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Paid Surveys Online - An easy way to make money
online?
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by:
Shaj Mohamed
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Paid surveys are being promoted as an easy
way to make money online. Some ads promise you up to $250 per hour for
taking paid surveys. Are they realistic? Can one really expect to earn
that much money from online paid surveys? Let us find out the answers
to these questions.
Such advertisements are usually put up by paid survey database
companies like Surveyscout. They charge you for giving access to a
database of market research companies, often in the range of $30 to
$60. They typically have 400 to 500 survey companies in their database.
Is it worth paying these companies to get access to such a database?
Whatever information you get from these companies, you can get for free
on the internet on many free online survey sites. Secondly, these
survey database companies do not send any surveys by themselves, and
you have to join each market research company in their database
individually to get any surveys. In addition, most of the survey
companies in their databases are good for nothing. Only about 40 to 50
survey companies are really worth joining.
What does this mean? If you are planning to try online surveys, you
never have to pay anyone. You can get the list of the best survey
companies for free on the internet. You can join them and get started.
Now let us take a closer look at on the rewards offered by paid online
surveys. Survey companies can be divided into those which reward you
with cash for each survey, those that give you points which can be
redeemed for cash, and those which enter you into sweepstakes or
prizedraws.
Survey companies that pay cash give $1 to $20 or more per online survey
depending on many factors. This group includes many of the best survey
sites like American Consumer Opinion Panel, Surveysavvy, Ciao Surveys,
Greenfield online(Gozing) and Pinecone Research. You can expect to get
1 to 4 surveys per month from each site.
Surveys that reward you with points let you accumulate reward points
which you can later redeem for cash or gifts. Some of the most reputed
market research companies like Globaltestmarket, Opinion Outpost, NFO
Mysurvey and Lightspeed Research reward you in this way.
Yet other companies enter you into draws for cash or gifts as reward
for taking surveys. Although many people don't like this form of reward
system, your chances of getting the prize is quite good as the pool to
select the prize winners is usually small. Some good survey companies
that follow this reward system are Synovate, NPD Research, NOP World
(Surveys.com), ECN Research and Nielsen Netratings.
Another important factor which determines how much you can earn from
online surveys is your profile, particularly your country. Generally
residents of the USA and Canada can expect to make more money from paid
surveys, as there are more market research companies operating in these
countries. Also they get more frequent surveys. However, participants
from other countries can also hope to make some good extra money from
paid online surveys.
All said and done, the maximum earnings an average person can expect
from doing paid surveys is not more than $200 to $300 per month. This
can be a good source of extra income for some people. But the claims
that paid surveys can make you rich or replace your real job are
largely unfounded. Hence, it is always best to stay with free paid
surveys.
About the author:
Shaj M is the owner and webmaster of the free survey resources site http://www.internetpaidsurveys.com.
The site has separate sections for USA, Canada, UK, Australia and rest
of the World, each of which reviews free paid surveys for that
particular country. For example, the USA Surveys section features more
than 50 free survey companies accepting members form the USA.
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