Make Money Doing Online Surveys

While it is certainly possible to make money doing online surveys, the payouts are quite low and opportunities vary depending from location to location.

However, there are plenty of people who take surveys every day and the money they earn mounts up over time, so you don't get too many people complaining about it.

After all, for many people, this represents a nice side hustle that those spirited souls can do for an extra paycheck instead of wasting their spare time staring blankly at the TV set or mindlessly scrolling through social media

online surveysJust for reference, neither of those things will make you a dime, if you hadn't already figured that out.

Why Do a Side Hustle Anyway?

If you are making more money than you can realistically spend each month, you probably don't need to even consider working extra hours at a side-hustle.

However, so many people are living paycheck to paycheck just to pay the bills, keep the roof over their head and food in their bellies, the chance for some extra income is very welcome indeed.

To be able to make even as little as an extra hundred bucks a month can be life-changing for a lot of folks. It can mean eating a little more healthily, not relying on a credit card to get you through the month or just having a little extra cash to save for a rainy day.

People like doing surveys because they're fairly easy and straight forward, don't take much time and they do pay when they say they will.

To know if it might suit your individual needs, sometimes you have to just bite the bullet, roll up your sleeves and get stuck in!

What Surveys Want

If you're not sure what survey companies actually want, here's the whys and wherefores.

If you look around you out there in the big wide world, you can't fail to notice that there are many different businesses large and small, companies and even big corporations that provide services or make stuff to sell to their customers.

In order for those companies to succeed in business, they need to know what their customers want, so they can provide the best services or products to match their needs. To do that, they can either make a wild guess and suffer the consequences of being wrong (like rapidly going out of business) or they can ask the customers (or potential customers) what they want.

Most savvy businesses prefer to do the latter, because they know the best answers come right out of the horse's mouth. And when they know for sure what customers want, they can make sure they provide it and everybody wins.

Win-Win Situation

The customer gets what they want and the company makes their profit for providing it.

Instead of spending huge resources to send employees out onto the street to ask the public what they want from the company, it is far more cost-effective to use online survey companies to ask those questions and gather the answers for them.

So, depending on where you live and if a certain company is operating in your area, they'll want to know what your preferences are for the products or services the company provides.

Basically, your opinion counts for a lot!

How to Sign Up with Survey Companies

The sign-up process is generally made as easy as possible so that the companies can have new survey takers on their books and grow their biggest resource, which is people like you!

Each survey app will be slightly different to others, but a general rule of thumb is they'll want to know who you are, where you live and what your personal preferences are for a whole bunch of subjects. This is to make sure your interests will coincide with the greatest number of businesses that make use of their service.

It pays to be completely honest during the sign-up process, like giving a real name/address, email address and preferred payment method so they can contact you with survey tasks and be able to pay you when you've done them.

Which Survey Companies are Best?

There are quite a lot of survey companies out there, but some of the bigger, better known ones are generally the best ones to get started with.

I'll give you a list of the most recommended survey apps according to the bets positive user reviews:

Each survey program can be read about in more detail in their own articles that I have linked to from the list above.

Summary

As a side-hustle to earn some extra cash, if you live in a location that is favored by businesses that want your opinions, taking online surveys can be a useful way to spend some free time constructively.

Don't expect that it will make you rich, because it certainly won't. There just are not enough hours in the day or available tasks to make that possible.

But for a few extra bucks just for sharing your opinions, it's actually a pretty fair pursuit, especially when you can do it from the comfort of your own home!


Posted on: July 3, 2023


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