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.