Telemarketers - Oh My

I decided to check my Google Voice number that I long disconnected from my cell phone, and the number of telemarketers that call it is just amazing.  This is why it is important to keep your cell phone numbers hidden from everything and everyone.  Google Voice is free and an excellent service that acts as a firewall between you and telemarketers.  Instead of providing your real phone number, all you do is provide your Google Voice Number.  This is a great alternative for people who enter sweepstakes/

Occasionally, companies notify the winners by a phone call.  This makes it important to receive phone calls, but also weed out the telemarketer ones. Once you identify a telemarketer number it is pretty easy to block that number in Google Voice.

Long story short, though, here is the list of all the telemarketers that called my Google Voice number since I started using it a few months ago:

Phone Calls

13055872093
18187556800 - Multiple times during what would be my night - SPANISH SPEAKING
19092595672 - Called 10 times in the span of 2 hours.... - Appears to be from Education Connection.
19173985568 - Multiple Times
19739293293 - Vonage Telemarketer 
15034571002
19173989559
18666397720 
13128785579
15034571002
18053095505
13146275524
13128785530
19143395641

Text Messages

I received text messages from:
14044332751  Shoppers: Make $100/ day! Undercover shoppers needed to judge retail & dining establishments! No experience required. Call 1-888-706-7667 Reply STOP to end
15054339704  Shoppers: Make $100/ day! Undercover shoppers needed to judge retail & dining establishments! No experience required Call: 1-888-279-0635 Reply STOP to end 9:37 AM 
12157968374  Need Money for any Reason? Fast Loan Approvals up to $1500 Visit: MONEY80.com 2end reply stop
13204963007  Congratulations! You been selected to receive a new IPAD! Supplies are limited, please claim fast! Visit: IPAD50.com 2end reply stop
15714207957  Congratulations! You been selected to receive a new IPAD! Supplies are limited, please claim fast! Visit: IPAD50.com 2end reply stop
17702356985  Shoppers: Make $100/ day! Undercover shoppers needed to judge retail & dining establishments! No experience required. Call 1-877-450-6614 Reply STOP to end
15166525017  Great news! Your requested cash advance is now available! Get up to $5000 now! Use approval code: giveme Visit: CASHSTORE100.com 2end reply stop

This would be so annoying getting all this stuff on my cell-phone, but thankfully I use Google Voice.  All my telemarketers get to hear is a voice mail recording of Mental Health Hot Line 

End of the Month Earnings!

One of the best ways to keep yourself from getting discuraged is to total up all the money you made this month.  This is especially important when you are dealing with income that is basically just trickling in. This month has been a pretty good month for me.  I made enough money to hit the goal I set for myself!

TreasureTrooper - 55 dollars
I worked on treasuretrooper for 7 days in the begining of the month for about a hour or two a night.  This means I could have easily hit 200 dollars if I just stick with it.  I'll admit this was clearly a case of the grass is greener on the other side, and I ended up doing other things that did not really pay off.

MySurvey - 50 dollars
I always do all the surveys available to me here.  They always credit and are the least annoying I have ever found.

Cada Cabeza - 20 bucks
I completed the survey in late Aug, but I recieved the check mid september.

Sweepstakes
This was a great month for me on my sweepstakes! I won a total of two 25 dollar gift cards, a arby's 25 gift card, fishing line worth 25 dollars, and a tums T-shirt worth 5 bucks.  This made a total of 105 dollars!

Referals/Ads
I made a total of .05 cents off of referals from this site, and another 2 dollars from ads on another site I run. 

Summery
This was a pretty good haul, $237.05 dollars.  The thing is this could have been a lot more.  I just wasted a lot of time advertising this website and working on a few other ideas I had that did not quite work out.  I realistically could have made ~$400 dollars and if everything was ideal I could have been looking at upwards of $500 dollars.

This is all income anyone could have made.  This did not require any special skills, scamming, spamming, recruiting, anything.  Just entering a couple of sweepstakes and doing a few surveys.  Do not get discuraged! Stick with it, and enjoy the rewards at the end of the month.