The Myths about Paid Surveys – Rumors or Reality?
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These are some of the questions that newbie survey takers ponder, weighing the true benefits of taking paid surveys against the possible drawbacks. However, how can a newly recruited survey respondent really evaluate the true advantages of paid surveys, and appreciate all the benefits that becoming a regular survey respondent bring? Here are some myths about paid surveys that draw the line between survey rumors and survey reality.
There are hundreds of legitimate paid survey sites that recruit survey respondents, grant them free access to their paid survey resources, and help thousands of people earn extra income with paid surveys. These legitimate survey sites are well known among seasoned survey takers. New survey sites are launched every week, trying to capture the growing demand for survey takers, as well as the skyrocketing interest in completing surveys as a hobby or a part-time job. Online survey databases operate with hundreds of survey sites, matching companies in need of survey respondents with volunteers to make some extra cash without qualification requirements and within short time limits. Of course, scam artists do not leave the success of paid surveys sites unnoticed, and try to imitate them in order to beguile users to register and then take money away by either asking for some fees, or requiring upfront investments. Every successful project lures many scam artists to create schemes to earn profit by cheating people. However, without doubt, there are many legitimate survey sites that operate in good faith, and provide quality services to both market research companies, and the ordinary people – the survey respondents.
Myth 2: Paid Survey Companies need Experienced Survey Takers
There is no such thing as “experienced” when it comes to answering questions about tastes, product choice, preferred service features, or past purchases. Everyone is a consumer, and therefore, everyone qualifies to take paid surveys. Online marketers need reliable, spontaneous, truthful and unique feedback, as product companies base their improvements upon consumer survey responses. Therefore, there isn’t a way how to be prepared to answer a survey in a particular way – first, the questions always vary; second, the survey questions ask us about our tastes and choices – information we can provide spontaneously, without training.
However, it certainly pays to take paid surveys regularly and become experienced in the process of responding to survey invitations, filling in surveys, finding out new survey opportunities, etc. Survey companies have huge pools of potential survey respondents, but they tend to drop off those that do not respond to their survey invitations, are unavailable, or inconsistent in returning surveys. Therefore, every survey newbie who wants to make decent money with paid surveys, need to take it seriously, and build a good reputation with one’s preferred survey companies. Moreover, survey companies tend to send the highest-payout surveys to the survey takers on their list that have been most consistent and reliable with the other surveys they completed.
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How often to paid survey sites send out surveys?I signed up with two paid survey sites last night. They sound like good deals for quick cash. Upon joining though, I realised that getting to the point values and real cash was going to take time, depending on when I got surveys. How often do sites send out surveys, specifically from MySurvey and GlobalTestMarket? And on a side note, is it wise to apply for more than one of these sites?
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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
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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.
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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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