You may have received lots of junk mails in your inbox, inviting you to take part in online surveys and promising you to pay $5 to read an email or to watch a video for 10 seconds or so. Sometimes you may have clicked on the link given and found that it is no more than a scam, intended to waste your time. If you have joined some of the surveys that add some points to your account (which can be redeemed to money or some prizes) after you take an online survey, then I am sure that you hadn’t received anything from them yet. This is because; the whole scenario is just an attempt to collect email-id of participants, instead of being a legitimate paid surveys opportunity.

So to get paid to take online surveys you must find genuine surveys first that are really organized by big corporations like Sony, Wal-Mart, Microsoft, IBM and other fortune 500 companies. Although you will not find any information about these surveys from these companies because most of the time these big companies that run these surveys remain anonymous and outsource their task to professional survey organizers. So you must search for genuine survey sites that are ready to pay you a decent amount for your time and opinion.

You must search for many such sites as you will be given limited survey opportunity from these sites that are strictly based on your personal profile. On an average you can get 4-5 surveys per week, but this increase as you become a regular survey taker. So to start with a good part time income you must join many such sites.

Next step to get paid to take online surveys is to register to these sites and fill up your complete profile. This profile consists of many questions regarding your personal, educational and economical status. This helps them to categorize surveys to be given to you. After that you will get emails from them whenever they will find a survey opportunity according to your profile. You can then take online surveys, fill up your opinion and submit. Normally you get paid $5 to $75 for completing a survey and this depends upon the length and complexity of online surveys. Just after you complete a survey your account will be accredited with predefined amount. So no bull-shit, no points, no awards, just simple cash.

But as I have already told for this, you need to search for authentic sites only, which is really a hectic task. But you can take help of survey network sites which consists of huge database of legitimate survey sites. These sites remain in regular contact of big companies and sites that run surveys on behalf of these companies. This helps them to maintain a huge database of most genuine sites available online that can help to make decent money.

The three most legitimate survey network sites are Paid Survey Etc., Survey Scout and Express Paid Surveys. These sites are working great in the field of online surveys and thousands of people get benefited from their services every day. You can also take help of them. Although these sites charge a small onetime fee to join but this is worth the service and database they provide to those who are in search of genuine survey opportunities.