Take Online Surveys for Cash and You Can Work From Anywhere

Great way to make extra cash...

In just the U.S. by itself over $200 billion is spent every year in advertising and promotion of commercial goods and services. Several hundred million are allocated to market research, to get feedback from consumers.  Large companies need to find out what they are seeing and thinking, what they like, what they prefer.

There are thousands of surveys being taken every week, mostly via the Internet because of its low cost and fast turnaround.  So where do they find people to take all those surveys? To sit down and fill out the survey questionnaires?

They find them everywhere! And they happily participate because they take online surveys for cash; they are getting paid to do fill out surveys!  Some of the multi-million dollar market research budgets get earmarked for payments to survey participants.  That's where the money comes from.

Greenfield Online (a large survey maker) paid out $4 million to survey takers in 2006. Some other survey makers pay out 20% of their survey budgets to those who take their surveys. There are over 700 survey makers in the U.S. alone...

The requirements to qualify to take online surveys for cash you just need to be a consumer, 18 or over, with sufficient computer skills to be able to send and receive e-mails.

Your initial task will be to get signed up with a large number of good survey makers. You will need to get your name, contact info and demographic (age, gender, zip code, etc.) information on file with these survey makers, get into their databases, so they can invite you to take those surveys for which you qualify.

To do this you will need to get a good list of good survey makers. You could eventually find these yourself, signing up with everyone and then discarding the bad ones. Since the good ones only constitute about 20% of the total, this would take some time. And 40% of them are outfits you won't want to deal with...

The fastest, best way to get a good list is to join a good paid survey membership site, one which maintains lists for its members. Only deal with those that have a strong money-back guarantee, backed up by a bank or financial company such as PayPal or ClickBank.

From those with good guarantees, pick one with a low (3-6%) refund rate. Low refund rates mean happy clients who are making money with the list they got.  High (9-10% or more) refund rates mean unhappy clients, not making money and demanding their membership fees back!

To take online surveys for cash, you want to get the same kind of good list that those happy clients of the good site got!

When you choose your paid survey membership site and get a copy of their list, you will then want to sign up with all of the survey makers on that list as fast as possible. In order to take online surveys for cash, the more survey makers you sign up with, the more surveys you will get and the more money you will make.

Jorge Chavez is an experienced independent paid internet survey expert