If you need money FAST, taking surveys for money are literally the easiest and fastest way to make money online.
Surveys are a fun and easy thing to do while watching Netflix, hanging out on campus or waiting for your kid's sports practice to get done.
Even my teen son makes money and earns free gift cards with surveys, so it's definitely an easy way to earn money.
The key with taking surveys for money, is in order for you to actually make decent from them, you have to sign up for numerous survey companies. You aren't going to get approved for every survey company and you won't get approved for every survey opportunity.
Our favorite survey companies: Inbox Dollar, Swagbucks, Pinecone Research, Harris Poll Online, VIP Voice, and Survey Junkie.
When Madi and I experimented with making money with online surveys, some highly rated survey c0mpanies didn't approve me but DID approve her, simply because they were only accepting new people of a certain demographic.
You need to sign up for numerous survey companies because they won't necessarily have surveys for you to complete every single day and you might not qualify for all survey options. Sometimes their targeting a certain age bracket, or gender, or income level, so signed up for many survey companies is key to actually making surveys a viable income option.
SURVEY TIPS:
✔️We highly recommend you use a different email address than your main email address, simply because you'll get tons of emails every day about suggested you can apply for.
✔️If you're serious about making money with surveys, you need to sign up with many of them (for the reasons above).
✔️Only sign up for legit survey companies. There's many that are scams and simply not worth your time.
✔️Be 100% honest in your survey answers, you won't know exactly what they're looking for until you fill things out. They also rely on honest answers to help make company decisions.
What I recommend is signing up with 5+ survey companies to start to compare which sites you like, they all run a little differently and have different type of survey opportunities.
Here's 5 of our favorite and highly rated survey companies to get you started:
INBOX DOLLARS
Inbox Dollars pays you to read emails, take surveys online, play games, and go shopping.
WHAT WE LIKE:
✔️Inbox Dollars give you a free $5 bonus for downloading and trying their app.
✔️They're highly rated and have an 8.0 Trust Pilot score with over 6K reviews.
✔️They have a wide variety of ways to make money, not just by taking surveys.
HOW TO GET STARTED:
They require an app store download to get started($5 free sign-up bonus). Here's the link.
Here's a video link on how Inbox Dollars works:
https://youtu.be/D6PiYp1qp-Y
SWAGBUCKS
Swagbucks pays you to complete surveys, but you can also make money to watch videos, play games, and shop. You earn points by completing surveys for money or by completing other tasks, and you can cash out with your points, or can even get free gift cards instead. ($10 free sign-up bonus)
What we Like:
✔️You can get paid with money OR with gift cards to your favorite stores!
✔️$10 sign-up bonus to give Swagbucks a try
✔️A wide variety of ways to earn money in addition to surveys
✔️Highly rated! Swagbucks has an 8.4 Trust Pilot score with 12K reviews.
HARRIS POLL ONLINE
Harris Poll Online- By signing up with Harris Poll, you help shape policy for government agencies, large corporations and non-profits and can make money and earn rewards from your favorite brands in the process!
PINECONE RESEARCH
Pinecone Research- They pay you $3 for survey, each takes 15-20 mins and you can cash out after making $3!
What we like:
✔️You can cash out after earning even $3!
✔️$3 for 15-20 mins of work is a reasonable amount of pay when you consider you can make over $9-$10/hr, which is more than minimum wage in most states.
Things to know: This is one of the survey companies that Madi qualified for and I didn't. At the time they were just looking for young adults, males and people of hispanic descent.
Here's the Pinecone Research sign-up link depending on your country:
✔️Canada
VIP VOICE
VIP Voice In addition to earning money with surveys, you can also get free gift cards, other prices, or even win vacations.
SURVEY JUNKIE
You can get more info or sign up for Survey Junkie HERE!
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While these have been our favorite survey companies to work with, we'd love to hear what YOUR experiences are! Please leave feedback below for us and other readers too.
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Debbie GaiLee says
Thank you for your blog! This was the most concise and informative that I've ever seen. (The secret to your success?)
With the information you've provided I will begin an adventure to improve my daily income while caring for my mom.
I will try to keep you posted on my progress.