Get Paid For Surveys Online - Five Simple Secrets for Making Good Money With Paid Surveys

There's money to be made if you follow the rules. Here are the rules...

All surveys are NOT equal. Only about 18-25% of the surveys offered are legitimate paid online surveys that pay well, on time and pay in cash or its equivalent. Maybe another 40% or so are marginal but still worthwhile.  You will still get paid for surveys online and make money, just not as much.

When you do it right you will make about half your money from the first group and the other half from the second group.

The remaining surveys are no-pay/low pay-types that will just waste your time. There is no way that you will really get paid for surveys online with this type. You will want to avoid these completely.

So the first secret of making money with paid surveys is to get a good list of survey makers to sign up with. A good list will have mostly the first two categories and very little of the time-wasters group.

So where do you go to get a good list? Start by understanding that there is no such thing as a "free list". Every list is paid for, some by the survey participants and the rest by the survey makers. Those you don't pay for are being paid for by less-desirable survey makers to recruit you for their non-paying surveys.

The distributors of "free lists" live off of commissions they get for recruiting people for survey makers with high participant turnover. The turnover is high because the surveys don't pay or don't pay enough to make them worthwhile or, worse, because the survey maker is really a sales company that only wants to sell to you.

The second secret is that you are not likely to get paid for surveys online or make any money from a list of survey makers that you did not pay for.

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 need to pick a good one.

The 4th secret is how to do that. Briefly, you deal ONLY with sites that offer strong money-back guarantees. There are 70+ that will qualify. Then from within this group you look carefully at their refund rates and pick 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 online and make money. High refund rates mean low client satisfaction, many clients 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 the survey makers on that list. 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. Blacklist those that bombard you with sales offers.

Do all of the above in the right way and you will have positioned yourself well to get paid for surveys and succeed. You will be among the happy clients of a good paid survey site, with your setup for sorting survey makers in place and working, 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 any money would be to fail to check your in-box twice a day or to fail to take the surveys offered to you.

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