Paid to Read, Paid to Surf

Paid to Read / Receive programs are similar to Paid to Click programs. Paid to receive mails and paid to receive sms’s are again ultimately advertisements delivered through different media to the end customer. PTR websites act as the go-between to make this happen.

In this kind of programs you will have to register your email ID and/or cellphone number with the website and they will then start sending you the mails and sms’s. In case of paid to receive / read mails programs, you have to click on the links provided in the mails that you receive from these PTR websites. Some programs deliver the links / ads to your mail inbox, some require you to log in to your account on their website where they provide an inbox, and you have to do the needful from this inbox within the PTR website login. Some of these programs even ask whether they can send you surveys by mail (for which you get paid more to respond), what are your interest areas, etc. to customize their response as per your preferences. Similarly Paid to read / Receive sms’s programs are also customized as per your preferences by incorporating your responses during sign up like – whether you are willing to receive voice calls for surveys / promotional offers, what time period of the day you want to receive sms’s, what are your interest areas, etc.

PTR programs pay anywhere between 25 paise to Re. 1 per mail / sms (basic). Apart from that there are some Paid to Subscribe offers that come along where you have to subscribe to the advertisers’ offerings and you will be paid more than a basic mail / sms. That will depend whether you want to go ahead and subscribe or not. As a thumb rule, the basic amount is anyways credited, to your account when you click on the link. Also allow you to take up affiliate memberships and bring in referrals. They will pay you for the activities of your referral members.

We will look into some of the websites that have sound PTR programs. So keep visiting.

Paid to surf: Since we are into discussing a similar topic, let’s look into Paid to Surf programs also.

Pay to Surf websites pay you for spending time on the internet and run a computer program as you do so. This computer program can be in the form of a plug-in to your web browser, a toolbar, or a software that runs in the background. Advertisers' banner ads are then displayed while the member was browsing the web. Since the computer program tracks websites that the user visits, the pay to surf company is able to deliver targeted ads for their advertisers. Advertisers pay the pay to surf company a small amount (typically US$0.50) for every hour of a member's surfing.

Members are usually given a minimum requirement on the amount of time per day / week / month for which they would be paid to surf. Typically it would vary from 20 hours to 75 hours per month. Also, again pay-to-surf companies pay their members for each new user referred to the company (typically US$0.05 - US$0.10 per recruit). Thus, it is profitable for a member to garner as many referrals as possible.

I have spent some time doing some knowledge gathering about PTS programs. I have some reservations with these models of online money earning methods though and I have not yet tried out PTS programs. But I intend to do some more research on this and check out some renowned ones in some time. I will keep you posted.