Paid Surveys
Making Money Online is really not as hard as people make it out to be. Surely if you want to be raking in millions you will need to put in that level of effort, but if you are like me and just want to spend 30 minutes or so a day and get a little extra spending cash out of it, then paid surveys are the way to go for you.
Paid Surveys are an easy way to make money, basically you will fill out surveys for research companies and they will pay you a couple dollars per survey or put you in a pool to win big prizes, etc.
It may sound kind of sketchy but in reality paid surveys are one of the easiest ways there are to make money online, here's an example of a survey I took today for Gillette Razors:
- Watched 4 30 second Gillette Razor commercials (2 minutes)
- Rated which I found to be the most effective (2 minutes)
- Gave feedback as to why I would or would not buy it (5 minutes)
- Answered questions to help them improve the advertisements (3 minutes).
- In total it took me 12 minutes to fill out the paid survey, and I got paid $3 for it. Not enough to get rich, but for a couple minutes of work while I watched American Idol, that isn't too bad.
I love paid surveys, it is a very quick method to make money and I don't need to talk to anybody, get spam in my inbox, or anything else. I literally wait until I get sent an email saying here is a survey that will take x minutes and will pay x amount, and I choose which I feel like doing. If I am real bored, I might spend the whole day doing it while I play video games on another computer or while I read a book and end up making $50 on the day for watching a few commercials and giving advertising agencies a little bit of feedback.
For minimal effort while still being able to make $20/hour or so (if you do surveys constantly for the whole hour), paid surveys are one of the best forms of making money online.
Below are the survey companies that I have had the best luck with in the past, these are the ones with the best payouts for the time I put into them. Since they won't always have surveys for you to fill out, your best bet is to sign up for as many as you can and set up an email address for them to all send their survey offers to. This way you won't miss any paid surveys while at the same time reducing clutter in your inbox.
The more companies you sign up for, the more survey opportunities you will get and the more spending cash you will get as a result. Below is the list of links for companies I use, and further below that are details on each company. Happy online money making!
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- Survey Adventure
- Ipsos Survey Panel
- Inbox Dollars
- Global Survey Group
- Survey Networks
- Survey Team
Global Test Market
Global Test Market is the single best paid survey site out there. I have used them for years and I have not had a single problem receiving payment from them. This is hands down my favorite company, I have earned upwards of $100 some months by putting in a couple of hours filling out surveys for them. They are very professional, and they are the most respected of the survey companies by advertisers, which allows them to provide high paying surveys for main stream products.
Most survey companies offer sweepstakes, etc. while company pays cold hard cash for your efforts. I got my first $56 check from them after my first week of taking surveys, this is why I realized that it truly is possible to make a living online. For a full review of Global Test Market including user reviews check out Global Test Market Review. Feel free to sign up from the banner below.
Survey Adventure
Survey Adventure is a pretty useful site, this is the site that I signed up for to get involved with many of my other survey companies. They are a paid survey aggregator, so basically they will help you find companies to sign up for. Best of all, they provide this service for free!
Ipsos Survey Panel
Ipsos is a very well known name in the market research arena, it is one of the companies that you have heard of but don't remember. They do everything from political tracking polls to product testing, they are a very big and very trustworthy company. This is very high up on my list of recommended survey panels.
Inbox Dollars
Inbox Dollars is one of the more fun options out there, rather than just offering paid surveys they offer a wide variety of ways to make money online. You could play their paid games, take surveys, do offers, or even get a % back on each of your purchases you would make online anyway. This is a great way to change up the pace, I get a check from these guys more or less monthly.
Global Survey Group
The Global Survey Group is another good one, the best selling point for this company is that everything is as simple as could be. It takes nearly no effort to sign up, to do each of the paid surveys, and to do any additional offers they may have so that I can make a little extra money.
Survey Networks
Survey Networks takes members through a short paid survey, which when completed, enters them into a drawing for any number of great prizes including cars and $50,000 cash. This is fun because it takes only a couple of minutes and each time it gives you a small chance to win a big prize, if I had already won the $50,000 I wouldn't be making this website but maybe you will have better luck.
Survey Team
Survey Team is one of the oldest players in the online paid surveys industry, but that doesn't mean they are outdated. They consistently have some of the highest payouts on the market. This is a good one to sign up for because you get $3 just to sign up, and then you get paid $3-80 per survey that you complete. This is one of the highest paying survey companies I have worked with, they also have great customer support.
