Has anyone tried paid online surveys?

[MissBrightside]

I really need to make some money for our family and would love to work from home.
I did a search and came up with a few websites from mum's claiming they make a great income from doing them.

I don't want to pay money for scams and make other people rich. But how do you know if it is a scam. I know if it seems to good to be true it probably is, but maybe it is good? I don't know?

Has anyone made any money from these sites?

Or I was even thinking about finding some companies that perhaps do data entry or typing type jobs you can do at home. I've even thought about doing ironing.

Any thought's or ideas would be appreciated.

[dreamtobeamummy]

You need to do hundreds and hundreds of surveys a day to earn anything decent.

I find they get very repetitive and quite boring, I am signed up to so many of the websites and have made a whole 30 dollars in the psat 5 years.. (and its only gift cards, not actual cash)... emailcash for instance, I have enough points to cash in for a 30 dollar cheque, its taken 5 years to get it that far.. I do it when I am bored haha! I wouldn't want to sit there all day every day doing them, as I said quite repetitive and easily get bored!

What about starting a business from home.. is there something you enjoy doing>?

Edit: Noticed you wrote about data entry online. I have also found a few company's that do this sort of thing, but you are competing with alot of other people to get the 'jobs;. I signed up quite a few weeks ago and havn't heard anything, So I started my own Virtual Assistant business and already have my first client who is an ongoing job with the opportunity to earn lots of money if you put in the efforts.

[Lil Bugs Mummy]

I did for about an year and half had to invest bout 100 and made about 700 in that time i didn't find it worth and i was doing ALOT of surverys a day, stopped when i had dd cos i didn't have time.

[MissBrightside]

Dreamtobeamummy, congrats that sounds great.:yelclap:

I have thought about what I'm good at and I'm really not sure.
I have thought about making clothes or screen printing t-shirts, to buying old furniture and fixing it up. But I just don't have the space at my house to do it. There are 5 (soon maybe 6, think I'm pregnant) (find out for sure in half an hour) people living here with one living space and no garage.

How did you go about setting up your own business? That's an area I really have no idea how to do.

[dreamtobeamummy]

I applied for my ABN online last night, that takes about a week to receive the number.. I just have to pop in my application for my business name (get the forms online) it costs 90 dollars (in wa anyway) for 3 years to register it...re-registration is cheaper I think.

I have made a fanpage on FB, and hope to get my word out there that way, I also created a business plan (I would call it more a road map then a plan lol) with the ideas of what I can do, prices etc etc etc.. my first client which I take over the lady who is doing it atm, tomorrow.. was just luck as I found them on FB and she was no longer able to answer this company's mobile ph any more, so I am going to take over.. little bit exciting, I have the opportunity to earn a few hundred dollars a day with not much work (answering telephone calls and making bookings he he).

If you want to be successful in it, you need to put in the effort.. I will do flyers, local letter box drops (I am walking anyway so why not drop some things off to peoples houses?)... You just need to get the word out there.

Networking is the biggest key in today's business world!!! :D

[mslilyponds]

Be careful signing up for those surveys becuase often they are just junk mail lists. If you want to make a little bit of money online (you are not going to get rich) sign up at places like www.Elance.com (http://www.Elance.com) to do admin support and data entry or writing or whatever skill you have. At first you'll only make about $8 an hour but unless you make quite a lot of money, you won't end up paying tax on that so it works out to about $11 an hour when you look at it like that - and with no child care, petrol, clothes - it looks better still. Once you have a decent reputation you can start charging more. Only problem is that people in developing countries work a lot cheaper than we rich Aussies so you have to sort thorugh all the really bad paid jobs to find an OK one.

All you need is a paypal account.

It's a much better way to go than surveys anyway.