Are Paid Surveys A Scam?

But most of what you see advertised online are not really paid surveys.
Large corporations spend billions of dollars on advertising.
They hire a market research firm to find out this information.
Some of the most popular ways are product testing, mystery shops, phone surveys(telemarketing), and polls and surveys.
 They want to know what services are most wanted by these women.

The company would hire a market research company to get this information for them.
The company may want to survey 5,000 women who match the demographics the cell phone carrier is seeking to market their product to.
Each member fills out a short qualifying survey to see if the fit the profile they are looking for.
It's as simple as that.
Pepsi.
Once you enter your email address you are then told to sign up for several offers like NetFlix, Aol, etc.
After you sign up for these offers, and sometimes you have to get others to do the same, you can then receive the product.
But it's exactly those types of surveys that everyone confuses for "paid surveys" and calls scams.
Most people think that just by paying the money they will be invited to participate in paid surveys and make lots of money.
After paying the money to join these sites you then have to sign up for each paid survey panel individually.
There are a few good sites online that give this list absolutely free.
You can easily find a directory of paid surveys by going to MSN.

In order to make any real money from paid surveys you must be registered to several paid survey panels.
These are the most popular paid survey panels that send the most frequent paid surveys.
But by being a member of the top 20 you can be almost guaranteed to receive at least one paid survey a day.

The bottom line is, paid surveys are not going to make the average person rich.
But just by being a member of the top 20 it is not unheard of to make a few hundred dollars in a month.