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Interested in making money on the internet, but don't have any money to put down, or a credit card to purchase a free trial of something? Below I have organized a few ways to make some extra cash and put them into convienient steps. Keep in mind the underlying rule: The more time it takes to do something, the more money you will get out of it.

Step 1: Get an email account.

You should be able to do it for free at just about anywhere. I recommend google.com or yahoo.com, but just about anything will work.

Step 2: Get a paypal account.
Go to paypal.com and give them your email address and password. Now you can recieve money from anywhere directly into your account. You shouldn't have to register for anymore bank sites. Usually if a site doesn't pay you by paypal, it isnt worth signing up for.

Step 3: Sign up for free sites
Now here is were it gets tricky. I'll organize the types of free sites you can apply for from the lowest paying to the highest paying.

PTR/PTC Sites: These are the sites that pay you to click on advertisements or read email. Usually you make about a cent every ten times you click on something. While these sites can be fun because they require pretty much no effort at all, their rate of return is not high at all. There are millions of these sites around the web, but the most credible ones that I have found are: www.mentalemails.com and www.donkeymails.com.

Free Offer Sites: This next group of sites usually requires one to have a credit card handy to apply for trial offers that hopefully you will stick with. If you put enough time and effort into it though, you should be able to make a few bucks a day filling out the 20 minute applications for sites that will only give you a dollar. All in all, unless you are registered with a free offer site that gives you surveys, not having a credit card will frustrate you to no end on these types of sites. A few good ones that don't require a card are: www.inboxdollars.com and www.sendearnings.com.

Blog site: Blog sites require the least effort of all of these choices. You get money by writeing things and sharing your opinions with people. Unfortuneatly, they don't pay well at all and it takes months to recieve a payout. Obviously a good site would be www.helium.com. I've experimented with others, but nothing has really come out of it.

Survey Sites: Now we are getting into the sites that pay big money. DON'T PAY FOR A SURVEY SITE! They are going to rip you off. Instead take the time to sign up for all of the surveys yourself. Pretty much everything that you will need you will find here: http://www.work-at-home-forum. com/19_1797_0.html. Just scroll to the bottom of the page and you should see about 80 links. Take the time to sign up for each of them. You should recieve 3 - 4 emails every month from each site that pay 5 - 25 dollars each. This should give you a good amount of extra income.

Good luck!

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