IF YOU need a clever comeback to those folks accusing you of being a wastrel and a mouse potato, tell them it is not a way of life but a profession. Not a very well-paid one, admittedly, but you could earn 拢20 a month from the comfort of your own home. No, really.
This may sound like dozens of other e-mails you get each month once you have some weeks of surfing under your mouse. But thanks to HTMail () you may soon be inviting direct marketing messages into your mailbox rather than cursing them. HTMail is offering cash for every e-mail from its clients that you read, and every one of its clients鈥� Web sites you visit.
Not a lot of cash鈥�5p for each e-mail you open and 10p for each Web site visited. Each qualifying site or e-mail comes with a code number鈥攃ollect the numbers and send them back to HTMail and the company will pay you for each one you return. To get around 拢20 a month you would 鈥渙nly鈥� have to look at five direct marketing e-mails and five Web sites a day.
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Though HTMail has to pay you, it believes it can still make a profit because advertisers are willing to pay good money to get their message across. After all, as HTMail point out to advertisers thinking of using its service, 5p is a fraction of the price of a direct postal mailing, and advertisers will know that their potential customers have at least glanced at their material.
