Good Information on Paid Online Surveys - Why Is It Hard to Get and What Do You Need to Know?

So what does how people get paid have to do with it?

You really can make money with paid online surveys. There are thousands of new surveys being made every week and many millions of dollars are being paid out to compensate survey participants every year. It is possible to participate in legitimate paid online surveys and make money.

But there is so much sales hype and misinformation out there that it's hard to know what to believe. It is difficult to get a handle on what is reality and what is just BS.

To see what I mean by misinformation, follow the links at the bottom and click on "Scam Alert!" on the navigation menu. There are a couple of good examples there.

1. Good information on paid online surveys is hard to get because of the way people get paid. There are five ways that someone can make money with paid surveys:

** The large companies that commission the surveys use the info to make money by being able to make better decisions about new products and services and how to best spend their advertising and promotion budgets.

** The survey makers charge the large companies a fee and make money by getting the survey done within budget with something left over for them. (To many of them survey participants are just an expense to be reduced.)