What are the qualifications to participate?

To qualify for taking paid Internet surveys, you only need to be a consumer and 18 years of age or older. If you buy groceries, clothing, gasoline, practically anything, you qualify as a consumer. 

Taking paid Internet surveys does not require any specific skills; if you can send and receive e-mails you have all the technical qualifications you need.  So how do you get involved and start receiving your checks in the mail?

O.K. So how do you get in?

Here are the five steps you need to take to get started:

1. Pick a good paid internet survey guide company to help you get started.  There are well over 700 companies making surveys in the U.S. alone and over 3,000 world-wide. Some are good, some not, some are terrible.  Some are really just sales companies in disguise who just want your info so they can spam you half to death trying to sell things to you.

In this situation you need a good guide company, that studies the market, sorts out which survey makers are good and which are to be avoided.  The good ones maintain a list of good survey-makers that is being constantly updated.  You want to sign up with such a company to get access to their list.

But there are over 200 such guide companies out there. How do you sort them out and pick a good one?

The company you want will be sizeable, will have been around for a while and will be growing. Look for a strong 60-90 day money-back guarantee backed up by a bank or financial company such as PayPal or ClickBank. *

Most importantly, look for a low refund rate.  The refund rate is the percentage of their clients that leave and demand their money back. Low refund rates indicate happy clients.  High refund rates indicate many unhappy clients.  Look for a refund rate in the 3.0%-5.0% range (ideal).  Avoid any company with a refund rate of 10% or above.*

* For more details on this subject, check out the article, "Qualifying Paid Survey Guide Companies - What do you look for and who do you believe?" posted elsewhere on this website.

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