Here are a few
considerations that one might weigh before making any decisions
regarding these programs. The focus here is on maximizing your
potential earnings and on whether the potential earnings are worth
the effort.
(1) JOIN MULTIPLE 'PAY TO SURF' PROGRAMS.
Because most of the "Get
Paid to Surf" programs have a limit on how many hours per month
you and your referrals can get paid for, you should consider joining
and referring more than one program. This gives you the option
of switching from one program that you have maxed out to another for
the remainder of the month. When promoting these programs to
your friends, you may want to point this out since their
earnings affect your earnings.
(2) FIRST REFERRAL PAY RATES ARE MOST IMPORTANT.
In most of these programs, a vivid image is created of
ever larger #'s of referrals at each succeeding level i.e. "So,
you refer two people, & they each refer two people, & they
each refer two people, etc. , etc. , etc. until you
have a huge network of referrals going 8 levels deep!!". While
it is true that over time, if these programs succeed, your referrals
will refer others and your network will grow, the reality is that
the energy & enthusiasm that you apply to building up your first
layer of referrals probably will not be passed on to lower levels.
Chances are good that your first layer of referrals will
contain more people than any of the lower levels. Time will
tell for sure if this assessment is correct, but if what we have
seen up to now holds true then the most important
level is level # 2 or your first level of referrals. Given
this, the choice of a program should be heavily influenced by the
rate offered for level # 2. No other level, not even level # 1
matters as much. This consideration favors AllAdvantage,
ePIPO, AllCommunity, & GoToWorld (all with a level # 2 rate of
.10).
(3) RUN TWO 'PAY TO SURF' PROGRAMS AT ONE TIME. Another possibility for enhancing earnings it
to run two of these programs at the same time. Since most of
these are not yet released, it is unknown if any technical obstacle
exists that would prevent this. Some of the wording of All Advantage suggests
that it will shut down if it detects another similar program
running. Experimentation is needed to determine which programs are
and are not compatible. This is difficult at present since so few
programs are rolled out as yet. We will update this page with
further details as we learn about them.
If not, then first impressions would suggest that
ValuePay, which occupies a small rectangle in the upper right unused
portion of the browser and one of the other programs, like
DeskTopDollars which sports a banner at the bottom of the screen,
would co-habitate nicely. DotAd, which only pops every 15
minutes, seems like it could pair up easily with another program as
well. I have
seen nothing in any of the information being provided at the
information sites of these programs that indicate that this idea is
either technically impossible, or against the rules.
(4) COMBINE
'PAY TO SURF' AND 'GET PAID TO READ EMAIL' PROGRAMS. The jury is still
out on the earnings potential of the "Get Paid to Read
Email" programs because the volume of Email one may expect
is, as yet, unknown. Regardless of the volume, these
programs seem like no brainers and could boost total earnings if
combined with one or more "Get Paid to Surf" programs.
Both Netscape Email & Microsoft Outlook have filtering
that can be used to route this type of Email to a separate folder so
that you can review it separately without getting it mixed in with
your regular Email.