muffie shannen

If you’ve heard about PeopleString and you’re worried that it’s too good to be true, you’re not alone. People are naturally suspicious about any opportunity to make money online; they’re more suspicious when you get can paid more by referring other people. So they ask themselves if all these programs are just scams.

But what happens when the program is 100% free, gives you some honest services for free, lets you share with others for free, and actually pays its members on time?

At that point, the red flags should be cautiously coming down. The scam signal should start to fade. If it’s really free, couldn’t you just try it and then quit if you don’t like it? Yep. That’s exactly what you can do with PeopleString.

The funny thing is — and I honestly mean funny, because it’s a hoot to see human nature flare up like this — I still see online comments from people who have never looked into PeopleString and they’re telling others to stay away. Presumably because if you can refer others and you can make money with it, it has to be a scam.

But PeopleString just isn’t. While it does have a paid upgrade option, from my experience 95% of the users will stay with their free membership and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. They will continue to earn from their own usage, and they will still be able to earn money from referring other people.

Plus, they get free access to a social network and an exclusive e-mail system that lets you send video e-mails, trackable e-mails, self-destructing e-mails, and more. Did I mention that it’s free?

The fact is, if you just wanted to be able to send video e-mails to people and you didn’t want to pay another service for doing so, you could join PeopleString just for that. You could entirely skip the opportunity to earn money (though you still might earn some) and never refer another person and still get some useful services. Tell me, where is the scam in that?

The business model is really not much different from Facebook’s or Google’s, yet there’s one primary difference. All of them want to build a massive audience so that they can earn their keep from advertisers. But PeopleString pays most of its ad revenues back to the members.

This includes a Mailbox-Cashbox program that’s similar, in a sense, to Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising. But it’s much, much better. As with PPC, advertisers only pay for their audience when the audience takes some action. Only instead of a simple click, with PeopleString they have to be even more active: opt into a mailing list; visit a website and enter a code; watch a video to get a code from the end; etc.

The audience is targeted because members fill out a survey for demographic purposes. They then eagerly look for ads to read or watch. They are active, which is huge for advertisers. And they are active because they are paid every time they take an action. In other words, the ad dollars don’t all spill to PeopleString. They’re paid to this active audience.

Now the only other reason I can see people confusing PeopleString with a scam is because of the paid upgrade option. This upgrade provides certain service benefits, like longer video e-mails and unlimited e-mail storage; plus, upgraded members are paid approximately three times as much on the activity earnings of their team members. Some people see the potential of PeopleString and naturally want to take this step.

While some PeopleStringers may pressure their personal team members about this, the company definitely does not push this option, nor do many of the Stringers I know. This isn’t about the upgrade. This is about the average person being able to earn money online without investing a dime. And as I said, I see about 95% of PeopleString users sticking with their free accounts.

So is PeopleString a scam? It might be if you’ve never looked into it and you conjure up whatever you want to about it. But the real PeopleString — the program actually available for free to people everywhere — the real PeopleString is no scam, and is an honest, no-risk way for people to start making money online.

For details about the program and how I can help you to grow a network of PeopleString users, please visit my PeopleString website. Or to sign up right away, visit and Join PeopleString or email me at muffieshannen@peoplestring.com.