Pay $5.99 S&H and the Silver Jewelry is FREE!

The Diva loves silver jewelry. I'd love to buy her more, but funds are limited. Fortunately, I'm always on the hunt for a bargain. Hey, why pay retail when you can get products for low or no cost!

What did I find? Let's just say, The Diva was ecstatic!




SilverJewelryClub is a site that gives away silver jewelry. All you pay is a shipping and handling charge of $5.99. My favorite part is that you can use paypal! Anyway, when you visit the page, you will find four different items. Each item is displayed for 15 minutes. During that time, you may purchase the item. After 15 minutes, a new item is displayed. They sell men and womens' jewelry.

This jewelry is great to have on hand for gift giving. It's beautiful and inexpensive. I bought a ring that was valued at $69.99 and paid $5.99! I got the email today informing me the item was shipped.

When I receive the ring, I will take a picture of The Diva wearing it. It is a heart shaped amethyst on a silver band.

You might want to bookmark this entry, so that you can give a beautiful...but frugal gift!

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Update: April 9,2007
My sister and I received our jewelry on Friday, April 6, 2007. We are very happy with our purchases. She liked the jewelry sooo much, she ordered three more pieces on Saturday April 8, 2007! I'll be adding a picture of the ring I purchased later today...

Attention Walmart Shoppers: New "Site to Store" Program Equals More Savings!

Today was a WalMart Day. I spent most of the day there buying a futon, pillows, blinds, curtain rods and many other accessories. It was my intention to buy a dresser and armoire to match the bed I bought there the other day. Unfortunately, they didn't have any left in the store. Great. I figured I had to order it online. I came home and checked my email. (It's the OCD in me...) I was thrilled with the email I received from WalMart. See, as an affiliate of WalMart I get news delivered to my inbox.

WalMart is introducing site to store program. This is great for people like me that own a minivan. It means you get FREE SHIPPING! Since I'm a WalMart affiliate, I also get an additional savings of 12% on all my online purchases. (Here's where you can read more about thay: Affiliate Marketing 101 . Read about LinkShare.)

Here's the breakdown:

States and dates subject to change. A few stores in participating states may be activated later than others.
Available Now: Stores in northern California, eastern Texas, western Texas, New Mexico, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, western Tennessee, western Illinois, northern Mississippi.

April 2007: Stores in Arizona, southern California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Colorado, Wyoming, eastern Virginia, northern North Carolina, eastern Ohio, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey.

May 2007: Stores in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, southern North Carolina, South Carolina, southern Tennessee, western Virginia, West Virginia, eastern Kentucky.

June 2007: Stores in southwestern Texas, southern Mississippi, Louisiana.

July 2007: Stores in Iowa, eastern Illinois, Indiana, western Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, western Ohio, northern Tennessee, North Dakota, South Dakota.

I don't know about you, but I'm ecstatic. That gives me two ways to save.
1. By being an affiliate, I save 12% on online purchases.
2. By shipping to the store, I save on shipping and handling!

It's a win-win. Now if they accepted paypal, I'd lose my mind!

Six Easy Ways to Make Money Online

Many people ask me to help them earn money from home. The most frequent question I'm asked involves quick ways to earn money online. Many people have shut off notices, need food or other necessities. I always try to answer that email first. (I've been in that spot.) I decided to answer that question here.

There are many ways that you can earn money online. The most lucrative way for me is blogging. The only problem is the average person doesn't know what blogging is. If they aren't computer literate, they will not be able to use many of the income opportunities available. Setting up a blog is time consuming and it's even more difficult for the inexperienced newbie. So what does that mean? There have to be categories for different abilities. I'll start with the opportunities for the bloggers. The links will lead you to my other entries that describe the sites and how you earn money. There are opportunities for non bloggers too. Follow the links for more information.

You must have PayPal
to receive payment from these sites. If you don't have a paypal account, sign up today. It's a free service.

Here are six easy ways to make money online.

Quick Money Makers for Bloggers:
1. Money4Blogs is great for bloggers with decent pagerank. All you have to do is place a link in your blog (must be up for a year) and you get paid by PayPal
. I got paid the same day. Don't worry, the links are mostly UK insurance sites.
2. BloggingAds is another money maker that is easy and pays quickly. I received my paypal payment within hours of submitting the permanent link to my entry. (They have been updating the site. It should be up and running soon.)
3. CreamAid is another blogging site. They paid me within hours of receiving my entry. They also pay you for referrals. (Click on the link for more info.)

Get Paid to: Try a Service or Product
4. Mavishare will pay you to try out products and services. The first payout can be requested immediately. After the first payouit, you must have 3 referrals before you can cashout again.
5. Cash4Offers is another gpt site. You can get paid within 72 hours, but you must have a referral do an offer first. (The offers consist of sites like BMG, Columbia DVD, Blockbeuster subscriptions.)


Money Makers for Writers
If you like to write, you can make money online with hubpages. You can submit content on whatever you like. Best of all, it's FREE! Pages can be monetized with Google Adsense, Amazon, Kontera or ebay.

There you have it. I hope you found this information helpful. Good luck in your endeavors! Feel free to leave me a comment.

Paid to Read Sites: Free Traffic and Advertising!

When I started surfing the net and researching income opportunities, I quickly learned that paid to read sites were frowned upon. Just as quickly as I learned that lesson, I realized why. "Paid to Read" sites are an easy way to earn some cash or change, depending on the site. While some sites pay you two to five cents to view an ad, others pay 1/10 of a penny. At 1/10 of a penny, you're looking at a lot of clicking. That's why some people overlook ptrs as a great way to earn some money (at the better paying sites) or gain exposure (through free advertising).

I am a part of a few paid to read sites that I enjoy. Hits4Pay is one that sends 1-3 emails per day. I have about 126 referrals. I earn a penny for every email they open. What does this translate into? A monthly check between $35.00 and $37.00. It's easy money.

Recently I realized that many paid to read sites offer incentives to increase their memberships. What is the incentive? An upgraded membership. So what, you're thinking? Most upgraded memberships include free banner impressions, free referrals, free emails to existing members and other forms of advertisements. Still don't understand what the big deal is? It's free advertising.

What can you do with this free advertising?
Let's say that you belong to a traffic exchange. You can join the ptr, get your free upgrade and use your free banner impressions to advertise the traffic exchange. This is an easy way to gain referrals.

What if I'm not involved with any income generating programs?
It's also a great way to gain traffic for your blog. You can create a banner and add your blog URL to the paid text link.

I'm involved with many traffic exchanges, income opportunties and internet marketing programs. This is a free and easy way to generate traffic and referrals. People that use these ptrs are looking for easy ways to earn money. They are a captive audience!

Here are a few of the sites I've joined this week that are offering free upgraded memberships. Be sure to see what method they require to obtain your free upgraded membership. Some of the sites require you to send an email to the webmaster.

Join the site ASAP. As soon as they reach their targeted membership increase, they will discontinue the upgraded memberhsip.

*** Updated: February 10, 2010 ***
These are the paid to read sites that have paid me by paypal. You can also exchange your earnings to advertise your income opportunties. (I've also listed the paid to read site I purchased in 2009: Paid2Earn!)













*** I'm currently updating the ptr sites below. Some of them no longer exist. ***








You might want to bookmark this site on your favorites, technorati, delicious, stumpleupon or other tagging site. I'll be adding more sites to this entry on a regular basis and taking off the ones that are no longer offering the free upgrades!

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CBClicks: Another Way to Monetize Your Blog!

Some of you might have noticed the CBClicks banner on the lower right hand side of the blog. CBClicks is a fairly new service that is a great way to monetize your blog without jeopardizing your Google Adsense account. Ever since I earned the $90.61 with ClickBank (without any work on my part), I've been researching ways to make money using them. That's when I found this new program.

CBClicks is an unobtrusive way to monetize your blog. All you have to do is add the code to your blog. You can add it as a banner, an exit pop up or a modal pop up. Before you add the code to your blog, you get to choose categories that pertain to your site's content. This is great because it will only show ClickBank products that your base readers may be interested in. It works like Google Adsense in a way, except it's commission based and viral. How is it viral? When you sign up your Clickbank ID Number is in position #6. As you refer other people to CBClicks your ID moves up in position. Here's the breakdown from the site:

You Signup to CBClicks - Your Clickbank® ID is in #6 position on your website.
You refer "John" to CBClicks - Your Clickbank® ID is in #5 position on John's website.
John refers Sue to CBClicks - Your Clickbank® ID is in #4 position on Sue's website.
Sue refers Mary to CBClicks - Your Clickbank® ID is now in #3 on Mary's website.
Mary refers Bob to CBclicks - Your Clickbank® ID is now in #2 position on Bob's website.
Bob refers Matt to CBClicks - Your Clickbank® ID is now in #1 position on Matt's website

It's new on the net, so signing up early is a good idea. It may be a huge hit and you'll be on the top. Only time will tell. I decided to try it out. I'll never know if it works, if I don't try it. Right? You can click on the banner to look at some stats they provide on the site.







Related Sites:
Make Money Online
How to Get Traffic to Your Blog or Site
Affiliate Marketing 101
How to Monetize Your Blog

Freebies

I've been focusing on some other ventures, so I haven't been posting regularly. Some of you might have been missing my freebie posts. Here are a few freebies I've found on the net.

Enjoy!

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These are the titles:
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* Maxim
* Working Mother
* Shape
* Stuff
* Blender
* Seed Magazine
* Computer Shopper
* Muscle & Fitness
* Western Interiors
* Ebony
* Jane Magazine
* Travel & Leisure Golf
* Jet
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(Limit one FREE magazine subscription per customer)
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Why I'm Happy Squidoo Started Accepting Advertisements

Squidoo is one of my favorite sites. What is Squidoo? Squidoo is a site that provides a great way to organize information. It has modules that you can use to create your own page about whatever topic you want. I have 7 Squidoo lenses. My first Squidoo lens has been on the top 100 for 178 days straight. It's highest rank was at #2. It's currently on the first page of Google's search for Make Money Online. There are times the lens is above Darren Rowse's blog: www.problogger.net! Why is this beneficial to my blogging exploits? The Squidoo lens Make Money Online has links to this blog. It brings me lots of traffic on a regular basis. Here is a list of a few of my Squidoo lenses that might interest you:
Make Money Online
How to Get Traffic to Your Blog or Site
Affiliate Marketing 101
How to Monetize Your Blog


Squidoo has many different modules that one can use to monetize a page. It has amazon modules, cafepress, ebay, netflix, superstore, itunes, and more! Each page has three Google Adsense banners. Every month, a portion of the Google Adsense revenue is distributed among the lensmasters. Being one of the top lensmasters, I can tell you...it's not much. My total earnings from Squidoo are about $5.00. Now the money I earn from the sites on my lens are a different story. They contribute to my monthly income. There are lensmasters that earn $500.00 a month from Squidoo through the use of the modules. One lensmaster earns that much due to the revenue from movie downloads. Another top lensmaster earns a full time income. Not too long ago, I communicated with her at a forum. She created an ebook on how to tap into Squidoo's potential. Here's the link for the book Social Networking On Squidoo by Tiffany Dow. She figured out how to make the big bucks and wrote a step by step guide. Another lensmaster named Kate has a lens about fashionable laptop bags. Lenses with monetized modules earn a commission from all sales. I only have one monetized module on my lens and it's ebay. I chose to have books about mutliple income streams displayed.


So how do I make money off Squidoo, if I don't use the monetized modules? I earn money from referral fees.
Here are some of the totals:
In January, the breakdown of some of my referral fees were as follows:
Associated Content $ 93.00
FusionCash $100.00
PayPerPost $150.00
Blogitive $200.00
Text Link Ads $ 25.00

There were also affiliate earnings from networks like clixgalore, commission junction and shareasale. I also made money from Helium (see the button to the left), MyLot, TreasureTrooper, CashCrate, Hits4Pay and others.

Why am I excited about the new advertising Seth Godin's experimenting with? The site states that the revenue will be distributed among the lensmasters. That means March should bring another income stream for me and the kids. (When you have so many kids, every penny counts!)

If you are looking to advertise, this may be a good deal for you. The ads have a link, a thumbnail picture and a short description of the site. There are 100 slots for each category. The top five are displayed in a banner found on every lens in the category you choose. How do you get to the top? The ads are voted on. Anyone can vote. You can send your freinds, family coworkers or blog readers to vote for you. It's very affordable. Since it's in beta, they are charging $25.00 a week, with a four week minimum. Guess who's at the top right now. Guy Kawasaki.

Most of my lenses are about ways to earn money online. My daughter "The Diva" (pictured here with Nick Jonas) made a lens about her favorite band The Jonas Brothers. I'm currently creating a Squidoo lens about austism. Actually, it's about PDD-Nos which is what my youngest child "The Little One" (pictured here with "The Entrepreneur" was diagnosed with. Since I was an early intervention coordinator (and a parent that went through the process), I thought I could help someone out there. My son's autism was the reason why I started blogging in the first place. Now I earn a living from it.

Isn't it funny how life works?