The Earning Guide

The Earning Guide

This is a guide to earning cash online. It contains several helpful hints, tips, and strategies to keep you earning cash online safely. Earning money online will be much easier as long as you follow our guide. Be sure to check back every once in a while for additions and updates to the guide.

a. The basic

The Basic Necessities

· Use a valid email address - You will always want to have a valid email address to use when you sign up to a Pay To site. This is so that the website can contact you with inquiries about your account if needed. Also, some PTC sites require a valid email in order for your payments to be accepted. Another thing you will need your email address for is your payment processing site. For example, on Alertpay you will need a valid email address in order to sign up for an account.

· A Alertpay account - Most Pay To sites use Alertpay as their preferred payment method. This is because it is the easiest of the payment processors to use in many peoples' opinion. Although with Alertpay's recent rampage against PTC websites, we don't expect this payment processor to last long. The TitanCash network will be releasing a Payment Processor soon. Many people feel that this will be the best option as far as an alternative for Alertpay.

Getting Started

· Do Your Homework - It is always good to know at least a little bit about a \"Pay To\" site before you join it. Usually, knowing about a site, and it's owners and staff, can help you determine whether you want to join it, or stay away for fear of it being a scam. If you know a bit about the owner, you can usually make a good judgement on whether or not its going to turn to a scam. Also, a lot of scammers start more than one site, so, see if the owner of the site you are joining owns any other site, and see if they are in good standing. If they are scams, chances are that site is as well.

· Read The Terms of Service - You will need to know at least a little bit about the Terms of Service each site provides for their members. Always skim over this and check for irregularities and rules that you might not know about so that you dont accidentally break them without knowing.

b. How to not get scammed

Here are a few simple things to prevent getting scammed. Follow them closely, they are very accurate and will help you in the long run.

1. Don't Join Non-Customized Sites

When finding a new site, look at the layout, is it good, or bad? This may not seem like a key factor, but it most definately is.

If the layout is very bad(visually), they probably didn't put much time into it. This means they either can't design, or just don't care. Also if they are running the same old "bux" layout with a new banner, keep away. You want to find a site that is custom and in it for the long haul. If they were in it for the long haul they would make their site unique.

2. Don't Join Sites Of Past Scammers

If the site owner is known to of scammed in the past, don't join. The site owner may have an excuse or decided to "change his ways", but don't buy it. If they have scammed once, they will scam again, don't take the risk, ever.

3. Don't Purchase Anything <-- Important!

If you find a new site that seems to look okay and your considering purchasing something, don't. If the site is brand new with no real userbase or even payment proofs, don't join. Even if you hear people sing praises about getting payments, don't. Most scam sites pay out tons and tons quickly right away, then it just stops. Let the site be online for at least 1.5-2 months before purchasing to be safe.

4. Don't Use Sites Without Support/Forums

If the site doesn't have a good support system or forums where an admin is active, don't use it. This is the key way users and admins speak to each other and if it doesn't exist, they don't care. You should be able to get in contact with the owner within 48 hours at any time.

Hope this helps those looking to invest/join in sites. If you follow these rules religiously you will never be scammed, ever.

c. Gaining Referrals

Your part of a PTC and your trying to get people to join using your ref link, sounds easy enough but you realise eventually that there are many other people in the same situation trying to get people to join via their ref links also, so how do you get an edge above the rest? Follow some of these tips and your sure to have some more ref's in no time.

Blogs/Websites

With this, all you do is create a website or blog and post your referral links on there, give a description of each site and then advertise your blog or website anywhere you can from your myspace, online forums etc... to attract visitors.

If you want an example check out my website/blog. Online Forums

If your a member of an online forum (like this one for example) you can do many things to help advertise your ref links:

• Place referral links in your signature
• Create a post containing your referral links (if need be explain what ptc is)
• Link the WWW under your avatar to your blog,forum post,website or other
• If it's an online forum where people can donate money either directly to the forum or to a site the forum is a part of (like a game site or similar) and someone asks about how they can earn money without donating their own money either mention your website/blog or post about what ptcs are and your ref links

Now things are different from forum to forum (such as the type of forum it is and the rules of those forums) so just make sure what and where your posting is ok with the rules of the forums before you post and whatever you do, don't try to hide that the links people are joining with are your referral links.

Recommend people you actually know

This might not be the best of ideas or appropriate in some situations but if you know some people out there who might like the idea of PTC then tell them about it and maybe tell them about your blog, website, forum post etc...

Email Send an email to everyone you know who might like the PTC idea, of course don't go spamming people and make sure you use the appropriate etiquette (be nice etc...) Live chat programs (Online chat rooms, Msn etc...)

Now advertising your referrals in IM programs and online chat rooms can get a lot of peoples attention but again make sure you use the appropriate etiquette and your not breaking rules by spamming etc...

Advertising in the real world

Things like creating flyer's and popping them in letterboxes, create flyer's and whacking them on public notice boards, advertising in newspapers etc... Anyway you can advertise in the real world can help but again make sure its appropriate and you obey any laws in your area etc...

PTC (and other types) advertisement

If your a part of a ptc you might as well try advertising using that ptc, you can use money-earning PTC's like Advercash or Ad-only PTC's like Cashwebs but when you advertise you may think using your ref link may be a good idea but generally its not since most people clicking on a PTC are already be a member of that ptc (and don't advertise your ref link for a site on the same site) so what you can try is creating a site that will get peoples attention like your blog etc...

And that was my guide to getting more referrals, i would appreciate constructive criticism and praise. If there is anything else you think you could add to this guide please tell me, ill add it and give you credit for your contribution.

d. How to take a screenshot of your payment

Taking screenshots from your payments or others is not so difficult. After the 1st or 2nd time, it will take you only 5 minutes. Lets see how we can do it.

After we open the page with the details of the transaction on Alertpay, we press the key Print screen or on other Keyboards PRNTSCRNT.

Then we go to our Microsoft programs and open the Paint (Formerly PaintBrush) We go to Edit and Paste�. Now all our screen is before us. But it is too big hey? So we press this lil tool (from these 2 the one on the right)

And we select the piece of the image that we want.

We start by the up and left corner of the area we want, press the left mouse button and keep it pressed,

and slowly move the mouse to the right and down.....until we have the piece we want.

OK. Now we press copy, then go to File�, New and we open a new image. There we paste the piece we selected before, and we choose the eraser from the tools

and we erase some characters or all from the transaction ID and our paypal e-mail.

Just we point the mouse arrow on them carefuly and press the left button and draw the arrow to the right over the characters we want to erase. Slowly and carefuly the first time until you get use to it Now we are ready to save as.. Choose jpg format, it is smaller in KB than the others. Now we must find a Host to upload our image. Go to photobucket or imageshak and make a free account. After that you can upload your images and have them all in an albulm. The host will give you many links for your uploaded image. Examples of how your image will be when you post it. If you use the Direct Link you get this. How you put the link to posts ? You paste it and then you select it and press the "Insert image" button. Or you can first press the button and paste the link between the 2 tags. ([img].{/img]) The Thumbnail size link you simply copy and paste it So, now come on, go and get your screen shots, not only from payments but from whatever you want on your screen