Project Payday Review
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As many of you already know, I’m a stay at home Mom who earns money from home. I get to stay home with my kids and I’m home when my husband comes in. I’ve been doing this for the last few years and each year, I’m able to earn a little more than the year before.
I’ve received a lot of emails asking me about Project Payday ever since I mentioned it in a Post here last year. Now that I’ve been with them over a year, I thought I sit down and write a Project Payday review to answer some of the questions that you might have.
I found Project Payday thanks to the advice from a Cousin of mine in St. Paul. She had been with them quite a while and does pretty well with them. When she found out that I had quit my job to stay home, she said I absolutely needed to check these people out if I was serious about making extra income from the Internet.
So check them out is what I did. I spent about a day on the Internet doing a little research on them. I found many sites that claimed Project Payday was a scam. This alarmed me at first. But when I started visiting these sites, I started finding that they were sites built by Internet Marketers for the purpose of putting down Project Payday and selling you their version of how to make money on the Internet.
So I dug deeper and started finding forums and blogs where real people were making extra money with Project Payday. I did see some people who disliked the program and were unhappy with it. So I called my Cousin back and asked her. She simply said that the company was legitimate and she had never had a bad dealing with them. She also told me that any company will have a few complaints along the way. She said some people actually thought that Project Payday was a get rich quick program (which, it’s clearly not!) and were dissatisfied when they found out they would have to put time and effort into it.
I knew this was true from my previous experience making extra money online by using Adsense.
It’s Free To Join
So I figured, what the heck. It’s free to join and it has good reviews from REAL users, not people trying to sell you something else. But the thing that sealed the deal with me was the $100 guarantee. It simple states that if you follow the 4 simple steps to making money as outlined in Method 1 and don’t make money within 24 hours, they’ll give you $100. There was no fine print. You follow the four simple steps and make money in 24 hours or they’ll give you $100. That’s a pretty good guarantee in my book!
When I signed up, I immediately took my Cousin’s advice and read through the site and watched ALL of the training video’s. She had told me this was important for success and after looking back, I agree. The information about how to make extra money and the training video’s are a must if you want to maximize the money you make from Project Payday.
Let me clarify something before I go further. Like I said before, the program is free to join. Here’s how it works. When you sign up, you’ll be asked to sign up for a trial offer from a selection of many companies. Some of these cost a few dollars to sign up for the trial, some don’t.
For example, I have always been curious about the identity theft protection of Life Lock. That was one of the major companies I had the choice of signing up with for a trial offer to get into Project Payday for free. So I took the trial offer and it cost me a few bucks for a 14 day free trial. About day 10 I decided I wasn’t all that crazy about it and canceled. They didn’t charge my credit card. If I had stayed with them past the 14 days, it would have cost me $9 per month. Since they didn’t charge me because I had canceled in the time frame I was suppose to, it was free.
There is an option to buy directly into Project Payday, but I’ve never known anyone who did that. Everyone I know chooses either a free trial of a product or service, or they buy a trial offer and cancel before the free trial runs out unless they like the product or service. It’s as simple as that.
How To Get Started Making Money With Project Payday
Once your membership has been approved and you’ve read the instructions and watched the Free training video’s, you can start making money. The way you do this is by visiting forums where there are people who will pay you to fill out offers such as the one I did for LifeLock.
If you read through the instructions and watched the video’s, you’ll learn there are two ways to make money with Project Payday. One is Method 1 where you fill out offers for others, Method 2 is where you’ll pay others to fill out offers for you!
Everyone begins with Method 1 because it’s the easiest. You’ll browse the forums looking for someone with an offer they need filled out. You’ll contact them and once they send you a link to their offer, you go through that link and sign up for the free offer. Once you’ve been approved by that Merchant, the person who you filled out the offer for will be notified by the Merchant and they will get credit for you signing up.
This is known as “Going Green” in the industry.
You’ll see there are a lot of people willing to pay you anywhere from $5 to $50 and sometimes more for you to “Go Green” on an offer. As I said earlier, this normally means signing up for a trial offer from a company. Some of these will cost you an up front fee. You do this just like most other offers. You use your credit card and you cancel within the trial offer period so that you pay nothing in the end.
Now here’s where people get lazy. I use a sheet of paper to keep up with the trial offers that I take and make sure I cancel my free trial before the trial runs out. If you don’t keep up with the trials you sign up for, you could end up forgetting and the Merchant you signed up with will charge you the normal fee. So be sure to use a sheet of paper or a spreadsheet and cancel those free trial offers by the end date unless you like the product or service and want to keep them.
A lot of people get lazy and don’t keep up with their trial offers then get upset when the free trial expires and they are charged. Their own fault, not anyone elses.
Another thing you must do is to keep track of the offers you fill out. These companies only pay for one free trial per household. So if you sign up for multiple times for one offer, you won’t Go Green for the person you took the offer from and you won’t get paid.
Another thing to remember is not to cancel your trial too soon after signing up or the Merchant will view it as a fraudulent sign up and refuse to pay the person you went Green for. I usually wait until about 3/4 of my trial is up before I cancel.
Summary of How Project Payday Works
Okay, I’m sure that long drawn out explanation was a bit much for some of you. So I’m going to give you a real life example of how it works.
Once I’ve signed up, I go and visit one of the forums and look for somone willing to pay me to Go Green on an offer for them. You’ll usually find quite a few offers. Let’s say I find an offer for LifeLock and the person is willing to pay me $25 to Go Green for them on LifeLock. I then use their link to go to the LifeLock offer and sign up for their trial offer. Once I’ve completed the offer, I then send the details back to the person who I went Green for. Once LifeLock has notified them that they have a legitimate sign up, they then turn around and put $25 into my PayPal account. This whole process is usually completed in a day but sometimes it may take two days. Just keep track of your offers and the people you went Green for.
It’s that simple! I normally did a few of these offers a day.
Once you’ve used Method 1 for a while, you’ll want to start making more money. It’s then that you’ll move on to Method 2 and get people to sign up for YOUR offers and Go Green for you! You’ll get cash or merchandise for people Going Green for you. There have been many people on the forums who’ve received Laptops, Digital Camera’s, DVD Players and other high dollar goods for people Going Green for them.
The Downside of Project Payday
Here are a few things I didn’t like about the Project Payday service.
1. It can be boring filling out a lot of offers
2. It can be a pain in the rear keeping up with who you went Green for and which offers you’ve filled out
3. Another pain is keeping up with your free trials and canceling them before the run out so your credit card isn’t charged. That’s why I use a spreadsheet.
Of course, to make money you have to put a little time and effort into it. This is not a get rich quick scheme. You can make some really good money but you have to use some common sense and put the time and effort into the program to make it work for you.
In my quest to make money from home, I’ve tried a lot of programs over the years and spent a lot of money doing it. I can say that Project Payday is one of the few legitimate ways to make money on the Internet. Not only that, it’s pretty easy. In fact, I’ve helped my Mother and Aunt sign up for it and they bring in extra money nearly every week to supplement their retirements.
I hope you’ve found this Project Payday review helpful. Once you sign up, there are support forums and even a mentoring program you can join. I highly recommend this if you want someone to show you step by step of how to maximize your profits. If you use the program, drop me a line and let me know how well it is working for you. I love to hear success stories! Here’s the link where you can get more information about Project Payday.
