Seven Hot Tips for ensuring you get paid for online surveys

Tip 1

Register with as many legitimate market-research sites as you can. If you want to make good money aim for a minimum of 100 online survey sites in Australia and internationally (see online surveys for Australia). Expecting to make money by registering with only a handful of online survey websites.

Tip 2

Elaborate (not exagerate) on your experience where possible. Ensure you have completely filled out your profile on their site. Just filling out basic registration or profile information is not enough to get you invited to partipate in surveys. Most newbie online survey panellists enter as little information about themselves as possible. This decreases the number of surveys that will be sent to you as you have narrowed the criteria on which you will be selected.

Tip 3

Don't lie on your registration information, you won't know what type of panellists they want and your reward may be cancelled. Also don't lie to protect yourself, if you are suspicious do a search on the internet or check out my forum. Be honest, do your homework and use your common sense, legitimate sites will not disclose your identity.

Tip 4

Don't use a junk e-mail address e.g., Hotmail, several research firms will not send e-mail to popular free addresses. Your ISP should be able to give you an additional e-mail address that costs little. Treat this as a business and it will pay.It is highly advisable you get a dedicated e-mail address for surveys and turn off your spam filter. Your ISP should be able to give you an additional e-mail address that costs little. Treat this as a business and it will pay.

Tip 5

Turn off your spam filter for your dedicated email address or ensure online survey company is in your "friends" list, afterall you don't want to miss out on those all important paying online survey.

Tip 6

Respond promptly to online survey invites. Researchers will drop you off their list if they see you do not answer their surveys.

Tip 7

Join online and paid survey forums and newsletters (like the one on this site) to stay up to date with the latest information regarding market-research sites etc.