Paid Online Surveys

Paid online surveys are big business on the Internet. Thousands of surveys are being made every week and tens of thousands of survey takers are receiving checks every month for their participation.

To get paid to take online surveys, the only requirements are that you be a consumer (everyone who eats and wears clothes is a consumer!), be 18 or over, have access to the Internet and have enough computer skills to send and receive e-mails.

Many people make good money, supplemental income, by taking paid online surveys. Others try it and fail to make significant money. In short, they find that for them, paid online surveys were not worth the effort.

Why the differences here? Why does one get paid to take online surveys and the other fails to get paid?

The difference is to be found in their selection of Survey Makers. Only somewhere around 20% (+ or - 5%) of survey makers actually pay in cash or equivalent. This, in spite of the fact that almost all promise remuneration of some sort.

Why do some pay and others not? It's all a matter of economics. Some survey makers find it cheaper to pay with drawings, discounts and other potential future benefits, that in actuality rarely cost them cash. The only drawback is that they have high turnover and must continually replace old participants with new ones.

They allocate part of their survey budget to paying recruiters to supply a continual stream of replacements. The recruiters throw up "Free surveys/Free lists of surveys" sites that promise the moon and get people to sign up with the non-paying survey makers. For this they get a recruitment fee of maybe $5 a head.

The survey makers who pay in cash have little turnover, recruit by word-of-mouth and don't pay recruiters. They are relatively quiet and hard to find.

As a result, more than 90% of the ads you see aimed at survey takers are recruiting for the non-paying survey makers. It's an easy trap to fall into. You take surveys all right, but the difference is you generally don't get paid.

To get paid to take online surveys you must first locate and sign up with the survey makers who pay in cash or equivalent. These survey makers who offer real paid online surveys are out there but you must work at finding them.

Avoid the free sites, the easy way to go. Someone else is paying your guide to take you where THEY want you to go.

Look for paid survey sites with a strong money-back guarantee and a low refund rate. That way you are paying your own guide, to take you where YOU want to go -- to where the money is. To where, when you take paid online surveys, you get paid in cash, not just in promises!