I'm very passionate about passive income in particular, and while collecting crypto from faucets is far from that concept, it does come with a bigger purpose; to put it to staking/saving to generate more later on. However, this part of the inventory is not about crypto, it's about non-crypto ways I create a small side income stream. The second and final part of the not-so-interesting piece of this journey: the starting inventory.
Before you get started on this post, you can read part 1 about cryptos I have here: Link! if you're interested.
As far as 7 months ago (or as recently as 7 months ago, depends on how you look at it), at the beginning of January 2021, I started thinking I could expand from my current job of being in front of a PC to utilizing the power of my PC and the online world to my advantage. I had joined some PTC (paid-to-click) sites back in 2013~ish when those were a big part of online earnings, but I failed back then because I had no passion towards it, it paid only pennies even then, and I honestly don't think I ever cashed out a single $. Out of curiosity, I wanted to check out that scene now, many years later, and after joining a few sites, my opinion is mostly the same as it was back then: too little for too much work. "What now?", I thought and went on a search for alternative programs for months. Luckily my search bore fruit, well, somewhat, and I decided to add some of these programs to my daily routine.
Disclaimer 1: Some of the sites mentioned are GPT (get-paid-to) sites and have an option to do surveys as well, but I won't be exploring that feature. In my honest opinion, surveys suck. I've tried participating on some a while back, but 95% of the time I wasted 5-10 minutes filling in my basic details, just to be denied from participating. This is why I don't do surveys anymore, period. If they're the way to earn for some, great, but for me, it just doesn't work.
Disclaimer 2: I don't have a referral conglomerate of 1000s creating the income for me, I don't really do affiliate marketing and have maybe 3 referrals across all the sites listed below, so that doesn't factor into my numbers.
Disclaimer 3: If you want to join any of the programs below, your earnings might be vastly different from mine. The numbers presented aren't a 'truth' of the full potential of these sites nor a number should you expect to earn. As with all investments, if you decide to put money into any of the programs mentioned, understand that there's always a possibility of losing your funds.
The amounts I've written as the current earnings are last checked on 11-08-2021, with the intention of writing a weekly report with the stats from 18-08-2021 to see where I'm standing after the 1st week of me actually keeping tabs on my online finances.
1. Arc.io
As an owner of a small site, I get a small amount daily from running this plugin. Creates revenue without ads/interfering with any ad network + speeds up the site. You can choose to get paid once a week, twice a month, or once a month. It is free to use until you reach a certain threshold, after that, you will either need to stop the program from working for the month or purchase a higher level package. I joined the program on 17-04-2021 but since then I believe the sign-up process has become more complicated. Now you need an invitation code which you can only get from emailing them, and once Arc.io decides to add more sites to their system, they'll respond and give you a code. The wait time is unknown to me so sorry about that. Visit the site here!
Current earnings: $66.79
2. BeerMoneyForum
A great forum to find like-minded people to discuss finances with + check the legitimacy of a lot of sites. I use this site to find out whether a new site I see is a scam or not, based on actual human comments and experiences. You earn points for posting threads/replies, surveys, tasks... and you get a login reward daily. 1000 points = $1 I'm not so active with posting, and mostly just log in for a few seconds to get the points. Visit the site here!
Current earnings: $1.4
3. Challenge.gives
A rather unusual GPT site I ended up finding in March 2021. Instead of just clicking ads, I purchased some of their revenue shares when they were at really cheap rates (from $0.25 a share) to work for me. Regrettably, I haven't been active in there for maybe 2 months now since I switched my focus on crypto mostly, though, seeing the site now, there is a possibility of cashing out in BTC, BCH and LTC as well. Visit the site here!
Current earnings: $57.55
4. IProyal pawns
An app where you can share your unused bandwidth for money. 1 GB shared = 0.20$, and withdrawals are available to PayPal or bitcoin address from $5. All that's needed is to enable the program on your PC/laptop/phone and let it run. If you want to try this one out, I'd suggest using this program only if you have a lot of excess bandwidth or unlimited connection. I've been a member of this since the end of April 2021 (less than 4 months currently), and sure it's not breaking the bank, but this requires 0 effort to work. Visit the site here!
Current earnings: $17.87
5. Honeygain
A program that uses your extra internet connection and rewards you for contributing to the network with 1 GB shared = 0.10$. Basically, the same concept as IProyal pawns, but worse pay. The major difference between these two is, with Honeygain you can connect multiple devices/IPs and build a network of your own. Unfortunately, I don't own more than 2 devices, my PC and phone, so this hasn't been a possibility for me. I do like IProyal more, but honeygain has a daily reward system where you can get between 10 and 10 000 points (0.01$-10$) so this keeps me logging into this site. The highest I've won is 100 points (0.10$) but for 10 seconds of effort a day, I don't mind doing it. A really big downside this program has is the $20 payout minimum, it really takes ages to reach; I joined in early January 2021 and the earnings are practically the same as IProyal which has been on ~3 months less. Visit the site here!
Current earnings: $19.44
6. Ai.marketing
I was really doubting whether I should add this one here right now, but figured since it's been so big part, I should at least mention it. For the past month, they've had big issues with the Russian government (I think) which led to them having the program basically frozen for a month (I haven't received any earnings since 15-07). The issue hasn't been fully resolved yet and currently, I'm just waiting for them to restart the system, which is why I don't want to share the detailed guide to using this site yet. I want to make sure the issue is finally gone and everything's back to normal before showing further support towards this program. They say the program should be back on track briefly and I do hope for the best.
I joined this program on 6th May 2021. It's a marketing system run by a bot + if you happen to buy anything yourself on the shops listed, you can get a cashback too, so basically, 2 ways to earn in a sense. How it works is, you can either deposit 'marketing balance' for the bot to use in the beginning from 10$ (then your withdrawal will start from $10 right away), or you can get started with a $50 coupon that you'll later on have to pay back from your earnings (and your 1st withdrawal has to be from $100, then it drops to $10 like the other method). To reach the first $100 + pay back the gift certificate for this method, you need to use some of your own money, I heard recommended amount was around $100. The earnings aren't instant, it'll take some days for the cashback from the sales to come to your use (15+ days minimum, during which it'll stay on 'Pending' balance). Here is my coupon code: XMLK-HQSQ-ZAZ1-DWX2 but as I said, the program is currently in a weird place and doesn't function as normal.
I spent $90$ of my own money to get the bot running + a $50 gift certificate at first. I've already paid back the gift certificate, but the bot's work isn't done yet since I reinvested some of the earnings back into the bot. Visit the site here!
Current earnings: $227.32
7. Taxi-money
While I was in my HYIP craze, I found a few Russian sites to earn from that weren't HYIPs, and this was one of them. A taxi game where you can buy cars, join a company, buy land, take orders... and also you can view ads and do tasks posted by other people to earn. Honestly, I think this isn't for everyone because it requires a lot of patience and time to even learn the basics of the game + the site's mostly in Russian (even though there is an English 'version' of the site as well) so I've just ended up google translating the whole page. I don't give my 100% for this site (probably more like 5% of what I could) and rarely do any PTC/tasks. Visit the site here!
Current earnings: 415 rubles = $5.58
Programs I tested in the past worth mentioning:
aviso.bz
A Russian GPT site. While it is in Russian, google translate has helped me through this site pretty sufficiently. I joined in early April, spent 10 days on the site, and stopped using it. I didn't stop because I didn't like the site, I just wanted to explore other ways to earn besides the PTC/GPT options. Just for doing 1 paid action on the site, you also get extra 0.02 rubles as a daily bonus. Usually, I kept the paying tab open for the timer instead of actually looking at the ad/video/whatever, and used other sites until the timer ran out. Visit the site here!
Current earnings: 169.37 rubles = $2.28
surfe.be
A browser extension through which you will see ad banners and receive tasks (of visiting sites/videos). I installed it as a test, ended up using it for ~2 weeks, and stopped. Again, not a thing I didn't like, I just kind of forgot about it in the middle of everything. Visit the site here!
Current earnings: $0.94
TOTAL EARNINGS: $399.17
The number isn't so great I know, but it's a step closer to my goal for sure. Honestly, I think I would have more sites in use if I wasn't so deep in crypto, so someone else definitely has better knowledge of how to earn non-crypto ways. Since this is technically still the beginning, I hope to find more programs/apps that pique my interest along the way. Sadly, a lot of the sites that pay more than just peanuts are often survey sites which I'd avoid with the longest possible stick still.
Now that we've established my starting point fully, it's time to move to weekly updates. The next post will be the week 1 update including crypto and non-crypto stats, and my weekly (and maybe monthly) goals.
See you in the next one!
