Your best chance to get a good list is from a paid survey membership site that maintains such lists for its paying clients. Pay your membership fee, get your copy of their list, get your membership fee money back with the first 2-3 surveys.

The 3rd secret is that these paid survey sites range from good to not-so-good to bad to terrible. You will want to pick a good one.

The 4th secret is how to do go about doing that. In a nutshell, ONLY deal with sites that offer STRONG money-back guarantees. There are 70+ that will qualify. Then from inside this group with strong guarantees, you carefully examine their refund rates and choose one with a low refund rate.

Refund rates tell you what their membership thinks of them. Low refund rates mean high client satisfaction, clients who get paid for surveys and make good money. High refund rates mean low client satisfaction: many clients in line demanding their money back.

The 5th secret is that once you pick your paid survey membership site and get your copy of their list, sign up with ALL of the survey makers on that list. You won't qualify for all of the surveys they make. To get a lot of surveys to take you need to have your info on file with a lot of survey makers.

The 6th secret is to prepare to sort out the bad survey makers on your list (all lists have some). Open a free e-mail account only for your paid survey business. Use that address in all your sign-ups. Sort the survey makers with a heavy hand. Delete, unsubscribe and blacklist those that bombard you with sales offers.

Do all of the above in the right way and you will have positioned yourself extremely well to get paid for surveys and succeed.

You will be amongst the happy clients of a good paid survey site, with your setup for sorting "time-waster" survey makers in place and working and with your applications on file with all the good survey makers available.

And you can't lose money; you have a strong guarantee. The only way you will not make money is to not check your in-box twice a day, not take the surveys offered to you or don't respond promptly. Avoid these errors and you can't fail!

Jorge Chavez is an experienced, independent paid internet survey expert.