What was the first site that helped you to earn some extra money?
By Diana
@dya80dya (36805)
August 4, 2019 3:03pm CST
For me the first site was ClixSense. I couldn't believe that I will be paid if I would complete surveys. I thought that all sites were a scam. My brother told me to not trust any site. I earned money faster than here and faster than on any site. I gave up on ClixSense because they stopped using PayPal. What was the first site that helped you to earn some extra money?
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@Michellekidwell (29953)
• Sonora, California
4 Aug 19
For me I believe it was a site called Helium many years ago, as far as I know it doesn’t exist anymore, and also Tsu that unfortunately no longer exists!
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@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
7 Aug 19
@dya80dya It was definitely a "writing site" but you could only write on subjects that were pre-selected. You could suggest topics, but had to wait until they were available before you did so. You were then in competition with other writers to write the best article on that topic - those at the top of the list earned more. I was invited to become an editor for a subject group - mine was English Language. I did not earn anything by doing this, but I could propose subjects directly and get them accepted straight away, and I could also get articles withdrawn if they were off-topic or of poor quality.
Helium had lots of good points, especially its insistence on quality writing, but it was also restrictive.
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@Scrapper88 (5980)
• United States
4 Aug 19
One of my first websites that I earned money on was Bubblews.
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@Scrapper88 (5980)
• United States
6 Aug 19
@dya80dya I have heard of several reasons. The main reason is that they lost their funding to where they could not pay anybody on the site.
@lovebuglena (52224)
• Staten Island, New York
4 Aug 19
From what I remember it was HubPages. Although publishing my own books happened before that. And that brought a little side money.
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@lovebuglena (52224)
• Staten Island, New York
6 Aug 19
@dya80dya It's different. With HubPages I earn every day, even if the earnings are usually under $1. With book sales you don't earn every day because sales do not happen every day unfortunately. I can get a few sales a month maybe, if at all.
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@florelway (23339)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
5 Aug 19
It's a survey site, Globaltest later on replaced by lifepoints..
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@dya80dya (36805)
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7 Aug 19
@florelway Everything good disappears. This is sad.
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@florelway (23339)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
7 Aug 19
@dya80dya unfortunately the replacement does not offer as much as globaltest. Globaltest is a good survey site.
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@betlynfrnds (4071)
• United States
6 Aug 19
Wow, I've been a member of so many sites over the years that I don't remember my first one. I'm familiar with most every site mentioned in the responses to this thread. I have been a member of some of those.
Clixsense, too, was one of my first ones. They used to be pretty good but not so much anymore.
@renicemae (4883)
• Philippines
10 Aug 19
It was Clixsense. But like you I gave it up because of Paypal.
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@renicemae (4883)
• Philippines
10 Aug 19
@dya80dya What? really? is the site the same?
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@beachbabe26 (190)
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5 Aug 19
it was heysphere and this is no longer existing. They shut it down last year.
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@beachbabe26 (190)
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7 Aug 19
@dya80dya It's a chat support site. This is a site where you can ask anything goes under the sun. If you need help with some academics cause there are academic categories, if you want someone to talk to, if you have queries like movies or songs suggestions, etc.. etc...
