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Todd Hicks blogs on job interview preparation, cooking and travel, respectively. http://jhacac.blogspot.com http://gfpana.blogspot.com http://httwlh.blogspot.com

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I know a lot about survey sites and other sites that pay you to run ads or do other things online. My reviews are fair and thorough.

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Acx.com

“Waste of time for audiobook authors and voiceover producers”

4/25/20

It's easy to set up your books for audio script auditions, provide your tax information and set your payment preferences but that's as far as I can go for praise, as I ultimately wasted my time setting up two books to be made into an audio book to be available for sale. Once you listen to an audition then click "Make Offer" then complete the offer form, it's impossible to make your offer go through and thus have it reflected in your dashboard. I feel sorry for the voice actors who undoubtedly spend oodles of time searching for auditions, responding to them, making a voice over and no doubt are left hanging to get an offer from an author in hopes of earning revenue from a one-time production payment from the author or sharing book sale royalties with the author.

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Thriftypig.com

“A site that should be put out to pasture”

1/25/20

I was minding my own business when this site invited me by mail to become a member about 2 months ago. I accumulated some points for completing my profile and they supposedly offer a 5-dollar payout upon accumulating 500 points but this is far outweighed by the negatives. Most of the time I've spent taking their surveys, I have either ended up being disqualified or finishing a survey only to be rerouted to another survey.

Many weeks ago, I spent at least 20 minutes taking a survey before screening out. Finally, I just spent a long time taking a survey and completing it but not being credited for it and thus earning any points for my toil.

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Surveytime

“How this site isn't worth your time”

9/22/19

After you sign up, you'll likely get multiple survey invitations for the opportunity to earn a buck per survey daily and most of the surveys are quick but good luck earning money from these people. For starters, you're unable to fill out a personal profile at registration time; consequently, you can't increase the amount of relevant surveys you take.

Each time you take their surveys, you're likely to be screened out eventually, with a message saying you're unable to complete the survey. The last straw was spending awhile on a survey tonight I thought I was qualified for, only to be screened out once again.

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Yeesshh

“How using them to sell ads on your site can make you say sheesh”

5/14/19

It's relatively easy to get accepted and you can cash out upon accumulating $50 in revenue but that's as far as I can go for praise. It was a hassle signing up because I had to go back and forth in my emails with them and I had to fill out their registration form a few times before I finally made it in successfully in late February.

From February 26 to March 13, I generated a few requests, or ad impressions, from advertisers on my blogs and earned close to 1 cent; beyond that, I haven't received any impressions or revenue accumulation.

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Randstad USA

“Sign up to be a temp for them”

5/14/19

It's easy to sign up and you can accept assignments on both the office work side and the production work side. From what I've seen, Randstad works harder than any other staffing agency to find temp and temp-to-hire work for you.

Their website is user-friendly and you can use it to create an account and thus set your tax status and keep tabs on your direct deposit or pay card earnings statement. Finally, this company grants second chances; I'm grateful for having one after messing up on my first assignment from them. The lone drawback is you don't have the option to get paid by check.

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Greyhound Bus Lines

“Pros and cons of riding Greyhound”

4/11/19

It's fun to ride the bus across America with this service and it's a lot cheaper to travel this way than by airplane or train. Also, you can save 10 % on your rides by having an online membership through their website. Furthermore, it's easy to book a trip through their website and by calling them and free Wi-Fi service is offered on the buses and at the bus stations.

The cons of riding Greyhound are that there are often long delays due to bad weather, the driver not showing up, etc. The free internet service is spotty; on my most recent return trip, I was able to get online at the Cleveland station but unable to get online at the next stops despite having successfully connected to Greyhound's internet service portal. Finally, you still have to pay the customary $20 fee to change your schedule in the event of a death in the family; on top of that, the agent I just talked to made an error on my departure time and said I would have to pay another 20 bucks to change that (despite the fact this error occurred on their end).

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Product Report Card

“Still a fan but a little disappointed now”

4/11/19

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They recently went from letting you quickly get paid by check or PayPal upon accumulating $25 in your account from taking surveys to only letting you redeem your earnings through an Amazon gift card. Although your cash-out request is likely to quickly be approved and Amazon offers such a vast array of merchandise you can order with your gift card code then receive within a few days, Product Report Card should have left in place the option to receive our earnings through PayPal and checks.

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“Why I love Product Report Card”

7/9/16

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You will frequently get a survey invitation and when you don't complete a survey, you will get 10 cents for your effort as long as you respond before the survey closes, so respond as soon as possible. You should quickly reach the $25 payout mark and you should quickly get paid whether you opt for a check or opt to be paid through PayPal.

branded surveys

“No longer a worthy brand”

4/10/19

• Updated review

Stay away, as you likely won't get paid for your hard work. My recent earnings withdrawal request was rejected with no explanation, despite having earned the 1000 + points I accumulated beforehand.

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Irina M. – branded surveys Rep Over a year old

Hello Todd,
We'd be happy to look into this for you. Please reach out to us at info@gobranded.com. Thank you!

“Go Branded has lost its luster”

7/9/16

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They let you take plenty of surveys and polls for pay. You will always have plenty of survey opportunities and you can cash out for 10 bucks once you accumulate 1000 points. However, things have dramatically changed for the worst. It used to be that we would usually get five points for each survey we don't qualify for and any brief personal information update form we complete but now I'm usually given just 1 point or two for that.

They did away with the 30-point "You're an ace" bonus we would often get for screening out of surveys but being a good member. It's no longer the case you get 30 points for answering each poll in a series; now it's 5 points for all members. I kissed earning 10 points for taking a poll and 110 points for doing a poll for 10 consecutive days goodbye.

So much for my being a gold member. They have come up with dumb excuses for these new changes, with one of them being that they're trying to get quality survey taking done; what does this have to do with quality survey taking? I'm sticking with them for now but they may lose me if they keep this all up.

Vertoz

“Avoid signing up”

1/13/19

I registered to become a publisher with them 3 and 1/2 weeks ago but I still cannot insert their ad code on my blogs because they haven't made a decision to accept or reject my sites. Too, I emailed my account manager to expedite things but that hasn't netted a response or action either.

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PulsePoint

“There's been no pulse in their response to registration”

1/13/19

I signed up to be a publisher with them about three weeks ago but they haven't sent an email confirmation.

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Adsal.net

“Don't register to become a publisher with them, especially if you have a sub domain”

1/4/19

I should have known better than to sign up with them. Although they have a descriptive interface, they don't have an FAQ or terms of service section on their site. After registering then listing my first blog in my dashboard for approval, their system presented a message saying they don't accept blogspot sites per their terms of service which they don't make available.

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BidVertiser

“A great way to irritate visitors”

1/3/19

If you insert their ad code on your site, you'll get ads that when triggered produce multiple pop-up layers that cover up your site and make returning to it too hard.

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Unique Rewards

“It is a scam now”

1/2/19

This site used to be pleasurable and reliable; you could read emails,
take surveys, watch ads and do other fun activities for money then cash
out by check or PayPal upon attaining $20 in your account and actually
be paid within a short time frame.

Now I and several other members have
gone months without being paid despite having enough
in our accounts. UR keeps saying they always pay and keeps coming up
with excuses, with one of them being they're waiting on confirmation
from their bank. Stay away from this site.

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Edomz

“Why I dropped it”

1/2/19

It was easy to get accepted as a small publisher, I think their pop-under ads are safe and the $10 payout threshold you must meet to be able to cash out is reasonable compared to many other ad networks but my earnings were weak and I thus thought it wouldn't be worth it to wait at least 10 years to reach the minimum payout level based on my pace.

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PwrAds

“Not powerful enough”

1/1/19

It was easy to get started with them as a publisher and I accumulated a little bit of earnings but my balance suddenly stopped growing and I got the sense it would take too long to earn enough to cash out, if ever.

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CPMGO Ad Network

“Why I had to let it go”

1/1/19

It's easy to get accepted from them and get started but their pop-up ads aren't cool; each time they were triggered, they caused a redirect and made getting back to my sites impossible.

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NPLEXMedia

“How it perplexed me”

1/1/19

I was able to register and create ad blocks to use to run ads on my blogs but these units were soon taken away by Nplex without explanation. Furthermore, I made no money from them.

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Sovrn Holdings Inc

“Why I scorn this site”

12/25/18

This site isn't popular and they have screwed up with my registration as far as I'm concerned. A few years ago, I listed my first blog upon registration. However, I was given a message in my dashboard saying my site was declined due to a 3rd party lookup tool discovering suspicious traffic. First of all, I'm honest and there's nothing wrong with my traffic. Second, why have this type of tool look into members' traffic?

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WOW TRK

“How it's not likely to wow you”

12/14/18

I give them credit for quick registration approval, quick offer approval and being able to cash out once your balance reaches the $25 threshold but this isn't enough to offset the minuses. Having registered with them in October, I haven't received 1 click for running banners for some of their offers on my blogs.

No clicks? This situation is unusual. Also, I went from having dozens of impressions to just zero to one over the last few weeks.

From what I've seen, most of their banners are too big; this is an inconvenience if you're trying to minimize this bandwidth and thus allow your site pages to load quickly, which is essential. Finally, I just received notice informing me an offer I've been running will soon expire and thus asking me to remove the creatives for it from my sites.

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Matthew L. – WOW TRK Rep Over a year old

Hi Todd, hope you are well.

Thanks for your positive comments about the network.

Regarding the click issue, we use a third party platform for this HasOffers, which is a market leading platform and have one of the best uptime records for tracking. We record thousands of clicks daily without any issues, there might have been an issue with how you placed the link on your site. Did you ask your account manager about this issue, for help from them?

Regarding banners on offers we tend to ask advertisers for common ad sizes websites use for example 300x250, 728x90, 468x60 to name a few. Sometimes however an advertiser may choose to pick different sites, but the majority of the time if an offer has banner creatives they will be in commonly used sizes.

Regarding the offer you were running being paused, unfortunately this does happen - a little too frequently to be honest. This is something we are looking into improving in 2019 (potentially having longer minimum contracts).

Thanks for your feedback and I hope you find the above useful and we will definitely take everything you said on board. :)

Statusmoney

“Why I don't trust it anymore”

12/14/18

I just closed my account with them. Although they offer opportunities to earn money, they can't be trusted as far as I'm concerned. I began to link my bank accounts but they wanted to know my password for them. I could understand if they just wanted to know my routing numbers in order to give me a direct deposit for money I earned but I would never reveal my passwords to a third party or any other individual; a legitimate company surely wouldn't ask you to do that.

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