how do i make money doing this?

shari1009 · Joined: 28 Aug 2004 Posts: 1 Location: Pennsylvania, USA

I have been taking surveys for about 2 months and the only thing I have received is a $5.oo check from ACOP. Is there any better way of doing this, I'd some more cash or some products. Please help. and thank you in advance. shari1009

BennyBaines · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 53 Location: California

Join as many panels as you can. I have joined over 120
survey sites. I have received invites from maybe 40
of them. That's right after 5 months 80 or more of them have
NOT sent me anything(Except maybe a confirmation email or two).
Of the 40 who have sent something, only three send invites
regularly, Greenfield, Survey Spot and Gozing. Those three
pay very little if at all. My suggestion is to get a real job!!!
You could easily make more money in one month at Burger King
than I have in the past 5 months.

FreePaidSurveys · Site Admin Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 398

I've gotten surveys from a lot of the sites I've joined, if not all. Some will only send 1 or 2 a year. Some send more. I've had several surveys pay over $50 and several over $100 (and those weren't drawings either). Make sure you are checking the sites that accumulate points, Lightspeed, Harris Poll etc...

Now 2 months is not that long. Some of these places will take that long just to send you cash that you are owed. You will sometimes have bad months and sometimes really good ones.

As Benny so bluntly put it; you're not going to get rich from doing this. You'll not even make what a part-time job would get for ya. Consider surveys assomething fun to do that will make you some extra cash. I can't really say how much one could make because it depends on soo many things, but best guess, I would say if you get to the surveys before they expire, participate in the sites that don't require an invite maybe a thousand or 2 per year. The only other thing that you could do would be to refer some people.

Read through the rest of the website. I've tried to include some good information to help everyone out.

Hope this helps
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BennyBaines · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 53 Location: California

Hey Chris, can you list the sites that don't require an invite?
Thanks.

FreePaidSurveys · Site Admin Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 398

If you go to the "Tracking List" /files/sort.html section of the site you'll find a list of them. The first 2 categories are the ones to really look at. I do need to update this list, but I think the majority are there. These generally are not big payout sites (some of them actually need to be removed because they are not worth the time). But you'll find that some of them add up after a while and some are for contests. You should login to NFO everyday, just by logging in you get a sweepstakes entry. Check Lightspeed often because whenever you do their mini polls you get an entry into a 5000 point a day giveaway and a bigger (quarterly I think) sweepstakes. Six Questions gives you points just for logging in everyday, these points build until you reach 100 points per login - they just revamped their referral rewards too, so if you're into referrals it's much better there now. Greenfield I don't bother with too much anymore, I don't have enough time, if I'm really bored I might check them out. Hotspex is pretty cool, sweepstakes tickets. Memolink is not to bad, takes a while to accumulate points but there's lots of ways to earn them. And there's It Pays To Learn, which I've found to be somewhat profitable IF you're willing to invest in it a bit.

Hope this helps,
I'll try to update the traking page soon.
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BennyBaines · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 53 Location: California

Thanks again chris that was very helpfull!!

One more thing, are you a member of any sites that can only
be joined through a referal(Other than viewpoint)?
If so I'd like you to send me a referal to them.

FreePaidSurveys · Site Admin Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 398

And unfortunately I can't invite you to that one. Have to find a banner.
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nk_surf · Joined: 02 Jan 2005 Posts: 3

Mickey · Guest

Hi Everyone,

I'm a newbie, but want to pass on some information. I've been doing paid surveys for over 3 yrs now, and make about $50 per month. However, I've recently really dug into focus groups and taste tests too. All in all for the year 2004 I made over $1,000, so it really does pay off. Something else is you have to be patient. It's taken me awhile to get where I'm at, so don't give up. If anyone wants to "discuss" at length or compare survey companies there with, email me at [email protected], make sure you say something regarding surveys in the subject line, as I get alot of emails. Thanks and good luck.