Standard membership is free, premium costs $17. This makes some things a little easier, and can boost your income. More on this later.
Everything is done in US$, which is a little annoying, but they pay out to Paypal twice a week who will do the currency conversion for you.
So how do you make the money?
Viewing ads
Click on an ad and look at it for a set period of time, get money. The reward and the time vary from 3 seconds to earn $0.001 (one tenth of a cent) to 60 seconds for $0.02.With an overall rate of $1.20/hour, this isn't particularly worth doing in itself, but worth hitting 6 of them for the daily checklist bonus (see below) and if you're idly clicking at your computer while watching tv, there are worse things to click on.
Clixgrid
This is basically more PTC ads, presented as a game. Click a square on the grid, watch an ad for 10 seconds (5 for premium members) and maybe win a prize between $0.10 and $10.00. At the time of writing, I'm on 717 clicks and have won $0.20. Not a great return, but 20 are required for the daily checklist.Tasks
This appears to be where long-term members make their bread and butter. Perform small tasks for varying levels of reward. Tends to be things like classifying whether tweets about a company or product are positive, negative, neutral or irrelevant. You get a couple of cents for each pageful you classify.Most of the tasks start off in 'quiz mode', which is a copy of the task that the customer has already done, to check that you're capable. You'll need to get a certain % right to continue. You don't get paid for this one.
Every now and then, they'll sneak in another test question to make sure you're not just clicking at random to rack up the money. If your accuracy falls below a certain level (depending on the task), you get kicked out of the task and can't do any more.
As a new member, tasks are pretty dull and poorly paid. However, once you've done a total of 100 test questions over at least 5 different jobs, with sufficient accuracy, you'll be trusted to do the better paying tasks. Right now I've only done 75 test questions. I'll update this once I qualify for the other tasks.
There is also a bonus available every time you hit a multiple of $50, you get another $5.
Offers
This is where my early money came from. Here, various companies offer you money for buying products, signing up to websites, playing games, taking surveys etc. Make sure you read the terms carefully and do the sums to check that the reward is genuinely more than the cost.It seems that you quite often need to chase them up for the credit, but they do eventually pay out.
The website signup offers are usually aimed at getting contact info so that they can advertise at you. It's well worth setting up a new email address to catch all the spam. In the first month, my spam account received over 1000 emails. It's also worth getting a free pay as you go phone sim so you have a phone number to give them to avoid spam on your actual phone.
Big money offers tend to paid on a two month delay, so they sit as pending for ages, but the bonuses you get from them credit immediately.
Bonuses
You get bonus cash for completing the checklist every day. You need to:- View 6 ads
- Hit 20 Clixgrid squares
- Do 10 tasks OR 2 offers OR 5 tasks and 1 offer
- Visit the forum
After doing this, standard members get a 5% bonus on their earnings, premium members get 12% (this is where it's worth having the premium membership)
If you complete the checklist 3 days in a row, you get another 1% (or 2% for premium), bringing you to 6% (or 14%).
If you install the Clixaddon addon to your internet browser and run it for an hout (it's a fairly unobtrusive addon that tells you when new ad and tasks are available), you get another 1% (or 2% for premium), brining the total maximum bonus to 7% (or 16%).
Given that the top paying offers are around $45 (just under £30), this bonus can add up to $3.17 for standard members or $7.20 for premium. You don't have to do many of these for premium membership to pay for itself.
Referrals
Unlike other similar sites, the focus of Clixsense is more on the actual work than the referrals, but you can still make a little extra from getting other people to sign up.
You get 5% (10% for premium) of task/offer income generated by your direct referrals. This doesn't cost them anything, just a bonus for you. You don't get any percentage further down the line (referrals of your referrals), taking away the uncomfortable pyramid structure that a lot of these sites seem to work on.
When your direct referrals earn their first $10 ($5 if you are premium), you get $1 ($2 for premium).
The one part where there is some down line commission is when people upgrade to premium membership. When your direct refferals upgrade, you get $2. If you're a premium member, you also get $1 for every one of their referrals who upgrades.
It's only a dollar a person, so you'll never get rich off of other people efforts, but it's a nice little bonus.
How do you get the money?
Clixsense pays out twice a week, on Monday and Friday. You need a minimum $8 ($6 for premium) before you can cashout. Money is paid via Paypal, less a 2% fee (up to $20, in the unlikely event that you're cashing out over $2,000)
Want to try for yourself?
Sign up using my referral link and I'll give you a blow-by-blow guide of how I made my money on Clixsense, what I've learned and what to avoid.
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