Widgetbucks now moving to stop non-North American traffic of publishers from being paid?
I was going through blogs and I got into Darren’s post about Widgetbucks here. Though the move is sad news to international bloggers like me, whose main traffic isn’t usually from North America, I do understand their move to give their advertisers the clicks that they want.
Its good thing as well that I have taken out Widgetbucks out of my blogs early on. I used to have it running here and in Whimsicalidocious, but when it slowed down my site and it made it freeze, I decided having my site running faster and properly is worth more than the few cents I can earn through the program. I know they updated and improved the widget to help avoid the problems on site loading encountered by publishers, but I chose not to put it back since it was too flashy in my eyes. I can’t stand much flashing in the pages I read so I took it out.
Oh well, it will take such a long time before I can meet the $50 minimum threshold before I can receive payment, so I’d rather not put them back now that it will take even more time before I can get more North American traffic visiting here.
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Xoom and Paypal saves the day!
I have been using Xoom and Paypal since late last year and I am quite familiar with their services. Now that Paypal Philippines has been fully activated for our country, my use for these services has slightly changed. Back then, all my Xoom transactions were mainly for receiving funds from people I deal with around the globe, while I use Paypal normally to pay for my online purchases such as my domain and hosting needs, e-books, as well as for my online game subscriptions. These days, I’ve been using Paypal more for receiving funds from people.
Earlier today, (actually before my 11.40 am class) I was in need of some cash and my Paypal had some available funds, around $50, so I decided to test sending my mom the cash using Xoom. I transferred the funds from my Personal Paypal account to my Verified Premier Paypal account, and then I sent the money through Xoom, and its now ready for pick-up. I was weary to do so earlier because I had read in someone’s blog post (I really can’t remember who) about Xoom returning the money they sent especially those under $100. After having successfully sent the money, I’d think the reason why their transactions have been refunded would be they sent from a personal account which has not yet been verified, or it could also be that your account (even if it is premier already) might be relatively new and have not yet been used for online purchases. I know that Xoom can be quite particular since some of the people I’ve transacted before did have a hard time sending me cash through it since they lacked some security numbers or documents which Xoom was asking before they can send their payments.
I’m not that ecstatic about Xoom’s exchange rate, but since I still don’t have the Unionbank Eon card (I’ve heard some people are having trouble seeing their paypal funds reflected in their eon accounts and it takes a bit of a time before these bank transfers are done…) I am quite satisfied for the time being. At least I have the cash to keep me at bay for this coming week still. Lol.
P.S. I was really trying to save that money for Christmas (and just withdraw it all before the holidays) but I really needed it so I gave in and cashed it. Hopefully I get to earn some more money online before November ends so I can get myself something for Christmas. Hahaha. I better get started on answering those surveys and getting more paid posts as soon as possible. 
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PayPal Philippines can now receive funds!!!
I was busy browsing the internet when I saw in someone’s twitter a note about PayPal and being able to receive funds in the Philippines so I did a search on Google and guess what?
Its true!!!
OMG. I hurriedly checked my PayPal account and I did see that the request money option is working now. 
I’m seriously excited and laughing and smiling like a moron right now. A few hours ago I was just thinking how I can fully utilize the internet to earn and was so discouraged by not having a PayPal receive account in our country.
Haha, so now I don’t have much to think of. 
I’ll update this post with new articles I find but for now here are a few articles related to the story:
Finally we can receive paypal funds in the Philippines
Paypal is now in the Philippines
Paypal sends money to the Philippines
Paypal Philippines can now receive payments
Paypal Philippines now fully active
Paypal receive functionality now available in the Philippines
Paypal is now available in the Philippines with full send and receive feature
P.S.
So now is the good chance to grab the opportunity to earn through the paid survey site I just posted earlier here. And as I’ve said if you wanted to join you have the option below to join as my referral and help me with a few cents, or you can just join the site without saying I’m the one who referred you.
Nika’s referral link to paid survey site
Non-referral link to paid survey site
You can start earning and saving those payments until you are able to get your own debit card or bank account to attach to a PayPal account. The available debit cards in the Philippines that I know so far is Unionbank’s Visa Electron. I’ll try to find other good money making opportunities that other bloggers can utilize and use so you can watch out for that on my next posts. This would be a great Christmas for me. I can feel it. Hahaha.
If anyone wants to try it, you can send me a $1 donation at mtcatbagan[at]gmail[dot]com which is my paypal email. Hahahaha.
Paid Survey: Some more about Wine
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Updated: DLSU gets wi-fi and a random paid survey website
So that’s why there was a sudden rush of students who have their laptops around in the campus. I was wondering a few days back and was talking with my sister about the new students and their laptops. We were thinking that maybe its the new thing for freshmen. Then while activating my My.Lasalle account earlier, I saw the announcement about the wi-fi implementation in the campus. Before it was only in the library and you had to have the card from the library and stick it in your notebook for the wi-fi to work. Now there are lots of hot spots in the campus making it easier for the students to access the university’s network.
I’ll update this entry later, i have to leave the library now and meet my sister.
Update: Sorry I just got back online got home really late yesterday.
I haven’t fully read as to which places don’t have the hots pots available but from what I remember most of the places in the campus have it. Now I want my own laptop even more. 
Well, I guess I’d just have to get used to drooling and ogling on all those *HOT* laptops I see all over the campus until I get enough to get myself one.
By the way, Jean told me about a paid survey site she was a member of and I decided to try it. I don’t earn huge sums from it, but the small amounts help when they pile up. Please be reminded that it is not a get rich quick scheme because it will really take you some time to earn decent money from it, but its not that hard if you have the time to answer some of the available surveys on a daily basis. Also a few spare bucks can help to buy you coffee and a donut or maybe even some hosting and domains, or even just add to your grocery budget. Its quite easy to finish, since each survey is only made up of a few questions. The hitch on the program is that you have to post it in your blog.
You don’t necessarily have to make a new single post for every survey you answer. You can just include it in your posts, maybe at the end part of it just for it not to take so much space on your entries. To be able to earn as well, you have to post in in a blog that is at least 90 days old. But I think it depends too since some surveys had no blog age requirement when I read around the site. Also you need a PayPal account to be able to get paid since they send it to your account after your account reaches at least $5. You don’t have to do it everyday and it really just depends on you if you want to do the surveys or not.
So there, part of the reason why I posted this is because some of my entries might have the surveys attached to it in the end part, so I hope you guys aren’t bothered by it. In case you are interested to join please click the link below. It is a referral link, and its up to you if you want to help me with a few cents by joining under my referral or not.
Click me to join using Nika’s Referral Link
Click me to join using the Non-referral Link
Note: Free wordpress users might not be able to use their blogs for this. I don’t know about wordpress.com’s ads or income generation policies using their free blog services so please check with them first if you are unsure as well. I think most of the other free blog sites work like: Blogger, LiveJournal, Friendster, MySpace, Yahoo 360and others. You can learn more by checking their site out on the link above.
The following survey is part of the program:
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Join now!
