General GPT (Get Paid To) information and Tips
General Infromation
For any one who is new to the GPT world you must know this is great for a bit of extra money. However, with the right amount of time spent on it you could possibly make it a steady income. But, it does take alot of work and lots of referring and keeping your referrals motivated helps. If you can get your referrals motivated enough to do some referring as well you will both make a decent amount. I have seen many people posting checks out there showing they have made $1,000 a month or more from different GPT sites. So what you make is up to you and the time you put into it. Please also know that GPT sites are not for everyone. You are not obligated to purchase anything. There are alot of free offers to fill out. I have never filled out any that requires my credit card number or any bank information on any site. I have never spend any money at all on any site.
Most GPT sites pay monthly there are a few that do pay bi-weekly, weekly and even daily. You are able to see at any time on your account information how much you are making and how it is increasing. You sign up for FREE. You will never have to pay any FEES unless you decide to do offers in which they require you to do so. I only fill out the free ones. There are tons of them. Some surveys/offers are long but most of them are so short that it takes you just a minute of your time to complete. You choose what you want to do there.
First of all remember that you should give your real info. I do and I haven't had any problems with it so far. I do get a lot of junk e-mail but I have an e-mail account specially for it. I just erase them. With the offers that say that you have to confirm that you signed up through your e-mail make sure you do this step before you erase the confirmation e-mail.
E-mail Address
Here's some great tips pertaining to email address:
1. Be sure to set up a couple of different email address for doing offers because you will get alot of bulk emails from the offers that you do. I use Yahoo and Google with both of them you can set up as many different email address as you want. Using different email address will help your offers confirm.
2. I was reading through people's blogs about cashcrate last night and I found one saying that if you use names in your email address that you do offers with it will help offers go through quicker. I did a couple of offers this morning and used a new email address with a name in it and all of them went through. I don't know if it was because of using a new email address or the name in it but either way they went through so I thought I would let everyone know.
3. I know alot of people have been using GMail for for doing surveys because of the "dot" system, meaning it allows you to put "dots" in your email address. For example "address@gmail.com" then changing it to "a.ddress@gmail.com" then "ad.dress@gmail.com" and so on. I saw a post in the forum of one of the GPT sites saying that this is no longer allowed. We are still allowed to use different email address for doing surveys/offers just make sure you are not using the "dot" system.
4. MID is no longer accepting new email address so alot of sites are suggesting that you set up an email account that you use strictly for MID offers.
Clearing Cookies
After each offer you do it is a good idea to clear your cookies. It will really help to make your offers/surveys go through. To clear your cookies at the top of your browser click on "Tools" then click on "Delete Browsing History" then click on "Clear Cookies". You can also download http://www.ccleaner.com/ which is free and will also clear your cookies all you have to do once you download it is run it after ever couple of offers.
Roboform
This is really a great time saver! Roboform stores all of your frequently used information then fills out your registration and checkout forms with one click of a button. It also creates passcards, storing your usernames and passwords allowing you to sign in with a click of a button. It's free, it's easy, and it'll make signing up at GPT sites and filling out offers a breeze. Here's the link to download Roboform http://www.roboform.com/php/land.php?affid=debts&frm=frame3
Voicemail Services
To avoid those annoying phone calls from telemarketers from offers that you participate in it is a good idea to sign up for a free voice mail service. What a voicemail service does is redirect telemarketers calls to a voicemail so that you are not bombarded with unwantted phone calls. Here are the links so some free voicemail services:
http://www.grandcentral.com
http://www.aimphoneline.com https://www.evoice.com/evoice/twa/signupFree http://www.simplevoicebox.com/
I currently am using brring it doesn't stop calls from coming to your home phone but what it does is gives you a different phone number to use on the offers. When they call the other number they have to listen to a 10 second ad before the call is put through to your phone. They say that they pay you $0.05 for each call to your brring number. I just cashed out on this site a couple of days ago (there's a $10.00 minum payout) so I have not yet recieved a check yet from them but when I do I will post it. Here's the link for brring: http://www.brring.com/signin.php
Referals
Getting referals is just another great way to make some more money from GPT sites almost all sites pay you a percentage of what your referals make and even give you bonuses pertaining to your referals. Every sites bonuses are set up differently. Referals are not required with any site it is up to you if you want to get referals. Here's a few tips for getting referals:
1. add your referal link to your signature
2. start a blog
3. hand out flyers
4. add some information about your GPT sites on your profiles
5. tell your family and friends
6. show copies of your checks
Just a few more great tips I have found along the way:
1. Make sure that you let each page fully load
2. When you reach the end of the offer you are doing (it will be a page that says "thank you" or "congratulations". Where alot of people get confused is alot of times the last page says says to complete two "Silver Offers" you DO NOT complete and "silver offers" that is the last page. You are done. Just leave the page open for a couple of seconds then close it out.
3. Turn your pop up blocker off while doing offers. Yes you will get some pop ups while doing offers but just exit them if it's not a part of the offer you are doing don't worry about it. Allowing pop ups just helps the company to track the offer that you are doing. That is why you clear your cookies after each offer.
4. DO NOT put in false information when completing offers I have heard of alot of people doing this it is considered fraud and if you are caught you will be banned from GPT sites
5. If you do more than one site DO NOT repeat offers on two different sites this is also considered fraud. You can either keep track of your offers with pen and paper or you can sign up for GPT Tracker which just a site that keeps track of which offers you do on which site. Here's the link for GPT Tracker if you would like to sign up for it http://www.gpttracker.com/index.php?page=home . Not all of the GPT sites are listed on it but it does have some listed and it really helps alot.
6. Some free surveys ask if you'd like to sign up for trial offers like Netflix or Blockbuster, etc. Don't do this! If you'd like to try these offers complete them through a GPT site where you'll be paid to try them.
7. Many surveys have an asterisk next to several of their survey questions. These are the questions that have to be answered in order to complete the survey. Save time by only answering the questions with asterisks.
8. If you would like to check to see if a GPT site is legit there is a site called GPT Boycott that keeps track of GPT sites that are known for not paying or for being fradulant. Here's the link to it if you would like to check it out http://www.gptboycott.com . You can even have it set up to where the site will automatical email you when new information is added.
9. NEVER pay a GPT site to join. If they ask you to pay to become a member of their site they are not legit. Legit GPT sites will never have you pay to join.
GPT Handbook
Here is a link to a free GPT Handbook it also has some more great tips!
www.gpthandbook.com
I know this all sounds like alot of work but all of these things are optional and just some ways to make even more money with GPT sites.