Free Money in PayPal Instantly – Active Income Opportunities

Disclaimer: This post includes affiliate links for which I may make a small commission (at no extra cost to you) if you sign up for the services mentioned.

Free Money in PayPal Instantly – Active Income Opportunities (Updated 26 April 2019 – I’ve replaced Clickworkers with InboxDollars a GPT, get paid to opportunity for income generation)

Today I will discuss four active income opportunities that are free PayPal money generators. In the quest for financial independence, the key requirement is to take advantage of monetization strategies and multiple streams of income ideas. If you utilize a blog then most will be associated with ad network revenue generation, affiliate marketing or generation, and sales of your own physical products or digital products and services.

However, there are also opportunities to create streams of income from more active engagement measures without using a blog. These are online opportunities thru microventures or microjobs, get paid to or GPT sites, survey sites and apps that provide rebates for purchasing things that you currently buy already.

I’ll cover the three ideas I am utilizing in detail and discuss a fourth that I’ve just started.

Ibotta

The rebate app that I am using and am currently most infatuated with is the Ibotta app. Ibotta has partnered with numerous retailers, I use it mainly for groceries, to present rebates on various products that the stores and services offer. After signup you simply open the Ibotta App, find the store and review the offers that are available. If one matches the items that you intend to purchase, you select the offer or offers. You enter the store, then shop and pay and then redeem the offers that match the products you pre-selected and purchased. Ibotta within minutes applies the rebate amount to your account. Once you reach $20 worth of rebates you can transfer the Ibotta balance to your PayPal account. I’ve been able to pull out over $70 from this app thus far.

Now about that $20, Ibotta covers $10 of it if you make $10 worth of rebates thru purchases and 10 store visits within the first 30 days of signing up. This is pretty easy to do if you are a regular shopper as in addition to the rebates, Ibotta offers between $.10 – $.25 bonuses at these stores regularly, and then offers multipliers on top of the bonuses from time to time. If you are able to convince your friends or add converts who signup under your Ibotta profile then the savings/rebates really add up as you qualify for a referral bonus and a portion of the activity that they are engaged in. The App is a fun tool to use while shopping and the immediate rebates can’t be beaten. Think of the old days (say 10 years ago) when folks were literally clipping coupons from the Sunday circulars to find discounts and rebates at the various stores where they shop. If the Ibotta App sounds like something that is of interest to you, please signup thru my link (Ibotta Referral).

QMEE

Okay, on to more traditional, if that word is even appropriate, monetization strategies that do not require a website or blog, paid surveys. I have begun using two survey sites to supplement and extend my microjob income. These survey sites are part of the free PayPal money generator variety of monetization tools. And in fact, are actually quite complementary to one another. The first is QMEE.

QMEE provides a continuously updating feed of surveys that are available for participants. QMEE identifies the rate for the survey and the anticipated time to complete the survey, thus it gives you a clear indication of time investment for monetary return. QMEE works very well from the standpoint of the number of surveys available to participate in. If you don’t like the descriptions or prices at one moment wait about 10 minutes and check again and a whole new slew of surveys is likely to be available. This 24-hour availability feature is a standout. Another great feature of QMEE is that you can cash your balance out to PayPal at any time and for any amount. If you’ve just signed up and say participated in a 6 min survey paying $.45 and determine that this is not the thing for you, you can immediately cash out, take your 45 cents and close out your QMEE account. I have not run across any other monetization strategy that provides you an opportunity to cash out to PayPal immediately. Okay, so that’s the good. Now the not so good, the knock on QMEE and perhaps other survey sites is that you could get halfway thru a survey and be disqualified. You could answer a question that for whatever reason triggers that survey as invalid to the surveyor. You could complete the survey at a pace that’s deemed too fast (i.e. appears to the surveyor that you may not be paying attention to the questions appropriately) and get disqualified from the survey. You could take too long answering a question and get disqualified from the survey. It’s a bit disconcerting…but as you attempt and succeed or fail surveys you get a better feel for the ‘trigger’ questions and potentially disqualifying actions. It’s just something to be aware of if the survey site is of interest. I will note that QMEE consistently provides feedback if you are disqualified from a survey and in some cases if you’ve gone thru a significant portion of the survey will offer you a little money for the effort. One thing that QMEE does exceptionally well is to warn you not to give out any personally identifiable information. It does this consistently. If you think this is a monetization opportunity that is of interest please signup thru my link (QMEE Referral).

PaidViewPoint

The second survey site and what I refer to as the compliment to QMEE is PaidViewPoint. Unlike most survey sites out there, PaidViewPoint guarantees payment for every question answered. No disqualification halfway or three-quarters of the way thru a survey here. PaidViewPoint accomplishes this by limiting the number of surveys that you are exposed to. That is you will not find a 24-7 rotation of available surveys thru PaidViewPoint. They typically are provided once a day and to maximize your earnings per question you need to catch the survey when it is issued. Some surveys are for demographic profiling with PaidViewPoint and some are actual surveys. The actual surveys pay well and don’t appear to expire but you have to catch them when available to earn maximum revenue. PaidViewPoint likewise provides free PayPal money instantly however you cannot remove funds from your PaidViewPoint balance until you accumulate $15 in survey revenue. I don’t have any complaints about PaidViewPoint. The quality of the surveys has been good and the fact that I earn for every question answered is refreshing. If you think this is a monetization opportunity that is of interest please signup thru my link (PaidViewPoint Referral).

InboxDollars

And now the newest monetization tool that I currently use that does not require a website or blog. As I noted earlier it is a GPT site/service meaning that on the site you receive monetization for any number of actions, reading emails, watching videos, participating in daily trivia questions, posing trivia questions, signing up for offers and of course surveys. That’s not the entire list but gives you a flavor of the ways you can earn. The site is called InboxDollars. I’ve been using it for a couple of months now. As you participate in the various activities you earn credit towards participating in a scratch-off with maximum winnings at $10, $25, or $100. Minimum winnings are $0.05 or 5 cents. The site has a fairly low threshold for payout to PayPal, currently at $30 and you receive a $5 credit for signing up. I’ve done well on this site as I recently scratched off for $100. Thus this is my go to and top recommended site for individuals looking for additional income streams. If you think this is a monetization opportunity that is of interest please signup thru my link (InboxDollars Referral)

The take away from this post is, in between micro jobbing I want to make the most of my available free time to earn income and the GPT and survey sites fill the gap and have significantly increased my income earning potential. Some may say well you should be focused on passive income pursuits exclusively and that’s a legitimate argument however the goal right now is income generation. I need to get my business self-funded and then I can apply the income that’s above and beyond to other investments or courses to help with passive income generation or other tools to facilitate my business. From a dollars standpoint, let’s assume that my personal savings can earn 8%. For every dollar that I make in my business that’s over and above my expenses, I would effectively need to make ($1 / .08) in personal savings to generate that same income. Using numbers, if I make $800 dollar profit in my business I would need ($800 / .08) or $10000 in personal savings earning 8% to generate that same level of income. Thus my pursuit of business income of any kind, the return on effort cannot be matched.

I’ll be on the lookout for other opportunities going forward and will report back.