Tips & Tricks

There are a lot of little things that experts know about surveys.  There are a lot of tricks you can use to get high-paying offers and credit. 
Credit Cards
There are a lot of offers on the internet that want you to sign up for a free trial that can be canceled after a few days without charging your card.  You will still get credit for the cash offer on your survey site as long as you stay as long as the offer tells you to. These sort of offers are usually lucrative with really high pay-outs.  The problem is, do you really want to risk giving out your credit card number to make a few bucks?

The solution is to use a prepaid card that anyone can buy from a local grocery store.  This solves all your problems.  If you forget to cancel the offer, then you're only down a few bucks.  If the site tries to scam you, then you're also only down a few bucks.  The only problem is the amount of sites you can sign up for at one time using a prepaid card.

Here's the dilemma: there is an offer for 7 dollars to sign up for a trial Netflix subscription which regularly costs 15 dollars.  You could use a 25 dollar gift card to sign up with the intention of canceling after the two week trial is up.  The problem is that the 15 dollars Netflix wants to charge will be pending for two weeks until some time after you cancel the offer.  It will probably be unavailable for a while after you cancel the offer too.  This leaves another 10 dollars on the gift card to play with on the site.  Ultimately, this means it will take some time to complete all the credit card cash offers on any given site.

Cash Offers - Cell Phone Verification
There are offers on many survey sites that reward you with gift cards for whatever reason.  These can be very shady and so the trick is to use as little information as possible.  It will start out by asking for your email, then your address and other personal information.  This is where maybe, you misspell your name and street number, and/or use a Google Voice number.  The thing will tell you that the information is incorrect, BUT if you hit submit a few times really fast it MIGHT go through.  This depends on the site, but for a lot of them it will work. 

Once you get past that screen it may want to validate your cell phone number.  This, again, depends on the site, but usually it is B.S.  I will post a few screenshots but if you look around, there should be something like "pass" or something similar.  You then should hit "no" and "skip" on the rest of the pages till you hit the gold/silver offers, then the cash offer SHOULD credit on the survey site.

NEVER ENTER YOUR REAL CELL PHONE NUMBER! You will be charged 10 dollars+ monthly reoccuring on your cell phone bill.  Cell phone companies recieve a kick back monthly from these suscriptions.  It is in their interest to try get you to keep these suscriptions, and they may even go as far as hide it on your cell phone statement.

Skim Read
It is important to develop your skills at picking up keywords.  Most survey sites will want you want you to pick a certain answer at least once, which might be phrased in a variety of ways.  The most common is to select something for "quality control measures".  Basically, selecting the wrong answer will kick you from the survey.  This takes practice but after just 25 surveys you should be able to breeze through them quickly.

Roboform
This program is key: time = money. There is no point kidding yourself.  You will be making small amounts of cash that add up.  The point is to fly through everything as fast as you can.  Roboform is a toolbar, and yes, most people hate extra toolbars.  This one is legit and extremely useful. 

 It allows people to fill out all the common form data once and with the click of a button, it will automatically fill in the form data on any website you visit.  This means your name, address, phone number, etc can be entered in the blink of an eye.  No more typing in your email address on every survey site.

Protip:  It allows you to save more then one passcard (identity).  This can come in handy when the site just seems too shady to put in real information, like when it is offering 1000 dollar gift cards in exchange for your email address.

Multiple Identities
I already covered that you should have a bit of an identity crisis on shady sites, but there are a few do's and dont's of creating multiple identities. Here is a quick reference guide!

Do's:
 - Put in a different email address when completing a survey you have completed before (this is very rare; most surveys don't ask you from email)
- Common sense on shady sites
- Make yourself surveyable.  Certian demographics are simply more desired, so hopefully you're really in touch with the Latino or Hispanic population.

Dont's:
-Refer yourself to get referral cash.  They WILL catch and ban you.
-Lie on sites you are actually trying to make cash on.  A check in the wrong name will be sorta pointless...

Make Them Want You
It is important to make the surveyor to want to survey you.  Honestly, everyone knows these criteria are a bit annoying, but it is important to make it appear you want to be there.  Completing the survey completely is the only way to get credit, and we want credit. Just follow these simple steps: 

1.) Figure out what the survey is trying to sell--er--ask you about! If it is about phones, then maybe you will be in the market for cell phones soon.  The same goes for cars, groceries, etc.
2.) Primary/Only decision maker! The only choice as far as you're concerned. Why would you advertise to someone who doesn't even make decisions?!
3.) Middle Class (Money Wise) - The only real choice.  No point advertising to someone who cannot afford the product!
4.) No, you have not been surveyed about (insert product) before in the last 3 months.
5.) Yes, I'm easily convinceable!
6.) I'm always willing to try new things and switch products!
7.) I tell my friends about everything!