Is it time to get paid for giving your opinion? You bet it is. In fact, it's time to get paid for turning on your computer, answering a few questions, and then collecting a check while you're in your underwear! And it won't cost you a penny to do it.

What's this all about? I'm talking about a great opportunity to get paid for taking consumer surveys. It's a 100% legitimate opportunity to earn a second or replacement income from the comfort of your home without investing any money and without annoying your friends or family by trying to sell them something. In fact, you won't be annoying strangers either, because this isn't about sales. Here's how it works...

Big companies spend billions of dollars on advertising and launching new products, and they can't afford to make a mistake. Remember the fiasco that occurred when the Coca Cola company launched "New Coke"? The results were a disaster.

That's what happens when the marketing people don't take the time to get opinions from consumers, the people who actually end up buying (or not buying) the products these companies sell.

Well, in order to avoid disasters like "New Coke", smart businesses are willing to pay consumers for their opinion. After all, the cost of paying people like you or me BEFORE they make a mistake is a lot less than trying to clean up the mess after they get it wrong out in the marketplace.

Well, rather than deal directly with each consumer, which is a full-time job in itself, these companies contract consumer opinion companies to handle the details for them.

These consumer opinion companies, in turn, work with people like you and me by inviting them to take on-line surveys. All you have to do is get on their invitation list. And I'm going to tell you how to do that in a minute.

Before I do that, however, let me tell you about the money!

These surveys take 10 minutes or less to take, and you do it all on line. In return for those 10 minutes, the consumer opinion companies are willing to pay you anywhere from $5 or so, to $10; $15, $20, $35 or more. Plus some pay you in prizes and merchandise which adds another layer of value to this great way to make money at home.

Now, the trick, as I mentioned, is to get yourself invited to take these surveys. But that's not the only trick. The big trick is to only get invited to take surveys by the honest opinion companies that will actually send you a check or deposit your money into your PayPal account. And that's where it can get sticky.

That's why I was happy to discover a web site that not only published a list of these survey companies that will pay you to work from home, but they actually check out each company to make sure that they really pay! Now that's what I'm talking about.

One more thing, forgot to tell you about a special kind of survey you can take that pays $120, $150, or more! The people that run this program take the time to verify each survey company before they publish their contact information.