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!

Easy Way To Make Money At Home - Paid Online Surveys

paid online surveys is a very easy way to make money at home. I'd rank this occupation as second in simplicity only to getting paid. There simply cannot be anything easier than logging into a website and allowing advertisers' websites to scroll across your computer screen - doing paid online surveys does take a little more effort but not too much and it is an enjoyable pastime.

I discovered paid online surveys by accident. I was actually using the Internet to search for a job and I had the idea of looking for work at home opportunities. It all seems a bit unreal when I look back - was there really a time when I didn't know you could get paid for doing online surveys? In those days, the only surveys I knew about were the ones I occasionally received in the post and which would promise entry into a prize draw as a reward for taking the time to complete the survey. I never did win a prize but I built up quite a collection of free pens. Now I take it for granted that email invitations to take part in paid online surveys will turn up in my mailbox on a daily basis and (the important bit) that I will get paid for completing the surveys.

One great thing about paid online surveys is the fact that you don't need any special skills to take part. As long as you have an Internet linked computer and an opinion, you are qualified. There are no right or wrong answers when it comes to surveys, the companies want to hear what you think, they don't want to test your knowledge. Most questions will permit you to answer "don’t know" or "not sure". Sometimes, you will be given multiple choices and asked to pick the closest to your viewpoint. The best survey companies without fail, try to make it easy for you to give meaningful answers.

Another great thing is that you can complete your paid online surveys at your leisure. When the invitation is sent to you, it will normally state a deadline for closure of the survey and, as long as you respond before the deadline, it does not matter when you complete the survey. As the majority of paid online surveys can be completed in 5-15 minutes, it is very easy to slot them here and there into your daily routine. You can easily do a short survey or two while you drink your morning coffee but, if you prefer, you can save up all your survey invitations and do them at midnight.

All sorts of companies, all over the world are spending a small fortune every year on advertising their products and services. In order to advertise as effectively as possible, these companies invest heavily in market research programs to help them target their advertising. Market researchers also investigate what people might like or dislike about various products which are still in pre launch.

Paid online surveys will quite often include a question about whether you would be prepared to test a sample of a product from their client. I've received free samples of a variety of things from chocolate, to facial soap to detergent tablets. These free samples are worth having because they are generous in quantity: they aren't the mini free sample sizes you see given away in shops. I was quite surprised when I received a full size box of detergent tablets through the post. The fact that it was a new variety of my preferred brand was an added bonus, I only wish I could get to test chocolate more often.

Paid online survey companies make payment to their members by a variety of methods. Some pay instantly via PayPal, some by cheque, some with Amazon gift vouchers, some have a points system where you earn points which you save up and later trade in for products of your choice or for cash. There will also be some surveys where the reward will be entry into a draw for a large prize.