One of the little known ways of making money online from home is by participating in online surveys Online survey sites. By just voicing your opinion, several companies will be willing to pay you real money by giving your time and honest opinion about their products or whatever questions they may ask from you. They do this in the form of online surveys. These surveys serve as an analysis for their product as well as market research. Several people working at home get paid for surveys that are given by these companies.

If you are a stay at home mom or dad, or quite simply jobless at the moment, answering surveys from the comfort of your home through the internet can sometimes be a rewarding experience. If you are currently employed you can still make money online by answering surveys during your spare time. Imagine getting paid to take surveys instead of just sleeping or watching TV and earning nothing? In this tough times, the world wide recession are leaving so many people bumming around their homes and doing nothing. Contrary to popular belief, even in these times of financial crisis, you can still make money online at your own pace, at your home, at any time you like. You don't have to be depressed or discourage especially when the economic crisis seems to not stop. There are so many opportunities out there, people are just afraid to try or even get back on their feet and look for new windows of opportunities.

If you are asking, how do people actually get paid for surveys and why are there sites that have a membership fee? The answer is quite simple; the big companies need to be in contact with a single point person/company which we can refer to as the middle man. This middle man acts as a bridge to the survey participants so that they can answer the surveys in an organized way. An example of middle men are surveys sites which offer a small membership fee. By paying a small amount the middle man will give you access to the huge list of surveys that was given to them by the big companies. Without the middle man, each and every company requiring a survey would have to contact each individual survey participants (the people like you) Online surveys for cash. If that was the case, answering surveys online would have been so unorganized, tedious and chaotic. With the help of a middle man, people just pay a small fee which can often be referred to as a processing/transaction fee (although I personally like to call it a "thank you for giving me a huge list of paid surveys" fee), people are given access to the "money list" in a very organized way which is the actual list of online surveys the big companies will pay for when they voice their opinion.