Know Ins & Outs of Paid Online Surveys

Why Should I Take Online Surveys?

·        Influence the development of new products and services and help improve existing ones.

·        Make money! Get paid for 15 minutes of your time.

·        Convenient - take surveys at your own leisure.

·        Free to join, so why not?

·        Fun! Imagine taking a survey on candy and getting paid for it! It has happened!

·        Easy - take surveys directly through your web browser, it's very simple.

·        Find out and preview new products before the public gets to.

·        Earn cool rewards - non-cash incentives include gift certificates, music downloads and more!

·        You'll get to try products, give your opinions on them, and then keep them!

·        Make a difference - your opinion counts and matters to marketers.

 Online Survey Incentives

When firms are willing to part with large dollars to get the information they are looking for, market research firms tend to also pass these big dollars onto the survey participants. You may receive actual cash for such a survey, rather than a chance to win money or a chance to win other prizes.

If providing incentives cuts into the bottom line of market research companies, why do they bother? Response rates dramatically increase when rewards are offered.

Why is cash such a common survey incentive? Products often involve high shipping costs, and gift certificates are not always redeemable in every area. Offering cash to those who voice their opinion has appeal to everyone.

To sum it up, offering proper incentives for completing surveys not only benefit the survey-takers, but market research companies experience a dramatic increase in response rates, which mean larger survey participant groups. This means more and better data for the firm which hired the survey company to conduct this online survey.

Paid Surveys Really Work

Five to 15 minutes of your time, on average, and you get cash!

Sound good? Well, getting paid to take surveys will do that for you.

Why would anyone pay you to take a survey?

Surveys are used by manufacturers to understand how their customers use their products. This information is invaluable to them and they are willing to pay you to tell them what you use, how you use it, and other information they need to know for marketing purposes.

How Do Paid Surveys Work?

Basically, you

1. Sign up on the company's web site
2. Provide some personal information, such as age, gender, location, etc.

When the company has a survey available that you qualify for, they'll E-mail you an invitation, usually with a direct link to the survey.

How Much Can I Make?

The payment varies from company to company.

While you probably won't make a full-time salary just by taking surveys, you can make a good amount of extra cash (and merchandise) this way.

Warnings

There are some sites that are really advertising companies posing as paid online survey sites. How do you tell the difference?

1. If the survey site asks you a lot of questions about signing up for more information on other products, don't get involved with them. You're almost certain to get spammed.
2. If the site offers you a chance to win a great prize for signing up, think twice before joining. At the very least, you should do a little more research on the site and see what other people have to say about it.

 
Hopefully this information will help you in making some extra money online with a safety