How You Can Get Paid to Take Free Surveys Online

More and more surveys are being made and more and more people are getting paid to take free surveys online. Here is how you can participate...

Now you can get paid to take free surveys online.  This is made possible because of recent changes in the way traditional consumer surveys are being made.  The low cost and fast turnaround of the Internet now makes it faster and cheaper for survey makers to go online to contact potential survey participants and get back quick responses. 

The problem at first was to get enough people to volunteer.  Now market researchers and  survey makers have a solution.  They have found that if participants get paid to take free surveys online, then they get more volunteers.

"O.K. I want to get paid take free surveys online." 

So how do I get started?  What do I need to do to actually get paid ?

Here are the steps to take:

1. Choose and sign up with a good paid guide company to get access to their list. 

There are 700+ market research outfits making surveys in the U.S. alone; there are over 3,000 internationally. Some of these are good, some not so good, some are bad and others are terrible! 

You could find the survey makers and sort through them on your own, but it would take many months and cost much time.  If you want to get paid to take free surveys online it is best to concentrate only on the good survey makers.

The good guide companies maintain lists of which survey makers are good. They update them frequently as market changes occur, new survey makers start up and old ones change. When you sign up with a paid survey guide company they give you a copy of their list.

How do you pick a good one? You want a larger one that has been around for a while. Look for a strong 60 to 90 day money-back guarantee, backed up by a financial company or bank.

Look for a low refund rate, ideally between 3% and 5%. The refund rate is an inverse indicator of client satisfaction; low refund rates indicate happy clients, high refund rates indicate many unhappy clients. Avoid any company with refund rates above about 10%.

2. Sign up with all the recommended survey makers.

As soon as you sign up with your guide company and get your copy of the list of recommended survey-makers, start making applications to as many as you possibly can.  This is crucial. To get paid to take free surveys online you will need surveys to take. The surveys will come from the survey-makers with whom you file applications. No application means no survey offers which means no money!

3. Open a separate e-mail account for your paid survey work.

Use the address in all your applications. Check your inbox at least daily, answer all correspondence promptly. Take all surveys offered at first, filling them out completely and answering the questions honestly and to the best of your ability.

4. Be patient. 

The survey makers will test you at first to see if you are real, and to see how you respond. Be diligent and you will get more and bigger (higher-paying) surveys in your inbox. Your income from each survey-maker will peak 90 to 180 days after you file your application with them.

How much will you make?

It mostly depends on your demographics and your diligence.  Looking at the experiences of others, most of those who get paid to take paid surveys online report incomes of $200 to $600 a month, with some reporting over $1,000 a month.

About the Author:

Jorge Chavez is an experienced paid internet survey expert at: http://surveysentinel.ya23.com