3 Simple Money-Making Ideas

December 12th, 2008 by Matt | Posted in Make Money

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In this information age, it seems everyone is looking for simple money-making ideas that he or she can implement from home. While there is certainly no shortage of opportunities out there, there are just as many scams.
Not only that, but many of the legitimate opportunities require more work than the average person is willing to put forth.
In a world literally FILLED with money-making opportunities, it can sometimes seem that there are no legitimate, simple money-making opportunities out there. This is, most definitely, NOT true; yet I have to admit feeling this way in the past.
Never fear. If you are looking for some simple money-making ideas, then today is your lucky day. In this post, I will highlight simple money-making ideas that you can do from the comfort of your own home.
That’s right. Simple money-making ideas DO exist. And many of them are listed below:

1. eHow – eHow is a mature, highly-ranked, and reputable website that will pay you to write how-to articles for them.  This is, by far, the best simple money-making opportunity that I’ve found.  As a member of eHow’s Writer’s Compensation Program, you’ll have the opportunity to build a significant passive income in no time at all.  I’m averaging about $0.20 per article per day.  If I can maintain that pace, a portfolio of one-thousand articles (of similar quality) would be expected to net $73,000 in a year!
2. Bukisa – Bukisa is a new program that is similar to eHow, but offers even more opportunities for making money.  With Bukisa, not only do you get paid when people view your articles, but you also get paid when people view articles written by ANYBODY in your network.  Bukisa is a very new program, so it still remains to be seen whether they will reliably send payments; nevertheless, many people are already earning BIG with Bukisa, thanks to their referral system.  If they pay out (which I expect they will), a lot of people are going to be really happy.  If you sign up for Bukisa, please use my referral link.
3. CashCrate – CashCrate is a “paid-to-complete-offers” site that actually appears to be pretty good.  Not only will CashCrate pay you for completing surveys and offers, but it will pay you for offers completed by your referrals, too!  You will receive 20% of all money earned by your second-level referrals and 10% of money earned by your third-level referrals.  In addition, CashCrate will credit $3.00 to your account for each referral who earns his or her first $10.00!  You should be able to see, at this point, how this can add up very quickly with a large referral network.  Even if you only do the offers (not the surveys… I hate surveys), there is plenty of money to be made.  “Broke Grad Student” has written about how he has made $100 from CashCrate in a very short period of time.  Try it out.  If you sign up for CashCrate, please use my referral link.  Thanks!

In this post, I’ve tried to focus on some quick, easy ways to make a few bucks.  None of these programs will get you rich.  However, each of them has the potential to provide a full-time income, in the extreme case.  If you are an average user of one or more of these programs, you will be able to build a healthy, supplemental income stream in exchange for very little work.

In addition, these programs all have the benefit of making you money QUICKLY.  On eHow, you’ll start to see earnings in your account almost immediately, if you focus on writing good articles.  Bukisa accounts seem to grow in value even more quickly than eHow.  Finally, CashCrate can earn you $20 or more in the first day, if you complete some offers.

If you are looking for simple money-making ideas, I hope you’ll try these programs out.  I think you’ll be surprised with the results.  If you’d like, contact me for tips on how to build your referral network.  These programs can be very lucrative when you have a large network.  Let me know what you think in the comments!

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