Are you new to paid surveys and wondering how to take online surveys for money?
If your answer isyes, you are in the right place! This article is a step-by-step guide for paid survey beginners. Please follow my directions below and hopefully you can get a quick and good start on taking surveys for money!
1.Remember do NOT pay anyone to do paid online surveys whatsoever.
It is always FREE to do paid surveys and get paid. Legitimate paid survey and market research companies do NOT charge you -they pay YOU for YOUR opinion.
2.Set up a dedicated email account.
You will get lot of emails and you need a separated email address for survey invitation emails. Note: you’ll need to turn OFF your spam filter or set the spam flter option to “do not delete emails in spam folder immediately” – otherwise you might miss survey
3.You might want to open a free Paypal account.
Many of survey sites offer cash payment via Paypal. It’s free to send money, and free to accept payment if you have a basic account (a low transaction fee apply for Premier and Business Accounts to receive money), and it is usually faster than check payment.
4.Tips on doing surveys.
4.1 Be honest with your personal profile information when sign up with survey companies;
4.2 Response survey invitations quickly. Most surveys have quota and some fill fast, especially high paying/easy to qualify surveys.
5.Tips on getting paid.
Make sure keep the invitation emails for the surveys that you qualify and completed, especially those online interactive surveys/focus group. You want to have proof for your participation when there is a
problem.
6.Tips on avoiding scams.
6.1 If you come cross a survey site, be sure to check their privacy policy. If you are not happy with the privacy policy or they don’t have a privacy policy, stay away from them;
6.2 Be aware the difference between paid surveys sites and get paid sign up offer sites. The later sometimes say they are survey sites, in fact their “main business” is paid offers. They are the sites you get paid for signing up offers, and sometimes you need to pay or provide credit card information while sign up non free offers.
6.3 Stay away from any websites (paid or free) promoting known scam or spam – usually those sites claim they have a list of 300+, 400+ or even 500+ paid survey sites, (the reality is there are NOT 300 survey sites that pay!) They are just promoting anything they can find for commissions, no matter its scam or spam and can’t be trusted.
7.Be patient.
This is very important for survey beginners. It takes a while to get paid since most survey sites have minimum payout requirement and it takes time for them to process payment. Also it takes a while to receive more surveys. For me, | didn’t receive any cash or other rewards during the first month, | had some points or others but not enough to cash out, and the money didn’t start coming in until the end of second month. It is also after two months, | started to receive and qualify for more surveys,including those “high paying” surveys such as interactive online surveys and focus groups.
Some Notes & Tips on Signing. Up with Survey Panels:
●Please note all these survey sites are mobile friendly, meaning you can sign up and taking their surveys from your mobile devices such as smartphones or tablets.
●Make sure to confirm your survey panel membership. This usually involves clicking the link in the confirmation email from the survey panel after signing up. This is a important step for
sign up.
●Some survey panels do require you complete a brief profile survey (such as Pinecone) before they accept you. Most other survey panels have profile surveys that you should fill out to improve your chance of receiving more survey invitations.
●I suggest you take time to sign up with ALL the legitimate survey sites on my lists (or as many as you feel comfortable). The reason is very simple – the more survey sites you sign up with,the more surveys you get.
I am doing my best to include all the legit survey panels | can find for your country or region. If you know any survey sites in your country that are not on my list, please feel free to contact me or leave a comment. Thanks!
