jb's World - Earning from small investments since 2007

In my quest for low risk investments, I've always sought to earn small rewards from websites, that I can risk at a later point for larger earnings. I've come across and used a few "paid to search" websites before, that generally use the Yahoo! search engine, and pay their users for using their service (logically paid for from the advertising revenue Yahoo makes). For the last years I've settled on Search Lotto which pays you in the form of syndicate entries in the Euromillions and UK National Lottery Lotto draws. I've won lots of small payouts, which are always paid out to my PayPal account within a few days of the draw. I have to say, I'm genuinely impressed. How it works Once you join Search Lotto , you can either download a browser extension, change your search engine settings in your browser, or just remember to go to their website when searching the Internet. When you've performed 25 searches, they give you a free entry into a lottery draw. You c...

Whilst I don't believe market forecasters have a crystal ball, it's clear that over the last two years Coronavirus, radical political leaders, and now a potential energy crisis have unsettled businesses and market investors alike. As markets dropped in the early part of the pandemic, I bought into some generalised funds, as the recovery seems relatively predictable. As we move back towards normality however, things are less predictable, and questions remain about the stability of markets, and whether stocks are now over-priced. So where do we go from here? Remind yourself of your goals Whilst "profit" is an obvious goal for investors, the timeline for this profit is more unique to the investor. Those getting close to retirement will likely have a different appetite for risk than those in their 20's. It's important to work out your own appetite for risk. For me, my appetite for risk has grown has I've become more confident in my approach. My goal is however...

I'm getting back into faucets at the moment, so thought I'd list my favourite bunch that work as a group, and can payout every 5 minutes or so... Many of these use CoinPot , which supports multiply cryptocurrency faucets, and offers payout to your wallet at low levels (e.g. 100 dogecoins at the time of writing). I open all these faucets in separate tabs of one window, to monitor and claim through the day. Once claimed, the money appears in  CoinPot  where I choose to convert all my currencies toLitecoin and Dogecoin which have low thresholds for payouts. This means I claim every couple of weeks into my wallets. Faucets: Don't forget to bookmark this post, so you can quickly open all these faucets! Every 15 minutes, to your CoinPot account: Bonus Bitcoin - Pays out 5000 Bitcoin satoshi Leave the page open, and it will make a bell sound every 15 minutes to remind you to claim. I recommend changing your account setting to "average" payout Ever inc...

I've previously highlighted that Cointiply is currently my favorite site for earning Bitcoins now. Here's my tips for making the most of your time on  Cointiply : Use the faucet regularly ... this basic feature is easily forgotten, but gives you a chance to earn some addition coins every hour in exchange for very little effort. Run videos in the background . Yes some spot "inactive windows", but just open them in a new window and you can earn whilst surfing in other windows yourself. This is the best source of coins I find. I tend to double click on some text in the window occaionally to stop it thinking the window is inactive. Don't forget to run multiple videos in-parallel. So long as they come from different providers, you should be able to run multiple videos in-parallel to maximise earnings. Use your referral link . Whilst I continue to find referral links a weak method of earning... if you're talking or writing about  Cointiply , why wouldn...

Well I didn't think I'd be back here talking about faucets! For those who don't know, a Bitcoin faucet is a site that gives away free Bitcoins (or fractions there of!). The catch is usually lots of adverts, and a time limit on how often you can "claim". So why am I writing about faucets again? Well I'm out of work at the moment, and have been clicking around, and rejecting a lot of naff sites... but then I came across Cointiply , and liked it. What Cointiply offers You need to register (I don't normally go in for that, but the reviews show a long paying out site) It pays all games/features out as "Coins" in your site wallet. 1 coin is one USD cent such that the amount of Bitcoin (BTC) you'll get on payout will be based on the exchange rate at the time. This protects you from falls in the value of Bitcoin until you're ready to cashout. Cashout is from $3.50. I've got to $1 within an afternoon of clicking in the backgrou...

It's been another 2 years since I gave this blog some attention, and life has both changed, and stayed static in that time. My drive to leave the boring world of work, and earn a living online, hasn't changed. That said, I've got the bruises from the last 10+ years of trying different tactics, and have probably become a lot more boring, but successful as a result. As I mentioned in my last post, the shutdown of Liberty Reserve was a turning point in my thinking. I'm now super suspicious of online currencies. eGold and Liberty Reserve shutdowns showed that the US government was either determined to kill off non-traditional payment systems, or that they were trying to steer people towards ones they had more visibility of. Either way, the question remains around other online payment services, as to whether or not their days are numbered, and whether holders of legitimate funds in these services would lose access at any time. For the record, I've not been able to ...

Wow, it's been over 8 years since I setup this blog, and if I'm completely honest, I'd forgotten it existed! Revisiting it, it looks like things have changed a lot since my last post, and hence the need to update things here. The shutdown of Liberty Reserve meant that I lost a large proportion of the money I had earned through pay-to-click sites etc... This encouraged me to revisit my approach, and work out what to spend my time on, to ensure I was getting back to my principle of earning money with low risk, but additionally low effort. I now keep it simple: Search Lotto - This site basically pays you to use the Yahoo Search engine. It is branded under Search Lotto, but is Yahoo results, with the advertising revenue coming back to you. They pay in the form of Lottery tickets, either UK National Lottery or EuroMillions. I've not won a lot yet, but a few of my syndicates entries have won, and I've been paid out for these direct to my bank account. This is a ...

Wow, well I knew one of these days that I'm come across a good money maker that I'd missed. Well this is that moment. Rather tragically, I came across MySearchFunds.com some years back and ignored it (I forget why, but I wasn't on my quest for money making ideas back then). Well MySearchFunds.com, which has now changed its name to Homepage Friends (a rather naff name change if you ask me), pays you to search the web. This used to be through Google, but they have recently switched over to Yahoo as their search provider. But nothing really changes. You goto your search page (set as your homepage for ease) e.g. mine is: http://www.myhpf.co.uk/mypage.asp?OrgID=87564 All the then have to do is use the search box to search with Yahoo. The results are no different to Yahoo's normal results, and you end up with about 2.4p (that's about $0.048) per search. At the rate I'm going, I'll have about £250 ($500) this year from the site... that makes my quest for...

It's been a long time, and as always the HYIP market has moved on substantially, players have come and gone at a faster pace than I'm sure they have in times past. So where does this leave me? Well actually in a good position, frankly the HYIPs themselves have been a bit of a disaster. I realised I was joining HYIPs too late in the day...when I thought they were safe, but in reality, I was joining them after the big rush, and therefore was there at the point their income levelled off, and therefore as they got bored. My other site "investments" have been the real winner though....DonkeyMails and wjob particularly. wjob still takes forever to earn cash, but you do get there, and then there's $6 in the account to play with. DonkeyMails has been the real winner though. I took a look into my profile and realised I hadn't switched on all areas of interest, so I wasn't getting the full range of banners and links to click on. More links equals more cash ;) ... an...

Well its not been the best start to the new year. My favourite e-Currency site, Liberty Reserve, seems to be coming under sustained DDOS attacks, making the site sometimes hard to access. But worse still, CobexTrade has gone. CobexTrade is a reminder (not that I wanted one!) that HYIPs are not just High Yield, but also High Risk. These sites come and go, and even with a very high reputation, CobexTrade has died. So what now? Well I still have some other funds, partly earned on the GoldAge forum , which I don't think I've mentioned here before. GoldAge is a forum dedicated to investors on HYIPs etc... and it actually pays its members for posting! Not a lot admittedly, but its nice to earn at the same time as get good advice from fellow HYIP investors. Here's my current portfolio...small as it is again now: BreInvest Sochi-Invest.org Golden Purse CobexTrade has been an unpleasant reminder not to get too secure a feeling from HYIPs...I lost a lot of my egold there...but lesson...

Well the money's in, and the balance is going up, currently at about 1.4% a day, which is great. Although this is great, I'm bored already, as there's nothing more for me to do for now. So I'm continuing the wjob, and also taking on a new click site that has a quicker payout ( eGoldClicks ) to get some other bits up and running. Currently, I'm planning on taking eGoldClicks to the $2 payout level and then investing it in Golden Purse , a programme that allows you to start from just $1. This will give me a contingency programme, and therefore allowing me to fully compound all interest from Cobex Trade. Reading that back, it sounds a bit more complex than it is because of all the programmes, basically I'm using wjob to fund Cobex Trade, and eGoldClicks to fund Golden Purse . Yet to reach the level on eGoldClicks as I literally signed up today, but earned $0.17 in the first day, at this rate I'll have my $2 quickly...yes that's a small amount, but once in a...

ok, so I have a confession. I'm not as clever as I thought. I forgot about the e-gold fees, and hence i needed a bit more surfing. 2 days later, I have enough to cover the fee too...so I've done it...yes really. Last night I got wjob to pay me my $10 (+a bit more) in e-gold...and it came through today to my e-gold account. I then went to CobexTrade and within 5 minutes of sending the gold, it was there in my new account! So I'm setup there now. In theory I'm planning to leave all profits to compound for the full 180 days. This is more risky (and very unlike me!) but i have to get this gold growing....and with a safety net needed, I'm still surfing with wjob...you just never know! Without compounding, I would have been looking at a growth to $30 by the end of the 180 days. But with the compounding I'm looking at a staggering $84-$120 in 180 days! That's enough to start spreading the risk with some other HYIPs! That would be a very very good start. Will keep y...

So whatever became of me? Did it work? Well sort of... It turns out that my memory isn't as good as I believed, I I'm just about to reach what I thought was my target....100000 credits on wjob. Yes, you heard me right 100000 credits...somewhere along the line I thought I needed 100000 credits. So, yes, I made the target, just seems I'm heading for a new one! and it's taken quite a while, but in the next week, I should hit 100000, and then I'll cash in. I now I had my sites set on that Geocities HYIP site, but it always seemed dodgy, and although its had a face-lift, the complete lack of an investment tracker is just concerning....and as its taken so long to get the egold, why would I want to put it somewhere quite that dodgy looking? (Although all these HYIPs are obviously risky...high yield, high risk) So I've got a new target, 100000 credits (err, $10 to you and I) to spend here: http://cobextrade.com/index.php . It's on many HYIP sites tracked, and lots o...

For those of you interested....I'm upto 27000 (well, just over) now....it's been a good month as I'd expected: 1 May - 12000 1 Jun - 24000 1 Jul - 36000 1 Aug - 48000 1 Sep - 60000 1 Oct - 72000 - and a happy cashout! The extra 3000 over last months target is excellent news...and if it continues, I maybe able to cashout a month early in the end....we'll see! ;)

ok, I confess, this is more difficult than I thought! What with my spending the day at work, there is very little time for me to clock up the auto-surf other than the weekends. I've reached a staggering 12000 credits with wjob now, that's a whole $1.20! Just another 58000 credits and I can cash out! It will probably be October before I can cash out, but so long as its not costing me any time (I just start the autosurf in the background), then its gotta be worth it...and hey, if the investment pays off, it'll definitely be worth every second!

Just a quick update...I'm still working on wjob...I'm upto 20 cents so far, and although this sounds rather pathetic, it's for a reason...I've not had the machine on much recently, and I certainly don't intend to leave the machine on just to autosurf...this has to be background surfing whilst I'm online anyway. Will keep you informed...I'm just hoping the investment on this $7, when I finally get there, doesn't lose it all....that would be rather sad after all this!!

I'm not as convinced in uniqwork any longer. It doesn't seem to be acknowledging the clicks I'm making etc... so I'm not appearing to move anywhere. So a quick net search gave me http://wjob.eu/ . This site seems to give the opportunity of some cash through surfing. There are loads like this about....I'm just looking for that $5 to place into HYIP. Will keep you informed!

If its ok with you, I might just share a new challenge I'm putting on myself. I've got a small amount invested at http://passiveprofits.net/ . Darwin, the Admin at Passive Profits, is a really decent chap, very honest and hard working. This said, the HYIP market that he uses to make his community money, is all over the place at the moment, so my $55 isn't growing much! But that's no problem, this is "fun money", I'm investing for enjoyment here, not need. So the latest challenge....as the title may suggest, I'm going to make something (equal to my input into Passive Profits...so $55) out of nothing...zip....zero...$0. Well, it's all for fun, so I'm once again going to be putting my money into the HYIP world...and frankly may well never see it again...but hey! This is for fun! Oh, that little bit about starting with zero....that's right....I'm going to make my money from these silly sites that give you free money for surveys, registratio...

Wow, here it is...my first blog. Yes, I know everyone seems to have one these days, but for a techie, I'm quite a way behind on this one. I've kept a e-diary for a couple of years now, and the more tangible diary in years gone by, but I've never shared, but finally I've realised it's about time to share with the world the inner workings of my mind...we will see! So, a bit about me! I'm a male in my mid-20's. I was born in the UK and have spent almost every moment of my life in this country (I've never been one for holidaying!). I work for a large corporate, though I don't feel like too small a part of the place. My passions would have to be Music, IT & Cycling. I don't consider myself to be an exciting person, and by this description of me, you probably think the same! Things you'll probably hear quite a bit about in this blog are: My money saving techniques...no, I don't re-use teabags, or anything that extreme, but I invest money wi...