How to Find Sites to Make Money Online

Believe it or not, there are people in this world who will pay you to do market research surveys online. There are also opportunities to try out products and to win money or prizes from market research sites. Here are some great resources to find sites that actually do pay and are legitimate opportunities if you're interested in doing surveys and trying out products and offers.

Instructions

1. Go to websites like surveystar.blogsource.com, katieshugs.com or itsfree.proboards43.com. These websites have been put together mainly by work-at-home moms who have discovered various ways to make money or try out products on the web, want to share that information with others and want to maximize their income through referrals. Even eHow offers you the ability to make money online.

2. Do some careful reading first. Take your time looking through the sites to see which survey opportunities might be for you. Be sure to see how companies pay you when you read through the options.

3. Read the message boards at wahm.com. The message boards have valuable information about market research survey opportunities, what's legitimate and what is not and how much money you could potentially make.

4. Decide whether or not surveys seem like something you'd like to pursue. If they are, pick some sites to sign up for initially.

5. Expect that you'll have more email as a result of signing up for surveys. You'll get emails regularly depending on how many sites you sign up for. It's up to you whether you want to complete the qualifying surveys that get sent to your email.

6. See if you like it. You can easily unsubscribe to the survey sites if you don't like doing them and if you don't think you'll make any money. They're not for everyone.

7. Fill out the surveys. Sometimes you'll learn about new products and even receive free products to try in the mail. Even a free magazine saves you $3 or $4. Try it. You just might like it.

Tips & Warnings

• Sites have different methods of payment and different rules regarding payment, like whether they allot points first and allow you to cash out or if they pay cash. Before you sign up for a site, understand how it pays.

• Remember that it's all about the demographics so don't take it personally if you don't qualify for every survey. That just means the target group is something other than you.

• Don't expect money to roll in right away. It takes at least a couple of months to rack up enough points to start getting some payment on most sites. And you won't get rich doing this. You might get enough cash for a few incidental purchases or some gift cards to use at stores like Target or Amazon.com.

• Some surveys pay through PayPal. PayPal is completely legitimate, but sometimes criminals target companies like PayPal and send an email about your PayPal account in order to "phish" for money. Before giving out any identifying information in response to an email, confirm that it came from PayPal.

• Do not pay money to join a market research site and avoid sites that require you to refer others to the site in order to make money. The legitimate market research sites will not ask for payment and will allow you to either do surveys yourself or choose to refer others to the site.

Resources

• Surveystar.blogsource.com is a great blog that lists information about surveys that actually pay.
• Katieshugs.com has a link to a list of survey sites.
• The itsfree.proboards43.com message boards have forums for surveys.
• Check out the information available at wahm.com.