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Market Research - Get Paid for Online Surveys |
Market researchers are charged with finding out what markets want, what the consumers prefer. Information that market researchers gather shapes the number, the kinds and types of products and services that the producers offer for sale.
Market research today is determining what goods and services will be available to all of us tomorrow.
To get the information they need about consumer preferences, market researchers use a number of tools, including opinion surveys, focus groups, product trials, test marketing and others.
Consumers get tired of being pestered about what they are thinking and have little interest in filling out the questionnaires with the info that the market researchers need. To get around this natural reluctance of participants, more and more surveys are being made on a paid basis, especially online surveys.
So now you can help with market research and get paid for online surveys. Answering a few questions on a survey form is not hard work; in fact most think it's kind of fun! And it pays well for the time involved.
You can get $10 to $50 for filling out a survey questionnaire that only takes you from 5 to 30 minutes to do. That comes out to an hourly rate of $120 to $100 an hour!
By itself one survey payment is not a lot of money, but there are thousands of surveys being made every week. The idea is to get invited to participate in many of them.
To be invited to participate in paid online surveys, you must apply to and get your contact and demographic info in the databases of the survey makers. Since there are over 700 of these in the U.S. alone (and over 3,000 worldwide), it is no small task to apply to them all!
Moreover, if you are interested taking surveys for cash and want to avoid a lot of sales hassle, you only want to sign up with certain "good" survey makers. This will be something less than half of them.
To find the good ones and avoid the problem ones, you need a guide with a current list of who's who. There are a couple hundred of these out there, who maintain lists and, for a small fee, will loan you a copy of their list and help you get started.
When you select your guide company or paid survey site, look for a strong 60-90 day guarantee backed up by a bank or financial company such as PayPal or ClickBank, and a low refund rate. The refund rate is the strongest indication of client satisfaction; low refund rate means happy clients, high refund rate means many unhappy clients.
Look for a refund rate of 3-5% (ideal), avoid anything with an unknown refund rate or one over 10%.
How much money can you make? It depends mostly on your diligence and your demographics. However, most serious survey participants report monthly incomes of from $200 to $600, with some reporting incomes of $1,000 a month and more.
So here is your chance to do something useful (helping marketing research) and get paid for it (by way of paid online surveys!) with no obligations and working your own hours
Article source http://w4rum.com/2522.t
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| [By kailash] [05/May/07] |
