I'm sure that you have been handed a leaflet or been asked to take a quick survey in the street before. Companies will do anything to get some market research out of you to help them maximise their sales. It is therefore no wonder that they are willing to pay decent amounts of money to people who voluntarily will take their surveys. What's really happening is simple. You are selling them your buying preferences. The best way for companies to get access to willing participants to take part in their surveys is through the Internet via market research companies. These market research companies have subscribed members, which have agreed to take surveys in return for payment. Anyone can join these companies to receive paid online surveys.

Usually a survey takes between 10-20 minutes and pays between £2 - £10 ($4 - $18). Notifications of surveys are sent straight to your email address and you are sent payment usually via cheque. Depending on how many of these market research websites you join, you can be making around £5 ($10) a day, giving you a nice £35 ($70) a week. Not bad for spending about 30 - 60 minutes a day doing surveys is it? Another great thing about some of the surveys they send you is that they can actually be fun. For example reviewing trailers for new movies that no one even knows exist!

There are hundreds of these research websites and some are much better then others in the respect that they send you surveys much more frequently as well as pay more. Here are the best ones that have been tried and tested and are mainly for UK and USA residents.

Recommended paid online surveys:

buzzback

NFO My Survey

Global Test Market

Survey Savvy

Survey Spot

E-Poll

ECN Research

Lightspeed Research

American Consumer opinion

Test Spin

GoZing surveys

Greenfield Online

Opinion Outpost

i-say

otxsx

acop

Note: Some sites should be avoided as they either pay virtually nothing, have very few surveys, or even sell your personal information! To get the best-paid online surveys consider investing in the following e-book package: Click here