Legitimate Paid Online Surveys - Easy Way to Make Extra Money

With legitimate paid online surveys you can succeed and make money with free online paid surveys. So what, exactly, are they?

Legitimate paid online surveys are a Huge business on the Internet. Thousands of new surveys are being made every week. Survey takers are getting checks in the mail every month. And millions of dollars are being paid out to survey participants every year.

There are over 700 different survey makers in the U.S. alone, and over 3,000 worldwide. Just one of these, Greenfield Online, paid out over $4,000,000 to survey participants in 2006 and $4,200,000 in 2007.

Some survey makers pay participants by way of checks in the mail or deposits in your PayPal account. Others pay with gift certificates from companies like Amazon.com or Wal-Mart, or with points that accumulate and can be redeemed in cash.

All surveys are not equal. The legitimate paid online surveys are the ones that pay well, pay on time, pay in cash or equivalent and respect your privacy.  About one survey in five is of this preferred type. Two out of five are second tier; not as good but still very worthwhile to take.

The remaining two out of five (40%) are time-wasters to be avoided.  Most are low-pay/no-pay survey makers. Some are sales companies trying to disguise themselves as survey makers in order to sell you things. Either way, from the point of view of making money, these are a complete waste of time.

To get yoursself invited to participate in legitimate paid online surveys you will need to arrange to have your application on file with a number of good survey makers. The more the better. Each must have your contact and demographic info on file.

The problem will be in finding a good list of survey makers to sign up with.

The good survey makers rarely advertise.  They don't lose participants so they don't have to.  And they almost never pay recruiting fees.

The less-desirable ones lose participants constantly and must find new ones. So they pay recruiting fees to anyone who can bring them fresh recruits. When you see offers for "free lists" on the Net, those are usually being offered by recruiters who get paid a fee to recruit you.

"Free lists" usually do not include survey makers that offer legitimate paid online surveys.  The best place to get a good list is from paid survey membership sites that maintain good lists for their clients. For a small one-time fee they will give you a current copy of their list.

There are over 200 such membership sites on the Net. Some are better than others. To find a good one, first, only deal with those that have a strong money-back guarantee, backed up by an outside entity such as PayPal or ClickBank. There are more than 70 that will qualify.

From within this group, pick one with a low refund rate. The refund rate reflects what the site's current clients think of their service. If these clients used the site's list and made money, they will be happy and the refund rate will be low.

If the clients used the site's list and did not make money, they will be unhappy, dissatisfied and many will demand their money back. Result: a high refund rate.

So choose a site with a strong guarantee and a low (3-6%) refund rate. Sign up with them and get your copy of their list.  That list should have a high percentage of survey makers that offer legitimate paid online surveys.

Then get your application on file with all of the survey makers on that list.  The more you sign up with, the more surveys you get, and the more money you make.

Do that and you will have then positioned yourself to be amongst the happy clients of a good paid survey membership site. You should make your membership fee back with the first 2-3 surveys you take.

And, you can't lose money; you have a strong guarantee!

Jorge Chavez is an experienced independent paid internet survey expert