by Shawn Horwood

Have you seen all those ads and those sites that say that

you can become wealthy taking surveys? Ok, so most of them

don't claim they will make you wealthy, but they do claim that

they will provide you with some bonus income. Some even

claim that you can make enough money to replace your

job. Now, this claim is possible. If your

current income is $100/year. Now, maybe it is possible

to make more than that with survey sites, but it is

certainly NOT worth your time. Truthfully, survey sites

are on of the biggest scams out there. I've heard people

say that MLMs are all just giant money scams, but I know

people who have made those work for them. In fact, I know people who

have made a six figure income or higher with MLMs. But that

is a separate article. (Which I will be posting on my blog

before long).

In my opinion, survey sites are a much bigger scam than MLMs.

Do you know what your chances are of achieving a six figure

income by filling out surveys? It is equal to stuffing

envelopes or doing data entry. Nothing. You cannot create a

six figure income by doing surveys. Not even if you spent

100 hours a week on those survey sites that promise you prosperity.Seriously, I got a free membership to Survey

Scout with something I bought so I decided I would check it

out. I was informed that some surveys would pay me over $20

just for a ten minute survey. I thought that would be pretty

decent, so I checked it out. First of all, none of the

surveys that paid well were available to me,

and secondly there was a huge problem with the ones that

did. In order to take a survey and get paid, you had to

first take a survey to see if you qualify for the paid survey.

Most of the time you don't qualify, and those qualification

surveys can take up to 20 minutes. So by the time you have

found a survey that you can actually take, you have already

spent a few hours taking qualification surveys and most

likely the one you found that pays youonly pays a

couple dollars.My sister checked out some other survey sites

and stated thatshe had the same problem.

Survey sites a MAMMOTH waste of your precious time and money. You have

a much larger chance succeeding with an MLM, even if you

don't even know what an MLM is! Do not ever buy a membership

to a survey site! EVER! I am tired of seeing those sites

being promoted as the easiest way to make cash. Well,

maybe it is simple, I mean, you're just pickingan answer

for a question and you can't get it wrong, but the amount

of time it takes to make a buck you'd be better off working

at McDonalds! (I've been there, and it pays WAY better than

survey sites). So please, do yourself a favor and stay away

from survey sites. There are much better things to spend your

time and money on.

So what is an alternative you may ask? Well, if you check

out my blog I will soon be posting an article about MLMs,

which you actually can make quite a bit of income from if

you have the proper training, but even better (in my opinion),

you can learn about internet and affiliate marketing.

You do not need much money to invest, and you do not need

to spend hours and hours to make a couple bucks. So, which

would you prefer: 100 hours/week spent on taking surveys from

survey sites that charge you for memberships and only make

say $50/week (if you are lucky) OR 1-2 hours/day and a small

investment (maybe a couple hundred dollars) to and make

$1000/week or MORE? I know which one I'd pick.

Shawn Horwood