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Getting paid for surveys is all the rage lately.

There are several ways about doing this and even more companies offering there services to make this opportunity available. There is the free method where you just search for “Free Surveys” and you will find several dozen to sign up for. Some even offer sign up bonuses. But they all have a minimum cash out level you must reach before you can withdraw your earnings. Some are $15, $25, $50… what ever. Just for example, each of these sites may offer a $2 survey each day. Thing is that you need to qualify for it. Each site will have you fill out a basic profile about your self (married? kids? cell phone? gamer? cars? pets?). I get some all the time asking me do it along with my 7 year old daughter about a new doll on the market or new cereal. You won’t qualify for all of them. You need to know this up front and be flexible in your answers about who you are.

Still sticking with our example above. If you find and sign up for 20 sites, and qualify for 1/4 of there surveys, that’s 5 surveys at 2$ each (some more - some less) equaling about $300 a month. Not to bad and that is pretty realistic. For those that were able to take me up on the Project Payday opportunity, you automatically had your membership paid for at SurveyScout opening the door to over 400 different sites that will pay you for taking short and fun surveys.

Some controversy exists in - While you should never have to pay a site to take there surveys, there is nothing wrong with paying someone that has all ready put together a list of sites that would take you months to find on your own. After all, your time is money. Some survey sites offer cash, prizes, contests and trial offers. For those that wish to get there feet wet, here is a list of the top performing CASH sites.

Survey Savvy

American Consumer Opinion

Ipsos Survey Panel

Global Test Market

Lightspeed Research Panel

My Survey Panel

Opinion Outpost

Your2cents

So the first way was to seek out the best free sites that pay you to take surveys. The second was to join one site with 400+ leads. The last way is to pay some one that has all ready done the hard work of finding the best and highest paying sites. Below is one example. CashCreation.Com has done the research and found sites that pay upwards of $75 per survey. They charge a one time fee of under $50 to give you the list of top dollar sites to get started immediately. Then once you get the hang of these 15 minute surveys, you looking at $200 + per day.

This can seem over whelming at first, and yes it takes a little getting used to and organization on your part. You may want to see what it is all about with some of the free sites but I would not recommend doing that way to long, because It’s the same amount of work for the free or paid versions. Sticking with the $2 surveys to long will lead to frustration and you’ll miss out on the real money.