Finally!!

I ordered the CashDuck water bottles that won the contest about two months ago and got them about six weeks ago. Then I found some great packing material in which to mail them (tubes would have cost more than the bottles themselves!!) and ordered a roll. Which OfficeMax did not deem it necessary to deliver for a month. Until I called them up and yelled at them. And then magically it appeared five days later. Wow, what a surprise!

I'm normally a very friendly person, but I do a good bit of yelling on behalf of my ducklings. =)

Weeding 'em out

Periodically I go through the offers and remove ones that don't seem to be crediting. So don't be worried that the number of offers has gone down, because I pretty much only removed ones that had 0 completions, or fewer than 10 if it was from an otherwise popular category. I'd rather take it down, than have only 20% of the people who complete it actually get credit, because that's frustrating for all of us. =)

Remember there is a nice prize for the top earners this month! You can find out if you're one of them by clicking Members and then Contest Stats. I've extended the 5% prize out to ten places and bumped up the other prize values. Good luck everyone!

Check cramp!

I wrote 53 checks (well actually 55 if you count two that I messed up and discarded) and I have that funny ridge on your finger that you get from writing too much. =)

Checks will go out tomorrow - everything but Paypal should be on its way. Paypal will occur early next week.

Now to stamp and return-address all these envelopes..

Oh The Excitingness

I have been spending some time over the past two weeks doing some reconciling to get everything balanced from last year. Which, let me tell you, is AWFULLY exciting - I bet you can tell how much I love comparing one list of numbers to another. It's GREAT.



I will also be sending out 1099s on Tuesday, when mail resumes - only 13 people required one for last year, as "last year" means earnings from September, October, and November. December's earnings, since they're paid in January, belong to the 2007 tax year and thus do not concern me at the present.

I am also working on a cool new referral program which involves physical cards, and a bonus for your referrals!

Ordered 1099 forms

I just ordered my 1099 forms so if you earned over $600 last year (you know who you are!) you should be getting one in a few weeks. Happy tax season everyone! (Man, I am so glad I am at home working on CashDuck and not working at H&R Block. =)

Trimming the deadwood

I have a list of people who didn't sign up under somebody - this is where free referrals come from. Unfortunately a lot of people sign up and then don't come back.. so I spent a good hour today removing people who didn't come back from the list. Hopefully this will mean more earnings for people who request referral prizes - the list is a couple pages long now and I'd like to trim it a little more by giving them away as prizes, which is why it's at 35 feathers now. =)

I also went and obtained more $5 Walmart cards today - I got dangerously low for a few days! I will also have more $10 cards coming as soon as I can get into the post office - I got a PO box and today and tomorrow are post office holidays so I can't actually retrieve them till Wednesday.