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[M118]Make Money Surveys Online

by Deon Plessis, Deo

Paid online surveys often sounds too good to be true. Imagine taking a couple of surveys every day while you lounge around the house in your pajamas - and then earn $1000 a week. Unfortunately most of the promises that surveys sites make is completely over inflated. Although there are some very hard working stay at home moms who do make that much, for the majority of people it will be much less.

Taking online surveys for money is the perfect business opportunity if you only have a couple of hours to spare every day and if you are a stay at home mom or a student it can be the perfect opportunity to make some extra cash in your spare time.

If you want to earn money with online surveys then you have to be realistic. If you are first starting out you will probably not make more than $500 a month. It all depends on how much time you are willing to put into it.

Surveys rarely pay more than $25 per survey. Yes, it's true that there are some surveys that pay as much as $75 per surveys, but this is the exception rather than the rule. As you gain experience and get a better reputation you will start attracting better surveys that pay more. This does take some time and the people that earn big money with surveys are usually in it for some time and they've worked themselves up.

There's nothing difficult about taking online surveys for cash. All you need is your honest opinion and your spare time. It's the perfect business opportunity simply because it does not require any start up capital. You can start with nothing and make $500 in your first months without breaking a sweat. The only cost you might have is when you join a survey service like SurveyScout.

Websites like SurveyScout or Surveys4Checks act as a middleman between you and the market research companies who will actually pay you. These sites have a database of pre-screened research firms that run and operate the market research for big firms like Coke, McDonald's and Burger King.

The real challenge in making good money from surveys is to find enough surveys to do. Doing two or three surveys a week just isn't enough. You need to do at least two to three a day and to achieve this you need to register with at least ten to twenty companies.

Since each company has it's own set of rules and requirements it can take you weeks to find ten companies that match your profile. By registering with a site like SurveyScout you can instantly have access to 400 pre-screened companies that will show you exactly what you need to qualify. It can save you weeks of work and almost guarantee your success with surveys.

Having a community of experienced people behind you is also a great help. Making it in the online survey business can be a bit tricky and having the backup to help you get over the initial speed bumbs can be one of the most valuable things you do in this business.

That's a good question. Many things that come by way of ads and unsolicited email on the Internet are questionable get rich now plans. Online money making books. Sign up now and earn. If you put this link on your site and more people click on it you'll get paid. If more of your friends sign up through you, get paid. On and on it goes.

One of these online earning schemes is something most people don't really know about. If they do know about, they dismiss it. It has to do with companies trying to get wind of what their targeted customers or potential customers want and don't want. It's a product or service feedback mechanism. It's called surveys.

If you've been clicking on pop ups that ask you to take a short break and please answer their survey, then you know what an online survey is. If you've been filling out forms about your identity and whereabouts and hobbies, for your social networking sites, the same deal is part of taking online surveys. But you can't get rich quick through. Oh no!

Many people think they must either get rich quick or not at all. But you can earn on the side through answering online surveys. Think about the time you invest checking your email and going through unsolicited mail, including funny forwarded emails from your friends. How long does it take you to check up on your favorite social networking site? How much time do you spend reading news sites or watching YouTube? Do you spend hours chatting?

If you could cut down the minutes on your other surfing habits, and devote a portion of them everyday to answering online surveys, you could be earning on the side. It's like incremental savings, you allot a few coins in your piggy bank and before long, you need a bigger piggy bank. The thing about our behavior on the Internet is that, one, we are multitasking, and two, we hardly notice how much time we spend on surfing activities.

So if we can harness those few minutes everyday and turn them into searching for sites that pay you to answer surveys, to sign up for their surveys, and to actually fill out survey forms and answer questions, you could be incrementally "banking." Let's just call it earning on the side. This is the mature attitude to have.

And then there's online scam. Now that you know that you can make money online, the how much comes into play. The answer is it depends on which sites you go to and how much time you put into it. But this assumes you actually get to find legitimate online surveys. Because there's a lot out there that are just scams.

The usual signs of a scam online survey are exaggerated claims, customer testimonials that sound like they got paid, images of checks and printouts with lines blurred out. These things you see on the scammers' sites are usually fabrications. They won't refund you if you fall into their traps. Look them up, Google up the company and search for their names in forums. Most likely there'll be either praise or disdain for them. Also, if you found out about them through spam, they are scam.

The sooner you spend time to search for and background check online survey companies, the sooner you can tell which is legitimate, and the sooner you can allot time to take their surveys, consistently earn on the side, and later collect that check.

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