Earn a little extra cash (htmail.com)

Member Name: hugon

Product:	htmail.com
Date:	13/07/01 (145 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good rate of pay per email, Quite a low payout

Disadvantages: Infrequent emails, They refer you to some awful sites

I stumbled across this site when looking at the profile of another dooyoo user (a-true-ben), thought it looked interesting, so I toddled along to the relevant category on dooyoo and had myself a butchers. It was another paid to receive Email Company. I wasn’t going to bother, knowing most of them pay peanuts and send you next to know email, but I read a few reviews and decided signing up wouldn’t hurt me, so I gave it a go.

Htmail.com (first of all, great choice of name, probably designed to pick up people who misspell hotmail.com, nice idea) offers the chance to sign up to the service, and receive email from companies that you may be interested in. If you are interested in sending email to these lists, you can also pay for this service – it advertises a 15%-56% response to email it sends to members on it’s lists, so if you want to advertise your site, this could be for you. It doesn’t give any prices for the cost of sending email to members of the htmail site, but you can select if you want your mailing sent to all members of the list, or just males, females, car owners etc, if you want to target your advertising more specifically.

But enough of that, you want the bit about how you’re going to earn money! Signing up is simple; you’re required to give your name, address, and email address, stuff like that. Remember, it’s probably best to use an online account, not your main email account, to prevent it getting clogged up. I had an old account with Yahoo Mail, which I now check every other day for Htmail mailings. If you are signing up from a referral link, the referral will be filled in the correct field, but if you look round the site before signing up, you’ll need to enter it in the relevant field again. You are only allowed to sign up one account per email address, and one per payment address, so if someone else in your house wants to set one up you’ll either have to

a) get th
ere first
b) fight them for it
c) combine your efforts and split the payment

You are required to answer a set of questions with yes or no answers that will allow advertisers to target you more directly – such as if you are a smoker, own a pet, car, etc, as well as selecting what your interests are. You are given a text field to enter your hobbies – obviously the more hobbies you enter, the greater the range of emails you can receive and the more money you earn. Once you sign up, you’ll receive two emails – one is a welcome email, with your details for your records, the other is a sample email, showing you how their mailings work.

To earn money from your mail, you have to return codes in the email. There are two levels of payment – 5p, for simple reading the email and clicking the link to say you have read it. You can earn 15p by clicking the link to actually open the site, and then fill in comments about the site on a pop up comment box. You’ll have to fill in what you like about the site, what you don’t like, any general comments, and if you would purchase from the site, giving reasons. It only takes about a minute to complete the form and return it. I have seen some awful sites, and some not so bad sites. Tell the truth – it doesn’t matter what you right, as long as you write something. Once you return the form or code, you are sent a confirmation email stating that it has been successful and it will be added to your account balance. You have 10 days from when you receive the email to return the codes, otherwise the email will become invalid and you cannot receive payment from it.

15p/5p per email is all well and good, but paid for email is notoriously bad at sending you minimal emails. Well, the amount of emails they send you isn’t going to fill up your inbox, I tend to receive about 2 emails every 3 days, which isn’t too bad. If you visit the website and fill out
the form, the money will start to tick up nicely.

There is no facility on the site for viewing your account balance – once you sign up, you don’t really need to visit the site again. You are shown your account balance on the bottom of each email you receive. The balance isn’t updated immediately; it sometimes takes up to three days to add the money to your account. I actually like this way of seeing my account balance, as it means I am always up to date, without having to visit the site all the time. If you require a statement of your balance, you can visit the site and enter your email address, and a statement will be delivered to your account.

You select your minimum payment when you’re signing up – you can be paid in either dollars or pounds, and as this is a British based site, the cheque shouldn’t take too long to arrive. Minimum payment is from £10 up to £50, in increments of £10. This conflicts with some of the information on the site that minimum payment is at £5. You can’t request a cheque, payment is made on four dates yearly - March 15th, June 15th, September 15th and December 15th, if your account is over your minimum payment on these dates, the cheque will be mailed to you. If you want your payment before you reach the minimum, you can request payment on the next payment date, but you will be charged £1 for doing so.

Should you wish to change the mail address used, you can do so on site – entering your old and new email address –an email confirming that you want to do this will be sent to your OLD email address allowing you to confirm this safely.

The site offers a referral scheme, where you can refer your friends to earn a little extra money. For every code they receive, you’ll get the grand old sum of 1 penny. Not a lot, but if you have a lot of eager friends, it could be worth your while. They provide you with a set of emails and codes on site, you have
to make the codes your self, they supply a generic code, which you can alter with your own email address. If you have a website, they also supply buttons and banners you can place on your website to attract referrals.

The site is compact and quick to navigate. The text is quite small, and it feels a little cluttered, but it’s very easy to navigate, with relevant links for more information for both advertisers and members down the left hand side, and the information down the middle of the page. There are minimal graphics, so the site loads very quickly. All the information you require is clearly laid out for you, and its all well explained.

I can’t vouch for the reliability of the company, as I haven’t received any money yet, but the reviews I have seen of the site are highly favourable. With a bit of luck, I’ll get up to the limit on the next date, and be able to update my opinion with the reliability then. It’s worth a go, there’s nothing to lose, and it only takes a few minutes of your time every couple of days, so why not give it a try. If you are interested, and want to use my referral, you can email me (address on my profile), and I’ll give you my details. I’ve only given four stars as I feel more emails would be a lot more useful, but it is the best paid for email scheme I have come across on the net so far, and payment in pounds makes it even more useful.

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