Clix Media - Paid to Read

Another Paid To Read Site



In much the same way as Adbux and Bux.to the Clix Media site pays you to read ads and pays you $0.01 for each one.

The basis of the site is that having logged in you go to the "Ads" link and you click on the ads which are currently open. You stay for 30 seconds and get a "Payment Recieved" notification and after this you close the window and move on to the next ad. Payment is made at the rate of $0.01 per ad and there is a minimum payment of only $5.99 through PayPal or e-Gold.

One thing I have noticed with these ads is that I am only seeing ads within my stated areas of interest. This is much better than either Adbux or Bux.to where the adverts do seem rather random.

Premium membership is available at a cost of $29.99 per year. This gets you 5 referrals for your downline and increased payments.

This post comes with something of a health warning in that I have not received a payment yet. Additionally, when I first joined I had terrible problems logging in. I used the contact form on the site and this issue has now been resolved.

I am now accessing a steady flow of adverts about 6 per day. To reach the payment level would, at that rate take 100 days.

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Bux.to

Another New Favourite!

Bux.to

When you see the site you will be struck immediately by the similarities to the Adbux site. As with Adbux, Bux.to is very straightforward and easy to use.

The basis of the site is that having joined you go to the "Surf Ads" link and you click on the ads which are currently open. You stay for 30 seconds and get a green tick sign after this you close the window and move on to the next ad. Payment is made at the rate of $0.01 per ad and there is a minimum payment of $10 through PayPal.

At anytime you may buy un-referred members at a price of only $34.95 for 35 members (a better deal than with Adbux). If you are struggling to refer members this will give you guaranteed members at a relatively low price. It does come with a health warning in that you may be unlucky and buy 35 inactive members but I would have thought this unlikely.

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Referrals

In a number of the posts on this blog I have identified that, however good the site might be, getting referrals was the key to making real money from the site. Therein lies the rub, for to make real cash you need the referrals and it generally takes a relatively large budget to find your referrals unless you are either lucky or are trusted by a large network of friends and / or colleagues who are willing to follow you lead. No longer!

GetRef.com is in essence a referral exchange. You earn credits in one of four ways:

1. Buying them (although if you are considering this you should join the Gold programme as your money buys you 25% more credits)


2. By joining another members programme


3. By clicking links to other members ads (a bit like checking out the classifieds)


4. By generating referrals to GetRef.com itself.

Joining is free and very simple to do. You can register and be a member in just a few minutes!

At the top of the page is a list of areas for you to use (although some are restricted to Gold members). These are Home: Earn: View Earned: Spend: View Pending: Ban User (Gold): Message Board: My Stats: How To: FAQ: Referrals: Gold: Buy Credits: LogOut.

Can I recommend that the new user spends time reading How To, FAQ and the Message Board before going any further. If you don't it's a bit like trying to put flat pack furniture together without reading the instructions first - You might just get it right, but you'll probably get it right a lot quicker if you find out "How To".

Having gleaned all the information from these sources it's now time to get earning credits. There are plenty of credits available to the new user from the earn option "Earn credits by clicking links" so you may as well harvest these.

Then you can earn by following the link to "Earn credits by joining a program" . Might I suggest you research the options carefully and be sure you are signing up for something you are going to use. The other users credits have not come cheaply in either monetary or time terms and this type of exchange cannot afford to have time-wasters in it. If you sign up (and are accepted)- use the programme! A little note of interest which might pass some by is that you must earn at least 1 credit every three months for your programmes to be seen by other members - you can't just take you have to put something back.

You might also think about how you will get referrals to GetRef.com itself in order to accumulate more credits. You get 2 credits for each referral and 10% of your downline credits to five levels deep.

OK - You've got some credits. What are you going to do with them? You want referrals don't you? Go to the Spend section and select "Buy Referrals for your program". You can select the programme you want referrals for (you did check it was included when you signed up didn't you?) and follow the very clear instructions. Good luck.

The other spend option is to "Buy exposures for your link" which is like the classified ads section. Be careful how you use this and make sure your link is working properly!

Beyond this I think it is time to go off and explore. I would be delighted to have you with me on my downline and you can follow any of the links on this page to do so.



Links to posts on the same subject:

http://lemurianphoenix.blogspot.com

http://referralhelper.wetpaint.com/page/GET+YOUR+REFFERALS+WITH+EASE

http://www.freewebs.com/timfm78

http://invator.wordpress.com/

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OurPTR2.com

I have always looked upon this type of site with some disdain. However, in the interests of research I joined this site a couple of weeks ago and report the results here.

So far I have 'earned' $0.09!! This has been by following the instructions clicking on the links and earning cash $0.00025 to $0.001. Not all links attract a direct cash value and you may collect points which can be redeemed at the rate of £0.22 per 1000 points and you may redeem these points in batches of 250 points. So although I have only reached $0.0905 I also have 236 points or $0.055 almost ready to be converted.

There are weekly and monthly click competitions to win extra points and various other ways of winning extra cash or points. In the end though for all the effort you may put in it is of little value to you not only in following the links. Although Tier 1 of your downline pays at 15% it must be said that 15% of bugger all is still bugger all! That said there is no minimum payout [Paypal or Amazon Gift Certificate] and you will be paid out monthly.

Why not give it a go? You may find like me that although not rewarding in a financial sense it is better than playing solitaire when you have a few moments free and you are already sat at a computer.

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Adbux.org is down

This appeared in my inbox today:-

This e-mail is to just inform AdBux users that the website is down because we're currently adding another server with load balancing. The website was not supposed to be affected in any way but that obviously was not the case. It should be back up momentarily. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Thanks,
Tyler

As I make this post "momentarily has so far been four hours!

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Whoops Gov

The following is taken from an e-mail I received from YouGov this morning.

"Over the weekend, we sent you a survey for your child, aged 8 to 11. Thank you for asking your child to complete the questionnaire for us.

We now need to ask one more question, which was unfortunately missed from the previous survey. This question is on the topic of school, and follows on from the survey which your child already completed.

Later today, we will be inviting you to a new survey"

I guess somebody is very embarrassed over this. They paid £2.50 ($5) for the first survey which only had four questions on it and are now paying £0.50 ($1) for one question! Never mind Jamie my boy will get a little extra pocket money.

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Adbux.org

My New Favourite!



What has attracted me to this site is that is so straightforward and, unless something is really well hidden, the clear English gives a true impression of honesty and openness which is often lacking in these types of sites.

The basis of the site is that having joined you go to the "Surf Ads" link and you click on the ads which are currently open. You stay for 30 seconds and get a green $ sign after this you can move on to the next ad and so on. Payment is made at the rate of $0.01 per ad and there is a minimum payment of $10 through PayPal.

There are two schemes which make Adbux a little bit different. The first is the ability to upgrade to Premium status. This comes, currently, at a price of $29.95 for one year or $99 for life and in return you get:

- Earn $0.015 (that's 50% more per click) for every website you visit
- Earn $0.015 (that's 50% more per click) for every website your referrals visit
- Earn up to $3 per referred advertiser (soon)
- Earn $5 - $20 anytime one of your referrals upgrades
- Earn $9 anytime one of your referrals purchases un-referred users
- View more detailed statistics of your downline (last active, premium, etc)
- Contact your referrals via an un-moderated website messenger (soon)
- Premium options on the future official AdBux forum (soon)
- Become a "Verified AdBux Buyer" which indicates to advertisers that you have buying power (which means more ads to click!)

This may seem expensive to go up to $0.015 per click but the real benefit comes when you have a whole bunch of referrals. Which takes me to the second scheme which is buying un-referred members at a price of only $39.95 for 25 members. If you are struggling to refer members this will give you guaranteed members at a relatively low price. It does come with a health warning in that you may be unlucky and buy 25 inactive members but I would have thought this unlikely.

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Scams

I've spent some time over the last couple of days trying to dig into some of the Surveys and PTR sites that are often advertised and which of them are legitimate. The truth is that you should treat each one as a scam that will not pay unless you have a personal recommendation from someone. By recommendation I do not mean from someone you have met up with on MySpace or other social networking site. You should remember that there are an awful lot of people out there that are spending time slowly drawing others in to what will end up being a scam.

Below are a number of survey sites that I have full confidence in:

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My favourite:



I have complete confidence in the sites. I will share others with you when I am more confident of their good standing.

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Progress

It's almost two months since I started this blog so I thought it was appropriate to do a post which reviewed my progress on the schemes I have written about so far.

Google Adsense Referrals: 1 click - no conversions.

Amazon: 6 clicks - no conversions.

YouGov: £4 earned on Surveys - at this rate it would take 25 months to hit payment (£50)!

GlobalTest Market: I've earned almost 400 points (US$ 0.05 per point) at this rate it would take around 2.5 months to hit payment (1000 points or $50 [paid in local currency cheque]).

HTMail: 18 Ads gives a balance of £0.90 after only two weeks. A £10 minimum payment should be reached in less than six months.

Ciao: Already earned £8.27 for a few surveys, 2 reviews written and a portion of the May Premium Fund.

Opinion Bar: In the last 2 months I've earned about £4. With a minimum payment of £10 should see a return in five months.

LightSpeed Research: Been a member for a week and already have £3 in my PayPal account!

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Lightspeed Research

Lightspeed Research is a longstanding online survey panel which has a few problems and has now been turned around. It is not the simplest to join - indeed if you find the homepage you will not find a 'Join' or 'Register' button. You can only join by clicking on an advert that you may find somewhere on the Internet. I did it by using Google and entering the search term "Lightspeed Research" + Join and used the pages from the UK option.

I joined Lightspeed Research on only the 5th June 2007. Since then I have completed 3 surveys (had invites to 8) and made 370 points. The points you accumulate are used to take gifts or Payment to your PayPal account. For credit to your PayPal account they convert at the rate of 110 points = £1. So I have £3 winging its way to my PayPal account already.

*** Just a little update - PayPal account credited within 24 hours!

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HTMail

HTMail is one of the longest standing paid to read sites available - I have been seeing adverts for it for years now.

What is involved?

Very basically you sign up by completing a very simple demographic survey. Once you have done this you sit and wait for them to send you e-mails. On receipt of e-mails from HTMail you click on a link, which takes you to the advertisers' web site. As you do this a pop-up opens which is a form to return information to HTMail.

The whole process is pretty straightforward and is no real effort at all. For each e-mail read and as long as you return the information requested to HTMail you receive £0.05.

Drawbacks?

The minimum payout is £15 or £10 if you can accept Paypal payment. To hit the £10 mark means you need to have read 200 mails to reach the payout point. I joined on 23rd May and to date have received 13 mails. So at approx 2 e-mails every 3 days it will take about 10 months to hit the £10 mark for payment by Paypal.

The real way to make money!

Of course the real way to make money from this site is by referrals. Each referral you recruit will, when replying to HTMail after viewing a site, make you £0.03 per mail read. At the next level when a person you have referred makes a referral and one of their referrals reads a mail you get £0.01.

So if you would kindly click here to join HTMail's opt-in list and, if asked, enter jjlp86@gmail.com than we can both make money from this!

If you want any advice on seeking your own referrals leave a comment to this post.

Amazon Product Previews

Amazon have announced a new method of building links with a product preview. If you hover over this link Blog Marketing you see a pop-up relating to the book.

This will be helpful to spice up those boring in-line text links that I for one often use within a post.