Getting Paid To Take
Online Surveys
Many websites will post
ads that say something
like " Huggies vs.
Pampers, take this
survey and get a $500
gift card". That is not
a paid survey! If you
read the terms of that
type of offer it will
tell you that you need
to join their sponsor
offers and trials to
receive the reward.
What is a Real Paid
Survey?
A real paid survey is
conducted by a
legitimate market
research firm. The
market research firm is
hired by a company to
gather information about
a certain product or
advertisement. An
example of this would
be: A major cell phone
company wants to change
their logo and slogan
and wants to see which
one of their ideas has
the most appeal to the
public. They hire Luth
Research to conduct a
study of people 18 - 35
in major cities who own
a cell phone. Luth
Research then sends a
survey to their online
panelists via their
online paid surveys
division, Survey Savvy.
They may send the survey
to 10,000 people. Each
of those 10,000 people
are paid $5 to answer
questions about the way
they feel about the
advertisement, which
logo and slogan they
think is best and why.
The survey takes about
15 minutes to complete
and the panelist is
mailed a check a few
weeks after the study is
complete.
Where Can I Find a
Legitimate Source For
Paid Surveys?
There are hundreds of
paid survey panels that
you can join that are
legitimate and do
exactly what Survey
Savvy does. The problem
is finding a resource
for paid surveys that
actually promotes real
paid surveys. There are
sites where you can pay
a fee of up to $60.00
just to get a list of
legitimate paid survey
panels. These sites are
taking advantage of the
fact that most people
don't know that the same
information is available
free all over the
internet. You can try
searching any of the
major search engines
like Google for a Free
Paid Surveys Directory.
This will bring up
several sites that
actually have everything
a paid membership site
has but is totally FREE.
What are the Best
Paid Surveys?
From my experience the
best paid survey panels
you can join are
Greenfield Online,
Opinion Outpost, Survey
Savvy, Lightspeed
Research, and NFO My
Survey. All of those can
be found on any free
paid surveys directory
or by searching a site
like Google for the "Top
20 Paid Survey Panels".
When starting out in
paid surveys it is best
to at least join the top
20 paid survey panels.
Each panel will not send
paid surveys everyday.
Some may send a survey
once a month, while
others may send you 5 a
week. It all depends on
who they need and when
they need them. So the
obvious thing to do is
join as many as
possible. That way you
are almost guaranteed to
receive at least one
paid survey a day.
Sometimes more.
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