While it is possible to make money taking surveys online, find out why it isn't all it's cracked up to be.
This question cannot be answered in one sentence. The fact is there are dozens of legitimate companies that act as a third party to collect information for large companies and corporation by administering surveys.
You can sign up for these companies absolutely free and typically you can make anywhere from $10-30 a week and you will get paid by check or through a paypal account. Though,
you must join at least twenty or thirty survey sites.
There are, of course, a few catches.
You need to provide information about yourself and the paid survey companies try to match you with appropriate surveys that best fit your personal profile.
Most people do not like to give out excessive amounts of personal information over the internet. But the only way to qualify for a substantial amount of surveys is by giving these third party survey companies a lot of personal information. These paid survey sites want information like products you currently own, how many bank accounts you have, and your shopping habits.
Although I managed to earn over $2,000 in a little over a year taking these surveys, I must admit it was a frustrating experience.
Since you must be "qualified" to be eligible to take each survey, you will spend time answering questions and then find you didn't qualify. In addition, women are eligible to take many more surveys due the fact there are more products targeted to women. There is nothing wrong with this, just know that if you are a guy, you are at a disadvantage.
Also, if you live outside the USA or Canada, you will not qualify for most, so don't even bother.
Many people will end up spending time answering questions and give up after not qualifying for a few surveys and call it a scam.
The real paid survey scam lies in the fact people have created paid membership sites that do nothing more than give you all the links to the free paid survey sites.
In fact, you do a google search for paid surveys, these are the sites you will encounter first. The people that created and market these membership sites are looking for people completely new to
making money online and have no idea you can find this information for free.
If you really would like to give paid surveys a try, when you do your google search, ignore the sites that want you to pay money to join. Just keep looking and you will eventually find a free list (you will probably find five or ten) where people have generously posted the links to the paid survey sites completely free.
