Online Survey Companies - NOT Created Equal

by Margaret Fredrick
Make Money Fast...Paid Surveys...Cash for Surveys...Paid to Shop...Work From Home...Home Based Business Opportunity...Earn Money Online...Paid for your Opinion... We've all seen them. But the truth is, all survey companies are NOT created equal! MANY of them are nothing more than an excuse to try and sell you something. SOME of those so-called "free" companies will give you the opportunity to earn $1-$2 for your opinion, but only send you a handful of surveys each month and have such high payout levels, that it can take you 2-3 months or longer to reach them...so you don't make much money in any given year with them. So the secret is:
1. Register with SEVERAL different PAYING companies. Of course, THIS means that you will have to go to the bother and aggravation to keep track of them all and how much you have earned with each of them so that you can get paid if you reach the minimum payout level for each one. In my first month, however, I registered with about 150 different companies, and I didn't reach the minimum payout level with ANY of them. So, basically, I worked for free 8-10 hours per day and seven days a week!
2. Register with ONLY paying sites if you want to earn any money. Oh, the other sites will send you surveys, why not; they know that you're probably working for free! I tried them out, but they DON'T pay you with cash for your time...only with entries or points for prizes that you MIGHT win in a drawing with all of their other thousands of members from across the country. Odds are, you won't win anything.
3. MANY so-called "survey companies" are little more than "fronts" for marketing companies trying to sell you something and you will be asked to take "surveys" that consist of page after page of ads for products and services. It is not uncommon that after submitting your email address and other contact information, you are asked to go through these many pages of "optional" offers only to reach the last page where you MUST choose one of the offers to "complete" the "survey" successfully and "qualify" for your "reward". Most of the time you will choose not to do this, but it is too late...they already have your contact information and soon you will be receiving hundreds of "offers" in your email and, assuming you actually entered your real phone number with these sites, dozens of phone calls from telemarketers.
4. Be careful about not entering your real telephone number or other proper contact information with "paying" sites because MOST require that full and proper contact information be used or you CAN be disqualified from taking further surveys and might even "forfeit" what you have earned in your account.
5. ALWAYS read the "terms and conditions" section BEFORE you register with a company. You MAY find that they "require" you to complete a certain number of surveys and/or "Paid Emails" before you can get paid and MOST of them have a payout "minimum" that you must reach before you can request payment (which can take up to 30-45 days to "process" and send). MOST of these "minimums" are in the $25-$30 range, but I have seen them as high as $50. And SOME companies will only pay you the amount OVER the minimum that you have earned.
As is true with most things in life, you get what you pay for! Don't get me wrong; you CAN make some SERIOUS money working at home completing surveys for companies, just not most of them that you typically find in your inbox! If you want to make some money completing surveys, participating in product Focus Groups, Mystery Shopping, etc., I recommend that you go to a site like:
http://peggi68.paidetc.hop.clickbank.net/