Getting Paid to Surf
At first its hard to believe companies are paying people to surf the Internet,
but it is true. There are practically no strings attached. The only thing you
have to do is watch advertisement banners while you surf the Internet. And believe us,
you forget the banners are there after a day or two!
How It Works
How and Why I Get Paid...
Wait, Are These Pyramid Schemes?
Are These Companies Legit?
How It Works...
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AllAdvantage was the first company that paid people to surf the Internet.
They practically invented the industry. What they would do is pay you for
watching advertisements on your computer while you surfed the Internet.
All you had to do was keep a little advertisement bar open and you would get
paid.
On top of getting paid to surf AllAdvantage would pay you for the time people
surfed beneath you. For instance, if you referred a friend and he surfed the
Internet for 20 hours a month, you would get a percentage of the advertisement
revenue AllAdvantage got from his surfing.
Over time many new companies have come out. Most of these companies would pay you
to surf the Internet, but slowly things started to change. Companies would then
pay you to work at your computer as long as your viewbar was open and you
were connected to the Internet.
Then companies started paying you to read emails and to use their start page
as your homepage. One company, BePaid, even started paying you to watch commercial
advertisements. Now we have many different companies who all offer a different
service.
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How and Why I Get Paid...
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There are two main reasons you can get paid.
First and most importantly, you get paid with advertisement money. When companies
advertise banners on your computer, they pay the Pay-to-Surf companies. You then
get a percentage of the money, and the Pay-to-Surf companies keep the rest.
The other reason is because you are getting paid for marketing these companies.
Since you make referrals to the companies, you are essentially doing all the
marketing these companies need. In essence, you are driving customers to the business.
They do not have to place ads in newspapers, magazines and on TV anymore.
You get paid for doing their marketing. And the better you market these companies,
the more money you wind up making!
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Wait, Are These Pyramid Schemes?
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At first most people ask if these companies are pyramid schemes. The answer is no.
They are instead, MLM companies. MLM stands for Multi Level Marketing. They act in
similar ways that pyramid schemes do, however they have a lot of major differences.
For one thing, you don't have to pay a dime to be a part of the company. All you are
being paid for is your services. (watching advertisements, and marketing the company)
Another reason is that these companies are providing you with a useful service. They
are providing you with profit.
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Are These Companies Legit?
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That is a question you have to answer for yourself. Many companies have been around for
quite some time now and have very little critism. However, many other companies are
fradulent. This is usually not the case though. You have to pick and choose the companies
carefully, and if you do you can make a decent amount of money. (depending on the amount
of time you put into it that is)
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