10 Good Tips for Taking Paid Online Surveys

[AngelaAtHome]

Everyone wants to know which surveys pay, but there are a few other things that you need to know before you even sign up for your first paid survey site. Here are ten tips, tricks and techniques that I have learned and I will add others as they occur to me. I am sure other members will add their own as well.

1. Use a brand new email address that is dedicated solely to surveys, because you will want to ensure that you have a dedicated email account to store and organize your survey invitations. This ensures that you do not get email invitations mixed up with your personal email, and it makes it easier to track individual survey panel invites. A good one to use is Gmail, because it has color-coded labels for labeling different surveys from different panels. You can also use Hotmail.com, Yahoo.com, AOL.com, etc.
2. NEVER pay for a list of paid online surveys because we will provide that list to you freely. You do not need to pay anyone for anything. All you will need is a list of 20-30 good legitimate paid online surveys. You also do not need to sign up for 100-200 surveys. A basic list of 10 legit survey sites is enough to get anyone started and 30 survey sites is enough to make over $200 per month within six months time.
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4. Get a PayPal account so you can get paid FAST. Checks often take six to eight weeks to arrive and most of the larger legitimate survey sites are now implementing PayPal into their payment systems.
5. AVOID all Get Paid to Try (GPT) offer sites that tell you to sign up for Silver, Gold and Platinum offers. These never lead to legitimate paid survey sites.
6. NEVER give out your Social Security number or credit card information. Legitimate survey companies will not ask for either of these numbers except for tax purposes if you earn more than $600 with them during the course of the tax year, in which case you will receive an IRS W-2 form from the company at the end of the year.
7. ONLY give out your cell phone number for text-based surveys that you opt-in to; otherwise, I would avoid it.
8. When you complete a paid survey, ALWAYS save the email invitation and keep an accurate record of every survey that you complete, particularly surveys of $5 and above. If there is a discrepancy and you do not receive credit for a survey it is very important that you have the survey number to reference in order to collect your incentive. Also, save the original email invitation for each survey company that has the link to the home site and the support email, as well as create a link in your browser favorites for quick access. Browser links are particularly important for daily survey panels that you will access first thing every morning after completing higher paying surveys from your email inbox.
9. ALWAYS fill in all of the profiles when you sign up for each paid survey site. This will insure that you receive the maximum number of surveys that you qualify for and allow the survey company to target you more accurately so you disqualify less often. Also keep them updated.
10. Check your email FREQUENTLY as the highest paying survey invitations and, especially the lucrative panel forums, often fill up within a few hours or even sooner of the email invitation arriving in your inbox.

[krissiten]

nevermind.

[maliha44]

Thanks for the tips!

[Ricki911]

Thanks! Many dont think of this either and fall for the scams then give up.

[skingdon]

thanks this is very helpful

[icangarden]

Thank you for the very good advice. What survey sites do you belong to?

[moneysavingmama]

Great tips! I follow these as well

[himachal]

wow good tipsssssssss

[JessicaGreer]

Thank you for the very good advice. What survey sites do you belong to?

Toluna, Opinion Outpost, Nielsen, and Superpoints.

Ask Sharpie for a Superpoints invite!

[Sean182]

Careful with the roboform. Many surveys are timed and roboforms can reduce the amount of time it takes to complete them. Its possible survey companies can detect this and deny payment for not being within their time limits because it looks as if you're rushing through and not giving a full effort.

Sean182
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