You may have seen the ads for Survey Scout, a website that promises to show you how to make anywhere from $5 to $75 for sharing your opinions. It sounds great, but could this really be just a scam? If you are curious about this opportunity as I was, here is the real scoop.

First things first, Survey Scout themselves don’t pay you anything. Instead, they provide you with access to a database of companies looking for people to take paid surveys and do other similar work from home. These are the companies that ultimately pay you. Survey Scout is merely a resource for finding legitimate opportunities.

If you aren’t familiar with paid surveys, here is the deal. Large companies like Nike, Coca Cola and others need real consumer feedback on their products in order to make good business decisions. To get this information, they contract with market research firms who develop surveys and pay participants for their time to take these surveys and provide good information and real opinions. These are the “paid surveys” that you can take.

Paid surveys are’t a scam or an urban legend, but they do have their pro’s and con’s. On the positive side, paid surveys are easy to take and don’t take a whole lot of time to do. The amount you earn for paid surveys is good considering the time invested. A survey may take 5 minutes and pay $5, earning you the equivalent of $60 an hour.

If there is one thing that you must know about paid surveys in general it is this – it takes a lot of surveys to make good money. Because each survey is worth a few dollars each, you need to have a constant supply of new surveys to take. The database that you gain access to with a Survey Scout membership lists over 400 companies, so you stand to get a number of paid surveys.

Survey Scout is actually about more than just surveys. In addition to paid survey companies, you will find listings for paid to read email, secret shopping, paid search and get paid to drive opportunities. Of all of the paid survey sites that I have looked at, Survey Scout offers the most variety in its listings. Their database is well organized and kept current.

All in all, the opportunity that Survey Scout presents is legitimate and dare I even say fun! Now, you can’t expect to get rich taking paid surveys – thats not realistic of the potential. You can however earn extra cash which is always a good thing to have. Best of all, paid surveys are extremely flexible so you can do all of this in your spare time as much or as little as you choose. While you could find paid surveys on your own, it makes much more sense to tap in to research thats already been done and spend your time on the actual surveys instead.

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