Cashcrate

Cashcrate is a simple, reliable "paid to" site. You have many options to make money and they're all fairly easy.

Offers

For starters, you have Offers, paid and free. These are mostly trials or freebies to sucker you out of your email (so use your spam address!). If you sign up for a trial, write it on your calendar so you can remember to cancel unless you really enjoy the service.

Surveys

There are two different tabs for Surveys: "Surveys" and "Top Surveys". The only difference really is that top surveys pay more. You wont always qualify for surveys, but keep trying because its a great way to rack up cash.

Referrals

Refer your friends! They'll enjoy it too, and you can earn from them. For every new member you refer you get 20% of what they make and 10% of what their referrals make. You also get a $3.00 bonus once the make their first $10. As you level up, you receive more from referrals. 

Videos

This tab isn't always available, but when it is take advantage. You get $0.02 for each video. Easy, easy cash. 

Payout

You have to reach $20 to cash out. Pay is via check. If you reach Silver level you may cash out via PayPal or direct deposit.

Online Sales-How is Everyone Selling Products but Me?

We've all seen representatives from Beachbody, Thrive, etc. posting for help with sales and boasting about how much they bring from selling their company's products. Sounds easy and great so why not try it, right? For some reason though, once you've signed up, or worse, purchased a starter kit, you can't seem to sell the products. Your friends and family aren't interested and the people you reach out to are trying to sell you on their home based business. So why is everyone else so successful while you're struggling to make a single sale? This is an answer I wish I'd known at the beginning of my work at home journey, and it may surprise you: They're not.

These people aren't making their money selling products. and most of them have probably never sold any company products. The reality is that they're making money from people like you, signing up to make money. Most of these companies offer referral bonuses, so instead of selling products members rack up referrals making all their cash from bonuses. Sometimes they let you believe you'll be selling too, and others they're slightly more honest with posts like "Make Money Posting Ads".

Technically you are selling, but you're selling a business opportunity instead of a product. Personally I find this to be really dishonest. It may sound easy to earn from referrals, but there are so many of these programs around now. Competition is steep. All you can do is spam Craigslist and Facebook and pray for some major suckers. If you're looking for legit sales, steer clear of these. Look for the old fashioned direct sales you're familiar with such as: Avon, Mary Kay, Scentsy, etc.

Still interested? Check out some of these (NOT referral links):

Project Payday
Instant Rewards
Le-Vel

Paid Social Networking

Believe it or not, you can earn money by social networking. You create and share posts, leave comments and likes just like on Facebook.

Bubblews
Bubblews started out as social article writing site. Kind of like Squidoo except you earn per view, like, comment, or social share. People take advantage of the system though, so it consists of horrible grammar and social update posts. This shows that you can post just about anything you want and still earn. Instead of sharing your work though, your best bet is to make connections (add Bubblews friends) and interact with their posts. A like for a like is pretty much the unwritten system for the site. It's how everyone earns. Interact with a friend's post and they will return the favor, so make lots of connections! If you want your first, this is me: &IscreamBeth. Even if you don't add me this is a pretty good example of what to expect. I have some social posts and some that hold actual information. 

Note: Bubblews has been shut down.

Tsu

This is just a green Facebook. You're paid by how much attention your posts get so, again, make as many friends as you can! You have to be invited and there is a referral system. The link in the subheading is my referral link.

There are some limits:

8 shares per day

24 posts per day

1,000 follows (total)

5,000 friends (total)

10 @mentions per post

10 #hashtags per post

Members say they generally earn $1-$5 a day. 

MyLikes

This is mostly photo and gallery posts. You earn a few cents per share, more if it's original content. You get your own webpage and can share your posts on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Trending and viral topics are on the homepage to help you get more views.

Sponsored Tweets

Have a good following on your usual networks? Get paid to post an ad or mention of a company/product. The name of this site says "Tweets" but you can now use just about any social network for sponsored posts. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, LinkedIn, Tumblr, YouTube, Flickr, Foursquare, Vine, and Wordpress are all accepted. You can even connect your custom blog. A free account only allows you 3 bids per month, but for $1/month you have unlimited bids. Status updates are worth around $1-$3 and blog posts are more. Your pay mostly depends on your social following though. The more followers you have, the higher your pay.