My Cell Phone Broke So I Turned It Into a Money Maker

Have you ever had one of those days?

Where nothing goes right and then on top of it you drop your cell phone and crack the glass on it?

You know? Where it's all THAT bad but then you think about it and it's even worse because you just finished paying off the phone, you're not on contract with it anymore to have it replaced and you let your warranty expire? AND....... the cost for replacing the face/glass on your phone is way more than what your service provider is offering to get a new phone on contract?

So you go get a new phone from your provider and are now stuck with this piece of junk that you have to put tape on so you don't cut your fingers on if you slide 'em across the face of the phone..... now you can just toss your broken phone into the junk drawer.

That's what I did a while back...and my cracked-glass phone sat in the junk box for quite some time, pretty much forgotten.

UNTIL I got some tips from some teens who are using cell phones legitimately to make decent amounts of cash/rewards from their phones - mostly cheap, crappy, old and broken phones. Not non-functional phones, but phones that are broken in the way described above.

In early June 2015, I replaced a phone because it has given me 3+ years of service, is paid off, and started functioning like absolute YUK with what I need for it to do nowadays - which is more than I needed it to do when I first bought it. After service was taken away from this particular phone, I went to put it in my "gadget junk box" and realized I have a couple of devices that are past prime. They are still functional but they aren't up to par for what people now do via cell phone. All of this coincided with me also finding some cool forums about making Perk and Swagbucks money and earnings via phone apps, so I grabbed my cracked-glass phone, put tape on it so I don't cut my fingers on it, loaded this one and my recently retired Samsung up with apps and started letting 'em make me some credits/money.

There are a few r/l friends who I know are laughin' their arses off at me 'cos I explained what I am doing and to them, the number of apps I use and my explanation of how they work, along with with details of the earning programs just seems ludicrous, complicated for the amount of earnings.

Here's the rebuttal on that issue: the explanations are necessary but it's like learning computer stuff for the first time. At first computers are confusing and it seems like there's too much to learn and that the early steps aren't worth the effort. However, once the basics are set, things are easy, and computers save us a lot of time - once we've learned the basics and are no longer overwhelmed by explanations of functions, etc.

Same thing here. If I take out the explanations and simplify everything, it works out like this:

Broken phone but still functional/online-capable + load apps + run apps = credits.
Credits = convert to Paypal cash or to gift cards so my money stays in my pocket

That's it!

And I've turned my NEW Phone into a money-maker, too... with Shopping apps and by getting any apps onto my phone that are associated with stores I shop at/use. Sometimes money saved is the same as money earned, isn't it? If it all comes down to me having to spend less of my pocket money - so that I can bank that elsewhere, it's all beneficial to me. I didn't know, until I did a dedicated search, just how many store apps are available and how their rewards work.

In Canada SUPERSTORE/No Frills has an outstanding savings program, store card, cell phone apps.

There's a shopping app I use aside from the Superstore/No Frills app and card that is allowed to be used in conjunction with any Superstore/No Frills sales and offers, and this new app actually pays for you to buy certain items. When your balance reaches $20, this app/business sends you out $20! And that is aside from any deals you get from Superstore/No Frills offers. No Frills happens to be the nearest major grocery store near my house, so this is great for me!

I haven't done any major extra work here to earn money - I just made some major changes in how I go about doing daily things!

I took a broken but still functional phone out of a drawer, paired it with another out of service, still functional cell phone and run two different site app programs on them, and I check phone apps before doing my necessary shopping... ch-ching. Money!

Making More With Old Cell Phones Than With Marketing

I stopped surfing for a few weeks to get some offline work done and to test out some other money making methods via cell phones.

A pleasant surprise - I actually have had several payments/redemptions via CELL PHONE activities, and the turnaround is around 1-2 payments per week!

I'll return to surfing and regular marketing activities gradually by fitting the marketing (which generally costs me money if I'm making mistakes in presentation, timing, technical stuff, etc) back in to my schedule of monitoring cell phone videos.

Basically, when I surf via cell phone at my selected sites, I earn credits, then redeem them and that's the simplified version of how the phone activities work.

When I surf online, doing marketing, I have to earn credits, and there's no redemption reward after surfing... I must then promote something I hope will get sign ups, clicks, subscribers, joiners, sales, etc...

Wait a minute...

Yeah - I'm preferring the cell phone activities MUCH, much more right now.

There's a whole stage of hassle removed - maybe several stages - in doing the cell phone activities then submitting my reward requests - versus traffic exchanges and marketing, however, now that I have found a way to make my cell phones make money for me, I do need to get back on track with marketing activities, because those are important, as well.

One of my favourite sites to use is Swagbucks, which has been online since 2008, is rated A+ with the BBB, and has a solid payout record.

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Keep in touch as I'm developing a comprehensive Swagbucks guide. The reason it's not out yet is that I've got the basics done and am running the ideas through a special group of people who seem to use 90% or more CELL PHONE income generating methods than online common money earning activities.

Now, I've been a member at Swagbucks for a few years but only RECENTLY learned how to manage my activities on site and with the Swagbucks phone apps to create some pretty cool income. (There are a ton of TEENAGERS in this group I mentioned above... it was teens who showed me how to get my old phone set up to make me money, use Swagbucks and a couple of other sites just right, so that I can have 2-8 payouts/redemptions per month, mostly through a few online activities combined with cell phone cash generating vids and activities).

Above is a screenshot of my June participation at Swagbucks. Daily login and participation in all the "minimum" activities to earn has made an absolutely HUGE difference in whether or not I earn at Swagbucks. I have had 2 redemptions/cashouts in June - and I have been at a level to cashout a third time already this month but I am stacking my sb-currency to be able to cashout larger sums (to paypal) and bigger rewards (in gift cards, mostly I select Amazon rewards).

The absolute minimum activity requirements/goals I set for myself take up 30-45 min per day while I run the apps on my phone consistently. If I want to make more (and I do, I have been), I participate more, watching more videos on-site, doing some easy surveys (**Big Tip: Swagbucks credits you even when you start a survey and disqualify - unlike most other sites I know that have surveys... you'll get at least a credit for attempting the survey), and basically doing nothing at all difficult!

I'm also using another, similar site, Perk (I'll post about it soon - it has more apps and is a little more complicated than Swagbucks, however, I've redeemed/cashed out twice from Perk this month, too, and am also banking/stacking current credits for higher redemptions/cashout value).

I use other apps - a few I can't mention in detail here because they're "games of chance" and "Big G/blogspot" doesn't allow advertising them in detail on this kind of blog. I'll get around to posting about the other apps soon.

For now, Perk and Swagbucks are my go-to sites! Especially Swagbucks because I actually am ENJOYING many of the videos I'm viewing. (For Perk, I enjoy the GAMES more than the videos, but as already mentioned, I'll write about Perk soon).

If you've got a cell phone - and it's a SMARTPHONE with web access - that you keep around for a backup, why not get it running videos to earn you credits and money/gift card redemptions?

Start with Swagbucks (link is above) - it's the most accessible, easiest site/with apps that is out there.