Maybe some of you remember, how it was back in a days, like 7-8 years ago? There were websites where you clicked ad links, do weird surveys, install toolbars and other shit.
Some of websites were scam, some of them really works.
However, all these methods have a common feature, they were time consuming.
So what was that in detail?
Bux websites
This were sites, where you visit other websites, stay on them for 30 seconds and receive $0.01 per website, seems easy? Yes it was easy... but for example, you could only visit 10 websites per day, and payout threshold was $10.00, you can easy calculate, to reach payout threshold you need 100 days, and imagine your reaction when you request payout and received nothing, beacuse website was scam or they "detect" bots, but you never use any of them.
Earning example like this:
were never real, good luck find referrals who didn't give up after a few days of clicking.
Surveys
Surveys was the most weird thing I tried, most of them I tried was "too good to be true". I describe one of them.
After registering, you have list of links, just like bux, but after you visit website there was a question, something like "What do you think about this website?", you can literally answer anyhing and website accepted that, and gives you about $5, it was "too good to be true" back in the days, after completing all surveys you were still under payout threshold, and there were no new surveys daily. So you needed referrals to get threshold. So I managed to get some referrals to reach threshold, make payment request and? Yeah scam I only get email "We have processed and Denied your payment request"
Pay by reading mails
In other words, get paid for receiving spam. Never got any profit from this exluding spam.
Toolbars
The most ugly thing, just install big freakin' toolbar on your desktop (imagine when you still used 1024x768 monitor), forget about running fullscreen games it was impossible. Big toolbar for low profit. Nah.
How big was my first payment?
After months or maybe year of trying I got my first payment, I wasn't believe that I did it when I saw on my paypal $15.07. So yeah it was big for me 7 years ago. So let's see how much will be my first money on steemit. Maybe some of this sites still exist but if they exist you didn't get good profit from them.
How about your first money you earn on internet? Did you earn using this methods or used any other methods that I didn't know.
I tried making YouTube Channels and Websites, some fairly successful(one channel got 800k views!!), but the time to make it reasonable quality was not worth it. I've moved on from what you said above, but it was painful XD I'm at Bitcoin and Altcoins, and they really are the future, and I see their viability! Being part of history is exciting!
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