Take Online Surveys For Cash; Get Paid To Take Surveys
There are tons of paid survey business being conducted on the Internet. Every week there are thousands of surveys being made. Every month tens of thousands of participants who take online surveys for cash get paid to take surveys and receive checks in the mail.
Not all of the surveys being made are actually done on a paid basis, although almost all survey makers claim that their surveys are paid. In fact, only about 20% of the 700+ survey makers in the U.S. and 3,000+ worldwide actually pay their participants on a regular, equitable basis.
It's the old "80-20 rule". 20% of the survey makers pay out 80% of the cash or equivalent that is paid to survey participants.
If you plan to make money, to take online surveys for cash and get paid to take surveys, you need to locate and apply to this 20% of survey makers that really pay.
The big companies that commission the surveys to get answers to their questions agree to fees charged and send the money out to the market researchers who pay the survey makers. The problem is, that while about 20% of these pay the participants in cash, the rest try to "play games" with it so they can keep more of the total fee.
Those that pay in cash have low turnover, keep their same participants and almost never pay recruiting fees. Those that don't pay, the low-pay/no-pay survey makers, have high turnover and have to constantly recruit new participants.
There are a number of paid survey websites, both free and paid, that you can turn to for help in getting started with paid surveys. Both types have lists of survey makers to which you can apply.
These sites make money either from membership fees they collect from their members or from recruitment fees they collect from survey makers, or both. To find the survey makers that pay you want to pay your own guide to take you where YOU want to go; avoid the guides that someone else is paying to bring you to them!
Look for paid survey sites with a STRONG 50-90 day money-back guarantee, backed up by a bank or financial company. Within the group that meet this qualification, look for one with a low (3-6%) refund rate. Avoid all with refund rates that are "unknown" (generally means high!) or that are as high as 9-10% or more.
The refund rate tells you what the previous clients of that site thought of it. A low refund rate means that they were satisfied, happy and making money - the list of survey makers they received worked. They were able to take online surveys for cash, to get paid to take surveys.
A high refund rate indicates many unhappy clients demanding their money back. They are saying (by demanding refunds) that the list was useless to them.
Whether this was from the list being poorly maintained or from the site "double dipping", sending them to survey makers who paid the site instead of them, is not important. What is important is that a high refund rate means trouble; stay away!
When you pick your paid survey site and get your copy of their list, apply to all the survey makers on the list. When you begin to take online surveys for cash and get paid paid to take surveys you should easily make back your membership fees with the payment from the first 2-3 surveys taken.
Depending on your demographics your diligence and the number of good survey makers you sign up with, you should be able to make good money. Many report average incomes from paid surveys of $1,000 or more a month from a just few hours spent filling out survey questionnaires each week.
