Stubborn Streak

By now I have been clicking almost daily since the 29^th of August.

I have been almost religious in my devotion to click at all opportunities. I have researched and joined several programs and I have been trying to spread the word about it in order to gain referrals (although I could probably have been a bit more agressive with the latter).

So far for 2 and a half month worth of clicking this is what I have to show for the time investment:

Surveyhead: 7.85$

Clixsense : 5.219$

Neobux: 0.455$

Dungeons and Treasures: 0.713$ (That is right the 363 982 gold I earned last month, with the help of my mother converted to a whopping 0.692$) Ihave 159k gold for this month so far, but I must admit that I had hoped to have at least 1$ by now.

Mysurvey: 105 points (115 points is 1€)

Global Testmarked: 90 points (1000 points is 50$)

In essence my suspicion has been confirmed. Paid to "something" is pretty much a useless way to earn money. The only way you could potentially earn anything relevant from these schemes is if you magically get people to sign up with you are their referrer. Sounds familiar? That is because it is very close to how pyramid schemes are working. All the sites I have come across have some way of attempting to get money from you. Clixsense has the premium membership upgrade where you earn more per link and get extra money from the Clixgrid, then there is Neobux where you can "rent referrals". Basically you buy referrer status for a number of people who recently signed up without being referred. You then get a percentage of their clicks. Dungeons and Treasures has it in the forms of ranks and star points. If you buy a higher rank your gold is converted at a better rate and if you buy star points you can unlock extra dungeons.

In the end though, the sites are not a charity so they are going to try and make money every which way they can and that means on you as well dear reader.

Now all that being said. I have a stubborn streak and I am going to complete the goal I set out for. I will make 10€ on this one way or another, however I will not recommend going down this route for anyone else unless you actually enjoy the thing you sign up for. (Like having fun with Dungeons and Treasures.)

The paid to take surveys sites are a bit different, they may not pay much, however the ones I have listed above doesn't attempt to get money off you. (be aware as there are some out there that will ask you for a fee to let you take surveys for money. I would stay awat from those.) if you like to express your opinions I recommend doing paid surveys. Who knows, it might even yield a helping hand to the household budget once in a while.

On a side note. Some good have come of this whole project. While scouring the web for ways to make money I found http://www.squidoo.com and started making lenses. I haven't earned a single dime yet (only been active for 15 days or so), however I am really enjoying myself and the community is great. Today my Lens http://www.squidoo.com/ireland-in-pictures was featured as lens of the day. I could barely believe it when I logged in and I am super excited about this! :D

If you are interested in checking out my other lenses have a look here: http://www.squidoo.com/books-are-awesome http://www.squidoo.com/christmas-traditions-in-denmark http://www.squidoo.com/dwarf-rabbit-care http://www.squidoo.com/fantasy-books-for-children http://www.squidoo.com/Lets-decorate-for-Christmas

I will keep blogging about my clicking adventure whenever there is something to note, but the majority of my time will be spent Squidoing and I really, really enjoy it :) Until next time!

Another week another overview.

Another week has passed and it is time for an update on my earnings. First though I would like to share that I got lucky in the treasure hunt in Dungeons and Treasures this morning and earned an astounding 10000 gold. Those that has followed my blog from the beginning will know that, that is more than I had in total at the last gold conversion.

Anyways, here are my current earnings:

Surveyhead: 7.85$

Clixsense : 4.74$

Neobux: 0.355$

Dungeons and Treasures: 363 982 gold. (This is currently processing for conversion.)

Mysurvey: 105 points (115 points is 1€)

Global Test Marked: 70 points (1000 points is 50$)

All in all 12.945$ and then some. :)

As you can see not that much improvement from last week. So far it looks like the surveys are what earns the most, so I might see if I can't sign up for some more of those.

Otherwise it looks like I will need to get into the whole referral business for real. I am currently checking out the options on getting more referrals.

Dungeons and Treasures - Basic how to earn money playing the game.

Time to go a bit more into my current favourite "paid to" scheme.

Dungeons and Treasures

I have mentioned before that this is kind of an oldschool dungeon crawler, but the game is a bit broader than this.

When you first start out the game you are giving 500 gold. Make sure you spend it on a decent sword. There is a player marked and you can usually find a "Solid Sword" for a reasonable amount. If you are lucky you will also be able to afford a "Potion of Learning" on the first day. The trick to making a lot of gold from the page seems to be to level up as fast as possible because your character level affects the dungeon level. The higher the dungeon level the more gold you can make. If you have a look at the screen shot below you will see exactly what I mean. (note the gold earned does not include gains from chest keys or items that you sell).

As you can see I didn't make it past 50 so far and as I only have one day left of the the month, before the levels are reset I don't believe I will. It is however my goal for next month to get as high level as possible so I will be investing my gold in "Potion of Learning +2" as soon as I have the gold for it.

Aside from dungeon crawling I have a few daily routines on the site that I would recommend taking up:

The Temple:

Make sure you visit the temple every day and pray as you can get lucky and win gold doing this. Here is a list of my last 10 visits.

Last 10 visits DateGain

10/30/2011 01:42 Nothing

10/29/2011 04:06 Nothing

10/28/2011 04:12 Nothing

10/27/2011 04:10 1223 gold

10/26/2011 06:28 Nothing

10/25/2011 05:47 Nothing

10/24/2011 07:23 3500 gold

10/23/2011 04:29 Nothing

10/22/2011 18:13 Nothing

10/21/2011 02:52 Nothing

The Treasure Hunt:

Every day you can get one free ticket to the treasure hunt. Once you have claimed it go to the map and click any spot that is not yet blacked out. You usually get something, either a bit of gold or a key for the chest room. It seems you can also win real money as the Jackpot, but I have yet to be that lucky.

The Contest Clicks:

This is a bit more time consuming. The game runs contests over a period of time. (Current one is from 22^th of october to 2^nd of november). Whenever you refresh the page, there is a chance of a small icon spawning and flashing somehwere on the site.

If you click it a small window will open telling you how many tickets you have won. You can then go to the contest clicks page and scratch your tickets.

Each one will give you a number of Esteem points. By the end of the competition you will be rewarded gold or even star points based on your rank. Star points are really nifty because they can be used to purchase more dungeons. The contest click competition is one of the only ways to obtain star points without having to spend real money.

That was a basic rundown of the game. I might be looking into other details at a later date and maybe add some more advice on how to maximise your earning potential, once I have a better idea of this myself! :)

As a side note I am currently sitting on 338112 gold and I can't wait to see what that will be converted to in a couple of days.

Sponsor Bonus

As I have visitors from home this week I might not have time to update the blog until monday, so figured I would write a few words tonight.

I logged in to a really nice surprise in Dungeons and Treasures yesterday. A message was waiting for me stating: "You've earned 23000 gold in the Top Sponsorship finishing at position 18^th pretty neat bonus since it was approximately a 5^th of what I had earned so far. Meanwhile my mother has now earned me 11.341 gold and my total gold is 174786 for the month to far. Will be pretty cool to see how much that is after the conversion to $. I don't have my hopes up too high, but maybe I will be able to make close to a dollar this month. :P

I never mentioned that I also signed up for another "click to get paid" website. This one is called Neobux. I wanted to check if it might be better than Clixsense, but so far it seems much slower (if that is even possible). There is no lottery and it looks like all adds rewards the same 0.001$ I signed up on the 7^th of october and I have only managed 0.170$ so far. On the bright side, they apparently offer minimum payout of 2$ so maybe the site can help me get to my goal in combination with one of the others. However with this speed it will take me approximately 117 days to get to 2$ and that is without missing a single day of clicking. Soooo.... :)

Jackpot!

Okay so I have 2 things to share.

The first thing is a piece of really great news.

Last wednesday I won in the Clixgrid game and this time it wasn't just 0.25$, no I won 2.50$ a sum that you could actually buy stuff for. It is 2 and a half liter of milk, 6 apples or a return bus ticket.

The win more than doubled my current earnings on the site and I now have 4.24$, this of course is still a long way from anything I can actually get cashed out, but I still feel I am much closer to the goal. Yay me!

The second thing I want to talk about is something I briefly touched upon in a previous blogpost. I have been looking around for alternative method of making money on the internet and one of the things I came across was Dungeons and Treasures. http://dungeons-treasures.com/inscription.php?c=1&p=55885

Now this may sound a bit weird to most sane people, but I actually really enjoy this game. Here is a small breakdown.

The game is an oldschool dungeon crawler a little like a very simplified version of Eye of The Beholder, without the story part. You have a character that can gain levels and get better equipment. Each day you can visit the tavern and get access to a dungeon. In the dungeon you will find items and gold on the floor which you can pick up and you will of course have to fight monsters to level up and to be able to explore the entire dungeon.

Yeah, yeah you are probably thinking, but what about the money? Well remember the gold I mentioned? Each month your gold is converted to real money and once you have enough you can cash out. Sounds pretty awesome right?

Well before you go crazy there are a few things to mention. Whenever a monster damages you, you get 1 wound. When you reach 6 wounds you loose a life. You only have 3 lives per day. Furthermore you can only get one dungeon per day, so once you are done exploring that you have to wait for the next day to get a new one and continue earning money. Lastly the conversion of gold to real money is of course not very high so you have to earn a good deal of gold to get enough to cash out, however personally I am having fun playing! :)

Last month I only go to play a tiny bit which meant I only had around 8k at the time of conversion. That has left me with 0.021$

Dungeons and Treasures is advertising that you get some benefits from referring people and I really wanted to try out whether that was true or not so I asked my mom if she would help me out. As she is awesome, she of course said yes immediately and signed up with me as her Godfather (heh). At the moment it seems that I am getting 30% of her earned gold added to my stack which is actually pretty cool. So far she has earned me about 7k in 3-4 days. I am still curious to see if this page will actually cash out once I reach 10$, but so far I have gotten what it says on the tin.

One funny little thing about the game is that it was originally french and the translations on the page is sometimes pretty funny, but if the site is actually going to pay me for something I find entertainment I am not going to complain about it.

Feel free to sign up using the referral link http://dungeons-treasures.com/inscription.php?c=1&p=55885 and help me check if the site actually pays. (or don't use the referral link, I wont be angry I promise. Just slightly disappointed :P )

On a final note. Yes my mom plays video games and yes she is pretty frigging amazing! :)