Are Paid Surveys Scams?
This is a popular question asked by people who are looking for homeworking jobs.
Paid surveys are a legitimate way to earn good money, but don’t expect to be doing it full-time. All companies have to carry out market research to gauge what the market is looking for. If people are looking for a quality pair of boots, or a cheap pair. Do they prefer plain chocolate or milk chocolate. Do they notice TV adverts or radio adverts. Market research surveys are an essential part of business life - and what better way to get the answers quickly than to have access to a panel of people who fill out surveys online! Much easier and cheaper than getting somebody in the street to stop passers by. And almost instant.
The cost of employing and managing street canvassers is astronomical compared to creating an online survey and asking 5,000 people the same questions. The results are also available the same week, not months later. So, you can see the benefits to business.
You can spend hours and hours, daily, trawling the internet, looking for paid surveys companies to sign up with. If you want a quick list, here’s one: Free Paid Surveys List
However, if you want to maximise how many paid surveys companies you can sign up with in the shortest possible time, then the best thing to do is join a Paid Surveys Club. The adverts you see on the internet are selling you instant access to a huge list (usually 300-500 companies) of paid surveys companies. You then apply to each one individually and wait to be sent surveys.
How many surveys you get will depend on your age/sex/location as well as the current month/season.
Some paid surveys will pay in cash, some will pay in points that you can then exchange for gift vouchers. Some others will enter you into a draw for cash, or prizes. It’s worthwhile signing up for as many companies as you can immediately, then answering every survey you get sent for the next 6 months before deciding to drop a few because you don’t like their system or aren’t earning as much from them as others are paying. Whatever you do, the key to success is to do them all and keep doing them. In a lot of cases, the longer you keep doing them, the higher paying surveys you start to get, along with product trials and payment for giving your opinion in a focus group perhaps (these pay a great day rate).
If you are interested in joining a Paid Surveys Club, then these seem to be the most popular and best ones at the moment: Paid Surveys Clubs - and if you’re in a club, then most of them give you extra goodies, like lists of mystery shopping companies and other ways to earn money.
If you do want to make a living out of doing paid surveys, then it is worth joining a club simply because it saves you all the effort of finding so many to sign up with. They’re all just listed there in front of you, so it makes it easier. You’re also notified of new survey sites as they appear, so you don’t need to spend time daily trying to hunt down new ones.
Overall, this can add up to quite a lot of money over the year, certainly hundreds of pounds, if not a couple of thousand. So, think of it as one of your income streams to earn money working from home. What you now need to do is find 2-3 other ways to bring in additional cash.
