Finding the time to earn money

Andrew

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With soooo many money earning opportunities out there but so many other pressures on our busy lives (work, kids, friends, family etc) I was wondering how everyone manages to make the time to fit everything in?

For me I have a very set routine - I wake up and while I'm making breakfast I check the Curious Cat app, Prolific and my emails for any high paying survey opportunities (they do exist believe me!). I'm usually then doing surveys between 8 and 9 whilst getting ready for work.

When 9am comes around as well as starting work for the day i'm also checking Roamler and bemyeye for any jobs - in fact I try and check these throughout the day. I'll also check a few of the mystery shopping websites to see if there's any new jobs been posted.

As lunchtime approaches bemyeye and Roamler usually start getting busy with jobs so I hoover up as many as I can to do over my lunch.

Post lunch I focus on the day job up until about 5pm. From 5pm onwards I'm hammering the survey sites again to earn some extra money. I'm also scouting ebay and the facebook marketplace to see if there's any bargains for use/resale. I focus particularly on items on ebay that have auction end dates in the middle of the night (when no other bidders are online). If I find anything interesting than I usually set my alarm to wake me up just before the auction ends so that I can make a quick bid and then wake up properly the following morning to see if I've won!

On the weekend I'm constantly checking Roamler and Bemyeye to see what comes up. I also tend to spend a bit of time on a Friday afternoon rining around the mystery shopping companies to see if they've got any jobs they're desperate to get completed and try and negotiate some nice fees on them.

All in all it equates to quite a bit of time invested during the course of the week but I get to see the rewards in my bank account at the end of the month!

Anyone else have any hints and tips? Or their own schedule that they'd like to share?
 

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Wow, you are so much more organised than me. I tend to keep an eye on the surveys in the evening and an eye on the apps at the weekend.
 
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Friday is my 'Working on all things TMS related day'

Morning
The morning starts with being ALL OVER social media as much as I can
Then onto creating blog post(s) to go live the following week and setting up the SEO and social media promotion around that
Any technical upgrades or features I want to bring up on the forum always take place on a Friday as well

Afternoon
I do SEO work on comparethematchedbetting and TMS blog
I'm also doing a LOT of work at the moment on my secret project so tend to spend 2-3 hours a week on that
CHASE ANY UNPAID INVOICES I AM OWED (God, I waste so much of my time chasing money I am owed it's unreal!)

On top of that in regards to the only other thing I do online to earn money which is Matched Betting the busiest time is usually a saturday morning as I tend to place all my horse refunds around 11am ish and then just leave it for the day!

I obviously work ad-hoc around all that but that's my general routine

At least I have the Friday off now! Trying to fit all that in around a 37hour a week mon-fri job was just exhausting!!
 
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Friday is my 'Working on all things TMS related day'

Morning
The morning starts with being ALL OVER social media as much as I can
Then onto creating blog post(s) to go live the following week and setting up the SEO and social media promotion around that
Any technical upgrades or features I want to bring up on the forum always take place on a Friday as well

Afternoon
I do SEO work on comparethematchedbetting and TMS blog
I'm also doing a LOT of work at the moment on my secret project so tend to spend 2-3 hours a week on that
CHASE ANY UNPAID INVOICES I AM OWED (God, I waste so much of my time chasing money I am owed it's unreal!)

On top of that in regards to the only other thing I do online to earn money which is Matched Betting the busiest time is usually a saturday morning as I tend to place all my horse refunds around 11am ish and then just leave it for the day!

I obviously work ad-hoc around all that but that's my general routine

At least I have the Friday off now! Trying to fit all that in around a 37hour a week mon-fri job was just exhausting!!

Sounds like Friday's are pretty action packed for you! I bet I can guess the secet project but I won't let the cat oout of the bag here! :)
 

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Re chasing invoices. There comes a point where it's much cheaper to pay a bookkeeper for a couple of hours a week.
 
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Re chasing invoices. There comes a point where it's much cheaper to pay a bookkeeper for a couple of hours a week.

I keep hearing adverts for quick books on the wireless
 

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Not a bad program, It costs about £70 a year.
I know other bloggers that use that and similar cloud based apps to deal with invoice chasing and maybe it's something I should look into.

Sadly late / delayed invoices is part of the parcel with blogging it seems. The biggest the company you are dealing with the more of a chore it is to chase payment!
 

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It used to be part of my job which is why I suggest getting someone else to do it. I did it for £12.50 per hour. An extra hour matched betting would net you more than that and is a lot more pleasant,
 
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You lot are definitely a lot more organised .

I tend to wake up every morning and check the app tasks , during the day is when i look for surveys to do .

at 12 i like at william hills price boost if i can £2 from this , then i tend to do it . because i need to factor in a mug bet

match betting is normally around 6 but leaves me with not alot of time to make food to eat.
 

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Wow you are certainly dedicated to money saving! I tend to do surveys when I get home after work and at the weekend. I don't really have the time at any other point to really look into it!
 

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Wowzers.

You guys certainly are more regimented. My day goes like this.

Wake up, update any blog posts I have which are daily competitions, reply to any comments, go to work, at work check VYPR and the tasks apps for anything near my office. I’ll then generally Instagram my lunch but I’m at work 9-5pm, Monday to Friday.

On my way home I will check the task apps for anything near my home and book them. The do come up occasionally.

At home, I start writing blog posts but tend to get half way through them. I reply to some more comments on the blog, and any tweets. During this time I’m also playing CODWW2.

Bed time I will check Vypr just in case but otherwise it’s snooze land for me.

I do plan to put some more structure into my blogging for April...Watch This Space!
 

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I have 2 kids and don't get a chance to do much during the day other than my leapforce project on my mobile which I can pick up whenever have a spare minute. I aim to get that finished during the day so that when the kids are in bed around 730 I can concentrate on other stuff. I immediately check for work available on my other leapforce project as if that's there that's my priority. If it's not I have a look at matched betting offers, prolific academic or any emails from pineconr/ populouslive.
 

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