Online Paid Surveys- Make Money From Bed Taking Online Paid Surveys!

Ever filled out an Online Paid Survey questionnaire? Most of us have at one time or another. Actually, it's big business on the Internet. Traditional consumer opinion surveys, vital tools of market research, have taken to the Internet like ducks to water! There are thousands of surveys being made every week.

The interesting part is, in order to get enough volunteers to take these surveys, the survey makers are paying participants cash for filling them out. The surveys are completely free of charge to take. Filling out the questionnaires is easy and can result in a check in the mail to each participant!

Taking 15 minutes to fill out a survey questionnaire for $20 is no big deal, but the money is in the volume. If you took two 15 minute surveys a day for a month, you would have spent 7-8 hours of time and potentially gained $1,200 for your efforts.

So how do you position yourself to get invited to participate in paid surveys?

You have to make applications to survey makers, giving them your name, contact info and demographic data (age, occupation, gender, education, etc.) Then the survey makers put your info in their data bases and when they have a survey for which you qualify, they send you an e-mail inviting you to participate.

The problem is that there are over 700 survey makers in the U.S. alone, and over 3,000 worldwide. That's a lot of applications but very few among them pay well.

The best way to go about it is to hire a paid survey guide company to get you started off right. These outfits maintain lists of survey makers, keeping track of who is good to deal with and who is not. Actually, most of the so-called survey makers are flakes; time-wasters to be avoided. Only about 3% or so are worth applying to.

What the guide companies do is, for a small one-time fee, let you have a copy of their list or preferred survey makers. That way you know which is which and only need to sign up with the good ones, the ones that pay in cash (most don't!) and pay on time. The serious ones who won't sell your demo data to sales companies!

There are over 200 of these paid survey guide companies out there, some good, others not so good. To pick a good one, look for a strong money-back guarantee, backed up by a bank or financial company. Look for a low (3-6%) refund rate. Avoid any with a refund rate that is unknown or over 9.0%.

The refund rate is an inverse confidence vote of all the clients of that company who have gone before you. If they were happy and satisfied, the refund rate will be low. If they were unhappy with the service the refund rate will be high. The unhappier they are, the higher the refund demand rate will be!

So how much can you make doing this?

It depends on your diligence, your demographics and the number of good survey makers that you sign up with. Most more or less serious survey takers report monthly incomes of between $600 and $900. Many report monthly incomes of $1,500 or more.