If you're reading this you may be looking for work for stay at home mothers. You obviously want to earn some money and you have time during the day when you're able to work but you do need to be flexible. If this sounds like how you're thinking then read on.

Paid surveys are ideal work for stay at home mothers. They're not difficult to do and can be quite a bit of fun. The work schedule is entirely up to you; just fit in a survey when the kids are at school or while you're waiting for the dinner to be ready. If you have a laptop you can watch television with the family while you do a survey or two.

However, before you start, here are the answers to some questions that you're bound to ask.

1. Is this suitable work for stay at home mothers? Emphatically, yes. Millions of legitimate companies use the opinions gathered from online surveys to help them with their marketing operation. Basically, surveys are market research, you are helping them with that and they will pay you. You work when you like and you work from home - ideal.

2. How much money can I earn? This depends on the amount of work that you're prepared to do. The more you do, the more you earn. Some companies pay better than others and there are experts online who can find you the best paying surveys to complete because they know what's hot in the marketplace. The best thing to do is to subscribe to a paid survey database.

3. What if it's a scam? Once again paying a small amount to subscribe to a paid survey database is a good idea. One of these will only deal with legitimate companies and any that appear to be dodgy will soon be removed from the database. The key here is to trust the experts and don't try and go it alone by searching the internet. Your time is precious, use it wisely.

4. How often will I be paid and how? This will vary depending on the survey database that you join but they will administer your pay, not the companies for whom you're taking the surveys. Typically you could be paid any time from once a week to once a month. Some companies stick to good old fashioned cheques while others are more progressive and use bank transfers or better still, Paypal. If the payment method is important to you, check it out before you join.

5. Why do I have to pay a fee to join a paid survey database? Well firstly, they need to know that you are serious about earning money doing surveys. After all, anyone can join a database they don't have to pay for; the small subscription weeds out the time wasters. Usually, the quality of a database will be increased if they call for a fee and they often attract high paying companies. Don't worry, you'll soon earn more than enough to cover the fee.

If paid surveys don't sound like your sort of thing, there's plenty of work for stay at home mothers out there. The internet is your oyster and you could even start your own business.