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One question that many people have when they are trying to get started making money online is the best way to join paid survey sites. Because there are various ways you can go about this lets analyze whether you should be expected to pay any money to join a paid survey site or whether you should just join those that are free.

There are many free paid survey sites you can join and start taking surveys right away. A couple of legitimate ones that I have made money with are Cash Crate and Inbox Dollars.

Free survey sites will give you access to companies that will pay you for your opinion. You can complete offers, take surveys, play games, print off coupons, do online shopping, and more.

You can also make money referring new members. The survey site will provide marketing materials for use such as banner adds, email messages, text ads, and so on.

Depending on the program you can make money when you refer a new member, when they take surveys, and when they refer new members that take surveys. This is a good way to supplement your income along with the surveys you take.

A paid survey site is essentially a membership site. The only people who get access to the members area are people who pay to join it.

The primary advantage to this is the owner of the site is constantly working at maintaining an updated list of companies who want surveys taken. These are generally companies that you will not find in other free survey sites.

These companies do not want everybody in the world joining them, so they work only with a paid membership site. The good thing for you is these companies generally pay more and there is less competition for the surveys you can take.

Paid survey sites to check out include Survey Scout, Maximum Paid Surveys, and others. You can Google do a search to find more.

You have to weigh the cost of a paid membership site to determine if it's worth it for you. Some people will start by taking free paid surveys and then reinvest some of that money back into a paid membership site.

You may find it hard to believe that you can actually get paid to take surveys. It is interesting to note that you can join a survey site and take surveys whenever you want around your schedule.

Some surveys will be sent directly to your email inbox to complete. You can find others by logging into your members area and accessing them. Whether it's a free survey site, or a paid survey site, new surveys are added on a regular basis.