Yes, it’s true. You can get paid to take online surveys and make this a home based business. There are literally hundreds of websites that are set up to collect market research data for large corporations and are willing to pay you to give your opinion.

Some are absolutely free to join and to answer surveys while others may ask a small fee to join or require you to make a purchase to review a product.

Paid surveys can prove to be a very lucrative home based business if one has enough time to devote to answering questions. The length of surveys can vary from 5 minutes to over an hour. Some of the paid survey sites do not pay cash up front for their surveys.

Instead, they award points that be redeemed for cash or merchandise. Many also award entries into a sweepstakes that can lead to a nice payment if your name is drawn.

There are several ways to get into doing paid surveys. The easiest is probably to simply type in a Google search for “paid surveys” and start clicking on the links to the sites that come up in the search results.

You can fill out the forms to sign up online in just a few minutes and start taking surveys immediately. Most sites will ask for a profile that can be used to match you with surveys that will be relevant to you and eliminate the ones that have no bearing on you.

It may take some time to find the highest paying survey sites, but once done, it can pay to give your opinion on any topic and do so frequently. There have been people who report making upwards of $300 per day answering surveys on a full time basis.