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Making Money Taking Paid Surveys! Is It Possible? Get paid to take online surveys is a phrase that you’ve probably heard (seen) once or twice on the internet. Everywhere you turn, there are people from both side, debating on whether you can make money taking online surveys, or if all online surveys are just scams. You’ve probably seen an ad or two for paid surveys as well. I am sure most of you are familiar with the image of a person with a laptop in one hand, and a cup of coffee in another, and a big old smile on his/her face, taking online surveys and getting paid doing so! What do you think? Do you think it’s possible to make money taking paid surveys? Would you like to find out if you can actually get paid to take online surveys?… Well, the truth is, yes you can make a little extra cash in your spare time by taking online surveys, but, not as much as those ads suggest. Companies who want to know whats on the minds of their customers are willing to pay for your opinion. And evidently the market research industry is a huge industry. Companies do spend millions of dollars every year to conduct market research studies, and find out what consumers are saying about their products. So yes, there is money to be made taking online surveys. But, the thing is, you cant expect to get rich taking surveys, unless you spend every second of your daily life in front of computer and fill out online surveys, which probably isn’t gonna happen. But, what can happen is that you can make some extra money doing paid surveys. Possibly a couple hundred dollars a month, or perhaps a little more.
How much money you can make taking paid surveys? To be honest, it depends on a couple things like, the number of legitimate survey company you register with, the number of surveys each company sends out on weekly bases, how many of those surveys you qualify for, and the most important factor is how much time and effort are you willing to put into it. I myself have been taking paid surveys off and on for about 6 years now ( I used to spend a lot of time taking online surveys, but I cant do it anymore, since i don’t have much free time). I have had months that I’d make more than $700 a month working probably about on hour or so every day taking surveys. Let me put it this way, if you have time, and are willing to put some effort into it, you can make a decent amount of money taking paid surveys. Beware of paid survey scams Here is the important part. There are a lot of paid survey scams out there. So you need to make sure of legitimacy of a research company before you spend hours upon hours taking surveys. You want to make sure you will get paid for your efforts. Most legitimate paid survey companies are free to join, so if you come across one asking you to pay for registration, do a little more research.
Tips for online paid survey takers Through away email Register a free email account just for your surveys. Use that email only for registering with paid survey companies and reviving invitations to surveys. Because after a week or so of registering with these survey sites, you will get invited to a lot of surveys, so it’s a good idea to have a separate email account just for surveys, otherwise your primary email will be full of survey invitations, which is not a bad thing. In fact it’s a positive thing, obviously the more surveys you take the more money you make. But a separate email address will simply make it easier and more convenient to track and respond to your survey invitations. Register with Paypal Although you can get paid by check, gift cards and other ways, almost all paid survey sites pay by pay pal, which is a very fast and convenient way to get paid. If you don’t already have an account with pay pal go ahead and sign up. It’s free, and it enable you to receive your payments instantly. Plus, if you are an online shopper, pay pal is a very popular and safe way to pay for your shopping as well. Register with more than one survey company I recommend that you register with as many survey sites as you can, obviously because it increases your chances of getting invited to more surveys, which enables you to make more money. Refer others Not all but most legitimate paid survey companies offer a commission for each new survey taker(or “panelist” as they are often called) you refer to them. Some will pay a flat fee of say $2 or so, but some give you a better deal, they give you a percentage of what the other person earns for as long as they are active. But it doesn’t mean they take money away from that person and give it to you, no, your referrals wont lose anything, you just get a little extra money. So, if you have friends and family that may be interested, be sure to ask them to register under your name.
OK, now you are ready to get paid to take surveys, but how do you find these paid survey companies? How will you know if they are legitimate paid survey companies? Well, a good place to start would be the BBB’s site, you can type in the company’s name and see what comes up. You can also use get paid to forums to find legitimate paid survey sites. And of course you can check out my huge list of legitimate paid surveys post, where I continuously add and update the list with survey sites that do pay and are legit. Please feel free to drop me a line if you have any question on the subject of Making money with paid surveys.
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