Bux Sites Comparison

After signing up at Bux.To I soon realised there are hundreds of these “Paid To Click” sites. After looking through a few of them, I signed up for one that a lot of people were talking about, NeoBux. From what I have read about NeoBux it seems to offer much quicker payouts than Bux.To. Certainly you can request payouts from as little as $2, as opposed to the $10 that Bux.To requests. People also report that the time taken from payout request to receiving of payment is much quicker with NeoBux.

It also uses PayPal, which I know will be great for a lot of people because it’s such a trusted company, and so many people already have an account with them. So far NeoBux is looking good.

I’ve been using it for about 3 days now, not long I know but you quickly get a feel for these sites. The NeoBux site certainly looks a lot more professionally made than the rest of these Bux sites. But at the same time, the Bux.To site is very simple, yet still looks good, just not as flashy as the NeoBux site.

The big difference between these two sites is the amount of money they pay and the amount of ads they allow you to click each day. NeoBux only allows standard members to view 4 per day, compared to 10 on Bux.To.

With Bux.To you earn 1 cent for every ad you click, and you receive 1 cent for every ad one of your referrals click.

However, with NeoBux you earn 1 cent for every ad you click, but only HALF a cent for what your referrals click.

Both of these statements are true for the standard memberships, but I’m not prepared to pay for an upgraded membership just yet. I want to make sure I can make some money first. The advantage of the upgraded memberships being that you earn more per click and receive more ads each day.

Whereas Bux.To allows you to buy referrals and keep them forever, NeoBux allows you to rent referrals for 30 days at a time.

This become apparent when you compare the prices of referrals for each site. 100 referrals on Bux.To will cost you $98, but on NeoBux 100 referrals will cost you just $30 per month.

Time for some calculations:

100 referrals on Bux.To will earn you (in theory) $300 a month.
100 referrals on NeoBux will earn you (again, in theory) just $56.

Now, keep in mind you paid $98 for your referrals on Bux.To, therefore your net earnings would be $200.

With NeoBux your referrals cost you $30, giving a net increase of just $26.

Although, I am inclined to say that with NeoBux your referrals are more likely to be clicking frequently than those on Bux.To. This is because for me to get the maximum amount of clicks from my referrals I myself have to click every single ad they give me each day (it’s only 4!). So I’m guessing everyone else will be doing the same. There is no such “guarantee” with Bux.To.

I’m sure NeoBux are trying to entice people to sign up for their upgraded membership packs with such low referral payouts. By upgrading your memebership (for $90 a year) you still earn 1 cent per click, but you also receive 1 cent for each of your referral’s clicks, as appose to half a cent. You also receive up to 10 ads per day as a golden member.

This makes the renting of referrals much more appealing. As a golden member you can expect to receive $250 a month from 100 referrals (taking into account the cost of the referrals).

But there’s more. You can pay $59 for a year’s premium membership to Bux.To. With this you earn a whopping 1.25cents per click, and again, 1.25cents per referral’s clicks. On top of that you receive a minimum of 20 ads per day.

One more thing. NeoBux will only let you rent referrals once each week, so once you’ve chosen how many you want to rent (max 100) you can’t rent anymore for another week. Bux.To will let you buy as many referrals as you want, as often as you like.

Currently I am signed up with the following “Bux” sites:

Bux.To
NeoBux
Earn.nu
PrimeBux
07Bux.net

I have spent most of my time on Bux.To and NeoBux, as I have referrals with these sites. After joining these two, I found the others in the list.

All of the information below is for standard (free) memberships:

PrimeBux:

Your clicks: $0.0125
Your referral’s clicks: $0.01
Payment method: AlertPay
Referrals: Forever. 500 cost $449

Earn.nu:

Your clicks: $0.01
Your referral’s clicks: $0.01
Payment method: AlertPay
Referrals: Rented. $0.4/referral/month

07Bux.net:

Your clicks: $0.01
Your referral’s clicks: $0.01
Payment method: AlertPay
Referrals: Forever and rented. 500 cost $415.99. Cost to rent 500: $180/month

My Bux.To Experience

I first found out about Bux.To through a group on Facebook, and since I hadn't had a go at any online money makers recently I thought I’d give it a look.

I did the usual and Googled it to make sure it wasn’t a scam, which according to many of the sites I checked, it isn’t. So far so good.

I then had a quick look through their FAQs/How To section to make sure it seemed easy enough to do and didn’t require me to make any initial investment. Again, it ticked all the right boxes.

Now let me explain how you make money with Bux.To. Basically, they pay you 1 cent for every advert you look at. I know it doesn’t sound great, but please read on.

First, you must register. A picture showing the information they require can be found here.

As you can see, it's rather short.

You must also sign up with AlertPay. This is a system similar to PayPal; it’s the method used by Bux.To to pay its members.

Once signed up, you can login to your area of the site. I’ve included a picture of the “My Stats” page here.

Here you can see your current earnings, the number of ads you’ve watched, and information about referrals (more on them later).

Every day the “Surf ads” page (picture) updates itself with 10-15 new ads for you to view. This means you can earn up to 15 cents a day.

The links in this picture have been crossed out. This indicates which adverts have been clicked already as you cannot view an advert more than once. As you can see I've already viewed my ads for today.

I was quite impressed by the way the viewing of the adverts works. Each time you click an adverts link , it opens in a new tab. Once opened, a timer appears in the top left of the screen, counting down from 30. Example here.

Once it reaches 30 you receive a “Done” message, followed by a green tick, showing you have successfully viewed the advert and you’ve received you 1 cent. Take a look.

This makes viewing the ads pretty easy, as I was expecting to have to count the 30 seconds myself.

I know it sounds a bit naff, but this where the referrals come in.

You may have read about other schemes which work by you earning money with referrals. I was sceptical at first because I have little confidence in my ability to convince people to sign up for these things.

However, with Bux.To you don’t have to get people to sign up under your name.
You can buy referrals.

This is because people sign up to Bux.To without any referrals, so it is these people that will be signed up under you.

How much? Well, it depends how much you want to spend. You can buy between 15 and 500! 15 referrals will cost you $16.98, and 500 will cost you $495.

Bux.To provides you with projected earnings for each size of referrals you buy, the one for 15 looks like this:
» 15 referrals click 10 ads per day = $1.50
» Your daily earnings = $1.50
» Your weekly earnings = $10.50
» Your monthly earnings = $45.00

Obviously, this is the maximum you can earn. It depends on how much your referrals will click the ads.

But I decided to go for it and bought 15 referrals. I received them yesterday. Bux.To claim a processing time of 2-5 working days. I received mine after one day.

So far they have earned me 60 cents. I’m hoping by the end of today that number will have increased (it has increased by 3 since I took the screenshot).

I will keep you updated weekly so you can see how much I earn and to see if this is actually worthwhile.

We’ll see if I make the $45 claimed by Bux.To, although personally I’ll be impressed with anything over $30 (you might say I’m easily pleased).

I had some initial concerns when signing up to Bux.To. I have outlined them below:

I know adverts and the internet are usually big turn offs. But after clicking 50 adverts I haven’t received any spam or any annoying pop-ups yet, so at least these websites aren’t harassing me.

Also, it’s completely up to you whether you decide to view the adverts or not, you won’t be bombarded with emails telling you to view the adverts.

Unlike my previous money making ventures I haven’t had to setup a new email account for this one.

If you like what you've read here and would like to join up, then I would appreciate it if you would give me a hand and sign up as a referral by following this link.

Thanks for reading, and I wish you every success

Online Paid Surveys. Beware!

My name is Sam, I am 20 years old. Being young I’m a big fan of “easy money” so I looked into online money making methods. How disappointing it turned out to be. Why is this you may be asking? Well, initially it was simple. I was grabbed by websites claiming large amounts of money in small amounts of time.

My first encounter trying to make money online was with paid surveys. What a complete waste of time! I spent a long time reading up, making sure I wasn’t signing up to scam sites. So, having found a list of reputable sites I signed up! I’d read good things about how simple paid surveys where, so I was quite excited to finally get going.

I filled out survey after survey, keen to earn as much as possible. However, I soon realised that I wasn’t being paid with cash, but with entries into prize draws. Hardly what I was hoping for.
Needless to say I only stuck with paid surveys for about one week before I thought these aren’t really worth the time they take (some of which took nearly half an hour!).

Two things annoyed me most about paid survey sites:

1) The amount of personal information they require. I’m not sure about you, but I do not like giving out my address to loads of different sites, but it doesn’t stop there. These sites will ask for your parents/housemates/children’s information too, this includes their salaries, job type, interest etc. All rather private stuff. You might not bother to enter this data, but the more info they have on you, the more surveys they send your way. Now, if you think that you want to make as much money as possible and sign up to numerous sites, then that’s a lot of sites with all your details. Not to mention, how tedious it is to enter it in the first place.

2) The number of emails they send you. A word of warning: if you’re going to do this, set up a new email address especially for the surveys. Each site you register with will email you to inform you about new surveys for you to complete. This quickly becomes a large number of emails each day, clogging your inbox. You might think this is a good thing; more emails, more surveys, more money. This is not the case. Before you commence each survey you will have to complete a mini-survey to make sure you are eligible for the proper survey. This can dramatically lower the number of surveys you can complete.

The good thing about paid surveys is that you shouldn't have to pay to take part in them.

So, all-in-all not really a success, but at least I hadn’t lost any money.

Setting Up Your Own Business

Now this took up a very large chunk of my summer holiday. I put a lot of thought into this, and did a LOT of reading up on it. I found it all rather interesting to be honest. Luckily for me I found a really helpful website, which I highly recommend. It’s called Weber Internet Marketing. This site is run by Steve Weber, and he really is a great guy. Normally when you look at similar sites you are bombarded with how much money you will earn, and how simple it is. This guy tells it straight. He’ll tell you ways in which you won’t earn money and he’ll tell you it takes time and effort.

I joined his program after reading a few of his replies in various forums. You really won’t be disappointed if you join his site. On there are numerous videos (very detailed too!) showing you what you need to do in order to setup your own internet business. This includes information on finding a niche market, how to setup your own website, where to go to host this site, help on how to get it on Google’s front page and much more. There’s also information on there about Google’s AdWords too, although I’ve never tried that.

His website really did encourage me to start thinking about setting up my own website. I had an idea of a niche product that I had some knowledge about that I could actually sell. The trouble is I’m still only 20. I know little in the world of business, I’m not brave enough to invest that much money to host a website and the thought of buying cases of product really scares me right now. I just don’t have enough money if it all went wrong. On top of that there’s the fact I’m still at uni. What if I sold loads of these things? Where would I find the time to manage a site, prepare orders and reply to emails etc. It just isn’t viable for someone in my position right now. But to be honest, I really like the idea and one day may come back to it.

So what’s the point of this post? Well it’s to show that there are legit people out there who are making money from the internet, yet at the same want to help others do the same. I even emailed Steve Weber and he replied in person. How many online marketing sites would do that? He even hosts live web seminars. Now I know I’ve given this guy good praises, I’m not working for him, and I won’t earn any money if you click that link above either. I just want people who are considering setting up an online business to get some good advice, from someone who isn’t going to hang you out to dry once you’ve signed up.

I believe that this could potentially be a gold mine for someone who’s got enough time on their hands to set this up. You will also have to be able to afford to lose a bit of money at first in order to gain in the long run. These are the only reasons I haven’t given this a go.

My PayDotCom Experience

This is article documents the time I devoted to affiliate marketing.

For those of you who’ve not heard of affiliate marketing then you can read a much better description of it than I could ever give you here, courtesy of Wikipedia.

This was a more expensive venture. I had been trawling the website and found a site that claimed to make me large sums of money per hour. After looking through this website I decided to Google the company to make sure it wasn’t a renowned scam.

After deciding it wasn’t a scam, I signed up. It wasn’t a large amount of money; around the £15 mark (I can’t remember the website). After receiving my login details, I entered the member’s area. My initial reaction was disappointment. The member’s area wasn’t especially well presented and wasn’t exactly full of information.

This particular site had “5 easy steps” to make your money within the member’s area; this corresponded to 5 web pages. I hope you can imagine my disappointment; I had paid around £15 for access to 5 web pages. Badly presented ones at that.

In a nutshell, these pages told me to setup an account at paydotcom. PayDotCom is a website that gives you access to a massive list of companies that will pay you a commission for any customers you send their way and buy their products.

In the next step I was told which companies to promote and the ways in which to promote them. To promote these companies I was given a list of advertising websites on which I was told to post adverts in their business sections. These adverts generally went along the lines of:

“Earn up £300/hour! Follow this link to find out more....”

If someone followed the link, and signed up for the advertised product, I earned my commission. In order to earn a decent amount of money one would have to post adverts for many products on many advertising sites.

What I have described above is what I paid about £15 for! Please don’t make the same mistake.
Now for the problems with this money making idea:

1) The number of other adverts you will be competing against. Here is the home page of a free advertising website. Take a look at the number of adverts in the business opportunities section; they’re over 100 pages of adverts here. If you click on the business opportunities link you will see on the first page a number of featured ads, these adverts have been paid for to get such a good placement. There are over 25 pages of featured ads! Do you really think someone is going to scroll through this many ads in order to find your free ad? I highly doubt it.

2) Almost all ad sites will only allow your ad to run for 30 days. This means for every advert you create, and for every site you place that advert on you will need to renew it every 30 days. This may not sound like a big deal, but imagine if you’re advertising 5 companies on 5 different ad sites (you will need to be advertising on way more sites than this) then you will be re-writing your ads 25 times every 30 days...very tedious.

3) You will receive a great deal of spam. I mean loads. After posting ads I got emails saying people had replied to them. These replies where in the form of people sending me emails asking me to join their schemes. Highly annoying. Again, set up a separate email if you plan to do this.

Needless to say, I didn’t make any money with this. I promoted 3 companies on about 20 ad sites. This took a great deal of my time. Nearly all ad sites require you to register (name, address, etc) and then you have to enter your ad (this isn’t just a simple copy and paste either). Doing this for every site, for every ad, and then for every time you need to renew the ad takes a great deal of time.

I decided this was not worth the effort after about a month.
Another online money making idea that proved no good. I lost my initial investment and god knows how much time.