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Paid online surveys can be a fun and interesting way to make
some extra cash. There are literally hundreds of sites that
are interested in your opinion and are willing to compensate
you for taking online surveys. Below you'll find some honest
answers to some of the most popular paid survey questions,
some tips to help you get started and some additional advice
for when you get things rolling.
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By using one of the
Suggested Survey Sites
or
All Survey Sites
pages on this site, you can sign up for any
survey sites that you are interested in. When you sign up
for them, they will gather some demographic information.
Once that site has a survey that fits your profile, they
will usually send you an email invitation. The invitation
will normally contain a link to the survey, the approximate
amount of time it will take to complete and what the
compensation for the project is. You are in no way obligated
to take the survey if you don't want to. Once you have
completed a survey, the way in which you are rewarded will
vary by site. The vast majority of sites will simply send
you a check. Some (relatively few) compensate by PayPal,
some with gift certificates, some with drawing entries and
some with prizes. Some of the more active sites create a
user account in which you will accumulate cash or points,
which can be exchanged for cash, gift certificates or prizes.
For these, once you reach a certain amount, you can cash out
and collect your reward. A sampling of the various types of
sites have been assembled in the
Suggested Survey Sites
page to help you get your feet wet.
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You may have seen other sites claiming that you can make
thousands per month by taking online surveys. Truth is,
while it is possible to make that much in a year, you will
not be able to make thousands per month. You can however,
make enough to buy that extra something, take your family
out for a night on the town or tuck a little extra away in
your savings. Consider this a fun and interesting way to
earn some "bonus cash", not as a get rich scheme or a
replacement for a full-time income.
How much you actually make depends on many factors; who
you are, where you live and other demographic factors, as
well as, what kinds of surveys that companies are interested
in. Where a couple hundred dollars per month is attainable,
it won't be steady, dependable income and may not be
possible for some. You'll have months where you make very
little and months where you may make considerably more. I
have participated in online focus groups that have paid
several hundred dollars for one project. If you are patient,
over time, I think you'll find that paid surveys will be
worth your time.
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When you are first starting out you may not receive very
many survey invitations. Whereas some sites may send you
several survey invitations per month, a vast majority of
sites may only send several per year. Don't be discouraged
if within the first few months you are not receiving a
significant amount of survey invites. Be patient, once you
get the ball rolling, you'll have plenty of surveys to
choose from.
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Paid surveys are usually short, although some may take
up to 45 minutes, and are taken online. You get sent an
invitation, take the survey and get rewarded. Focus Groups
usually require a bit more effort, take more time and can
take place either at a physical location, on the phone, or
online in the form of a discussion. Focus Groups usually pay
quite a bit more and generally pay in cash. For Product
Testing, you will usually be sent a product to test and then
either take a survey on the product or write a review. The
reward here is usually the product itself, although some do
offer additional compensation.
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Absolutely not.
Free Paid Surveys Reality will not add a site if
it charges for participation. In fact, any true market
research company is prohibited by the Marketing Research
Association of charging for participation.
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Surprisingly, No.
Free Paid Surveys Reality prides itself in not
listing sites that it feels engages in spamming, selling or
distributing email addresses or unethical (or just annoying)
practices. There are several points programs, listed which will send several
advertisement emails per day. However, you earn points by
reading them, and they're not overwhelming. Although we do
not list sites that engage in these practices, there are
sites out there that pose as legitimate survey sites, solely
for the purpose of gathering and redistributing email
addresses. If in doubt, read through the sites' privacy
policy and/or terms and conditions.
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I would highly recommend reading this page in its
entirety, it contains a lot of good information as far as
what to expect and provides some great tips to help you
along. You then might want to consider signing up with the
sites listed in the
Suggested Survey Sites
page. As mentioned earlier, these sites
have been specifically chosen to demonstrate the various
types of paid survey sites and these sites tend to send out
more invitations than some of the others. You then may want
to consider the
All Survey Sites
page. All Survey sites are those sites that
help keep Free Paid Surveys Reality, Free. There will be some
overlap with the starter directory, so be sure not to sign
up for the same site more than once. You'll then want to go
to whichever page is appropriate, being sure to follow the tips
below. Then just wait for invitations and take surveys. You
may also want to explore the rest of the site. You'll find
additional information about
some
extra earning sites ('paid
to shop', 'paid
to travel' and finally 'paid
to read Emails'). All these are completely free. At the
end, If you are ready to make a small investment
(from $20 to $40), I will
show you some great opportunities
to Work at Home Jobs, with just a few hours work from your home.
.
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The "hardest"
part about making money with paid surveys, focus groups, etc. is
registering with all of the good market research companies - we
list so many of them!
There's no way around it - you have to
register with the companies you're interested in. With some you can
sign-up and take surveys right away, but others require you to "register"
and then they contact you about various opportunities as they become
available.
It sure would be nice if there was a way to
automate the registration process, but as of yet there just isn't.
We have however found something that makes it a whole lot easier
...
The answer is
RoboForm
- a FREE software program that will significantly
reduce the time it takes you to fill out forms, register
with research companies, and fill out surveys. It will even
remember all of the user names and passwords that you end up
creating!
Every single person I know that's serious about making money
from surveys uses RoboForm, myself included. It makes things
so much easier, and it does so without "spying" on you or
messing up your computer like Gator and some of the other
programs.
Using RoboForm is highly recommended so please
download it now and
spend a few minutes familiarizing yourself with how it works.
It will significantly reduce the time you spend getting
started, which will help you to make money as quickly as
possible.
To download just click the link above, then select "Save" to
save the file to your desktop. Once you have downloaded the
file just double-click it to install this awesome program.
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You may need an e-Gold Account, if you don't already have
one. You can sign up for one here:
e-Gold. It is
completely Free It is not necessary to have a e-Gold account,
but some sites use e-Gold as a form of payment.
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Once you get going and have registered with lots of
companies, you will start getting A LOT of invitations and
you definitely don't want to miss any of those important
emails.
For this reason, we highly recommend setting up a
separate email address to be used for everything related to
your new survey "business." And be sure to check it often!
This way your survey-related email won't be mixed up with
your "regular" email, you won't miss any important survey
opportunities, and everything will just be a lot easier for
you.
Your Internet Service Provider (AOL, Earthlink, Comcast, etc.)
should be able to provide you with an additional email
address - usually at no charge. Or, you can also set-up a
free email address at
Yahoo
which we think offers the best free email service available.
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Signup with as many paid online survey sites as you feel
comfortable with and are interested in. Be sure to check the
special interest directories to see if you fit the profiles.
Look for focus groups in your area. A focus group located
close to your home could lead to some interesting, and well
paying, projects.
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When signing up for sites, be sure to bookmark any sites
that have a login section. You may want to create a "surveys"
folder in your favorites. Many sites that have a member
login will have some type of account that you can check.
Come back and familiarize yourself with any sites you have
bookmarked.
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Be sure to fill out any "profiles" or "profile boosters"
for any sites that have them. Filling out profiles will
increase your odds of being selected for a survey.
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Check your email often for invitations. If you wait to
long a survey may be closed before you are able to
participate.
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Don't be discouraged if the compensation for a survey is
a drawing. Most surveys are limited in the number of
participants and there are usually quite a few prizes. The
odds are usually pretty good and the rewards can be higher.
Of course, you may not win anything. Think of it as a free
lotto ticket.
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Be honest. As you start taking these surveys, you'll
realize that these are real companies looking for YOUR
honest feedback. You have an opportunity to influence the
products you buy.
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Now that you've got your login sites bookmarked, you'll
want to check your accounts from time to time. I would
recommend at least once a month. Some of these sites will
not pay you unless you login and "cash out". I would
recommend that once you have these sites bookmarked that you
spend some time and familiarize yourself with each one. See
what kind of system they have, cash or points. See what
points can be redeemed for and see what the minimum "cash
out" level is.
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There are several sites that have rewards that you can
earn every day. They are usually small, but do add up over
time. If you have signed up for these sites, here is a
list of daily activities you can do to help build your
balances.
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Login to
It Pays to Learn. When you login, it
should tell you how many E-mails you have. Read them.
You won't make a lot by doing this but you can make a
couple of bucks by the end of the month. You can also
see if there are any offers that you are interested in,
again I do not advocate accepting offers unless you are
interested in them. You'll also need to take enough
quizzes to rack up 500 QuizBucks by the end of each
month in order to be eligible for cash. The quizzes are
actually quite interesting, like playing trivia, and it
doesn't take very long to get 500 QuizBucks. Make sure
you have confirmed your PayPal account. You only need to
do this once. You'll actually be sending them 1 cent,
and they will send it back to you. You'll get 25 cents
for confirming and you'll then be able to accept PayPal
payments from them. There's a lot you can do on this
site, I won't go to far into it. But one interesting
aspect is that you can run banner ads on their site
using your QuizBucks (earned by simply taking quizzes).
So, you could, for example, run a banner ad for Six
Questions to try and get some referrals. I would
recommend reading the E-mails on a daily basis. You can
check out the
It
Pays to Learn System if you'd like more information.
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Login to NFO My Survey. For every day that
you login, you get an entry into their $10,000
sweepstakes and their daily extravaganza giveaway. Plus
you'll be able to see if there are any surveys available
for you.
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Login to
Lightspeed
and
Send
Earnings Surveys. See if there are any
surveys available. If not check to see if there are any
quick matches or mini polls. You don't get paid for
quick matches or mini polls, but you get an entry into
the $5,000 quarterly drawing and into their 5,000 points
a day giveaway.
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Check your email for
Memolink,
GreasyPalm and
My
Points email. These will be basically advertisements,
but you will receive points for each one you read. You
will also want to make sure that you are signed up for
Memolink Lotto. When sign up for the lotto you can have
them send you a daily reminder. If you match all of the
numbers, it's a million bucks, not likely I know, but if
you match some of the numbers you will get varying
amounts of points, depending on how many numbers you
matched. You may also want to login to
Memolink as the
have other ways to earn points as well; surveys, visit
websites and offers.
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There may be other sites that you want to
participate in daily as well. When you are familiarizing
yourself with the sites add any that you'd like to your
daily activities.
Now you are ready to sign up to the
Suggested
Survey sites.
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