Further to my previous post where I talk about the scourge of the internet (the Pyramid scheme), in this post we are going to be introduced to the shallow end of the 'making money on-line' pool, gradually working our way towards the deep end...
In this post, I am highlighting some of the schemes that are hardly worth the trouble. Many on-line earners start earning money this way, but the majority will either progress onto something else, or drop out thinking that there are no legitimate ways to make decent amounts of money left.
The 'minnows' include much of the 'paid to' programs including paid to read, or paid to click, the very cheapest of on-line activities which often yield less than a dollar for an hours work. I would also be tempted to put surveys into this category, some surveys are worthwhile, but in the majority of cases, they are not worth the trouble and my two remaining survey partners will be dumped as soon as I reach payout...
My other prime objection to 'paid to click adverts' and 'paid to read emails' schemes is that they are literally valueless - there is no value in you reading an email when you have no intention other than to simply get it read and move onto the next one. Similarly generating clicks to get 'hits' on a page is valueless and could even be construed as fraudulent - For one thing, the yield is extremely low which is why they are in the 'minnows' section, but the other problem with them is that they do go some way to insulting the intelligence of the participant - there is no satisfaction in this 'work' in my opinion. Nonetheless, it remains to be said that money (however small) can be made (at least semi-legitimately) in this arena...
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