In the past few years there has been a major spike in people looking for ways to make fast, easy money online due to the decline in the economy, loss of jobs and in desperation to make ends meet. With this rise has also come a new found market for learning how people are making money on the web. And more and more people are finding that it is very possible to make a living purely from online earnings.

There are literally hundreds of sites that you can go to that claim to pay you to work online but only a select handful are actually legitimate and actually send you the earnings you make. Sadly, there are so many scams across the net relating to “making money online” that many people automatically assume that anything everything that claims to pay you for online work is nothing more than that, a scam.

But for those of you who really want to get on the right path and start to make real money online, we’ve collected information from 2 years of experience in earning a full-time wage online and are sharing with you what we’ve found to work for us personally. This post is going to cover 3 different sites that are %100 safe and legitimate for earning cash online. This is a very small portion and if you really want to know ALL the sites that WILL work, read our other posts & subscribe to the blog because we’ll be posting many, many more.

So, without further ado, here are the 3 sites we’re going to cover today:

• CashCrate
• Project Payday
• Inbox Dollars

As mentioned, this is a very small selection of the several legitimate sites to make money on the web with. We’re going to go over these today and cover even more sites down the road. So keep up with us!

CashCrate

We’ve talked about CashCrate before on our site within our post about how to get paid to do surveys, but for those of you who are first time readers, we’d like to cover this site again. The reason we talk about CashCrate so much on the site is because it’s where both of us started our online money making adventure. And it’s a great place to start. It’s very beginner oriented and it’s very possible to squeeze some big bucks out of this site if you play your cards right.

CashCrate pays members for completing short surveys, participating in free & paid offers, referring other members to the site and much more. Now, for those of you who don’t understand how a website is able to pay you for doing these things, let me explain..

CashCrate get’s paid by advertisers for each and every referral they send to the advertiser’s site. Whether it be for an insurance quote, a cell phone ringtone or a credit report, they get paid for every member they send to the site. Out of these earnings they give YOU, the member, a certain percentage for participating and agreeing to be their referral.

So, CashCrate gets a bit of money in their pocket, and you get a bit of money in your pocket for doing some quick and easy stuff. It’s beneficial all around. And CashCrate isn’t one of those crap sites that promises to pay you and then never do. They’ve been in business since 2006, do you really think their business would last this long if they had been scamming people all along? No, it wouldn’t. They send out checks to their members each and every month.

How Much Can I Make with CashCrate?

In all reality, this is completely up to you. The more work you put into it, the greater your reward will be. There are many members making an extra $100 or $200 every month and there are members making over $1000 every month. It all depends on where you take it.

The best way to really earn some serious cash with this site is to do a ton of surveys and offers at first to get an idea of what you’re supposed to do, then focus on getting referrals. Referrals are where the big money comes in. But you need to get to know how CashCrate works by completing surveys and offers before you start referring a ton of people so that way you can help your new referrals get started and they won’t go inactive on you.

CashCrate is a genuinely great way to put some extra cash in your pocket or even earn a living wage. Like I said, it all depends on the time and effort you put into it. Treat it like a business when you’re getting referrals. Because that’s exactly what it is. You’re getting new clients that will help you make money. So be a good sport and help them to get started and they will keep coming to you.

Project Payday

Project Payday takes you one step further in online earning because it is more of a business that you run than CashCrate is. Project Payday (also referred to as PPD) is all about what is known as freebie trading.

What is Freebie Trading?

Freebie trading is a unique, easy way to start earning money. It isn’t difficult to do at all.

The basic concept behind freebie trading is to make a profit by getting paid to sign up for free and low-cost trials offered by advertisers. Some are completely free to try, others require a small fee for shipping you a product (usually around $2-$8). But with that small investment comes great profit. And the more freebie trades you complete, the greater profit you will see.

It may sound confusing, but it’s actually very simple.

A good site to check out that covers the basics of freebie trading and even offers great training in it is Project Payday. The site offers live support and great training for those of you who might be interested in starting in freebie trading. And with their “Fast First 50″ program, you’ll earn your first $50 online in a day and have the motivation to keep going on and on. It’s a very addictive and fun business to get into.

It’s a very profitable business.

Inbox Dollars

Inbox Dollars is very similar to sites like CashCrate due to the fact that it is a “get paid to” or “gpt” site. Inbox Dollars offers many of the same options of making money on the web as CashCrate but there are a few differences that should be noted about the site.

First of all, on top of being able to make cash through paid surveys and completing offers you can also get paid to read emails. This usually only pays a little bit for each email but after a while it really starts to add up. And there’s nothing easier than opening an email and clicking a link. That’s all there is to it. And for those of you who are wondering, I do not use my personal email for these sites. I make another email account specifically for things like this so I don’t get bombarded with spam all day long.

Another difference between the two sites is that instead of starting out with a %20 commission for referral earnings on CashCrate, you only get %10. And you can actually earn up to %30 on CashCrate but InboxDollars will never give you beyond %10 for your referrals.

Other than that, both sites are great and actually do pay.