Take a Paid Survey at Home and Get Cash For It?

The old consumer preference survey has certainly changed...

Would you believe that you could take a paid survey at home and get paid cash for doing so? Well, now you certainly can! Actually, maybe it would be better to say you could take a paid survey FROM home... What you really do is to sit at home (or anywhere) and connect with the survey company through your computer.

They used to take consumer preference surveys by going door to door, or by setting up in front of a supermarket somewhere and catching people as they passed by. Now those same surveys are being made over the Internet. You connect by computer and take paid surveys at home.

Large companies have a lot of questions they want to ask consumers, so they can better improve and promote their products and services. That is why there are so many surveys.  To get people to take the time to participate, most surveys are now made on a paid basis.

Payment is made by checks in the mail, deposits into your PayPal account or sometimes with gift certificates to Amazon.com or to Walmart. Sometimes you get points that you can convert into cash when you are ready to ask for it (saves dealing with a lot of $10 to $25 checks!) The exact form of payment depends on the survey maker.

There are literally thousands of surveys being made every week, and millions of dollars are being paid out to survey takers every year. One survey maker alone (Greenfield Online) says they paid out over $4,000,000 in compensation to survey takers in 2006!

That's just one survey maker, and there are more than 700 in the U.S. alone (and more than 3,000 worldwide.

How much can you make from taking paid surveys at home? It depends on where you live and how hard you work at it.  That said, most survey takers report incomes of from $200 to $600 a month from taking paid surveys. Many report incomes of $1,000 a month or more.

All you need to qualify is to be a consumer (I guess that includes everyone who buys groceries and things) be 18 or older and have enough computer skills to be able to send and receive e-mails.

To get invited to participate in paid surveys at home, you need to register with a number of good survey makers. To make serious money at it this means registering with 100 - 200 of them. The best place to get a good list of survey makers is from a paid survey membership site that maintains that kind of lists for its members.

Pick one with a strong money-back guarantee, backed up by a bank or financial company like PayPal or ClickBank and a low refund rate. The guarantee tells you they stand behind their service. The low refund rate tells you that their current clients are pretty happy with them.

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Jorge Chavez is an experienced independent paid internet survey expert at: http://surveysentinel.com