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Paid surveys are conducted by market research firms. Large companies spend billions of dollars a year on advertising. Market research companies are hired to test their advertisements or do research so that they know the best way to advertise to certain markets. These market research firms have large panels of people they use to conduct their studies. They do their research through having people test the products, mystery shoppers, and paid surveys.

Most of these paid surveys pay a small amount of money, usually between $1 and $15, some rare ones may pay up to $50, but just rare.It usually takes about fifteen minutes to complete. Some people have made a significant amount of money simply taking paid surveys. The rewards are usually in forms of points, later you can redeem points with cash(check), gift cards, common daily products. Many website also reward sweepstake entries to $10-$5000 drawings.However the latter is not a reliable way of steady earning.

Paid surveys are usually taken online, or less commonly through postal methods. In many product test surveys, they also provide free products for you through mailing, one should test for a while then complete a paper or online survey to receive credits. Many websites exist where one can input certain characteristics about themselves and be emailed relevant surveys which are filled out for money. This is termed as "profile", which will be kept confidential and used to direct potential surveys to certain population, classified by ages, genders, geological residents, jobs, household income, race origins, hobbies, online activities, entertainment activities, so on and on...

The problem with paid surveys is that they are being marketed by unscrupulous individuals as a source of easy money. It is not uncommon to see advertisements promising $75 an hour or more in potential earnings. This unfortunately, is mostly baseless propaganda. That is not to say that paid surveys cannot be counted as a source of an online income. They do provide a reasonable second income and a good work from home opportunity. But it is advisable to enter this line of work with realistic expectations. Any desire of earning huge amounts of money for minimal amount of work is likely to end in disappointment. Most importantly, it is advisable to research the paid survey scams before taking the first step so to make sure one does not end up paying money rather than earning it.

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