My Survey

Today, I am going to talk about one of my most favorite paid survey sites. It is called My Survey. I joined in mid-April and have done two PayPal cash outs. I have made a total of $25 (so a month and a half) and the points and opportunities are still coming!

They do not send a huge number of surveys, only about a couple a day. What is nice though, is that a majority of the surveys they send me, I actually qualify for, so I do not wast my time. They often give high payouts on surveys and can actually introduce you to neat apps.

The surveys they send are not incredibly long, either, which makes your time and effort even more worth it. Sometimes they will send you test products, too, which are worth even more points. I have even done a few survey diaries for them and those are also major point boosters. For an easy paid survey site that does not waste your time and offers a great pay pal incentive, this is the one to join.

The cash out point is 1100 points minimum which is $10. Or you can wait, or spend your points on other neat rewards items.

Bonus Survey Sites

Here are a couple more survey sites that I came across today that might be worth looking into. I have joined them and am waiting to see the results.

Survey Downline is supposed to send decent paid surveys with a $20 dollar minimum if you want to use the Pay Pal option. One of the neat reward options they have is that you can cash out at $10 if you request Facebook credit. This way, you can get those gems, pearls, dollars, or whatever you game needs with spending money you easily got from filling out a few surveys.

Survey Savvy is supposed to be highly talked about in the paid survey world. They claim to pay upwards to twenty dollars per survey! They also have an option to download a behavioral research study called the savvyconnect.Which they pay you even more for. And you only have to have earned $1 to cash out with a check mailed to you.

Paid Survey Phone Applications

A few nights ago, on my quest for maximizing my survey money making experience, I downloaded several paying survey applications onto my iPhone 3S 8GB (hey, it was free). I have not had a lot of experience with them yet, but I thought I would share them with you. As I learn more about these applications and have done my first cash out or have decided to end my services with them, I will update my blog and let you know.

I like the idea of the survey applications for several reasons. Mostly I like that when we are traveling or when we are somewhere I can not access my laptop to do surveys, I still have another way to make a little cash. Plus, it is convenient because it is right there on my phone, which is almost always by my side. Another good thing about the application based surveys is that they offer a change of pace. They are visually appealing and offer a different and extremely easy way to fill out surveys. Also, they tend to be shorter than online based surveys. Finally, I like them because it is easy money!

MySurvey- this application I am quite familiar with. It is associated to one the online survey sites that I am actively involved in (currently on my second payout in a month and a half!) which I will be writing about in the next few weeks. The application can be linked to your account and it provides you with a few extra surveys every month that are not usually available online. It is an okay application, but they say there will be more surveys available soon, so it may become a more valuable assets in the next few months. Thus I will continue my usage for this application. You must go onto your online MySurvey account in order to cash out your reward points which is 1100 points per ten dollars. So far the pay outs on the application are minute.

Survey.com- this application also links with an online account. I have not yet opened it, but I do plan to so that I can give it a chance. But so far, the application has not proved itself too great, it keeps freezing and is not really giving me a chance to do any surveys because of this. You have to have a minimum of $7.50 to cash out through pay pal which is an odd amount, but smaller than many other survey sites. Each survey that I have seen so far pay out about 5 to 10 cents each, which is a very small amount in comparison to others. But it is possible that future surveys will pay out more, which is often the case.

Survey on the go seems to be a fairly decent paying application. The initial surveys pay out on average twenty-five cents, and the other surveys I have received pay at about one dollar a piece. It requires a balance of ten dollars before it pays out and mostly it asks questions on political and community issues, so it is a nice change from all the other stereotypical surveys.

SwagbucksTV is one of favorites for easy money! This is another application that is linked to an online survey site (swagbucks) that I will be writing a post about in the future. It is not one of my most favorite survey sites and it can take quite awhile before you have enough points to use to redeem anything. That is the best part about this application. You can just keep watching videos all day on your phone about things that actually interest you and get points for it! Just realize that these points are only worth a few cents.

My Interior Decorator.com has so far given me no surveys for me to even tell you of any pros or cons. I have not seen any minimum amount needed to cash out yet so there is one plus that I do know of. It appears to be linked to an online survey site as well, but I have not gotten that far in researching this one as of yet.

Thank you and please comment below on any survey applications that you know of and have used.

Harris Rewards Online Survey

Here is today's paid survey pick....

 
Harris Poll Online is another one of those survey sites that I am debating on leaving as soon as I qualify for my first cash out. It pays pretty well and it does have some neat rewards, but it does not have a pay pal cash out option and as I have explained earlier, this is my main cash out choice.

This site also only gives me a few surveys a week and so after a month and a half of using this site, I have 730 points. They have a special running right now that you can get a $25 restaurant card for only 800 points when it is usually over 1000 points. I am going to try to get the points before the special goes away and then cash out and be done with it.

A really nice thing about this survey site is that even though they only send a few surveys to me a week, nine times out of ten, they are surveys I actually will qualify for. This means that I do not waste my time filling out all the demographic information just to be told "we're sorry, but you do not qualify". So it is frustrating to have those ten minutes or so wasted when you could be getting paid for a qualifying survey. But that is the bonus to Harris Poll, good pay out and more qualifying surveys even if they only send out a limited number of surveys. Plus, if you happen to not qualify, you will get 15 points anyway.

SURVEY BONUS

Signature Surveys is a site I have just come across today. I do not think I will sign up for this one though, because it appears to be fairly similar to some of the surveys that I posted the other day that I have tried signing up for and have decided that it does not work for me.

It offers a $5 sign up bonus and up to a $20 bonus if you complete a certain number off offers that may ask for credit card information. It looks like a legit survey site, but the survey sites that I sign up for has the have a certain look and feel to it, which this does not. If I was still in my beginning stages for doing surveys, I would sign up for it and probably been devoted if it gave me a good pay out like I would have on some of the other survey sites I listed earlier. But as I have gained experience on which sites work best for me, this one is not it. I do encourage you giving it a try though, it could be worth it, I do not know.

Please comment below with any paid survey experiences you have had. The good, bad, and the ugly. I am interested in hearing and you can share what sites you have used and enjoy.
 

One Opinion Paid Survey Site

One of the survey sites that I am currently accessing is One Opinion. It gives a five dollar bonus for signing up and the cash out minimum is $25. 

I am introducing this site first in my series because I probably plan on ending my use on this site as soon as I get to my cash out point. I have been using this site for two and a half months now and I still have only earned $17.50 total and am not seeing the cash out point coming anytime soon.

It has given me a very limited number of surveys (around three or four a day most days and sometimes not even one a day) and most of the time I end up not qualifying for their surveys. I have only had the chance of actually completing about 10 surveys in the almost two months that I have been a member.

I am still suggesting it because you may have the certain qualities that they are looking for and qualify for more surveys than I have. They pay out really well, I have seen some surveys worth almost four dollars. So, as long as you actually qualify for them, you can add up the dollars quickly and make a good amount of money from them. Most of the surveys seem to be valued at about a dollar, though.

As I said, I have not had the opportunity to cash out from this site yet, and I do plan to stop using this survey site as soon as I do my first cash out. It does have the potential for some people to make quite a bit of money off of it, but it does not offer very many surveys each day.

A Few Paid Survey Sites

As promised, below is a list of links to paid survey sites that I have tried, but have discontinued my use because I have decided that they just do not work for me. Realize that I am giving you this information just because I think you could be interested in them. I am not providing any of the below links to make money off of a referral because I no longer fill out surveys for them. Please do your own investigating for total legitimacy and as to if they will work for you. Just because they were not what I was looking for does not meant that they will not work for you, so check them out. I have done my own research and they seem legit, but I have not actually cashed out from them, so I can not promise anything. I also have not completed any paid offers through these companies either.

BzzAgent Is a site where they send you "campaigns" to do. The first and only one that they have sent me was for a campaign to vow to live off of $1.50 a day. Since I had filled out all the the pre-qualification surveys and have not received a lot from them, I just do not access it anymore. They are also supposed to send you samples of items to try and then you fill out a survey about it and then they give you points through mypoints.com. Then you can spend those points on items that they have available.

Zoom Panel Is a site that gives very few surveys and they are not really worth a lot of extra points. Then, the cash out option is that you can spend your points for electronic gift cards, sweepstakes entries, and other items that they have available to have shipped to you. I prefer to just get a paypal reward back.

npdor.com is a site that works with sweepland.com. They send out quite a few surveys and it is easy to get quite a few points. But the points can only be spent on sweepstakes entries and I would rather know that my hard earned points will provide me with a real tangible result than just a promise of a possibility.

Smart Sampling states that they will send you free samples to try, but it always seems that you have to sign up for something else or complete other offers, so I just unsubscribed because I do not need junk e-mail in my inbox.

Vindale Research gives you a two dollar bonus for signing up and you have to have an account balance of $50 in order to cash out. You get paid to do reviews, surveys, and five cents for reading e-mails. A lot of the offers require a credit check, or credit card information, and some you have to pay for in order to get money paid back to you. Like I said, I am only really interested in free surveys, but this seems like a really good site if you are into this type of paid survey taking. They seem like they would pay out really well too.

Inspired Opinions is another survey site that I have recently joined but they still have not even sent me one survey after about two weeks membership, so I have discontinued checking the site.

Opinion World works with survey sampling. I have recently come across it and I know that Survey Sampling works with a few other survey sites that do pay out. I have not tried this site, so I am not sure how it pays or how well it pays.

Getting Paid for doing Surveys

I like to fill out paid surveys so that I can earn a little extra cash fairly easily and have a little fun doing it. Some people claim that they earn hundreds of dollars a month doing online surveys and yes, that is possible, but mostly if you do surveys that require a cash investment of some sort. I choose to do the offers that are completely free only and so I am going to be publishing a series of articles on the survey sites that I do use and have actually worked for me. I have signed up for nearly 30 different paid survey sites and have used them over the last couple of months and I have discovered a few that work really well for me. For the first month worth of hard work and dedication, I have earned $50 and am very close on another $30 or so on a few other survey sites. So, about $100 in the first month and a half, which is not too bad for totally free money if you ask me.

Here is a little bit of a How-To Guide on paid surveys.

The first step is to sign up for survey sites, and sign up for several because you have to find out which ones pay out best for you and spend more time on those and then kick the ones that do not work for you to the curb. My best word of advice is to sign up for about two a day maximum. And then no more that four to six a week. The reason for this is to help prevent you from getting burned out too quick. Doing too many surveys for too many sites all at once can feel overwhelming and it can seem like you are achieving nothing and then all your time has been for nothing. Most survey sites give you a sign-up bonus too, which is a really nice way to begin.

Make sure to stay organized. I have a little notebook that I have written down all the survey sites that I have used along with my usernames and passwords. This way I cannot forget. I also have this list so that I can write notations as to how the site treats me and cross off the ones that I have decided to drop because  they do not help me achieve my goals.

The next step is pretty crucial to being successful. Dedication. You must fill out each survey, open up every mail, keep your profile updated, and check back regularly even several times a day, especially for the first month. This is because the survey company is testing you. They will send you low paying surveys, sometimes non-paying surveys to see how much time and dedication you will give them. That is another reason why I suggest only signing up for a few at a time so that you can give them the dedication you need to in the preliminary stage.

Once you have gained a great reputation with the site, that is when you will begin to see results. They will start sending you higher dollar amount surveys more often and you will begin to be able to cash out and see results for your dedicated time. You can also have a day or two off a week and not worry that they will stop sending you surveys. I take Sundays and Mondays off from doing surveys, just as I do with the blogging so that I can spend time with my family. Lately, I have also only been dedicating about two or three hours a day with doing surveys since I have been sleeping in, doing, house work, taking care of my daughter, and blogging.

Another nice thing about becoming a valued survey member is one of my favorites. I was just sent a sample of body lotion the other day from one of my survey sites that I am using daily in place of my usual lotion. I will use it for about ten days and then they will send me a survey asking my opinion, I will collect $3-$5 for doing it and I could be given a second sample to try and get paid the same amount AGAIN for the second sample.

I have also participated in a food diary for one week, a alcohol consumption diary for one month (which paid me about $3 since I only had a few entries), and am also currently participating in a monthly spending habits diary for a five dollar payment.

Surveys do take some time to do, but they are worth it, even if you only do them a couple times a week because you actually do get some money for doing them. Granted, at this rate I'll make $200 in two to three months worth of work (with three weeks off because I did not have internet access due to moving). If I did the offers that could cost a little money, then I could earn even more, but you have to make that decision yourself.

In the next few days, I will publish the sites that I have tried and seem to be legit, but that have not seemed very useful for me or did not seem to offers the best benefits. They could work for you, and that is why I am going to list them anyway. Over the next several weeks, I will post about one a day of the ones that I have used and enjoy using. I will post how long I have been using them, about how much time I dedicate to them each day and about how much I have earned from the site. Now do not forget that I have only been using them about two to three months. Two of the survey sites that I like best are actually advertised on this page and all the other pages on my blog, so there is a sneak peak for a later post.

Feel free to comment on survey sites you have tried that have or have not worked as well as money you have made from filling out surveys. I am sure all of us would be interested to hear and let us know how much time you have spent doing them.