Paid Online Surveys

One interesting way of making money online is to participate in paid surveys. How this generally works is you make a log in to a paid survey site, participate in surveys which are each worth a certain amount of money and after you get over a threshold value you can order payment.

My personal experience with these survey companies is that they are not particularly good for making money, the surveys can be quite boring and are too infrequent to form any kind of income stream. I suppose anything is better than nothing, though.

Ciao Surveys

Pros:

• Easy to use
• Surveys do not take as long as suggested
• A lot of chances to take surveys (for me in Australia)
• System to increase survey opportunities by giving more information

Cons:

• Surveys generally only give about $1 payment
• Payment system can be a little confusing at first
• If you crash during a survey, it counts as completing it but you do not get paid and cannot retake it

Overall:

• Made about $4 in two weeks.
• Surveys offer more depending on your situation, those with family and job get highest

SurveySavvy

Pros:

• Easy to use
• Portrait system which increases your offers

Cons:

• Asks for some information during registration that it should not need
• So far, not so many offers (for me in Australia).

Overall:

• So far uncertain whether they are going to offer surveys.