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By Laur25
@Laur25 (12)
United States
October 18, 2009 2:29pm CST
I'm new to MyLot and I'm not really understanding how this whole thing works money-wise. I understand the concept on what your supposed to do. I'm not understanding how the money making part works. I'm not sure if I'm not looking in the right spot, but how do you make money, how do your earnings get calculated?
I know I need a paypal account, but my concern is how do I earn on this site.
Like is there a break down explaining the earnings for doing certain things?
Can please help me understand a lil better...
Thank you!
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18 responses
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
18 Oct 09
MyLot pays you for your participation in the site. You are paid only for YOUR participation and if it is good quality the pay is better than if it is poor quality.
The best way to find out about good and bad quality is, first, to read the Guidelines (there's a link at the bottom of every page) and, second, to look through the discussions posted to see which ones you might be able to write more than just a line or two about. These tend to be the better discussions.
There is no set rate 'per post' here. It depends entirely on how descriptive you can be and on how good other people think your response (or discussion) is. This is what the '+' sign is for to the right of every discussion and response.
You should also be aware that your earnings are not updated instantly but only after 24 hours, so you only see what you earned on Monday (for example) on Tuesday or Wednesday ... sometimes it's a little longer over weekends.
Many of the questions that new people ask are answered in the FAQs. Look, for example, at the sections on Earnings and the Discussion Rating System.
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@tdemex (3540)
• United States
18 Oct 09
You earn by typing! You post questions asking for peoples opinion or why they belive certain things, then you comment on their response to this, but short answers don't pay you have to elaborate on the subjects to earn more! The best way for new people is to check the discussions and find some that interest you and type your response to it! Remember the more you type the more you earn! If you don't like to type you don't belong here! There are no short cuts! You also get paid for ACTIVE referrals! There are also tasks listed for you to perform! Just take your time and learn before you start posting a bunch of useless discussions this will get you nowhere! The next morning they post your earning at the top of your home page! When you reach $10 you will get it deposited in your paypal account by the 15th of the next month! This is an awesome place but you have to learn your way around here first! there are over 180,000 members so they must be doing something right! tdemex
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@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
18 Oct 09
Hello Laur
You get paid for starting Discussions and responding to Discussions
If you go to earnings you will see what you have earned so far, also it should show at the top of your Page
This gets updated every Day
The minimum to get paid is $10 but you can set it higher in your Preferences
Avoid Discussions which are against the Guidelines, read the Guidelines Sweet and it will tell you in there
I hope this helps you
@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
18 Oct 09
you can earn money by responding to a discussion or starting one. you can also do tasks, but i am probably not the best person to ask about that though.
you have to get a paypal account and when you make payout (mine is set at $10.00) you will get it depostited in your paypal account. payout is the end of each month and the money arrives in your account around the 15th of the following month.
hope this helps. good luck!
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@patofgold23 (5069)
• Philippines
19 Oct 09
try this:
http://review-blog-write-for-money.blogspot.com/2009/09/earn-money-from-mylot.html
@celestialbloom (204)
• United States
18 Oct 09
Hi Laur25! I'm fairly new here too. I was laying low for a while, but now that I've gotten a feel for it, I'm digging MyLot and hoping to make the next payout. The actual earnings algorithm is secret, from what I understand, and discussions about specific earnings are not allowed, so don't expect answers of this sort! :) Here is my advice, though. I haven't started many discussions, but on the few I have, I seem to make more money than by just responding to others' discussions. If you do start discussions, try to write about things that lots of people will be interested in, and reply to all of your responders; this seems to help.
Details and elaboration are important, as someone already said. I would imagine that good grammar is helpful too, because a post that is easily read is more likely to receive positive ratings. I've just recently learned that positive and negative ratings also affect earnings and that a lot of folks avoid controversial topics because of this. Anyway, I've gotten into the habit of rating all of the discussions I respond to, and I've never responded to a discussion that I thought deserved a negative rating.
Oh, and if you are a decent writer, check out some of the writing tasks. If you follow the directions carefully, your task will be accepted and the rewards are very good. They've been sparse the past few days, but keep checking. Good luck, and mainly have fun!
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@sunilcutein (66)
• India
19 Oct 09
by participating in discussions and by referaing other you can earn money and they will send through paypal
@logan6676 (34)
• China
19 Oct 09
i'm also a new and responding others discussion will give you earning!
@irene3184 (898)
• Philippines
19 Oct 09
You can earn here in mylot by sharing a long and informative discussions and response. You will increase your earning if you have a direct response to several discussion with a concrete information.
@jndlponti (2402)
• Philippines
19 Oct 09
Welcome to myLot! The breakdown of how the calculation of payment is really still a mystery for all of us... But the way to earn here is just to join any discussions and reply to evryone who responded to your discussions... Make evry reply or responses you make a quality one just like evryone else have said. Limit your sentences for more than 3 lines... In order to boost your earnings a lot faster make a minimum of 30 responses a day... Uploading pictures can also add something to your earnings... Some would say to join the task for it is an easy money but I haven't tried one task yet.
But the main reason why we are here is not really all about money, it is about socialising to others, making friends, learning things and be a blessing to others...Happy MyLotting!
@retr0beat (52)
• New Zealand
19 Oct 09
The more quality your discussions or responses are the more you earn. each response you probably get 1cent. If you start a popular disscusion you could probly make about 10cents. The more popular the more you earn.
@rhycolez (81)
• Indonesia
19 Oct 09
You can get money by actively get down the discussions friend. You can commented or create a new discussion that the other member will responded. You can also uploaded a photos in a discussion to earning more. Next, there also referral program in myLot. Earn 25% of your referral earnings. That interesting, wasn't it? Last, you can do some tasks to earn even more.
@ruths77 (21)
• Australia
19 Oct 09
I am new as well in this, i really do hope this system will really work to earn extra cash from home, as so many of data entry from home are scam.
@zed_k4 (17589)
• Singapore
19 Oct 09
You are doing fine and will be. Just make sure that you never include any referral ids to your posts when created and when answered and commented. This is pretty much like a big notice-board or chatroom, but only better. You can add friends, change your profile settings and add on payment options in the preferences tab too. Choose the minimum amount that you wish to be paid. The lowest is at $10. You earn from answering discussions and commenting so enjoy yourself and have fun with the discussions. Don't look at the earnings so much, because if so, you'll get bored easily. Good luck, yeah..
@rosekiss (30414)
• Eugene, Oregon
19 Oct 09
No one knows how they figure our eanings as they use a theory to figure them and we aren't to speculate how they do it, as it is s secret, and they don't want us to know how they do it. To try to speculate is agains the TOS, and anytime that happens you are in violation. I just thought I would tell you this, so you don't ask about earnings in here as any disucussion about earnings gets deleted and anyone that responds doesn't get paid either. You need to post quality in here to earn as that is what they base our earnings on. Just post quality, and you will see your earnngs doing up in no time. Good luck to you and happy mylotting.
@pappu_sivakanth (109)
• India
19 Oct 09
In mylot you will be paid for posting the discussions and responding to the posted discussions. The amount which they going to pay, depends on the quality the discussion and also the quantity of the discussion. More the quality and quantity, more you will be getting paid. One thing you must remember, you cant do miracles hear or dont expect too much earnings here, every thing you got here is a bonus. You can learn a lot of things here, by posting questions of your choice and you will get very good reply from all our mylot members. So I recommand you to go with good questions or good postings so that, it will help to you through the replys, you get from the other mylot members.
You will also be paid for the referals. If your referal signup, you will be paid based on your referal earnings. So all the best. Happy mylotting.