Paid to Read Email Programs (PTR)

PTR sites will pay you to receive and read advertisers emails and click on a link.
When you sign up for a PTR site you will be able to choose the categories that interest you, and the emails you receive will respond to those categories. Of course, the number of emails you receive will depend on the type and number of categories you have chosen.
Some sites will send you more than 50 emails a day, and some might only send 1 or 2 a week. Some mails will include one link and some may include as many as 10 links.

When you click on a link in an email, you will be taken to a framed web page. One frame will show the amount of time you will need to visit the page and the amount of money or points you are credited. The other frame will show the advertisement. The timers may vary from 5 to 50 seconds.

PTR sites may also include all or some of the following features:- Paid-to-Click (PTC) where you are credited for clicking on banners and viewing the sites that are shown for as long as the timer runs.- Autosurf where you are shown one site after the other. You must click on a turing number after each site is shown.- Paid-to-Click Contests where you not only get credited for clicking on banners, but you might also win a certain prize after a number of banners have been clicked.- Paid-to-Promote where you are credited for sending traffic to a certain page.- Paid-to-SignUp where you are paid to sign up for free offers and other PTR sites. - Games and Contests.- Search engines where you are paid for making valid searches if your country is approved to search.

Different sites have different payouts. Some offer no-minimum payout and some have payouts as high as $30, i.e, the minimum earning you must accumulate before claiming the same. Some of them are faster earners than others, meaning that some may take quite a long time to reach payout level. Some sites offer ‘points’ as a reward, which can be exchanged for cash while others only let you exchange them for advertising on their sites or through ‘traffic exchange’, which is a site which gives you the service of displaying your Ads and site information when you register with them at stated one-time price and further renewal fees of price per Ad placed.

Before you sign up for any site, you should visit forums and do a research of the site as there are always a few who get a site to scam its members and never pay.

A little more on PTC sites. These rarely send emails to their members. Members have to go to the program's site and click on banners or links.
Members of PTC programs usually have to view ads while a timer is running and then click on a turing number to be credited.

Some PTC sites are implementing PTP (Paid to Promote). This means that you promote a web page (usually the site's home page) and get paid for the amount of visitors you get. The PTP ratio in this sites is usually $ 0.20 CPM. That means that you get 20 cents when you get 1000 visitors to the site.

These sites usually offer ‘Click or Traffic Exchange’ where you can promote your links to other sites. Usually these sites don't take up as much time as PTR sites, but they are also slower earners. On the other hand, PTC sites tend to have lower payouts than PTR sites.

You must also open a ‘Paypal’ or ‘E-gold’ or other account for receiving payments

Lately, a new crop of PTC sites has turned up. They are called "Bux sites" because most of them have these letters in their names. Many of these sites don't pay or don't last very long because it's very difficult to pay those rates and the sites are not sustainable. They pay you 1c ($0.01) a click and usually 1c for your referral’s click. Now, what’s that? Simple – when someone you refer to enlist on any PTC site, and he actually does so, you get the stated additional earning for every click he attempts. In fact, since most PTR mails or PTC banners require viewing each one for at least 20 seconds, and the usual payout is 1c or even less, you can easily see that your earnings per even an 8-hour working day doesn’t add up to much, unless you manage to involve a large no. of ‘referrals’ to join you on the same site. The alternative is, you sit simultaneously on 3 to 4 PCs, clicking and opening Mails or banners one after another in succession on different PCs, even as the previous ones are still to cross the mimimum viewing time

But beware of scams – there are plenty! There are sites which are either not paying member and/or even ask for joining money, have an extremely bad support (if at all) or being outright scams.

There are literally thousands of ‘Paid To Read’ Email Programs on the Interet. As with any other business opportunity, some are legitimate while others are nothing more then scams. The difference with ‘Paid to Read’ Email Programs is they are free to join and you are not aware of the scam until it is time to cash out or request your payment. Once you do request payment you either simply are not paid or your account is terminated. Some PTR sites will only pay you a percentage of what you have actually earned and other will not pay you at all.How to recognize Scam Sites?- There are many sites out there which promise emails worth the likes of $5, $50 or $100 and upwards. DO NOT join any of these sites. These are ridiculous attempts to take your money and you will never see a penny. EXCEPTIONS are so called "Redemption Only" sites where you can redeem your money for advertising only.- Check the advertising price to see if sites selling ads underprice. If for example, the site has 100 members and an email to all costs only $2 for a $10 link, you can clearly see that the site is underselling advertising. 100 members x $10 per member = $1,000. Therefore, the actual cost of the advertisement without taking into account the referral commission, comes to $1,000. If a site sells this link for only $2, the site is sustaining a loss of $988 per advertisement sold. This is only an example but please note that there are sites selling $10, $20 and even links worth hundreds of dollars for just $2 - $3. Basic mathematical skills will show you that such sites are totally unsustainable and therefore, short lived.

You can check out with a no. of websites on which PTR/PTC sites are scams and which are not., like http://www.squidoo.com/ptc-scam-list, http://www.scamfreezone.org/ptr.htm, etc.

Personally, I would put ‘clix sense’ at the top of the genuine sites. It pays upto 1c per click with a typical 60 second minimum viewing time; however, in order to be able to access enough PTCs at this site, you need to upgrade from ‘free’ to paid membership – otherwise, uou get upto only about 5 PTC opportunities on an average day

There are very few sites which offer sufficient no. of daily mails to earn enough, even if you are willing to spend hours at this job. Usually, you have to upgrade by clicking ‘Upgrade’ or some other appropriate link or ‘button’ and paying an average of $5 per ‘upgrade’ at each siteHowever, here are a no. of PTR/PTC sites which appear to be scam-free: