Legitimate Paid Online Surveys - How to Find Them, Make Money With Them
by Jorge Chavez
Legitimate paid online surveys are a big business that serves a very useful function. Big companies need to know consumer preferences to design new products, improve existing products, communicate effectively about what they have to offer and measure advertising results. Surveys are a prime tool to gather this information.
To encourage consumers to volunteer for these surveys and actually fill out the survey questionnaires, legitimate paid online surveys are offered with payment going to the participants. This can be and is a great source of supplementary income for many thousands of people who enjoy participating in surveys.
Unfortunately this activity also attracts survey makers who want to short-change the participants and keep more of the paid survey budget for themselves. And, of course, there are the fakers and wannabes, even sales companies disguising themselves as survey makers to get your demographic info and sell you things.
To make money with legitimate paid online surveys, first you must find them amongst the pack out there. There are over 700 survey makers in the U.S. alone, over 3,000 worldwide. Somewhere around 30% of these really pay participants and are worth your time in dealing with.
Finding those that pay is complicated by the fact that very few of the good survey makers (the ones that offer legitimate paid online surveys that actually pay you cash) pay recruitment fees for new participants. They don't need to since they pay in cash and people seek them out.
The survey makers who don't pay are constantly losing survey takers and must recruit, paying up to $5 a head and more for new recruits. Because of this, almost all of the free paid survey ads and publicity you see on the Net is recruiting for these "low pay-no pay" survey makers.
The "free" sites survive, prosper and pay for their ads just by collecting these recruitment fees for recruiting newbies and the gullible.
So ignore the ads and "free" sites and hire a guide who will work for you. Pick a good paid survey site with a strong 60-90 day money-back guarantee backed up by a bank or financial company such as PayPal or ClickBank. The strong guarantee says the site is serious, stands behind its service.
Most importantly, look for a guide site with a low refund rate under their guarantee. Low refund rates mean that their clients were satisfied that they got their money's worth. High refund rates indicate many unhappy clients demanding their money back.
Look for a guide company site with a refund rate in the 3-6% range. Avoid any with refund rates that are either unknown or as high as 9% or more.
With a strong guarantee you know you can't lose your small initial membership fee (which you can make back with your first 2-3 surveys, anyway). The low refund rate indicates that the clients before you made money and were happy. The setup is such that the paid survey site must perform to keep your "earnest money".
You then have a money-back guarantee, an incentive for your guide company to really get you started making money and a strong indication that they did exactly that for their clients who came just before you! This is the best shot at it and the most assurance of success you can find anywhere.
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