Inbox Dollars: Surveys and More for Cash!

First, you are going to want to create a separate e-mail account to sign up for Inbox Dollars with --- you won't be inundated with spam from them, but if you do sign up for some of the other survey-taking sites through them, you can end up with quite a bit of e-mails informing you of surveys that you can get rewarded for. It just makes things a bit easier to sort through all the surveys and such if you have one dedicated e-mail address for that function alone.

Please note that Inbox Dollars only allows one account per household/mailing address/computer, so trying to sign up multiple times will not work and very well may end up costing you the first account you had to begin with!

You'll get a $5 bonus just for signing up, and you can get a check for every $30 that you earn. Also, you'll get two or three e-mails a day which you get paid a small amount just for opening, reading, and clicking on the link included within. Now... let's see the different ways you can make money using Inbox Dollars!

The bread-and-butter of Inbox Dollars is taking surveys. Inbox Dollars has a few different survey sites that they work with that you can take surveys through. All you need to do is answer the questions in each survey honestly and you'll get paid for every one that you qualify for and complete. Most surveys don't take more than 20 minutes to compete, which is just a little bit out of your spare time to make some extra money - just think, if you were idly surfing around the internet, you'd have accomplished absolutely nothing and not gotten paid for it.

Another thing to keep in mind when filling out surveys is that you are really involved in the future of products that you see on the shelves and online. These are the surveys that companies use to influence their decisions on how to market products, and which products to market to whom --- even to judge what people think are reasonable prices for their items. So remember, you're getting paid to have your voice as a consumer heard.

Inbox Dollars, in their Offers section, also has links to other websites that will pay you for surveys, and Inbox Dollars will pay you for signing up for them - it's a win/win situation! This is why early on I mentioned creating another e-mail address, as I receive dozens of e-mails from the various survey groups a day. It just keeps it much easier to keep track of.

You can also get paid for trying out services such as Netflix, or get money for signing up for credit cards and other services. Keep in mind, not all of these offers are free, so make sure you read carefully before signing up for anything in the offers section, apart from the ones marked 100% Free Offers.

Another feature of Inbox Dollars is that you can shop through online stores, including Wal-Mart.com, Target.com, and the Apple iTunes store, and get a percentage of your cash back. Obviously, you're not *making* money by doing this, but if you are purchasing things that you normally would be purchasing anyway, it doesn't hurt to get a little bit of that money back instead of not taking advantage of this offer at all. Think of it as you would a cash rewards credit card, only instead of needing to hit a certain amount of money before you get any rewards back, you can get a percentage back on every purchase.

Also available are grocery coupons for you to print, which you will receive credit for every one that you redeem, so not only are you saving money with the coupon, you're earning some back via Inbox Dollars. Once again, another win-win situation.

You can also get paid for watching commercials on Inbox Dollars - just a few cents for each one, but how often do you watch commercials on TV or online? All the time! So you might as well take a few seconds and get paid for them!

There are usually only two or three videos available at any one time to watch, but check back throughout the day, as they add new videos to watch every few hours. You will need to pay attention to the videos, as two numbers will scroll across the screen at random points, and at the end they ask you to enter the two numbers that appeared in the video in order to earn your credit. It's a simple as that! Watch a couple of commercials and get paid!

Cash tasks are the most involved way to make money on Inbox Dollars, and often involve doing web searches to report back what the top search results for a given company are. Other times you'll be asked to sort products into their proper listings for a website. You'll need to pay attention and answer accurately, as they plant questions that they already know the answers to in the tasks so that they know you are not just breezing through it, and if you are caught on too many of these, they will not allow you to do the same types of tasks again.

Another fantastic way to make more money with Inbox Dollars is to include links to it in your Lenses and blogs - you will receive 10% of each person's earnings who click on your referral links, which means the amount of money you can make through Inbox Dollars is limited only by how much you can promote the site!

Inbox Dollars is a great way to supplement your income, help you earn money back on some of your online purchases, and have a voice in the consumer community to help shape the products and advertising of tomorrow! So just click any of the links on this lens and sign up - you have nothing to lose by it, and only cash to gain!