How I plan to have income during College

I head off to college in less then a month and I have been pondering ways to make passive/easy income since I don't plan on working during school. I've been doing some major searching over the past few weeks and I think I have come up with a good combination of sites and services that will help me make profit during my time in school.

First off, and most evident in this blog would be Google AdSense. By using their ad service I am able to make profit (however little it may be) off this blog. As of writing this post I have made $50 from Google AdSense and I will be able to get my first check once I hit the $100 minimum.

Secondly, I have been using the Android app called Locket. With this app, you are paid $.03 every hour for unlocking your Android device. They pay directly to a PayPal account once you have earned $10. This may seem like it will take a while to acquire, but once you hit the $10 minimum, you can think of it as free money, because that it what it is.



The next two ways I plan to make money are a bit more sketchy and may steer people away, but I find them to be well designed, well reviewed, and fun/engaging! These sites are sister sites and run very similarly.

The first one I found was called PaidViewPoint. It is basically, a survey site. That being said, it runs very smoothly and shows users how much progress they have made and offers a lot of other features. Not only does it show the cash you have earned, but it has a feature called a "TraitScore" which rates how consistently you answer survey questions the same way. Meaning, if you answer with your honest opinion every time, the site will know and reward you with more cash for completing a survey. Sometimes you will be asked to complete a survey just to improve your TraitScore and even these surveys will pay you. All earnings will go to a PayPal account and you are able to cash out once you have reached a $25 minimum.

The second of these two sites is called InstantCashSweepstakes. This site has the same feel as PaidViewPoint but is much less about surveys. Once you sign up and create your profile, you are able to start taking short surveys that take less then 30 seconds to complete. Each survey can you earn you a small cash reward, tickets, or coins. These tickets and coins can be used to earn more cash. The tickets are used in a daily $50 cash drawing. Once the timer resets, so does your ticket amount, so the more tickets you earn in the 24 hour period, the more likely you will win the $50. Coins are used much in the same way, but instead of a $50 drawing every 24 hours, they are used in a simple $2 drawing every 4 hours. It is a bit harder to earn cash on this site, but I find it more fun because the simple little surveys are interesting and sometimes they are funny. The minimum amount of cash you need to send funds to a PayPal account is $2.00 which is much lower than the other sites I mentioned. Cash is pretty slow to earn here and that is why the minimum payout is so low, but it's probably the easiest and most fun way to earn money.