Paid Surveys

Angel asked:


I am looking for paid survey sites that pay money,not prizes that are legitimate,with no fees,obligations,or hidden sign ups to monthly charges to my phone bill and such.I am willing pay taxes on money,but not on prizes.

SAUL

asked:


I work in tech support and people call me everyday and ask for help and I didn’t score high enough like I want on customer surveys this month (scale of 1-10, 10 being the best). I need a customers opinion to improve my performance so I can get better survey scores. This affects my bonus, so please be honest, I’m tough, I can take it, but please be brief, I just need advice not your whole bad experience story (we all have those stories). Thank you for your honesty.

GAVIN

Jorge Chavez asked:


Paid surveys are a huge business on the Internet. There is good money to be made with legitimate paid online surveys that pay well, on time and in cash or equivalent. However, only about 20% of the total number of surveys being made are of this type. Understanding how the paid survey business works is the first key to success.

The second key to being able to get paid to fill out surveys and make money is to get a good list of legitimate paid survey panels that offer this kind of survey. You will need the first key to find the second key.

Here’s how the business works: Large companies need a constant flow of information about various aspects of consumer opinion, perceptions and preferences.

These companies commission market researchers to measure consumer sentiment and report back to them with their findings. Methodology to be used is discussed, surveys are often used.

Proposals are made, discussed, adjusted and ultimately approved and funded. There has to be adequate budget to fund all parts of a survey, including making sure that the participants get paid to fill out survey questionnaires.

Some survey makers, hired by the market researchers to handle the mechanics of individual surveys, pay participants well, on time and in cash or equivalent.

Others try to keep more of the total budget for themselves and use smoke, mirrors, promises and lotteries to pay participants considerably less.

The good-paying survey makers make up about 20% of the total. Of the rest, about half (40% of the total) does eventually/sometimes pay participants, but in lesser amounts. The other half almost never pay and also make money in other ways, like selling things to their list and selling their list to sales companies.

The 20% of survey makers that pay well have low turnover and almost never pay recruiting fees for new participants. They don’t have to. Their survey participants get paid to fill out surveys, are happy and stay with them.

The other 80% has high turnover (surprise, surprise!) and must constantly recruit new survey participants to replace those that did not get paid to fill out surveys and quit. They pay high recruiting fees to get new participants.

When you Google “paid surveys” you will find plenty of list purveyors pursuing you to take a copy of their “free list”. These people live and prosper off of recruiting fees they get for recruiting YOU! Since the good 20% of survey makers don’t pay recruiting fees, their names rarely appear on such lists.

Steer clear of those “free lists”. The list purveyors will make money, the survey makers on those lists will make money, but the survey takers, the survey participants who want to get paid to fill out surveys, won’t make money.

O.K. So now we know to, “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.” (-old Trojan saying!) and avoid “free lists”.

But the question remains, how DO we get a good list?

The answer is that we must look to someone who cares whether or not we make money with their list. The best place to find such a list is at paid online survey membership sites that maintain lists of good survey makers for their members. For a small one-time fee you can join and get a copy of their list.

There are around 200 of these sites. Not all have resisted the temptation to “double dip” and put a few (or a lot!) of survey makers that pay recruiting fees on their sites’ list. So we must choose one with care. Here’s how:

1. Only consider paid survey membership sites with STRONG money-back guarantees, backed up by a financial company like PayPal or ClickBank, or a bank. If a paid survey site won’t guarantee your satisfaction, if no one will underwrite their guarantee, then steer clear of them!

There are more than 70 paid survey sites that offer this type of strong guarantee.

2. Within the group with strong guarantees, look for one with a low refund rate under their guarantee. Low refund rates mean happy clients that used their list to get paid to fill out surveys, made money and were satisfied.

High refund rates mean unhappy clients that used the site’s list to get paid to fill out surveys, did NOT make money, were dissatisfied and demanded their money back.

So pick a paid survey membership site with a low (3-6%) refund rate, avoiding any with refund rates as high as 9-10% or more.

Sign up with that low-refund-rate site, get a copy of their list and then sign up with all of the survey makers on their list. The more you sign up with the more surveys you will be offered and the more money you will make.

You will have then positioned yourself to join the happy clients of a good paid survey site with a good list. You should make enough on the first 2-3 surveys to repay your membership fee. From there on you just get paid to fill out surveys and make money.

The only way to lose is to get the list and NOT sign up with all the survey makers on it. Survey makers compete with each other; they don’t share lists of participants. You have to sign up with each one separately.

Survey makers cannot send you surveys if they don’t have your application and demographic data on file. If you don’t get survey invitations you can’t very well get paid for filling out surveys!

So make all your applications, take the surveys and watch the cash roll in!

To get more information and details on how to get paid to fill out surveys you can follow the links below…



KERMIT

Asif Shaikh asked:


Don’t Know What is Paid Survey?

Let me explain through this article.

You can get paid money for simply filling out a survey. Many of us are wondering, is it really can be that simple. Actually, it is just that simple! Getting money for filling out a questionnaire is not a new concept. In fact it has been around for many years. A survey is simply a data collection technique designed to collect information from a large number of subjects. Online paid surveys are web-based surveys and those who participate stand a chance to get good rewards for participating in these surveys.

Why They Pay For Our Participation?

Paid surveys are rapidly becoming the most preferred means of data collection today. This is because the Internet has made surveys available to almost everybody who can log on to the Internet from almost every country in the entire world. Collection of consumer information is the main stronghold of the entire market research industry. Market research firms design and conduct data collection by the use of surveys and that is where the consumer comes into play because he is the source of the data. The consumer can directly influence how or what he wants from these companies simply by participating in research projects. By using this technique both the production and service companies have found it easier to make the best possible products for their target market or customer. Companies today go full lengths to produce goods that have been customized to meet what the consumers’ preferences are.

Paid surveys have become a source for extra cash for many people today. It is a convenient and easiest way to earn extra money with very little work, in the comfort of your own home. Sounds unbelievable to some, but it is true. Your neighbors or colleagues are making money from paid surveys, and they are happy about it. Well, you can be, too. Paid surveys are knocking on your door. Paid surveys are readily available to anyone who wishes to take surveys – from college students, stay-at-home parents, and people switching jobs or taking a break from work.

How Much I Can Earn?

Paid surveys payout may be anywhere between $1 per and $150 per survey. Cash payments depend on a lot of factors, such as the complexity of the survey, the size of the target group (how specific the survey is), the length of the survey, etc.

Another great feature is their referral system which rewards you an average of $2 for surveys your referrals take and $1 for surveys their referrals take. The most amazing part of this trend is it has no investments.

Do I Need to Have Particular Qualification or Previous Experience?

Taking surveys requires no qualification or previous experience. What you need is a stable Internet connection and a few minutes to devote to providing your feedback. Paid surveys are very easy to complete, take only as much time as you are willing to spend, and you know what each assignment brings you – cash and/or prizes. Most of the people who have experienced earning with paid surveys do it with pleasure and ease, and recommend to friends to take surveys for cash. Many people also find they can earn good money referring other people to the survey website that they are using. Most survey companies pay very well for their referrals.

How Can I Start Taking Part In Free Paid Surveys?

To start Taking Part in Paid Surveys, you need to be registered with an online company that can match you up with paying surveys. Once you have registered with the individual companies, they will begin sending you surveys to start filling out for money. Simply respond to all the questions on the survey and follow all the directions and you will get paid. It is really as simple as that!

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ELI

umm RanDoM much? asked:


We are doing a project and we need to know how many surveys we need to have filled out in order to be statistically significant. Please help!

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JESUS

speedndelko4u asked:


I am doing some research about whether or not internet surveys represent the population evenly, or if they are prone to sampling errors. Post a link to an internet survey, already with results, that you feel has a sampling error. For example, one where men are misrepresented because the web site is catered toward women.
Thank you so much.

BORIS

Lexi C asked:


Hello There, I was wondering if anyone can help me find the best place to get info from making money at home with paid surveys.

JIM

Martin Day asked:


created and published your online survey the next step is to get the right people to participate. How many and who you specifically target will depend entirely on the survey subject and your specific objectives.

For some surveys such as employee surveys there is likely to be natural and available list of respondents, for customer services there may be both a list and a website that can be used to promote a survey. Small surveys may only need to be promoted by word of mouth while others will require considerable effort to form a sample that will provide you with good market research data.

With surveys coming in every shape and size and with objectives that can cover market research, marketing and education a surveys sample requirements can range from general to specific as the population is sliced and diced into categories.

Listed here are a number of methods that can be used either on their own or in combinations so as to complement one another.

Email

One of the most popular methods of promoting an online survey is to send emails that contain a link to the survey to invited respondents using a mailing list. The mailing list could be a list of employees as in the case of an employee survey, a customer list for a customer service survey or a list of medical students from a college for a survey targeting medical students.

Although mailing lists can be obtained that target specific groups or business sectors one must be mindful that a survey invitation could be perceived by the recipient as being spam.

Where the objective of the survey is gather feedback, as in the case of a project post-mortem, it would be feasible as part of the normal correspondence between business partners to include an invitation to complete a survey with the purpose of obtaining valuable feedback.

A method that can be useful for organisations such as charities who wish to target corporate employees is to make an inquiry to a large organisations CEO or customer relations department and ask if they would help promote the survey using their internal email system.

The advantage with using Email is that it is quick and cost effective and the distribution of invitations can be well targeted and controlled.

When sending a large number of email invitations, even if the technology allows it, try to avoid the temptation to email them all in one go. It is a good policy to send your email invitations in batches so that if there are any errors or problems they are identified early and there is an opportunity to make corrections with minimal impact.

Website

To complement an email promotion or where a suitable email list is not available another popular method is to use a single or multiple website to publicise a survey by having a link to the survey on the website.

This method is ideal for survey publishers who already have an active website and where the surveys objective is to gather feedback from unregistered visitors who will not appear on mailing lists as well as registered visitors who probably do.

As an example an online store can gain valuable feedback from the visitors to their website that do not purchase anything as well as those who are loyal and regular customers.

With the practice of purchasing mailing lists being on the decline specialist websites can sometimes offer the opportunity for a survey to be publicised to a well target audience. If for example a survey is aimed at young people then university websites and websites that specialise in music and club culture will have a ready source of that social group that can be tapped into.

If the publisher of a survey does not have any control or access to a suitable website, and depending on the exact nature of the survey, it may be possible to request assistance from those websites that do have the volume of traffic from the target market, or you may want to consider paying a fee to have the survey promoted on specialist websites.

Organic Search Engine Listing

It is possible by including a detailed introduction as part of the survey to make the survey available to search engines allowing each search engine to index the survey so that it will appear in relevant search results.

How successful this method would be depends on a lot of factors and where the publisher has a ready sample source they may not want the survey to be indexed by search engines at all.

PPC

Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising such as Google’s Adwords can also be used to promote a survey by creating an advertisement that will be triggered by relevant search terms providing a method of targeting specific groups.

With the sophisticated PPC facilities you are able target your promotion on an international, national or regional basis allowing you to specifically target your geographical as well as interest group.

Surveys are not always conducted with impartiality in mind especially when they are conducted for the purpose of sustaining a particular argument. PPC can be used influence a seemingly impartial survey by directing it at people who hold certain views thereby ensuring support, or opposition, to a particular argument. If the intention is to conduct impartial market research then when using PPC the search terms used to trigger the advertisement will need to cover equally both sides of any argument and serious consideration should be given as to whether PPC is an appropriate method of promotion; in some cases it will be, in others it will most certainly not.

The downside of PPC can be the cost, certainly if your market research is being conducted with minimal funds and the promotion is competing for commercial search terms, however in some cases where the required search terms are non-commercial the promotion can use search terms that can be purchased at minimal cost.

Telephone Survey

Many online survey websites like http://www.surveygalaxy.com/ provide a facility to allow online surveys to be conducted over a telephone where an operator telephones the respondents and through interviews enters the response information on behalf of the respondent.

As with email, telephone lists can be purchased and also like email care should be taken as people are developing a growing aversion to receiving unsolicited telephone calls.

Telephone interviews can prove very effective especially where you need to conduct a survey where the results may be skewed if you relied on a cross section of internet users only. Although the Internet community now represents a broad section of the overall community if for example a survey was concerned with peoples’ reluctance to get online, obtaining respondents through online methods would be inappropriate.

Forums

Promoting surveys through forums can prove to be effect. Since forums by their nature often attract like minded groups of people matching the right forum with the survey subject can be very rewarding.

However, one should respect the forum rules and forum members can regard requests to participate in surveys made by new members as spamming the forum. Where a person has a history of using a particular forum they can however gain a good response from their fellow members who are asked to participate.

Press Releases

Online press release websites can be used to promote a new survey and can help the survey to establish a good ranking for general search engine inquiries.

Blogs

Similar to Forums Blogs also offer an opportunity to promote a survey. The effectiveness is likely to be directly proportional to the popularity of the Blog and the subject matter of the survey. Starting a new Blog to publicise a survey may not prove effective, but using one that has already an established audience is likely to generate a good response.

Snail Mail

The traditional forms of promotion should not be overlooked and mail shots using letters to introduce and invite participants can be very effective for certain types of surveys.

Posters

Posters can be used to grab the attention and invite interested parties to participate in a poster. Prominently displayed in areas frequented by the target audience they can often have a instant visual impact and give the opportunity to follow up the visual image with well a crafted headline.

A good example would be for a survey that is attempting to research a psychological condition where potential participants who have experienced certain events in their lives will not be on any lists and across all social and age groups. A poster could be displayed in public places such as transport hubs, hospitals and entertainment venues.

Notice boards

Electronic or physical notice boards can prove to be an effective method of survey promotion. Notice boards can be of a general or specific nature and as such can be used to targeted groups of people.

Direct Company

Approaching a company directly can enable you to tap into a ready source of suitable respondents. To avoid spamming a company it is recommended that permission should be sought from the specific company’s senior management, human resources or customer relations department.

Events

Sporting events, festivals or trade shows can provide market researchers with a concentration of like minded people. However, you should not expect people who are attending such events will be in the mood or position to respond to surveys. An effective way to tap into this source of respondents is to hand out business style cards with a short explanation as to the objective of the survey and with a link to the online survey.

The size of the card is important as it can be put in a pocket easily so that when each potential respondent returns home they will take time to participate in the survey.

Radio

If access is available to any form of radio, air, digital or online, an announcement promoting a survey can generate a good response proportional to the number of listeners.

There are many radio channels to choose ranging from national, regional, local and specialist channels that generate audiences that can be categorised by age and interest.

Street

As with formal events there is an opportunity to target the general public as they go about their normal business. Although individuals can be canvassed and asked to complete surveys there and then handing out business card style notices requesting them to participate in a survey later could prove more productive.

On Product Packaging

Products can carry a label with a link back to an online survey. This would be an ideal way of gathering feedback on a particular product or it could be used just as a vehicle for promoting a survey that is unrelated to the product.

On invoices and corporate publications

General correspondence that confirms an action such as an invoice or delivery note can be used to promote a survey and thereby gather valuable customer relations feedback.

Incentives

The need to give incentives to people for them to participate in surveys will very much depend on the subject and length of the survey. For a short survey you may not need to offer any incentive but as a general rule the longer and harder the survey the more incentive is required.

Incentives can be in the form of a payment, vouchers, free gifts or entry into a prize draw. For some surveys such incentives might be inappropriate as in the case of an internal employee survey; for these types of surveys some incentive may be required to ensure a good and timely response and they could take the form of an explanation explaining the benefits of participating in a survey such as it leading to improvements in the working environment.

FIDEL

Davion W asked:


Online paid surveys, a means to get paid for taking surveys online is reportedly a longstanding income opportunity for anyone hoping to earn some pocket money online. It is free from risk and definitely easy for most people to handle. The pre-requisite to be accepted by most sites is a minimal age of 18 and basic computer literacy. These are easy conditions to fulfill. However, recent scams surrounding this money making opportunity has somehow affected some genuine income seekers. We will study this income opportunity carefully and see if anyone can honestly make money out of online paid surveys.

Among the dozens of paid survey sites reviewed, the payment mode seems to oscillate between cash payments or gift rewards. When it comes to cash payments, it is quite clear-cut, you get paid for taking surveys. Each survey probably fetches you anything between $1 to $150. While it is rare to receive $1 surveys, the chances of doing a $150 is not that high either. But getting paid for your efforts is almost guaranteed. Most people receive $5 to $50 online paid surveys. As for the gift rewards, the survey companies normally pay you in the form of gift vouchers, meal coupons, samples or a try at the prize draws. The odds of winning at these prize draws can be high because of the wide range of gifts and small pool of participants.

When you register to join an online survey site, you are expected to fill in your personal details for the purpose of profiling. Survey companies need to check your personal demographics against the online paid surveys for matching. But be sure to check for the non-disclosure clause at these sites that effectively states that your identifiable information would never be shared with a third party without your prior consent. This is important as there are scam sites that are set up purely to harvest the personal details of unknowing survey takers.

Very often, the best paying online paid surveys are reserved for the regular survey takers with the companies. If you have been consistently taking surveys and build a good reputation, there is strong likelihood that the survey panels view you as a committed player. The league of online paid surveys being offered can be surprisingly lucrative. You also may stand a chance to participate in focus group surveys which generally pay better than the standard survey forms.

The top earners of online paid surveys, as we quickly realized, are not only members of the sites reviewed but also members of other survey sites. They get paid for taking surveys from different sources. The reason is simple. They leverage on the huge database of online survey companies they possess. By signing up with the few hundred survey companies, they effectively receive many surveys daily. So even if you are pressed for time, you should not see the registration at dozens of companies as a waste of time. It would pay off in the long run when the survey invitations start streaming into your email box.

People who make a good income monthly using online paid surveys usually set aside substantial hours to participate in surveys. So it is possible to make real money and get paid for taking surveys. You do require some effort. But is it tough? Not exactly as it is doable by most folks. Look for quick survey tips and find a huge database of well paying survey companies from my survey blog.



PHILLIP

Angie N asked:


Im in South Africa and Im interested in doing surveys online to make money from home. I would really like to know about the free paidsurvey sites as well as the (pay to join)survey sites that are global,International and pay by cheque. Any help would really be appreciated and Thank You in advance. Im really looking forward to hearing from those people who are currently involved in this and earning an income.

DOUG