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How I’ve Been Making Money From Home

04.03.2021 by admin //

I haven’t posted anything on here in a long time but behind the scenes I’ve still been making money from home. I’ve not been going at the pace I would like to but my Jobs certainly been the priority this year. For those that don’t know I am a interest rate based derivatives trader. This year has been very eventful for the economy with the world starting to open back up and expectations of inflation kicking in, this has meant a busy year for me so far. So I thought I’d just post a little update as to where we are on the ASWO Project so far.

Balance wise we are at £2670.92 with £258 given to charity so far. While Ive kept up the matched betting and surveys etc I’ve moved into reselling as my now most profitable source of money. The PS5 release was a big part of this for me, managing to get hold of 4 while they were high in demand and selling 3 of them for a couple of hundered profit each and giving the 4th to my nephew. Other than that items have ranged from Pokemon Elite Trainer Boxes to Shark Hoovers. At the moment if there is profit in it, I’m interested!

Breakdown of how ive been making money from home.

I’ve got more bits to list on Ebay this weekend as they’ve got a £1 fee promotion going on. I try do to all my listing when they are running the promotions as it makes a big difference to the profit from the sales. I’ve also got a lot of chocolate to eat as its Easter but not sure that is either surprising or relevant to the project….

Aim is to get back to posting on here regulary as I’ve got some ideas for how to really pick up the momentum for the ASWO project.

A Complete Matched Betting Guide – What Is Matched Betting?

09.22.2020 by admin //

Matched betting is by far my most lucrative side hustle I have ever taken on. In just under two years it netted me £49,518 in profit! Why I stopped just short of £50,000 I do not remember but there was certainly more value to be eked out. Matched Betting is my number one recommendation as a way of generating a second income, its simple to learn, doesn’t require much capital to get started and has a lot more depth to it than most people think.

For those that want to embark on this journey this will be a regular series starting with the basics of Matched Betting before going through the more complicated techniques and offers out there.

For me Matched Betting contains the standard Matched Betting (sports offers), Casino Bonus Bagging (online casino offers) and Bingo offers (think you can figure that one out). To start with the focus will be on the sports offers of the traditional Matched Betting.

What Is Matched Betting?

Matched betting is a no/low risk form of gambling, mainly via sports betting, that’s used to make guaranteed profits. It centres around using a ‘back and lay betting’ technique to turn free bets and other promotions into cash no matter what the outcome of the event. While standard sports betting requires you to predict the right result, Matched Betting removes the risk (or gamble) of you getting the result wrong.

Backing & Laying

The way you eliminate needing to pick the winner is through backing and laying.

Backing – The back bet is the most traditional form of bet, essentially you’re saying “I think this will win”. If the selection you bet on goes on to win, then you’ll win your bet and collect your winnings.

Laying – A lay bet is a bet against an outcome — you’re betting that something will not happen. You can think of this as the opposite side of your back bet from the bookmakers point of view. If you back a selection winning with a bookmaker essentially the bookmaker has layed the bet and wants the selection you have backed to lose. You can place lay bets through online betting exchanges like Betfair or Smarkets. These work by matching up users who want to place back bets, with users who want to lay bets. The exchange makes money by charging a commission.

Betfair can be used to back or lay bets — Betfair can be used to ‘back’ (blue) or ‘lay’ (pink) bets.

So when you place both a ‘back’ and a ‘lay’ on the same event no matter the result one of the back/lay bet will win and the other one will lose. As such you don’t care on the result of the event as it makes no difference to you. Either way you neither win nor lose any money. Now of course none of this is actually making us any money yet. So the real answer to the question of what is matched betting is the next section.

So Where Exactly Does The Profit Come From?

The answer to this question is ‘via bookmaker offers’. Often when you first sign up to an online bookmaker they will offer you what is called a ‘sign up offer’. These offers are how they get new punters through the door in the hope that you will use them regularly and overtime become a profitable customer them. They are in effect loss leaders that they know are profitable to the customer. So using Matched Betting we can lock in this profit then walk away or wait for more offers from them.

When we ‘back & lay’ an event using a free bet as our ‘back’ bet and our own money as the ‘lay’ bet then again the bets cancel each other out. This time however we only put in one side of the bet and we make money by collecting the free bet value that the bookmaker contributed. We just have to choose a specific lay amount so that we collect equal profit no matter what the result.

And that is Matched Betting. Backing and laying the same event to lock in profit from free bets independent of the result.

This was just a description of how it works. The next post in the series will go into the mathematics behind Matched Betting (it’s very simple I promise), as its good to know exactly how we extract the value and why it works. Plus how exchange commission and differing odds mean we can usually only extract roughly 80% of the free bet amount as cash.

Get Paid To Watch YouTube Videos via UpVoice

09.18.2020 by admin //

Now there is a click bait title if I ever saw one but the statement holds true. Read it as ‘Get Paid To Watch YouTube Videos’ then imagine me muttering ‘but not a lot’ under my breath straight after. That’s the disclaimer that’s required here. I will say though, you might not get paid a lot for using UpVoice but you also have to do next to nothing. So the effort to reward ratio is really quite nice. Let’s break down what exactly it is and what you need to do to claim the rewards.

What exactly is UpVoice?

UpVoice is a market research project conducted by BrandTotal. This company is committed to analyzing the so-called “dark” marketing – that is, advertising efforts that are usually invisible to anyone but their creator, as well as the consumer. To do this, BrandTotal came up with a browser extension that monitors the personalized ads those consumers are being served.

Now the natural concern here is if you are using this browser extension what other data are you handing over? You aren’t it turns out as it fully complies with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the data is anonymous and non-identifiable. This was enough to give me the piece of mind to sign up

How does it work?

Getting set up for UpVoice is a simple 3 step process.

Have a Facebook account – This is the only way to sign up, you require an active Facebook account
Go to UpVoice and sign up by filling in a short form – Nothing major, name, DOB, gender, country, and city.
Download their Google Chrome extension – has to be Google Chrome currently.

And that is it, you are now ready to get paid to watch YouTube videos! The extension runs in the background automatically and anonymously collecting information on the ads that you see on Facebook, YouTube, Amazon, LinkedIn, Instagram, or Twitter.

What is the payout structure?

You get paid out for collecting tokens. When you sign up you get given 300 tokens, then every day that you visit one of the sites (ad block must be off) you get given an extra 10 tokens. Get to 600 and you can cash them in for a $5 amazon gift card. You can also do the occasional survey or recommend a friend to get extra tokens but the daily visit is the bread and butter.

Is UpVoice worth it?

For me its very simple. Do you either already use Chrome or are willing to use that as your main browser? Do you visit one of Facebook, YouTube, Amazon, LinkedIn, Instagram, or Twitter most days? If the answer to both is yes then its worth it. If the answer is no then probably not.

The appeal of UpVoice is that it should just run in the background. You forget its there and every month or so you collect your gift card. If it gets to the point where you actually have to put effort in daily for it then the payment level just simply is not worth your time.