Money Making Website Spotlight: Swagbucks Daily Poll (Part IV)

Part I, Part II and Part III. I highly recommend you start from the beginning before diving in or it will get very overwhelming very fast.

Yesterday I discussed completing my To Do list every day. The first item on this list is the Daily Poll. You can find the Daily Poll in two sections: clicking the hyperlink in your To Do list will take you directly there. Otherwise, you can find it under Answer on the left sidebar of Swagbucks' website:

Once you click this link, you are redirected to a simple poll question. You will receive 1 SB for answering the question. This resets to a new question every day. It takes less than 10 seconds to complete.

Money Making Website Spotlight: Swagbucks Dashboard (Part III)

Part I and Part II can be found here. I highly recommend you start from the beginning before diving in or it will get very overwhelming very fast.

So as indicated in Part II, the first thing I do every day is hit my blue goal.

The second thing I do is complete my daily To Do list. This list can be found on the left sidebar of the Swagbucks home page (if you are on mobile you may have to scroll down a bit.

Just like hitting your blue goal results in bonus SBs, so does completing your To Do list each day. Furthermore, by completing the list you are earning SBs towards your goal, so it is a win/win. Each of the items listed here are hyperlinks and will take you to the appropriate area on the Swagbucks website to fulfill the item. Some of them you don't have to do anything beyond clicking it (Daily Search and Deal of the Day) whereas others you have to actively try to complete the task, like the Gold Survey. The Gold Surveys will be the most trying of your patience and perseverance. In the following days, I will be breaking down each of these sections individually.

Money Making Website Spotlight: Swagbucks Dashboard (Part II)

There are multiple avenues to earn money from Swagbucks. Before I dive into those sections, there are a few basic principles I follow every day to get the biggest bang for my buck. The first is to always hit my blue goal (which will sound foreign if you are unfamiliar with Swagbucks).

Once you login to Swagbucks, you will notice a Daily Goal section at the top of your page.

If you click on your Daily Goal, it will list out two sets of numbers - one is in blue and one is in red. It will say Goal 1 / Bonus 1 for the blue goal and Goal 2 / Bonus 2 for the red goal. Essentially, if you earn the specified amount of Swagbucks (SBs) listed in your Goal 1, you will earn bonus SBs, as indicated in Bonus 1. In my case, if I earned 99 SBs that day, I would get a bonus of 7 SBs. These bonuses are paid out by the 5th of each month.

Why do I care about hitting my daily blue goal? Because of the Winning Streaks, as indicated at the bottom of the daily goal screen.

Winning streaks are another way to earn bonus SB. If you hit your blue goal every day each month, that earns you $3. So just by hitting my daily blue goal (note: red goals are NOT counted towards the winning streak so do not stress if it is far too high) you are getting bonus SBs for the goal itself but also towards a bigger payout. The winning streak awards also hit before the 5th of the next month. And that's it! Your goal will increase if you consistently hit it, but I have never seen my blue goal exceed 115 SBs. Weekends are also a lower blue goal to make hitting it easier. My personal goal is to hit at least 100 SBs ($1) per day regardless of what my blue goal says. It hasn't been particularly challenging to do.

Money Making Website Spotlight: Swagbucks (Part I)

Swagbucks is a website you can use to earn money for doing tasks like watching videos, answering surveys, or shopping through their link (similar to Ebates). I had started using Swagbucks many years ago but after a handful of failed survey attempts and making literally pennies I threw in the towel.

Fast forward about five years and suddenly I am trying to save for a Disney vacation on a budget that doesn't leave much left at the end of each month. I couldn't justify siphoning this little bit of money away for something frivolous so I decided to figure out how people were able to use Swagbucks to fund their Disney vacations. I did a ton of research and finally understood it all. You can cash out to a variety of gift cards (including PayPal) from Swagbucks. 100 Swagbucks (often referred to as SBs) are the equivalent of $1.

Swagbucks is somewhat of a complicated beast. For the sake of brevity, I will be writing multiple posts just to make it easier to understand. So far, I have earned close to $2400 using Swagbucks and I started using it actively in December 2017. My Disney vacation (which won't be happening until sometime in 2020) is half funded thanks to it. I spend less than an hour per day using Swagbucks and that is spread out throughout the day so it isn't a huge commitment. If you have an hour to mindlessly scroll Facebook each day, you have an hour to make money! It is all about your mindset: this isn't typically a huge immediate payout (though there are exceptions!). But if you are saving for something long-term and are patient, it really does add up.

So how do you get started? First, create an account.

Disclaimer: if you sign up using my referral link, Swagbucks will match 10% of your earnings and give it to me (so you don't lose anything, they just pay out above and beyond to whoever refers you). If you don't want me to benefit from you using Swagbucks, by all means - don't use my link. But if you do use my link, I genuinely appreciate it as it does take time (and money) to keep this blog going.

Anyway, once you create an account you will want to get acclimated with the different sections of Swagbucks. I will start taking you through each section and what I personally do every day over the next several posts.