I was informed on CPA Storm almost as soon as I began blogging. I met Carrie and she told me about CPA Storm and becoming an affiliate with them. Honestly, I wasn’t sure what the heak it was about, but when she told me I could make money by just using links from their site – for several things I was already talking about – my ears perked up a bit. But, it still took me two months to finally commit to it – I’m slow to commit.

CPA Storm is an affiliate program that pays you to use their links on your blog. As you see from my survey snack here (expired), there are several survey companies I love and I was surprised that CPA Storm has relationships with many of these companies already. So, when you sign up through many (not all) of the links listed in that snack, I am paid by CPA Storm for each new sign-up. Most survey companies offer some sort of referral link anyway, but CPA Storm is nice because I can have most of my survey referral links and earnings in one spot. So in essence, CPA Storm is a lot like Ebates where you get paid for referrals, but CPA Storm isn’t shopping but it’s posting links for lots of different sites and stuff. I mainly use the CPA Storm links for referrals on surveys.

Now, you CAN earn money or points through referrals from the survey sites themselves, but I’ve found that CPA Storm offers a more generous bonus for each referral and has no restrictions on completing surveys to get the bonus because some survey companies do have participation restrictions in order to even receive the referral credit. And, you know, that is still better than nothing, but since CPA Storm offers something better, with lots of the survey companies I already use, it was more attractive for me to sign up. Actually, when I contacted Lightspeed requesting an affiliate link, they never responded. But, with CPA Storm I am paid $1.50 for each person who signs up – and I love Lightspeed (I got enough survey points in my account to cash out too)!

I also promote Upromise using the CPA Storm link. If people sign up through my link, I receive $4 – that’s $4 for something I want to share with my readers anyway. And, if you’ve been reading for a while, you know one of our personal financial goals is to start 529 plans for our children so Upromise is a link I’ve been using for years and can fully support.

CPA Storm also has a super affiliate program, meaning, when people sign up through your referral link, you can earn 5% of anything they make. That’s an added benefit which most affiliate programs don’t offer.

My point in sharing this is in the even there are bloggers or readers with their own sites, you can earn money too if you’re interested. If you’ve signed up for some of the surveys I’ve snacked about, you could apply with CPA Storm and use their links for yourself and your readers to earn money. I had no problems with my application – I believe they are interested in your daily visits mainly to see how many people you have reading and possibly using your links.

Let me just say, while I am using many links from CPA Storm, I WILL NOT list a company just because I’ll earn a buck. As a matter of fact, there are several other links that are applicable to the content of my blog. I don’t use most of them because I don’t consider them “snackworthy.” If I don’t personally use it, then there’s no reason for me to bring it up if it’s not something I can fully support and want to talk about. And, as of today, I’ve earned $80 from CPA Storm. I hope you can tell that my content is just the same as when I first starting snacking.

So, with everything I snack on, I hope this is helpful to you whether you’re a blogger, a site owner, or someone who’s interested in starting blogging. There are little ways to make money that can ultimately help achieve your own financial goals – every little bit helps!

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Check out just one of my many CPA Storm PayDay snacks here (expired)!