How Do You Actually Get Paid to Fill Out Surveys and Trade Surveys for Money?

Paid online surveys are a large business on the Internet. The old door-to-door or telephone consumer opinion surveys are almost all being done on the Internet now. Large companies are eager, even desperate to know what consumers think, what they prefer, which of their ads have they seen. So they hire market researchers to find out.

The market researchers use online surveys. There are thousands of surveys being made each week. How do they find volunteers? How do they find people to do the work of filling out the survey questionnaires? Easy! They make it worth their while. They pay survey participants for each survey that they take! Survey participants are paid to fill out surveys!

Surveys typically pay $5 to $75 each, with most being in the $10 to $25 range. A $10 survey will normally take 7-8 minutes to fill out; a $25 survey may take 15-18 minutes. Not very much money by itself, but if you are taking surveys for money and take a $10 and a $25 survey every day, that adds up to over $1,000 a month!

So how do you participate? What do you need to do to get money for surveys? The first thing you need to do is to get a good list of survey makers. All survey makers and all lists are not equal; some are better than others.

About 20% of survey makers offer legitimate paid online surveys that pay ontime, in cash or equivalent. Another 40% are second tier; they generally pay but pay less and pay more slowly. The final 40% are just time-wasters. They are either no-pay/low-pay survey makers or are actually sales companies whose goal is to sell things to YOU!

There is no such thing as a “free list”. Every list is being paid for, either by the survey takers (you) or by the survey makers, in the form of recruitment fees. Good survey makers don’t pay recruitment fees. Bad ones must.

If your goal is to actually get paid to fill out surveys then the best way to get a good list is to join a paid survey membership site that maintains such lists for their members. Do not deal with any such sites that do not offer a strong money-back guarantee backed up by a bank or financial company such as PayPal or ClickBank.

Then from those with strong guarantees, choose one with a low refund rate. Low refund rates mean happy, satisfied clients. So choose your paid survey membership site from those with a low (3-6%) refund rate. Stay away from anny of those with refund rates that are either unknown (usually means high) or are as high as 9% or more.

Just follow the steps above and you can get paid to fill out survey questionnaires too! And have a good supplemental income from taking surveys for money!