Cash You Later

More and more companies are starting to get involved in the Facebook community, either by use of plugins that the Facebook users can use or by personal accounts to interact with various Facebook users. It’s a good way to market your company, to get new associates, or to get new employees. Just don’t go there to get employed, it doesn’t work that way.

Facebook is the world, it’s the place were users from all over the world gather for senseless timeconsuming activities. I have an account there too, because so do all my friends, but I’d rather be without it. Sure, Facebook is a nice community. It was tons of features, it’s fast, it’s simple, and you can find old classmates or significant others if you search for them, but there’s a downside to the community as well. If you read the policy before signing up you’ll notice that all the content you upload, write and share with other users, becomes property of the site. They have the right to use all uploaded material for whatever purposes they like. They can give out, sell, trade, whatever. Talking about a new invention of yours with a friend? Talking about filesharing? Talking about bad habits? Talking about criminal acts you did as a kid? Not a good idea, all that stuff might just backfire at you, if there’s a third party interested. This third party ( 1st being facebook, 2nd being you ) might be a company interested in employing you, an anti-piracy association or a company in search for new products. So there, that’s the reason you shouldn’t sign up at Facebook. Or rather, that’s the reason you shouldn’t like facebook, and why you should be careful about what you say and share on Facebook.

By all means, go ahead, sign up. Just don’t give them anything that you don’t want them to have. Beware, be aware. Other than that it’s just as they say it is, an international community full of opportunity. If you have copyright on your products, go ahead and advertise them here. Join the community, stay active, get friends, get contacts, get good business.

Don’t you like paying for expensive webhosting? Neither do I. Or maybe you’re just unsatisfied with your current free host? In either one of those cases, this is the place for you. Here you can talk to other users about webhosting; both the troubles of mantaining one and the troubles of chosing one. If you’re a webhost you can post offers. If you’re a customer you can browse through offers or request custom plans. This is the number one place to go if you’re looking for free web hosting. There are lots of different plans availible, with all the features you’ll ever need, weather you’re new to the webbing world or if you’re an experienced user with a big site you’de like to move.

Websites are a key feature on the internet, they are what give you an identity of your own. Sure, you have your IP, your personal adress, but without a site of your own there is nothing there. It’s like a big green field just waiting to have a house raised upon it. As with all branches of business, there’s a downside to gree hosting as well, this being the fact that most free webhosts tend to dissapear after an unspecified ammount of time due to bad funding or boredom. Most people who start offering free hosting are people with good intentions, but with little knowledge within the matter, and often with not enough money either. Running a dedicated server costs money, and you have to know how much you can offer to run a host of your own. No worries though, if you backup your site constantly this can’t harm you. If the host goes down you can always switch to another one, and keep moving. Eventually you’re bound to find a free host that stays, because obviously some of them do.

When judging the different plans take note to the different features described. If you’re new to the web, then it probably won’t matter much, you’ll be satisfied whichever plan you chose. But if you are an experienced internet user you might want to look out for filesize limits, ads and filetype limitations. The free hosts that actualy aim to make money instead of just help the hostless always have limitations, always, if they didn’t they wouldn’t profit. The good thing about these hosts is that they stay, but that doesn’t make them reliable. Also look out for too generous plans, with unlimited space, databases, etc. If there are no caches, it’s still not worth signing up for. The service just won’t last long. Trust me, I’ve been signed up with a dussin free webhosts like this, and all of them have eventually dissapeared, despite their false promises of eternal hosting. It’s a tricky business, but you can save a lot of money from it, and as I said before, as long as you backup constantly you’ll be out of harms reach. Maybe I should repeat that : Make full site backups. Constantly. I’m not even going to talk about the countless ammount of times I’ve had to start over from scratch, or from an ancient copy, after a hosting provider dissapeared.

Free hosting is mostly aimed towards the beginner, that doesn’t have a big site, and doesn’t need focus on reliability either, but big websites can be hosted for free too, no problem. If you have lots of traffic it’s often possible to strike a deal with some professional hosting company for free space in exchange for a link to their website/etc. Anyhow, that’s enough of my random rambling, go here to get started. Or if you prefer paid hosting, you can visit these forums for dedicated & paid forum hosting instead. You’ll find offers, requests, reviews and discussions here as well, just like the above, only more professional. Good luck.

Another cash for posting site has appeared, namely paidposting.org. This one differs from the others in that users place bids for jobs they want, and the client choses the users they want. No, you don’t pay to get a job, you bid on how much you’de be willing to do the job for. The forms of payment, the amounts of payment, and job info are not handled by the site itself, but by the clients. This is a serious form of business that will make you lots of money, and it’s all up to you how much money you can get. The clients set the maximum amount they’re willing to pay, but other than that it’s your choice. $50, $100, $1000, you name it. Obviously the client will be looking for the more cheaper alternatives, so I advice you not too bid too high, but what’s even more important is good quality posts. You can list samples in your profile, select genres you’re interested in and write a short informative note about you to greatly increase your chances in getting the job. There aren’t many jobs available yet, but the site is growing quickly, and there are lots of users competing to get the jobs. Want to join in the competition? Click here to sign up.  Of course it’s free, no hidden fees, no caches. It might not be enough to work with full time, but it’ll give you occasionaly cashboosts to your account.

Reverb Nation is the artists home base for marketing and production across the digital realm. You can host unlimited songs, you can get free email, widgets, facebook apps, the ability to interact with other users and so much more, but that’s not all there is to it! The best thing about this place is that you can actualy make $$$ just staying active. So if you like music, or you make music yourself, just stay active here and it’s a win/win situation. I’ll skip going through the trouble of explaining myself and just quote their explanation on how you get your cashback :

ReverbNation shares half of the advertising revenue generated from artist profile pages on the web site. Each month, 50% of the total ad revenue from across all artist pages will be pooled, and artists who have opted-in to the Fair Share Program will receive a portion of that pool based on their overall site activity for the month.

There you have it. It might sound complicated, but it’s not complicated at all, the more time you spend there, the more money you get. As for how much money you get? I got $4 last month. Yes, that’s all there is to it, but considering that it’s all free and that it’s a place people would sign up at even if there wasn’t a possibility to earn money, that’s ok. A little cash doing what you love doing is better than none, right?

The hosting company that recently opened with so high expectations and this seemingly confident and reliable name just recently diseased. May you rest in peace, survivedigg.com.

The moral of this story : Don’t trust the internet.

There are tons of services out there that hire you to post at clients forums for a small percentage of their income, which normally ranges between 1-5 cents, if they give you even less than this, find a better provider. Here’s a list of the ten, in my humble opinion, best paid for posting websites. So far I’m a member at three of the websites mentioned below, and I’m happy with the extra income they’ve been generating for me this and the last month, try them out! Most of them require you to post a few sample posts before hiring you, but don’t worry, they aren’t as strict as they claim to be, and once you’ve scribbled a little you’ll be part of a happy profitable team! Some of the websites listed below ( well, most of them ) don’t mention how much they pay writers per post, but if you’re interested they’ll probably give you an answer if you send them an email. Also, the more they take from clients, the more you should get.

1. Paid Forum Posting

I’m afraid I can’t give you a very biased review on this one. It’s the service I’ve worked most with out of the ones mentioned, and so far it’s been going great. They give  $.2 Per Post, the team is helpful and active, and there are overall about five new jobs each week. Great place.

2. Ideal Posting

Ideal Posting is a relativly new service, with a simple signup application requiring no sample posts. They have missions within varied genres and good pay as well, compared to other providers. $.5 Per Post.

3. Forum Shock

Forum Shock is a big reliable service that just recenntly celebrated their first birthday online, and a wooping 70,000 posts for clients in just 365 days. They have good support, lots of availible jobs, and unfortunately also many writers ( atm over 1000 ). Keep an eye open for open spots though, they are always looking for new talent, so if you have it, you’ll get a job easily. They also offer other services related to forum signitures, skin making, etcetc. No payment information is however availible onsite.

4. Paid Posting Central

A good service, with good jobs, helpful administrators and a good deal of work involved as well. Not much more I know about this service, yet.

5. Forum Angels

A stylish website. Lots of clients, lots of writers and and lots of work. The pay isn’t the greatest in the world, but if you manage to post fast and keep the quality threshold high you can make a fine deal money here.

6. Content Wizards

The Content Wizards not only speciailze in forum posting, but also in webdesign, installation, articles, and other webrelated tasks. If you need a job, send them a message and you’ll be given one.

7. Forum Mechanics

Here’s another good service. They offer forum posting, installation, as well as a few other services. If they accept new writers is not viewable on their site, but an email should get you an answer.

8. Post on My Forum

One of the more greedy services out of this bunch. They don’t give much to their writers, but they have quite a few availible jobs and no lack of workers either at the time of writing. If you need the job, apply and get posting, if not you’d be better off looking at one of the alternatives above. ^
Forum Angels is a stylish website, with lots of plans, active forums and a variety of different members.

9. Adhoc Posting

A new reasonable service, with a few writers and good plans. The layout might not be the nicest one could achieve, but they have good support and seem to be doing their job well so far.

10. Posting Pays

Posting pays should be way further down the list, but in lack of other good services to post about I thought I’d talk about this one as an example. of one of hundreds of services that start out full with ambitions, and end within months. At the time of writing the domain is parked and filled with ads, awaiting future revival, which is not likely to be arriving anytime soon – at least not from the current providers. Be aware that there are more sites like this than there are good reliable posting services, so don’t waste your time with newcomers you don’t completely trust.