Tip#7: If you are not receiving surveys...
Make sure check your blocked address book.

I haven't receive surveys from TestSpin for a while, and finally I emailed them regarding this, and I got a reply the next day. They told me their records indicated that they have been sending me several surveys every week. They want to make sure my ISP is not blocking mass emails. Well, I doubt it's my ISP, so I went in my testspin account and changed the email to one of my gmail account. - there I got surveys invites from TestSpin again, so I am sure it's not my ISP.

Today by chance I checked my blocked address book in my Yahoo email account(the one just for surveys), and there is I found out about the reason. SurveyAlert@TestSpin is on my blocked address list. I also found out several other survey companies emails on the list, no wonder I haven't heard from them!

So make sure survey site's emails don't go to your bulk folder and not on your blocked address list.

Tip#8: Visit MySurvey123.com as often as you can!

Reasons:

1. Get updated on new paid survey sites;

2. Get heads up on currently good paying online surveys and focus groups opportunities - since as you can see me and others post those on the message board all the time!

Tip #9: Keep and Save the Survey Invitation Emails.

ALWAYS keep and save survey invitation emails if you qualify and completed a survey, even it's from a well known legitimate survey company. The reason is, IF, something happens (yes it can happen any time with any survey sites), you have PROVE that you did the survey(s).

I have had some survey companies didn't credit my account for the surveys I completed. One company is Greenfield Online - luckily I have saved all of survey invitation emails, and after several back and forth, I have finally been paid. Another one is NFO MySurvey (surprise) - it only happened once. Once I did a long survey for them but didn't get credit after several weeks, so I sent them an email with the original survey invite, and I got a response pretty quickly - they said they made a mistake and I should have got credits, and they credited my account with 650 points.

You don't have to save the emails forever of course. What I do is delete the emails AFTER I have confirmed that the surveys have been credited and I have been paid.