Get Paid for Surveys Online - A Surefire Formula for Making Real Money!

The money is there if you approach it in the right way...

Large companies have to have information about what consumers, the ultimate buyers of their products and services, are thinking. They hire market researchers to measure consumer opinion and preferences. The market researchers use online surveys to get feedback from consumers like you and me, and to get the answers they need.

Thousands of new surveys are being made each week. Each month month tens of thousands of survey takers receive checks in the mail or deposits in their PayPal accounts for their participation in these surveys. You see, most surveys are made on a paid basis; participants get paid for online surveys.

This makes it worthwhile for them to take the time to fill out the survey questionnaires and give their opinions on the questions being asked.

For you to get paid for surveys online and make any money at it, you need to take 2-3 surveys a day. They only take a few minutes to fill out; $8-10 for a 10 minute survey, $25 for a 20 to 25 minute survey. Take a $10 survey and a $25 survey each day for a month and you would make $1,050 for that month...

To get paid for surveys online you will need to sign up with many good survey makers. Good survey makers offer legitimate paid online surveys. This type of survey pays well, pays on time, in cash and the survey makers respect and guard your privacy.

You will need a list of good survey makers to sign up with.

Now you need to understand that not all surveys are equal. The good ones, the ones you really want, will make up about 20-24% of the total available. Another 40% are O.K., but don't pay as well as the first class ones. Still they can be worth your time in filling them out.

The final 35-40% will mostly just waste your time. These will be surveys for free or from sales companies (trying to act like survey makers, but they are not!) who just fill up your inbox with offers, trying to sell you something.

The safest and fastest way to get a good list is by joining a paid survey membership site. These membership sites maintain good lists for their clients. For a reasonable membership fee, you can join and get access to their list.

There are more than 200 such sites out there on the Net. Only deal with those that have  strong money-back guarantees. There are 75-80 that qualify. Then, within those membership sites that have strong guarantees, choose one with a low refund rate. Low refund rates tell you that they have happy clients.

High refund rates mean many unhappy clients, clients who signed up, got their list, and did not get paid for online surveys as they expected to. So they demanded all of their money back.  It's O.K. to be sorry for them, but you don't want to join them!

Select a site with strong guarantee, AND a low (3.5-6.5%) refund rate. Then sign-up with them, get a copy of their list. You will be joining their group of happy clients!

When you get your copy of their list, take care to sign up with all of the good survey makers on that list. All that will accept you. Some are regional in nature and don't accept anyone from out of their area.

In general, the more survey makers you get your sign-up data on file with, the more surveys you will be offered and the more money you will have the chance to make...

Finally, you will have placed yourself in an ideal position; amongst the happy clients of a paid survey site with one of the highest rates of satisfaction, with your name and contact info on file with numerous good survey makers and with no way to lose... after all, you have a strong guarantee!

And you will probably make your membership fee back with the first 2-3 surveys.

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