Free Email Service for Your Paid Surveys
Today’s post is brought to you by the letter “F” – as in “F” for free! While there may be no such thing as a free lunch, there are certainly dozens of choices for the savvy Internet user who wants to send and receive emails for free. If you take surveys online or are thinking about earning money this way, snapping up a free email address or two is a good way to keep survey-taking completely separate from your personal or work messages. Plus, many of these no-cost email services will treat you to plenty of storage space for storing your mail; pretty darn-good spam filtering, an intuitive interface and even on-the-go access. While it’s hard to complain about free stuff, there are some trade-offs for complimentary email service. These cons include having to see imbedded advertising in your email, lackluster folder organizing, limited message searching and other small foibles that I’m willing to live with. If you’re looking to get your paid survey jobs off to a clean start, consider signing up for an account with some of my personal favorite free email providers. I’ve listed three to get you started, but if you search the internet, you’ll find many other free email services.
Gmail: Gmail is Google’s answer to free mail and instant messaging. With tons of free online storage space you can collect all your messages as well as organize them nicely with labeling, flagging and other productivity features. When you use Gmail, you will see advertising embedded in your message that is based in the context of words found in your email. Actually, this could be of interest to you, if you want to see what ads come up for online surveys.
AIM: Aim Mail is supported by AOL and features unlimited online storage space, decent spam protection and a user-friendly interface. Lacking a bit in productivity features such as labeling, smart folders and threading, you’ll still find this free option for email to be a very viable choice for your online survey communications.
Yahoo! Mail: This well-known free email service treats account holders to unlimited storage, RSS news feeds, SMS texting, instant messaging and more. Pretty much everything you need and more for keeping in touch with administrators of paid surveys. Productivity and searching features are pretty good, but still could use some refining as could the spam filter.