1. Get Paid to Scan Your Groceries
This one is also through the
Nielsen company and this division will pay you to report the
purchases you make at the grocery store each week. Crazy, right?
Once you sign up to become a Homescan family, the company will
send you a free scanner (like the one pictured to the left). Every time
you go shopping, you simply scan the barcodes on the back of each
product and send your data off to Nielsen. Pretty easy, huh?
If you want to give it a try, you can fill out the application
here: Nielsen Homescan Application
As an active participant, you earn gift points which you can redeem
for different types of merchandise. You can choose
electronics, jewelry, household items, and even toys for the kids. The
longer you stay on the panel, the more opportunity you have to earn
points towards prizes.
You also receive entries for the panel’s many sweepstakes. Prizes
include money, vacations, and brand new vehicles. This is a great
way to make your consumer voice count and be rewarded handsomely
for recording your purchases. You’re already going to the grocery
store anyway, right?
2. Earn Extra Money by Listening to the
Radio, Reading Emails, etc.
One of my favorite ways to make some extra money is with
InboxDollars.com. There are a number of websites that will pay you to
read advertiser’s emails, sign up for offers, and take surveys. I’ve
tried about a million of them, but there are only a few of them that I
would recommend. Inbox Dollars is one of those companies.
It’s free to join Inbox Dollars and best of all, they give you $5 just for
signing up. They’ll even pay you up to $120/year just to listen to
their radio station .
Inbox Dollars just requires that you accumulate $30 in earnings
before you can “cash-out” and they pay you by sending a check.
Some sample offers include one that asks you to sign up for a email
newsletter from AMF Bowling. That pays 50 cents and takes about 15
seconds. Another offer asks you to sign up for a free account at
Turbotax.com to earn $3.50. These are simple and there are nearly a
hundred of them to choose from. If you are interested in giving Inbox
dollars a try, visit the sign-up page here to get started (open to every
country).
3. Take a Survey with MySurvey.com
Most of you know that I hate survey companies.
There are so many scammy sites out there and often times taking a
survey is little pay for a lot of work. However, one of the
exceptions I make is with MySurvey .
They’re one of the oldest online survey companies and they have an A+
rating with the Better Business Bureau .
The reason I like MySurvey so much is that they pay you for even the
surveys you don’t qualify for. You see, most survey companies make
you take a “qualifying survey” before you are given access to the paid
survey. And if you don’t meet the qualifications for that particular
survey, you earn nothing (despite the fact that you spent 5 annoying
minutes answering questions).
MySurvey is different – even if you aren’t given access to the full
survey, they will stay pay you for answering the questions in the
qualifying survey. Pretty cool, huh? Now, you’re not going to get rich
answering surveys, but it can be a fun way to make an extra couple
hundred dollars a year. Heck, I do them as I’m watching TV.
Signup for MySurvey.com here. (USA only)
Update 3/23: Several readers have written me to
suggest Ipsos Panel as well. In addition to surveys,
they occasionally send you free products to test as
well. Sounds promising…
4. Open a 2nd Bank Account at Capital One
& Get a Free $50.00
About a year ago, Capital One took over the online bank, ING Direct,
and started offering free online checking accounts. What’s even cooler
is that they’ll give you $50 just to open one.
I’ve already got a checking account that I’m pretty happy with, but I
don’t mind opening a second one for some free cash.
Here’s how to do it:
1. Open a free checking account with Capital One 360 .
2. There’s no minimum deposit with this account, but you’ve got to
make at least 3 purchases with your Capital One 360 debit card
during the first 45 days of opening the account.
3. On the 50th day, Capital One 360 will deposit a free $50 in your
account. Sweet! For those of you who aren’t familiar with Capital One
360, they are a pretty popular virtual bank that gives spectacular
interest rates. It’s completely free to open and maintain an account
with Capital One 360.
Read more about it here: “ Free Money Alert: Get
$50 from Capital One 360”
5. Make Money by Hunting for Used Books
Most people know that you can sell your used college textbooks on
buyback sites like Amazon. But did you know that there are a growing
number of people who are hunt for novels at garage sales, estates
sales, and library sales and then resell them to the online retailers for
a higher price?
Here’s how it works:
First, de-clutter your own house with unwanted books to get the feel of
how this works. Now, not every book holds value and therefore some
books you may end up having to send to the Goodwill. You should also
know that there are several sites which purchase books so I recommend
that you check a few so can find out who has the best offer. My
favorite site has always been BookScouter.net .
Once you get started on one of the websites you’ll notice that they ask
you to enter in a the 10-digit ISBN number. It’s located right above
the book’s UPC number and it acts as a unique serial number for
books. Each site will then spit out a cash offer for your book. You’ll
need to pick the book with the highest offer and then ship the book to
them. They will pay for the shipping – you simply print out a
prepaid shipping label from their site and within a couple of weeks
you will receive a check back in the mail or a deposit in your Paypal
account. Pretty easy, huh?
Now for the hunting…
Your job is to head to the local garage sales, flea markets, library
sales, etc. and look for books that are cheap enough that they can be
resold for a profit. It used to be that you needed to be a bit of a used
book expert to know which books to buy. Certainly you don’t want to
start buying books that you can’t easily resale. However, it has now
gotten so easy that you can use your smartphone to look up the value
of a book before purchasing it. A few of the sites like BookScouter even
have a mobile app that allows you to enter the ISBN number and get
a cash offer on the spot. You can use it as you shop.
Just think of the earnings potential. If you are at a garage sale that
is selling books for .25 a piece and you find a dozen that are worth
$3-$5 you will make upwards of $50 just for visiting that one
garage sale. It’s awesome and it’s no wonder why a few people are
starting to make a living out of used book hunting.
Nothing on this page is going to get you rich, but sometimes it’s just
about making a few extra hundred dollars each month, right? So get
to work and have an awesome 2014!
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