Unlike other similar sites, you will get 100% of your profits on Ukritic because you are using and in control of your own links you get from affiliate sites like Amazon, Commission Junction, ClickBank, etc. If you are looking for online money making ideas, this is something you should explore because you can do it with zero out of pocket costs.

Don’t understand what any of this means?

Affiliate marketing is where you write information on a blog or website and convince the reader to take action. That action can be to buy a product, sign up for a free trial, take a survey, or do something else an advertiser would want them to do. In return for getting your readers to take action, advertisers pay bloggers  a small “finders fee” or a small percentage of the sale price.

The money you will make with Ukritic.com will come directly from the advertisers you have affiliate agreements with. IT WILL NOT COME FROM UKRITIC. So….in order to make money you will have to sign up to the affiliate program(s) of choice such as Amazon.

Write Real Reviews!

Everything you write on Ukritic should be a real review of something you already own, have recently purchased, or something you have used. You should strive to give details about your experiences that only real reviewers would know because that is more convincing. Too many marketers today write fake reviews about products they have never used just to try to get a commission.

Readers are smart and they are always looking for real product reviews before they buy. One of the reasons people like Amazon.com so much is because they are big and thus get lots of reviews of products that people buy on the site. You know the reviews on Amazon are genuine as opposed to some other site that doesn’t have many.

That is why you should make every effort to give honest opinions of the products you review. The more detailed and genuine they are, the more likely you are to get that click from the reader that will result in a sale.

A Drawback: No Guarantees

Like everything with Internet marketing and affiliate marketing, there are no guarantees you will make money. In order to be able to make money online in this fashion you have to be willing to put in time without knowing whether it will be time well spent.

But for someone who doesn’t have much money to invest, writing reviews for Ukritic seems like a great way to get started and get some experience. The things you learn will come for free and you won’t be out any pocket money. You will become more familiar with how to write in a fashion that gets people to do what you want them to do which is very important in the online world.

However, I think you will find that if Ukritic does well in the search engines and you put up some well written and well thought out product reviews, the chances are you will make some money.

To get an idea of what people are selling on Fiverr all you need to do is go to the home page and you will see lots of “gigs” listed. Almost anything you can imagine is listed there and the cost for everything is $5. These are not products like the things sold on Ebay but mostly services. People are really creative and you will find gigs like voice-overs, short custom videos, writing, singing, testimonials, drawing, photo taking, and almost anything else you can think of for sale there.

How Can You Make Money?

One of the keys to making money on Fiverr is to be able to do something well that people need/want and, to be able to do it over and over. In other words, you need to find something that is easily repeatable. Remember, you will only be paid $5 and you won’t get all of that because the site has to take their cut. So in reality you have to assume you will really be making only about $4 per customer.

There are thousands of sellers on Fiverr now and chances are that whatever you have to offer, at least a dozen people are already doing it. That is why it helps to be good looking (if you are doing video), have a beautiful voice (if you are singing), or be able to stand out in some way from the rest of the gig sellers. This is a marketplace after all and just as in real life, the people with the good looks, the talent, and the creativity will end up profiting the most.

Getting Noticed On Fiverr

But even if you are good at something and have a great gig to offer, you need to get noticed first in order for people to find you. And even if they do find you, they will probably not use you if you don’t have any reviews. Getting positive reviews should be your first and only goal at the beginning because this is how you will slowly get more business.

Social validation is the key to getting people to pay you for your gigs. Sellers who have dozens to hundreds of positive reviews will find it much easier to get even more people to pay for their services. It is sort of like a snowball that gains momentum as it gets bigger and bigger rolling down the hill. No one wants to be the first one (guinea pig) to try a gig so most people stick to the ones that look to be reliable based on existing feedback.

This can be the most frustrating thing about starting out on Fiverr: getting your initial sales in order to get good feedback. It can be really hard to get the first sales and I might suggest that you even go as far as to have your friends pay for the first 5 or so gigs in order to get that positive feedback. Remember, you will get about $4 back so having friends “help you out” at the start will only cost about $1 per gig if you pay them back.

Offer Something That Is Popular Or Needed

Of course in the end, you need to offer a service that people want. It doesn’t matter how much promotion you do if you are selling something that no one is interested in. The best way to figure out what you might want to do is to start researching on Fiverr itself to see what type of things have lots of buyers. See what is selling and then figure out if you can offer that same or a similar service to meet the demand.

Again, the way to make more money than just $5 here and there is to find something that is relatively easy to do, can be done over and over, and has lots of buyers. It is not easy to find a gig like that but it shows you how real life and competition works when you are trying to differentiate yourself from the crowd. Even if you are never able to make too much, it is one of the real legitimate money making ideas out there and you will probably have a lot of fun and learn how a real marketplace works.

As I write this, gold is well over $1,700 an ounce and reasonably close to an all time high. This has prompted something I have never heard of before: gold parties. We all know what Tupperware parties and candle parties are but gold parties are new and they are a sign of the times with so many people wanting to exchange their gold for money.

Gold parties are often organized or initiated by a gold buyer (jeweler) as a way of getting more business for themselves. They work like this:

1) The jeweler finds someone they know who would be willing to host the “party” and invite people they know who want to sell their gold. Lots of women have gold jewelry tucked away at the back of their drawers that with the high prices of gold today, be turned into decent money. In exchange for organizing the party the host might receive 5% or 10% of the money exchanged and so he/she is quite happy.

2) The jeweler would pay out less than the going rate on gold but enough to make people happy and make sure he gets a profit as the middle man.

3) And of course the people invited to the party get to go home with some easy money in their hands for giving up their gold that they weren’t using anyway. All in all, everyone has fun and feels like they make a profit.

It sure doesn’t look like the economy is going to be getting much better anytime soon. 2012 is an election year and things are going to get super nasty in the Presidential race. I think this means that we will see more and more of these gold parties popping up all over the place. People need to have a little fun in their lives and if they can raid their drawers and come home with some extra money from their unused gold, these parties are going to increase in popularity.

1) First up is SquishyCash that pays you lots of different ways and I choose PayPal. You can make money with them by completing surveys, offers, shopping through their sites, and several other ways.You can see my PayPal payment below and they pay on time at the end of every month as long as you reach the payout amount of $20:

2) Second up is my PayPal payment from Treasure Trooper. They also have a payout amount of $20 and once you reach that a check or online payment (your choice) will automatically be sent out. Do a little every day and should be easy to get paid by them every month as well:

3) My third payment comes from a site called SwagBucks where I earn credits for using their search engine. I then redeem those credits for $15 iTunes gift cards of which I ordered and received two of them last month. You can earn credits (SwagBucks) lots of different ways but I get most of mine by simply using their search engine instead of going to Google or Yahoo. You can read more about the site and view a video I made about them here – SwagBucks review.

It’s very easy to check and all you have to do is go to unclaimed money and put in your name. If nothing comes up then their database was unable to find anything. Also, every state has it’s own unclaimed property website and it is usually very easy to do a quick search of your name or your business’s name. Some of the state’s websites are easier to understand and navigate than others.

If you go to individual state’s websites, make sure you do this for every state you have ever lived in because you might have dollars coming to you that you don’t know about or have forgotten about from years past. Usually money owed to you will be for things such as:

• Financial accounts
• Insurance claims
• Stocks, mutual funds, and bonds
• Bank deposit box contents
• Utility and phone company deposits
• Checks that have never been cashed, usually payroll or insurance