is 500 points) you can get that automatically sent to your Paypal account.
I am going to see how much I can earn with Earnably in a weeks time, check back again to watch my progress. Until next time....

Getting Closer To Catching Riley

*Sigh*. No, I'm not yet close to getting my music out yet, but a way to become financially independent is. Well, one good thing is that I do have a publishing contract for a series. My first book will be out in October. Instead of endlessly searching for things to do to make money, I have focused on three things:

• Writing(my publisher+ Kindle, Smashwords and other websites like them)
• Teaching(online)
• Crowdfunding

 So, I am hoping by the end of next month to be debt free, and therefore able to purchase the software and equipment I need to get my music online and heard by millions of people. So, you will hear from me once more this month, and will hear the final verdict next month. Will I have caught Riley? Will I finally be able to just wake up every day and work at home? Stay tuned and find out....

In The Meantime.....

After flipping and flopping all over the Internet, I finally found three ways to make money online that I actually like doing. So, in about a month or so, the Internet marketing world will be in shock as many, many, many thousands of emails will be deleted. I've been doing some every week, but I've collected a lot over the years.

 Anyway, if you are a person who wants to make money online, whatever works for you, KEEP DOING IT! If you make a little money at first, keep working at it until you start to make  a lot. So far, only two things have worked for me, and I will actually be creating a new blog about it. So, the magic thing is getting the amount of money I want to make with it each month. That's what I've been doing. About the music.....

Well, I've got my income tax return two months back, and am now able to buy the right software and the microphone to go with my computer. The only problem is, one of the websites I found that had the most awesome royalty free music on it, I forgot the name of it, and where I wrote it down. *Sigh* I'll find it, so I'm going to take this Memorial Day weekend and do what I'm supposed to be doing.

If I get my work all done, hey, I'll put a video up on Youtube. Until next time....

Blast It All!!!

We have so much music, copyrighted,
and more yet to be, but for the life
of me, I cannot figure out how to
connect MTV Music Generator to
the computer. I've been searching
for articles frantically online, and it's
definitely confusing, as one person
says how difficult it is, another that
there is a way to do it. It doesn't help
that my television is an old model and
it doesn't include hookups for the red
and white connectors.

UGGHHH!

As for my other iron in the fire, writing is going
well. I've completed six manuscripts. Two of
them ebooks and one is on sale at Scribd.
Just visit:
http://writegrrl.blogspot.com
to check it out. I am still earning about
$10-$15 a month from Associated
Content (Whoop Dee Doo!) I'm still
trying to figure out how to get more
page views, 'cause if I can manage that,
it will get me one step closer to Riley.
How Close am I now? Let's see...See that graph up there? You can't
really see it that well, I know. I'm not a master of doing my own graphs
yet, I used an online website. What you see at the bottom, the splat,
is where I'm at now. I didn't get past it. The end is where I want to be. the
point where I have caught Riley. I'll do a better graph next month,
and hopefully I can get past that blasted splat!
Peace

Branding Myself

This month will be the beginning of branding myself as
a musician. I read an article from an Internet guy about
a music millionaire, who used his brain and social networking
(free marketing people, stop using adwords!) to create a
name for himself in the music business.

DNJR will follow in his footsteps one day at a time. We
are in the process of finding our music.(a memory card
is missing!!!) We have created the most recent, and
what we consider best, music using MTV Music Generator.

Don't laugh because it's a video game. Brother and sister
duo Kellin and Taryn Manning (BoomKat) got a record deal
creating songs with it. Yep, you heard me right.

While people are being layed-off and living in tents, there
was a major change where I work. A new director stepped
in(they couldn't stand the last one) and she totally killed
my department. Three people having to do something new.
I'm pretty still in 'can't believe it' mode, the other doesn't know
where she's going, and the last in my department, my boss,
is leaving her heart behind. *Sigh*

Well, I can't complain too much, I worked
myself up(not that I had a choice...) to eight jobs in that
department, so now I'm down to one department.
But, I still have at least five jobs there-on minimum
wage, no less! So, when I read an article about how a
guy-a "rapper" became a millionaire from nothing,
(FREE ADVERTISING!!)you KNOW I am going to follow.

I'll carve out my own niche and customize his plan to
one that's right for me, and then I'll leave J.O.B. for
good.