Paid Survey Facts
The concept of paid surveys has been around for a long time. Only recently however, with the advance of home computers and the increase in home businesses, have paid surveys became a great way to make money.You are reading this because you want to know if you can you get paid to take online surveys. The simple answer is “Yes”. Marketing companies or firms will pay participants to answer questions via surveys. They then resell the data they collect to larger companies looking to invest in a new marketing plan or ad campaign.
Let me explain how modern paid surveys work and then you can decide for yourself if participating in paid surveys is right for you.
There are companies and corporations that spend billions of dollars every year in advertising. You see their ads on TV, hear them on the radio and even get them on your cell phones. Obviously, these companies make money by “convincing” you to buy a product through these ads. How do they know what will make money for them and what? Good question, because they don’t know. Some companies will try sample ads to a select population and then monitor their results before ramping up to a full scale ad campaign. Other companies will hire a marketing firm before launching an ad campaign in order to get the best information on domestic trends, user habits and interests. Once a company hires a marketing firm, the firm will then collect data from a select populace using web site traffic results, TV ad results and yes…even paid surveys.
By completing a paid survey, you are offering information about yourself: your habits, opinions, likes and dislikes to the marketing firm. That firm will sell your information to another company that will in turn try to sell a product back to you via an ad somewhere.
Surveys are a great way to make an extra $100 to $250 a week in your spare time or after a long day of job hunting. If you are disabled, or a stay at home mom surveys will work well for you too. You can multiply the number of surveys you are selected for by signing up with multiple marketing firms possible earning $400 to $800 a week.
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December 22nd, 2006 at 3:50 pm
3 Steps to Sucess in Online Surveys
1) Knowledge Knowledge Knowledge
You need to know the various types of Surveys
A) Cash paid - surveys which pay cash for participation.
B) Rewards - surveys which give points for participation, points can be exchanged for various merchandise and gifts. Make sure you chect the rewards/points scale to see if the reward you want justifies your time.
C) Sweepstakes - surveys offers a sweepstakes entry for participation, its a gamble but its good practice and you can get your name out.
D) Cash Back Shopping and Product Evaluation, usually involves a purchase or a shipping charge then a short survey after which you get reimbursed for some or all of the cost plus a fee for your time
My website http://www.corleysmonster.com groups listings into the above catagories to save you some time.
2) Organize Organize Organize
Keep all of your survey information in a notebook. List each company you applied to. If you are accepted or regected and why ( you might be able to reapply). Group survey types into sections, list all important info such as site url, support email, user name and password, invatition email (make sure you add this to your email addressbook so your invatations dont bounce off), how you get paid, paypal or credit card information as needed.
3)Patience Patience Patience
It takes time to join sites , verify email address, get into the companies database, receive invatations, and finally get paid. Be prepared to wait 3 months before you see results in your bank account. Also a lot of companies have screener surveys which you dont get paid for but it is important to do them they help qualify you for opportunities.
If anybody has any questions please feel free to email me Christy Corley Mail to: tulsachristy1@cox.net