Paid online surveys are a great way to make extra money on the Internet. Thousands of new surveys are being made every week and many thousands of survey participants get paid for surveys. Many thousands of survey participants are getting checks in the mail or deposits in their PayPal accounts every month.
There are over 700 survey makers in the U.S. and more than 3,000 worldwide. Lots of money is being paid out. Just one survey maker, paid out over $4 million to survey participants last year. It's easy to get involved, and you can make good money if you do it right.
To get paid for surveys you need to get your contact and demographic (age, gender, zip code, etc.) info on file with good survey makers. Plan to apply to and sign up with at least 200 good survey makers.
The key to making money is to get a good list of survey makers who offer legitimate paid online surveys that pay well, on-time and in cash or equivalent. You need to understand that the good ones do not advertise much and do not usually pay recruiting fees.
There are low-pay/no-pay survey makers and sales companies who call themselves survey makers, that you generally want to avoid. These less-desirable survey makers pay high recruitment fees to get unsuspecting newcomers to sign up with them.
These survey makers will make money and their sales agents that offer "free lists" with their names on them will make money. But the poor aspiring survey participants who use these lists, generally will be out of luck! They usually don't really get paid for surveys and won't make any real money.
The best way to get a good list is from a good paid survey membership site. These sites maintain lists of survey makers for their clients. There are 200+ of these paid survey membership sites.
For a small, generally one-time, membership fee, they will share a copy of their list with you. You should get your membership fee back with the first 2-3 paid surveys you take.
Only consider paid survey membership sites with a strong money-back guarantee, backed up by a bank or financial company such as PayPal or ClickBank. If the site does not believe in the quality and value of the service they provide enough to guarantee satisfaction, then you don't want to deal with them.
Within the group of paid survey membership sites with strong guarantees (there are 70+ that will qualify) pick one with a low refund rate. The refund rate tells you what the present clients of that site think of their service.
Those who sign up, use the site's list, get paid for surveys and make money will be happy and few will ask for refunds. Those who use the list and don't make money will be dissatisfied, unhappy and many will demand their money back.
So pick one with a low (3-6%) refund rate. Avoid any with refund rates that are either unknown or are as high as 9-10% or more.
When you pick your site, join up and get access to their list. Then sign up with all of the survey makers on that list. You can sign up with just a few, if you want to, but the more you sign up with, the more money you will make. To maximize your income, sign up with all of them!
Now, you will have a copy of the list with the most satisfied users, those who got the best results with that same list. When you sign up with many survey makers, you are sure get paid for surveys! Your success is guaranteed by having joined a happy group. AND, you can't lose! You have a strong guarantee!
You get paid for surveys, you have a strong guarantee and no risk! Best of all worlds!
Nelly Donaldson
