Believe it or not, there are people making money taking surveys on the
internet. The honest truth of the matter is that 99% of the material
advertising paid surveys aren’t paid surveys. Paid surveys
consist of a study done by a marketing and research company to get
feedback and gather information about various products and advertising
campaigns that the big corporations use. It’s basically a way of
seeing if they are getting the most bang for their buck. These major
corporations easily spend billions a year on marketing and advertising.
The corporations hire these market research companies to get this
information. There are many ways to conduct a survey. The most popular
ones involve telemarketing (phone surveys), mystery shoppers, or
testing a company’s products or services.
This is the perfect example:
A large cable company has a new channel they want to market to men
between the ages of 26-34 who are married and live in a big city. They
want to know the likes and dislikes of these men. How much they pay for
this service, and what advertisements catch their eye.
The cable company would hire a market research company to gather
the information they needed. Each company refers to its online panel.
They may ask for 10,000 men who fit the demographics the cable company
is trying to reach. The company then sends an email inviting
participants to join the study. The participant fills out a
questionnaire to see if they are a match. If they match, they are given
an invite and the offer of $10-25 to take the online survey. It
doesn’t get any easier than that.
But before you pack your suitcase and head to Bermuda, let me warn
you. The problem lies in that there are literally thousands of ads
popping up on the internet that go something like this “Taco Bell
vs McDonalds take this survey and receive a free Xbox.” Once you
give them your e-mail address they make you try to sign with other
companies like Blockbuster and Home Depot, etc…. This is not a
paid survey, let me repeat THIS IS NOT A PAID SURVEY. These are the
ones commonly referred to as scams that everyone mistakes with
“paid surveys”.
They also trick non-suspecting customers to shell out $50 to get a
list of paid survey directories. Some think by paying this, they will
soon be taking tons of surveys and laughing all the way to the bank.
This is not entirely so. After shelling out your hard earned dough to
these sites, they make you sign for each panel one by one.
I don’t see why anyone would pay for “paid survey
directories”. There are several websites that give this
information free. These paid sites are getting over on the fact that
the average person doesn’t know this. Go to msn.com and search
free “free paid survey directories”. Just like that!
To make real bread from the survey business you’d have to be
registered to as many panels as you could handle at one time. To run
with the big dogs, I suggest joining the TOP 20 paid survey panels.
These are the most popular and more importantly, the most
“busy”. You are guaranteed at least a survey a day in the
Big Leagues. Taking the time to sign up with the big guys could only
make you or make you bigger.
Bottom line, you won’t get rich taking surveys but you can
make a few thousand dollars extra income to supplement whatever you
want. To go PRO, you would need to register with every paid survey
panel known to man. Not a bad living for something you can do in your
underwear, with no investment and no strings attached-all in your time.
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Distributed by Hasan Shrek, independence blogger. Also run online business , matrix, internet marketing solution , online store script .
Beside he is writing some others blogs for notebook computer , computer training , computer software and personal computer
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