(3/30/2012 update: SINCE THE TIME THIS ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN IN JUNE ’07 I HAVE MADE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FROM CASHCRATE - here is a video of one of my most recent check along with a picture of a check from November 2011 – (CashCrate proof of payment)

You should never pay to join a survey site as all legitimate sites are free. CashCrate is real and it is one of the best free paid survey sites there is. This is my CashCrate review. (13 years and older for this so it is a great job ideas for teens and it is absolutely free!)

As of 3/30/2012 I have now made thousands of dollars. I have gotten a check from CashCrate every month and promptly too. There is obviously good money to be made here.

It is easy to sign up to Cash Crate and start making money and they will send you a check just like the one you saw in my video. They have an active forum as well where you can find all the help you should ever need and an simple to understand website that is easy to navigate.

Your First Step

Your first step is to go to your members area were all the surveys and offers will be displayed. You will probably want to start out with all the offers that say “Register for free”. First do a sort like I show below to find all the 100% free offers sorted by the highest payout. You are here to make money on Cash Crate so you might as well start from the highest paying offers and go down.

Scroll down through the offers to see if there are any that look appealing. You can do any offer, of course, but the easiest by far are the register for free offers. The two offers below should take a total of 2 to 3 minutes to fill out and will get you a quick easy buck. Look for others like these that will only take you a minute or two to do. Please note, you should sign up for a free second email address through Gmail, Yahoo, or Aol so that any followup email you may get from the survey and offer companies does not go to your regular email address. You will probably not get a lot of spam but it is better to be safe.

You should continue to do all these “register for free” offers until you run out of them. Once you do, you can then choose other offers such as the surveys until you reach your $20.00 Cash Crate payment threshold. The surveys take a bit longer and that is why I recommend starting with all the register for free offers. You can get ambitious and sign up for offers that are not free if you like for bigger payouts, but that is absolutely not necessary.

Hint #1: Don’t do the ringtone offers because they are not free even though they say they are. All you have to do is enter your cell phone # but your cell phone bill will then be charged a monthly fee. I did this and learned the hard way so unless you really want ring-tones, don’t do any of these offers.

Hint #2: You should clear your computer cookies between every offer just to be safe. Some offers are from the same company and sometimes if you already have their cookie on your computer for the first offer you will not get credit for the second offer. This need to clear your computer cookies will apply for all survey sites and not just with CashCrate.

How To Refer Others For More Money

The best way to make money with CashCrate and any other survey site is to refer people. This is 100% optional and you do not need to refer anyone ever to get paid. The first level commission for CashCrate (those who sign up under you) is 25% and the second level pays 10% (those that sign up under the person who signed up under you). This is more that any other survey site pays and what makes CashCrate so wonderful.  This is a great way for someone to get started making money online and the best kind of passive income on the Internet.

How would I recommend getting started referring people to Cash Crate? Once you earn your $20.00 you should have a feel for the system and have learned how to do things quicker and make money faster. As you learn tips you can pass them along to others. You might start a blog about surveys or put up a Squidoo lens or write articles. One method you cannot use is to promote CashCrate on Myspace, Facebook, and other similar sites as their terms say that will get you banned. I am now making over $1,000 a month and I highly recommend them as one of the totally honest 100% legitimate survey sites.

Here is a list of some of the ways people are being creative and making referrals:

1. Post on GPT forums
2. Refer Friends and Family
3. Refer Guild Members/Online Friends
4. Door hang with home made flyers
5. Walk through parking lots putting flyers on cars
6. Make a blog
7. Keep your referal link on your Sig on all forums with a breif explanation
8. Find chat rooms and groups that have the sole purpose of “Easy Money Making”
9. Stick an add in the classifieds
10. Go down to your local college and talk to passerbyers (college kids always need money!)
11. Put a flyer up at work
12. Get a magnetic strip/sticker to put on your car so you advertise while you drive!
13. Post your link at the end of your YouTube videos
14. Seed/Upload your files alot? Stick a .txt in an RAR file with whatever you are uploading with your referal link and instructions
15. Give flyers for local buisnesses to hand out (Go to a food delivery place, see what it will take for them to coupon your flyers, may I suggest chinese?)
16. Send out flyers in a mailing list (http://www.usdatafax.com/ is one site you can get mailing lists)
17. Get a bot/macro to post your link with a simple explanation on any server you may be hosting/running
18. Make A Web Site
19.Tell people thru IM
20. Links Exchange
21 print business cards and include your phone number to enter into business drawings (like you find in a lot of restaurants)

Whatever you do remember it is free to sign up to Cash Crate. They have a great active forum with lots of help if you need it. This is a great way to make extra money online and get some money coming in. Many people (including me!) make hundreds every month and you can also read about how they do it in the forums. This is one of the many ways to make money you should be doing to add some extra spending money to your budget. It is easy and anybody can do it and CashCrate is the best survey site I know of. If you have any questions about this CashCrate reveiw please let me know in the comment section.

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If you are just getting started and are looking for ways to make money at home on the Internet what do you do? The options are so overwhelming that you might just quit before ever getting started. One of the things that might have peaked your interest is making money doing online surveys. Just type “make money taking online survey” into Google and you will get page after page of websites wanting you to sign you up to their program. These are salesmen (or saleswomen) at their best. They promise you everything from $10.00 per hour up to two, three, and four thousand a month for sitting back, sipping your latte, and taking a survey. Can it be true? Well, let me warn you…be careful!

Any program that requires you to pay money to join is a scam. The number one rule is NEVER pay for something you can get for free. All they will do is provide you with a list of other programs that are all accessible for free with a little research. They are just selling a list of free programs that you can find on your own! I know, they make it so appealing and they call it a “system” and it seems so legit and if I just pay them $35.00 then surely a magical money making kingdom of surveys will be revealed to me. Just don’t do it! 

Ok, so we have now determined to never pay for a survey “program” or “system” but can you still make money taking online surveys? Well, that answer is yes as I found out. I had heard good things about CashCrate so I signed up just for fun to see what it was all about. The site is indeed pleasing to the eye and very easy to navigate. You need to sign up with your name and address and then you will be able to start right away. I have to admit that taking the surveys was very tedious and boring for me but I pushed on for a couple of hours trying to make the $10.00 (there is a minimum pay out of $10.00) that I need to get a check sent to me. Some of the surveys went on and on and on and I wondered if they would ever end.

I looked for what appeared to be the easiest (like submit a poem for a contest for $1.00 and another was submit a photo for a contest for $1.00) but most of the options seemed to be those never ending surveys. I quit when I got the result shown below and so hopefully a check will be coming my way.

WARNING - be careful of the “ringtone” offers as your cell phone bill will be charged and so they are not free even though they say they are (you have to read the fine print for those). I would stick to the 100% free offers/surveys and have fun.

Tip – You should erase the cookies on your computer before you do each survey or offer to make sure you are tracked properly.

Tip – You might want to make a separate email because most of the offers require an email address and you will get tons of spam if you give them your main email.

If you are just beginning in your Internet adventure and still searching for ways to make money online,  CashCrate  is a good place to start. However, I would again stress that you should never pay anything to join (there are plenty for free if you look for them) and once you have joined, you only take advantage of the free offers. I can see how it could become addicting for some people and it just might be the stepping stone you need to start your move on up into the paid ranks of people on the internet! 

Here are the top reasons you’ll love to get paid to fill out surveys for cash …

1) You can start making money immediately!

2) No selling required to get paid for surveys.

3) You are your own boss – imagine never having to answer to a supervisor or manager again!

4) It is one of the easiest ways to make money!

5) You don’t need a website to get paid to fill out surveys online.

6) No product inventory and product deliveries required.

7) You don’t need any computer technical skills.

8 ) No special education required to get paid for surveys online.

9) You set your own schedule of how many hours you want to work in a day.

10) No business overhead costs.

11) You don’t have to worry about “meeting quotos” or making “cold calls”.

12) No financial risk of losing money.

===> And the #1 reason online paid survey sites are amazing …

You get to work at home in your PJ’s!

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