9 Tips To Increase Your PTR Earnings
By femimi
@femimi (872)
Indonesia
November 7, 2007 12:17am CST
Tips to help you navigate the PTR world
1. Sign up for multiple sites. With most sites, you’ll only be making a few bucks a month. By working 10-15 or even 20 sites you will dramatically increase your earnings. I would recommend only signing up for 2-3 at first, getting comfortable with them and then expanding. Don’t jump right into 10 – you’ll get overwhelmed. Keep in mind, with multiple browsers open (or tabbed browsing), you can simultaneously hit multiple sites; launch an email from one, and while the timer is counting down, move on to another site.
2. Remember to check the scam lists before you sign up for any sites (google “PTR scams”). There are a lot of sites out there that don’t payout, or are very unreliable about paying. Fortunately, people tend to be vocal about it when they get scammed. I've checked each of the sites on my frontpage, and been paid by most, but sometimes the webmaster running a reliable site just gets overwhelmed or bored and lets things slide. Go ahead and check my sites before you sign up.
3. Build a downline. Most sites offer commissions on whatever your referrals view. Many also offer commissions multiple levels deep (in other words, on the people that your referrals refer). With a decent downline, you can easily increase your earnings by a couple of times what you could earn on your own. It also can help you manage multiple sites by allowing you to focus on 3-5 sites a day, just clicking enough emails to keep the account open. You then let your downline provide most of your earnings.
4. Set up another email address just for reading your PTR emails. This will prevent your personal inbox from clogging. Most ISPs offer you multiple addresses – this is a good time to use one of them. If your ISP doesn’t offer extra addresses, get one from a free service like Hotmail or Yahoo.
5. Always have the emails sent to the site inbox, rather than your email address, and read them at the site, if possible (unfortunately, some sites don’t allow this). This helps reduce the number of emails clogging your inbox. Also, most sites offer other ways to make money which you can typically only find by going to the site (Paid to Click, Paid to Sign up, Paid to Surf, etc.).
6. Remember to hit the other ways to make money. Sometimes you can make more there than reading the emails.
7. Upgrading your account can help depending on what the upgraded membership offers. Reduced payouts really don’t help very much. If you have multiple sites going at the same time, you should have payouts coming on a fairly regular basis anyway – after you get your downline properly set up, of course. Upgrading is useful when they offer things like free referrals (people sign up without a referral all the time – most sites give them to upgraded members), free advertising (advertise your other PTR sites for more referrals), a higher number of ads (some sites have ads that are only available to premium members), and higher referral commissions (though I've rarely seen this).
8. Consider flipping some of your earnings for advertising your other sites. You will be advertising PTR sites to a bunch of people that are reading your ad on a PTR site, so you know that they are interested in making money with PTR emails. I almost always get at least a few referrals when I do this. Just try to give your emails a good title; “very good site” isn’t very descriptive, and “this site make good money” barely makes sense – unless you’re a little green Jedi Master, nobody’s going to take you seriously if your grammar is that lousy. Who is going to sign up through your link if they don’t take you seriously? For those of you that have trouble writing good ad copy, here is a book that would be a good investment. He tries to push an upgrade for an additional $20 - you really only need the basic book.
9. BE PATIENT. It will probably take months (think 3-6) for you to get your downlines set up to the point you are regularly receiving payouts. You also may sign up for sites that don’t pay and learn this after clicking enough emails to get a payout, only to never hear anything from them (been there, done that). Don’t get discouraged, just forget about them and move on to the others that do payout, they really do exist. Start with some of the sites on my front page, I'm a member of all of them.
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@eyewitness (1575)
• Netherlands
7 Nov 07
Thanks for the tip.
This is really of great help.
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