subject: Getting Paid For Doing Online Surveys At Home [print this page] Getting Paid For Doing Online Surveys At Home
You CAN take online paid surveys. You CAN get paid for survey work. You CAN take an online paid survey from home and get paid for it. That said, it should be pointed out that the online paid surveys marketplace has been substantially infiltrated by sales companies that find the "Online Paid Surveys" system to be a flag of convenience.
Real survey makers, the ones that offer legitimate money online, enjoy generally good reputations. They pay in cash or equivalent, and respect the privacy of their survey participants. There is trust between them and the participants who take their surveys. They usually do not actively recruit new survey participants.
But in recent months and years a new group of pseudo-survey makers or outright sales companies have used the name "Survey Maker" and claimed to offer online paid surveys to would-be survey participants. The real intention of many was not to offer online paid surveys at all, just to sell various products or services to those who signed up for their systems.
Apparently it can be a profitable venture. So much so that the pseudo-survey makers can actively recruit new hopeful survey takers. They do this through agents that get paid recruitment fees for finding and recruiting "new meat" to exploit. Some do a pretty good job of faking it.
So while you CAN still find the real survey makers and take online paid surveys, you have to cull your list of survey makers with a heavy hand. It is not hard to get paid for survey work or take an online paid survey at home. It is hard to sort through the pretenders and wannabes and find the real survey makers.
As a rule of thumb, any supposed survey maker that sends you more sales offers than invitations to take online surveys is highly suspect. To get paid for survey work you will need to stay focused on surveys and rate all survey makers with which you have signed up by the number of actual, paying surveys they send you.
You should not have to buy anything in order to make money online from home. Ethical survey makers ask your opinion. Sales companies try to influence you to buy their wares. The two activities are hardly compatible. But some survey makers do try to supplement their income by selling things.
The best advice is to avoid these. If they do not offer you paid online surveys within 6 to 12 months, you should resign and take them off your list. If they bombard you with offers, let them know that you only want to get paid for survey work and not to buy things. If they persist, cull them out.
Some will keep on sending you sales offers, cluttering up and spamming your inbox. Ask them to quit and to take your name off of their lists. If that does not work, note their e-mail addresses and "blacklist" or block them at your e-mail service provider. They will not help you with your online paid survey at home business.
Start with the best list you can get (Usually from an online paid survey membership site with a good money back guarantee and a low refund rate). A good list will have over 50% good survey makers. Even with a good list you will need to sort and cull out the sales outfits that sneak in.
You can still take online paid surveys from home and get paid for it. But you will need to wade through and cull out the maybe 40% of so-called survey makers who will not help, but will just distract you and waste your time. Cull them out without mercy.
