Work From Home Jobs and Opportunities

There are many who have made money with work from home jobs,  and home businesses, including Internet gurus, but all these money makers have spent endless hours and sometimes immense expense to get there. For those who need a little extra income to supplement their full time incomes, or maybe just to get some extra spending cash without any start up costs or significant time investment, you can get paid to take surveys online.

For those of you who may need just enough to dine at that 5 star restaurant once in a while, or to purchase a new tech toy or maybe you are a stay at home mom or full time student who struggles to make ends meet and needs some extra income to pay the bills, getting paid to take surveys online is a great solution.   There are legitimate, work from home jobs by doing online/email surveys for market research companies who pay to take surveys online to consumers for their opinions, and those opinions shape the market on a variety of topics from groceries to automobiles, medical research, testing new advertising and lots more. These survey opportunities are the easiest, and quickest work from home jobs and some of the best ways to  earn some extra cash.  I personally had made 2,000 last year working from home with paid surveys.

Now please, let me be clear before you quit your day job and book a first class vacation to Greece, getting paid to take surveys online is not a get rich quick, or even get rich eventually plan. You will not make billions, or even thousands from cash paid surveys because in reality this type of work from home job is just for extra income!

As I have told you guys before, there are scams out there that claim people are making thousands of dollars a month working from home by doing surveys online, this is total crap and just another way to get you to pay money for a list, run for your life!

The truth is, you can get paid taking surveys online and make some nice pocket change for very little effort, from your computer and have fun at the same time. The best part is you could work from home, in your pajamas, between other chores or in place of them, at school, on your laptop, between the stirring of the stew, during commercials, or even while on your lunch break and still get paid! The point is you have flexibility and you can choose. The only requirements for work from home jobs and to get paid for taking surveys online is a computer, an Internet connection, an email account and a desire to answer questions.

Good Paid Survey Sites

There are many sites where you get paid to take surveys online and many survey sites, some are great, some are ok, and some are really great, offering the most for your work from home time in income and opportunity. My research and experience is two years long and with some trial and error I have been able to weed out the winners.

First, remember this:

1. NEVER pay to become a member of a survey site. The legitimate ones do not charge, you get paid to take surveys online, not the other way around, you are doing them a favor by submitting consumer opinions which in turn serves their clients.

2. Be sure to enter truthful honest information when answering survey questions, and that they match your original profile information. If you make things up just to complete the survey and get paid to take the survey they will cancel your account.

3. Make sure you add the companies email extension information to your white list/email contacts so that survey invitations sent to you do not get put in your bulk or spam folder and you miss the opportunity to get paid to take the online survey.

Now to the good stuff. My experiences with the sites I review has always been positive and I do recommend them to my friends and family as the best online survey sites to work from home.

How Survey Sites Work

• Upon registration these survey sites will send surveys invitations via email along with the respective reward amount.
• You then respond and complete the questionnaire.
• Qualification is usually determined with the first few questions (based on specific demographics that their looking for) and if you qualify and complete the survey you will be credited with the respective award.
• Most surveys take anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes, depending a lot on the individual who takes them.
• Most pay cash dollars, some pay points which you can accrue over time and exchange for cash or prizes or gift cards. When you visit these sites you can view a rewards page that highlights their specific award program. Some of these companies also conduct surveys via telephone, cell phone texting and in-person focus groups that pay even more.

Best Survey Sites to Work From Home

Your 2 Cents is one of the best companies to work from home with and you get paid for taking surveys online at about $1-$10  a pop. Plus the also pay bonus bucks for completed profiles. They pay via check once you have a minimum of $10 on your account.

Global Test Market is a worldwide market research company, well known and well established. You get paid for taking surveys online with market points, which are exchanged for payment via check. Each market point is worth 5 cents, you can request payment once you reach 1000 points or $50. They send out lots and lots of surveys all worth between 5-200 points each so the points accrue quickly.

Greenfield Online sends out a lot of surveys on a variety of topics, you get paid to take surveys online for cash payment and some for sweepstakes entries, not my favorite thing. Payment can be received via Paypal or check.

American Consumer Opinion is a worldwide research company that offers work from home jobs by giving opportunities to consumers to voice opinions through online surveys. You get paid to take surveys online via check payment for each completed survey. Surveys focus on evaluation of new products, testing new advertising and consumer research.

Clear Voice – Another great work from home job with lots of surveys and you get paid to take surveys online with your choice of Amazon money, Dining Gift Cards or Prepaid Mastercards as payment.

Global Opinions/Synovate – Lots of surveys rewarded with points that are exchanged for cash equivelents, minimum payout is $20.

Valued Opinions – Another good one with lots of work from home survey opportunities and you get paid to take surveys online with cash rewards and Paypal or check payments.

Partnership Plus – They ask you to report your clothing purchases monthly and you get paid to take surveys online with cash via check or with gift cards to a variety of different retailers. This is a great work from home opportunity because you do not need to qualify for surveys just do a monthly check in with your purchases and fill in some information about what you bought!

My Survey – Points rewarded for surveys then you get paid to take surveys online by redeeming at different levels for cash. Their surveys are very short and so it takes a little while to accrue points, but the time investment is very short.

Opinion Square offers work from home online surveys on a variety of topics from cell phones to groceries. The rewards in the form of points that can be exchanged for a large variety of products, from electronics to kitchen items and DVD’s. I have a cordless phone and a DVD player that I got through them.

The Socratic Forum is a technology based research company. Surveys are mostly about technology, IT, computer specific topics, business, e-commerce and such. Most of the surveys require knowledge of these topics to qualify so unless you have the expertise you might be out of luck, like I have been quite often. You get paid to take surveys online and the rewards are good, an average of $6 per survey.

Survey Savvy sends lots of surveys on all consumer topics with cash rewards and payment by check.

Zoom Panel rewards completed surveys with points, takes a while to accrue, and there are different redemption levels, the lowest is 1000 points redeemable for merchandise such a cell phone covers and a universal remote the highest is 10000 points which includes digital cameras, food processors and more.

Focus Forward Market Research Service also sends cash paying surveys, and payment can be requested once account reaches a total of $10.

Esearch is a prestigious company that sends high paying surveys and precious few of them some as high as $20 or more a pop, not bad for a few minutes of work from home, while watching TV.

Vindale Research has been around for a long time. This site’s primary focus is the evaluation of products and services. Basically you sign up for trials of particular services and products. For instance, they had an online movie rental survey, where you sign up for blockbuster.com for $9.99 for the first month (you may cancel anytime once that month ends) then you fill out a short survey about the sign up process experience. Vindale in return reimburses you for any costs associated with sign up as well as extra money for your time.

Now I have to tell you that when I first signed up with them I was wary because that offer for Blockbuster as well as almost all of their evaluation offers require a credit card in order to sign up for the goods or services. But I tried it and have never been sorry. Vindale always pays as specified and they are completetly honest and I get to try out a lot of cool things for free. In the end the total that I got paid for Blockbuster from Vindale Research was $20 (9.99 for the trial fees I paid and the rest for my time) and I got a free month of movies. I have since done many evaluations and I steadily make about $50 every two weeks, you get paid to take surveys online via Paypal or check by mail every two weeks once you accrue $50.

Warning: 1. Make sure to read each offer’s details and cancellation requirements. 2. Be sure to read the detailed instructions for each survey, the guidelines are outlined in great detail and are important especially the fact that you have to follow the links from the Vindale website to order products or else you will not be paid.

So, there you have some real work from home job resources and venues to get paid taking surveys online, and please stay tuned as I will be listing more work from home job opportunities in following posts.