Some Help With Paid Surveys From My Own Experience

In essence, true paid surveys are unlike any other "get paid to" programs on the Internet. Why? Because the real paying sites are market research companies that work for reputable companies, political organisations, etc. to gather information. They aren't pyramid schemes, investment opportunities, etc, they are proper research companies.

Can you make money taking surveys? Of course! I'm currently making around £250 a month by taking them, and my co-contributors to this site are making anwywhere from £50 - £400 a month, depending how much time they put in. This may not seem a lot, but when you consider that I spend about 30 minutes a day doing surveys, that averages out at about £16 an hour, which is a lot more than I'm getting for my day job! I think it's worth it. I have never known anyone to make more than about £600-£700 a month on surveys, but then a lot of people don't earn that much even if they work 30 hours a week or more in their regular jobs.

As I said on the site's Homepage , taking these surveys is not a get rich quick scheme, so move along if you don't want to put in any effort, and good luck in finding a genuine scheme amongst all the masses of spam material online!

Do I recommend signing up and getting involved? Well of course! Why would I have taken the time to build this site and ask my friends' help in running it, if I didn't want to help you too? Why do I think that doing these surveys is so great? Well, not only are you making pretty easy money for doing little more than filling in a few forms or testing products, you can actually pat yourself on the back for helping companies out and providing genuinely useful feedback.

Like any "get paid to" programs on the net, there are some things you must consider before throwing yourself in at the deep-end:

Check whether the sites you want to sign up to are offering cash for surveys or just cash for referrals. There are companies that pay handsomely for referrals but will never send an actual survey to you. I don't recommend them and I won't suggest them either. You'll see a lot of other people promoting them. Of course, they are making money if you sign up, but do you want to make money from referrals, or from actually taking surveys? Bear in mind that many of these companies make their money by selling on the details of people that have been reffered to them, so consider carefully which of your friends you want to sell down the garden path!

Fill out your profiles completely. Depending on the survey, any one of those questions could be the one they need to know in order for you to qualify. You can find more advice about this Here.

It's worth taking the surveys that offer you points or a prize draw submission, when you're first starting out:- most of the sites on the net offering free-to-join survey schemes will pay you in points that can be redeemed for shopping vouchers, or will enter your details in a monthly prize draw. You may feel as though you're wasting your time with these, but they can be worthwhile when you're just starting out, as by repeatedly taking their surveys, your name will appear more frequently in their database of 'trusted' respondants, meaning that they are more likely to put you forward for paid surveys they may hold from time to time.

I receive a regular supply of decent paid surveys in my inbox because I have signed up to several of the sites listed Here. As I said on that page, it is worth checking all of these sites before committing yourself to any of them, as some of the offers are better than others. I was initially worried about paying a fee to be invited to participate, but having spent several months taking the free-to-join sites' surveys, only to be paid £30 (in total), repeatedly failing to win monthly prize draws (though I did win a mug and a biro!) and receive a total of £60 of shopping vouchers (at least my wife was happy about that) I took the plunge and signed up to one site a month for 3 months, and recouped my money for each site within the first couple of days of signing up. Of course having signed up to all those free sites, and taking so many of their surveys, I get a lot of offers for surveys paying small fees from them now, too, which is nice, but not as lucrative as the surveys I receive from som of the sites I listed on this page.

As you may have noticed, this site is still quite new, and we are always looking for feedback from our users. So, if you have any questions or comments, why not email John and the team at home_works@live.co.uk.

Good luck with your surveys!