Journal for August 2nd

August 2nd was the first day I heard about CashCrate from the My Debt Free Goal blog. I signed up and completed about 5 offers, which got me up to around $4.50 in earnings. Unfortunately I did not think about keeping a journal of the offers until the day after. I started late in the evening on that day and worked for less than an hour looking around the CashCrate site, reading the forums, and trying offers / surveys. By the time I went to bed I already had a few dollars in confirmed earnings, just based on an initial look around

My initial impressions are that the CashCrate site has a good design and the service is well thought out and easy to use. They offer a quick one page tutorial which tells you everything you need to know to start completing offers and getting some earnings.

It seems the average amount of money you get for a simple survey is anywhere from $0.50 to $1.00, and a survey can be completed in anywhere from a few minutes to around 10 minutes (depends on the survey provider). Offers are a little more lucrative, usually paying out $1.00 or more, and take a similar amount of time to complete.

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My basic process so far seems to be:

1. Pick a survey or offer from the list in the members area (the tutorial says to start off by sorting the offers by 100% Free + sort by Rating)
2. Clicking an offer will redirect you to that offer’s site. Once you’re there you fill out a series of pages or answer some questions.
3. When finished you go back to the CashCrate site, hit ‘Submit’ for that offer, and the amount will be added to your (pending) earnings.
4. Within a few hours you should receive a confirmation from CashCrate saying that the offer was accepted and the pending money has been moved into your current earnings.

So far its been a good experience! Stay tuned for more updates, I am now keeping a detailed journal of my experience and I’ll definitely be going in to more detail in the upcoming posts.