Earn Cash Taking Online Surveys - Take Surveys for Money, Get Paid!

Can you actually earn cash by taking online surveys? Can you take surveys for money and get paid?

Yes, you can earn cash by taking online surveys.  Yes, you can take surveys for money and get paid!  This is now made possible by two things. 

First, the speed and low cost of the Internet saves the market researchers, who set up the surveys to be taken, a lot of money. 

Second, they are willing to spend some of those savings to make sure there are enough survey takers with diverse demographics to supply their needs for survey takers.  They have found that paying the survey takers gets more participants and gets their questionnaires actually filled out!

So every day there are thousands of surveys going out.  And every month there are many thousands of survey taker participants like you, who are receiving checks in the mail.

So you say that you want to earn cash by taking online surveys? You want to take surveys for money and get paid?

Fine.  Here is what you need to do then:

1. Pick a good guide company to help you get started off right.  (There are some 750+ market survey companies in the U.S. alone. There are good ones bad ones and worse.  There are sales companies that disguise themselves as survey makers to get your data and then try to sell stuff to you!)  The guide companies maintain lists of who is good and who is not out there.  Applying to only the good ones will save you a lot of time and hassle.

The good guide company you want will be sizable, will have been around for a while and will have a strong money-back guarantee, backed by a bank or a financial company like PayPal or ClickBank. (The guarantee proves that the company stands behind its services and will deliver what they promise. The backing by a bank or financial company shows that they are a known company, considered responsible.)

Probably the single most important thing to look for is a low refund rate. The refund rate is an expression of satisfaction/dissatisfaction made by those clients who have gone before you. A low number indicates happy clients. A high number means many unhappy clients.  Look for the ideal 3.0% to 5.0%.  A little higher won't hurt much. Avoid anything 10.0% or over.

2. File applications with many survey makers.  When you sign up with your guide company, they will give you a copy of their list of preferred survey makers.  It will be very important for you to sign up with as many of these as you possibly can. 

These survey makers are the people who actually send out the invitations to take the surveys. They invite survey takers whose contact and demographic info is in their files.  They get this info from your signup application.  No application means no survey means no money!

3. Open an e-mail account especially for your paid survey work. Use that e-mail address on all your applications to surve makers. Check your e-mail at least once a day. Answer all correspondence promptly.

When survey invitations come in, accept them rapidly.  Answer the questions fully, to the best of your ability.  There are not right answers or wrong answers. They just want to know your honest opinion.

4. Be patient.  Survey makers will test new signups at first, to see if they are for real.  With good experience they will send you more and more invitations to take surveys, including larger surveys and focus group participations (means more money!).  Your income from each survey maker will not peak untill 90 to 180 days after making application to take their surveys.

How much will you make?  That is hard to say. It will depend largely on your diligence in responding and on your specific demographics.  Most serious survey takers report incomes of $200 to $600 a month.  Some report incomes of $1,000 a month and more.

Earning cash by taking online surveys, where you only have to take surveys for money and get paid, can be an excellent way to build an additional income stream.

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