While you're looking for a way to make money at home, paid surveys might be one of your top priorities. It's not strange since this is the most popular and easiest way to make money at home. You just have to answer some questionnaires, and you get paid! Is it really that simple? The answer is simple: YES. But unfortunately, finding the best paid surveys companies is not that simple. Thousands of people have lost their money and wasted their time because they joined the wrong companies. Here are some of the facts about paid surveys that you have to know.

1. Are paid surveys real?
   Yes. Companies need feedbacks from their consumers regarding their service, products, or their future products. For these purposes, they hire research companies to survey their consumers. By joining these research companies, you become eligible to participate in their surveys. This is what we called "paid surveys".
2. Is it free or not to join paid surveys?
   It is completely free to join paid surveys. You just have to provide some basic information, such as basic salary, age, gender, hobby, etc. So if you are asked to pay to join a paid surveys company, be careful; it is most likely a scam.
3. What do I get as a payment of my participation?
   Paid surveys companies offer many kinds of incentives, such as: cash, gift certificates, merchandise or points (redeemable for cash, discounts or free products). Every survey will clearly mentions the incentive in its invitation email.
4. How much can I earn doing paid surveys?
   If you're talking about cash, it ranges from $4 to $50/ survey. Within a month, you will get 1 to 4 invitations from a single paid surveys company (please remember that not all of these invitations are offering cash as their payments).
5. Can I get rich by doing paid surveys?
   From my experiences, NO! The maximum amount of cash I got within a month was just $180. Though I joined many paid surveys companies, not all of them sent invitations regularly. Some even just once in two months! While some others sent invitations 2 - 3 times a month, they didn't offer cash as their payments.

In the next article, I will tell you how to find the best online paid surveys companies and also how to determine which company is legitimate, and which one is a scam.