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Can You Really Make Money Taking Paid Surveys?

Steve Anderson — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:54:55 +0000

Have you ever heard of making money taking paid surveys? As far as I am concerned, making money taking surveys is relatively good compared to other money-making opportunities because it can be quite profitable with little effort. There is always a demand for people to take part in surveys as companies are conducting marketing research by doing surveys.

Nowadays the boom of the web makes marketing companies to use Internet as their medium of conducting surveys. Internet surveys are easy, convenient and have a reach globally. However, marketing companies have divided people in to specific group according to their requirement. Because of this, some kinds of paid surveys are not for everyone.

Usually these paid surveys require profile like occupation, income level, geographical location, education level and interests. These details are collected for the selection of right candidates to take part in the survey. The selected individuals will receive the questionnaires through email. After the completion of the questionnaire given by the marketing research, companies send payments for the completed surveys.

Making money taking surveys is not at all difficult but it’s hard to do it for your living. You have to sign up with enough marketing research companies to get a certain amount of questionnaires. If you are getting enough online surveys then this is a great way to make some quick cash. Most of the companies are willing to pay a handsome amount of money if they can get honest opinions.

Some of the Internet make money taking surveys requires quite much amount of time to finish. Some of them even can take one hour. Companies love long surveys because they continue their campaigns on marketing and promotion depending on the survey findings and the rewards for long surveys are always great.

Why Being Honest on Free Paid Surveys Brings More Money to Your Bank Account

shuey03 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:23:25 +0000

Honesty is the best policy.

You may be surprised to know that this virtue can do you a lot of good. Not only will this help you make people like you, you can also make your bank account fatter by being honest. How?

The answer lies in free paid surveys.

Free paid surveys, as most of you know by now, offer a great way to earn money online. These are provided by market research companies that hope to come up with relevant information for their clients. The information gathered from free paid surveys are used to make conclusions as to how and why a certain product performs well in the market.

Consumer feedback is very important to companies. They need it to figure out how they can improve their products so that they can sell well. Consumer feedback comes from, obviously, the consumer. And that is us. The answers we provide through free paid surveys are the ones used by these companies to come up with concrete findings.

Now where does honesty fits in all these?

It’s in the way you answer the questions. Since the questions are about a certain product, you, as a survey panelist, have to share what you think of the features of the product, or whether you think it is effective or not. Free paid surveys are very easy to answer in the sense that you don’t need to be an expert on something. All you have to do is share your opinions. Nothing too hard in that, right?

You just have to be honest with your answers. If you feel like you need to say something bad about the product, do so. There’s no one stopping you. Don’t be afraid of being reprimanded because there are no right or wrong answers here. As a matter of fact, it is highly encouraged. That way, companies will be able to pinpoint the flaws in their products and do something about it.

Be honest when answering free paid surveys. After all, nothing can be gained by lying about your opinions. By being honest with your answers, you are providing very relevant information. Survey companies will notice this. And if they like the way you answer their surveys, they will try to match you with more surveys. They need people who can provide them with good feedback.

This will then result to you becoming sort of an expert on free paid surveys. Not only that, you get to earn more since more online surveys are coming your way!

There Is Money in Free Paid Surveys

shuey03 — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:08:01 +0000

The question most people ask when it comes to free paid surveys is if they can really earn money from answering them.

There are many free paid surveys available in the Internet today. And the mere fact that there is a lot of them means people must be really earning money from it. The only question is whether this is true or false.

The answer: yes.

You can earn money by answering free paid surveys. It may not be as much as you would like, but considering how easy it is to become a survey panelist and how very little effort such work requires, how much you get will really not be an issue. As a matter of fact, you will not feel you are earning little because most of the times, it will not feel like work.

You won’t have to drag yourself out of bed when the clock strikes 6 am; you won’t even need to set your alarm clock. You can get out of bed anytime you want and get to work whenever you feel like doing.

Free paid surveys will not eat up much of your time. If you have something to go to for lunch, there’s no problem. Online surveys would only take a few minutes of your time. Depending on how much survey you receive, you will not need to be in front of your computer for 8 hours. You have total control of your time. You have the power to set your work hours. You can take a break whenever you want to—no matter how long those breaks are as long as you finish the surveys that day.

Earning money through free paid surveys is very easy. You don’t have to exert even half of the effort applied by those who have a 9-5 job. All you need to do is study the survey instructions very well and provide your opinions about certain products and services.

Each survey can earn you as much as $20, on the average. The amount can vary depending on the paid survey company you belong with. There are some who offer way more than that. Aside from financial incentives, you can also get prize rewards from the companies. They can provide you with coupons, gift certificates, and other freebies. These are all useful things. Some would even give out their own merchandise as an incentive.

You can earn money by answering free paid surveys; although not much at first. You need to become a member of as many survey companies if you want to earn more. But for the meantime, I suggest you familiarize yourself first with the whole process.

Are You Frusturated With Online Paid Surveys?

shuey03 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:24:12 +0000

One of the negative things I hear most about online paid surveys is the fact that some people just can’t qualify for a survey for the life of them. I can completely understand and relate to everyone of you who feel frusturated because of this. You see, marketing research companies are looking for a very specific demographic (traits of an individual) to take certain surveys. Because of this, if they are looking for hispanic females who are pregnant, those who aren’t hispanic females who are pregnant will not qualify.

So, what is there to do? As we talk about in our free training, you need to take about an hour and fill out every profile and bit of information that these paid survey companies are asking for. You might be asking yourself why? Isn’t this dangerous? NO! They companies are restriced by law from sharing your information. They need this information to have more accurate records of who is interested in what so they can send you the exact surveys that you will qualify for. So, if you want to avoid the frusturation, you need to put in some extra effort.

One free paid survey company, Global Test Market just recently launched something called Survey Shuttle. This is a very innovative tool that they have provided their members to help alieviate some of this frusturation you are feeling due to closed and non qualified surveys. Survey Shuttle immediately re-directs you to another survey if you do not qualify or the study is closed. By doing this, they allow you to make even more money than you can with their competitors.

Please keep in mind that paid surveys are hard work. They take effort and dedication, but it is possible to make money on the internet with paid surveys. You actually get paid to take surveys and you can do it from your current job, school, or at home.

Best of luck to all of you in this endevor. If you will fill out profiles, I can promise you more money!

Why Free Paid Survey Companies Are Legitimate!

shuey03 — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:09:21 +0000

There is a lot of negativity around the principle of paid surveys and how they are scams. These individuals and companies have no reason or evidence that this is a true statement. I, however, have been there and done that and want to share with you some very personal and detailed information about legitimate free paid surveys and how they are a great way for anyone to make money on the internet!

I believe that 99% of the websites and individuals who are promoting paid survey companies have no idea if they are for real or not. I, however, have had the opportunity to work for one of the paid survey companies that I represent. Not only did I work for this company, but I had many opportunities to work with the other survey companies in the industry and know of their validity.

Four years ago, I was fortunate enough to be hired by a local marketing research firm in Orem, UT. The name of this firm is Western Wats. When I was hired, I, along with another individuals (who I will not name) were responsible for the launch and growth of a new paid survey panel called Opinion Outpost. Honestly, we pretty much started from scratch!! When I was first hired, I had never heard of online paid surveys before. In fact, I was probably as skeptical as you are now about their legitimacy and validity. I thought, first “who in their right mind would want to take surveys for cash”, second “who in their right mind would pay someone cash for taking surveys on the internet”? Of course, being a new employee at the firm, I just did what I was told and didn’t think much about it again.

About three months into my employment, the lady in the accounting office who was in charge of printing checks for the survey takers came to my desk and dropped a stack of checks that I needed to seperate, put in enevelopes, stamp, and deliver to the post office. I thought, “WOW, this is for real! People actually make money doing this!!!”. That night I went home and signed up with every survey company that I could so I could make as much money as possible. The surveys started rolling in and so did the cold hard cash!

Shortly after I received my first check from one of the companies (if you think I can remember which company, you are insane, it was 4 years ago) I went to my boss to ask how we could afford to cut all those checks to those people. I really didn’t know anything about marketing research, how it worked, and how people made money from it. He taught me all about it that afternoon and I am going to share with you exactly what I learned.

Companies such as General Motors, Target, Sony, Apple, Blackberry, Fisher Price, and thousands of other companies need to learn how their current customers and others who are not their customers feel about their current products and possible future products that they might release. This is called marketing research. It is very obvious that we, as individuals, respect our own privacy and expect others to do so as well. In the past, we have received so many telemarketing or survey research phone calls that we have become frusturated and flat out annoyed to the point where we just hang up or not even answer the phone at all. From this was born the Do Not Call Registry which pretty much put every telemarketing company out of business. Let me be clear, marketing researchers collecting data are not restricted from calling you for research purposes, however, the industry has suffered a huge blow because people think that any phone call from any company falls under the registry.

Because of this, marketing research companies needed to evolve and provide a way for their clients to still collect the data that they need, while making it worth while for the people taking the surveys. They came up with a business plan of how they could provide value to both the client and the average person spending their time taking surveys.

So, they came up with a non-intrusive way of collecting market research data. They have people sign up to make money by taking paid surveys. These people volunteer their time for compensation. The marketing research companies charge their clients extra money for this type of research so they can reasonably compensate their survey takers for their time and effort. This is how you and I can make money by taking paid surveys!

Now that we have cleared up the legitimacy of Opinion Outpost, how about those other companies that Survey Inferno and hundreds of other survey sites represent? Well, first off, we personally test every offer that we present to our users and make sure that they provide sufficient monetary value. Also, toward the end of my employment with Opinion Outpost, we had many opportunities to work with other companies like Greenfield Online, Harris Poll, My Survey, Ipsos iSay and other marketing research companies. If they could not collect enough data for their clients, they would have us fill the rest and provide compensation for our members. This is a testimony to me and hopefully everyone reading this post that these paid surveys are legitimate and you can make money from them!

The last three months at Opinion Outpost was probably the most miserable months of my life! I hardly got any work done because I was stuffing checks for our survey takers for 8 hours a day, about 3 or 4 days a week. We literally sent out hundreds of thousands of checks a month to our survey panel members. I have created a video that is currently on YouTube that talks about paid surveys and shows a couple of the checks that I have received. This is legitimate, if you want to make money on the internet, this is an excellent way to do it!

I left this company about a year ago to pursue other opportunities including the launch of Survey Inferno. I knew first hand that this was for real and wanted to share it with people like you, that is why I compiled our paid survey directory. It has been very rewarding receiving countless emails from happy users of Survey Inferno. It has also been very challenging trying to overcome all of the negativity and lies that are surfacing about this industry.

I want everyone to know that I appreciate you visiting our site and I highly encourage feedback and suggestions. You can emails us with questions, feedback, or suggestions by clicking here.

You will probably also notice that our site has begun adding international paid surveys for individuals living outside the US. We are also providing surveys for Hispanics and teens. Over the next six months, you will also see a re-design of the website that will provide more information about each company, their contact information, and anything else that we think will make this a better experience for you.

I strongly encourage you to click here and sign up with the top ten paying survey companies on the internet today! You will start getting surveys and start making money within a day’s time.

Survey Inferno Welcome’s The Global Net Panel

shuey03 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:51:34 +0000

Say hello to the market research industry’s newest online survey panel, The Global Net Panel. The Global Net Panel is owned and operated by Globanet Interactive, Inc. and they are ready for you to start taking surveys and getting paid for doing it.

This is the perfect opportunity for anyone interested in free paid surveys to make a lot of money. Because they are such a new panel, they are going to have plenty of work or “surveys” for you to do. The fewer panel members that a company has, the more there are to go around. Once you reach a million panelists like Opinion Outpost or Global Test Market, you will start to receive fewer and fewer surveys.

Take some initiative today and go sign up to take surveys with Global Net Panel. While you are at it, sign up for a few more of the other companies in our directories to maximize the number of survey you take on a daily basis and the amount of money you make!