How to Gain From Online Surveys

Online surveys can be a multiple blessing. They can provide you with extra income, but you need to know which ones are legit. They can also be time consuming and not worth the money or points you can earn. Therefore, you need to be able to tell the good from the bad and make the most of them. The following will help you gain from online surveys.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

1. Eliminate the scams. Some of the ways to tell if an online survey is a scam is that they promise a high return for very little work and they may only provide you with a list of sites for a lot of money.
2. Check work at home forums. The WAHM forum listed in the Resource section has a post that lists legitimate online survey sites.
3. Understand what you are going to make. Some legitimate online surveys will pay you over $100. These are usually focus groups and require more than a one-time investment on your part. They may want you to try a product over time and complete surveys before and after.
4. Sign up for some of the companies that produce online surveys frequently. This will give you a chance to earn money over a period of time. You may receive surveys daily, weekly or every couple days. They will usually tell you what they are going to pay you and how much time it should take to complete the survey.
5. Open a PayPal account. You will find that most of the surveys will pay you by PayPal, although there are some that will send out checks.
6. Look carefully at the companies that offer points instead of cash. Sometimes these can be a good way to accumulate cash in the long run, but sometimes they are only offering gift cards or prizes instead of cash. Of course, if your goal is to gain from doing the online surveys this still is a gain if there are things you can use.

Tips & Warnings

• Be sure to know what the end goal is to the survey you are planning on taking, whether it's money or points that can be used toward money or prizes.
• Research the online survey companies. There are many scams.

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