What is Project Payday?  Their answer: “Realistic extra income for the average Joe”.  My answer: An interesting concept at income potential.  Keep following my Project Payday review to see what happens.

Day One

I was promised a quick start teaching guide, a 24 hour money-back guarantee and limited time signup at no cost.   That was almost true.  I paid a total of $1.97 to get my free membership because of the option I chose with my enrollment.  I think their claim would be true if they said there could be no “net cost” of enrollment.  They do claim to rebate me for my cost.  (If you sign up… don’t forget to go back and request your rebate.)

I’ve read the first 11 pages of the training guide and I’ve got to say that the program makes sense.  It has to do with all those send-us-this-many-referrals-and-get-this-free deals.  Basically, there are people out there who will pay you to be their referral and complete an offer.  You sign up at a website and complete an offer, you get paid.  Could be annoying and tedious, but for those of us who need the extra cash, why not try it?  Project Payday teaches you how to work these offer deals to make a profit.

Project Payday does not claim to be a “get-rich-quick” program.  Actually, quite the opposite.  They say that you won’t get rich.  It’s just a way to earn money on the internet.  I’m going to try it.  I’ll keep you posted.

Day Two

I received my rebate in the total of $5.34 as promised.  So, technically, I have made a profit from my Project Payday review. 

I registered for one of the listed forums that connects the offer/referral “traders”.  I networked a bit with a trader who has done this for a while and helps the newbies get started.  Quite a bit more reading was done, but so far I haven’t found an “offer” that I am willing to sign up for.  The free offers won’t get you anywhere in a decent amount of time and the paid offers are… well… paid.  If I had money to pay for a membership up front somewhere, then I probably wouldn’t need the extra income bad enough to work this program.

Yeah, you can make a profit doing this.  It is legit. 

I’d rather spend my time working on people’s websites.  However, I do know where to go the next time I want to apply for a credit card or sign up for internet phone service.  It’s interesting to know that I can get paid for doing so. 

Two school supply lists and an hour later… I’m done with our school supply shopping.  Yep, all of it, in one afternoon.  And I’m not the stressed out mess I usually am after the adventure either. 

How did that happen?

I hit the store on the first day of the sale and more importantly, I went with a friend.  We tag-teamed the process.  It felt more like a scavenger hunt than a required chore.  It was almost fun. 

“I need two 24 packs of Crayola Crayons.  How many do you need?”

“Can you grab me a roll of paper towels and a box of zip-lock freezer bags while you’re over there?  Thanks.”

Then we stood at side-by-side checkouts chatting while we unloaded.  Four large bags of school supplies: $33.38.  Bonding with friends while doing getting it done.  Priceless!

UPDATED 7/20/2007:   The School’s Out price is being reduced by 25% to $14.99.

I don’t have teenagers, but thought this would be beneficial to those of you who do. This online seminar has an extremely reasonable price tag too!   

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

School’s Out Seminar Helps Parents Plan The Perfect Teen Summer

Contact: Aurelia Williams
Company: Parenting My Teen
Address: P.O. Box 5, Brentwood, MD  20722
Phone:  202-744-2676
Email: aurelia@parentingmyteen.com
U R L: www.parentingmyteen.com
 
Washington, D.C. – Aurelia Williams of the Parenting My Teen resource site and Internet Talk Show will be hosting an online seminar titled “School’s Out! Plan For The Perfect Teen Summer” on May 16th and 17th. This seminar will feature expert speakers providing information and insight on topics such as education, money, and staying out of trouble.

Ms. Williams has not only founded www.parentingmyteen.com, she is also a life coach and part-time work at home mom, who is raising four children, ages 7 – 21. She understands how hard it is to keep teens occupied during the summer.

If you are a parent of a teen, you know that it is too easy for teens to become bored during their summer break, how easy it is for them to get in to trouble, or spend too many hours watching television or playing video games. This seminar will teach parents how to use the summer break to get their children prepared for the next school year, find a job or even start a business, and avoid peer pressure.

Participants of the School’s Out Seminar will not only receive access to the conferences, they will also receive a 10 week Summer Action Guide and an 11-page report that discusses “summer brain drain”. This is the phenomenon that describes the loss of learning that can occur in students over the summer months. The report discusses ways that parents can prevent summer learning loss.

In addition, participants will also receive the opportunity to ask questions through internet microphone or conference room chat; plus, they will receive recordings of the conferences to play back and access time and time again.

Registration is only $19.95 $14.99 and can be purchased through http://www.parentingmyteen.com/schools_out.html.

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Do you ever sit back at the end of the day and feel like you got absolutely nothing accomplished?  Do your to-do lists seem to go unchanged for days at a time?  Man!  I hate when that happens!  It seems to be happening to me an awful lot lately.  I thought that it was because my kids are home from school for the summer.

My husband, being the wonderful and supportive guy that he is, reminded me that I actually get a ton done during the day.  He often tells me that he doesn’t know how I do it all.  I just look at him like he’s on drugs because I don’t see whatever it is that he sees.  Alright…  enough bragging about my husband… that wasn’t my point…

There are even days that I give myself a hard time about writing on the subject of “life balance for the work at home mom.”  Yea, I know how its supposed to work and I’ve actually been able to accomplish this miracle once or twice in the past, but in reality I’m just as disheveled as the next mom. 

So, I have these to-do lists and they aren’t helping me so much.  Why?  In order to research that question, I started writing down stuff next to my to-do list that I actually did during the day.  An amazing thing started to happen.  I began to realize how much I actually was getting done.  It wasn’t the stuff on my to-do lists that I still needed to do, but at least it gave me back my feeling of accomplishment. 

I wasn’t giving myself credit for all the time I spent on things that didn’t have a visible result.  Getting the dishes done or putting away laundry had a visible result.  I knew I had accomplished something.  Creating a web page or a banner, sending an invoice, receiving a payment… all tangible results.  What I kept forgetting to see was the hours I was spending following up on healthcare benefits, doing free website consultations, negotiating home financial issues, networking, etc.   How empowering! 

Now my to-do lists have two columns.  The left column is the actual daily to-do list.  The right column is the got-done list.  For example:

I still have to get my priorities in order and start doing what I scheduled to get done, but at least now I feel a lot better about my day!  Look at this… I’m even more balanced than I realize. 

Give this a try.  Let me know how it works for you.