It has not always been a home run. At first, I tried to do it all on my own by looking up survey companies one by one. It was free to do it this way, however I never knew which ones were honest companies to deal with. Some were definitely legitimate, but a lot were not so honest.

When you figure you need to give out personal information to the online survey companies, so they can pay you, it gets a little scary. Plus if you are going to spend time taking these surveys, you would like to get compensated with money. This is not always the case when you are not sure who you are dealing with.

Finally I decided to spend the $50 and join a survey membership site. Let these companies do all the leg work on ensuring the honesty of these paid online survey sites. It was the best decision I made.

I no longer wasted hours looking for paid online survey companies. Last I looked on Google, there were more than 17 million paid survey companies listed. That is a ton of sites to filter through.

With the paid membership site, they do all updating on quality sites. These membership sites employ a team of people to filter through the survey sites and make sure that they are legitimate. These companies put together a data base of literally hundreds and hundreds of companies that all pay you or give you prizes to take simple online surveys. There are also extra perks of other ways of making money, such as, mystery shopping, focus groups, using your vehicle to get paid for advertising and so much more.

Survey membership sites list the best paying survey sites at the top of the data base, so you can start earning with the better and more established companies. Also they are continually upgrading the data base to ensure you of each surveys sites credibility.

In my opinion, to get the best paid online surveys than yes you do need to join paid survey membership companies. It only makes sense to let someone else do all the work. My time is worth more than the $50, one time fee, when I am making thousands taking those online best surveys.