Paid Opinion Surveys

You CAN make money with paid opinion surveys. IF you pick the right paid survey membership site, you really can get paid, and paid well, to take free online paid surveys!

Online consumer paid opinion surveys are a big business. Every week there are thousands of surveys being taken, and every month, tens of thousands of survey takers are receiving checks in the mail for their participation.

A Question about Paid Opinion Surveys:

Then why is it so hard for some to even get paid to take online surveys or to make any money at all?!?

Answer: The reason is that to make any real money with paid opinion surveys you need to apply to the 20% or so of survey makers who actually pay in cash or equivalent and avoid the rest, who will just waste your time!

Those that do not make any money most probably used a "free list" and signed up only with some of the 80% low-pay/no pay survey makers! Of course they did not make money!!

Let us show you how to find and sign up with the 20% that PAY!!

[So who are we and why should you listen to us? Click here to find out: Who We Are  Then come back here and finish the main part on what you need to know, below!]

You see, big companies commission market researchers to make paid opinion surveys and get the information they need. They pay well for this info. There is enough budget to pay participants too, and make legitimate paid online surveys. But there are many survey makers that figure they can use smoke, mirrors and promises instead of cash, and save money!

It's possible for them to get away with that because of the tremendous influx of new people on the Internet, looking for some way to get involved. The cheapskate survey makers pay recruitment commissions to anyone who can send these new people to them.

Promoters throw up websites, promise the moon, offer "free lists" of survey makers that you can sign up with for free, and "newbie" beginners fall into their traps. They sign up with scores of cheapskate survey makers and, of course, they make little or no money while the promoters get fat on the recruitment fees!

And the survey-taker participants spend several months of chasing that "carrot on a stick" before realizing that there is no way to catch it and make money. They have been had!

They were doomed from the get-go because there is no way to take surveys, get paid or make any money with cheapscate survey makers! And, being new to the game, they did not know that there was a difference between one survey maker and another!

O.K. So let's say that you want to get involved with paid opinion surveys. But you are doing it for money. You want to take surveys and actually get paid! 

So how do you find the survey makers that really pay? 

Here's the secret formula that works:

1. Beware of and avoid anyone trying to get you to sign up with their "free" list of survey makers.

2. Take your cues from the past clients of paid survey sites. Paid survey sites maintain lists of survey makers, keeping track of which are good, which pay well, which pay on time and which are good, on the rise, now. For a small one-time membership fee they will give you a copy of their list. You get your fee back with the first 2-3 surveys.

Your challenge is to pick a good paid survey site that can really help you get started. Some are good, some are bad and some are useless or worse. But we have a way to sort them out for you. Here's how it works:

A. Look for paid survey sites with a STRONG 60 to 90-day money-back guarantee, backed up by a bank or financial company like PayPal or ClickBank.

• The guarantee tells you that the site stands behind the value of their services. 
• The backing of the bank or financial company tells you that they are a responsible, reliable outfit and are not a scam. (A flaky or scam site could not get a strong financial backer!) 
• The strong guarantee also tells you that if worse comes to worst, you won't lose any money. 
• By finding these for you, we will have helped you pick the best and you can't lose! 

B. Insist on a low refund rate within that guarantee. The refund rate is the way that the past clients of that site will tell you the truth about their experiences there!

• A low refund rate means that the past clients were happy, felt that they got their money's worth. This means that they got paid to take online surveys, made money and were pleased with the results. (That's a group that you would be happy to be a member of, right?!)       
• A high refund rate means that many past clients were unhappy, felt gyped, let down, so they demanded their money back! (You don't want to be in this group!) 
• We can trust these past clients to tell us the truth of their experiences, not by what they say, but by how they act! 

So if you really want to get paid to take online surveys, look for a paid survey site that has both a strong money-back guarantee and a low refund rate, in the 3-6% range. Avoid any with refund rates that are either unknown (means high!) or are as high as 9% or more.

We review over 100 and actively track more than 30 sites for you, to find paid survey sites that qualify under these rules.

If you like, you may use the link below to see our up-to-date, objective ranking of all of the top 20 paid survey sites. Pick out 3-4 with good refund rate numbers.

(Hint: Use the ranking numbers for the top 5 - on the right-hand side running from 1st to 5th! Then click on the "Visit Site" link to the right of their names and stats to go visit their websites.)

Pick out the one with a low refund rate that you like best. Then sign up with that one and get started!

If you have time to look at all of them, here's the link to the ranked list of the top 20 paid survey guide companies: Current Rankings- You can look these over and decide which you like best.

If you are in a hurry,

you can cut to the "bottom line" now...

Here are our current (last update: December 5, 2009) top choices of the best paid survey sites. They have the best lists that will help YOU to make money with paid surveys. Pick any one of these five and you won't go wrong!

1st: Make Money Taking Surveys, the number 1 highest rated site, the best choice for U.S. and Canadian residents, with a composite index rating of 4.93. Click here to see their website.

2nd: Paid Surveys Etc., With a composite index rating of 5.18 this site has the second lowest refund rate (2nd highest approval rating). Click here to visit their website.

3rd: International Incomes, with the third highest score, composite index of 5.58, really covers the world and is ideal for anyone living outside of the U.S., Canada, Europe and Australia/New Zealand. Visit them and see what they offer! Click here to visit their website.

4th: Surveyhawk, with the fourth highest approval rating, a composite index of 5.60, this U.K. based site covers the world but is ideal for residents of the U.K and Europe. To visit their website, Click here.

5th: Express Paid Surveys came in a close 5th with a composite index rating of 5.69. Strong in the U.S. markets this site has been coming up in the rankings fast recently. Click here to visit their website.

There you have it. The best of the best! The upper quartile of the 20 best paid survey membership sites in the world! Voted the best by their members through their refund rates. Pick one and get started making money from paid surveys today!

Pick any one of the 5 winners above, go visit their website, sign up and let's get started!

You can be receiving invitations to take surveys for cash in just a few days! All you need to do is get your copy of your paid survey site's list and get your applications in to the good survey makers there ASAP.

Then, for help in getting started, you may want to go to our Getting Started page!

Thanks for sticking with us this far! If you have any questions, if I can help in any way, just drop me an e-mail and ask!

Best regards and best wishes,

Here's to your Paid Online Survey success!

Jorge Chavez