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Free Online Surveys - a Way of Making Extra Money?
October 24, 2009
The economy is in a downward spiral, unemployment is moving towards 10%. Many people, strapped for cash are looking around for ways to make extra money.
There are many of different ways to make money on the Internet. Most require significant investments in study, training, websites and time. Most require you to attain a certain level of expertise before you are in a position to compete and generate income.
Lots of people look to legitimate paid surveys as a way to make extra money without having to invest a lot of time and money. If you are a consumer, with enough computer skill to send and receive e-mails, then you can get paid for surveys that pay.
Here’s the way that works. Large companies need feedback from consumers to plan new products and improve existing ones. They also need that kind of feedback to measure the effectiveness of their advertising.
65-70% of the economy of the U.S. and other developed countries is made up of consumer spending. Most large companies have little or no direct contact with the people who actually buy their products. Look around you the next time you go to a department store or supermarket. Thousands of products are being sold by middlemen. The actual producers are nowhere to be seen.
The large companies hire market researchers to measure public opinion and tell them what people think. The market researchers use online surveys as the fastest, cheapest way to sample opinions.
Surveys are a very big business on the Net. There are thousands of surveys being made every week. How in the world can they get people to take all those surveys? Easy! They pay survey participants to fill out those surveys! Surveys pay from $5 to $150 each. Most are in the $10 to $25 range. Not a lot of money per survey, but they don’t take much time and they add up quickly.
Many survey takers report incomes of over $1,000 per month! Take a look at paid surveys. It’s easy to earn money for surveys and make extra money that way.
Payment is by checks in the mail or deposits into your PayPal account. Millions of dollars are going to survey participants every month. Some of that could be coming to you!
By William Howard
