PTR

Some of you may remember I promised to talk about the PTR programs a few days ago. Centuries ago, actually. But, never mind. Here we are...

Anyway, you probably always wanted to earn tons of money from the Net. A good idea is to check that site I mentioned in the previous post, dedicated exclusively to that topic. But, what is the problem? As you could see, most of the moneymaking programs listed there required at least a small financial input from your side. So you opened an e-gold account (hopefully using that link to the bottom of the link section of this blog, so I would get credit) and wondered what next. You have an e-gold account, but it's empty. And maybe your mother is not willing to lend you her credit card to spend her hard earned money on that "crap". In short, you may find yourself in a so-called "empty e-gold account" situation.

How to solve it? You don't have a credit card, no means of transferring "real-world" money into the electronic form and all hope is lost. This is where PTR programs kick in. They give you the opportunity to make money from scratch. This is NOT a big money, and it takes TIME to earn enough, however this will give you a unique feeling of accomplishment once you spend months to get, say, ten dollars in your e-gold account, and then turn them into millions within weeks using one of those programs the other site mentions.

So, what is PTR? PTR stands for "paid-to-read" and, in short, these are sites that will pay you to read e-mails. Basically, the situation is as follows: You open a free account (most sites accept international members, if you're from USA, you don't care about that, but for me it's very important since I'm an international member) and choose to receive mails in site inbox only (trust me, it's much better having to spend a few seconds to log in than have your regular e-mail inbox flooded with messages, especially if you join more than one PTR site). You will start to receive mails probably the day after registering. So, it works simply like this - you get an e-mail with link (or links) inside it. You click the link and you're taken to a site. You wait a few seconds (usually 15 or 20, but don't worry about that, you're notified about time remaining) and your account is credited. With how much? Well, that depends on the site. Mails are usually from quarter of a cent to a whole cent. Of course, there are extremities on both sides. For example, Midnightclicking credits only 0.01 cents (isn't that a bitch?) while on Seminole Wind they go up to 5 cents.

The important thing is the payout - the minimum amount of money you have to reach to get paid. For example, at Seminole Wind the payout is $15. At MidnightClicking $1. But those payouts are equally easy/hard to reach. The sites that offer low payout as a general rule pay you much less for the e-mails. There are also some sites that have no minimum payout, i.e. you can request payout anytime. Most of the PTR sites offer many other goodies apart from mails. There are many contents, banners to click, games, bubbles, referrals, etc. Once you join some sites you will see that every single one is different, but you'll get the hold of it in no time. I'll only mention two most important features:

First, there is paid-to-promote (PTP). You have a link, similar to your referral link (but NOT the same). When someone clicks that link, they are taken to the site and you get credited for that. Usually you get around 75 cents for 1000 clicks. It is a pretty good feature to use, especially when a payout is a bitch to reach, due to low-cost e-mails. You can use some of those traffic websites, or advertise on other PTR sites, or something else, it's your choice. One warning, though: You can only advertise on approved sites. You have the list of all approved sites in the PTP section of your favorite PTR program. Also, not all PTR sites offer this feature.

The second feature are bubbles, and it seems they have them on all sites. It works like this: You pay a certain amount of money, say, 8 cents. When you make a payment, you get to the bottom of the line. You have a "bubble" worth 8 cents (or whatever the amount is, they usually range between one cent and one dollar). At the same time while you are at the bottom, your payment (and other payments) are used for the bubble on top. Once the bubble gets on top, the payments made after that moment are used to "burst" that bubble. It means, when 125% of the bubble amount is reached, the one on top get that amount of money. So, you're on the bottom, right? When someone makes a payment after you, they get at the bottom, and you're one place above. And when (after a few days, usually) you get to the top, other payments work for you. Once the other people pay 10 cents (for that is 125% of 8 cents), you get 10 cents. So, you turned your 8 cents into 10 doing nothing. But don't start drooling over this, it's not as good as it sounds. If you think about it a bit, you'll realize that the more money is in the "bubble pool", the more time you need to get your 125% back. So, as the bubbles get older, the more time it takes to get on top.

Now, in order not to get too long a post, I will publish this and describe several PTR programs in the next post.