Paid Surveys – Money for Doing What Comes Naturally
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Our human nature has traditionally been characterized by a willingness among individuals to express an opinion on just about any subject known to mankind. As far back as history can relate people have eagerly rendered their viewpoints on anything and everything. Traditionally we have been taught that opinions should be taken with a grain of salt because that is all they are worth. Well, according to the economics of today, opinions are not only valuable, but they are worth money. Paid surveys have become the rage of the Internet in the first decade of the 21st Century, and people around the world are beginning to join in the frenzy.
There is not one subject in the history of mankind that has been sheltered from public opinion. The entire sports gambling industry, a twelve billion dollar annual business world wide, is built on the fact that people have diverse opinions about the outcome of sporting events. There were differences of opinion back in ancient Rome when royalty would bet on the outcome of the chariot races. Heaven forbid if it was your neck that was riding on the outcome of a wager. The entire Olympic development emerged because people from different countries had a divergence of opinion as to whose athletes were better. The fields of wrestling, bow and arrow shooting, chariot and horse racing, and a variety of other competitive events laid the foundation for wagering on these varying opinions. The differences were ultimately settled by Olympic competition. These events helped shape peoples’ opinions regarding which army was better prepared to fight, which country made the most effective warring equipment and which country constructed the sturdiest chariot. Today, by virtue of paid surveys, people are being paid for expressing their opinions.
Technological advancements have propelled certain industries to the forefront. Within those industries, there are products manufactured that sustain these businesses. Competition in the free market is what drives the price of the products. Their ultimate success or failure is determined by the amount of sales generated in relation to their competition, and for this reason paid surveys have become an invaluable marketing tool today.
Paid Surveys – Test Market for Products
Paid surveys are the test tracks for marketing firms hired to determine how the public views a particular product or concept, and whether or not the product will be ultimately successful on the open market. Paid surveys have become an important facet of the world’s economy over the past ten years. Since the utilization of the Internet as a tool in business today, the use of paid surveys has increased by leaps and bounds. Paid surveys have been around for decades, however, and many companies have used paid surveys strategies in order to make critical administrative decisions regarding the production and marketing of a particular product.
One company based in New England that employed paid surveys to make administrative determinations regarding their product is the manufacturers of what we will call X Brand Ice Cream. X Brand Ice Cream was produced by a New England company that wanted to give their ice cream a special quality. The firm understood that the ice cream industry had some major players in the 70’s, such as Sealtest, Borden, Carvel, Baskin-Robbins and the packaged brands of the big-time supermarkets, such as A&P, Key Food, Shoprite and Pathmark. The makers of X Brand hired a marketing firm to conduct paid surveys to test their product. The paid surveys were conducted initially in New England. Subsequently, there were additional paid surveys in the New York metropolitan area, paid surveys in the Washington DC area, and paid surveys in the Philadelphia-Trenton area.
Since the company’s philosophy was to produce exotic ice cream flavors, the paid surveys would be a great indicator of the preferences of the public. The initial response from the participants of the paid surveys was luke-warm at best. You must keep in mind that these paid surveys consisted of a taste test of various flavors of ice cream However, during these paid surveys, neither the name of the company, which was X Brand, nor the name of the flavor of the ice cream was disclosed to those participating in the paid surveys.
The results of the initial paid surveys were curious at first, but they taught marketing firms a crucial lesson in the value of paid surveys. The reason that the people were not that receptive to the different flavors of ice cream was because the paid surveys revealed that the participants felt that the ice cream lacked a pizzazz about it. Several months later, the same paid surveys were administered once again to the same corps of paid surveys participants. This time, the name of the brand of ice cream, X Brand (actually a European sounding name), was revealed to these paid surveys takers. The paid surveys had a completely different outcome. The participants of these paid surveys approved overwhelmingly of the different flavors of the ice cream. The reason given in these paid surveys for the change of opinion is because the paid surveys participants believed they were eating ice cream imported to the United States from Europe, presumably Holland or Switzerland.
The makers of X Brand then utilized paid surveys to determine which particular flavors they should market, and which others they should not. The cities that they chose were:
Paid Surveys – New York City, New York
Paid Surveys - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Paid Surveys – Baltimore, Maryland
Paid Surveys – Boston, Massachusetts
Paid Surveys – Portland, Maine
Paid Surveys – Providence, Rhode Island
Paid Surveys – Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Paid Surveys – Montpelier, Vermont
Paid Surveys - Concord, New Hampshire
Paid Surveys – Cape May, New Jersey
Paid Surveys – Old Greenwich, Connecticut
Paid Surveys – Dover, Delaware
The interesting findings in these paid surveys was that the more affluent the area of the paid surveys, the more favorable the results were. Additionally, the paid surveys yielded the information that the more affluent the area, the more impressed those tested were with the foreign sounding name, and the more willing they were to pay a higher price for the ice cream. The more exotic-sounding the flavor of the ice cream, the more positive was the response from the paid surveys.
These results allowed the manufacturers of the ice cream to concentrate on those areas earmarked in the paid surveys, and X Brand Ice Cream became a staple in the American culture. The same ice cream that received moderate reviews in the initial paid surveys had received a completely different opinion by the same corps of participants in subsequent paid surveys simply because the brand was given a foreign-sounding name. The people thought they were purchasing ice cream that was a better value to them than their American counterparts.
Paid surveys are now conducted today through the services of the Internet. People are in great demand to become participants in these paid surveys. If you are interested in participating in paid surveys, kindly log on to your computer and consult a search engine, such as Google or Yahoo, for the term “paid surveys.”
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What is a list of top secret shopper and paid survey websites?I am a teen and I am looking for a part-time job doing paid surveys or mystery shopper. I don't want to get scammed and waste my time just to get my check and it ends up being invalid like my friend did. Can you give me a list of top paid survey and mystery shopper site and organizations?
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June 19th, 2009 at 8:03 am
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June 19th, 2009 at 8:03 am
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June 19th, 2009 at 8:03 am
Some survey websites post surveys as their available and allow you to attempt to qualify, others will e-mail you specific surveys which are targeted for you. On average I receive 4 surveys within the course of two days per survey site. Less for some, more for others.
Similarly, they all send out payment differently.
Some survey websites such as pinecone research send you a check immediately after completing each survey, so you end up getting a whole bunch of 3 $ checks.
Most survey websites pay on demand however. They set up a minimum payout, 10$ on most sites, and once you hit at least 10$ you can request a check at any time you'd like.
And it's not only okay to apply for more then one survey website, it's EXACTLY what you want to do. The more survey websites you sign up for the more surveys you'll get. What you DON'T want to do is to sign up for the same survey site twice, because then you'll be cheating the particular company by filling out the same surveys twice. There's nothing that says you can't sign up for different companies (different websites) however – it's something I do and I make a lot more money that way.
There's a list of survey websites on this website – http://surveysafari.x10hosting.com/ – there's also a TON of tips on there as well as video tutorials which should help teach you the basics of using survey websites to make money.
Good luck!
June 19th, 2009 at 8:03 am
The legitimate online jobs stopped hiring 2 years ago. Only the scammers are left. There is no "list" of reputable secret shoppers because they all cheat you.
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June 19th, 2009 at 8:03 am
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June 19th, 2009 at 8:03 am
Yes, to be legal, they have to send a 1099-misc to anyone making over $600 for the year, and report the earnings to the IRS. On most of those websites though, unless you manage to suck in a lot of other people to join up using you as a reference, this won't be an issue.
June 19th, 2009 at 8:03 am
You need to know what survey's are like. Survey's are not what you think. They require a lot of time, and you won't make what they claim you will. A couple of my friends did a six month test on several different survey sites like Survey Savvy, Harris Poll, Greenfield, Opinion Outpost, Survey Sport, Buzzback, NPD online, Lightspeed Panel, African American, Your2Cents, Project Payday, Inboxdollar, SnapDollars,Send Earnings, Creation, mycoke rewards, E-poll etc. Each did some the same sites and some different sites. Totaling at least 15 – 20 a piece. They're not what people say they are. Yes they are easy to do and you can receive money and prizes, compensating you for your time and effort. So they're not a scam. They're very time consuming though. When you add the time together, It's more time then you think! If you do decide to get into surveying, you better plan on spending 8 to 10 hours a day and make minimum wage. Sometimes you will hit good surveys that will pay you a lot, but what's required to get that is amount, the calculations of the time involved, and what you got paid in these "higher" paying surveys, still only averages out to minimum wage. It's a psychological thing because the time is spread out on these, so it doesn't seem to be as long as it really is. But we did the documentation's and figured the time vs money factor. We found that there was more time with little money to be made.
Here's how the survey's work. You spend approximately 10 to 15 minutes per each site to register and set up a profile to qualify for surveys. (this is non paid). To make anything really work, you need to register for at least 14 different ones, and make sure non are related to each other. Then you'll start receiving emails for surveys. Each survey you have to complete a 15 to 20 minute "pre-qualifying" survey, after you were already told you qualified based on your profile (you don't get paid for this) Then if you do qualify for a survey (which majority of the ones you don't qualify for. so you've wasted this 15 to 20 minutes and sometimes longer of non paid time.) Then if you don't qualify for one, they offer another and you have to do the same thing, and the same thing happens.) You waste approximately 45 minutes to an hour until you finally qualify for a survey. You take a 30 to 45 minute survey and make normally $1 to $3 a survey that they claim takes 15 minutes. Or instead of money, you earn "points" which later on can be exchanged for money or prizes. You have to earn enough points to make $10. That's not including the 15 minute pre qualifying survey, that you had to repeatedly do prior to land this survey. So you've now spent thirty minutes to an hour and made $3 or a few points. And the process between each of the survey sites is the same. So you can pretty much do the math. It averages out to be between $2 to $6 an hour. Sometimes you do come across a survey that will pay you $25 to $75 a survey, BUT there's A LOT more to it then what meets the eye on that as well.
Here's how the larger pay out survey's work. It could be a telephone survey or a Internet survey. You get the pre qualifying part of 10 to 20 minutes then if you qualify for it another 15 to 30 minute survey or a telephone survey about the product your about to try to see if you qualify to try it. Even though you took a 10 to 20 minute "pre qualifying survey" that said you qualify for. When you qualify for it, they send you a product out to try for 7 to 10 days and you do some daily documentation's on it. Depending on what the product is and the documentation's it's usually 5 – 15 minutes each daily documentation. (you got a free product to use around the house, this is a good part of it) after trying the product out you have to complete another survey that takes between 15 to 30 minutes to do. Now you do the calculations on that. You don't get as many of these types of survey's. They use the hype on getting paid $25 to $75 dollars for 15 minute surveys. NOTICE THE PLURAL IN "SURVEYS" What they don't tell you is that there is more then one survey involved in these. Now calculate from your pre-qualifying survey to the next pre-qualifying survey from the company carrying the product, to the trial and documentation's, to the last survey on these products. Then you receive a check four weeks to six weeks later. Do the math, that's less then minimum wage!
Another way to earn money on survey sites, is to refer people over to the sites. Some survey sites will give you a percentage on what the people do after they've reached a curtain amount of points or obtained their first check (refer back to the top of what's involved) You either get a lot of points for this, and only one time and when you reach a curtain amount of points you can exchange it for cash or prizes. (Cash amount is usually $30 before you can cash out- do the math on how many pre-qualifying surveys and the surveys you get, the time involved etc this is what it takes to earn the $30) Other survey sites you complete shorter surveys (5 to 15 minutes) and your entered into sweepstakes or lottery things for prizes or money. "Lottery"-one winner out of all the people doing survey's. If you don't win, you lose your points.
Okay, I'm starting to write a book. I can go on about all the other types of survey's available and what was
involved in that if you'd like me to elaborate on it.
I do survey's because it does help the marketing on different products and they do use the opinions of what things look like and what not. So I do it for the principle of the matter. Don't do it for money, because you won't make a sufficient amount of money with this.
If you'd like some links to various survey's, feel free to email me and I'll send them over to you. You really have to register for a lot of different sites. The paid survey sites offer the same survey's as the non paying ones. You get the same type of prizes and some pay a little more money. Again calculation time. Calculate how much you "paid" into these sites and the time you put into it, (refer back to how the survey's work) and it calculates back to minimum wage. If your doing this to make a living off of, you will be disappointed. But just for some extra cash, it's a good source and like I said, the companies do document the feedback and use it to better advertise their products and in some cases come out with new products based on the input of the surveyors.
If you want to work from home, (assuming this is why you want to do survey's) I suggest you start your own home based business. Not a home "job", they only pay minimum wage as well. I better not write a book on that right now on that as I' did on surveys LOL! There are so many different home based business to start up. Most home based business cost under $500 to start. They have the same income opportunity as traditional businesses without a lot of over head expenses and they are easier to run and manage.
I created a blog on home based business opportunities on my 360 yahoo page. Your more then welcome to take a look at it for different ideas in different industries. The blog also has a lot of information you should read on regarding scams, the BBB, things to look into etc. Really good information that you should learn about before starting a business. No matter how inexpensive home based businesses are. The URL is:http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-eqfAfFMlcqA8fDHDwdpcueRYyTm4
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Tiffany
June 19th, 2009 at 8:03 am
Yes, they can. They can sue you for breach of contract among other things. They can also be awarded both general and special damages.
June 19th, 2009 at 8:03 am
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