So you call your mom and tell her about your excellent find and mom says, “Be careful honey, you know none of that internet stuff is true. They will eventually ask for your credit card numbers and then you’ll be in a world of …” You know the rest. It doesn’t matter if you’re 40 years old, Mom still watches out for you. But you know that mom doesn’t really spend a lot of time online and in this case you wonder if Mother doesn’t know best.
So you call your friend, who also stays home with the kids all day and gets bored. You tell her that you are thinking about taking paid surveys online. You friend tells you that she’s read some bad things about these companies. She gets e-mails about them all the time telling her that she won a free $500 gift card to some local merchant. She actually clicked on one and it told her that she had to complete (and pay for) 100 offers before she got her gift card! Your friend says to forget it, they’re all scams. But that doesn’t sound like a survey to you.
So you decide to investigate further because you know that marketers pay consumers all the time for their opinions about products that they are selling. You also see opinion polls on the news and in the papers; they have to come from somewhere. There has to be something to taking paid surveys online. Without further hesitation you get online and do a search for paid surveys and this is what you learn.
You actually can get paid taking surveys online! What’s better, there seem to be hundreds of companies that are willing to pay you for it. Wow! You knew this was getting to be a big industry but you had no idea how huge it was. So if all of these companies are offering to pay you for taking surveys, how can they all still be in business if they’re all as bad as Mom and your friend says they are?
So you cautiously sign up for one of these companies taking paid online surveys. The registration didn’t take very long but they did ask a lot of questions, which makes you just a little leery. Then you realize that you need to qualify for the surveys because the marketing companies need to keep everyone grouped together in order for their research to hold ground. So you answer the questions and wait for the next screen where it asks you to pay for the privilege of taking paid online surveys.
The next screen simply says welcome to our company; you have three surveys waiting for you! Wow, again! In ten minutes you are ready to start getting paid to take online surveys! You can’t wait to show your first check to Mom!
Greg is an avid writer and a long term internet marketer. He plays a large part in the online paid surveys market, and runs the site OnlineBestSurveys. You can find out more about Taking Paid Online Surveys at the web address http://www.onlinebestsurveys.com, a site Greg helps run.
