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Multiple streams of income are the goal for many, including me to help grow this money tree. If you aren’t already aware, the best performing income stream for the money tree are cash back rewards, but one specific card is tops in my eyes. The Chase Freedom Cash Back card has been just awesome for … Read more

I am so excited to see Shake the Money Tree reach a major milestone, surpassing $5,000 in tree height (also known as blog net worth). Since the first post on September 2018, I have been using this blog as a motivational tool to build this money tree from the ground. As I celebrate this milestone, … Read more

Here is another great opportunity, $1,000 worth, to feed your money tree with credit card cash rewards. I recently have taken advantage of the American Express Gold Card signup benefits and also able to get the Limited Edition Rose Gold card in my wallet…sweet! Earnings potential of 60,000 Membership points and $200 in statement credits. … Read more

Who doesn’t want to earn double dividends on their stock portfolio? I started to deploy a covered call strategy to maximize earnings potential on my assets and earn “double dividends”. This strategy will be deployed against my 100 shares of Invesco S&P 500 High Dividend Low Volatility ETF (SPHD) that currently sit in the Money … Read more

After 6 months of being a CoinOut user, I have to say that I can’t recommend this app anymore. At the end of May, I became aware of the CoinOut App and decided to add it to my daily routine. Realizing how long it takes to get to payout and still awaiting my first payout … Read more

My daily money routine helps me earn thousands for retirement. It only takes ma a little over 2 minutes per day without taking any extensive surveys. This morning routine is equivalent to about $13 per hour while I drink my coffee.  Daily Money Routine Key Principles This blog has helped me create and refine my daily money … Read more

Free monthly gift cards for Verizon wireless subscribers. This post is a quick one because it took me less than 2 minutes to claim and collect the $3.00 Amazon gift card. What is Verizon Up? Verizon Up is a rewards program for current Verizon wireless account holders. You must be 18 years or older and … Read more

There is free money around everywhere. This latest free money opportunity is from American Express. AMEX is using the COVID 19 pandemic as an opportunity to increase their Apple Pay adoption. AMEX will give you a $10 credit when you use their card through the touchless Apple Pay feature on your phone after 3 charges. … Read more

It’s all about the dividends when it comes to top ideas for passive income. Here at Shake the Money Tree, it is no different…I am looking to grow a sizable dividend portfolio that provides a nice stream of passive income. What is a Dividend? A dividend is the distribution of some of a company’s earnings … Read more

The free bitcoin continues here with the Coinbase Earn opportunity. As I have posted in the past, it pays to have a Coinbase account to have access to the Earn portion of the website. Maker is the latest crypto currency that is out there. How much have I made with Coinbase Earn With the recent … Read more

It really works, there is a way that you can make real money by playing simple games on your phone. As mentioned in my initial post regarding the Make Money App, I have continued to use this app and it has paid off. How much you ask? $70 and counting… These Games Pay Using the … Read more

Yet another opportunity to earn free cash with Coinbase Earn. This time it is for the newly created CELO, but it really doesn’t matter what new crypto currency is out there, Coinbase gives you free money just to learn. The money tree grew with an easy $6 for less than 5 minutes worth of time, … Read more

By publishing the latest set of financials for Shake the Money Tree (STMT), I couldn’t help but notice that my passive income stream is starting to gain traction. What is Passive Income vs Active Income? I define passive income of money being earned regularly with little or no effort. In the case of STMT, these are the … Read more

By looking at all of the available Swagbucks emails, I found one interesting that provided a 287% return and did some good in the world. After donating $15 to the Sierra Club, Swagbucks rewarded me with 5,000 Swagbucks! Keep reading to see how the math works but it is super easy: What is Swagbucks? Swagbucks … Read more

Another quick one here….Just earned $6 with Coinbase Earn in as little as 5 minutes. This lesson was for Kyber Network KNC. This brings my total earnings with Coinbase Earn up to $44. If you are interested how easy it is, here is my blog post that provides the simple steps to get you the … Read more

Make money playing games with no investment. I have already made $10 within my first couple of days with this app and will be incorporating this into my daily money routine. This is a simple MakeMoney app that has small tasks that you can earn credit. Most of the tasks are games and they pay … Read more

Get Paid to Learn about certain crypto currencies with Coinbase. This is another post that serves as an example of free money. I just earned $9.00 for taking 3 simple lessons on Compound, a recently created crypto. This brings my total to almost $38 for this activity, all completed in under 30 minutes. Coinbase Earn … Read more

I strike again with this easy free money offer from Varo worth $30. When I logged into Swagbucks during my daily money routine over coffee, I came across the Varo advertisement offering 3,000 Swagbucks. This is equivalent to $30 USD and is only offered to new customers with a $25 deposit. Doing that quick math … Read more

So I have to ask, how high can you stack your receipt rewards on the same grocery trip? I just became aware of CoinOut, which is another app that provides you rewards on your receipts. Like many of the apps that I currently use, it is simple to use and will provide you some cash … Read more

It has been almost 18 months since I started Shake the Money Tree and I have made almost $3,000 in revenue. From the onset of this blog, my main goal was to test many of the various ways of making money, mainly through online and passive income approaches. It is working and I am even … Read more

It is legit and works, Cointiply provides you 5% on your coin balance. Last week was the first week that I noticed that I have earned the 5% from Cointiply. I usually take the approach to cash out as soon as I can from all of the PTC sites. With Cointiply, I did elect to … Read more

Sharing with you another opportunity to stack rewards to earn money, this time it is with your grocery receipts. I previously have shared my successes with Ibotta along with doing all my purchases on my Chase Freedom cash back credit card. This time, by using the FetchRewards. FetchRewards is another app that gives you free … Read more

Want to know how I am earning more passive income during my working from home setup during COVID-19? There are plenty of options but the current one I have been running is HideoutTV. With HideoutTV, this is an online video streaming platform and it simply pays you to watch videos. So if you are like … Read more

As I shake another limb of the money tree, I decided to add Ibotta to my revenue roster. Recently discovering Ibotta through various personal finance blogs, I decided to give it a try for myself. For those who are not aware of Ibotta, it is a free cash back rewards and payments app that gives … Read more

If you are becoming a regular reader of this blog, you will notice that I love to find ways to save money. This next tip comes with the inspiration from my last post on stacking rewards on my purchases. In that last post, I recommended always going to the Rakuten (formerly Ebates) site as your … Read more

Another great quick and easy side hustle that I perform is selling back old books. Back when I was in college and grad school, this was a way of life. But even after those years, there is still value in most books that are sitting around your house. Either you got the books as a … Read more

One of the major growth areas of this money tree is with the utilization of cash back credit cards. Closing out September comes with a surprise. I continue to earn the benefits of managing two cash back credit cards. Cash back credit cards are a great but only for those with a high level of … Read more

In my first 6 months of trying to making some money as a side hustle on PPC (Paid per Click) sites, it is easy to get lost and not even achieve the payout thresholds on most of these opportunities. There must be as many PPC sites out there as personal finance blogs, so how do … Read more

GrindaBucks is a newly discovered PTC (Paid to Click) site that jumps in my priority placement higher than the majority of the other ones that I previously tracked. Don’t get me wrong, I still go through my daily morning routine with the majority of these sites to capture some easy $’s out there, but I … Read more

So if you have stopped by my blog lately, you will notice that I am all about increasing the MoneyTree as fast as possible with many side hustles or money making ideas out there. I do actually go through and test many ideas and opportunities out myself to ensure I can provide real world experience … Read more

If you stop here often, you will know that one of my favorite ways of creating value is through the use of Ebates. I was able to save $32 on my first set of purchases in March and continue to rack up savings along the way. Since I last wrote on this topic, the app/website … Read more

So the results are in and I am in possession of my first Bitcoin! I currently have an account with +0.00032470 BTC If you recall from my previous post, I decided to explore some of the advertised options of earning free BitCoin online. Since that post, I also added a few more BitCoin faucets / … Read more

The register rings again as I just sold my last set of concert tickets as a broker/re-seller. If you are a regular reader of my blog, you will remember I posted a 51.3% APR on my first set of tickets sold. During this round, this is the second set of tickets to the same concert … Read more

If you are working on as many PTC (Paid to Click) side hustles as I am, I would recommend that you keep track of progress that you are making on these various websites so you don’t leave any money on the table. I only recognize STMT income from these side hustles when I am able … Read more

That is right, there is an opportunity to earn free Bitcoins. I will say once I first started coming across some of these ads and/or websites, I was very cautious with the proposition. After doing a little bit more reading on the topic, I decided to dip my toe into the crytpo currency world and … Read more

So my venture into my first ticket broker sales was somewhat successful. I recently received an order to sell 1 set of 2 tickets to a local concert and it provided an annual return of over 51%. If you recall my previous post, I wanted to see if this side hustle was worth the effort. … Read more

As I am preparing the monthly financials for Shake the Money Tree, I came across a very nice surprise worth around $150.00!!! As I mentioned when I was starting to explore what credit card I wanted to use for a primary cash back card, and I ended up going with Chase Freedom Unlimited account. The … Read more

While I am always on the lookout for some great side hustle ideas to improve my net worth, I have created a simple daily money routine that helps get me started with my day. These 5 steps take me less than 15 mins and I often complete them before I am finished with my coffee. … Read more

So it really does work !!! After posting my last blog review write-up on Wallet Squirrel, I then went to the Ebates site and signed up. I needed to test this offer and site out to see what it was all about and was it legit. The initial offer of $10 off on your first … Read more

As I continue to look for additional opportunities to save or earn more money, I am realizing that I might not be taking advantage of my normal recurring monthly expenditures. I do try and pay for as many expenses with cash and/or a debit card, but I realize this is a monthly cash burn that … Read more

One of the popular ways to make money online is to join one of the many online survey sites. In my trial and error approach for most of these sites over the last few months, I have found myself narrowing down to a couple that work for me and I end up following a specific … Read more

If you find yourself scouring the internet for how to make more money, one common recommendation that you will find for a side hustle is to become an Uber or Lyft driver. This is a good option for most as the hours are very flexible. So with all of this talk, I needed to try … Read more

While I was researching one of my previous posts on getting the most out of your awards programs, I came across some useful information that warranted its own post. With the Hilton Honors program, it provides the members the ability to convert their Hilton Honors points into an Amazon credit…just as good as cash in … Read more

As you can start to see from some of my earlier posts, I am curious to see if some of these side hustles really work and are worth the effort. There were a few that I already posted about that seemed like the reward wasn’t worth it, meaning the $’s earned seemed small but these … Read more

If you are like me, you have about a dozen or so loyalty / reward programs that you belong to….because at the time of that purchase you wanted to make sure you earned every benefit you could with that purchase. And just like me, you are really only loyal to less than a handful of … Read more

Here is another idea for those readers who like free money with little effort. Do you often get junk mail in your mailbox? Well, don’t rush to put all those mail circulars right into your recycling bin…sometimes there are some valuable items in there, like coupons. I often look out for certain coupons that have … Read more

Would you pass up a free nickel when you pass by the next empty water bottle or soda can? I have a hard time passing that free money up…so I pick it up and start to earn some money. I am lucky enough to live and/or work in one of the few states that will … Read more

Don’t you just love that simply surprise of finding money that you weren’t aware of? Well, there is a quick and simple way to see if there are any extra $’s out there that belong to you. MissingMoney.com is officially endorsed by NAUPA and the participating states and provinces. The site will assist you in thoroughly searching all … Read more