Autosurfers - An Introduction

Autosurfers are one of the easiest way to accumulate money online. I will deal with them in great extend during the next weeks so make sure you visit this site for more info on them.
The idea of autosurfers has evolved through time. Their basic principle is to get paid for viewing other peoples’ sites. At its initial steps people were surfing for hours to gain extremely small amounts of money. I did try it once, it was 4 or 5 years ago, but I decided it was not for me. My main incentive back then was to gain traffic for my own site, by viewing sites of other people. That mutual exchange of traffic is on the core of autosurfers even today.
However, the whole concept has become a lot more alluring. Most current autosurfers offer people a daily percent of money, depending on their membership level, for every day they surf a predefined number of sites. For example, if you have a membership level of $1000 and your autosurfing site offers 1% for every day surfing then you can make $10 each day. You can use them even as a free user – usually they feed your account with $5-$10 just for joining- however, if you want to make some serious bucks you need to become a paid member and invest money to a membership. Although a few will treat them as gambling I rather prefer to treat them as an investment. A risky one, but still an investment.
Risky? Why, you would ask. Well, first of all, the return of investment you are promised is extremely high. For a 1% daily autosurder –which is the absolute minimum today- and an initial investment of $1000, you make back $3650 every year.
Note that you loose your membership fee which means that after one year you have actually gain $2650, a return of 265%. Still, no real world investment can match this offering. No one I am aware of at least. So, the question that rises naturally is where the money that we are promised comes from and if it is guaranteed… and there is no simple answer to that (I will make another post on the “where-money-comes-from” subject soon). Another risk factor is that most autosurfers are not legal entities and they offer no address and phone contacts – in other words they can vanish in thin air whenever they feel like. Still, most of them offer public (although heavily moderated) forums where members can meet and exchange opinions.
Even under these conditions there is much room to make money with autosurfers. If an autosurfer vanishes after 6 months you can still make back your initial investment in approximately 3 months (for sites that offer 1%) and then be on the safe side by trading only your earnings. Also, you can diversify your investment to several autosurfing sites and minimize the risk of loosing everything at once on the expense of extra work.
I have personally decided to invest some money on them and see how this works. There are a few sites that can help you make a wise decision and offer public forums that are not heavily moderated like the forums of the autosurfing programs. My favorite information site at the moment is http://www.autosurfcentral.com/. It is run by Jim Polak and is full of interesting readings. On my next post I will describe what sites I peaked for investing and why I choose them.