Online surveys update with proof of payment photos; Yes, you CAN make money from online surveys!! (recently updated 7/6/09)
- Over 17 ways to make money online, all listed in one "super post" here!!!
All of the survey sites we mention are free to sign up. The more you sign up for, the more surveys you will receive. I recommend you sign up for all of them, and create a special email account, so you can keep all the survey stuff in one place.
ADDED 4/09:
Surveyhead - get $5 just to sign up, pays via Paypal - I recently received a $20 survey invitation for a 15 minute survey from this site! You get paid to fill out your survey profile too! We have LOTS of readers earning LOTS of money from this site!
ADDED 3/09:
Lightspeed Research - one of my favorites, cash out at $5 - get paid via Paypal. Recently had lots of HIGH DOLLAR SURVEYS from this site!
Ipsos Survey Panel (United States and Canada Ipsos Survey Panel sign up link)
Valued Opinions Survey Panel - surveys up to $50 per survey! They send out tons of survey invitations too!
Cash Crate - this one offers everything from paid surveys to get paid to try offers. Cash can add up pretty quickly with the more offers you do!
Survey Savvy - they have sent out more invitations recently, including one for a $50 survey. Woot!
My Survey - they send out quite a few invitations and their surveys are quick and fun! Some lead to paid trials (where you get paid to try new products at home)!
Opinion Outpost - one of my FAVORITES, cash out at $5! I get lots of survey invitations and the surveys are fun!
Mindfield Online - sends out LOTS of survey invitations, some lead to PAID TRIALS... and they just lowered their minimum payout level to $5 (as of 1/19/09)!
American Consumer Opinion - nice variety of paid surveys
HCD Surveys - this one offers lots of health care and political surveys (it was great fun during the recent election!)
Inbox Dollars - get $5 to sign up, paid surveys and get paid to read emails, plus get paid to do offers. Cash adds up quickly through offers.
Send Earnings - get $5 to sign up, a sister site to Inbox Dollars, very similar
Treasure Trooper - similar to Cash Crate, with various offers, including paid surveys
***And, even though it's not technically not a "paid survey" company, we also get money by reading emails:
Hits4Pay - get $10 to sign up, get paid to read emails, cash out at $25, paid via Paypal
We have been taking some photos of our checks from these companies over the last few months, and we are including some of them here as proof of payment for you! We generally cash out as soon as we get to the minimum payment level for each site (which is $5 or $10 in many cases). This means we may get more than one check from the same company each month.
Here are the proof of payment checks (TNS = MySurvey):
Can anyone sign up for the surveys or are they limited to US citizens?
Some of the survey sites are available to people living in other countries. Here is the easiest way to tell: As you sign up, if you are able to choose a country location other than the United States (in the part where it asks for your address), then the survey site will work in other countries.
Also, even on most of the survey sites that are "limited" to the United States, you do not specifically have to be a U.S. citizen, just a U.S. resident.
How in the world did you get so much from cash crate?? I've only been given $1.50 for like 30 different things I've done... Help me out!!
I do a lot of the daily surveys, you can do up to two daily surveys and if you qualify and finish you get 80 cents each. They usually take me about 10 minutes or less. So if you do one survey every day for the month you get about 24.00, plus I do several offers as I can.
Thanks for the great info!
Does it bother anyone that sometimes these survey sites download "stuff" to your computer that you might not want? They may even be able to get personal info.
Actually the don't download "Stuff" on your computer. If you have an issue with spyware, I suggest you download and install ad-aware.
The only thing the survey companies I have ever used do is retain cookies, but that is windows explorer that does that, not the survey companies.
If you are that paranoid about it, run Ubuntu Linux and firefox like I do. Linux is not susceptable to Viruses or spyware.
Anonymous - We have never had ANY of the survey companies we use download "stuff" to our computer. (My husband is a computer geek, so he checks our computer regularly.)
I can't speak for survey companies that are not on our list, but for the ones on our recommended survey list, we have not had "stuff" downloaded to our computer.
Hi,
thanks for all the sites and tips.
May I ask if you have received checks from inboxdollars and send earnings yet? I recently signed up for the two and I was wondering if they paid you timely and the checks don't bounce back.
In addition, I would like to ask about hits4pay. I visited the site, but in the "terms & conditions" I read you have to fill out a tax form? Wouldn't that require private information? I am a bit uneasy about the tax form thing...
Thanks again.
Thanks for sharing!!!!
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@ Anonymous: We have never had any of the survey companies we use and promote bounce checks. We do a lot of research and try them out for a couple months before we share them. I don't like to promote something I have never tried myself. The only thing we have noticed is some companies send checks/payments in two weeks, others are REALLY slow and take 6 weeks. But they have always come through.
Many of the survey companies require your SSN for tax purposes. If you would happen to make over the amount ( something like 600 a year or something), then they have to send you a tax form at the end of the year.
Here is my question - I have read several blogs that say use a junk email address for signing up for stuff. But do you use the junk email when you sign up for these or do you use for the offers you get from these websites? It is a little confusing to me. How do you know when you are getting a big $$ survey if you don't give your "good" email address?
If you use an alternate email address to sign up for surveys, you need to check it often, at least once a day. Otherwise you could miss high dollar survey invitations.
Thanks for the tip to set up a separate email address just for surveys. Great suggestion!