Many people hear about paid online surveys and decide that they too, want to participate and get paid to take online surveys. So they apply to some survey makers, take some surveys and then discover that the way they are to "get paid" is to have their name put into a "hat" for a drawing.
The winner of the drawing is supposed to get $1,000, or something like that. No one says how many names are in the "hat". The bottom line is that they got "paid" with promises and chances; nothing they could use in the checkout lane at Walmart! This happens all too often, to too many.
Earnest Hemingway once said, "Life is a game where they put you in without telling you the rules, and then shoot you when they catch you off-base!" That is certainly true of the paid online surveys scene. The purpose of this article is to acquaint you with some of the "rules", up front!
While almost all survey makers SAY that they pay for surveys, only something like 20% of the 700+ survey makers in the U.S. and 3,000+ plus worldwide actually DO pay in cash or equivalent. To make any money with paid online surveys you need to locate that 20%, sign up with them and ignore the rest, the "time-wasters".
How can this be?
The big companies that commission the surveys pay the entire budgeted amount to the survey makers. Some pass a share on to the survey participants in the form of direct payment. Others try to pay the participants little or nothing and keep the lion's share for themselves.
One result is that this second group is always losing participants and has to recruit. They pay recruitment fees to anyone who can send them fresh new recruits. Ever notice the paid Google ads advertising "Free lists" of survey makers (if you are reading this online, just look at the nearby ads!)
Now, just ask yourself, how can anyone PAY for ads to give away something for FREE? Remember TANSTAAFL! (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch!). They are getting paid by non-paying survey makers to recruit more unsuspecting prospective survey-takers, like YOU! ;-)
Survey makers who pay their survey participants in cash almost never pay recruiting fees. They don't have too!
O.K. So using free lists is NOT the way to go. So what IS the way to go?
Join a GOOD paid survey site guide company. These membership sites maintain lists of good survey makers that they share with their members. For a small one-time membership fee (which you can make back with the first 2-3 surveys) they will share a copy of their current list with you. There are 200+ of these sites.
To find a GOOD one, look for a strong money-back guarantee backed by a financial company like a bank, PayPal or ClickBank. Then look for a LOW refund rate under this guarantee. The low refund rate means happy clients who were satisfied with value received. Satisfied because they made money with their list.
High refund rates mean many unhappy clients (who didn't make money with the list they received).
You want to join the group of happy (low refund) clients NOT the unhappy (high refund rate) ones!
So, in a nutshell, find paid online survey sites with STRONG money-back guarantees. Within this group look for one you like with a low (3-6%) refund rate.
Avoid any with refund rates that are either unknown (another word for "high"!) or are as high as 9-10%.
Don't even consider ANY paid online survey site without an outside financial guarantee.
Now, when you enter the paid online surveys scene you will have the best chance to get paid to take online surveys, and actually get paid!
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Jorge Chavez is an experienced paid internet survey expert at: http://surveysentinel.ya23.com
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