I would like to thank an affiliate of Signupandmakemoney, Gordon, for introducing me to Marvel E-mail. A free advertising site that gives you a cash sign up bonus of $1.75 and 870 credits currently. You can use this cash sign up bonus towards advertising of your websites online. You can also choose to save it up until you reach the minimum cash out balance of $20.00.

Gordon’s affiliate link is used in this post and also on the main sign up bonus list.

I believe the sign up bonus was originally $1.50, so it went up and you should take advantage of this opportunity. One thing that annoys me a little bit about Marvel E-mail is their bothering persistence to get you to upgrade by saying you only have so much time left. I think this is ridiculous and they probably won’t get very many people upgrading in their $39.99 membership option.

As always, I recommend that you take advantage of the free money and advertising credits you’ll be able to earn with Marvel E-mail. Don’t ever put any real money into these types of websites until you very thoroughly have done your due diligence of them first.

Apparently, Marvel E-mail allows a few ways to earn with them.

• You can send out a couple e-mails a day.
• Refer others and earn if they upgrade.
• Get paid to click on ads.
• Has a down line builder as part of the membership.
• Take advantage of their window ads.

Nothing too amazing if you ask me, but hopefully Marvel E-mail will become one more source of free advertising online for you to take advantage of.

Take a look at more advertising sign up bonus sites and get just a little bit more free traffic to your websites.

Golden Panda Traffic is offering a $5.00 sign up bonus until they reach $1,000 members. It looks like a pretty decent traffic exchange from what I can see so far.

The only negatives I could see is that they have a long 20 second timer (at least it’s a 1:1 surf ratio though), you have to contact admin in order to get your $5.00 sign up bonus, and you’ll have to surf 25 sites in order for your account to be fully active.

On a positive note, some good things about joining Golden Panda Traffic is that on top of the $5.00 bonus for joining, you’ll also get about 800 text exchange credits, 1,000 banner impressions, and 1,000 text ad impressions. The way I look at it is that’s free traffic to take advantage of. You might as well not let it go to waste.

You can purchase credits, but as I always say with free traffic sites,

“If they offer free traffic in the first place, what’s the point of paying for something that others are getting for free?”

To me, it just doesn’t make sense.

Of course you can build on your credits by referring other free members. This is true with pretty much any traffic exchange I’ve seen out there. If I’m wrong on this, please let me know right away.

Other than this, Golden Panda Traffic looks pretty much like any other ordinary traffic exchange out there. Once they build a good membership base, you’ll be glad that you joined early and got a bunch of free credits built up.

**Disclaimer – Affiliate links are used on this post.

I know that you don’t want to hear this, but whether you’re brand new to secret shopping or are an experienced veteran (happy Veterans Day by the way), where you’re located is going to depend whether or not you’ll produce a good extra income stream with mystery shopping. You know what they say, “Location, location, location!”

I’m not as busy with mystery shopping as I once used to be. I choose to grow my residual income online now, verses getting paid on a per job completion basis. Do I still do secret shopping jobs? Of course, if they pay well, are in my 10 mile radius, and aren’t too difficult, I will be more than happy to make the extra cash.

Unfortunately I turn down a lot of secret shopping jobs offered by various schedulers, but it’s no offense to them, it’s usually because the job is just too far away and the pay doesn’t cover the gas expenses and time I would have to put forth to successfully complete the job. Not to mention doing the hideous online report at the end of the day. Those are the worse, really.

How do I know location is so important to making money with secret shopping?

It’s pretty simple folks, if you are in or around a major city or suburb, you will have more local businesses and franchises around you. This of course equals more money in the bank for you as a mystery shopper. Sometimes it really isn’t that cut and dry. I used to do mystery shopping in Washington State. I’ve averaged around $700 to $1,000.00 extra a month doing mystery shopping part time over there. Once I moved to New Orleans, I’ve noticed a whole lot less jobs.

Maybe it was the fact that I just wasn’t registered with the right secret shopping companies that cover the New Orleans area, but I actually notice more jobs in outlying cities even though New Orleans is where you would think most of the jobs would be.

In Washington, I barely ever had to make my way up to Seattle because most of the jobs could be taken care of in smaller suburban cities.

How do I know if my area is good for earning extra income in secret shopping?

There is only one way to find out. You have to sign up with as many secret shopping companies as you can and see what kinds of jobs are offered to you and where they’re at. I’m just an online blogger, so I’m only familiar with areas I’ve secret shopped in.

Whether you’re new to mystery shopping or a seasoned vet, I hope this information helps you in your decision to continue in secret shopping as a way to supplement your income as your own boss.