Do you think nobody earns money for surveys? If that would be the case Im sure survey sites wouldn?t exist still today.
I saw people in other forums who are earning money from surveys. Of course they wont be a millionaire from it, but that?s why we are here at a ?webmaster? forum, not a survey forum.
Hi Zso,
A lot of people earn money from surveys, but most of all survey site owners do earn. You put surveyors to survey squeeze pages. Is it clear until now?
You don't have to charge any for the membership. You just let for free anyone enroll for doing surveys.
Then you will get your money in several ways:
1. You sell traffic to the owners of the sites your members do survey.
2. You get affiliate commission from surveyed sites.
3. At the last "bonus" survey you show your own review site with your affiliate links to many money making sites. That's also making affiliate commissions for you.
Members are surveying and gathering their dollars on their membership account. There is a cash-out limit (e.g. $75 or $100 as a minimum to be paid out). However on these kind of sites there are not enough surveys for a member to reach that minimum cash-out limit from just doing survey.
Then members have the second chance of making money: earning affiliate commission (e.g. $1 per person) for each referred person who enrolls.
Just do your maths for traffic forecast, ROI, and pricing to keep a good cash flow and finally make some profit.
Beware: read FTC rules and check your local regulations, if it is permitted or not to pay commission for recruited persons, without actual sale of goods or services! Otherwise you may find yourself comitting the fraud of making a Ponzi scheme! Check thoroughly the Terms of Service other survey sites do use, and consult with a lawyer to be sure you will not go into trouble later.
Anyway, most of survey sites I've checked out operated in a deceptive manner.
Did you ever heard someone jumping on one leg and shouting: "Wow! I've got a great money just from filling Internet surveys"? I'm sure you will find most of survey-filling members recommending doing survey to their friends only to recover their wasted time and hoping to reach the cash-out limit.
You may make me wrong, if you want to, but I shared my own experience here.
Now just think about, there are many non-deceptive ways fo Internet business, where you will have really happy and satisfied customers. In such win-win situations you will have really good referrals to keep the number of your members / customers growing.
Personally I don't recommend making a yet another survey site, unless you do it really smart, in an innovative way and preventing customer deception.
But, if you like surveys, then...
Just go, enroll to a dozen of survey sites, "take the boots" of the customers, get your experience, and steal the knowledge. If you can be a happy customer of any survey site, then you may be able to make your successful site, too.