Paid to Click-What You Need to Watch Out For

First a little information about what PTC is. Paid to Click members make money by clicking on advertisements sent by email or available on the site by the Paid to Click site. Signing up to be a member is free.

The clicks are usually worth about a cent each but some sites offer higher amounts. Clicks are often timed so you must view the ad for 10-120 seconds. Generally, the shorter timers pay less per view and longer timers pay more per view. Sites also offer a little more money if you refer people and add to your downline. That way you make money on their clicks as well.

The people that make the most money on PTC are ones with a large downline.
People just clicking on their own can expect to make about a dollar a day or less. This is not a business you can make big money in unless you have a downline.

There is a vast proliferation of PTC sites and you need to watch that you don’t end up wasting your time if you do want to give it a shot:

First, take a good look at the site. Find out exactly what they pay and how much money you need to accumulate for payout. This can vary. Some sites payout at $1.00 and some wait until you have accumulated $100.00. This is a matter of your personal preference.

Check where they payout on the site. Is there an option for payout on the payout page? You might find you can only redeem you cents for advertising, even when they state they pay cash out at a certain amount accumulated. Believe it or not, this happened to me when I was testing sites out, I spent hours clicking away with one site and then decided to check their payout page. No option for payout would come up. I contacted them twice and got no reply to either email.

Which brings me to another point. Find out if the site is responsive when you contact them. Is there anyone actually keeping an eye on administration on the site or is it all just automated. If it is all automated, you could be in trouble if you need to get your money out.

Find out how long they have been in business. The more members they have, the longer they have been in business. This is usually listed right on their front page. If there is no mention of members, or very few members it is a newer business. You may not get many emails to click on. There is also a risk that they go out of business.

Reminder: Paypal may freeze your account now with payments from PTC sites. If you do this type of work you might want to look for alternative methods of receiving payment.

Of the sites I tested out, the one that had the best responsiveness, most emails, clear terms and higher than average cents per email was:
www.1-800-mail.com/pages/index.php?refid=bmoody offers mostly ten-cent emails and usually at least one 25-cent email a day. It usually sends at least ten emails a day.

Taking Online Surveys and Focus Groups For Cash

Taking surveys online can be a fun way to make a little extra cash. It isn't a way to make a full time income but you can make some extra money. To test it, I signed up with about thirty survey sites. In about two months I have made about $80.00. Still, that isn't bad for pocket money.

There are many paid survey sites on the internet that pay for your opinions. If you sign up with at least 20-30 of the sites, chances are good that you will get quite a few surveys to do in your inbox. The pay can be points, cash or entries into sweepstakes. If you are only interested in cash, be sure to check the rewards offered at the survey site. The reward for the survey you are taking will be specified in the email they send you. Most of the survey cash rewards I have seen are about $1.00-$5.oo.

Many of these sites also have an option of being available for focus groups. Focus groups over the internet usually take about an hour and are interactive questions and answers done on a specific product. The pay for focus group participation is much higher than typical surveys and can range from about $50.00- $200. Be sure to check off this option if it is available when you sign up. I participated in one and it was worth $50.00 for only thirty minutes of my time.

Before you sign up with these sites you may want to consider a Paypal or other forms of banking your money. If you don't want to do that, you usually have the option of online gift certificates instead. Some will give you the option of sending a cheque by mail.


You do not need to buy lists of survey companies to find them on the internet, you can do a search that will bring up many of them without paying a dime. However, if you want to save time and find all the information at once, paying a one time fee for a list is not a waste of money. Many of these Survey list sites also provide sites mystery shopping, car ad wrapping, or other legitimate ways to earn income.



The Survey sites that I have had the most survey requests from are: Web Perspectives, Greenfield Online, Ispo and Angus Reid. My favorite is Web Perspectives because they often have cash reward surveys.

The hardest part of this whole process is signing up at all the survey sites, after that it's simple.