Paid Online Surveys - How to Increase My Income From Paid Surveys?

There are a number of strategies for expanding the range of your paid online survey activities to increase your income. This article explores some of the possibilities and alternatives.

If things seem a bit slow in your segment of the paid survey business, and you are waiting too long between paid surveys, you might start getting restless and looking around a bit.  You may ask yourself, "What can I do to increase my income from this type of activity?"

There are three basic approaches to answering this question:

1. You can scour your list and/or look elsewhere for more good survey makers to sign up with,

2. You can seek the participation of friends and family members with different demographics or

3. You can look into other forms of paid market or marketing research-driven information gathering activities.

Sign up with more good survey makers

If you have already signed up with all the survey making companies on your paid survey guide company's list, you might ask them if they have any more, perhaps some they are testing that you could help test. 

You could scout around for other lists to see if there were more survey makers to sign up with, but be careful.  Set up a separate email address for these if you do.  Remember that when you "scrape the bottom of the barrel" what you tend to find down there are the dregs, sediment and bottom feeders, things that are sometimes more trouble than they are worth!

Of course gold nuggets are found on the bottom too (!) just take precautions and be careful.

Get help to expand your available demographics

Perhaps you have family members with different demographics, such as a wife or husband, teenage children, parents, aunts and uncles who would like to participate. 

Surveys are typically targeted at certain "populations" that have specific market characteristics.  If your spouse and you are both signed up, you will see that your spouse gets offered very different surveys than the ones you are offered. 

Marketers want to ask men about shaving creme and after-shave lotion, not women!  Similarly a marketer of women's shoes wants the opinions of women.

Between you and your spouse, together you will get many more surveys from the same companies as either would alone.  Similarly other family members might fit other different demographics.  One idea is to offer to sign them up and then split the resultant survey fees with them.

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