Favorite Blogs List Updated

I have finally gotten around to adding the lists of other GPT/PTC & money blogs (and another friend/fave) that I read most every day in the sidebar. It's a really cool little widget that is linked to the blogs' feed, thus it shows you when they last were updated. Blogger has had that widget for a while, but I just hadn't had time to mess with it and configure it until now. Unfortunately it's a little lower on the page than I would prefer, but with this particular Blogger template (which I won't be changing for a while, I had too much trouble getting this one set right as it was, LOL) the text sticks waaaaay out almost into the blog content, so I had to put the lists where they wouldn't make my left eye start twitching & teeth grind every time I saw them (LOL, I've been in web design for many years and we're kind of anal retentive that way).

Anyway, they're there now, so check them out. I highly recommend My Online Money especially for daily news of what's going on ALL over the industry ever day and especially in the PTC realm... more often than not, when I find out about a site closing that I'm not a member of (and sometimes ones I am, LOL) or any other big news, I either read it there or over at GPTBoycott!
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Promo Today at BankRollBucks - Rhino Riches Contests Too

Good morning! Just a quick note (so you can get an early start) to report that BankRollBucks is having an earn $1, get $1 promo today (Saturday). This will be good on your first $1 only (so just once!) and will end tonight at 11:00 pm EST. So get over there today and get an extra buck, it'll be easy!

Rhino Riches also has SEVERAL neat contests with various prizes going right now, so head over there this weekend too while you're at it!




Have a great rest of your weekend!
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Got Paid Update #34 - BankRollBucks

Got paid today once yet again by BankRollBucks - $7.88 for November, and if I hadn't gotten so busy with other stuff last month it probably would have been much more, but I'm cool with that and looking to make a very nice end of the year cashout there in December!

BankRollBucks is one of the quickest payers of the sites that pay monthly - it's Net 15, but usually pays within 5-7 days of cashout - and it's really just so very easy to make the $5 minimum cashout there every month, there's no reason anyone couldn't hang out there and get paid every single month by BankRollBucks.

There's always neat contests going on; the admin is a lovely, lovely person & on top of everything & right there whenever you need something or have questions; and the Pick a Pair game is TOTALLY addicting! I used to not be so interested in points offers, but now I sit and LOOK for bankroll offers there at BRB just so I can make sure I can play with those cute little pigs (they make me laugh!) almost every day, heh.

The referrals who have signed up under me apparently love BankRollBucks too, because my referral level earnings there are through the roof compared to most of the other sites I'm very active on (although my referrals do apparently love Rhino Riches too, doing pretty well regularly on referral earnings there as well - in fact, it was really thanks to my referrals that I was able to cashout at Rhino last month, so thank you guys - thanks to all at both sites, I'm glad you are obviously enjoying them so!).

Anyway, yep, I know I talk about how great BankRollBucks is all the time, but it's just THAT good! And you can easily - and WILL - get paid every month. And the 12 Days of Christmas promo is still going on over there and is really neat, there's still a raffle waiting to have more tickets bought, and when the 12 Days of Christmas contest is over, there's no telling what cool contest BRB's admin will come up with next. So - go! Now!

OK, I'm Awake Now!

Whoops, sorry about yesterday and getting back so late today! I spent hours and hours reorganizing stuff here, getting rid of the dead wood and removing some references to sites I no longer feel comfortable supporting or encouraging anymore, on Wednesday night through Thursday morning, and really got finished with what I was intending to as far as reorganization, but never got to some of the "extras" I was planning to add here to the site - still, it took a long time but I finally got things updated and reorganized the way I wanted them. Then I promptly passed out and slept for a really long time.

I got back up in the afternoon with plans of moseying over to my "work" site and being there a few hours, and then coming back and working on my own GPT activities, updating here, and working some more on site revisions. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 19 hours later, at 10:00 this morning... I was still over yonder "working". And then after running some much-needed personal errands out of the house today, I came back and... fell asleep again. :)

So here I am now with a couple of quick posts before the weekend. More to come!
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Contests, Contests, & More Contests!

There have been a BUNCH of great contests for December announced at some of my favorite GPT sites since the month began - some that have already started, some that are coming up soon! There's one in particular at GetCashDollars at the end of the month that's really neat (look for the one about cashing out).

Here's the lowdown on some I haven't already mentioned since the month began...

Rhino Riches has got a ton of cool contests so far this month, with more to come I'm sure:

• December 3rd, today only: Earn the most cash today & get a (mystery!) prize
• December 1st-7th: Mini-earnings contest, pays five places - top prize 30% of cash earned
  
• December 1st-7th: Earn the most rhino coins, win a $5 Amazon gift card
• Completion Contest thru December 31st: Pays four places, top prize $50
• Earnings Contest thru December 31st: Pays three places, top prize $15

This month's contests at GetCashDollars:

• December 1st-10th: Complete the most offers, win a 1 GB MP3 player
• December 11th-30th: Win $1 for every five offers completed
• Cash out on December 31st - get a $5 bonus!!!

And here's what Ozzy's Direct Pay has got on the plate for December:

• Completion Contest thru December 31st: Pays three places, top prize $50
• December 24th-25th: Earn $1 for every five offers complete

And while you're at it, don't forget about the other terrific contests going on that I've already mentioned since December began:

• BankRollBucks' 12 Days of Christmas completion promo: Pays 12 places, top prize $15
• Cartoon-Clicks: Referral contest thru December 31st (pays $10, I think)
  

Good luck to all this month!
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Caution Feed Readers - Under Construction Alert!

I've got to do some reorganizing and "housecleaning" here on the site today - organizing some stuff, updating & editing some old review posts - so just some advance warning for those of you reading the site via feed on that. If a bunch of annoying reposts or anything like that pops up in your feedreader today, it's because of that, and it will only be for today - I promise!

One thing I am going to revise for sure that I haven't been doing is this - there are a few sites that have paid me that the owner/administrator owns other sites I am active on and have reviewed here, but haven't made any cashouts yet at that particular site.

However, it occurs to me the important information is that the owner of those sites does pay people - so I feel confident in recommending those sites where the site owner has paid me on one of their other sites. So I'm going to add those sites to the "Sites That Pay" category and wherever else appropriate. There's really only a few here that fall into the category of sites I've not been paid from but the site owner has paid me elsewhere, but I feel that should be reflected in the section of paying sites because it's really whether or not the site owner has a history of paying people that's important.

Other than that, just some minor housecleaning and reorganizing going on that you'll probably not even notice, but I've got to do something about some of this stuff before it drives ME insane, LOL. Have a great Wednesday!
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Whoa, I Won... Again!

Remember what I was saying yesterday about contests at GPT sites being such a fantastic way to boost and maximize your earnings? And how I never win anything, so I was shocked at having won the jackpot at GetCashDollars yesterday?

Well, I don't know what forces have changed in the universe this week to make my usual bad luck change, but I couldn't have been more surprised to discover I had won another $10 in a referral contest for November from Cartoon-Clicks!

Cartoon-Clicks is having a brand new referral contest for December, and is also running a mini-contest where for every five offers you complete, you win $1 (and can be won multiple times). So head over and check it out!

Got Paid Update #33 (Ozzys Direct Pay) - And I Won Some Cash!

So, welcome to December! This morning is not even over yet, and already it's been full of pleasant surprises!

First of all, I'm tickled pink (pun intended, since Ozzys is a pretty pink website) to report the first pleasant surprise of the morning when I opened my e-mail to find I already had my November payment of $10.59 in my PayPal account from Ozzys Direct Pay! That was super nice and I'm sure all the members there will be very pleased to have a little unexpected extra this month for Christmas shopping!

(EDITED: Whoops - the BankRollBucks $20 win I had reported earlier turned out to be a system error! I had kind of wondered about that but then decided I must have been confused about the contest. No big deal, it was an honest mistake & BankRollBucks is still the best and my favorite site - check out the 12 Days of Christmas contest that started today in the post below!)

But then after that, I headed over to GetCashDollars and that was where the really big shock and pleasant surprise was. When it comes to jackpots and raffles, I never win (heck, I never win anything period, I won a $250 gift certificate from Amazon once years ago and have rarely won anything since), so if I buy a raffle ticket or jackpot entry, I usually only buy one. I redeemed some points for one over there earlier in the evening last night, and then as an afterthought, shortly before midnight last night I decided to get three more jackpot entry tickets.

Well, it turned out to be a good afterthought because I learned this morning that I won the $21.50 jackpot, woohoo!

I've been saying all along that contests and jackpots at the GPT sites are a really fantastic way to boost your earnings, and I really haven't been as diligent in recent months as I should have been about them - but here's proof once again that that's right!

Since it's the first of the month and cashout day was yesterday, it's too late for me to get the winnings for Christmas stuff, but they certainly will come in handy come January! And since I will already be able to definitely cash out this month, I might work a little harder in December toward some record cashouts right here at the end of the year. My total earnings on sites listed here at the Guide is edging close to my $1000 goal for the year - though the total I've been paid is now $621.10, with the amount I've got out there pending payment my total for 2008 is actually over $960 right now - so I'd like to push that total on over.

In any case, thanks to GetCashDollars for the opportunity to get there, and to Ozzys Direct Pay for the unexpected early for Christmas payment! All this good news this morning was just great & such a pleasant and unexpected surprise!
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12 Days of Christmas Promotion Starts Today at BankRollBucks

FYI, BankRollBucks has begun a new promo starting today just in time for Christmas - the 12 Days of Christmas promotion.

This one's really neat - the top 12 members who complete the most offers between December 1st and December 12th will each win a prize! The top three will win $15, $10 and $5; the next four, money from $4 down to $1; and the next five winners will win prizes of bank rolls (points) from 30 bank rolls down to five. (I've gotten pretty addicted to the Pick a Pair game over there, so if I was the 12th winner that'd still be A-OK with me, heh.)

So stop by and do some offers at BankRollBucks over the next 12 days - you could win something, and that'd be a neat little Christmas (or Hanukkah) present to yourself!

Getting Back in the Groove

I really do need to apologize for the last couple of months being so off-and-on here. I have a loved one with some mental health issues and things have sort of been in crisis mode since about the middle of September and I have had to devote a lot of time and attention to that problem, as well as trying to get some work done. I am sort of caught up now except for the other 14,000 or so backed up emails in my main box (I cleared 2,000+ out of another this weekend, LOL) and have mostly been able to stay on top of mail from the GPT sites I support, but anyone that sent me any e-mail since mid-September, I may not have gotten to it yet, so if it was important and you never got a response, you might wanna e-mail me again. I am going to tackle that backed-up mess this week in any case, but since most of it's expired or otherwise deletable stuff, other stuff in there may get accidentally overlooked as well.

In any case, here's to catching up! And I've got a ton things to post about over the next couple of weeks or so, so stay tuned and check back every day for new posts.
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