Online Surveys: How To Get Paid for Your Opinion
Every year, companies in the United States spend over 250
Billion dollars trying to convince consumers to buy their
products and services, and that's JUST in the U.S.!
Although the lion's share of that money is spent on advertising,
a huge amount is devoted to market research.
Understanding how we as consumers think and why we choose
certain products over others, enables companies to improve their
goods and services. The better they understand us as consumers,
the more money they make.
Because it PAYS them to know what we like and want, companies
are willing to PAY us for our opinions.
It makes perfect business sense. Using the Internet as a direct
channel to ordinary people like you and me, paying for online
surveys is a cheap, efficient and very effective way of
gathering quality and highly targeted market research.
There are companies that will pay you up to:
** $ 99 per online survey ** $ 250 per hour to participate in
focus groups ** $ 150 per hour to take phone surveys ** $4-25
per hour to view movie trailers
Online surveys are general forms generated by marketing research
companies, to get information on a particular product or
services. They perform detailed investigation on the feedback
they get from you and pass it on to top companies.
Focus groups are meetings wherein the attendees express their
opinions on a particular particular topic. They are generally
conducted by phone or in chat rooms.
In other cases you can get paid to:
** Be a Mystery Shopper ** Shop and read emails! ** Drive a free
car
As a Mystery Shopper you are sent to a designated retail or
commercial area to buy a product or service. You then evaluate
and comment on your overall buying experience with that
establishment.
Some companies and advertisers pay cash for every email you read
about their products. I've read about some who doing this and
making between $1,000 to $1,800 a month, no gimmicks.
No doubt you want to know how about the free car! These cars
have advertisements on them. Drive them, and you won't pay
insurance or monthly installments. The companies providing these
vehicles earn their money from the advertising on the vehicle.
Payment is made in different ways. Some companies pay instantly
via PayPal, whereas others will mail you a check.
In lieu of cash, some companies pay with:
** Napster Music Downloads ** Buy.com Gift Certificates
Other companies will enter you into drawings for large cash
prizes, let you earn points that can be used to buy products, or
redeem these points for cash.
Whatever the method of payment, you will be provided with the
exact compensation details before you decide to participate.
Finding paid surveys online can be a time-consuming process, and
there are number of scam operaters in the business.
Fortunately for us, a few smart entrepeneurs have developed big
databases of reputable companies that are paying for online
surveys.
They themselves use those databases to earn all or part of their
incomes.
The various databases that I researched list between 300 and up
to almost
To gain access to these databases costs a one-time membership
fee of between $29.95 and $37. However, just one hour online can
pay for your membership!
Most accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover,
Eurocard, and Visa-Debit, MasterCard-Debit, and Novus cards,
PayPal and online checks.
You have nothing to lose either. If you're not satisfied, each
company offers a money back guarantee of between 60 and 90 days.
Most of these listing companies offer incentives to join such as:
** Ebooks ** 250 free business cards ** Automation Software ** 2
free airline tickets ** 3 day 2 night vacation
Your membership will entitle you to the latest industry news and
you will be generally notified when new companies join the
database.
Generally, the surveys are between 10 and 15 minutes in length,
and although you can make up to $100 by completing one survey,
$10 to $25 is far more typical.
Although you probabaly won't get rich completing surveys, or
participating in focus groups, you could make a tidy sum doing
it either full or part-time. Basically, the more surveys that
you complete, the more money you will make.
I rather prefer stacks of $10, 15 and $25 checks to the
alternative - no checks at all! :-))
This great opportunity is well-suited to anyone who works from
home, students, stay-at-home parents, retired people, and for
those with special needs. And you can do it from anywhere in the
world!
And it doesn't matter if you live outside the U.S. This
opportunity is open to people the world-over. As long as you can
cash a U.S. dollar check, you can be in business.
Here, listed in alphabetical order, is a list of the best online
databases of survey companies.
Get Cash for Surveys
# of Companies Listed - 300+ Guarantee Terms - 90 days Paid
Surveys Fee Range - $5 - $150 Focus Group Fee Range - up to