Making Money With Online Surveys

You can make money with online surveys as this is a very popular way to make some extra bucks today. Many online users have made some extra bucks by filling out the survey forms. Online surveys are designed by a lot of companies to know about consumer’s feedback or interests about their particular product or services. Lots of companies are paying users to know about consumer opinion on products or services so that they can improve their product quality, design or enhance it to get more customers.

Hence, both consumers and manufacturing companies get benefited by the online survey process. If you have a net connection in home and basic computer knowledge, you can easily cash in by taking surveys. There are a lot of websites which allows you to make money with online surveys by filling forms. Not all are genuine, some websites are scam ones. Hence, in order to work on genuine website for free, try to read the website’s review in review sites, forums and blogs before starting to register in the site. You can also get to know new websites on online surveys as these forums and blogs are regularly updated.

Many online survey websites accepts all country members but it is very popular in U. S. Companies will give you surveys according to your geographical location, their needs, your area of interests you have specified while registering with the website etc. Hence, the money you make through the survey depends upon these factors and you will receive forms accordingly. The payment for each survey varies from $1 to $100 and it takes 10 to 25 minutes to complete. There are some people who make $100 to $400 a day but it is not that easy to make such money. Companies are looking for your opinions, so be honest while answering the forms

Some sites claim paid subscription for letting you know about genuine survey sites. These sites may be genuine or scam. So always do research before joining these paid survey sites. Don’t believe in sites that pay you more money for each survey. In the starting phase, work on a list of websites on online surveys and narrow down the websites that seems to be honest and that pay you promptly.

So. do not hesitate anymore. Start early today and search for some of the top online survey sites and make some extra cash online today.

Online Surveys: Can You Actually Earn Any Money?

You’ve very likely seen pitches like this that you receive via spam:

“Earn $140 per week! Earn $560 a week! Earn $6,270 a year! All by just sitting home, sipping coffee, and filling out surveys.”

Is this too good to be true?

Yes. Although it does make sense that a few companies are willing to pay for market research by using online surveys, we believe this is not a good way to spend your time.

Here’s how the scam works: Scammers use spam and promise you quick money for little effort. They claim that you only need to spend a few minutes and you’ll earn excellent money. Of course, you have to pay the “low” price of $34.95 to learn how to do this.

So their goal is to get thousands of people paying $34.95 (or whatever amount is charged) for the info.

This would be fine if they didn’t spam — and actually delivered what they promised. However, the vast majority of these online survey products are worthless.

Now, you may be thinking, “Well, I’ll go online and find a site that screens out the scammers and ranks paid survey sites, and that way I’ll find the legitimate online survey companies.”

This makes sense on the surface, but unfortunately, many of these “ranking” sites may actually be middlemen who are paid commissions by the survey companies for referrals. Often, whoever pays the most to the ranking site gets the highest rating, and the online survey companies they rank well are not necessarily reliable.

Are there legitimate online survey companies? Yes, there must be, but unfortunately, it’s almost impossible to find them. It’s like picking a needle out of a 77,300,000 haystack (type “online surveys” into a Google search for similar results).

In fact, legitimate online surveys often are quite long, which means they take awhile to fill out. That’s one of the reasons the hype isn’t true.

(As an aside, if you do online surveys, you shouldn’t scam the online survey companies either. Don’t have your kids fill out the surveys or just make up answers. After all, legitimate companies want legitimate answers from legitimate respondents.)

Given that the hype is wrong, how much can you realistically expect to earn doing online surveys?

A friend of ours decided to find out. She is one of the fastest typists we know, and she’s extremely efficient and skilled at administrative work.

Since she wanted some extra income she could earn at home in her spare time, she spent a week or so to see how much she’d earn filling out online surveys.

The results? She earned about $0.37 an hour!

Would that be what you’d earn? We don’t know. But we believe there are lots of better ways to earn money by working at home.

We’ve found that people WANT the hype about online surveys to be true. However, in order to make money on the Internet working at home, it takes (gasp!) work. The promises about online surveys are at best not realistic.

Note: Yes, you definitely can earn money on the Internet working at home. Many people do this very successfully. But not by doing online surveys, stuffing envelopes, or medical transcription. 😉

Now, we’ll probably get a lot of email telling us that we’re wrong. We’ve followed this area for quite awhile, and we believe that our advice about online surveys is correct for the vast majority of our subscribers. (Please don’t send us these emails, btw.)

Nonetheless, if you’re determined to go ahead with online surveys anyway, here’s some advice:

First, ignore all spam solicitations. They are all scams.

Second, use Google or your favorite search engine to see if you can find info on the company, including complaints. (Not finding complaints means nothing, btw. People are often too embarrassed to complain when they realize they’ve been scammed. Or the company may have changed their name or website ten minutes ago.)

One last point: It should be obvious that in this issue we’re not talking about free online surveys and polls that you find on many websites. For example, we’re not referring to answering the QuickVote poll on the CNN website. 😉

Bottom line: Save your money and your time — avoid online surveys.

Check out some great feedback from ScamBusters. org subscribers on this article on online surveys here.

We also wanted to let you know about our newest website, which is a blog called ChristmasRants. com. It’s “your entertaining and impassioned guide to the Christmas season.” We just started it last week — you’ll find lots of great tips throughout the Christmas season. You can check it out here.

In the wake of Hurricane Wilma, we again want to remind you about disaster scams. Once again, scammers began sending out charity relief and other disaster scams before Hurricane Wilma even hit land!

The number of Hurricane Wilma scams is growing quickly. If you haven’t yet read about these types of scams, we recommend you check out our page on Hurricane Katrina scams (since these scams were the most prevalent and we focused our info on disaster scams on this page).

That’s it for today. Wishing you a safe, healthy and productive week.