This is probably one of the oldest online income opportunity. In order to get started all you need is your own e-mail address. If you have an Internet access at home, you probably already have an e-mail address too? Otherwise, you can open your own email account and receive your personal e-mail address for free at:

http://www.yahoo.com or http://www.hotmail.com

Actually, be prepared to use your e-mail address with any of the extra income opportunities that I have listed in this article.

How 'get paid to read email' programs work? Simply, online advertisers pay commissions to the paid email companies for sending their advertisements via e-mail to members who want to get paid for reading emails. When you receive a paid e- mail, in order to receive your cash you should click on the link and visit an advertiser's web site.

How much you can earn? Not much. The paid email companies pay from $0.01 up to $1.00 per e-mail that you read. Usually the more they pay, the higher is their payout minimum. It means that you can request your payment only after you have earned a certain amount of money.

It really wouldn't be worth your time if paid e-mail companies didn't have referral or affiliate programs. As an affiliate you can refer new members to their programs and get paid a percentage of what your referrals earn.

Note that if you want to make serious money you'll need to recruit at least several hundred referrals. Besides, visitor to sign up conversion ratios are very high, since get paid to read programs are totally free to join!

Here's a short list of proven 'get paid to read e-mail' companies:

i) AllCommunity - Click Here
ii) InboxDollars - Paid E-Mail, Surveys, and More!Click Here
ii) InboxDollars - Paid E-Mail, Surveys, and More!Click Here
iii) Tiktikcash.com - the perfect way to earn some additional dollars by Reading E-Mail/Referring Your Friends/Playing Games/Completing Offers and more. Click Here