There is a
new and exciting development on the Internet. It is usually
advertised as "Get paid to surf the Web!" or "Get
paid to read email!". What is really happening is that these
companies are lining up advertisers on one side & Internet users
on the other & acting as a kind of matchmaker. The advertisers
get to deliver their message to a targeted audience and the targeted
audience gets to get paid directly from part of the advertising
revenue. Everybody wins!
In the
"Get paid to surf the Web" programs a small section of the
Internet user's screen is used to display advertisements while the
user is connected to the Internet. The user gets paid either by the
hour or as a % of the ad revenue generated.
In the "Get paid to read
Email" programs the Internet user simply agrees to receive
Email advertisements. Some programs require an Email response, some
do not, some ask you to click to the advertiser's site. The
Internet user is paid a flat or variable rate for each Email piece.
All of these programs encourage you to tell your friends and family
& get them to sign up as well. In return you will get paid from
their activities as well as you own. Some programs support this
several levels deep so you could end up making money off of your
friend's sister's uncle's ex-wife! These are called referrals and
you will earn from your referrals at a lower rate than the rate you
are paid for your own direct activity. The earnings of the person
referred is not reduced or otherwise affected by the fact that you
are getting paid for their activity.
I have tried to gather together some basic data on all of these
programs in the tables below. I provide this
information in good faith and while believed to be accurate, no
guarantees are made and I shall not be liable for any errors
or omissions. Feel free to use this table as a guide, but to be sure
of the most up-to-date information you should visit the site in
question by clicking on the program name.
The MOST IMPORTANT STRATEGY for "Get paid to surf the Web"
programs is to sign up for
several programs. This is because most of them have a limit on
how many hours a month you can get paid for. If you think you
or your referrals may exceed this limit you might want to sign
up for several programs so that when you and your referrals max
out on one program for the month you can continue earning money by
switching to another.
The
MOST IMPORTANT
STRATEGY for "Get paid to read Email" programs is to sign up for all that seem worthwhile. This
is because those that are currently active are sending out
relatively small quantities of Email. To earn good money you may
want to sign up for as many of these as you can. If the volume picks
up you can always quit one or more later.