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A paid email program is when a company affiliated with advertisers will pay
you to read email. Here is how it works. You sign up with the paid email
company and within a couple days you start getting emails. In order to get
paid, you have to open the email and click a link confirming you 'read' the
email. Once you click the link, you get paid one cent for the email you just
read. Sounds simple enough.
However, there is a catch. First, the payouts are abysmally small. In order to
earn a single dollar you would have to read over 100 emails. Kinda a waste
of time! You can make more money standing on a street corner begging for
change. Also there have been many instances of paid email companies not
paying participants. In addition to qualify for a payment threshold you would
have to literally read 1000's of emails. Since you usually only get a few
emails a day don't expect to get paid immediately. You may have to wait
months before you get a single paycheck. But for some reason, these get
paid programs have become quite popular in the past two years and paid
email is no exception.
Often these paid email programs have an affiliate program where you can
recruit people to join your downline. That way you get paid a tiny commission
when ever your recruit reads an email. For example, if you recruit six people
and those six people read one email you could make 2 cents or 1/3 cent per
email read by your recruits. However, building a downline is very difficult and
often results in spam from people trying to build their downlines. This is
similar to other downline/matrix/pyramid programs such as free Ipods. And
like all downline programs, the vast majority of participants make nada...zilch.
Here is the lowdown. There are much better ways to make money than
reading emails. And don't fall for the usual hype of the guy who earned
$XYZ/month reading email because you won't be that guy...he is at the top of
the pyramid and you are at the bottom. Good luck. The only upside to paid
email programs I can think of is that there is no registration fee to get
started, so it really isn't a scam; just a waste of time. Next: Paid Surfing
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