Getting Paid For Filling Out Online Surveys

Receiving money for filling out surveys is not the news thing under the Sun. Ahead of launching a new product or a service, it is common sense to test the waters first. The process is  is called market research.

Have you ever been stopped by an individual while at a mall, who politely asked you: "Could you answer a few questions?" Did he or she give something in return? Unless you've been living under a rock chances are that the answer is yes. This is just one example.

A while back, I lived in the small, sleepy Mid-Western town. Through a friend, I managed to be part of survey sponsored by International Business Machines. IBM was about to launch a new product line of desktop and laptop computers; and they wanted to find just the right names for them. Over a couple of month's time, they gave me four questioners to fill out. I got paid as much as $50 for a completed set of surveys! I was excited and wanted to do more of these paid surveys. Unfortunately, the friend of mine who offered me the opportunity was employed by IBM, and they weren't going to do any more surveys at that time.

Fortunately, almost all things, these days, can be done on the Internet, so market research companies started to look for people on the WORLD Wide Web to keep costs low. Paid online surveys were born. Now, you can complete questioners on the Web without leaving your home even.

The thing is that there are a great deal of businesses who absolutely need to get this type of work done. IBM, that one time, decided to do the paid survey in-house, but there are service companies that specialize in this type of work and offer their services to the ones who have new products and services to sell.

Finding them one at a time could off course be done, if you managed to spend enough time on Google for example, but this has been done by others who made the results of their search available for purchase for a reasonable fee. This way, you can be certain that you are always on top when it comes to the most profitable paid online surveys as they appear. The smart way to go, if you asked me.

How much can one make by competing these paid online surveys? At the bottom end, you may only get a chance to enter a sweepstakes for a prize. You might want to pass on these for more profitable opportunities. It is not at all uncommon that they are willing to pay $10-$25 per online survey. At the very top, you will find the ones that will pay you $50-$100! It is absolutely possible to do one or two a day.