Opinion Outpost survey panel payment requested

I've been with Opinion Outpost for about 2 months now and I have to say that it's one of my favorite paid survey panels. They send a lot of surveys, so you will definitely be able to qualify for some. What I like about OO is that they don't have any surveys that pay less than $1.00. All the surveys I filled out ranged from $1.00 to $3.50 per survey. I even got an invitation to a $9.00 survey once, but did not qualify.

So yeah, these guys definitely pay well for your time and input. Here is a screen shot from my Members' page:

Today, I requested a $10 check which should take between 4-8 weeks to arrive. Good stuff.

So if you are looking for a survey site to join, this one of the best. You can sign up here.

Get to Kooday Gold fast

September 30th is on Thursday. You know what that means, right? Kooday will finally take the "Snapshot bonus". In one of my previous posts, I explained why exactly Kooday's "Snapshot bonus" is the most exciting money making opportunity available to anyone who has internet access. But to quickly summarize why, here is a bit of info from Kooday's FAQ:

For each Profit-Share-Credit a member possesses at time of Snap-Shot they will be eligible for $1.

Example: If you had 33,000 Profit-Share-Credits then you qualify for $33,000

For each Gold-Credit a member possesses at time of Snap-Shot they will be eligible for $100.

Example: If you had 1500 Gold-Credits then you qualify for $150,000 plus $50,000 for Profit-Share-Credits.

So, if you really want to cash in with the bonus, then you want to reach Gold status (50,000 PFCs). You only have 3 more days to do it, but it's not impossible. Just need some serious time effort and work. Trust me, though, it should be worth it.

So here is how you can get to Gold fast:

One of the main goals for a user is to have a lot of PFCs, because they determine how much of Kooday's profits the user will get (just like in any business that lets people invest). One of the best strategies to do this is to buy a new keyword that no one owns and buy it from yourself over and over again until its value goes up to $19.xx (don't recall the exact amount of cents).  Since you are buying from yourself, it will take you $9.xx to build the word up to the $19.xx value (as opposed to actually spending $19.xx on a word valued at the same price). This will get you 1075 PFCs. And come the 30th, you turned your $10 bucks into $1,075 with the Bonus. Not bad, huh? Just make sure the word is an actual, real world and not a made up one. If Kooday's site crawlers can't find your word on any site on the internet, then it is not counted towards the "Snapshot". 

When you get to 50,000 PFCs, you become a Gold Member. Gold Members make much more from PFCs. The next level after Gold is Diamond. As with Gold, PFC earnings increase. Sorry, though - there is not enough time for you to get to Diamond. But Gold is still realistic!

So if you want to get started, head this way:

Kooday

PS: You will need AlertPay to participate.

This week's Kooday payout proof

Another week, another payout! I finally got my refund back from PayPal and was able to re-invest the money back into Kooday through AlertPay, allowing me to get rid of the negative balance and finally continue to buy keywords. I managed to boost my number of shares to a little over 11,000. It still isn't even close to Gold (50,000), but a $11,000+ "Snapshot bonus" after a $200 initial investment does sound very nice.

But anyway, my personal payout for the week was small compared to Golds and Diamonds:

 

The good news is that I can now buy keywords again, making it possible for me to increase the amount of shares.

O yeah, and my keyword value went up as well. It's now well over $300:

 

Very nice. 

Not on Kooday yet? Join in:

Something different: Groupon

Now this isn't exactly a website where you can make money directly. Groupon is a website similar to woot! - the site presents you with one "hot" deal every day. Woot! has a number of different sub-woots: for t-shirts, for kids' toys, for wine.. Well, Groupon is a site for hot deals offered by your local businesses, like restaurants, bars, etc. When you register, you select your region and Groupon gives you a deal a day based on your location.

If you want to make money from this site, you have to refer people. When they join and make their first Groupon purchase, you get $10 Groupon Bucks. You can't cash these, though - you can only spend them on Groupon (which isn't a bad thing if you like to go out a lot).

So check it out.

How to make money with Kooday

As you may know, there is a new search engine launching very soon. It's called Kooday. What makes it different from other search engines, like Google/Yahoo/whatever, is its business model - users acquire Profit Share Credits (PFCs) by buying keywords. If you buy a word that no one owns (for $0.10), you get 1 PFC. If you buy a more expensive keyword, you get way more PFCs. Here is an image taken from Kooday's members' Home page:

One of the main goals for a user is to have a lot of PFCs, because they determine how much of Kooday's profits the user will get (just like in any business that lets people invest). One of the best strategies to do this is to buy a new keyword that no one owns and buy it from yourself over and over again until its value goes up to $19.xx (don't recall the exact amount of cents). This will get you 1075 PFCs. A lot of people use this strategy, including myself. It will take you $9.xx to build the word up to the $19.xx value (as opposed to actually spending $19.xx on a word valued at the same price).

When you get to 50,000 PFCs, you become a Gold Member. Gold Members make much more from PFCs. The next level after Gold is Diamond. As with Gold, PFC earnings increase. This image was taken from Kooday's FAQ page:

 Also, when the search engine launches and the advertisers will start coming in, they will want to link their site to a word that you own. In order to do that, they will have to pay you %50 of the keyword's value. So, for example, "Amazon" is valued at around $1,000 right now, so whoever owns it will get $500 from each person/company that will link their website to this keyword.

And here is my favorite part (and this is one of the most exciting things for members who joined Kooday before launch): on September 30th, Kooday will take a "Snapshot" of each users amount of PFCs. The amount that you have will determine your "Snapshot Bonus". Only for this "Snapshot Bonus", 1 PFC will equal $1.00. Kooday says its their way of rewarding the pre-launch users for their participation and for   building up the keyword directory (otherwise, Kooday would have to spend their own money to build it up).
So far I personally spent $199 on Kooday and I'm up to 7,000 PFCs, so my bonus will be at least $7,000. It's a shame that I didn't know of the "buy-from-yourself" strategy beforehand because then I would have more PFCs right now. If you manage to reach Gold or Diamond before the Snapshot Bonus is taken (which will take some time and work), your bonus will be ridiculous. If you want to know just how ridiculous, I covered that in one of the previous entries.

If you want to join, just click the banner:

PS: to participate, you need an AlertPay account (PayPal's main competitor, if you didn't know). You can register here.