Paid Survey Tips

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Paid Surveys Are Great!

Marketing Research companies love your opinion and yes as you know they will compensate you for your opinion, however you still need to proceed with caution.  There are some sites that are...well...unsavory, and they will take your information, opinion, and your time without giving you a dime.

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So by now you must already know... 

  • Finally an unbiased opinion about actually taking surveys online. I am completely sick and tired of these scams that take your money and give you a crappy list of surveys, that either dont exist anymore, or dont pay!

Tips for Paid Survey Success. 

Dont pay...there free!

Yep, I know that you have heard by now. You can get paid to complete surveys online. It is no secret and it is nothing special about. Ordinary people like me and you are completing surveys everyday for a few bucks. But, what you probably already know also, there are very few people that actually get paid consistently for completing surveys and here's why:

1.They dont join the right Market Research companies. There is magic in finding the right market research company. It can make you or break you. TIP I tend to avoid the ones that offer points or prizes.
2.They pay for a list. I have nothing else to say about this except...DONT! There are too many sources out there that offer the same thing for very little.
3.They join and never complete a survey-Why do this? Time is money so why waste your time/money to register and never complete a survey?

That is why people dont succeed with completing surveys. Then these same people go on to post on message boards that paid surveys are scams.(sorry just a bit angry with lazy people)

Now below are a few tips to help you to become more successful completing surveys online:

1.Create a dedicated email address. This email WILL be bombarded with tons of emails that will be trying to sale you stuff because...you have agreed to this.

2.Make an excel file for your surveys. You will want to have at least the following column suggestions: survey company name, amount, date, and (length of time it takes to complete).

3.Register for TOP survey companies-This is where you have to do your research. You will want to go to google and choose your top 10 searches and compare them by going to message boards, ripoffreport.com, and any other authoritative type of site to compare notes. This will take...Forever. I have done this for you. The link above will take you to a website that has the best paid surveys available. Of course you dont have to take my word for it there are plenty of sites available, but this site has the best and largest combination of paid surveys available.

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Speedy17 wrote...

Well, I voted but I still feel that you deserve a good comment. Great Lens. Keep it Up.

ReplyPosted June 08, 2008

Junyuan wrote...

Great tips and advices you have there about paid surveys online. The information you have is really useful and will benefit anyone who is looking to make money from paid surveys. I've given you a 5-star rating for your lens, and added it to my list of Squidoo favorites. You may want to check out my lens - paid surveys online review, where I review these paid survey websites based on my experience with them. You may also want to consider adding your lens to my Internet Marketing directory to get more traffic to your lens. Cheers! ;)

ReplyPosted June 04, 2008

UMT wrote...

I have never really taken part in a paid survey before though I belong to some of such sites. Great lens and info, come see mine too.

ReplyPosted April 01, 2008

Lensmaster

JacoS wrote

If you sign up to a paid survey at home company that gives you a directory of paid surveys, first and foremost make sure that they have a clear, bold and prominent money-back guarantee; their payment processor is reputable, with a clear and strict refund policy that will honor that guarantee; that you save and remember the survey web site url and your access code and take advantage of the money-back guarantee if indeed you're not satisfied for whatever reason.

Make sure, too, their paid survey list is fresh, updated and relevant, and you're not victim of a paid survey scam with surveys that are dated.

You can check out some paid survey company reviews here: http://www.get-paid-to-answer-surveys.com/paid-survey-at-home.html

In any case, my suggestion is that you're not taken by the flashy promisses on their pitch pages. Don't assume you'll get rich quickly. You can probably have fun and make some extra bucks in the short term by completing here and there a paid survey at home.

Reply Posted January 13, 2008

Keyboarding-4-Cash wrote...

Good lens, people need good information to work from home without it they will not make money online.

ReplyPosted October 23, 2007

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