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The hype surrounding these Get Paid To Read E-Mail programs fizzled out ages ago, but they pay! Trust me!

Joining these programs will help you make a little money to finance other endeavors this website features. Be sure to read about how GPTREM programs work. Your favorite program not here? Check out our list of banned programs first, then please write me. Convince me your program is great and I'll join under you.

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Section Table of Contents

• How GPTREM Programs Work
• Anatomy of a Typical GPTREM Service Contract
• A Disturbing Trend: Cheat Links
• The Future of GPTREM
• Banned Programs

How GPTREM Programs Work

The nice thing about GPTREM (for "Get Paid To Read E-Mail") programs is that you can join them and start earning money right away without establishing a downline. Make sure you have a very stable e-mail address and at least a account before you sign up for your first program. Though later you'll probably want to join , and . If you stay on top of your e-mail, checking your account once, if not twice, a day, you will be making it a lot easier on yourself. Many of the e-mails you get will expire after 24 to 48 hours past receipt.

How this works is that you'll receive an e-mail from a given program. Read it carefully, clicking on links as directed. With most programs a new window opens with a tiny frame in the upper 10% of the screen, called the "timer." There should be, ideally, something in that frame that says how long you have to view the ad (displayed in the remaining 90% of the screen) and how much money you'll receive in your account on their server once that time has elapsed. This is the time to make a good faith effort to see if the ad has something of interest or value, the whole thing is in vain if you don't, however, don't bother giving them the time of day if they have excessive popups and/or it is unclear what is being offered and what it costs (in money and time) within the first screenful of the page. Just get it off your screen before it screws something up once you get your money; whatever they're selling (and they're always selling something, even when they say it's free) is no good if they plan to blast you with popups or numb your brain with ambiguity every time you come back. If you see a photo montage of a house and/or boat and/or car and something that signifies this could be your car, or is the car of some now-bourgoise and famous-in-some-circles hypermarketeer, or whatever, you've found a great example of a program to stay far, far away from. That said, the contents of said frame should change in some way to signify when the allotted time has passed. Watch out for some ads with no timers; with those links the polite thing to do is view the ad for at thirty seconds if necessary and then move on.

We recently deleted a portion of our website due to redundancy; most of these types of enterprises double as so-called "Paid-To-Click" programs where instead of clicking hyperlinks in an email, you log in to your account (you'll have to find "Paid-To-Click" somewhere on the page) and click banners. If you don't have referrals this is half your money. Programs that either mandate you do your "daily PTC's" or don't have any at all tend to be ranked near the end of our GPTREM list.

As far as promotion of these programs go, you really want to make work on the downlines of the traffic programs a much higher priority than these. Then when you finally do get down to building these downlines your task will be much easier. The money you could make reading these e-mails is a small pittance compared to the earnings you could command if you're willing to spend the time and/or money to build large downlines in these programs.

Anatomy of a Typical GPTREM Service Contract

On this website we use the phrase "service contract" for what most people call the "terms of service" or just the "terms." It just makes more sense for use in the context of the material we are trying to cover. The points which will soon follow outline all of the standard parts that all GPTREMs do or should have. The service contract is a real contract that you "sign" by joining the program, you agree to be bound by its conditions. Only the time, expense, and other requisite complications of litigation have a chance of enforcing it should either side breach it. A lot of what follows is pretty common-sense stuff, if you conduct yourself with honesty you need not worry about most of it.

WARNING: Reading this section of our website is in absolutely no way intended as a replacement for a thorough reading of the service contract of each and every program you belong to regardless of its nature. While reading each program's service contract, note any discrepancies whatsoever between anything said in the service contract and anything advertised elsewhere on the website. Also, don't be shocked if you see contradictions within a service contract. It is very important, for all of us, that you report these errors to the administrator and/or webmaster (often with GPTREMs they are the same person). They'll get sick of me always telling them about this, and besides, I just don't have the energy to do every single one. By reporting these errors administrators are forced to make a specific decision concerning the feature of the program the discrepancy relates to.

• CHANGEABILITY: Service contracts can generally change at any time without notice; webmasters often e-mail the details of this change to their customers, your continued membership in a given program constitutes acceptance regardless of the change.
• MEMBERSHIP CONSTRAINTS: Service contracts often stipulate at or near the beginning how old members must be and what countries they can be from; the vast majority of programs are available internationally to everyone aged 13 years or older, with the consent of the legal guardian required for all those not yet considered an adult in the applicable jurisdictions. No program's service contract I have ever seen has explained how the teenager is to go about informing the GPTREM administrator of their parents' approval. The best programs figure out how to make it so everyone can participare no matter where they are on the globe, but sometimes you'll see a country banned, more often than not China.
• CHEATING: Cheating is any method employed to permit the member to evade having to consider every ad which the given GPTREM owner has intended for them to. Cheating is also using any means to get paid more than once for each link sent to you, or adding funds to your account in any way not intended by the administrators. Signing up for multiple accounts is also cheating; so is spam. Cheaters not only face summary deletion of their accounts (and forfeiture of earnings), but open themselves to bankrupting liability.
• RELATIONSHIP OF PARTIES: Exactly two parties are "signing" this contract--the GPTREM in question and you. The GPTREM can cancel the contract for many inappropriate behaviors; you can cancel the contract (and forfeit any as-yet-unpaid earnings) at any time for any reason or for no reason at all. You are what is called an "independant contractor," unable to receive any benefits traditionally associated with most other types of employment relationships. You are not authorized to conduct business on behalf of, or in any way present yourself as an official of the firms whose programs you are a member, beyond the capacity of using your referral link.
• MEMBERS' RESPONSIBILITIES: You are required to maintain an e-mail account that never bounces a message, for whatever reason: it doesn't matter if your inbox is full or you're e-mail account is crappy. You must click at least one link within the specified time period in which inactive accounts are deleted, for example, if inactive accounts are deleted every 45 days you must click at least one link (in e-mails or PTCs) that often. Usually a member must be a certain percentage as active as their downline to receive downline earnings.
• TRUTH IN ADVERTISING: You are in no way allowed to make exaggerated claims about the earnings potential of a program, or in any way misrepresent its nature or anything about it. It is best to slightly understate features and benefits when advertising any program.
• LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: Every contract you will ever sign in your life has this part, don't worry about it very much. It says that if you lose money through your involvment in a given program (or all your programs, for that matter); or a faulty line of code traversing the Internet from the server to your computer blanks your hard drive and/or kills you; or anything bad at all ever happens as a consequence of belonging to that program, the company owning and/or administering the program is never liable to you for any damages greater than any money already paid to you (try to wrap your brain around that very last one!).
• SPAMMING: Speaking of the safe side, don't even think about it! Spammers are also cheaters. There are other people's definitions of spam and then there is mine. On any programs I would ever own, policy on spam would not only strictly forbid unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE), but as well popups in any form whatsoever, including (but in no way limited to) instant messages (whether via ISP software or operating system). Aside from any loss of investment, possible costs of litigation and court judgments, and even in some jurisdictions criminal penalties, spam completely sucks! For decency's sake, don't do it!

A Disturbing Trend: Cheat Links

No doubt a GPTREM program has security needs beyond the average website. Aside from multiple account creation, endless hacking attempts from disgruntled former members who lost their membership for violating the site's service contract somehow, owners now must contend with cheaters who use software to go through their e-mailed links, waiting the required amount of time for the user, so said user can do something else and thus not view the ads. Now if the ads a GPTREM puts out aren't being viewed for whatever reason, that program will probably not exist for too much longer.

The point I'm getting at is that currently to get around this webmasters will occasionally put a so-called "cheat link" in their e-mails to penalize those using this type of software, and I think this is a lazy way to make sure ads are getting the proper attention. I, for one, do not and would not use cheating software. In addition, I make what I believe to be a good-faith effort in giving every ad from every program, whether GPTREM or web traffic, a diligent going-over. What does this mean? I read the text and gauge the integrity of the user interface, among other things, in making a determination as to whether the product or service is relevant to my needs and/or wants. If whatever is being advertized is for me, I practically have an obligation to get it.

There is a better way to be sure everyone else is also doing this. We will discuss it in more depth shortly, but I'll tell you now just to get the cogs in your head spinning, way back in the Summer of 2002 there was this program called ReadThemWell.com, which used to be at the very top of the list for only one reason: they asked questions about the given advertisement which the viewer had to answer correctly to get their money. Good luck cheaters, making software to get around that! However, I'm sure that's a happy secondary effect of the design of that feature.

So as far as I'm concerned, should I ever accidently click a cheat link in the seventy-five or so e-mails I have to go through every day, weekends and holidays, in spite of the fact that I do everything humanly possible to fairly consider every ad, and clicking this cheat link deletes my account, I will take it as providence telling me that I'm not supposed to belong to (or recommend or promote) that program.

The Future of GPTREM

Mark my words: by the year 2010 all the programs listed in the table above will operate a lot differently than now or they won't exist. The owners of these programs are passing up a golden opportunity to give advertisers a medium with which they could target their wares to an audience whose specific needs and preferences have been inventoried, and be sure more than ever before the viewers have as complete an understanding as possible of the product or service being offered. For instance, when you join a GPTREM program today they have a dozen or so very general categories to choose from. First of all it is very unclear if any of the programs actually use these categories, second of all these categories are so unspecific (like "Automobiles," "Careers," "Media," "News") as to be entirely useless for serious ad targeting. What are they even asking me with that lone word and checkbox anyway? Are they asking if I'm interested in the purchase of an automobile? if I'm interested in auto accessories? if I've ever bought an automobile? if I've ever ridden in an automobile? if I've ever heard of an automobile? Seriously, though, what are they asking?

What would be a lot more useful would be a questionnaire, for one example, all about automobiles (is your car your identity? just a means of getting around? actually prefer a truck to a car? can you even drive?) that asks for important information, answers a potential GPTREM ad buyer could use as a basis for filtering your member base, so you're not trying to sell ice to eskimos, steak to vegetarians, etc.

The Coca-Cola Company spends somewhere in the neighborhood of $150 million a year on advertising, they show millions of ads to millions of people all the time without having a way of verifying that the viewer has any idea what the ad is all about, the product being sold, etc. Unfortunately today they still don't have this ability even though the technology to do it properly and the business to actually do it (much like the ones listed in the table above) have been around since the turn of the century if not a couple years before. Contemporary GPTREMs have potential fame and fortune in revolutionizing the entire advertising industry lying in wait before them that they barely bother themselves to scratch the surface of. A GPTREM program that used to be ranked number one in the table above, called ReadThemWell.com, is the only one to make people answer questions about the ad they just saw before they get their money, but alas they had server problems and are MIA at present.

It concerns me here on the cusp of '04 that there are hundreds of GPTREMs with none of them implementing anything like ReadThemWell.com did! Isn't anybody reading this far? If you are, just humor me by contacting us.

In closing, I offer just one of dozens of possible visionary passages I could quote of recent history that have totally thus far seemingly slipped past GPTREM owners. I like it because it's so dated by computer standards (©1999) and where it was published was unrelated to GPTREM or marketing in general, yet it is so relevant to any aspiring Internet marketeer today and will be in the forseeable future. Keep in mind GPTREM, as it is today, was but a glimmer in the eyes of our longest surviving program owners when this was published and that the author even today probably knows nothing of GPTREM, etc.

"...the Internet and the ... Web may foretell the most significant impact on commerce and society since the development of the assembly line. Today, businesses can target marketing efforts a[t] mass groups of consumers, interactively fune-tuning the content to meet each group's own specific needs and desires. New channels of sales and product distribution that have been impossible until now, or at least astronomically expensive, can be deployed on the Internet rapidly and economically. [All emphases mine.]" --John Landry of Lotus Development Corporation writing the foreword of TCP/IP For Dummies, 3rd Edition, ©1999, IDG Books Worldwide, page xxi

So listen up GPTREM webmasters! Here's a little recap of what we've gone through on this page. Let's put our proverbial thinking caps on here! Paid-to-read e-mail programs that want to survive until 2010, much less the near future, will have the following qualities:

• Ask Your Members Questions About The Product/Service Just Shown — this one goes first for good reason, and was already described at great length above.
• Member Base Filtration — I'm not gonna spend $175 to send an e-mail to all your 20,000 members when it only applies to the tiny handful of people born in September when the moon was full who've ever driven a Ford and eaten a starfruit, but if you tell me you can filter your member base and have the paid e-mail only go to the people matching those very conditions, you might very well ironically get my 175 bucks, and a lot of other peoples' too! Besides, it saves everybody's bandwidth, and, come on, who could argue with that?
• Internationalization — pretty soon English will be the language of less than half the Internet, and its online popularity will continue to decline proportionately indefinititely, this means with each passing day your unilingual website is available to less and less web surfers
• Regionalization — Please read the Future of Web Traffic Exchanges, the same applies here
• Zero Tolerance for Popups — Get the scoop on why popups suck at our page on web traffic exchanges, though don't be overzealous, links that open in a new window aren't popups, also, some folks are very poor and have to sign up for free websites with popups out of their control, be strict but fair. Kill popups with the free Google Toolbar.
• Don't Mess With User Settings — never ever allow ads (with or without popups) that have the possibility of changing user settings, like window sizes, full screen mode, etc.
• No Search Links — no searches at lame search engines anyway, just cool ones
• Minimal Pay — at the very, very least one 2007 valued United States penny for each and every thirty seconds of viewing an ad, I might make it two cents here real soon, so don't rest on your laurels, you know, C.O.L.A. and all)
• Use Timers For Now — they're absolutely unnecessary if your GPTREM really takes the first rule mentioned here into account, but none of you are doing that yet; until then, human beings need boundaries, such as, knowing how long they ought to view an ad before moving on to their next task

*WARNING* Banned Programs *WARNING*

There are many more lame GPTREMs than can we could stay on top of here. Three primary reasons programs tend to get banned are, in no particular order, sending an over-abundance of pay-to-search links, a complicated pay structure designed to assure that members will give up or die long before the several years have passed required to reach payout even if they do have a large downline, and no mechanism for letting their members know when the allotted time they must view an ad has elapsed and their account is credited. Consistent to our policies with our traffic programs, we will also ban GPTREM programs for excessive popups.

Any more GPTREMs that people should avoid? Contact us.

• CashForAction, NetsReward, DollarForAction — popup city, PTC searches only
• Casper'sHiddenGem — 10 cents a month? woohoo!
• ProPaidEmail — 10 cents a month and a US$250 payout level? rotflmao!

—Rodney J. Lewis; Tuesday, December 2, 2008

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