Well, let me make things clear first. I am a participant of PTR / PTC programs too, and I am not against these “Get Paid To” programs, but I would not blindly recommend everyone to join any PTR / PTC programs right away. These are four big categories of people who I would recommend to think twice before joining these kinds of get paid programs. Here they are.
Category 1: Those who get limited Internet bandwidth from their providers.
Got it? Limited bandwidth connection is expensive, compared to amount of money you would be paid per click. Don’t forget, some PTR / PTC site contents or links or banners won’t display the click able links if you don’t set your browser to display image.
There are some PTR / PTC websites that urge the users to get authenticated first before they start to display the real advertisement page by the first time. This is to avoid any auto click by programs, in case some folks out there want to cheat using robots. The PTR / PTC owners want to make sure you are human, not robots. So some of them will bring you to an authentication page which displays one or two random image(s) that will show up several characters or number digits.
If you are a real human, you will be able to read the numbers or characters displayed at the page, and to click on the correct choice displayed. That’s the way it is.
But let me alert you first, sometimes this doesn’t happen only once. I mean, when you have clicked a lot of PTC links in this kind of “needs authentication” PTR / PTC websites, sometimes they will bring the “authentication page” back to make sure that you are still a human up till that moment. Now, you have to remember, the page doesn’t only contain the authentication random images. Remember, the websites also have their own menu images, some sponsor banners, and these apply to the authentication page as well. So this is a burden for those of you who get connected via limited bandwidth Internet providers.
Those are just small examples about this category. You can calculate the amount of bandwidth usage for each day you click on the advertisements. Compare the calculation result with the money you get through the clicks during that day. Can the revenue of the clicks during the day cover the cost of your bandwidth usage? Is it worth it? You judge it.
Category 2: Some people who might not get connected through a broadband account, but even still use a dial up connection.
Oh come on, using this kind of connection to specially click on the ads? Isn’t this frustrating you somehow? Again, make your calculation against the cost and even the time to load per page. Don’t forget, you might get long loading time for just entering the login page itself, not to mention that some of them will also lead you to the authentication page.
Remember, advertisement oriented websites are heavy to load, and “Get Paid To” websites are also part of advertisement oriented ones. And if you still remember my explanation in Category 1, some click able advertisements won’t show at all unless you turn on the “display image” setting of your browser.
Category 3: People that don’t have private Internet connection, and might have usually been connected from the office’s connection.
If you are one of these people, remember, your online connection is from the office you work for, which will mostly mean … you are accessing through a shared IP connection or even Proxy ones.
Usually the working company will have anticipated the possibility of their employees using their Internet connection to have any activities related to get paid programs. They might have blocked the get paid programs URLs from being accessed by their employees.
And by the way, most of PTR / PTC programs will not allow any member participation in their programs through these kinds of connection. You will only get banned by the PTR / PTC owners as soon as they find out. Not to mention, you have been misusing your working company connection. You might get troubled with the company you work for when they find out.
Category 4: People who are not well-organized in daily life.
Why? Because they will become more and more disorganized.
Believe me, by not becoming a well self-organized person, you will get obsessed by these kinds of programs and you will get greedy, becoming obsessed to gain more money and money as quickly as possible, but you might not be thinking about the strategy. You will do these things by brute force participation, which means, just clicking and clicking, joining and joining, but you don’t calculate whether these revenues have ever covered your online cost or not.
So beware, the obsession will even lead you to find more similar programs that might still not be proven as “have really paid the members”.
If you don’t think twice, you don’t plan, you don’t even think of how worth the balance between the cost of your connection and the money you gain, you won’t even realize that your balance has started to become deficit. You might say: “But what if I would have a lot of referrals?” True, but you still have to manage your active status in your own “Get Paid To” programs. And getting referrals is not as easy as we have always thought.
Obsession might come in another form. You start to become greedy. You want more and more. You want a better way, a quicker way. Your mind may tell you to “Get Richer Quickly!” So you start surfing all the web to find more or better GPT programs. You might even survey all the sponsors of your current GPT programs, read their FAQ pages, etc.
You might even visit all the GPT related websites out there, the forums, the blogs, etc. to get more similar programs that promise you better than your current ones. But remember, some authors in the websites might only recommend you to join this or that program, even would rather provide their referral links for you to sign up than give you the information about which ones have been exposed as “scam”, and some of them might not even care to recommend you any good website that provides the reliable information about similar programs. So how come you will be sure that they really ever get paid by those programs? You will again search and search the Internet to get this information, until you find one.
But how about your offline life? Do you start ignoring your tasks, your job, your environment, your family, your neighbors, your time management, because of being busy with PTR / PTC or any GPT programs then? You need a balance in your life. That’s why your self management will become more vulnerable if you are not a well organized person from a start.
And if you don’t have strategy or plan in your self management, you will become a very spontaneous person in every decision you make, it’s very possible that you will start joining more and more GPT programs right away without making sure that these ones are good for you. It’s good if you find the truly honest ones right away. But what if you don’t?
If you just believe the “honest site” claiming right away, you will only click for nothing once you have joined the programs, and when you find out that they are scams, you will get disappointed after then. Again, more time wasting, another form of self disorganized situation. And remember the cost of your online connection back then, for the useless clicks on the scam sites’ advertisements. It is painful to remember, right?
Another if. If you are smarter enough to survey the information about those similar programs, your self research will bring you to browse the world wide web almost all the day, perhaps even everyday, before you are sure about your next decision: whether to join the programs or not. Because what if the informations you find have contradicted each others? Then which one will you believe?
So this is some insight for you to digest. If you have found yourself in one of the four categories above, whether you will still join the programs or not, the choice is still yours. You are the one who takes the decision. I’m not telling you to avoid this money making field, but I feel the need to give some insight. For even in PTR, PTC or any GPT programs participation, we still need to work it smarter and not by brute force participation.
We need to be wise. 
Anyway, I have other articles about how to recognize a scam, and a list of PTR / PTC scams I found at Squidoo.com back then. Make sure to check PTC/PTR Scam List on Squidoo on your own too, because their visitors might have added more information through the comments etc.
My Personal Note:
Squidoo.com provides useful information about getting paid programs. I would love to recommend you to check this out.
And please note that my intention in bringing up this subject on my website (http://potentialact.com) is to provide you some insight about your potential for joining and making money with these kinds of programs, but you have to work it smarter, not by blind brute force action.
Hope this article will be useful for you all. Thank you for reading.
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