Inbox Dollars
Inbox Dollars has a lot of ways to earn money.
While it’s billed as a paid to read email program, the emails they send are just an excuse to get you to come to the website. You do get paid for them, but the real money to be made on Inbox Dollars is at the website.
To start with, when you signup you get a $5 bonus, and can immediately take a $1 general survey. So you’ll have $6 in your account in short order. The minimum payout is $30, so your first goal should be to get the next $24 you need to get some money out of the program.
One easy way to earn each day with Inbox Dollars is to use their Cash Search program. You can get credit for two searches each day, so log on and do two searches as part of your daily routine. You won’t get the credit for the searches immediately, but will after a few days.
If you buy anything online, go to Inbox Dollars and see if the company you want to buy from is in their Cash Shopping area. You’ll get a rebate on your purchase plus a coupon to use. Do all your online shopping through Cash Shopping, and it can add up.
In the Cash Surveys area you’ll get $1 for every survey you complete (1 per day). The main problem with the surveys is that each survey targets certain demographics, and you may not qualify. But you have to answer a number of questions to find out if you qualify or not. It’s worth trying daily to see if you can pick up and easy $1.
The Cash Games area isn’t very useful, since you need to pay $1 to earn $0.05. If you would be paying to play the games anyway, you might as well do it through Inbox Dollars, but otherwise don’t bother.
The larger amounts of money are in their various Cash Offers, some as much as $10 or $15. You can get paid to sign up at websites and take free trial offers. Many of the offers require you to buy something or pay some amount (the amount you get back from Inbox Dollars is generally more than what you pay in the offer). Nearly all will require some sort of cancellation to avoid being charged a subscription fee, so be sure to write down when you need to cancel it by. Once you’ve gotten credit for the offer in Inbox Dollars, you’re safe to cancel.
Use your Inbox Dollars special email for signing up for these sorts of offers, since they will put you on a mailing list and send you future mailings, too. Periodically you can login to that email and delete everything, or just setup a filter that automatically deletes all incoming mail.
Don’t forget to cancel the free trial offers before they charge you! You’re in this to make money, not spend money.
Inbox Dollars also has a Gold membership for $17. This puts you in the rotation for getting unsponsored referrals, people who signup at Inbox Dollars without a sponsor. Note that you will eventually get referrals from this, but it may take quite some time since you’re in rotation with all the other Gold members. You can purchase more than one Gold membership to get multiple spots in the rotation, but I wouldn’t recommend it.