Beginner's guide for making money online by taking paid surveys.

Taking online paid surveys is an easy way to make money at home. Realistically, you cannot get rich by taking online paid surveys, but it is a reliable way to make some extra money using your spare time. Doing paid surveys also provides you with an opportunity to satisfy your curiosity about upcoming new products and technologies. Taking paid surveys is fun way to learn new things, contribute your own ideas and make some extra cash.
Here are step-by-step instructions to show you how to get paid by taking online surveys.

1. You need new email accounts.

Most online paid survey companies will send you surveys by email. And some survey companies even send your survey rewards such as Amazon gift card codes by email. If you sign up at many online paid survey sites, you will get a lot of survey related emails from them. If you don't want to mix paid survey invitation emails with your other emails, it is better to set up an email account specifically for paid surveys. Other tips on email accounts for paid surveys.

2. You may need a PAYPAL account.

These days many paid survey companies prefer to send your survey money or prize by paypal, which is a convenient way to pay people online. By using paypal, these paid survey companies can save money on postage and make sure your payment will not be lost in the mail. If you just want to use a paypal account to receive money, you can sign up a basic account at paypal, which is totally free. Paypal accounts for taking online paid surveys are optional, because many survey companies let you choose from several ways to redeem your rewards, including mailing a check to your address, sending money to your paypal account, mailing giftcards to your address and delivering codes of giftcards for online stores to your email address. But if I were you, I will choose to get paid by using paypal since you will be paid much faster using paypal than check.

3. You want to sign up with legitimate paid survey companies with good reviews.

If you want to increase your chances of being invited to do online paid surveys and get paid more, you should sign up as many paid survey companies as possible. But this also means you are at a greater risk to be spammed. Most online paid survey companies are legitimate. They conduct market research by collecting your opinions on products and compensate you for your time with cash or other rewards. However, there are also a lot of paid survey scams, where they collect your private information and sell it to third party without your authorization. As a result, your email address may be bombared with tons of junk emails; you may get hundrieds of messages on your answer machine from telemarketing; and you may be the next victim of identity theft. Fortunately, no legitimate survey company will ask you social security number. What you want to do is to voice your opinions and get paid, but not get spammed. So you always want to sign up only with paid survey companies with good reputations. I think it is a good idea to start your online paid survey journey from several highly recommended survey companies on my list: Best FREE list of top paid surveys. You can start with these great survey companies which paid me in 2008. After you become familiar with online paid surveys, you can gradually sign up with more survey sites. Remember before you sign up with any paid survey site, you should carefully read their privacy policies to make sure your information will be in a safe hand. The other way to avoid paid survey scams is to google it to see whether it is a reported scam by other people.

4.You take qualified paid surveys and get paid.

After you register with paid survey companies, they will send you paid survey invitations through email. Usually it will take some time for you to get paid survey invitations from the company you've newly registered with. So if you do not get any survey emails in the first several weeks, it is very normal. Don't worry. They will invite you soon.



When you get your paid survey invitation, you should take the survey as soon as possible because every survey has a quota for participants. When the quota is filled, the survey will be closed. So if you don't want to miss any chance to get paid, finish the surveys you are invited to as soon as possible.

After you take paid surveys, you should keep the survey invitation email as a proof of your survey participation, since there is always a small chance that your survey credits are not correctly recorded. Most of the time you will not be paid right away. Usually it takes 2-4 weeks for the survey money you earned to get deposited into your account at the survey site you have registered with. And most paid survey sites have a minimum cashout level, which means you can only get your cash or rewards after your survey money reaches a certain level ranging from $5 to $50.

After you get your checks from your paid survey companies, you should deposit the checks as soon as possible because in most cases, these checks are only valid for 3 months after they are issued. So never let your hard earned money go to waste.

My last advice for taking online paid surveys is that "Never pay to get paid!".
You don't need to pay anybody or signup with anything to get the list of paid survey companies, which you can get it for absolutely FREE at my blog. Remeber to bookmark my blog: SurveyCrawler's blog at http://surveycralwer.blogspot.com and check back regularly for new paid survey opportunities.