Reported by: Kelley Dunn Email: kdunn@wptv.com PORT ST. LUCIE, FL--Nicole Wiseberg is an attorney for a Treasure Coast non-profit organization and is the "Nicole" in Nicole's Nickels.
"It's definitely a feel good law position. I feel good everyday when I go to work and love to help clients...but the reality is I'm not bringing home a great paycheck!" Wiseberg shares.
She started a blog and website over four months ago.
"I get over 50 thousand views a month on my blog." Nicole shares easy ways to make money...such as online surveys.
"I earn about $100 a month doing surveys which is my gas money is how I look at that. The survey companies are a lot of times testing new products and want to show you the product. What do you think of it? Would you buy it? What flavors would you buy? Do you like the packaging? Often times at the end of the survey they send you the product to test."
'Mystery Shopping' is Nicole's biggest monthly money maker.
"Every place wants to know how their service is and the best place to check is with everyday customers, when people don't know you're trying to check them out." Nicole says she is signed up with over 100 mystery shop companies.
"Everything from fine dining restaurants, steakhouses in Palm Beach Gardens to fast food to jewelry stores, makeup counters to retailers and department stores." She even mystery shopped at an amusement park! Nicole says, "Admission for 4, lunch gift shop purchases the entire day---it was an extensive report it wasn't a 10 minute report when I got back...it was an extensive report."
Nicole says her mystery shopping earns her $300-$500 bucks a month!
But she doesn't even have to leave her home to earn another kind of buck. She earns 'Swagbucks' just by searching the internet.
The search engine rewards it's users with online gift certificates. Nicole says, "I have 832 Swagbucks. Which is what? 45 Swagbucks gets you 5 dollars on Amazon. Wow!
Her Amazon account balance is already nearly 600 dollars...and those 832 Swagbucks have yet to be cashed in! Not bad!
If you prefer the gift cards you can hold in your hand-- "Starbucks, Walgreens, gas, TJMAXX, Blockbuster." Nicole has plenty of those too. Enough to shuffle like a deck of cards. Many of them came from doing online or trial offers.Certainly some big bucks..but as far as Nicole is concerned, every nickle counts.
"It says reveal ad. This is how much I earn for looking at these ads. I just earned that money." You got paid for just viewing those? "I collected 40 cents it not much." But do it everyday--and it's four dollars a week!
If you like to try new things, Nicole hooks you up on her site. You'll find plenty of samples and freebies--from Crest Whitestrips to song downloads to magazine subscriptions. There is so much out there that will cost you nothing...or help you earn some extra cash.
What do you think your part-time salary is? "Between $500 and $800 dollars a month." That's your part time job. "That's my part time job."
