You might have heard about this deal, but I wanted to give you a step by step on how to complete it. The American Express Preferred Rewards Gold Card offers 10,000 points for signing up and making your first purchase. The annual fee is waived for the first year ($125). So it is a free charge card for one year.

After making your first purchase 10,000 points will be deposited in your account. The nice thing about AMEX is that you can get an advance on your 10,000 points as soon as you activate your card. So here’s what you do.

1. Sign up for the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold Card. You can do that by going here. AmericanExpress.com
2. They claim you will either be declined or accepted in 60 seconds. Mine took 2.32 since I’m a baller.
3. If you were accepted wait 7-10 days for your card to come in the mail. It comes from Omaha, Nebraska. So don’t throw it out thinking it is junk mail.
4. Activate your card.
5. Sign into your account online and look for the points advance option in the rewards section.
6. Advance 10,000 points towards some gift cards (GC’s). Wait for the gift card(s) to arrive. Mine took three days. I suggest Sak’s Fifth Avenue if you want to turn it into cash (you will see why in a second).
7. If you don’t want to use the GC’s you can sell them for cash back to giftcardbuyback.com.
8. Mail your GC’s to GCBB.
9. Within 10 days you will receive a check ($78).
10. Make a purchase with the card and pay it off (actually earn your 10,000 points).

The reason I chose Sak’s is because it has the best resale value (78%) of the cards that AMEX offers. If you can find another site or GC that has a better resale (that is one of the GC’s that Amex offers make sure to let us know. So within two weeks you can $100 in GC’s or within three weeks you can have $78. I chose the cash.

Global Test Market

If you have not read my five minute guide to online paid surveys please do it before you fuck yourself over Paid Surveys: Make Extra Cash.

Welcome to one of the higher paying survey sites Global Test Market. The only way to make money on this site is through online surveys and panels.

The Surveys

If you don’t qualify for a survey GTM will give you 5 Marketpoints ($.25). Easily the highest in the industry if you don’t qualify for a survey (most companies give you nothing). I receive around 4 surveys a week they average between 50 and 250 market points ($2.50-$7.50), but you can also qualify for online panels that pay more ($35 for an hour). I have not had a survey from GTM last more than 25 minutes and they have rates comparable to Opinion Outpost and Survey Spot.

Payout

The only drawback to GTM is that you have to have 1000 Marketpoints to cash out ($50). This can be reached easier than you think though. After you reach 1000 Marketpoints request a check. Mine took around six weeks, but it still came, and I am not complaining in anyway.

Yea $67 bones.

My Recommendations

Everyone should join GTM. There is money to be made here. I am already 1/3 of my way to another check. It is in my top three for best paying.

If you want to join please hit “Contact The Wi11is” make sure your email is correct, place GTM in the subject line. I get $1 for each referral, but I will also email you with some more tips and tricks to make money. If you have any questions just let me know, this is the seventh company that has paid out and I am hoping to have at least 10 by the time school starts back up, so watch for updates.

My Favorite Paid Survey Sites with reviews. (Earnings)

Paid Surveys: Survey Spot ($76)

Paid Surveys: Opinion Outpost ($81.80)

Paid Surveys: NFO MySurvey ($20)

Check out the rest of the survey sites under the paid surveys category and start making money.

Friday June 6th stop in at Krispy Kreme and get a free doughnut to celebrate National Doughnut Day. Thought I would give all you fatties a heads up. Since you were wondering tubby, yes, you can get any type of doughnut for free (not just the glaze).

If you haven’t read my five minute guide to paid surveys, do it Paid Surveys: Make Extra Cash. Inbox Dollars is comparable to Cash Crate.

Inbox Dollars

How to make money

Read Emails: 3 cents per email ( I average 3 emails a day) I have made $4.

Take Daily Survey: $.50 recently reduced from $1

Cash Offers: (I don’t do many, but there is a trick if you want to do a lot)

Shopping: They give you a percentage back if you are purchasing from a store online. So if you join check out the stores they have and if you do online shopping make sure to click through their site to get money back. (Apple, Dell, Newegg)

Payment takes 30 days after you reach $30, but they give you exact date and it took mine 3 days to get here after being sent. *Note they are tricky bastards and charge you $3 to process a payment. The good news is after your first payment you are given gold membership status. Then you can cash out and it only takes 3-9 days for the payment to be processed. Also gold members are given referrals of random people who join. They pay and it’s free money.

My Suggestions

I just love the fact that by clicking an email I am getting paid money. Even though it is not much it adds up. The .50 daily survey is less than Cash Crate’s $.80 so take Cash Crate’s daily survey first. They have a $30 minimum payment (kinda high). So, it will take you at least a month to get this unless you are smart motha. They give you $5 for just signing up which is nice. So sign up and start earning money. If you have any questions about paid surveys just hit “Contact The Wi11is” and I might be able to point you in the right direction and give you some pointers.

My Favorite Paid Survey Sites (Earnings)

Paid Surveys: Survey Spot ($76)

Paid Surveys: Opinion Outpost ($81.80)

Paid Surveys: NFO MySurvey ($20)

Check out the rest of the survey sites under the paid surveys category and start making money.

I am sorry The Wi11is is really slowing down now since I am working. Don’t worry, when school starts back up she’ll get hot. In the mean time, here is another way to make money online. Don’t be a jackass and just jump into taking online surveys, read my five minute guide here Paid Surveys: Make Extra Cash.

Cash Crate

This site is pretty simple. The survey part of Cash Crate allows you take one $.80 survey a day. If you did this everyday that would make you $292 a year. Now, I doubt you will make that much. After you login into Cash Crate, go to the members area and click on the “Daily Surveys” tab. You will be directed to a different survey site where you will take a survey. The survey could take five minutes or it could take 20 minutes.

Payouts

Cash Crate sends out a check monthly on the 15th and if you have reached at least $10 they will send you a check. There is no need to request a check. *The check comes from “Kingside Media” so don’t throw it away thinking it is junk mail.* Here is my check for $10.10.

You can earn points on the website. I suggest you skip messing with them. They don’t add up to much. Another way to earn money on the site is to do “Cash Offers”. These can really add up and are pretty simple. There are some tricks though. DO NOT attempt to do all the free cash offers in one day. You will not be credited with the earnings. Make sure the information you give the company is what Cash Crate has on account. If I were you, I would do one or two a week. Make sure to clear your cookies out and be ready to get hit with spam if you sign up for these. Or if you want to just don’t worry about them and just do the surveys.

Recommendation

This site is not as good as Opinion Outpost or Survey Spot, but it is worth it to join. You should do the higher paying surveys from the other sites first, then hit up the Cash Crate. If you are dedicated enough you can make decent money from this site. The $10 payout is low and you can easily make that every month.

Other Paid Survey Sites

SurveySpot ($52 in earnings so far)

Paid Surveys: Survey Spot

Opinion Outpost ($70)

Paid Surveys: Opinion Outpost

PineCone Research (Invite Only $3 per survey, checks sent weekly, sign up now before they stop accepting new members)

Paid Surveys: PineCone Research

NFO MySurvey ($17)

Paid Surveys: NFO MySurvey

Earn 3.00% APY on a SAVINGS ACCOUNT

Get $25 $27.50 if you deposit $250 or more

Well, since summer came around I have been working full-time (no more getting tanked at Kilroy’s on Tuesdays). I thought it would be a good idea to invest some of the money I am making into an online savings account. I already have E-trade and it offers a little bit better APY than ING (3.15 compared to 3.00). Then a friend came along and said I could make $25 for signing up with ING with at least a $250 deposit.

So I did it. I actually prefer the ING site to E-trade. It has more safety features and was extremely easier to sign up for. Yes, the $25 was deposited into my account within a week. My Chase checking account was withdrawn for $250 on the next business day. Now if you choose you can get all your money back in around two weeks. I on the other am keeping in it. I set up an automatic savings plan where ING takes a certain amount from my Chase checking every other week (for the summer). This way I don’t have to worry about saving as it does it for me.

1. I have a limited number of these $25 bonus referrals that I can distribute.

2. If you would like one click “Contact The Wi11is”.

3. As the subject put “ING Referal”, make sure you put your correct email address. That is where I will be sending it to.

4. *If you are not going to deposit at least $250 please do not ask for the referral because that is one less that someone else could have gotten*

Overall this is good deal. You are making almost as much as you would on a CD, while having access to the money. The setup was about 10x quicker than E-trade and is more secure. It is a very simple site. Once I run out of referrals I will take this post down. FYI I get $10 $7.50 if you sign up, but just remember The Wi11is doesn’t lie unless its to girls.

I was pondering this for the past few days and I have decided to give anyone who signs up a $2.50 gift on top of the $25 that they will receive from ING.  The Wi11is cares for its readers and I thought I would consider this “a gift” for you reading our blog.  Don’t worry for those two people who already requested a referral, I will send you the gift as well (or maybe just buy you a beer).

My paid survey experiment is going pretty well, I received three checks this week (two Survey Spot, one PineCone). If everything comes through I will have made around $250 in about two months. If you haven’t read Paid Surveys: Make Extra Cash, I suggest you do before you join any paid survey sites, I got some tips in there that’ll save your ass.

The next site I am reviewing is NFO MySurvey. I think this was the first site I signed up for. The reason for that was because it was the most legit. Everything is simple and explained to you. Your account gets credited as soon as you finish a survey (unlike SurveySpot). My check came in a week after I requested it. This is by far the fastest paying site. The downside, the payouts are not as good as other sites like SurveySpot and Opinion Outpost.

My Recommendation

Join this site, but do not put it as your priority, visit the other sites first then come back to this one. If you have time go to the site daily they have extra surveys on there that they do not email out to you. MySurvey has a lot of 10 point surveys (1 point= 1 cent). These are less than a minute and are usually to check whether you fit the profile for a larger survey. I think the best paying one was 250 points ($2.50) for me. The upside is no matter what you will get paid for taking a survey, be it 15 seconds or 10 minutes. The site has a good referral system, 150 points per person you refer. So do me a handjob and click on the banner in this post and I’ll get credited. They also have $10,000 sweepstakes if you sign up, but knowing your luck that won’t help. They have prizes as well as cash, but the prizes aren’t worth it always take the check.

Total Earnings so far from MySurvey

$18

Here is proof they pay.

Other paid survey sites that I have reviewed and that actually pay

SurveySpot ($47 in earnings so far)

Paid Surveys: Survey Spot

Opinion Outpost ($55 in earnings)

Paid Surveys: Opinion Outpost

PineCone Research (Invite Only $3 per survey, checks sent weekly, sign up now before they stop accepting new members)

Paid Surveys: PineCone Research

Also if you want to make $50 sign up for the Chase Freedom Card (I did and the money was deposited in my rewards account in about a month)

Earn $50 dollhairs and save some money at McDondon’s

I have a link to sign up males that are 18+ to PineCone Research. This is probably the best and most consistent survey company. They are really strict so be consistent. You will get a $3 dollar check every time you complete a survey. It takes about two weeks but then blam… check found. Their surveys take between 10-15 minutes and are very easy I did one this morning that took seven minutes and all I had to do was tell them what shampoos I bought. I have received three* $3 checks already.

This company only allows people to join by invitation that they open every few months here is your chance to join if you are a male who is 18+. This link will not be open for long, once they reach the amount of peeps they want they will shut it down.

PineCone Research Invitation

Let me know when the link goes bad and I will take it down.

NIN released a new album on cinco de mayo called “The Slip”.  NIN released a free album on cinco de mayo called “The Slip”.  I downloaded the album.  It even comes with artwork.  It is also compatible with itunes.  Nothing wrong with free music especially if you like NIN.  Go to their website, give them your email, and they will send you link a download link.  Enjoy.  I don’t know if this will be free to download forever so you might want to scoop it up now.  Hell, sell it to your Uncle Tony who used to love them but now is just an alcoholic who doesn’t know how to turn on a computer for a few bucks.

Get Your Free Album

NIN.com

If you haven’t read Paid Surveys: Make Extra Cash it could save you some pain in the future if you choose to do online surveys.

You will know you are at Survey Spot if you see the little dalmatian. I was really skeptical of this site, but finally realized they were legit. The reason for this is the payout system. Once you take a survey it takes 4-6 weeks for it to be credited to your account. You must have $5 to cash out which isn’t bad and that will probably be two surveys. It takes an additional 4-6 weeks for the payment to come in the mail. I received a $6 check and you can see three other payments I haven’t received yet. I will post this check when I get time (the pics are on my blackberry and I just moved back home so I am unorganized).

If I can add that is $29 so far from Survey Spot.

So what’s the catch?

They email you invites to take surveys and the only incentive you get is entries into a sweepstakes. DO NOT TAKE SURVEYS UNLESS THERE IS A CASH INCENTIVE. Most surveys are between $2-$5, they take about fifteen minutes, and you automatically get an entry into the sweepstakes if you take a survey that has a cash incentive. One thing that sucks is that you can’t refer friends for cash. So DO NOT email The Wi11is and ask to be referred (Opinion Outpost still email).

Some Help Hints

• Do not take surveys unless they offer money
• Use Internet Explorer
• To check your earnings go to the “member’s area”
• Be patient, it will take awhile but when you get that check you’ll feel better

Survey Spot

Other Survey Sites Reviewed

Opinion Outpost