If you have never taken paid surveys, they are definitely worth the effort. I wouldn’t recommend doing paid surveys as your only source of income, since you only make about two to three dollars an hour doing them; however, they work great to make some extra money while you are watching TV or just hanging out. In fact, I just started doing paid surveys a few weeks ago and I have already cashed out over $80.00, which is not bad considering I just did them while I was watching TV.
The way that paid surveys work is that each company has a minimum amount that you must earn before you get paid. I recommend signing up for at least ten different survey companies at the beginning. You will quickly see which companies have the most survey opportunities and which ones pay the best. I would then choose three or four of them to concentrate on. That way, you can quickly build up your bank to be able to cash out faster. If you spread your time out between all ten companies it will take a while for you to build up a big enough bank with each of them to actually get paid.