Shopkick

Whether you are an early holiday-shopper or a frequent visitor to your local mall, you will hardly ever see your favorite stores hand money to you for simply visiting them.  Sure, they may offer you discounts that will make your mouth water, but rarely will you see a store pay you for walking in and not buying anything.

Until now…

Introducing Shopkick, the most fun way to window shop you never knew existed.  Shopkick is an app that does the unthinkable: it rewards you for setting foot in participating stores, even though you do not make a purchase.  I know, crazy right?

Before you head out the door, let me share with you how Shopkick rewards its users.  Using the GPS on your Smartphone, Shopkick will recognize when you have entered one the many stores that are participating with the app, but you must have the app open, your GPS and, of course, internet enabled on your mobile device.  Depending on the day and store, you can earn anywhere from a dime to a dollar for just walking in. 

But wait, it doesn’t end there.  If you actually like the store, you can stick around for a little longer and go on a little money-making scavenger hunt.  Using the app’s built-in CPU reader, you can scan the barcode of selected items on the Shopkick app to maximize the return for your visit.  Certain stores can pay around 50 cents just to scan a single item.  Imagine how much you can make by scanning the 10-15 items stores like Target ask you to scan at times.

I am the typical guy who does not like shopping. On occasion, however, I look forward to the times where I can let my wife loose in the store, and I can begin my quest to obtain Shopkick gift card of choice.  You won’t know until you try it…it could change your shopping life!

You may even be on the opposite end of the spectrum of guys like me where you actually go window shopping (Shopkick in hand) and decide you are going to buy something.  Why not link your credit card to Shopkick and get even more from your visit?

Imagine this scenario: you walk into the store (ding), you get paid.  You scan a few items (ding, ding, ding), and you get paid again.  Lastly, you decide to buy that game, snack, or blouse, and (ding) you can get paid for that as well!  It must be said, the “kicks” you gain from purchasing are subject to the turnaround time of their return policy.  You know, so as to prevent you sly ones from purchasing an item, getting the points, and returning those items the next day.  Shame on you for thinking that!

On that note, I want to warn you that scanning barcodes from a website and not on the actual product may get you in some trouble with Shopkick.  I’ve thought of trying this myself, but after a few scans, you get an email from Shopkick where they warn you to ceases and desist or your account will get deleted.  So, try to play fair.

 

Shopkick is really a great app for the whole family!  I’ve actually had my whole family try it one time, and we had a blast with the scavenger hunt portion of the app.  Plus, we all got paid to do so.

So the next time you’re thinking of going to the store, don’t forget to register for Shopkick before you walk in!

Panel App

As you read through this blog, you may be asking yourself, “Ok, what is the money-making app or internet service that requires the least participation?” 

Some people may question your character if they knew what was going on in your head.  We are not some people.  We are not lazy; we are smart!  And for smart people like us, there’s the Panel App.

The Panel App is an app you install on the device that best describes you, your Smartphone.  Once you create an account, you are pretty much done.  Just make sure that the Panel App is always using your current location and is always running in the background.

“Wait,” you may ask, “this app is running in the background all the time? And why does it need to my location?” 

According to Placed, the Panel App developers, “The Panel App collects location data for the purpose of analytics and reporting. Location data is pooled with data collected from thousands of panelists to provide meaningful insights to third parties about the population at large. Analytics and reporting are limited to aggregates of multiple users, and not available at the individual level to third parties. This data is not used for ad targeting. Opt out at any time by uninstalling the app.”

So, they are monitoring how and where you use your Smartphone.  Some of you may already start to feel hesitant at the sheer thought that someone is monitoring your phone, but relax!  They are not logged into your phone watching everything you are doing, and, have I mentioned why it’s on this blog? YOU GET PAID!!

You get paid for doing nothing at all.  You do have the option of earning more by answering a survey question or two per week, but you can just ignore them and continue on with life, accumulating points that can be exchanged for Amazon gift cards, PayPal cash, and more.

You asked which money-making app or internet service requires the least amount of participation? The answer is the Panel App.  Download the app today, and begin making money the smart way!

RadioLoyalty

Here at Apportunis.tk, we always ask the question, “Can we get paid to do that?”  Because, whatever that is may be a really good opportunity to make a quick buck without any effort at all.  It already may be something you do every day.  So far, we have discovered that can be anything from searching the web to watching movie trailers.  

Now, have you asked yourself, “Can we get paid for listening to music?”

 

In 2014, Pandora Radio registered around 80 million users who played over 3.9 billion hours of music online¹! And, yep, you guessed it…no one got paid to do it…

This is where we want to introduce Inbox Dollars and its online radio counterpart RadioLoyalty.  Inbox Dollars, like Swagbucks, is a money-making, online activity conglomerate that lets you get paid for reading emails, filling out surveys, and searching the web.  We’ll get to those another time, but for now, let’s get paid just for listening to the radio!

Signup for Inbox Dollars. Then, to get paid to listen to music:

1) In the menu, go to More.

2) You will see a drop-down list with items, including the option Radio. 

>> Clicking More  will you to a page describes the items on the drop-down list. 

>> Clicking Radio will take you to a page that informs you about how to get paid for listening to online radio. 

3) Click Start Earning to be taken to the RadioLoyalty website.

RadioLoyalty has partnered up with Inbox Dollars so you can get paid for using their online radio service.  You can create a RadioLoyalty account on its own, but setting up an Inbox Dollars account allows you to streamline all your online activity and “pick up your check” in one place.  Convenient.

While you are in RadioLoyalty, you will have the opportunity choose from different music stations, like any other radio streaming service.  The catch is: an ad will appear in a pop-up box every 10 minutes.  This ad will allow you to type in a code, and, by submitting the code, you will be credited for listening.  You will earn 1 cent from Inbox Dollars for every code you submit.

I know, a penny every ten minutes is not going to allow you to solve the world’s hunger problems, but, hey, you were probably losing money before while listening and buying music online.  With RadioLoyalty, you are actually making money.

If you let RadioLoyalty play in the background for an 8 hour work day, then you have the potential of making 48 cents (1 cent x 6 codes per hour x 8 hours) in one day.  Granted, you have to remember to type in your code every time it pops up.  Imagine, though, 48 cents a day for five days is about $2.50 a week!

Ok, so now you are excited about getting paid for listening to music.  When can you cash out?  Inbox Dollars believes in paying you in PayPal cash.  So, you’ll first need a PayPal account, and, then, you’ll need to earn $30 before you can cash out.  Yes, that bar is a little high for 50 cents a day, but time flies when you’re having fun and doing brainless things like listening to music, in the background, at work.

Plus, you’ll have an Inbox Dollars account, and you’ll be able to part-take in other money-making activity to help you get your $30 bucks. 

So, what are you waiting for?  Money doesn’t grow on trees (yet), but it sure pays to listen to music!  Sign up for Inbox Dollars and RadioLoyalty today.

 

1 http://www.statisticbrain.com/pandora-radio-statistics/

Perk TV

The movie industry is a $10 billion industry and growing¹.  And you and I may never get to see a penny of that!  Still, some of us can’t get enough of movies, their DVDs, the theaters that play them (not to mention their overpriced popcorn), and the trailers.  Oh! The trailers!

What if movies could pay you to watch them?

Well, if you like watching movie trailers, then you’re in luck!  Perk TV is an app in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store that pays you to watch what’s going to be in theaters soon.  I wish I were kidding, but it’s true!

Perk TV is one-of-a-kind.  While there are a few Apps out there that pay you to play movie trailers, only Perk TV plays the trailers continually without you having to push a button or enter a code to get credit.   So, it doesn’t require very much involvement. 

Perk TV pays modestly.  For an app that doesn’t require you to pay much attention to it, it pays really well.  One movie trailer takes about 1 minute on average.  Tack on the required 30 second ad, and you’ve earned yourself 4 perk points. Ok, so that doesn’t seem very much at first, but those little “suckers” build up when you leave your mobile device running for about the 4 hours it lets you without prompting: “Are you’re still watching?” 

Perk TV gives you options.  Great options! Originally, Perk TV would allow users to watch movie trailers and app trailers.  They dumped the app trailers and added trending videos (they’re called “Popular videos” in the app).  So, YouTube hogs, go forth and get paid. AND, the most recent version of Perk TV pays you when you watch live TV!

Wait, there’s even more options when it comes to cashing out.  You have the option of sweepstakes, gift cards, gadgets, and PayPal cash! Anything from a $2 (2,500 Perk Points) to $250 (250,000 Perk Points) gift cards, just for leaving your mobile device charging, connected to Wi-Fi, on Perk TV.  You won’t find an easier way to make buck!

So, what are you waiting for?  Hopefully, not the next (unpaid) movie trailer of the Avengers.  Get Perk TV today, and have movies pay you back! Use code b93a281a to get 50 free Perk Points.

1 http://www.the-numbers.com/market/

Swagbucks

With little involvement, search engines like Bing still reward you.  However, you are limited to the amount of credits you can earn in a day and, in turn, are limited to how quickly you can exchange those credits for gift cards.

Well, what if you’re like me and, with a little more involvement, seek to earn more at a quicker pace?  Say hello to Swagbucks!

Not only does Swagbucks have a search engine that rewards you, but it is essentially a hub for all kinds of internet activity that pays you back.  From surveys to shopping, video clips to video games, Swagbucks offers so many ways to earn cash depending on the way you use your Smartphone and the internet.

Below, I’ve listed Swagbucks’ many features in the order of your expected amount of involvement (1 being least to 6 being greatest).  You’ll get paid Swagbucks (SBs) for all of it, but the amount will be up to you!

1. Search

Swagbucks Search, now powered by Yahoo, is probably where you’ll find the least amount of involvement needed to rack up SBs in exchange for rewards.  Just substitute your idea of “let’s Google it” to “let’s look it up on Swagbucks,” and you’re pretty much set. 

Since people’s use of search engines is so instinctual (no thinking required) and habitual (you do it pretty much every day), the guys and gals at Swagbucks have decided to raise the bar a little bit.  Instead of rewarding you 1 SB for every search you make, you are rewarded SBs at random after an unspecified number of searches

Come again?

You read correctly.  After an x amount of searches, you will be rewarded an x amount of SBs.  In my experience, I’ve been rewarded as low as 5 SBs and as high as 25 SBs after about ±10 searches.  The good news is that there’s no real limit as to how many SBs you can earn in a day.  Sign up with Swagbucks and start searching today!

2.  Shop

If you’re anything like me, when you go to the store: you run in, get what you need to buy, pay, and get out.  My online shopping habits are quite similar.  However, I don’t get paid to shop online this way at all!

This is where Swagbucks steps in and says, “if you want go to get paid, come to me first!”  Swagbucks Shop works like the middle-man.  Think of it as your online “parking lot” before entering the store.  Swagbucks has partnered up with hundreds of online retailers so that you can get paid SBs for entering the online shop’s site through Swagbucks and making purchase. 

More on this in the weeks to come, but, for now, sign up with Swagbucks and startgetting paid to shop today!

3. Play

Have you ever been bored? (Silly me…not if you’re reading this blog, right?)  Well, for those who are not having as much fun as you are at this moment, Swagbucks has a spot where you can play online games and win SBs.  You’ll need to win a few games before you can go out and buy yourself an actual game console, but that’s why this is not at the top of this list.

More on this in the weeks to come, but, for now, sign up with Swagbucks and get paidto play online games today!

4. Watch

If you don’t like to play games like online solitaire and make SBs, then Swagbucks may have an alternative that may interest you.  I call it “get paid-per-view videos clips.” They call it Swagbucks TV.

Some people spend hours and hours on Youtube watching some great videos, but what if you could get paid to watch them?  Swagbucks TV allows that to become a dream come true.  The videos do not play themselves, however, so you will have click the next button a few times before you get awarded any SBs.  Heads up, there will be tons of ads as well.  More on this in the weeks to come, but, for now, sign up with Swagbucks and startwatching Swagbucks TV today!

5. Discover

You may find yourself gunning for that $25 PayPal gift card in the Swagbucks Store, but you don’t have nearly enough SBs to get it.  So, now you’re feeling like making some higher bets. You’re probably willing to do almost anything to make up the lost ground.

Head on over to the Offers page, risk-taker, where you will find that different vendors are looking for people like to you try out their service and get paid.  This is by far the fastest way to make SBs, but YOU MUST READ THE FINE PRINT!  Some vendors require you to actually pay a fee before or after the trial period is over, so be very careful not to lose more money that you make.

More on this in the weeks to come, but, for now, sign up with Swagbucks and bankingthe SBs today!

6. Answer

Swagbucks Surveys are, in my opinion, the most involved of all the possible ways you can earn rewards on Swagbucks.  You have to be patient, and if you don’t qualify for one, don’t fret.  There are a thousand other ones you can take on.

More on this in the weeks to come, but, for now, sign up with Swagbucks and takingsurveys for SBs today!

Rewards Store

Alas, I have a mountain SBs and a shaky trigger finger.  It’s time to spend!  As complete as Swagbucks is in terms of making SBs, it isalso as complete in providing you ways to spend them.  Do you have a specific store you’d like to shop at?  There are gift cards for that!  Care to try your luck on some sweepstakes?  There are entries for that!  Are you just looking to cash out?  There’s even a way to do that through PayPal!  All of this and more can be found at the Swagbucks Store.

A word of caution regarding gift cards: Most gift cards do take 7 to 10 days for them to available for use, unless there’s a special where you can pay a little extra and get that gift care immediately.  Just remember, good things come for those who wait.

So, are you ready to make some money?  You should be aware that though Swagbucks may be life-changing for some, do not expect to quit your day job.  Swagbucks is a fun way to use the internet and get paid for it.  Period. 

Personally, I must say, I have made the more money on Swagbucks than another other app or internet service available online (as of today).  Furthermore, the availability to cash out using PayPal is definitely a huge plus for me.  So, what are you waiting for?  Signup for Swagbucks and start making your laptop or Smartphone “churn out” SBstoday!

Bing Rewards

According to Google’s Annual Search Statistics¹, as of January 1, 2014, there were a little over 2 trillion searches made on Google in 2013.  That’s a little less that 6 billion searches a day, and none who searched got paid for it!

So, what if you could get paid to do a simple search online? Well, now you can with Bing! That’s right, the Microsoft search engine that no-one-but-your-uncle uses.  If you have a Microsoft account or an @live.com, @hotmail.com, or @outlook.com email address, you can already start making “some bank” if you switch to searching with Bing.  Sign up now to earn 20 credits towards the rewards you want! 

Granted, you get $0.15 a day for 30 searches (I have a school email that is Microsoft based, and I get paid $0.30 a day for 60 searches), you’d be surprised as to how fast those point accumulate over a month’s time.

·         30 searches per day x 30 days = 900 searches per month

·         15 points per day x 30 days = 450 credits a month

·         $0.15 a day x 30 days = $4.50 a month

Ok, so you won’t get rich on Bing Rewards, but, once you achieve Gold Member status (750 credits), $5 gift cards won’t be worth 525 points but 475 points, and your 30 searches a day aren’t the only thing you’ll get credit for.  Bing Rewards will give you extra points at times when they are promoting like Bing’s calculator or Mobile searching (10 extra credits a day).  There are even some days that Bing Rewards runs a special “Double Credit” days where you can earn up to 30 to 60 credits in one day!

So why search with Bing rather than with Google or Yahoo!?  Well, at the end every month, you’re practically guaranteed a $5 gift card for Amazon, Applebee’s, Domino’s Pizza, GameStop, Groupon, Fandango, Hulu, Starbucks, Xbox Live etc.

Are you ready to start making money out of nothing?  Well, at least out of something you already do every day?  Join Bing Rewards by clicking on the ad below and earn 20 credits towards the rewards you want!

1 Google Annual Search Statistics - http://www.statisticbrain.com/google-searches/