The challenge is not just to get paid to take surveys – that’s easy. The challenge is to find the legitimate paid surveys that pay well, avoid the time - was…
With all of the paid
survey activity on the Internet, it is easy to get paid to take surveys. More than
700 survey makers offer paid online surveys in the U.S. alone. Almost all of
these are looking for more survey participants. Internationally you can get
paid to take surveys made by over 3,000 different survey makers.
The challenge is not
just to get paid to take surveys – that’s easy. The challenge is to find the
legitimate paid surveys that pay well, avoid the time-wasters that don’t, and
make money at it. 80% of the money is made through 20% of the survey makers and
their surveys. From the point of view of those who want to really get paid to
take surveys and make money in doing so, only about 1 in every 5 survey makers
is truly worth dealing with. Another 40% are marginal, and about 40% are time
wasters, to be avoided.
The key to making money
with online paid surveys is in the list of survey makers that you sign up with
as a prospective survey taker. You might think that it would be easy to get
such a list, but it’s not. The survey makers that pay poorly or not at all are
constantly losing participants and must recruit new ones. They pay recruiting
fees to anyone who can bring them “fresh meat”, new participants that don’t yet
know the ropes.
These high recruiting
fees mean that anytime you go to look for survey makers on the Net, you will be
inundated by offers for “free lists” and ads recruiting survey participants. Almost
all of the offers and ads you will see will be recruiting for the survey makers
that don’t pay or don’t pay well. They are trying to fill recent vacancies left
by participants who were expecting to get paid to take online surveys, were not
paid, were disappointed, and quit.
You generally won’t
find good lists where the survey makers are paying the list purveyors to
recruit you. But you can find a good list, one that will help you really get
paid to take surveys, with one of those paid survey membership sites that
maintain lists for their members. For a smallish membership fee they will share
their list with you.
You pay, so the guide
will take you where YOU want to go.
When choosing your paid
survey membership site, look for two things :
1. A very strong
money-back guarantee, backed up by a financial company or bank.
2. A low refund rate
under that guarantee.
The guarantee means
that the site stands behind its service; you like their service or it costs you
nothing. The low refund rate means that the current members like the service
there and feel that they got full value for their small investment. You will
want to join a group like that. A high refund rate means many unhappy clients
demanding their money back. This is a group you will want to avoid becoming
part of.
There are sources of
information on paid online surveys that can help you to really get paid to take
surveys. You can start with a good, objective, paid survey review site like
that cited below, for more explanation and information….
