If you are looking for some ways to make money online, I am sure you have heard about taking paid surveys, which allows you to make some extra money by sharing your opinions to the companies that spend millions of dollars to research the market, the products and services.

You will not get rich by completing paid surveys, but it is an easy way for you to make some extra money. Anyone, including stay-at-home moms and dads, students, retired people, employed workers can easily fill out a form within 5-30 minutes to earn $5-$75 dollars. If you are from US, you will have more opportunities to be asked to complete these surveys, and by doing so you can make up to $3000-$4000 every month.

I used to signed up many online paid survey sites one year ago, but only get 2 payments via check from GlobalTestMarket and American Consumer Opinion. This is because I live outside of US and Canada and there are not so much qualified surveys for me to complete. But my experience is a proof that anyone can make money from paid surveys and how much money you can make depends on where are you live(People from US, Canada, UK and Germany have most of the chances to be qualified), how many paid survey sites you join in and how many surveys you are qualified to take.

If you have interesting in taking paid surveys for free, try following 3 free survey sites:

1. Cash Crate

2. Ipsos Survey Panel

3. GlobalTestMarket Surveys

4. American Consumer Opinion

However, if you are from US, Canada and other English-speaking countries and are serious to make a decent amount of money from paid surveys, it is highly recommended to join in one the Survey Databases and maximize your income potential(just choose one and don't join all of them, most of databases list almost the same survey companies). It will cost you a small amount of money for a life-time membership fee, but these survey databases will help you to find hundreds of legitimate survey companies, and filter most of the scams in survey industry. So that you can save your time and avoid those scams.

The recommended survey databases are as follows:

1. Survey Scout

2. Paid Surveys Etc

3. Make Money with Surveys

Again, don't join the paid databases and pay out without investigation. Any one can make some money by filling out online surveys, but how much money you can make from paid surveys varies!