Make Money Online – Another Way ?
Miltski Money Adventures
Follow me on my mission to get paid from the internet.
My First Time Experiencing Information Overload.
Mar 20th
Dizzy, Confused, Hot, Cold, Spinning Out, Fried Brain. I’ve heard about this and didn’t believe it to be true, that with the internet is capable of offering so much information that sometimes it is too much for the human mind. Internet Information Overload. Yesterday, I actually experienced it for myself.
I am presently working on the soft launch of my site and I am busy ironing out all the wrinkles, and moving into the the next phase of starting to let people out there aware of my existence by joining all the social networks and building communities. Then all of a sudden I’d slipped from doing a couple of tasks at the same time, to about twenty things simultaneously. Sounds impossible, but somehow I was reading 3 ebooks, several blogs and websites whilst working on some graphics and typing an email and word document all at the same time.
Out of the blue, it was like something popped inside my brain. Sudden major mind meltdown, I couldn’t think I was dizzy and really felt physically effected . ):
Twenty minutes sitting down and some fresh air and I was fine again. (:
I am an information hungry guy, but I learned that sometimes I need to slow down. Concentrate on completing a few tasks at a time and to stop being greedy, if you put to much food on your plate you’ll never be able to eat it all and enjoy it properly. Easier to say than do.
According to Wikipedia
Information overload refers to the state of having too much information to make a decision or remain informed about a topic. It is often referred to in conjunction with various forms of Computer-mediated communication such as e-mail and the Web. The term was coined in 1970 by Alvin Toffler in his book Future Shock
Miltski Joins The BogLog Blogger Blogging Blogs-Blogged?
Mar 19th
This week I have really got into MyBlogLog.
I LOVE IT !
Clean Layout, Great simple tools and easy to get around. There are some really cool people making extremely interesting content. To early to be listing who my favorites are yet, I’m just getting on my feet and having a look round. Leaning the lay of the land, so to speak.
Anyone out there got any tips about how to maximize the MyBlogLog experience?
Join The Miltski MyBlogLog Community HERE !
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Getting it Wrong to Get it Right ? (Part 8) “Paid-To-Read”
Mar 6th
8. Paid To Read Emails – Easy Money ?
Feeling Slightly defeated , I decided I would try a whole new area, Paid-To-Read (PTR).
So I do my research and start signing up to many different PTR sites. Understanding that it is exactly what it says, read emails and get paid. The only catches seem to be that you have to open the email for minimum 30seconds, and you can only claim your money once you’ve met their minimum payout, meaning you’ll have to read for example 50 emails before you can withdraw your money. Sounds pretty simple.
Now lets give it a try.
I started finding sites that pay $0.10 for each email you read, then I found sites offering more than double this, offering $0.25 per email. Then a whopping $5 per email site popped up.
So I join all these sites and start opening paid emails.
Then I notice a site offering $10, and then another new site offering $50,
Surely no advertiser would ever pay this sort of money for potential customers to read their promotions.
And then the snowball continues and a new site offering $100 per email, then another offering $500.
Just as I was starting to think that this is getting stupid…….
$2000 per email !
Yes, this is true. Well it’s true that this company is claiming that they will pay this amount per email read. But WILL they actually pay-up.
Wow, if a guy in the third world could catch on to this he could read one email per day and from the money he received from that 30 seconds of reading, he would be able to feed the whole of his starving village!
In fact, I should write to the world food program about this scheme and let them know all about it. They could simply install a couple of computers in each poor area of the world, the locals read a couple of emails a day and as if by magic, we have an instant end to world poverty and starvation !
Well time to start clicking away on that inbox, when ever I have a spare half an hour, I open my PTR emails. Now this is where the problem starts, if you had the choice to open up a paid email that pays you $0.25 or an email that claims to pay you $2000, which one would you choose ? Greed/curiosity takes over in most peoples brain’s at this point.
So what if I want to get paid now ? No problem, simply buy a VIP membership and upgrade your account so that there is no minimum payout limit.
For testing out this PTR area I am concentrating on a particular site where thdeal goes like this ; $10 per email, $250 bonus for sign up and the minimum payout is $1000. Ok that’s about 75 emails to read before I can request the cash to be paid in to my Paypal. But only 3-4 paid emails will be sent to me each day. So it’s gonna take a few weeks.
It seems like its taking forever to reach this minimum payout level, So I pay $99 to upgrade to receive instant payouts.
Paid the money, but cannot find the payout button. Send email after email asking what’s going on. And no replies, then suddenly I log in to my account and it says that they do not have my details on their database.
I do some research on Google and discover that I’m not alone. Other people are also having the same problems with the same company. Ok, that’s it, straight to Paypal, find the order details, and register it as a dispute. What happens here is that I have to write a message requesting full refund then Paypal forwards this to the seller presumably with some sort of Paypal warning attached. If the seller and buyer cannot sort it out between themselves, then after 20days Paypal steps in to sort it out.
And after weeks of this company not answer my emails, suddenly within hours of me asking for my money back through Paypal, the money was back into my account.
I do hear a lot of people on the internet complaining about Paypal charges being to high. Maybe sometime in the future I will also be moaning about Paypal fee’s. But this is one of those moment s where I just have to sing their praises……. PAYPAL IS GREAT.
So I’m not going down the membership route again. With my confidence in the whole PTR thing totally knocked. I concentrate on reaching the minimum payout on this next site. Check this out – It’s the one that could end world poverty – $2000 per email, minimum payout of $500,000. Yeah right ! so with no faith in it at all, I reached the minimum payout level, sent the email requesting payment. And guess what happens ?….
I login to my account to see that (same as before), my details are not on their database. Surprise, surprise.
This is where I should learn from my mistakes and continue my investigations into the whole world of PTR.
But I cannot bring myself to open any more paid to read emails after these experiences. I am gonna have to quit this area, for now at least.
I do want to finish with this challenge; Is there any-one out there who can prove me wrong ? Who can show me that there is a way to do this AND get paid !
Email me – newkid@miltski.com
Getting it Wrong to Get it Right ? (Part 7) Guru Report
Mar 3rd
7. The Guru Report – Make Thousands in Days 100% Guaranteed ?
So I was continuing my searching out different areas on the internet, about money making. And it seems like the majority of the stuff I found opens up with, “How I made a million dollars off the internet” or “How me and my wife make $100 per Hour” and you would then scroll down through photos of expensive cars and houses they have purchased with their riches. Usually followed by some Testimonials from supposedly real people who have profited from their system saying how great it is, and how thankful they are that they did it. At the end of all this information is the “BUY NOW” button leading me to payment page. And nearly always the price is slashed down from some ridiculous price to $127, $97, $47 or $27. I have no idea why they are always these prices. Seriously, I cannot remember ever seeing one of these items at for example : $99 or $85. If anyone knows why this is please tell me.
So out of curiousness I found one of these priced at $9.95, and I bought it.
A digitally delivered ebook, meaning that immediately after payment I can download it on to my computer as a PDF file.
I read it through and it was OK. A lot of the information was irrelevant to me like tips about using Craigslist.com to find local for sale bargains, go pick them up, photo, then put it on eBay. Only problem is that I live in the UK and this website, Craigslist.com, is stuff for sale in the US. There was a couple of other tips in there, but nothing that was gonna make me rich. And as I start to think that the only one who’s getting rich here is the kid who wrote it. And he will get more rich as fools like me continue to buy this stuff.
So then I start thinking well if he can do that then so could I.
Throw some text and pics together and sell it repeatedly for $10, but I would not feel comfortable with this, knowing how I felt ripped off. Would I really be able to sleep at night knowing that I was making money in a way where the customer feels cheated.
From this point onwards I was wrongly accusing anything that had a sales page was most defiantly always a scam.
But I did learn an important lesson about how these things are structured.
