Paid Surveys, Making Money Online

Completing paid surveys on the Internet has quickly become a popular way to make money online. In my experience most survey companies offer a legitimate service, and pay respondents a fair fee for their time and thoughtful answers.

Yes, you can make money online by completing paid surveys. You may not be able to retire from your day job, or buy a new house form your paid survey income, but at the same time a few hundred extra bucks each month doesn’t hurt either.

Before you get involved in this line of work, you should be aware of a few things. First, paid survey providers will entice you to join their programs by hyping the amounts of money you will earn, while negating the amount of time it takes to earn the higher ranges of paid survey income. Keep in mind that each survey you complete will take time, and the amount you will be paid for each survey will vary. Second, the best paid survey programs may require a small fee to get started. You can generally recover this fee quickly through special new member bonuses, but to truly make any money you will need to be persistent in completing one or two surveys daily.

The key to making money with paid surveys is in matching your personal demographics with those sought after by the survey sponsor. For example, one company may be looking for respondents in the 18-25 year age group with an annual household income of $45,000 or more, while another wants opinions from men over 55 years of age. If you don’t meet the specific demographic criteria for a given survey, you will not be selected to complete the survey.

This is the main drawback of relying upon surveys for your income, and in my opinion is why you should become affiliated with a professional survey provider. A survey provider assesses your personal demographics, and then searches the Internet for paid surveys you are eligible for. The provider then forwards you information on how to access and complete these surveys, resulting in a significant increase in your paid survey earnings.

Another factor that frequently discourages people from the paid survey business is the time required to complete each survey. Most surveys will take approximately twenty minutes to complete, depending on how fast you can read and answer questions. Be advised, however, paid surveys are structured in a way that detects fake answers.

Paid surveys contain duplicate and “test” type questions that can measure a respondent’s consistency. If you tell a surveyor your favorite color is red, the later answer a similar question by selecting blue as your favorite color, you have just proven yourself inconsistent and unreliable. You could easily spend twenty minutes zipping through a paid survey, only to have the results, and your pay, disqualified. Therefore, if you’re going to do paid surveys, you have to be consistent in your answers and give the survey company your honest opinion.

In my opinion completing online surveys to make an extra income can be a legitimate home business. However, in order to receive the maximum number of survey offers that fit your personal demographics, it is essential that you become affiliated with a survey hosting company of some sort.

Simply applying to complete surveys and waiting for them to drop into your email inbox will not suffice, and will quickly deflate your hopes of using paid surveys as a vehicle to making money online.

Ron Taylor

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