Thursday, November 03, 2005

Paid to Read Earnings for October

OK, here's the final payment results for October, 2005.

Random-PTCs $1.35
Mesmerizing-Mails $0.23
GainSeek $0.90
DestinysDollars $2.50
Random-PTCs $1.36
AK-Mail $0.88
Total $7.22

That's a pretty slow month. On the other hand, all I had to do to earn it was read email and visit the advertisers' websites. Did I see anything cool being advertised? Nothing that stands out. I don't think I made any online purchases through a PTR ad this month. Maybe next month.

Another bit of information that might be helpful is how long it took me to earn those payments in each of the programs. I can check this easily thanks to the data tracking provided by ThePaidHelp.

With Random-PTCs, I earned that in about three weeks. I generally request payment once a month from them, and usually get paid within a few days after the request.

Mesmerizing-Mails pays every month, no need to request.

With GainSeek, it took me about a month to earn that amount. It's a no-minimum program, so you can request your earnings at any time. I like to request mine monthly.

It took about three months to earn that $2.50 payment at DestinysDollars, and my guesstimate is that it would've taken about another month to reach the $4.00 minimum if I hadn't received the random payment.

A second payment from Random-PTCs in the same month is a bit unusual, but certainly not impossible. Especially since I've got a small (4 down from 9) downline.

The money from AK-Mail took about 4 1/2 months. This isn't a big earner for me. But I've been a member for a long time, they have fun riddle contests on the weekends, and I can earn points to use to buy ads. The owners are friendly and professional, and I enjoy being a member even if it doesn't pay much.

Doing PTR is never going to be a big earner for me. Or for most people that get involved in it. The only way to make any significant amounts is to build huge downlines. If you can do that, you can earn hundreds a month. But that's just not for me. I'm more interested in using the money I get from PTR to finance bigger and better online earning opportunities.