Do You Report Your Blog Income? Question To My Readers

Written by Chris on April 24, 2008 – 1:00 pm -

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Just a quick question that I wanted to ask my readers today - do you report your blog income? Basically, here is what got me thinking.

Yesterday, I got another check from CashCrate for participating in surveys and for referring new members. My pondering began because I thought about how when I signed up for the program, they asked for my Social Security Number for their records and their own reporting.

So, to any affiliate program users and money makers out there, I want to know if you report your blog income. I can understand if you are making more than a couple hundred dollars a month and how it may look a fishy if you do not have a business entity set up to report it as income to. But for the average blogger who may make say $30-$100 a month off of affiliate programs such as Commission Junction and CashCrate, do you report that income with your income tax?

I figured this would be a good time to pose the question since the deadline for taxes just passed…which was also my birthday!

Tags: affiliate programs, blog income, cash crate, CashCrate, make money online, paid surveys, taxes
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February CashCrate Check Arrived!

Written by Chris on March 17, 2008 – 11:00 pm -

After coming home from Spring Break, I was excited to find in the mail my first check from CashCrate. I was very happy to be paid pretty quickly, considering it probably arrived on the 12th or 13th. Even though it wasn’t an earth shattering amount, $26.25, every little bit helps!

This month so far from only doing a couple offers last night, I am up to $16.61 so I’m looking to cross over the $50 mark for this month if not more.

I have a post coming up on Wednesday about a different technique to managing your time and getting your priorities done efficiently. This concept will play into making money from CashCrate and dedicating so much time a week to put towards earning more and more from their system.

Has anyone else signed up for CashCrate and found it as a good money maker? From the little bit of time I put towards it after joining, I am liking it so far.

Tags: cash crate, CashCrate, make money online, Surveys
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CashCrate - a great way to pick up some extra cash!

Written by Chris on February 29, 2008 – 12:00 pm -

A week or so ago I found the site CashCrate through another blog and checked it out as a way to possibly pick up some extra cash. Now, I won’t say that it is easy or free money, but it may as well be close to both of those!

For those of you who do not know, CashCrate is a website that allows you to complete offers and surveys, and get paid to complete them, even better!

What do you do?
Simply enough, you fill out different offers from different companies including other websites that get you to fill out surveys for money. Although it may be a little time consuming to do some of the surveys, you can usually fill one out in just a couple minutes.

How much can you earn?
It really depends on how much time you can give to filling out the surveys and how much you are willing to spend. Yes, you read that right - how much you are willing to spend. Most of the offers are free, but only pay out less than $1.00; yet some you can pay a couple bucks towards and you get a much higher return. Example: I paid $4.95 to cover the shipping cost of an eBay information guide and program. The payout for the offer was $15.00. The pay out for free offers can range anywhere from $10.00 to 20 cents.

With messing with the system for just about an hour, I completed offers totaling $30.85 with 8 offers. I have had $26.25 of that already approved.

What’s the best part of the whole system?
The minimum payout for you to get your money is only $10! That sounds a lot better to me than many other similar sites and programs where the minimum pay out is something like $25.00 or more.

So, if you have the free time, want to make a little extra money for your time, then check out CashCrate and start completing some offers!

Is there a downside? Yes, you may start to get a lot of spam email (so make sure your spam filters work) and you may get some telemarketing phone calls because some sites will ask for your email addresses and phone numbers.

Tags: cash crate, cashcreate, make money online, review
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