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Blogging Experiment is giving away $100 this week

All you have to do is place a link on your website (either a blog post, text link on a content site, etc) to the blogging experiment. You can link to any page on this site, but I’ll give you some sample link ideas below you can use if you want…

Once you post the link on your site, leave a comment below with the URL of the page the link is on and also use your paypal email address in the email field so you can get paid if you win.

Here’s the catch (always a catch right?)…

You will have to send at least 30 unique visitors to blogging experiment from that link between now and Monday night at 10pm eastern (when I announce the winners). That’s a whopping 5 visitors per day. In other words, it just means you need to put the link someplace where people will see it and click it, not buried at the bottom of your site somewhere.

To make the drawing fair, I’m going to let you pick the winners. I don’t feel like dealing with the whining again like last contest : -)

On Monday, I’ll ask you to pick 4 random numbers and I’ll use those to select the winners.

I thought that it would be fun to see if I can actually send the required amount of traffic to his site. So help me out and click the link

The short answer is yes, you can make money taking surveys online. You won’t make a ton of money, but you might make enough to buy yourself lunch. I use these surveys as part of my mutiple streams of income approach. Let me review the two survey companies that I have had the most luck with.

Pine Cone Research: This was the first survey company that I actually joined. I learned about it on another website and decided to give it a try. They generally pay you 3.00 per survey. You end up filling out a lot of qualification surveys but once you are qualified you are directed to a more in depth survey. Survies generally take between 10 to 20 mins.

MySurvey.com: This was second survey company that I have joined. They don’t pay you per survey but instead award you points per survey that you take surveys range from 10 points for qualifying surveys to several hundred for a full survey. Surveys take anywhere from 10 mins to 45 minutes to complete. I have learned about some interesting new products on this site. As a bonus they also offer a monthly prize of $10,000 just for logging into the site and checking to see if you have any surveys. Sign up and try it out!

So while it isn’t going to make you rich I think it is a fun little thing that you can do in your spare time.

UPDATE: You can signup for Pine Cone research at  http://www.pineconeresearch.com/signup/ds500Referral1.asp

This year I made a new year’s resolution to start one new website a month. Well Seeing as this is April I am 4 websites behind. Last week I decided to take action. I wanted to see if I could start a new webiste working only 20 minutes a day.   I had the idea already so that was already done. The hard part was putting it all together.  The tools I used where Wordpress, MySQL , and some perl code that I threw together. By Sunday afternoon I released my new site www.learn2strum.com on the world. The site is for video guitar lessons.  I picked this niche since I have been watching a lot of these videos lately.  This is a big step for me. It proves that I can produce something kinda cool in a couple of hours. If you do check out the site let me know what you think?

This week I had an opportunity to purchase a Nintendo Wii. Since I am not a big game player I knew that if I bought the console I would be able to sell this for more than I paid for it. The question is how much. The prices seem to be all over the place.  I have setup a 5 day auction to see how it goes. Once the auction is over I will update here to give a final report of my findings.  For now here is my Nintendo Wii that I have for up for auction.