Making money with PTCs is a lot of work at first

August 3, 2008 at 4:54 am (PTC)
Tags: Make Money Online, Paid To Click, PTC

The story of how I got into PTC (Paid To Click) sites, and how I’m using Amber’s PTC Blog as a guide:

One of my regular gaming site (turn-based, I get nervous playing live LOL) offered points for free-members if they joined Bux.to (a PaidToClick site) and AlertPay.com (a payment site similar to PayPal). The gaming points were enough to enter a tournament that rewarded even more points for winning — enough to win a paid membership, which would allow me to play more than one tournament — then I wouldn’t have to hang out on the game invitation list to find people to play with.

He also offered another way to win a paid membership: If we clicked through Bux.to enough times to earn $5 USD, he’d award us a free ‘paid’ membership, because he gets referral money every time one of his referrals clicks. So if a handful of people are clicking under his name, then he’s making money without doing much at all.

Rather Ponzi, huh?

But I’ve seen many people actually receiving payments, so who cares if it’s Ponzi’esque, as long as it works. Plus I’ll get a paid membership at the game site after about a month of clicking, plus I get to keep the money from my clicks.

After reading through the Bux.to site about how much they pay per click, and seeing how many ads they provide per day, I figured I needed to sign up to a few more PTC sites if I wanted more than a few dollars, so I searched and found so many dreadful $$$, Click Me, flashing ads sites, I almost changed my mind.

Until I got lucky and came across a real person type blog (I’m aware that there’s a real person behind every PTC/Make-Money site, but it seems like they’re marketing school drop-outs with all that junk going on). Amber’s PTC blog has a stay-at-home-mom feel to it, and it’s much easier to understand her PTC posts than other sites I found through search engines. She even has nice spelling, grammar, and white spacing — and no glaring colors (that I can see using Firefox).

So I’m signing up to whatever sites I haven’t already signed up for through Amber’s referral links, just out of appreciation of having a real person to follow, who knows which sites pay, and which sites are scams so she doesn’t link them (keep in mind that she’s probably not psychic, so if one goes bust further down the line, she posted it in good faith at the time it was a paying site — that’s one thing I noticed at all the other PTC sites I surfed; they’re very good about posting about scam sites. So if you’re going to try out PTC’ing yourself, follow someone who posts regularly so you’ll get the heads up from them!)

I’ll post about what system I’ve come up with so far in a later post, since this one’s getting pretty long.