Operation Bob

PTR sites pay their members to read e-mails. To ensure that you’re spending some time actually reading the e-mail, many of them do this in a special window on their site that will not credit you until it has been opened for 15-30 seconds or more, depending on what the advertiser has paid for.

Signing up with an PTR site to read paid e-mail is free on every one I’ve seen. The money you can earn, well, it’s not much. The going rate is about .01 to .02 per e-mail. If you consider the high end at .02 and say you view each one for 30 seconds, that’s 120 e-mails per hour or $2.40/hr.

Is it worth it? You decide.

Many say that it’s pennies and hardly worth your time. Hard to argue since the pay is usually about a penny. But, it is something you can do with literally no skill, no thought, and in your pajamas. Also on the downside is that most of the PTR sites will only give you 5-10 per day and have a minimum payout of $25 or more. At that rate, it’s going to be a long while before you can cash out and you have to factor in all the time your going to spend logging, logging out, etc so your hourly rate drops.

On the upside, if you like to look at ads anyway, you might as well make a few pennies for it, right? I like to see what other entrepreneurs are up to and what new stuff is out there. But, for every hundred PTRs I’ve done, I’ve maybe found 2 worth exploring and none that really paid off.

Income opportunity marketers love to advertise through this medium and the reason is obvious. They have an audience of folks willing to make a penny to read an e-mail, what better place to advertise a program that offers to make you millions doing nothing (that’s what they say, we know better. Right?)

Here’s a link to a list of PTR sites.

If you do PTR, just don’t get caught up in the hype of the ads you’ll be viewing and get yourself off track. If something looks legitimate, certainly explore it, but keep a level head.