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“Get paid to” programs (or GPTs as they are often called) are one of the many ways hat WAHMs (Work at Home Mothers) can make money from home. If you’ve been looking for a work at home job, you’ve no doubt run across ads that claim that you can make money by reading e-mails, answering surveys, and trying free samples. The good news is many WAHMs make money doing those exact things. Plenty of people earn free cash online simply and legitimately every day (including myself.) If you’re not into it 100% though don’t count on earning enough to pay your rent. Part timers, however, can indeed earn enough (significant amount) to pay a few bills around the house here and there.
The bad news is that this particular industry is rife with scammers. If you are interested in getting involved with GPT programs, you’ll have to do your homework and take special precautions to protect yourself and your computer. Stick with those programs that have been recommended to you by a reliable source. All the GPT programs listed on this site (www.DrGPT.com) have been tested by me to be 100% trustworthy legitimate paying sites.
For many WAHMs, the GPT programs are a fun and easy way to earn some extra money when they need it. People who have experience with the programs recommend that you never rely wholly on GPTs to pay your monthly bills. But they can be a perfect solution to earn money for a special occasion or holiday shopping.
Just what are GPT programs? They fall into three basic categories: get paid to read e-mail, get paid to fill out surveys and get paid to try products. Each type has its own pros and cons. Before you start any GPT program, you should take some steps to protect your personal information. You will be required to give your personal information for many of these programs and the less you actually say about yourself the better.
To start you should register a separate e-mail address for your GPT purposes. Many programs can result in a lot of spam mail, so you’ll want to keep your main e-mail address separate.
Get paid to read e-mail programs will pay you a few cents for receiving e-mail and clicking on links. Normally these e-mails offer special deals on products or encourage you to sign up for programs. Sometimes, depending on the e-mail program, you will get more money or “points” if you try the offer. You are not obligated to try the offers, and will get paid a small amount just for clicking on the link inside of the e-mail. There are many popular paid e-mail companies. Do some research before you sign up for a program to make sure that people are actually getting paid. Try not to sign up for too many programs at once or your GPT e-mail address will be swamped.
Getting paid to fill out surveys works in a similar way. You will sign up for a survey program and then fill out some personal information. You will be matched to surveys that are looking for the opinions of people in your income bracket, of your age or one of several different qualification factors. Depending on the company, you will get paid per survey, or completing surveys will earn you points that can later be redeemed. Just as with get paid to read e-mail programs, do research on survey companies before you sign up. There are hundreds out there but only a handful are worth the time and effort.
Finally there are get paid to try products programs. These programs pay significantly more than the other GPT programs. However, you will be required to pay anywhere from $1 to $10 to try the products. When you use these kinds of programs, you have to be careful to take complete records of what you will be receiving and when you need to cancel service or return the item. Most of the time you will be registered for recurring billing for a monthly service, which can be canceled within the initial 7 to 14 days if you are so inclined. You can call the companies and cancel the service, yet still be paid for signing up for the GPT program if your find the product or service undesirable.
What is a GPT Site?
Aug 26
A GPT or “Get Paid To” site (sometime called a “free paid survey” or “offer” site) pays its registered members rather substantially to perform specific online tasks such as responding to a simple survey, completing a free trial offer, ordering products & services you may already be seeking, visiting sponsor’s web sites, viewing advertisements, signing up for newsletters, and such.
GPT sites are an excellent source of easy spare-time money. These sites will definitely give you a healthy boost of income proportional to the time and effort you put into them. Many, including myself, have made GPT sites their full-time job replacement allowing you to be your own boss while paying the rent and all of life’s expenses with money to spare (though getting to this stage requires much devotion, time, attention, and the wisdom that comes over time in exploring and getting an expert feel for how these sites operate.)
Many of the trial and purchase offers are for products and services you would normally buy – Only at GPT sites they pay you an incentive to try or buy them through their sponsors. It’s almost like shopping at a steep VIP discount. Their sponsors pay them for the marketing exposure and they pay you for your time and consideration – it’s really that simple.
By giving your opinion and through your feedback on the free paid surveys the GPT site sponsors (many are large well known corporations) gain valuable insight into a potential customer’s thought process that assists them in making improvements and getting a feel for a potential new product’s probable initial reception. GPT sites are valuable resources for sponsors to do informal cost-effective market research at a moments notice without a lot of lead time, preparation, and personnel resources used.
The vast majority of legitimate GPT sites will never ask you for any sort of registration fee. If a site does ask you for money up front (rare, but they are still out there) then I would advise you to leave that site and place it in your “something’s fishy about this site” category. There are, however, many free to join GPT sites that offer optional membership upgrades that offer benefits such as free referral credits, increased referral percentage structure, advertising package discounts, and exclusive offers – I would advise you to get a feel for the site for a while (several weeks) before/if you opt to pay for an optional upgrade.
Now please don’t confuse the GPT sites (sometimes referred to as PTSU “Paid To Sign Up” sites) with your standard extremely low paying PTC (Paid To Click), PTP (Paid To Post), or PTR (Paid To Read ) sites that are generally a big monotonous unhappy waste of time – and usually only offer fractions of a penny per action. These are definitely not the GPT sites I speak of.
There are many people and site owners that will try and push their own particular advice on proper browser cookie handling upon you – unfortunately most of the popular advise out there is patently WRONG. Using an improper cookie handling procedure will likely cause you to miss credit for offers that would have normally credited if only you new the secrets behind the offer tracking and crediting system.
Before I go on… If you have no idea what a browser cookie is I would suggest that you take a look at The Unofficial Cookie FAQ or browse on over to the Wikipedia article on the HTTP cookie.
Some people and anti-spyware software would have you believe that all browser cookies are bad (especially “tracking cookies”.) When it comes to paid survey, incentive, GPT, and PTS sites (hereafter referred to as the “incentive site” for the sake of simplicity) cookies are your very best friend.
How do incentivized offers track? Most use a combination of tracking cookies, the single pixel gif, a sub-id containing your site membership information, and your unique ip address.
- When you click on an offer/survey the incentive site’s software will note your click.
- You then will be sent to the offer’s url with a sub-id usually containing your incentive site user name appended to the end of the url. Though is may seem instantaneous and direct on pretty much any connection other than dial-up, your browser is actually being sent on a wild goose chase of many different urls to get to your final destination (incentive sites use sponsor (or “CPA” / “affiliate”) networks as a source of their offers – those sponsor networks usually get their offers from other bigger sponsor networks.) The only way to properly make sure that everyone the should be paid for your “lead” will be paid is to send you through a daisy-chain of successive URLs (each noting and crediting themselves your lead.)
- Ok, you arrive at the survey/offer. You fill out information, make a purchase, or perform whatever “action” is required to generate credit. This is where the tracking cookie and single pixel gif come into play. Once the action is performed then you are usually sent to a confirmation page that will place a cookie on your computer eventually reporting to the original incentive site that you have indeed completed the required action for credit.
- Another reporting method is the mysterious single pixel gif. This is a uniquely named image (picture) file that is so small (1 pixel by 1 pixel) that it is invisible to you that is placed on the confirmation page. The gif is uniquely named so that it specifically and only refers to you specifically. The offer’s web server knows that you have completed an action when a request is made to “show” that one pixel gif (known as the gif “firing” in the industry.)
- If the offer site notices that you already have a cookie on your system from a previous session at that site (indicating that you are NOT a “unique lead”) then it may internally note this, allow you to continue, though ultimately report to the incentive site that you are not qualified for the incentive (ouch!) The same goes for if you are recognized by your ip address or entered information such as your name, email address, etc.) Your ip address also plays a part in identifying if your are within the required geographic location for that offer.
- Once you are done viewing/completing the survey/offer, close browser window of leave the site, and end up back on the original incentive site then the tracking cookie reports that you have or have not qualified for your incentive.
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