Generate Passive Secondary Income Online

Archive for February, 2009

Reading emails can be a great way to begin making a nice secondary income online. Getting paid to look at advertisements or products that you don’t even have to buy is easy work that can be done while doing other things on the computer. For spending less then five minutes a day, I consider reading emails for cash a viable way to make a little extra on the side.

Hits4pay is one of the more well known and successful paid email programs out there and it is free to boot. Basically, they pay you to simply look at emails. No more and no less. Sadly, it truly is that simple. That’s pretty much all I have to say other than they’ve actually paid me. Keep in mind of course, you won’t be getting rich with this or any other paid to read email program but it could potentially be a nice $25 check per month depending on how many emails you receive in a month. Not bad for a couple minutes a day.

If you signup for the site, I have a tip to share. When you’re asked about your hobbies and interests during signup (which is used to determine the nature of the emails sent to you) be sure to select affiliate marketing and other business related subjects. These categories will have the most emails associated to them and they’ll be related to making money online so they should be of some interest to you as well.

Hits4pay also has a special internal email address, accessible through logging into your account, which is nice because you won’t have to worry about getting hammered with emails in your personal email.

If you’re a member of the Gamestop mailing list then it’s likely that you’ve received an email in the past about this survey site called u.talk.back. Basically it is an invitation for you to go ahead and join the site in order to receive rewards for filling out surveys. Generally, these are either magazines or gift certificates to select stores, such as Gamestop.

Surprisingly this is a very legit offer and service being held here, although it may not be worth it to you on the per hour basis. See some folks upon filling out their information get many invites to various surveys. They then qualify and complete the survey for full credit. Other folks may receive few if any invites and then not qualify, which lead to only receiving a small fraction of the maximum rewards. It’s a mixed bag depending on what you submit.

Of course, if you’re smart you would load up your profile with juicy info that advertisers want to know about. For example, under ethnicity list Hispanic descent (or something of similar nature) and be a student with a decent income. This is a highly sought after demographic that would result in getting lots of invites. They also have bias towards younger folks. With that said, if you’re a teenager u.talk.back is a better option then the other survey site Gamestop refers to e-Rewards.

All-in-all, u.talk.back is a true company that sends out their rewards when they are earned and redeemed. Don’t expect to get multiple rewards in a year however, they simply don’t send out enough surveys for that. But it’s nice to fill out a survey every once in a while and net a $50 gift card to Gamestop at the end of the year. That’s a nice Christmas gift to myself I’d say.