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Stay Ahead of the Curve: A Paid-to-Click Program that Beats the Stock Market

ATTENTION ALL YOU GLOBAL CITIZENS OUT THERE!

I’m always a little skeptical when it comes to making a few extra dollars online. I am relieved, however, that some PTC and PTR - Paid to Click and Paid to Read - Programs have been coming up and been legitimately paying their members. In less than 30 days, I’ve made $183.45 through a certain paid-to-click program. How these programs work is that you click on ONE ad and view it for 30 seconds, then get credited 1 cent for that ad. This system works because companies pay money to put their web pages on for you to view to drive sales to their own sites. PTC programs will share that bit of the profit with YOU by paying you a measley 1 cent per ad, with around 10 ads at most a day. So with such a slow way to earn, why bother?

PTC and PTR can put some serious pocket change in…well, your pockets. It can become a nice little stream of income that can help you take care of some inevitably recurring bills, such as gas. On the bright side, it’s a great way to save up for dates or splurge a little on gifts. So how can you possibly get a sizeable amount of money for clicking on these 1 cent ads? I’ll show you how.

Find a Reputable PTC program where you can BUY referrals

I’ll start off with the only Paid-to-Click program that has made me $183.45 in less than 30 days. The website is Bux.to and it rocks because it has many options for you to vastly increase your earning potential; with each referral that signs up directly under you, you get 100% of that referral’s earnings. That is a really reasonable compensation for introducing someone else to the program, considering most other PTC’s will give you maybe up to 50% at most. That means every 1 cent your referral makes, you make 1 cent.

Then the exciting part comes when you decide to invest in buying referrals: you may purchase “referral packs” of 15, 35, 100, or 500. After purchasing the referrals, Bux.to may take anywhere from 2 - 5 days adding them to your account. After that occurs, however, you’ll have the power of up to 500 (or more, depending how much you want to invest) referrals clicking for you. Assuming that each referral is a regular member and clicks 10 ads daily, you can realistically make up to $50 a day. Theoretically, after 10 days you earn back your expenses of $500 and everything is pure profit from there on out. In my own experience, this was true for the first few days. However, fickle clickers have led me to recoup my costs a little bit late - 17 days to recover my initial expenses. I don’t care, because this sure beats the stock market.

Another bonus to the program is that you have the option of upgrading to PREMIUM status. The dozen ads or so a regular member gets daily will rocket to at least 20 daily, but in my experience I have consistently gotten more than 35 ads a day. On top of that, every ad that YOU click and that your REFERRALS click makes 25% more, so each click comes out to 1.25 cents. This may not sound like much but if you refer back to that $500 dollar example earlier, you would’ve made $125 more in the same amount of time. What I did was to buy the special package 100 members + premium membership for $139 dollars; you save 21 because premium membership by itself is $60.

Now, here are some realistic CONS to the program that you will most likely have to deal with, but they will not really prevent you from making a profit in the long run (try it out for at least 30 days - it’s standard membership is free anyway).

1) Long Payout Time

Bux.to used to be a faster payer, but since they’ve been growing at such a fast pace, they changed their payout times to 30 business days for premium members and 60 business days for regular members. I’ll be honest with you and say that if you are really impatient, then maybe Bux.to isn’t for you. But one has to understand the logistics of paid to click programs - with they way PTC companies operate and make money, they cannot afford to offer immediate cashouts.

2) No Paypal, Use Alertpay (not really a big deal)

Nearly all PTC companies have switched from Paypal to Alertpay to compensate their earners, but I don’t see this as a problem - actually, Alertpay has WAY cheaper rates cause sending and receiving money is totally free under the standard account, and it’s free to send the money you earn right to your checking account. Don’t be like me and sign up for the Pro account - I only did because I thought I’d be making/withdrawing more money by now, but sadly that’s not the case :( So I pay a nominal fee for cashing out my Bux.to income. Alertpay is a legitimate way to pay - it’s endorsed by CNN and it’s really easy to set up.

So that ends Part 1 of my MMO (making money online) series. In a nutshell, PTC programs like Bux.to are a legitimate way to earn extra income online. For Bux.to, the amount of money you want to make is up to your own discretion because you can buy as many referrals as you want (500 at most at a time). And it takes no work at all - you can just click on an ad, wait 30 seconds while you look at another web page you want - you’re not demanded to even look at the ads you click on as long as you wait 30 seconds. So what I do is just blog and check out CNN news and click the ads every once in a while. Getting paid for surfing the net can’t get easier than this. Well, good luck to all your endeavors and I hope you check out Bux.to

your slightly richer wingman,

gale

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