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It’s 2019, and most survey sites are still crap.

They will will sell your information, constantly send you spammy emails, and only pay you in gift cards and not in cash.

That’s why I have mixed feelings about personal finance sites that list a bunch of survey sites, telling you to sign up for all of them.

They do this so that they can get a commission from all of them, knowing full well that 98% of them are garbage.

But There Are Legit Survey Companies.

It’s true. There are some good ones out there. And you shouldn’t throw out the baby with the bathwater.

There are legit, non-spammy survey companies that actually pay you in cash.

And you only need the two best ones to make a decent side income if you are willing to put in the work.

You Need a Method.

Now, I don’t want you to get crazy ideas. In order to make decent money taking online surveys, you are going to have to take a lot of surveys and will likely need to invest at least a few hours a day taking surveys.

And you also need a method.

You can’t just sign up for survey companies and wildly start taking surveys.

Below we’ve described our method for maximizing survey revenue from our two favorite, highest-paying, and legit survey companies, Survey Junkie and Swagbucks.

1. Survey Junkie

Probably the most awesome online survey I’ve ever taken was through SurveyJunkie. It was a music review survey! I made $50 for 2.25 hours of my time.