The best way to achieve financial security and steady income is through diversification. In passive finance that means stocks, bonds, mutual funds and real estate. On the Internet it may mean Adsense, affiliate marketing, niche marketing and paid online surveys.

Whatever the mix, the principle is the same: “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket!” Economic matters go in cycles, up and down. If you tie yourself too tightly to one income source, when it’s on a down cycle so is your income! With diversification you are not betting on just one source of income, but many. Chances are that they won’t all go down at the same time.

One very successful approach to this is to start an activity each week that has the potential to yield $5 a day in income for you. While it’s true that $5 a day is not much, if you follow the strategy weekly, at the end of a year you will have fifty-two $5 a day projects in place. That adds up to 52 x $5 = $260 per day!

Sure, not all of your projects will work and actually yield $5 per day. But then some will do better than expected and yield more than that. Using this strategy you are playing a numbers game, using the law of averages. You want to average $5 per day per project per week!

A good example of a potential weekly project could be paid online surveys. To start that income stream it’s best to save time and hassle by going through a paid online survey guide company (there are over 200 of these out there).

Pick a guide company that is sizable, has a strong 60-90 day money-back guarantee and a low refund rate. Look for a refund rate in the 3-5% range; avoid any over 10%.

When you sign up, your guide company will give you a copy of the list of preferred survey-makers that it maintains. There are over 700 survey makers in the U.S. alone, and less than half of these are recommendable. The guide company will have already sorted through these and will recommend only the good ones, saving you a lot of time and avoiding problems.

When you get your copy of your guide company’s list, it’s time to go to work. Apply to all the recommended survey makers giving them your contact and demographic info. They will need this in order to know for which surveys you qualify and to send you invitations to take them. This may take you as much as 2-3 days to complete. Robo Form or other software that assists in filling out repetitive forms can help here.

Once you are signed up for paid surveys with all the good survey makers, all you have to do is wait for invitations to come in. You can expect invitations to participate in paid surveys, focus groups, product testing, etc.

It only takes a few minutes to fill out a survey questionnaire. And it’s easy! There are no right or wrong answers; just give your honest opinion. Afterwards you just wait for your check to come in the mail!

Now your problem will be, “What do I do for the second week?!”

It’s not so hard to do. If you need any help, follow the links below…

To learn more about multiple income streams and building your financial security one brick at a time, visit: 5 Bucks a Day To learn more about choosing the best guide companies and making money with paid online surveys visit: Paid Online Surveys
Jorge Chavez is an experienced paid survey expert at: http://surveysentinel.ya23.com