How do I make money off of online survey programs?

[Jennifer F]

Online surveys work like this. You take a survey, about half way through or at the end of the process, you find out that you didn't qualify, so you wait for another survey to come through. You start it, find out you don't qualify, so you wait for another survey.

When you aren't getting enough surveys and didn't make any money, you go sign up with another survey sitep. And the cycle just repeats. The person behind the site makes money from the advertisers who pay a fee to have their surveys taken.

I've done both, the pay ones and free ones. I guess I didn't fit into the group that they were looking for because I spent hours a day filling out forms and never got a dime. I did do traffic exchanges for about 6 months, advertising someone else's affiliate program and made $.85 for about 4 hours a day clicking 4 days a week and a dollar of someone else who bought into the affiliate program I was advertising. Considering I had to have $20.00 accrued before I could actually get a payout, I decided it was in my best interest to move on.

People claim that you can make money doing these free things, a few even claim they are making money. I only know of one guy who actually said he made $250 doing surveys, but he had to sign at over 100 sites. There are a lot of promises and guarantees thrown out there, but from my experiences, I can tell you if I am going to give my time away, I think it would be better spent volunteering at some local business where at least I would feel some sort of satisfaction at the end of the day.

I wrote a blog about advice for working from home. It's all generic and not a sales pitch. A link is in the 2nd paragraph of my profile here on answers. I would invite you to read it as it also explains how to do a search on these offerings that are being spammed.

Always do your homework before you jump blindly into something. At least one of these offerings is illegal. Remember this also, it's not like they are really doing you a favor as they either earn points or a few pennies for getting someone else to sign up from their link.
~good luck
~jennifer
Helping others earn income from home through education of the system.