3 Tips to Get Cash for Taking Surveys

You have probably seen all the offers to get cash for taking surveys and wondered about the legitimacy of them. They promise that you can get paid thousands of dollars for taking surveys and never leaving your home. Is it really that easy though? In a word, no. However, navigating through the mess of all the offers can help you to put extra cash in your wallet because you actually can get paid for taking surveys - and you really can make a lot of money. These survey sites will by no means make you a millionaire, but they can pay many of your bills.

No time than now has ever been more important for people to save money, be smarter about their money, and try to earn extra cash any way possible. These online paid survey sites have grown to be very popular in recent years because of their promises to offer you cash for taking surveys and participating in focus groups. Many less-legitimate sites have popped up though taking advantage of anyone looking to get extra cash. Whether you are new to the whole process or have been taking these surveys for years, the following tips will help not only to earn extra cash for taking the surveys but keep you safe through the process.

1. Get a new free email address. Hotmail, Yahoo, and Google are the leading sites for this, but just get a new email address to use for the survey sites for a couple of reasons. The first is that upon signing up for a couple of these programs, you will literally hundreds of emails with surveys you can take and get paid cash for. This will help you to not only keep the offers organized but to avoid cluttering up your regular inbox. The other reason is that many of these companies (although they say they won't) will keep your email in their database and you will begin receiving all of their mailouts.

2. Sign up for Paypal. You may already have a Paypal account, but most of these programs allow you to get paid cash through Paypal. That is, they will deposit cash straight into your account after you finish taking surveys. This eliminates the "hassle" (if getting paid is a hassle) of collecting checks and depositing them. Paypal is also a free, safe intermediary that is very secure and of course instantaneous.

3. Find a review site. Of course I'm going to tell you to go to my review site (duh!), but there are many sites which review all of these paid survey sites. There are scams out there, but there are also some great opportunities to get cash for taking surveys. Do not sign up for one without any prior knowledge of the best and highest-paying programs. Good luck!