Today there are many thousands of paid online surveys being taken every week. Many thousands of paid survey volunteers are receiving checks in the mail or deposits in their PayPal accounts. Would you like to join them and get checks in the mail?

Here’s how:

1. Pick a good paid survey guide company. There are over 200 of these companies. There are over 700 survey makers in the U.S. alone, some good, some bad, some terrible or worse. The guide companies help you navigate through the constantly-changing marketplace, only signing up with the good survey makers and avoiding scams, hassle and problems.

A good paid survey guide company will be sizable, have a strong money-back guarantee backed up by a bank or financial institution, and will have a low refund rate. Look for guide companies with a refund rate in the 3-5% range (ideal) and avoid any with refund rates 10% or higher.

2. When you sign up with your guide company, they will give you a copy of their list of good survey makers. These will be those survey makers that pay in cash or points redeemable in cash, pay on time and respect your privacy.

It is important that you sign up with all of these (or as many as you possibly can) because this is the way you get invitations to participate in surveys. You need to apply to each survey maker separately, giving your contact and demographic information. They need this to know for which surveys you qualify and to send you invitations to participate.

3. Open a separate e-mail address for this survey business. Use that address in all your applications, then check your inbox there at least daily. Answer all correspondence promptly.

4. When you receive invitations to participate in paid surveys, accept them quickly, fill out the questionnaires completely, answer all questions fully, giving your honest opinions. Fast and complete response will bring more surveys in the future.

Payment will by checks in the mail or deposits in your PayPal account. The exact income you can expect will depend on your diligence and your demographics, but most report incomes of $200 to $600 a month. Incomes of $1,000 or more are possible if your demographics are in demand and if you work at it.

1. Find a survey questionnaire to fill out. There are thousands of surveys being made on the Internet every week. All you need to participate is to qualify and get on the survey makers’ lists.

To qualify, you must be a consumer, 18 or over, have access to the Internet and have enough computer skills to send and receive e-mails. If you eat and wear clothes, you are a consumer! So qualifying is easy.

Getting on the survey makers’ lists is easy too. You just need to contact each one individually on the Internet and apply to be a future survey participant. You give them your contact info and demographic (gender, age, city, state, zip code, etc.) info, then wait for them to send you surveys for which you qualify.

Getting on the right lists is more difficult. There are over 700 different survey makers in the U.S. alone and over 3,000 worldwide. That is great, but the problem is only 20% or so actually pay you in cash or equivalent. The others also make surveys, but you end up working for nothing or next to it. Which brings us to,

2. Get paid. If you want to get paid you want to sign up with the survey makers that pay in cash and avoid the rest, the “time wasters”. The fastest and most efficient way to do this is to choose a good paid survey guide company and use its list.

These paid survey guide companies or paid survey sites maintain lists of preferred survey makers to help their members get started making money with online paid surveys. For a small one-time fee they will give you a copy of their current list. You get your cost back in the first 2-3 paid surveys you take.

It is very important to pick a GOOD paid survey site. To find a good one, look for a strong 60-90-day money-back guarantee, backed up by a bank or financial company such as PayPal or ClickBank. Most importantly, look for a low refund rate under this guarantee.

The money-back guarantee tells you the paid survey site stands behind the service they provide and will give you good value. The financial backing tells you that the site is responsible and respected (Scams cannot get such backing!). The low refund rate tells you that the clients just before you were satisfied.

The refund rate is the best indicator of past performance. It is made up of the percentage of clients that demanded their money back. A low refund rate means many happy clients who were satisfied. A high refund rate means many clients were unhappy, dissatisfied, and demanded their money back.

You want to be amongst the happy clients. So insist on a paid survey site with a low (3-6%) refund rate. Avoid any with refund rates that are either unknown (almost always means High!) or are as high as 9% or more.

3. Survey money is yours. When you get your copy of the list of good Survey Makers, apply to each and every survey maker on the list. They will send you invitations to take surveys, to which you will respond, they send you money for your participation and survey money is yours.

So there you have the complete formula of find survey questionnaire to fill, get paid, survey money is yours!

Large corporations need our input on their latest products and product ideas. They want to know what we think before they go and spend millions of dollars manufacturing something. In order to get our input they need us to fill out surveys for them. Now normally, this was done over the phone and people were compensated with gift certificates, however with the advent of the Internet survey sites have popped up as the middleman instead of the telemarketer, and these survey sites are willing to share in the profits these large companies provide.

To get paid taking surveys, all you have to do is sign up with a reputable survey site, easier said than done. There are a lot of scam sites out there, be careful. But if the survey site has dealings with Fortune 500 companies like Nike, Coca-Cola, Panasonic etc. Chances are they are at least decent. Make sure that the site at the least has a money back guarantee so that if you’re not happy for whatever reason, you can easily get your money back.

You can get paid taking surveys, but you have to put in the work. Don’t see this as some get rich quick program because you’re going to have to put an hour or two of your time into this daily to see the thousand dollar checks coming in each month.