Each and every day, there is a ton of money spent on paid surveys by market research firms. The big companies come to market research firms wanting to know a myriad of questions about new or existing products. The paid survey companies in conjunction with the big firms design surveys and product testing in order to help them know what market to launch a new product to or how to improved existing products already on the market.

Having internet access has opened up a new ball game where these companies reach out and contact you. Now, it is possible that you as the consumer "could" find and contact these companies, but the companies are unlikely to respond to you.

Generally what they do is contract with a middleman who is provided a contract to write for them about their products. This gives the companies carte blanche access to their customers' opinions and views.

This also helps them to have a wider range of customers whom they can bring back to their sites by giving them meaningful information and interesting product purchasing schemes.

This is only possible via the articles written on their sites. Currently, there are 2 possible methods that you can use to participate in on line to get paid to fill out surveys.

The first way is using surveys that are free. Some websites offer a free service. If you sign up to receive their "list of companies" you'll get access to these companies and their surveys. The problem here is that most of them don't give you what they claim and just end up wasting your time. You'll spend time, effort, and aggravation because you won't make any money for it.

By using the second approach, the paid survey sites, you'll find that you have to pay as well, and use the same other processes that are used with the free ones, except for one thing. You are required to pay them before you can get paid for filling out surveys. This might turn off some people, but the truth is you get what you pay for.

So when you join up for these get paid to fill out surveys programs, you'll likely end up with an in-box full of emails, so the good idea is to setup a separate email address, for example a G-mail or Yahoo , which you can use exclusively for your online paid survey account.

Make sure put this email that you will be receiving on the white list. This will allow it thru your email provider without it ending up in the bulk or spam email bin. The emails that you don't want to receive can be sent to the spam box as well.