one month as a premium member at EasyHits4U

My paid membership at EasyHits4U as run out and it's time to check the benefits of upgrading. I used my earnings to pay for the premium membership about one month ago. I already listed all the perks in the previous post but now we find out of it's really worth it.

So let's check the list again:
- only need to visit other sites for 15 seconds (instead of 20 seconds) to be rewarded a credit
=> that helped a lot. I made about 25% more credits from my earn surfing as I invested the same time but just got more credits


- Random referrals assigned if someone signs up without one
=> in the time of my upgraded status I got 7 referrals added to my downline which is amazing. two of them are active members (which push my referral earnings by another 1%). they visited a total of 2000 sites so far (which made me an additional 400 credits in total)

- Earning more from my referrals (15% now; 5% before)
=> thanks to this the random referrals added to my downline already made my some nice credits as listed above

- Adding more sites where the traffic is directed to
=> only using 10 sites right now...so no real benefit fore me

- Better rates to convert credits into banners or text links
=> used this a bit because.

I hope that my random referrals stay active for as long as possible. One guy actually clicked 1000 thousand pages in a day and hasn't been online since...so hopefully he returns and gains me more credits.

While I was a premium member at EasyHits4U the traffic exchange lead to nearly 10000 views of my listed websites resulting in a couple of signups to other programs. I think if you are promoting projects in the "make money" niche this traffic can be converted even though much of the traffic is really bad.

testing out easyhits4u premium

I started using EasyHits4U some time ago when they where still paying 10 cents for each 100 sites you surfed. Now they changed to a pure traffic exchange (TE) site  model meaning for that you only earn credits for your activity. This credits you can spend so other members visit your site or for banner and text links on their site.
Because I had some money left over today I decided to also test out their paid membership. I upgraded my account to premium member for 1 month. What's the advantage of being a premium member ?

- I only need to visit other sites for 15 seconds (instead of 20 seconds) to be rewarded a credit
- Earning more from my referrals (15% now; 5% before)
- Random referrals assigned if someone signs up without one
- Adding more sites where the traffic is directed to
- Better rates to convert credits into banners or text links
- Random bonus for surfing

Even as a free member on EasyHits4U generating credits and converting to traffic to my projects was good and easy. Of course the traffic is not of the best quality as with most traffic exchanges but if you want to promote projects in the making money segment it can help. I was able to generate leads and signups to other programms via this method. Let's see if the improved membership is worth the price and helps me to make even more leads and sales.

myfreeshares - one month as a bronze member

In my recent post I mentioned that I upgraded my free myfreeshares membership to a bronze membership. Now after one month the membership has ended and it's the perfect time to write a short summary of my findings.

The bronze membership did cost $10 and I used my earnings from the site. The status includes 60 shares and two ad packages for 1000 clicks. It also provides more clickable links so earning my money and shares is possible. So is the membership worth the money invested ?

For me personally it wasn't worth it. To break even I would have needed to earn at least my investment back. So roughly $2.50 per week or 50 cents a day. However clicking daily on all available links only earned me about 7 cents each day. I reached close to 52 cents in a whole week. Which is about twice as much as a free member but still no where close enough to justify the membership fee. Sure I also earned 4 and a half share each week which provide in a passive incoming of half a cent each coming week for quite some time. But that's also nowhere enough to make up for the $10.
I ended up with one referral I got from the membership but he isn't active so not earning any money. From my two ads (1000 clicks each) only one signup to cashcrate was generated.
The 60 shares I received for signing up are also earning some purely passive income now but it'll take ages until I made my investment back. So from my perspective upgrading is not worth the money.
All in all I'd say that the value of bronze membership is maybe $5. I'll continue as a free member at myfreeshares and earn cents by clicking the links.

myfreeshares - upgraded to bronze member

My earnings on MyFreeShares reached $10 and I decided to upgrade my account and figure out if it's worth it. So by the end of last week I pulled the trigger and used my balance to upgrade to bronze membership for one month. The benefits of bronze members are:

• more ads to click
• 60 shares for free
• if someone signs up to the site without a ref you might be added as their ref
• your own ad showing to other members

As shown in my previous post about penny grinding different PTC sites my earnings on MFS are roughly 27 cents per week as a free member. So I made a little over $1 a month. Now being a bronze member costs $10 per month, so I need to earn at least $11 now to break even on the membership.

There are a lot more ads rewarding money and shares available each day that's for sure. But if it's really worth upgrading I'll see in about a week I guess. I am going to document my earnings again for this month and show the results for you to see.

penny grinding for a month - are PTC and surveys worth it ?

So here are some numbers of my own of clicking links and answering surveys for a month. But I have to admit that I didn't spent a lot of time each day and on some sites I spent less than the others. Let's check out the pure numbers first and let me explain a bit afterwards.

	14.02.0218	21.02.2018	28.02.2018	07.03.2018	14.03.2018	total	average	best week
myfreeshares	7,27	7,50	7,73	8,04	8,34	1,07	0,268	0,31
gptplanet	0,11	0,13	0,16	0,19	0,23	0,12	0,030	0,04
cashcrate	15,59	16,00	17,51	19,14	21,33	5,74	1,435	2,19
mturk	4,16	5,16	5,56	5,76	5,96	1,80	0,450	1,00

As you can see Cashcrate was my biggest earner with an average amount of $1,43 a week which is still really low but I was basically just doing one survey a day.
MTurk which is Amazons site for microtask I was spending even less time. The good thing with MTurk is that you will not be disqualified from a task in the middle of it. If you satisfy the initial requirements and finish the task correct you'll get paid.
gptplanet is a pure paid to click site which rewards you for clicking links and viewing websites for a couple of seconds. The best paying links only pay a tenth of a cent. I'm trying to automate this process but the site requires you to solve a captcha so that'll always require interaction.
myfreeshares is the same as gptlanet but paying better. A single click is worth up to half a cent and it has a lot more high paying links than other sites.

Future projects:
- I will automate clicking for myfreeshares and gptplant as much as possible.
- I will reinvest my earnings into myfreeshares as soon as I hit $10 to upgrade my account and receive more high paying links.
- I will test how much many I can earn on cashcrate in the single day doing each and every survey available.