Internet Money III – Paid Surveys

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Internet Money Part III: Paid Surveys

What are Paid Surveys?

In order for companies to increase response rates of surveys for their market research, they pay participants for their opinions. You will find simple online surveys, focus groups, or phone surveys.

Paid surveys are one of the first money making opportunities you will come across on the net as you look for some internet money.

Although it should be quite obvious to most people that one can’t make a full time salary doing online surveys, people are still intrigued because it looks like an easy dollar or two.

Argh~ So Many Paid Surveys to Sign up For

You will, early on, realize that you can’t rely on one or two survey providers. What you end up doing is sign up to all the survey sites you can find. You will spend a lot of time signing up, and then clicking on another offer. Sign up to that one, and then click on yet another survey offer, and so on. You may have even signed up to one of those PTC programs.

There are things you need to watch out for. Most importantly, don’t pay for surveys.

Also, you are likely to stumble upon a few “get paid to try an offer” type of programs where they promise to pay you a couple of dollars – sometimes $10+ — to try out a third party product or service. Don’t bother with these.

What ends up happening is this.

1. You sign up for the offer.
2. Give them your personal information including credit card numbers in many cases.
3. You will lose track of which ones you signed up for; thus, failing to cancel the trials before you start getting charged.
4. Receive lots of DVDs you don’t want.
5. You get spammed from places you didn’t know you signed up to. But you probably used a spam email account. So, this wouldn’t matter much, right?
6. Ends up costing you way more than the $2 you made trying out the offer. And, this doesn’t include all the time you spent.

Problems with Surveys

Well, the above problems will arise if you don’t stay focused on surveys. Let’s say you signed up to only the good ones. Still, it’s not going to be what you expected.

1. Your profile will not qualify for many surveys, and you won’t receive all that many. I can imagine that mid/upper-income class housewives with children will likely qualify for the most amounts of surveys. If you’re not in the US, forget about it.
2. With number one being true, if you are someone who is looking for an online opportunity as your main source of income, you are likely out of luck.
3. It will be the worst hourly wage you will earn. These surveys are long and tedious. A 30 minute survey that pays $1? No thank you. Moreover, it’s not like you get a constant supply of surveys.
4. You can spend your time more productively. If you are jobless like so many people right now, you are better off spending your time searching for other opportunities. Like I mentioned, you are not going to qualify for many surveys (well, unless you make up a phony profile).

If You Still Want to Do Surveys

I’ve given you many reasons not to bother with surveys. But some people say that surveys are a hobby and a small side income. I don’t know how you can enjoy such a thing, but whatever makes you happy. Maybe, you are a mid/upper-income class housewife with children and a baby.

If you want to try it out, I might as well help you to stay on the best path possible.

I found the two links below. You’ll find helpful information and good sources of surveys. Good luck to you.

• http://www.freesurveyplace.com/
• http://itsfree.proboards.com/

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