Yes, you really can get paid for online surveys. Yes, you can take surveys for money. But first, there are three things you should know. Paid surveys are for supplemental income, not all surveys are good and expect to need to invest some in getting yourself set up. Let's look at these one at a time.
1. Supplemental Income, Not Mortgage-Payment or Rent Money. Surveys are good for supplemental income. You register with survey makers, get invited to take surveys, take them and get sent a check or deposit in your PayPal account. It's great extra money.
But it comes in at a rate that is erratic and unpredictable. You get invited when they need you. They initiate the action, not you. This can be frustrating when you need money and no survey offers come in that week.
So get paid for online surveys, take surveys for money and enjoy the cash, but don't budget it to pay your rent, mortgage or car payments!
2. 40% of Survey Makers Should be Avoided Like Poison Ivy. There are 700+ survey makers in the U.S., 3,000+ worldwide. Only the top 20% of these are first tier, offer legitimate paid online surveys, pay well and on time and respect your privacy. These are the ones you want to sign up with. These don't advertise, are hard to find.
The bottom 40% are bad news. Low-pay/no-pay surveys (no matter what they say) and sales companies trying to pass themselves off as survey makers, get your demographic info so they can sell to you. You take their surveys for money, don't get paid, just waste your time. There's no way to get paid for online surveys with them.
Unfortunately, 70-85% of the paid survey info you get out of search engines such as Google, Yahoo, etc. is some form of recruitment effort by these time wasters. Makes them hard to avoid. Best you can do is trash them as soon as they show their true colors.
3. You Need to Invest some Time, Effort (and a little money) in Getting Set Up Initially. The ads and promotions stress how nice it will be, making money at home in your pajamas, once you are set up and started. While it is nice to be there, it does require some effort and cost to get set up properly.
First you will need to get a list of real, legitimate survey makers. Free lists are worth about what you pay for them, maybe a lot less. Less because they are not really free, just paid for by the lower 40% of survey makers, the ones you want to avoid.
They pay fees to those who distribute lists, for recruiting people like you!. So what is worth less than free? Things that end up costing you time and wasted opportunities
1. Supplemental Income, Not Mortgage-Payment or Rent Money. Surveys are good for supplemental income. You register with survey makers, get invited to take surveys, take them and get sent a check or deposit in your PayPal account. It's great extra money.
But it comes in at a rate that is erratic and unpredictable. You get invited when they need you. They initiate the action, not you. This can be frustrating when you need money and no survey offers come in that week.
So get paid for online surveys, take surveys for money and enjoy the cash, but don't budget it to pay your rent, mortgage or car payments!
2. 40% of Survey Makers Should be Avoided Like Poison Ivy. There are 700+ survey makers in the U.S., 3,000+ worldwide. Only the top 20% of these are first tier, offer legitimate paid online surveys, pay well and on time and respect your privacy. These are the ones you want to sign up with. These don't advertise, are hard to find.
The bottom 40% are bad news. Low-pay/no-pay surveys (no matter what they say) and sales companies trying to pass themselves off as survey makers, get your demographic info so they can sell to you. You take their surveys for money, don't get paid, just waste your time. There's no way to get paid for online surveys with them.
Unfortunately, 70-85% of the paid survey info you get out of search engines such as Google, Yahoo, etc. is some form of recruitment effort by these time wasters. Makes them hard to avoid. Best you can do is trash them as soon as they show their true colors.
3. You Need to Invest some Time, Effort (and a little money) in Getting Set Up Initially. The ads and promotions stress how nice it will be, making money at home in your pajamas, once you are set up and started. While it is nice to be there, it does require some effort and cost to get set up properly.
First you will need to get a list of real, legitimate survey makers. Free lists are worth about what you pay for them, maybe a lot less. Less because they are not really free, just paid for by the lower 40% of survey makers, the ones you want to avoid.
They pay fees to those who distribute lists, for recruiting people like you!. So what is worth less than free? Things that end up costing you time and wasted opportunities