There are several online surveys that pay you cash, while there are other survey sites that pay you in points towards cash or prizes or that give you chances in a sweepstakes drawing for thousands of dollars.  Most of the time, you want to fill out those that pay you in cash or points toward cash because you will make the most money out of these kinds of surveys and the money can go in a check or can go into your Paypal account directly.

You have to register for the sites that have the surveys and rarely do you get to fill out a survey right away.  Instead, you wait until a survey comes to your email inbox and then you have to wait further to see if you really qualify for the survey.  This involves filling out your demographic information (sometimes all over again as you’ve filled this stuff out at the main site), which includes your age, household information, your income and sometimes where you live.  Surveys also sometimes ask your television watching habits, your purchasing habits or other information to see if you fit the demographics of someone they want to fill out their survey.  Sometimes, after 5 to 10 minutes of filling out this information, you just don’t qualify and they’ve wasted a bit of your time.

If you do qualify for the survey, they will tell you what you’ll get for filling out the survey and will usually tell you how long the survey takes to fill out.  Then you take the 5-20 minutes it takes to fill out the survey and get the cash, points or sweepstakes entry the survey promised you.  Not every survey site is reputable so you’ll want to be careful filling out the survey.  You might want to go to a reputable mega-survey site that pre-screens surveys to make sure they actually pay out what they say they’ll give you and you can fill out hundreds of surveys at such a site.  Good sites for this that give you the best return on the money you pay in to belong to the site include Survey Scout.com ,  Surveys4Checks.com , which has contacts with many major companies that allow you to do surveys for cash and Maximum Paid Surveys .

While there are sites that offer you sweepstakes entries, you can’t prove that they’re really legitimate so go for the sites that pay you cash. Surveys can pay as little as $1 or $2 or as much as $50-$70, depending on the length of the survey and how specialized it is.  That money can be available to you right away in Paypal or can be added to other monies you’ve earned from the site and will come in a check at the end of the month.  It probably won’t be much money unless you qualify for a lot of surveys and give up a lot of your time doing surveys every day but it does add up over time and you can get something out of doing surveys online.

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