lunes, marzo 24, 2008

- Get Paid Doing Surveys Online! by Lan Christine

Get Paid Doing Surveys Online!
by Lan Christine

How about getting paid for something that you enjoy doing? Is easy work something that is right up your alley? Well let me tell you something that I have been fortunate to refer many of my friends to. It is taking surveys for companies and then getting paid by them. The idea may sound strange that a company would actually send you money in the mail without ever interviewing you for the position and accept the information that you have to share. Teh good news is this is happening everyday. Since the internet has arrived there are many people that are doing this.



You may of seen the scene at the shopping centre. Someone stops you wanting you to take a survey. They'll offer you money,gift certificates or prizes. That has been happeining for years, even before the internet revolutionized the way that surveys are done. This illustrates for you that companies are interested in finding people at random to get their input on product creation and updates.



Can you be part of this and receive the reward? The answer is YES! You can jump on the internet surveys band wagon and start getting paid for taking you simple surveys on products by random companies looking for you. Each survey you take can be as long as 5 minutes or take you an hour. The bigger the survey the bigger the reward or cash for your pocket book.



It's now time to stop dreaming about this kind of opportunity ans start reaping the benefits of it!



About the Author
Christine Lan is an experienced webmaster who frequently submmits highly read articles online.

- Paid Surveys And Statistical Odds by Scott Lindsay

Paid Surveys And Statistical Odds
by Scott Lindsay

Paid surveys may well be an opportunity many will consider when their personal economy is less than ideal.
I'd hate to know actual statistics for those who have flocked after get rich quick ideas. I have talked to many who indicate they have spent way too much time and far too much money on trying to develop moneymaking ideas that just never seemed to deliver on the golden promise.

In most cases you can read the fine print of the offer and learn that the glowing reports that filled you with hope were, "not typical".

This is also true with paid surveys. I honestly believe that the companies that perform online surveys do look for (and find) a satisfactory number of individuals to fill out their survey. However, the truth is they generally look for a very specific type of individual. Add to that the fact that the actual need for survey participants is a very small percentage of those who have filled out a profile hoping for pennies from heaven.

This concept is a bit like attempting to become an extra in a Hollywood movie production. If you're really interested you figure out how to sign up. If you want it with all your heart you'll show up on the lot and wait. Even after all that 'want to' you will likely still be sent home because you didn't quite fit what the producer had in mind for an extra.

The term 'paid surveys' is not false advertising. The truth is someone will take surveys and those individuals will likely be paid something for their time. These individuals could be paid in cash, they could be paid in products or they could be paid in a raffle ticket concept where one survey taker will take home a nice sum of cash. This happens when everyone knowingly forfeits his or her small payment for the opportunity to win a larger payment. Maybe I don't need to say this, but the odds never look good.

The only thing paid surveys can genuinely offer is a small bit of hope. There's the thrill of possibility, but as each day passes and no offers come to your inbox it becomes clear the hope was rented at best.

What's interesting is that for everyone that comes to the conclusion there is no real money to be made in paid surveys there are at least half a dozen more individuals pouring over a search engine looking for opportunities to develop an online profile for these same surveys.

I can't fault the survey companies much though. They deliver on their promise - surveys taken - payment made.

Maybe it's all the information that needs to be read between the lines. Things like the fact that not many survey respondents are actually needed, payments may be very small, payments may be in the form of products you may or may not need, or that they already have more people signed up than they can ever use.

I understand why survey companies would bring this idea to the Internet, but the idea has grown to something much larger than the reality behind it.



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- Paid Survey - A Personal Perspective by Scott Lindsay

Paid Survey - A Personal Perspective
by Scott Lindsay

I have not been overly optimistic about the ability for any individual to earn significant sums of money participating in paid forums.
This article takes you on a personal journey through this industry.

In the past I have indicated you should never pay anyone to help you locate paid surveys because they are available at no cost if you just look for them.

However, for the sake of this investigation and the belief that many have about a paid service being able to offer an advantage I happened upon a 'consumer research' firm that provided information about paid surveys. They provided the top three prospective clearinghouses for information on quality survey companies.

They ranked the top three on multiple criterion and they listed them with varying degrees of acceptance. Not wanting to leave anything to chance in my new career I signed up for their number one pick. This removed $35 from my expendable cash ledger, but it opened a whole new world of opportunity. Right?

Not exactly.

The site provided some useful, if not common sense tips, and then listed, on a rather crudely produced page, their top paying 'paid survey' recommendations.

Of course I was drawn to this as one of their reviewers indicated a net return of $500 in her first two hours and the second reviewer quit after $400 because it was just too easy to make money this way and, frankly, he was getting board (making money?).

Of course I recognized this as an illegitimate consumer report, but I wanted to get the full user experience so when others asked in the future if I have ever participated I could say, "Absolutely!"

I registered for the first set of recommendations simply because the site I was paying indicated these were its top recommended sites for surveys that paid actual money for my survey responses. They even went so far as to say that this site was so good it made their jaws drop.

As an aside I was also offered opportunities to drive free cars, read emails and get paid for doing so. I could also be a part of advisory panels that would help television producers decide which shows we would see in the fall. I decided to stick with the subject of this article.

In the interests of being able to say that I gave it a shot I have spent several hours filling out forms and surveys. My inbox rapidly filled with emails from the sites I submitted to, but I did not have the honor of making any money.

That's not to say that there wasn't some entertainment along the way. One service that indicated cash payment did so based on a lottery experience. In this case I got points for taking surveys. The total number of points were determined through an online gaming system like a scratch card or slot machine that told me how many points I would receive for taking the survey. At that point I was invited over to the company store and applied those points to act as a raffle ticket for prizes like money, laptop computers or digital cameras. Other sites offered cyber cash that I could spend at their company store (where everything is at least 100 times the cost of any other store).

Maybe my profile just wasn't what they are looking for because according to the 'consumer review' site I should be rolling in bucks in under two hours.

To sum things up, in my real experience coupled with what I already knew to be true about paid surveys the only people making money are the people at the other end of the survey.

Oh, and if you like a tidy inbox resist the urge to apply for a paid survey. My jaw just dropped, too. Wait. I think that was a yawn.



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- Paid Surveys That Never Live Up To The Hype by Scott Lindsay

Paid Surveys That Never Live Up To The Hype
by Scott Lindsay

I recently wrote an article discussing my intentional experiment in paid surveys. I broke my own rule and paid a site to locate these services for me. Please know that this was more like one of those investigative news reports. I already knew what I was likely to find, but I had to pay a price to see the evidence up close.
In my personal experiment in paid surveys I found that in the bulk of the survey offers I was asked to complete questions that were nearly identical between surveys. I was encouraged to download RoboForms to make this process easier.

In the first three hours I was offered about 24 surveys. None were paying offers.

I did have one email that indicated I had been chosen to complete a survey that would pay me $20. Since this was the first (and only) time I had been offered a payment for a survey I signed on and filled out two screens of information before a screen came up thanking me for my time while informing me that I did not meet the qualifications for taking the survey.

The other thing I noticed about my experiment in paid surveys was that the entire experiment was an interruption. Yes, I allowed the interruption because of the experiment, but even when I wanted time away from the pursuit I was still barraged with incoming emails that alerted me to new survey opportunities. All of these opportunities simply gave a chance to win a grand prize featuring a variety of prizes if I participated.

I imagined those that signed up for surveys find a thrill when they received the emails and I can understand the hope that they may have felt in relation to claiming a valuable prize or simply paying off the fees so many willingly pay to find compensated survey sites.

Meaningful pursuits may have been ignored while the email page is refreshed consistently looking for that next big chance to pay a bill or meet a need.

Paid surveys often appeal to those who may not have much in the way of expendable resources. The idea of being able to fill out a survey is appealing because it is something they can do in their spare time, and the potential to receive money makes this something many feel is a worthwhile opportunity.

Because many of these sites use a random drawing to select winners of cash prizes the process really does have the feel of gaming.

I suppose if you were to pay for a one-dollar scratch card each day at the convenience store the thought of paying $30-50 for one year's worth of access to a clearinghouse of paid survey results may not seem so bad. However, when folks who can't afford to waste $35 feel this might be their only way out it speaks to a bigger problem.

It was my intention to gain a first hand perspective of paid surveys so that others might not have to.

If you really want to make money you should either consider a part time job to supplement your income or use your existing skills to create an online business.

The hype of paid surveys never quite reveals actual results. Actual results never live up to the hype.



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