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You want to work at home but believe free jobs are hard to come by?  Think again.  There are plenty of ways to make money from home that shouldn’t cost you a thing out of pocket. One such job is survey taking.

Companies will pay people money for filling out surveys. It’s one of those at-home jobs that sounds too good to be true. But companies really will pay qualified people to fill out surveys.

Large corporations need to know what the market needs, wants and thinks about specific products so that they can develop new product lines or simply find out if their message is hitting its mark with consumers. And they are willing to pay for such information.

You won’t get rich filling out surveys, but it can be a fun way to make a few extra dollars. The Internet has many survey sites and the best don’t require you to pay a fee, so this is one free way to make money online. Several websites list and rate survey sites, so finding surveys is easy. Most will require you to fill out a survey initially, without pay, so they can send you surveys that best apply to you and your lifestyle. For example, a toy company may not be interested in learning a single person’s opinion on a new line of action figures.

Once you start getting surveys e-mailed to you, fill them out as soon as possible, as some surveys have a quota. Once that quota is reached, they won’t need your opinion and you won’t get paid. Typically, surveys pay from $1 to $10, depending upon how long the survey takes to fill out. Surveys can take anywhere from 10 to 40 minutes. Other surveys pay in coupons or small items or will enter you into a contest to win cash or prizes.

Some survey sites are better than others. We’ve found that one of the problems is that some sites send out very few surveys. If you’re not finding success with one, try another. Another way to earn money with surveys is by recruiting others to also fill out surveys. Some sites will pay you a small amount each time your recruit fills out a survey. Get enough recruits, and then you’ll start seeing more significant cash.

Getting paid isn’t automatic. Many times survey takers will get “kicked out” of a survey because they don’t qualify. For example, a tobacco company will ask, “Do you smoke?”  If you don’t, you’ll likely end the survey there and will not get paid.  Most times, the survey will kick you out almost immediately so you haven’t wasted too much time.  The fun part is that many times you don’t know which company is looking for information, which is why it’s best to answer questions honestly.