Get a sign up bonus by placing an Advertyze affiliate link on your site

(My Original Blog Post: http://www.signupandmakemoney.com/blog/2009/11/get-sign-up-bonus-by-placing-advertyze-affiliate-link-on-site/)
Join Advertyze for free, place your Advertyze affiliate link on your site or blog, let the Advertyze team see that you've placed it and you'll get a $1.00 sign up bonus for doing so.

I think that is a dollar well spent on the behalf of Advertyze.com. I would gladly pay $1.00 to everyone that linked back to my website. In the long run, I believe it is well worth the dollar spent.

So what is Advertyze.com all about?

First off, it is a yet another free way for you to earn some money online. You'll get 10 cents every time you sign someone up for free. If one of your referrals ever decides to purchase advertising with Advertyze.com, you'll earn 25% of the profits on all upgraded accounts.

That's what you get for actively promoting the site, you can also use Advertyze.com as an outlet to get exposure to your website. They are a 7 year old Company, so they had some time to build a good customer base network of customers around them.

There are many ways to promote your website online for free, so I would stay away from purchasing advertising from Advertyze.com unless you've really done your homework on them and see them as a good stream of fresh visitors to your site.

If you decide to stick with the route I'm taking, which is simply promoting the affiliate program's $1.00 sign up bonus, you'll have nothing to lose because you won't be investing any of your own money into the Company.

One thing I've noticed about Advertyze.com is that they have an annoying pop up ad that asks you to get started by filling in your name and e-mail address. The ad looks quite appealing if it is what I think it is. They say you'll get 50 free leads a week. I kind of have to wonder how good those leads really are. I guess there is only one way to find out.

Take a look at some more affiliate sites that pay you a sign up bonus just for joining and let me know what you think.

My 9 to 5 Biz looks like yet another typical bux site

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/uu9x7)
I ran into a paid to click site (looks more like a bux site) today entitled My 9 to 5 Biz that is offering a $5.00 sign up bonus for joining. The thing that upsets me about the paid to click site is that it looks just so typical of a bux site. What I mean by that is they obviously are simply just using a standard bux script for their site and put up some cheap graphics, vuala, they are now a new bux site.

My only hope is that My 9 to 5 Biz will turn out to be a legit site that doesn't try to make most of their money off of referrals versus making money off the paid to click ads like they should be doing. As with all sites like these, please do not invest any money in them without doing your best due diligence on them first. Just take advantage of their free benefits, which in the case of My 9 to 5 Biz is simply getting paid to click.

After taking a close look at My9to5Biz, I think I'm pretty happy to say that there business model looks like it makes sense. They only go over 1 cent per click (one for you and one for your referrals) if you are a premium member and they don't have a ton of ads on there site (this would only show that they are promoting there own affiliate links on the site until they get advertisers). This is fine, but at least My 9 to 5 Biz isn't over doing it like we've all seen so many other paid to click sites with that script do.

You have to earn $15.00 in order to cash out on the $5.00 sign up bonus. You can buy referrals as well, this is a red flag for any site. Don't ever buy referrals for something people can sign up for free. It just doesn't make any sense, you know what I mean?

I also checked out the 9 to 5 Biz forum and they have nothing in it yet, they are pretty new to the paid to click community. Like I said before, don't invest any money or too much time in a site like this until you see some results and legit payment proofs from other members.

If you're searching for more sign up bonus sites, make sure to take a look at my list of free paid to click sign up bonus websites and let me know what you think.

When is the best time to upgrade your membership level in Global NPN from Pro to Plus

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/s1iF3)
A majority of us, when we start off in Global NPN, we begin at the Pro level ($10.75 a month). When is the best time to upgrade your Pro level membership, which provides a whole lot of benefits for its low monthly cost, to the Plus level ($19.95 a month)?

There are two factors that I can think of that would alter your decision in this. The first one is simple. If you have referred two or more Plus level members personally already, you might as well upgrade because you are simply missing out on commissions. Instead of getting $5.00 a month off of the Plus members in your matrix, why not make $10.00 residual? It's not rocket science if you ask me.

Global NPN was designed so that you could start off the membership at the lowest cost possible. This is why it's so easy to refer people to Global NPN. There aren't very many good mlm business opportunities out there that offer such a low fee to get started.

As you progress in The New Plan Network and refer more people, you will find that the more serious minded of your down line matrix will be ready to take their membership to the next level. This is how you can take your team up the ladder with you and earn higher residual commissions in the long run.

This is another reason why I like Global NPN so much and why I think it is the best mlm business opportunity out there today. You get to decide when to go up to the next level. You and you alone make this decision. You can stay at the $10.75 level for as long as you'd like to. No one is stopping you from doing so.

The second factor that might persuade you to go from the Pro level to the Plus level right off the bat is that you may be interested in what Global NPN's upgraded membership levels have to offer. Maybe you need more than 3 url rotators or maybe you need more than 5 url link trackers. If this is the case, then by all means you should upgrade to the membership level that provides the services you are going to need to get the marketing job done.

In either case, you should be offering 30 day Global NPN free trials at the Pro level to get your down lines started off on the right foot.

Here is a quick video from the owner of Global NPN (Geoff Stephen) on why you should upgrade in Global NPN, it's just his opinion. I still think you should only upgrade when you have enough people in your down line that are upgraded or you if you are interested in the upgraded membership level perks.

Disclaimer - Global NPN affiliate links are used in this post.

Examples on how to follow new FTC guidelines for bloggers

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/909On)
It really doesn't bother me too much that the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) decided to be a little more strict in how U.S. website owners write reviews about different products and services, NOT!!! I'm just kidding, it's really for the consumers. I mean I know there are bad people out there, I just never thought of myself as one of them. Now we all have to suffer a little bit more for the errors of others.

So how do we as bloggers and website owners follow the new FTC guidelines correctly?

I searched all over the Internet for some good straight forward answers on whether I should simply put a disclaimer at the end of my blog post if I make money when someone signs up through my affiliate link that I wrote only good things about. Or instead, should I be able to do a site wide blanket disclaimer for everything? I'm not sure.

Here is all that Mary Engle, the Associate Director - Bureau of Consumer Protection, says about what you need to do.

According to Mary Engle it shouldn't be too complicated. But my concern is before I go through all my websites and their corresponding pages (over 1,000 pages be honest), I want to make sure that I am updating them correctly.

It looks like the FTC is leaving it up to us to be creative in how we disclose our relationships with the websites and products we write about.

If you write a review about a website or product and you make money off people signing up or purchasing, we simply need to disclose this in our own unique way to our readers and visitors.

Even after looking through the new FTC guidelines I was unable to find a really good example. So I can only assume it really is up to us.

I believe the best way to disclose that you are either making money off of a product you are writing about or have received some sort of compensation for writing about a product or website is to simply leave a note at the bottom of the blog post or page it was written about on.

There are no real rules on how you can do this, none that I've found anyway. Please let me know if I'm being an idiot on this one or not.

Example #1

You just wrote a review about a website using a referral link from the advertiser's website. At the bottom of the page or blog post you could simply write something like this:

An affiliate link from Company "XYZ" is used on this page.

You could add more to this, but according to the FTC, they only expect you to be straight forward and open, they don't give any other instructions on how to disclose your relationship with the website or product you just wrote an article about.

Example #2

You just wrote a review about an Amazon product using your Amazon affiliate link. At the bottom of the post or page put:

The product link on this web page is an Amazon affiliate link.

That should do according the the FTC's vague guidelines.

Example #3

You wrote an article about a video game that you were given free from the gaming Company in order to say good things about them. At the bottom of the page or post simply put this:

XYZ Company gave a free copy of this video game for reviewing purposes.

That should do. Notice how I'm not referring to myself in these disclosures, I'm just letting the readers know someone is making money off of it whether it is me or not.

Are you getting where I'm going with this? The FTC didn't set any strict guidelines on how you disclose your relationships with the advertisers you write about. So as far as I see it, you just need to disclose it somewhere on the same page and you should be good to go.

Good luck on the December 1st, 2009 switch over!

Marvel E-mail sign up bonus and free advertising

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/0Kz0k)
I would like to thank an affiliate of Signupandmakemoney, Gordon, for introducing me to Marvel E-mail. A free advertising site that gives you a cash sign up bonus of $1.75 and 870 credits currently. You can use this cash sign up bonus towards advertising of your websites online. You can also choose to save it up until you reach the minimum cash out balance of $20.00.

Gordon's affiliate link is used in this post and also on the main sign up bonus list.

I believe the sign up bonus was originally $1.50, so it went up and you should take advantage of this opportunity. One thing that annoys me a little bit about Marvel E-mail is their bothering persistence to get you to upgrade by saying you only have so much time left. I think this is ridiculous and they probably won't get very many people upgrading in their $39.99 membership option.

As always, I recommend that you take advantage of the free money and advertising credits you'll be able to earn with Marvel E-mail. Don't ever put any real money into these types of websites until you very thoroughly have done your due diligence of them first.

Apparently, Marvel E-mail allows a few ways to earn with them.

• You can send out a couple e-mails a day.


• Refer others and earn if they upgrade.


• Get paid to click on ads.


• Has a down line builder as part of the membership.


• Take advantage of their window ads.

Nothing too amazing if you ask me, but hopefully Marvel E-mail will become one more source of free advertising online for you to take advantage of.

Take a look at more advertising sign up bonus sites and get just a little bit more free traffic to your websites.

Golden Panda Traffic Exchange sign up bonus and free hits

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/u7EsF)
Golden Panda Traffic is offering a $5.00 sign up bonus until they reach $1,000 members. It looks like a pretty decent traffic exchange from what I can see so far.

The only negatives I could see is that they have a long 20 second timer (at least it's a 1:1 surf ratio though), you have to contact admin in order to get your $5.00 sign up bonus, and you'll have to surf 25 sites in order for your account to be fully active.

On a positive note, some good things about joining Golden Panda Traffic is that on top of the $5.00 bonus for joining, you'll also get about 800 text exchange credits, 1,000 banner impressions, and 1,000 text ad impressions. The way I look at it is that's free traffic to take advantage of. You might as well not let it go to waste.

You can purchase credits, but as I always say with free traffic sites,

"If they offer free traffic in the first place, what's the point of paying for something that others are getting for free?"

To me, it just doesn't make sense.

Of course you can build on your credits by referring other free members. This is true with pretty much any traffic exchange I've seen out there. If I'm wrong on this, please let me know right away.

Other than this, Golden Panda Traffic looks pretty much like any other ordinary traffic exchange out there. Once they build a good membership base, you'll be glad that you joined early and got a bunch of free credits built up.

The key to being successful as a Secret Shopper is where you're located

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/47kXy)
I know that you don't want to hear this, but whether you're brand new to secret shopping or are an experienced veteran (happy Veterans Day by the way), where you're located is going to depend whether or not you'll produce a good extra income stream with mystery shopping. You know what they say, "Location, location, location!"

I'm not as busy with mystery shopping as I once used to be. I choose to grow my residual income online now, verses getting paid on a per job completion basis. Do I still do secret shopping jobs? Of course, if they pay well, are in my 10 mile radius, and aren't too difficult, I will be more than happy to make the extra cash.

Unfortunately I turn down a lot of secret shopping jobs offered by various schedulers, but it's no offense to them, it's usually because the job is just too far away and the pay doesn't cover the gas expenses and time I would have to put forth to successfully complete the job. Not to mention doing the hideous online report at the end of the day. Those are the worse, really.

How do I know location is so important to making money with secret shopping?

It's pretty simple folks, if you are in or around a major city or suburb, you will have more local businesses and franchises around you. This of course equals more money in the bank for you as a mystery shopper. Sometimes it really isn't that cut and dry. I used to do mystery shopping in Washington State. I've averaged around $700 to $1,000.00 extra a month doing mystery shopping part time over there. Once I moved to New Orleans, I've noticed a whole lot less jobs.

Maybe it was the fact that I just wasn't registered with the right secret shopping companies that cover the New Orleans area, but I actually notice more jobs in outlying cities even though New Orleans is where you would think most of the jobs would be.

In Washington, I barely ever had to make my way up to Seattle because most of the jobs could be taken care of in smaller suburban cities.

How do I know if my area is good for earning extra income in secret shopping?

There is only one way to find out. You have to sign up with as many secret shopping companies as you can and see what kinds of jobs are offered to you and where they're at. I'm just an online blogger, so I'm only familiar with areas I've secret shopped in.

Whether you're new to mystery shopping or a seasoned vet, I hope this information helps you in your decision to continue in secret shopping as a way to supplement your income as your own boss.