Monday, March 30, 2009

The Panthera Network offers $150.00 sign up bonus for 2009

(My Original Blog Post: http://www.signupandmakemoney.com/blog/2009/03/the-panthera-network-offers-15000-sign-up-bonus-for-2009/)
The Panthera Affiliate Network is currently offering a $150.00 sign up bonus for new 2009 affiliates that join. In order to qualify for the sign up bonus you'll need to earn at least $1,500.00 in commissions during your first 60 days as a publisher. If you consider yourself a super affiliate, the Panthera Network offers a $1,000.00 sign up bonus for publishers that can generate at least $25,000.00 in commissions during their first 60 days. The Panthera Network is 100% free to join on top of this. So if you don't qualify for the sign up bonus, you'll still make money with this affiliate network and not lose anything.

Unfortunately, you just can't sign up with the Panthera Network like you do regular websites. You have to apply to become a publisher. I've given you two links above already where you can apply. There are a few things you'll need before you apply. You'll need a website you own or a blog you own. You're probably going to want to prove that you can at least generate about 5,000 unique visitors a month to your website or blog. You can't lie because your affiliate manager can look up stats on your website or blog at the WHOIS look up. It's a pretty neat site that gives you a search engine score, tells you how much visitors you get a month on average, how many sites are linked to yours, and your Alexa ranking. If you have these things you should be good to go.

With the Panthera Network, most of the advertisers in their affiliate network offer per lead commissions. This means that whether or not the lead you generate buys something or not, you'll still get paid regardless. This is an awesome thing. Most of the per lead commissions average around $1.00 to $3.00 per lead in a variety of themed websites. I have seen some in this network go up to $20.00 all the way up to $70.00 per lead. My friend, this is easy money.

On top of earning off the leads you generate, you can also refer other publishers to promote the Panthera Affiliate Network. There is a two-tier affiliate program where you can earn 5% off of all your referrals for one year. It's not residual income for life, but most motivated affiliates do there best when they first sign up for something like this.

A few other things you might be interested to know about the Panthera Network. They pay their members by check or Paypal on the 15th of every month as long as you have at least $100.00 in your commission account. The Panthera Network also has monthly incentive promotions for their more motivated publishers. On top of this you can enjoy excellent publisher support so you're never in the dark.

If you like what the Pantera Network has to offer, you'll be interested in other ways to increase revenue from your website or blog that don't cost you a single dime. And you know what? It shouldn't cost you anything to promote other company's products and services. That's my take on it.

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Astrology Surf offers a sign up bonus

(My Original Blog Post: http://www.signupandmakemoney.com/blog/2009/03/astrology-surf-offers-a-sign-up-bonus/)
Astrology Surf is currently offering a $5.00 sign up bonus until they reach 500 members. On top of the $5.00 sign up bonus, Astrology Surf is also paying their members who spread the word about them $1.00 per active referral. This promotion will continue until they reach 1,000 members.

Why join Astrology Surf?

  • 100% free to join.

  • Currently offering a sign up bonus until 500 members.

  • Earn $1.00 off each active member you refer until 1,000 members.

  • You will also receive free traffic (100 credits) from every referral you contribute.

  • Only have to surf 30 sites to become active.

  • You also get 110 free credits and 500 banner and text impressions upon signing up.

  • Instant site approval, no waiting for admin to approve your website.

  • Can submit 5 sites and banners to the traffic exchange for promotion.

  • Fast 10 second traffic exchange timer.


The only thing I don't like about Astrology Surf is that they have a 3 to 1 surf ratio. This means you have to surf 3 sites in order to get one hit back to yours. Other than this, Astrology Surf is really a good traffic exchange that will provide quality traffic back to your website for years to come.

If you are looking to get more traffic to your website, don't hesitate to take a look at how you can get over 1 million visitors for free.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Get paid to sign up with Fusion Cash

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/cm7p6)
Fusion Cash is free to join and pays their members a generous $5.00 sign up bonus. According to Fusion Cash, they have paid their members over $1.7 million in rewards and they have over 1.5 million members since they opened back in 2005. I only mention this because it shows that Fusion Cash has potential.

Fusion Cash doesn't do paid to read e-mails or offer paid to click ads. Fusion Cash is solely a sign up bonus site that only offers paid to sign up offers. Since Fusion Cash pays you to sign up on offers, the only way to make money with Fusion Cash is by taking a risk on your end. You do this by signing up on trial offers or putting in your name and e-mail address to a website and risk getting called by a number of companies trying to sell you stuff. 

The downfall of trial offers is that if you forget to cancel, you usually will have to pay a hefty fee that is a lot larger than the sign up bonus Fusion Cash gave you. This doesn't mean that Fusion Cash is a bad company to join, I just want to make sure you understand this is the only way you can make money with Fusion Cash.

Fusion Cash claims they have hundreds of paid to sign up offers. That may be true, but it isn't always easy for us the members to sign up on a lot of them. This is because not all the offers are free or trial offers. In my experience, free offers and trial offers are the best ones to take advantage of because you usually never lose any money except have to pay for shipping and handling. The sign up bonus covers that expense anyway.

One of the things I do like about Fusion Cash is that they offer to pay their members through direct deposit, check, or Paypal. I always like the paid to sign up companies that offer more than one way to get paid. Once you sign up with Fusion Cash and sign up on a few offers, which you'll get tired of very quickly, you'll want to start sharing your Fusion Cash referral link with your friends and family. This is what you get for referring others:

  • If you refer a friend and they just confirm their e-mail, you'll make $1.00.

  • After the friend you refer completes their first offer, you'll make $2.00.

  • Once your friend earns the required minimum to cash out, you'll make $5.00. This isn't just once, but you'll make $5.00 every time your referral cashes out for life!


You can see by referring just one member to Fusion Cash can potentially earn you residual commission for life. This is always a good thing to work towards.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Get free traffic for checking your e-mail

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/rg21D)
One of the easiest ways to get free traffic to your website is taking advantage of traffic websites that send you credit e-mails. If you are able to take the time to check about 20 e-mails a day from various Safelists, Text Ad Exchanges, and Traffic Exchanges, it can drive the extra free traffic to your website you've been looking for.

How to get started:

The first thing you need to do is choose whether or not you want to use one of your current e-mail addresses or to open up a new e-mail account. I have to give you a fair warning that these traffic websites will send you an overwhelming amount of e-mails. It takes awhile to get used to. I use Microsoft Outlook to quickly scan and delete the ones I don't intend to participate in. There are other services besides Microsoft Outlook you can use to quickly check multiple e-mails at once.

Once you've decided to what e-mail accounts to use, you'll generally need at least two with Safelists, the next step is to be organized about it. The traffic websites below will send you credit e-mails daily. When you click on the credit e-mails it gives you traffic back to your specified site in return. What I do is click on about one credit e-mail per traffic website and then when I noticed some time has passed, or when it's most convenient for me, I'll actually log into my account and take advantage of the free credits I have accumulated. I have been getting good results in return for doing this.

Recommended free traffic sites that send you traffic credit e-mail:

Safelists:

Traffic Exchanges that send credit e-mails:

Text Ad Exchanges that send credit e-mails: ( in my opinion not as good as Safelists and Traffic Exchanges)

 One of the reasons I like traffic credit e-mail is that the traffic comes to you. Not like regular traffic exchanges where you have to log into your account and surf to accumulate credits. When an e-mail is sent to you, all you have to do is simply click on it and it's like you surfed 10 pages in a Traffic Exchange in under five seconds.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

$87.50 in sign up bonuses recently added to Sign Up and Make Money

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/rsGm2)
It's been awhile since I've done one of these posts. Since the last one, $87.50 worth of new sign up bonus sites have been added to the list of sign up bonus sites at the main page of this site. I was hoping I would have more for you though.

I want to thank Ixa Marie for recommending Cash Lagoon and Your Actions Pay.

I want to thank Ms. Marciera for recommending Anything Free 4 You and Oh Really Money.

Remember, if you know of a website that pays their members a sign up bonus when they register for free and it is not already listed at SignUpandMakeMoney.com, please contact me. If your site matches what I'm looking for and doesn't look like a scam, I'll put your referral link on my home page bonus listings. When I do my next post about new sign up bonus sites recently added, I will put your referral link in the post and personally thank you like I did the two individuals above. I might even sign up under your referral link as well if I like the company you are promoting.

Recently added sign up bonus sites:

Get paid to sign up bonuses:

Cash back shopping sign up bonuses:

  • Bid Ray = $10.00 (limited time only)


Free traffic sign up bonuses:

Paid to click sign up bonuses:

Total = $87.50

I want Sign Up and Make Money to be the number one resource for sign up bonus sites. Feel free to contribute.

Opinion Square is a free survey site to join

(My original Blog post at: http://www.signupandmakemoney.com/blog/2009/03/opinion-square-is-a-free-survey-site-to-join/)

Opinion Square is yet another free survey company I recommend you join. Why join? Well, Opinion Square is 100% free to join so you don't have to worry about spending any money or risking any of your own collateral. Opinion Square also accepts international members. It's always nice to see a world population get involved.

With Opinion Square you can take surveys for cash and/or prizes. It really depends on what surveys are available at the current moment. If cash or prizes aren't available, at least you'll know you will have a chance to win one of Opinion Square's latest $100,000 monthly sweepstakes with a valuable entry. Once you join, you can actually increase your chances to win Opinion Square's sweepstakes by referring friends and family.

Believe it or not, Opinion Square has an online community of over 2 million members worldwide. That either means they've been around for awhile, or at least they don't drop their members like some other survey companies I know. Once you join Opinion Square you'll have to install some software on your computer. This software helps increase your eligibility to take certain surveys that may interest you and make you money online.

Once you sign up with Opinion Square, expect to receive an average of 3 to 4 surveys a month. It is always up to you whether or not you want to participate in any surveys you receive from Opinion Square. Just know that them more surveys you take, the more chances you'll have to be entered into that monthly sweepstakes.

If you like free to join survey companies like Opinion Square, then I recommend you take a look at my list of free survey companies to join at no cost to you. Let me know what you think.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Tax benefits of a home based business

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/SUDaP)
It's that time of year again.  Nobody likes doing taxes, but they have to be done. If you own your own home based business, then you have tax advantages that people who only own jobs don't have. Visit my increase earnings page to view a list of tax deductions you can take advantage of as a home based business owner. I put these tax write off examples on my increase earnings page because if you are properly writing off your legitimate expenses, this will increase the amount of income you get to keep from Uncle Sam. Remember, it's highly advisable to consult a tax professional to make sure you aren't breaking any laws.

You need to know what you can write off and how to keep track of your income and expenses. Just as a recap from the above link I gave you, I wanted to go ahead and list what tax deductions you should be looking out for.

Business Expenses to keep track off:

  • Communication expenses

  • Business meals/entertainment expenses

  • Home office repair

  • Business travel expenses

  • Professional services/fees towards your business

  • Business education expenses

  • Advertising expenses

  • Office utility expenses

  • Office supply expenses

  • Business membership expenses

  • Business postal expenses


If you are a penny pincher like me, it's good to keep track of these expenses with an Microsoft Excel file that you can customize to fit your needs. If you prefer a professional to take care of everything, then hire a personal accountant to log everything for you.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Sign Up Bonus

(My orginal blog post at: http://www.signupandmakemoney.com/blog/2009/03/sign-up-bonus/)

Would you like a sign up bonus? I don't know about you, but I sure would! Well, now that I think about it, everyone would probably want to take advantage of a sign up bonus in today's wonderful economic state.

With all the great news about over spending to make our economy a better place, would you spend more money if you owed $10,000 on your current credit card bill? It's pretty interesting when you relate your own personal finances and how you would manage them compared to how the government would manage finances. The government thinks that spending more is better in terms of taxes and the whole nine yards. I can tell you straight up that if I had a huge debt (hint: the US government's multi trillion dollar debt) I would not continue spending and borrowing against our Country's future. Instead, I would dissect my current spending, cut unneeded expenses and set up a plan to start paying off the debt until I reached financial financial freedom.

Of course, you can't blame the government. I mean they are playing with our tax dollars and not their own money. Wouldn't you do the same thing with play money? Seriously, most politicians don't know what it's like to have to earn a buck. Money was given to them practically their whole lives.

Anyway, I obviously geared off tract and off subject for this blog post. My original suggestion was sign up bonuses. This is because I have a great website that promotes a list of free websites that offer sign up bonuses to their members for joining. There is no out of pocket cost for the sign up bonuses. All you need is an open mind and a willingness to give it a try. If you can do this, there is no stopping you!

WB Advertising changes sign up bonus of 25 cents to 25 points

(My orginal blog post at: http://www.signupandmakemoney.com/blog/2009/03/wb-advertising-changes-sign-up-bonus-of-25-cents-to-25-points/)

WB Advertising, one of the cheapest advertising websites out there, has unfortunately stopped there 25 cent sign up bonus and are now offering a 25 point sign up bonus. I will have to remove them from my list of paid to sign up websites now. WB Advertising is still a good place to advertise and earn some extra money though.

Instead of being about to use that 25 cent sign up bonus for whatever you want to; now you have to use it towards there advertising services. This isn't necessarily a bad thing at all. Like I said earlier, WB Advertising is a good advertising Company.

Some of the things I like about WB Advertising:

  • they are free to join

  • cheap advertising (1,000 clicks for only $3.00)

  • they are on time with putting your ads out

  • they accept international memberships


Some of the things I don't like about WB Advertising:


  • they have a silly 30 days of not logging in and your account could be deleted (I've gone over that many days before)

  • they have a clause in their terms stating they will issue payment within 30 days (why so long?)


WB Advertising also has good benefits for referring others to them. You can earn 25% off of your referrals. If you decide to upgrade with them, you'll earn $1.00 off of every upgraded member you refer and get good advertising discounts not available to regular members. I'm not upgraded myself and don't plan to be in the future. I only plan to use their advertising services when needed and I recommend you give WB Advertising a try as well.

If you are looking for more ways to generate traffic to your website, take a look at my traffic page where you can receive over 1 million visitors for free. Let me know what you think, your opinions and questions are always welcome at my Blog.

Why you should at least sign up for the free trial with Reality-Networkers

(My orginal post at: http://www.signupandmakemoney.com/blog/2009/03/why-you-should-at-least-sign-up-for-the-free-trial-with-reality-networkers/)

You should definitely take advantage of the 14 day free trial with Reality-Networkers. With such a low, one time investment of only $25.00 to be an upgraded member for life, you really aren't putting too much risk into this business opportunity.

I'm going to go ahead and just get to the point here. Reasons why you should at least take advantage of Reality-Networker's 14 day free trial:

  • It's a free, no risk, 14 day free trial.

  • No credit card or payment information needed to sign up.

  • Since no payment info is needed to sign up, you can upgrade your membership well after your 14 day free trial.

  • Reality-Networkers actually lists free to join sites that will pay you to sign up with them.

  • If you sign up will all the free paid to sign up sites, you'll make more than $25.00 in sign up bonuses, which will make your membership with Reality-Networkers completely free.

  • If you do upgrade, it is only a $25.00 one time fee for life.

  • Reality-Networkers is a club more than anything else. So it really can't be classified as a business opportunity.

  • You only need to refer 5 paid members to do your part for the Reality-Networker's club.

  • Your upline's will help you get your 5 paid members. This is because Reality-Networkers has a matrix compensation plan where once your up line has 5, they need to fill their other 5 levels below them, hint, this is where you preside.

  • Reality-Networkers is over 4 years old with over 2 million members worldwide.

  • With Reality-Networkers, every member you refer, paid or not, can be pushed to join your most important business opportunity. This way you are not building just your Reality-Networker's business, you are going your main business opportunity.

  • Reality-Networkers has a lot of free training at their back office all from current members that are trying to help their down line matrix to succeed online. What I'm trying to say is that you will learn a lot of good marketing techniques.


This is all the good things I am going to say about Reality-Networkers. Unfortunately, every Company has their faults. I'll let you know a bad experience I had with Reality-Networkers.

It did not take me long to get my 5 paid referrals. I had help from my up lines and I was able to refer the people I needed by listening in on the good online marketing discussions in Reality-Networkers back office. Speaking of online marketing, since Reality Networkers has over 2 million members, it's a great place to buy some advertising. I can't remember exactly what the prices where, but I know they were relatively cheap compared to the amount of members and traffic they receive each month.

Anyway, I got off subject. I did have a bad experience with Reality-Networkers. I got my five paid referrals and was going to get my first payment of $40.00 for filling up my first matrix level. I was told I needed to use E-gold at the time and there was no other payment option available.

Unfortunately, Reality-Networkers did pay me $40.00 for my first level, but my E-gold account was hacked into and someone stole those earnings and also decided to do a few other nasty things to my E-gold account. Anyway, that was my bad experience with Reality-Networkers. It was more of a bad experience with E-gold more than anything else.

If you are interested in more business opportunities to make money online with, I recommend you visit my recommended business opportunities to join page and let me know what you think. Feel free to leave a comment below.

Take the Internet Back pays a free $10.00 sign up bonus

(My orginal blog post at: http://www.signupandmakemoney.com/blog/2009/03/take-the-internet-back-pays-a-free-1000-sign-up-bonus/)

Take the Internet Back is free to join and actually pays its members a $10.00 sign up bonus. The thing I like most about Take the Internet Back is you have to log in to view your paid to read e-mails, this way your regular e-mail inbox is a whole lot less cluttered.

Take the Internet Back has recently upgraded their site to much more smoother look. I really like what they have done. On top of the cool $10.00 sign up bonus, Take the Internet Back has also included a whole bunch of free downloads in your back office once you have signed up. Downloads like online marketing training, E-books, ad blasters, article submitters, tools to help your blog get more traffic, and much more etc...

You can also use Take the Internet Back as an online advertising resource, but I think their prices are kind of high. They have over 250,000 double opt-in members to show your website to. Members of Take the Internet Back will be interested to see what you have to offer because they own 90% of the business themselves. Yet Take the Internet Back charges $15.00 for only 1,000 e-mails and you are only guaranteed a 25% open rate. That mean I'm really paying $15.00 for only 250 hits to my online ad, but that still doesn't guarantee the member will click on the link to visit my website. So you can see it's a good idea to become a member, but I would stay away from their advertising. There are a lot more cheaper sites to advertise on where you'll get a lot more guaranteed traffic to your website.

In order to cash in on Take the Internet Back you need to accumulate at least $50.00 in your account in order to receive your first payment with them. I've been a member for over a year now and haven't been clicking too many ads, I would say less than one a month if you spread it all out evenly. I have referred over 80 members to Take the Internet Back and only have a cash balance of $11.50 so far. I really need to start clicking on some ads or it's going to take me a lifetime to finally reach their $50.00 cash out minimum.

If you like Take the Internet Back and are interested in more paid to sign up sites that are free to join. Take a look at my paid to sign up page and feel free to let me know what you think of the cool sign up bonuses on the site.

Get paid to sign up bonus sites that pay using Alertpay

(My orginal blog post at: http://www.signupandmakemoney.com/blog/2009/03/get-paid-to-sign-up-bonus-sites-that-pay-using-alertpay/)

I was asked by a subscriber of mine if I could list paid to sign up bonus sites that offer an alternate way to pay their members besides Paypal or by check. So I went through all the sign up bonus sites listed at Sign Up and Make Money and found which ones pay their members using Alertpay as a form of payment. This is useful information because not all Countries have ease of access to Paypal.

The sites that pay their members sign up bonuses using Alertpay are listed below:

Survey Sites:

Paid to Click Sites:


"Get Paid To" Sites:


Free Advertising Sites:


Bux Sites:


Total = $94.07 There you have it, all the sites I could find that pay their members using Alertpay. For your information, the sign up bonuses these websites have to offer are not always going to be there. It would be in your best interest to take advantage of the sign up bonuses as soon as you possibly can.

Difference between the $49.00 and the $249.00 Pre-Paid Legal compensation plan

(My orginal blog post at: http://www.signupandmakemoney.com/blog/2009/03/difference-between-the-4900-and-the-24900-pre-paid-legal-compensation-plan/)

Pre-Paid Legal recently came out with a new compensation plan in 2009. I just wanted to quickly go over the differences between the old $49.00 start up fee verses the new $249.00 start up fee. We'll start off with the old start up plan.

The $49.00 Pre-Paid Legal plan:

If you decide to start your home based business with Pre-Paid legal at the $49.00 level you would get the standard welcome kit with applications, brochures, and the success CD. You would also get one month free of owning an affiliate Pre-Paid Legal website and be able to use a Pre-Paid Legal commercial phone number via Televox.

When you sign up your first recruit with a membership you'll immediately get promoted from a Junior Associate to an Associate and earn $69.14 on your first sale. To get promoted to the next level in your Pre-Paid Legal business you would only need 3 Junior Associates to get promoted to a Senior Associate.

To give you an example of how much money you would make on your next 10 sign ups, considering you already signed up one Associate with a membership, would look like this: 10 x $69.00 = $690. Not too shabby.

The $249.00 Pre-Paid Legal plan:

If you believe in Pre-Paid Legal's products and services enough to know that starting a home based business with them is the only way to go; I would definitely take advantage of the $249.00 compensation plan then. It's also a good idea to take advantage of this business opportunity if you know a lot of people you can introduce Pre-Paid Legal to.

With the $249.00 plan you will get a business builder's kit, versus only a welcome kit. This includes a Getting Started Right book, an Audio Training Program (3 CDs), applications, brochures, a success CD, 3 recruiting DVDs, recruiting CD, 3 months of a free affiliate website, and 3 months using a commercial Pre-Paid Legal phone number via Televox. That's a lot of things you'll get. Pre-Paid Legal does this because if you're willing to invest at the $249.00 level, this probably means you will take the business a whole lot more serious than the member who signs up at the $49.00 level.

Now let's take a look at how much you will earn off your first sale. When you sign up your first Associate with a membership you will be immediately promoted to a Senior Associate versus only an Associate at the $49.00 level. Because of this promotion you will earn $138.27 on your first sign up. That's $69.13 more than someone who signs up at the $49.00 level. To get promoted to a Manager, you'll only need 3 Junior Associates and 1 Senior Associate under you. Then you will be making $172.84 a sign up.

Let's take a look at your next 10 sign ups once you've signed up your first Associate with a membership. That would be 10 x $138.00 = $1,380.00 versus only $690 with the $49.00 plan. That is $690 more you'll earn at the $249.00 level.

There's one more thing I should let you know. If you sign up one Associate with a membership and then sign up one more additional membership. Your $249.00 fee to get into your Pre-Paid Legal business has now been paid back. $138.00 x 2 = $276.00. This means you'll be in profit after your first two sign ups. It can't get much easier than this folks.

If you like what Pre-Paid Legal has to offer, feel free to take a look at my other recommended business opportunities to join and let me know what you think.

Proof of payment received from the Perfect Paycheck affiliate network

(My orginal blog post at: http://www.signupandmakemoney.com/blog/2009/03/proof-of-payment-received-from-the-perfect-paycheck-affiliate-network/)

Good news, today I received my first affiliate commission check from Perfect Paycheck for $32.40. It's not much, but it's free money. If you would like to sign up with Perfect Paycheck, I have more good news, they are 100% free to join! You just can't beat free.

Take a look at the payment proof from Perfect Paycheck, just so you know I'm not making all this stuff up.

The reason I like Perfect Paycheck's affiliate network so much is because of their out of the ordinary way of paying out affiliate commissions. What I mean is instead of earning on a per sale basis, where someone has to buy something in order for you to receive a commission, you can earn on a per lead basis. This means that all someone has to do is fill out a one page web form, or even better yet, just fill out their name and e-mail address and you can earn anywhere between $1.00 all the way up $70.00 per lead. Most of the per lead commissions will be around $1.00 to $3.00 on average though. I've only seen $30.00 to $70.00 commissions on a rare basis and they don't last very long.

Perfect Paycheck also has a lot of different clients to choose from. I won't name who any of their clients are because I don't think I am allowed to do this. You'll have to join as a free affiliate yourself to check out them out. Perfect Paycheck also has some of the highest cost per action rates I've seen out there currently. And of course you can also earn a percentage of the affiliates you refer to Perfect Paycheck. I believe you make 5% off their earnings, don't quote me on this though.

If you like Perfect Paycheck and how it can increase revenue to your website, then you will definitely want to check out my increase earnings from your website page to see more free affiliate marketing networks like Perfect Paycheck.

Top 10 reasons to build a home based business on top of your day job

(My original blog post at: http://www.signupandmakemoney.com/blog/2009/03/top-10-reasons-to-build-a-home-based-business-on-top-of-your-day-job/)

I want to go over the top 10 reasons I found on why you should own your own home based business on top of your day job. There are a lot of people who have jobs, not as much as we would like in our current economic state, yet this makes it even more important to have more than one income stream to support you and your family.

Something important to note is that most rich people have more than one income stream. When I say more than one income stream, I mean more like 5 to 10 income streams. They may have a job, a couple businesses on the side, investments in the market, investments in real estate, and income from royalties elsewhere all bringing in residual income whether they work or not.

So let's begin, here are the top 10 reasons why you too should own your own home based business on top of your current job.


  1. Of course the obvious first reason is that owning your own home based business creates another income stream on top of what you are already making with your job. This is only true if you can get your business in profit.

  2. Owning a home based business is one of the cheapest ways to be a business owner. The other two ways require a large initial investment to get the ball rolling. For example; to start and buy into a Franchise, depending on which Franchise you decide to get involved in, will cost multiple thousands of dollars all the way up to the millions. The last option would be to start your own business from scratch. This is also very difficult and it's hard to get start up capital if you don't have a top notch business plan in place. To start a home based business will only cost anywhere from free to a couple hundred dollars to buy in on average.

  3. Tax benefits are always good. If you don't own a home based business, you are missing out on a lot of tax loop holes that you would never get with a job alone.

  4. Owning your own home based business allows you to build your wealth part time while you continue to work. This way you aren't taking any huge risks yet you add an additional income stream anyway.

  5. With your own home based business you will have the ability to grow and develop your sales skills. Yes it's true, if you start a home based business you will have to sell. There is no way of getting around this hard truth. The positive side of this allows you to fine tune your sales skills. Why is this important you may ask? Because there will always be a need and a high demand for sales professionals out there. You'll be able to add that skill to your resume.

  6. Owning a home based business opens you up to a new, cooler way to earn income. This new sort of income is called residual income or commission. All this means is that you will get paid again and again for doing something just once. For example, you make a sale, most home based businesses will pay you multiple times on that sale. Plus you have the ability to build a down line. Every time one your team member's make a sale, you will earn an over ride off them. This is called building your wealth away from yourself.

  7. With your own business you have the ability to work from home completely. This is what you've always dreamed of. No more early traffic jam commutes, you can spend more time with your family, and work in your pajamas if you wanted to.

  8. If you own a home based business on the side of you regular job it really protects you in case you end up losing your job. Having that extra source of income is like an insurance policy on your future. This is only true if you are making money with your business though.

  9. You can be your own boss. How would you like to not take orders from anyone? You are the owner and CEO of your home based business. You decide your own hours, how long you want to work, the decisions on what direction your business goes is all up to you, when you want to take that vacation is up to you, and you never have to worry about being laid off.

  10. Last, but not least, you can build your wealth while you build your career. Think about it. You continue your day job for the financial security and benefits, yet on the sidelines you are secretly building your home based business wealth that will ultimately end up being your retirement. This way, when you are forced to retire, you can live off your pension (if your employer provides one), then continue to build your home based business which by retirement should be bring you in way more money than you have ever made with your day job.


There you have it. The top 10 reasons you should at least consider owning a home based business on top of your regular job. If you're not sure on what business to start, don't worry, I already done the homework for you. The business opportunities I recommend are very low cost (either free or only a small $10.00 a month investment), but offer the ability to build a huge residual income from home for you.

Max Bounty is a good affiliate marketing network to join

(My orginal blog post at: http://www.signupandmakemoney.com/blog/2009/03/max-bounty-is-a-good-affiliate-marketing-network-to-join/)

If you're looking to increase revenue from your website, then adding a good affiliate marketing network like Max Bounty would be an excellent choice. Max Bounty is a free affiliate program to join, so don't worry about taking out the credit card for any reason. You can also get paid per lead versus paid per sale which equals easy online income.

Just so you know I'm not blowing smoke, take a look at a Max Bounty payment proof I received to see that Max Bounty really does pay its affiliates. In order to receive your first payment with Max Bounty you need to earn at least $100.00 in commissions. Don't worry, if I can do you it, you can do it.

Why I like the paid per lead versus the paid per sale affiliate process:

It is just so much easier to generate leads for clients than it is to generate sales. Especially these days when the economy is at a halt and every American is cutting their spending. With Max Bounty you have the ability to earn anywhere from under a dollar to up to $5.00 just to generate a lead.

What does the customer have to do to become a lead? All they have to do is usually fill out a quick one page form. With their basic information and they will turn into a lead which will turn into a commission on your end. Sometimes the form will be multiple pages, because of this you will earn a higher affiliate commission.

More information on Max Bounty:

Max Bounty pays out commissions on a monthly basis considering you have a balance due over $100.00. Real time statistics are provided. International affiliate commissions are provided as well. The best part of becoming an affiliate marketer with Max Bounty is you'll have the ability to refer other affiliates and make a percentage off of their leads and sales. That's building residual commissions. I may not be 100% correct on this, but I believe you'll earn 5% off of your referral affiliates work one level deep.

Focus on one business opportunity at a time

(My orginal blog post at: http://www.signupandmakemoney.com/blog/2009/03/focus-on-one-business-opportunity-at-a-time/)

These days, there are so many business opportunities to choose from that it makes your head spin. It's almost like every week you see a couple new ones you've never heard of before. This makes it very easy and tempting to sign up for as many as you can, especially if they are free. If the business opportunities you are joining aren't free, then you really need to slow down or else you'll find yourself in a heap of losses.

You see, it's difficult enough to build just one business opportunity. What makes you think you can build multiple business opportunities at once. I only mention this because a lot of the members in my down lines try something I'm offering like Global Domains International or The New Plan Network. They like the compensation plan and everything, but before they can get started with these great and affordable business opportunities they find something else they are interested in. This just doesn't work folks.

It is true that you need to test what's out there. They say that the average millionaire took about 7 business failures before he or she found something that worked. So the goal is to find something that works for you. GDI and NPN work for me just fine, so I'm sticking with these. Yeah, I might take a look at another opportunity out there. But if I see it was a $30.00 plus a month fee, I'll most likely stay away from it. I only join business opportunities if they are free. This is because I don't believe you should have to pay to promote someone else's products or services for them. It just doesn't make logical sense.

Make sure not to fall for all the hype. A good example of this was when Wowzza came out. I saw e-mails for it everywhere on the Internet and thought it would be the next best thing. I tried it for a few months, referred some people got some spillover, etc.. Then I saw those people I signed up cancel. It was difficult working on all those business opportunities. I knew I already built GDI and NPN up where they were profitable for me. So I cut my losses with Wowzza. A few months after they opened up, it was like you never knew they existed. No one was promoting them anymore. This is an example of hype.

Find the one or two business opportunities that work for you, then stick with them to the end of time. It takes time to build a business. It doesn't happen overnight.

Survey Savvy pays you to take surveys and refer friends

(My orginal blog post at: http://www.signupandmakemoney.com/blog/2009/03/survey-savvy-pays-you-to-take-surveys-and-refer-friends/)

Sign up with Survey Savvy and get paid $2.00 for every survey you participate in. Not only will you get paid to take surveys with Survey Savvy, but you will earn $1.00 for every survey one of your referrals takes. So potentially, one referral could turn into a lot of money over the period of their lifetime. If Survey Savvy offers a survey that you don't qualify for, they will still enter you into a monthly sweepstakes of 50 $10.00 prizes.

Survey Savvy is a free free survey site, so don't worry about losing any money with this one. Survey Savvy claims they give back about 20% of their yearly online revenue to their survey community. Survey Savvy has been in business since 1999 so you know they are stable. Survey Savvy is also available to international members and currently has members in over 195 countries worldwide.

Once you're a member of Survey Savvy, all you have to do is wait for paid surveys to be delivered to the e-mail address you signed up with. I usually get a few Survey Savvy e-mails a month. The next thing you'll want to do is spread the word to your family and friends that Survey Savvy exists. Survey Savvy has a sample e-mail you can use in your back office to help you accomplish this task.

If you like what Survey Savvy has to offer, take a quick look at my recommended free survey companies to join and let me know what you think of them.

Why Survey Scout is worth paying the one time fee to join

(My orginal blog post at: http://www.signupandmakemoney.com/blog/2009/03/why-survey-scout-is-worth-paying-the-one-time-fee-to-join/)

Survey Scout by themselves isn't really a survey company, what Survey Scout does is provide you with a list of over 250 survey companies that are free to join. A lot of the survey companies Survey Scout recommends are international, so you don't have to be from the United States or Canada to join all of them.

Survey Scout only has a one time fee to get access to the list of survey companies they have compiled over the years. I believe that one time fee is only $36.95, don't quote me on this though. Do you know how quickly and easily you can make that money back? I've been working with free paid survey companies for awhile now so I'm confident in telling you it won't be difficult to make that small investment back 10 fold.

Most of the survey sites at Survey Scout have quick registrations and will send you an e-mail whenever a survey becomes available for you to take. If you don't qualify for the paid survey, that's OK, you'll still be entered into a monthly sweepstakes for a chance to win a cash prize. I still like the survey companies that make you log in to check if a survey is available, but I think those days are quickly fading away.

You'll notice on the Survey Scout home page that most surveys pay anywhere from $5.00 to $75.00. This really is over doing it just a little bit. In reality, most surveys typically pay around $1.00 to $5.00 on average. Every once in a while you'll get lucky and qualify for a survey that's $10.00 or over. I just want to mention this so you know the truth about paid surveys.

If you would like access to some of the survey companies listed at Survey Scout without having to pay any fees so you can get a taste of what they have to offer. I would invite you to take a look at my recommended free survey companies to join and please feel free to leave a comment and let me know how you do with them.

Did you know there are actually 5 areas of Identity Theft?

(My original blog post at: http://www.signupandmakemoney.com/blog/2009/03/did-you-know-there-are-actually-5-areas-of-identity-theft/)

That's right, you heard me. Most people, when they think of identity theft, think that someone has stole their credit card information and bought a bunch of stuff with it. They are surprised to here that there are actually 5 ways someone could commit identity theft against them.

Five common areas of Identity Theft:

  1. Driver's License Identity Theft: This is when someone uses your information after stealing it to get a driver's licence in your name or claim to be you if they get pulled over by the police.

  2. Social Security Identity Theft: This is when identity thieves use your social security number to gain employment or to report income under your name.

  3. Medical Identity Theft: This is when identity thieves use your information for insurance benefits like Medicare and to get medical tests done in your name. A big one is thieves getting HIV tests with their victim's information.

  4. Criminal Identity Theft: This is when identity thieves use your information while committing various crimes. An example of this would be stealing a car and leaving your information for the cops to get.

  5. Financial Identity Theft: This is the most popular form of identity theft. This is where identity thieves use your information to open new accounts or gain access to your existing accounts to steal money.


There are your 5 areas of identity theft. You may be asking yourself, "Man, this really sucks, it's a good thing I have identity theft protection with my bank." Unfortunately, a majority of all identity theft protection companies only cover the fifth area of identity theft, financial identity theft. That means if someone steals your information and commits a crime in your name you won't be covered. If someone gets and HIV test in your name, you won't be covered.

So what is the solution? The best coverage for identity theft I've ever seen out there is through Pre-Paid Legal. Why is Pre-Paid Legal the best? Because Pre-Paid Legal has teamed up with a publicly traded company named Kroll Inc. Kroll specializes in identity theft protection and uses private investigators to personally restore your credit and private information if it ever gets stolen by an identity thief.

Reasons why you would want to take advantage of Pre-Paid Legal's Identity Theft Protection:

  • It's very inexpensive. The Pre-Paid Legal membership is as low as $16.00 a month. Add the identity theft protection from Kroll and it's only another $9.95. That's only $25.95 a month.

  • The $25.95 a month doesn't just cover you, it covers your entire family.

  • Once you sign up, everyone in the family can get a free credit report to make sure there are no ear marks on it.

  • Pre-Paid Legal's identity theft protection covers all 5 areas of identity theft. This is true because most incidents when identity theft occurs you'll most definitely need an attorney. This is why Pre-Paid Legal and Kroll, put together, makes the best legal and identity theft protection out there today.

  • There are no long term contracts to sign. The membership is month to month and you can cancel at anytime.

  • You are protected against identity theft the day you sign up. If your identity is ever stolen while you have the membership, a private investigator will fix your credit for you. You won't get a credit repair kit in the mail with a phone number to call.

  • Your family's social security numbers are guarded non-stop and you are given an e-mail alert if there is any change in your credit. This is also true for credit inquiries as well.

  • With the Pre-Paid Legal membership you'll have access to attorneys in every area of law that you can speak to about any legal matter, have contracts reviewed before you sign them, get your Will done, and much more.


Take advantage of the best identity theft protection out there and have peace of mind today.

Get paid to click with Top Jobs 101

(My orginal blog post at: http://www.signupandmakemoney.com/blog/2009/03/get-paid-to-click-with-top-jobs-101/)

Top Jobs 101, formally known as Hurazz (I'll get more into that later), is a great paid to click site to join. Once again Top Jobs 101 is 100% free to join; that is usually the case at Sign Up and Make Money. Top Jobs 101 doesn't really offer any jobs to people, I really don't know why they named their company that Top Jobs 101, but they did.

The reason I like Top Jobs 101, other than the fact that they are free to join, is because they don't have any timers on their paid to click ads. From my experience, everyday there will be about 5 to 10 paid to click ads in your Top Jobs 101 back office. You will earn 1 cent every time you click on an ad. Remember that you don't have to worry about 10 to 30 second timers with Top Jobs 101 so you can be in and out of the site in under a minute if all you want to do is click on the paid ads and do nothing else.

Another thing I like about Top Jobs 101 is that on top of the paid to click ads you can also participate in their paid to sign up offers. This can increase your income with Top Jobs 101 immensely. Every paid to click ad is also a paid to sign up offer that you can get paid twice on. According to Top Jobs 101 you could potentially make over $900.00 a year if you clicked on your ads everyday and did just one paid to sign up offer on top of that. This is without referring anyone. Not bad for a site that didn't cost you anything to join.

That brings me to my next subject. Top Jobs 101 pays you for referring active members to their website. You will earn a percentage of what your down line does, plus $1.00 for every active referral. If you have a huge network, that one dollar could multiply pretty fast. You can cash out once your account balance reaches $40.00.

I mentioned earlier that Top Jobs 101 used to be named Hurraz. What happened was a hacker got into their server and stole their domain from right under them. What makes it even more interesting is that the hacker that did this tried selling the Hurazz domain back to Top Jobs 101. I can't believe there are such stupid people like that in the world.

If you are into paid to click sites than I have some quick links I would like to share with you. Paid to click sign up bonuses, Bux sign up bonuses, and more paid to click sites. Let me know what you think.

The difference between Get Response and Aweber

(My orginal blog post at: http://www.signupandmakemoney.com/blog/2009/03/the-difference-between-get-response-and-aweber/)

There aren't too many differences between Get Response and Aweber. Both auto responder services are excellent. I would also not hesitate to mention they are arguably the two top auto responders out there today. No matter which auto responder service you choose, Get Response or Aweber, you will be getting a quality product and not be wasting your advertising dollars. If you are in the Internet marketing business, there is no doubt that having an auto responder is an absolute necessity to help get repeat visitors back to your website on a regular basis. If you are anything like me when I got started, you are probably really weary of which auto responder service to choose from. I mean this is building your important mailing list. You don't want to choose the wrong auto responder service because it's not easy to switch once you get started. More than likely to switch auto responder services might mean you'll have to make your already accumulated subscribers confirm their subscription again. That is very risky and you'll probably lose a lot of subscribers if you do this. This is why I'm recommending both Aweber and Get Response, they are the best of the best when it comes to auto responders. Why are Get Response and Aweber the best auto responders out there? Both allow you to have unlimited campaigns, both are friendly with the most popular e-mail clients like Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, etc... both very strictly follow the double opt-in method of building your mailing list. This is important because having a double opt-in mailing list protects you from spamming anyone which will keep you legally safe. I know it sucks that all your subscribers have to double opt-in, but it's really for the best. The differences between Get Response and Aweber: Get Response:

  • Get Response costs $17.95 a month or $145.40 a year which equals to only $12.12 a month.

  • You can have a max of 10,000 subscribers and it only costs $4.50 more for every 5,000 subscribers you add.


Aweber:

  • Aweber costs $19.00 a month for only 500 subscribers.

  • If you want a 5,000 subscriber max it will cost you $49.00 a month.

  • Aweber does offer discounts on a yearly subscription.

  • Offers shopping cart integration.

  • Aweber allows you to remove the double opt-in feature. This is not a good idea to do though.


Those are the only main differences I could find between Get Response and Aweber. Everything else these power house auto responders offer are pretty much the same. The biggest difference between Get Response and Aweber is that Get Response is significantly cheaper so you get the ability to build a lot larger mailing list for less money. If you are looking for other good internet marketing tools for your online business feel free to take a look at my traffic page that will show you how to get over 1 million visitors to your website for free.

Surf Bounty pays you $5.00 to sign up

(My original blog post at: http://www.signupandmakemoney.com/blog/2009/03/surf-bounty-pays-you-500-to-sign-up/)

Surf Bounty claims it is the highest paying reward site out there. I guess they keep that statement by offering their members a $5.00 bonus just for signing up. Don't get me wrong, I've seen higher paying sign up bonuses out there, but $5.00 isn't too shabby yet isn't too extreme either.

So what is Surf Bounty all about? Surf Bounty is a get paid to website where you basically get paid to complete various offers online. For example, you may sign up for a trial offer where you have 30 days to test the product. Whether you decide to keep the product or not, Surf Bounty will pay you something like $5.00 for taking advantage of that trial offer.

Getting paid to sign up on various offers is not the only way you can earn money online with Surf Bounty. You can also earn money shopping online by getting cash back when you buy things on Surf Bounty's affiliate links. Surf Bounty claims they have surveys you can take, but they are not your traditional surveys. They are just more paid to sign up offers you can take advantage of.

My experience with Surf Bounty:

I've been a member of Surf Bounty for a little over a year now. I have to shamefully admit that I have never attempted to complete a paid to sign up offer with them yet. This is not good for me, because I'm sure I have missed out on a lot of free money since I've been a member. My accumulated cash balance with Surf Bounty is $43.00 so far. You need a minimum of $50.00 to receive your first payment from Surf Bounty by Paypal.

I have only earned money so far by referring others and my initial sign up bonus when I signed up. You make $2.00 for every free member you refer to Surf Bounty. I think that is a really good payout for a free member referral. When you sign up to become a member you will automatically be given a referral link to share with your friends and family. Surf Bounty doesn't offer any training or banners to help you promote them, just a simple affiliate link.

If you are interested in more paid to sign up sites, visit the home page of this site to find over $1,000 in free sign up bonuses. Let me know what you think.

Get $10.00 from Aim High Traffic when you sign up

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/unPwR)
Aim High Traffic is a new traffic exchange that offers its members $10.00 when they sign up for free. The thing I like most about Aim High Traffic is that they send you credit e-mails where all you have to do is click they credit link and you'll receive free hits back to your website on auto pilot. Aim High Traffic calls these credit e-mails solo adverts, I just call them free traffic to my website.

Aim High Traffic gives you $10.00 when you sign up with them, but you won't be able to touch that $10.00 until your account balance reaches at least $25.00. That sucks, but that is just the way it is. If Aim High Traffic gave every one $10.00 just for signing up and not expecting anything else in return; they would go out of business in a heart beat. So technically you'll have to earn that $10.00, but you'll come out ahead with at least $25.00 in the long run.

With Aim High Traffic's exchange system you'll be able to advertise 5 different websites as a free member. Aim High Traffic is a manual traffic exchange so all the members of the network will have to view the sites you have in the rotator. What separates Aim High Traffic from other traffic exchanges is that while surfing websites for credits, you'll never have to click on an image or number to get credit for viewing the website. Instead, all you'll have to do is put your mouse pointer over the web page to get credit. It's called hover technology and very new to traffic exchanges. I really like it a lot.

With Aim High Traffic you can get credits in four ways.

  1. Surfing on their exchange.

  2. Straight out purchasing credits (only if you want to do this).

  3. Referring others generates free hits back to your websites.

  4. Reading the credit e-mails Aim High Traffic will send you.


Aim High Traffic offers a 2:1 credit ratio. What this means is that for every website you view you'll earn half a credit. Surf ten websites in their exchange and receive 5 hits back to your site. Don't worry, when you surf the Aim High Traffic exchange the longest the timer will take is about 8 to 12 seconds.

If you are looking for more free traffic sites that pay you to sign up with them and offer quality advertising. Take a look at the free advertising sign up bonus sites in the bonus directory. Enjoy!!!!

Monday, March 2, 2009

What to do if you cannot afford a $10 a month business opportunity

(My Original Blog Post: -*http://signupandmakemoney.com/blog/2009/03/what-to-do-if-you-cannot-afford-a-10-a-month-business-opportunity/)
Believe it or not, I often get responses from prospects complaining they don't have enough money to afford a $10.00 a month business opportunity like Global Domains International (also known as GDI).  I'm sorry to say this, but $10.00 a month, with no large upfront fee to get started is about as cheap as a business opportunity is going to get these days.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to sound like I'm the richest guy out there and $10.00 a month is like chump change because it's not. It's $10.00 I could have spent on something else. But you have to understand that the ability to own your own home based business is worth way more than $10.o0 a month in my opinion.

To start a business from scratch, or a franchise costs way more. We are talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars here. The easiest way to own your own business is to get into the network marketing arena. Buying into a system where all you do is refer others. This is the cheapest business opportunity you'll ever have out there.

Anyways, to get to my point, I do have a solution for those individuals out there that can't afford a measly $10.00 a month to grow an online business. The solution I recommend taking advantage of is my free sign up bonus sites. This is the recommended route to take for individuals out there not willing to invest in their financial futures.

The sites listed at my get paid to sign up website are not only 100% free to join, but they will actually pay you for signing up with them (over $1,000 in sign up bonuses). This leaves the individual signing up with all the sites a zero risk investment. Also included at the paid to sign up website are over 1 million visitors for free. This way the member taking advantage of all the sign up bonus sites can get a jump start in generating referrals to get a taste of building a down line for themselves.

There you have it. That is my recommendation for the prospects out there that keep telling me $10.00 a month is too much to handle. Feel free to leave a comment. I would love some feedback on this post.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

A.W. Surveys - my experience and opinion of them

(My Original Blog Post: http://signupandmakemoney.com/blog/2009/03/aw-surveys-my-experience-and-opinion-of-them/)
So far I've had a not-so-good experience with A.W. Surveys. My account with them has been cancelled twice. The first time I had over $50.00 in my account. I found out today that my account has been closed for a second time. I'm not sure where my earnings were at with them this time though.

A.W. Surveys has a pretty strict and ridiculous 45 day inactive clause. If you don't log into your account to stay active with A.W. Surveys and it has been one day over 45 days; your account with them will be deleted. You'll have to start all over from scratch and your earnings will be deleted. You think you are making good money with them until you find out A.W. Surveys is a scam just waiting for you to be inactive for over 45 days. They win, you lose.

A.W. Surveys also really isn't a real Survey Company in my opinion. Yes A.W. Surveys does ask for your opinion on various websites, but they are really an affiliate company. A.W. Surveys believes if they can get you to look at their affiliate sites and write a quick 2 to 3 sentence spiel about them, you just might sign up with the affiliate site they are promoting.

Now for the positives of joining A.W. Surveys. If you are certain you can be diligent in staying an active member with them, I would recommend taking advantage of the free to sign up opportunity. A.W. Surveys has paid out over $100,000 to their active members since they've been in existence.

A.W. Surveys offers you a minimum of a $6.00 sign up bonus survey for signing up with them. In addition to this they've added $20.00 more in $4.00 sign up bonus surveys and a $1.00 monthly bonus survey. This technically gives you a $27.00 sign up bonus. On top of that you can make $1.25 for every member you refer worldwide.

Remember, the only downfall is that A.W. Surveys will delete your account if you are inactive for more than 45 days. This has gotten me twice now.  If my account had not been deleted twice now, I would've earned my minimum $75.00 to cash out by now. That means I would have  included a proof of payment in this post.

If you are interested in more Survey sites that pay you to sign up. Take a look at my Survey sign up bonus page and let me know what you think.
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