Got Paid Update #132: Miscellaneous Survey-Related Payment

So I have another survey-related payment to report, but I don't really have a category to record it under on my sites, so I'll just tell you about it. (lol)

If you do very many surveys at all, you probably know that a lot of the survey sites often send out invitations to "screener" surveys to see if your basic personal stats and experience match the people/topic/etc they need to survey. Often what I call the "general" survey sites will credit you with cash (or points towards cash) to fill out the screener, though sometimes the screeners are unpaid - but if you meet the requirements for the survey they're screening for, the site (or other research group the site is screening for survey respondents) usually pays a pretty hefty amount for the survey itself (or for focus group participation, sometimes you get invited to participate in a focus group about a topic or a product).

I've seen them go for around $8 per survey to up to around $175 or more, though I personally don't usually have a lot of luck qualifying for those super high-paying ones.

But every once in a while I get lucky and do qualify for the high amount ones! And indeed I did qualify for a big one recently, and when I finished, I was awarded with a $75 Amazon gift certificate for my trouble... which wasn't really any trouble at all, I basically got $75 for two days of just a little bit of time spent, and it was super easy.

All that said, I've added that total to my running total of how much I've made since 2008 - since it is, after all, money earned from being active on sites that are listed here on my blog and the Quick List.

The only thing is that I was invited into that project, which was being run by another company/research facility, after filling out a screener given by one of my usual paid survey sites I remain active with... and I don't know which one it was now (lol).

In any case, it was definitely one of the 11 paid survey sites I am actively working these days that sent me the initial screener that got me into the project that paid me $75 in Amazon funds so yes, surveys can be really worthwhile!

I really really need to do a major revision post (or series of spotlight posts, probably) on the survey sites sometime soon, but when I got active here on the blog again I did make a list of all the GPT/PTC/PTR and other sites, as well as survey sites, that I continue to actively work in an update post here on the blog. Click this link to that post and take a look (the list of survey sites is toward the bottom of the post):

Current List of Active Sites

The majority of my 11 active survey sites have been REALLY lucrative for me lately - I'm projecting about an $100 or more take from several of them for May (or May/June), mainly because I've been really making a point of checking my email most every day and going through the survey invites and doing them, instead of being lazier and only checking my email every few days or only once a week. It really does make a difference!
 
Check back tomorrow for more blog updates, I have another bit to report tomorrow!

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