Just about one month in...

Hi everyone, I hope your earnings are soaring! Many thanks to all who are reading, following, and signing up. We can do it! Here is an update on my programs:

Neobux - By last weekend, I found I had made back my initial $5 investment. Inspired, I decided to pony up another $10. I used $7.50 of that to rent 30 referrals for a month, and then I have been using the rest to renew my original pack of referrals. If you renew for 90 days, you get the referrals at a 20% discount. For a standard member like myself, this means they cost $0.72 each. I still have a few that need doing. I made another couple of dollars fast and also put that into renewals. I have recycled 4 people and am waiting to see how they turn out.

I don't know how I feel about recycling. I am trying to find a strategy that fits me and will earn me extra money, which is more challenging as a standard member. At first I wasn't going to recycle at all, feeling that one investment is enough on someone and if I go too crazy recycling everyone I will lose even more than if I had just left the referral as it was. Do you have any ideas?

All this buying and recycling got me confused as to how to calculate my earnings, but then I found the banner link that would display my total. As of right now I have earned $7.88 total. I am confident I can at least make back my $15 investment and hopefully some more. I still love neobux!

Work from Home HQ and Cookbook - These are still top choices in my book. That problem I was having with email delays from Craigslist seems to have cleared up, and I can easily do my 5 posts at each site while I have my coffee in the morning. Even though not all ads posted get approved, these programs are my top earners. I have $8.59 at HQ and $4.80 at Cookbook. Cookbook hasn't changed the website review section lately and I am running out of things to say about the one they have, but I did earn over a dollar just doing that alone.

Mylot - I am up to $0.51. I still love this site for networking, and if I am looking for opinions on a program, I can always find plenty of users already writing about it here.

Wordlinx - I am up to $1.37. I got another referral from GetRef, this one is actually active :o) I am holding out to get a couple more referrals as soon as they go on sale this March 15th. I should have enough to buy 2 by then. The referral limit here is 50 so hopefully if I ever reach this point, I will be raking in the cash!

Swagbucks - Just by doing my normal level of computer activity searching, that is to say, not searching for the sake of earning swagbucks, I am already half way to earning a $5 Amazon gift card (which costs only $45 swagbucks total). If I threw in a few more searches this way I could probably get this much faster. There are tons of rewards to choose from, by the way.

GetRef - Things are actually starting to work out for me here. I got an active Wordlinx referral, was introduced to GPT Bank, and I have been earning every day by clicking on links. You have to earn at least one credit by joining a program every 90 days. I am not in a rush to do this, so I am going to keep clicking on links and banking those hundreths of a credit until I don't have any more credits to promote with. I still have one available sign up before I have to think about this.

Unobux - I haven't gotten my $0.08 yet, which makes me hesitant. I have $0.47 from my own clicks. Although referrals are $0.35 each, you can't get at them since you have to have $1 to transfer into the rental balance. As soon as I reach $1 here I will get a couple of referrals and see what happens. I am averse to investing here because of the $0.08 loss I had last week. I am going to play this one by ear.

EasyHits4U - Still a great program, I like the rewards for reaching the 25, 50, and 100 mark each day. I still haven't gotten any referrals from here, though.

Clixsense - I am up to $1.06, which really isn't bad for clicks here and there during the day. This site also offers a grid that members can click on for a chance to win between $0.01 and $5.00. Standard members get 20 tries per day and upgraded members get 50. I still haven't had any luck but it is a fun way to kill 5 minutes!

GPT Bank - I have joined cafebux and prosperbux through this site, but I don't know yet if I will continue working on them. The cool part of GPT bank is that you earn a percentage of what you earn on other sites, up to 100%! As far as I understand, this is like getting paid twice for PTC things that I am already doing.

The thing I love most about this program is the scam list. Even if you join a program and it turns out to be a scam, GPT Bank will still pay you it's percentage of the earnings. Now I know, though, where I should think about joining and where I should know better. It is worth it to join the site for this list alone. There is also a helpful forum which offers a free referral exchange area.

OK readers, I'm off to bed. Thanks for everything and I will surely keep you posted. Don't forget it is Daylight Savings Time this weekend! Spring ahead in all that you do!