First time I made contact with the internet money making was in 2004 when I stumbled on a commercial for an autosurf program: 4daily. Intrigued, I opened this site, and quickly learned that if I invest some money in it, it will give me back after a period of time a much better return than a bank will do. Being in the beginning of my experience with internet programs (actually the first program I ever been in contact with), I was so enthusiast that immediately I start digging it in detail: How much I have to spend in it, what are the funding options, what’s the exact return, what are the fees, etc. Cautious by nature, and because I have seen in my real life lots of scams, I studied some forums, only to discover lots of good feedbacks and nothing but “Been paid” posts. I was convinced to go on with this program, but in the funding options I found: e-gold. I thought, what the hell is e-gold? A quick dig on google, I found that e-gold is one of the most loved internet payment processor. No chrgebacks, instant payment, etc. So, I thought, how do I fund my freshly made e-gold account? Only to find that only some third-party exchangers makes possible to buy e-gold. That was too complicated for me.
So, the next reasonable step was a way to fund my e-gold account in order to deposit some money in the first program I met with: 4daily. After some more digging I discovered a site that was promising to pay me in e-gold if I read the mails that they are sending and click on some advertisers links. Easy, I thought. So, I joined this site, by the way, it was WorldWideCash, and started to click on advertisers ads, read the mails that I was receiving from them, and all the other stuff they had me to do. But, disaster: after a couple of days, in my account balance was only 0.01 USD! So, disappointed, I started to look for more and more of this programs, so I find DrClick, TyliaPays, SendMeCash, StormofCash, Mothmails, etc. After a month I was making only from clicks about 0.10 USD a day.
That was not enough. I joined more and more of this Paid-To-Read (PTR) and Paid-To-Click (PTC) programs, in the end I was a member of about 30 of this programs. Some of them paid me in e-gold, others in StormPay, others in MoneyBookers. By the time I raised the 4 dollars needed to deposit at 4daily, it had been 3 months since I discovered it. So, happily, I deposited 4 USD of e-gold and started surfing for my return. But again disaster struck: 4daily was going down, and so were my dreams about making a fortune on the internet. Eventually 4daily disappeared, and so was my money. Well, I tought, I’ll just have to take-it all over again. So, I did, but this time I found autosurfs that only went quicker and quicker down the drain.
So, for the rest of 2005 I sticked with my programs and began raising a little fortune in my e-gold and moneybookers account. I requested a check with my 10 USD in my StormPay account, but disappointed again by the 7 dollars that I had to pay at the bank in order to cash the check. Hackers emptied my e-gold account. So, I was back to the drawing board.
Digging the internet, I found Paid-To-Promote and the PTP concept. Promoting a page full of advertisements will get you lots of money, but only if you promote-it heavily. So, I joined lots and lots of autosurf programs and started to promote my Paid-To-Promote promotional page. At the beginning I was making a measly 0.10 USD a day from this, but one day I found How to promote the doono page. The next day I made my 1st dollar / day. By the end of the month when it was due to make my 35 USD in my e-gold account, disaster again, Ryan, the Webmaster of Paid-To-Promote quitted on us, and again, no money.
I was running out of ideas when I stumbled upon Adsense from GOOGLE. Now in 2006, I bought a domain and I’m beginning to build a site rich in content while continuing my PTP, PTC, PTR, AUTOSURFS and all the other internet money making. I hope one day to finish my site and put some adsense commercials in it and see what will happen then. Will disaster strike again?
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