When you are looking for ways to make money online without a financial investment on your part, your choices are limited. Since we talked about investment programs yesterday, I'll start be saying that there are a few (very few) what I call starter investment sites that you can join for free that you can use to begin earning a small amount that can be reinvested. But most of them are not sustainable and just won't be around very long. If you get in early, you might be able to earn enough for a small stake in an investment program that has a small initial investment before the starter program falls apart. We will go over a few starter investment programs later, but that is beyond the scope of this article. The other options that are easy to find and easy to use are PTC programs, faucets, and some traffic exchanges. We touched a bit on traffic this past Tuesday. I will go more into traffic exchanges during our Traffic Tuesday posts. I will talk about PTCs today and faucets tomorrow.
In case this is a new term for you, PTC stands for Paid To Click. It is a way that advertisers entice people view their ads/site. You are paid a small amount (generally the equivalent of a few satoshis [less than a penny]) for each site that you view. Each site usually has a minimum amount you must accumulate before you can withdraw your earnings, so it takes from a few days to a few weeks to get enough to pull your money out. This is why we try to focus on sites with low Withdrawal Minimums and lots of ads. Like starter investment programs, we will be taking the income we generate from these PTC sites and reinvesting into low cost investment programs. The main difference between the starter investment site and the PTC sites is that the PTC sites are usually viable and will probably be around much longer, so there is less likelihood that our efforts will be in vane.
There are other similar options that I generally don't bother with. One is PTP (Paid to Promote). PTP is when you are paid a small amount to promote the link of a site you have joined. These pay about the same as PTC, but I believe these are a waste of your advertising budget because these are the types of sites I want to promote. There are also Short Links. For the life of me, I cannot figure out why they call the "short" because you generally have to wade through several pages of ads which include captchas, pop-ups, and opening new windows (sometimes these are porngraphic) and they don't usually pay any more than PTC ads. You can also get into surveys and offers. These normally pay more than PTC ads, but they take a lot longer and I prefer not do divulge that much personal information to total strangers.
So, that is my brief explanation of PTC programs and why we use them. I hope this was informational and beneficial for you. Tomorrow, I will look into faucets.
Until next time...keep earning,
Garrey C. Dunn, Jr.
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