Are you interested in paid surveys online? If so, you can certainly find a lot of them very easily. Go to Google and type “paid survey” and you’ll get back millions of results. But wait, there is a catch to the list of paid surveys you’ll get back.

What you’ll see when you go through the results is that these aren’t the actual companies that provide the surveys, but typically they are sites that offer links to the paid survey sites. Nothing wrong with that as it gives you one place to go to get the links to all the paid survey sites online. What is a problem is what they require from you to get access to the lists.

Most of these survey databases that promise you thousands of dollars a month aren’t just giving the information to you for free. Many of them expect you to pay for access to their list of paying survey sites and at the least they will want your email address. This isn’t right. Stay away from the sites that ask you for something in return for the information you get. Information about paid surveys online should be free and if you look a little deeper you will find sites that give you all the paid survey information you need completely free of charge.

Understand that while there are hundreds of market research companies offering paid surveys online there are even more sites that offer up lists of paying survey companies. As I said before this is actually a good thing, as long as the list you’re getting is a free one.

Market research companies have been conducting surveys for decades, since the 1950’s at least, and some have even been online for over a decade now. The market research companies are moving more and more online as a way to save money, to reach a wider audience and to connect better with survey respondents. And for the most part the market research companies offering paid surveys are completely legitimate, contrary to what you may have heard.

More and more people are taking surveys everyday as a way to have their opinions heard and make some extra cash at the same time. The problem for you and me occurs because of sites that are trying to cash in on the popularity of online paid surveys. The information they provide isn’t bad, in fact in many cases it is quite good. However asking people to pay for their list of survey companies is one way they take advantage of unsuspecting people who don’t realize they can get exactly the same information for free from other paid survey websites.

Honestly, there is no reason to ever pay someone for a list of paying internet survey companies. This information is freely available and anyone who wants you to pay them for the information is simply stealing your money. The ones who offer free access, but require your email address to register are not quite as bad, at least they are giving away the information, but it still comes at a price. If you give up your email address to register at one of these sites don’t be surprised if the amount of spam you receive increases dramatically. They only want your email address to resell or to use it to market to you themselves.

If you can avoid the scam sites trying to take your money you’ve already won half the battle. Use your new free list to sign up for as many paid surveys online as possible and be persistent in completing the surveys they send you. Before long you’ll start to get higher paying surveys and you’ll be making a nice steady monthly income from your new paid survey job.



By: Steven Walters

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anne b asked:


How good are the survey sites that want you to pay them a one off fee to get a list of companies that will pay eg: $25 for every survey you do?
Do they really pay or is it one of those scams and why can they not just send you the list FREE?

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Jesus is My Savior asked:


Please tell me the website of the surveys that you have gotten paid from. There are a lot of websites that offer paid surveys and they are mostly SCAMS. So please only tell me websites that you know are legitimate.

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Our human nature has traditionally been characterized by a willingness among individuals to express an opinion on just about any subject known to mankind.  As far back as history can relate people have eagerly rendered their viewpoints on anything and everything.  Traditionally we have been taught that opinions should be taken with a grain of salt because that is all they are worth.  Well, according to the economics of today, opinions are not only valuable, but they are worth money.  Paid surveys have become the rage of the Internet in the first decade of the 21st Century, and people around the world are beginning to join in the frenzy. 

 

There is not one subject in the history of mankind that has been sheltered from public opinion.  The entire sports gambling industry, a twelve billion dollar annual business world wide, is built on the fact that people have diverse opinions about the outcome of sporting events.  There were differences of opinion back in ancient Rome when royalty would bet on the outcome of the chariot races.  Heaven forbid if it was your neck that was riding on the outcome of a wager.  The entire Olympic development emerged because people from different countries had a divergence of opinion as to whose athletes were better.  The fields of wrestling, bow and arrow shooting, chariot and horse racing, and a variety of other competitive events laid the foundation for wagering on these varying opinions.  The differences were ultimately settled by Olympic competition.  These events helped shape peoples’ opinions regarding which army was better prepared to fight, which country made the most effective warring equipment and which country constructed the sturdiest chariot.  Today, by virtue of paid surveys, people are being paid for expressing their opinions.

 

Technological advancements have propelled certain industries to the forefront.  Within those industries, there are products manufactured that sustain these businesses.  Competition in the free market is what drives the price of the products.  Their ultimate success or failure is determined by the amount of sales generated in relation to their competition, and for this reason paid surveys have become an invaluable marketing tool today.

 

Paid Surveys - Test Market for Products

 

Paid surveys are the test tracks for marketing firms hired to determine how the public views a particular product or concept, and whether or not the product will be ultimately successful on the open market.  Paid surveys have become an important facet of the world’s economy over the past ten years.  Since the utilization of the Internet as a tool in business today, the use of paid surveys has increased by leaps and bounds.  Paid surveys have been around for decades, however, and many companies have used paid surveys strategies in order to make critical administrative decisions regarding the production and marketing of a particular product. 

 

One company based in New England that employed paid surveys to make administrative determinations regarding their product is the manufacturers of what we will call X Brand Ice Cream.  X Brand Ice Cream was produced by a New England company that wanted to give their ice cream a special quality.  The firm understood that the ice cream industry had some major players in the 70’s, such as Sealtest, Borden, Carvel, Baskin-Robbins and the packaged brands of the big-time supermarkets, such as A&P, Key Food, Shoprite and Pathmark.  The makers of X Brand hired a marketing firm to conduct paid surveys to test their product.  The paid surveys were conducted initially in New England.  Subsequently, there were additional paid surveys in the New York metropolitan area, paid surveys in the Washington DC area, and paid surveys in the Philadelphia-Trenton area. 

 

Since the company’s philosophy was to produce exotic ice cream flavors, the paid surveys would be a great indicator of the preferences of the public. The initial response from the participants of the paid surveys was luke-warm at best.  You must keep in mind that these paid surveys consisted of a taste test of various flavors of ice cream  However, during these paid surveys, neither the name of the company, which was X Brand, nor the name of the flavor of the ice cream was disclosed to those participating in the paid surveys.

 

The results of the initial paid surveys were curious at first, but they taught marketing firms a crucial lesson in the value of paid surveys.  The reason that the people were not that receptive to the different flavors of ice cream was because the paid surveys revealed that the participants felt that the ice cream lacked a pizzazz about it.  Several months later, the same paid surveys were administered once again to the same corps of paid surveys participants.  This time, the name of the brand of ice cream, X Brand (actually a European sounding name), was revealed to these paid surveys takers.  The paid surveys had a completely different outcome.  The participants of these paid surveys approved overwhelmingly of the different flavors of the ice cream.  The reason given in these paid surveys for the change of opinion is because the paid surveys participants believed they were eating ice cream imported to the United States from Europe, presumably Holland or Switzerland.

 

The makers of X Brand then utilized paid surveys to determine which particular flavors they should market, and which others they should not.  The cities that they chose were:

Paid Surveys - New York City, New York

Paid Surveys - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Paid Surveys - Baltimore, Maryland

Paid Surveys - Boston, Massachusetts

Paid Surveys - Portland, Maine

Paid Surveys - Providence, Rhode Island

Paid Surveys - Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Paid Surveys - Montpelier, Vermont

Paid Surveys - Concord, New Hampshire

Paid Surveys - Cape May, New Jersey

Paid Surveys - Old Greenwich, Connecticut

Paid Surveys - Dover, Delaware

 

The interesting findings in these paid surveys was that the more affluent the area of the paid surveys, the more favorable the results were.  Additionally, the paid surveys yielded the information that the more affluent the area, the more impressed those tested were with the foreign sounding name, and the more willing they were to pay a higher price for the ice cream. The more exotic-sounding the flavor of the ice cream, the more positive was the response from the paid surveys.

 

These results allowed the manufacturers of the ice cream to concentrate on those areas earmarked in the paid surveys, and X Brand Ice Cream became a staple in the American culture.  The same ice cream that received moderate reviews in the initial paid surveys had received a completely different opinion by the same corps of participants in subsequent paid surveys simply because the brand was given a foreign-sounding name.  The people thought they were purchasing ice cream that was a better value to them than their American counterparts.

 

Paid surveys are now conducted today through the services of the Internet.  People are in great demand to become participants in these paid surveys.  If you are interested in participating in paid surveys, kindly log on to your computer and consult a search engine, such as Google or Yahoo, for the term “paid surveys.”



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Paid surveys have been around for many years and have been used by companies to gain knowledge and information about products and services. There are many paid survey reviews online however; we have taken the time to outline the pros and cons of paid surveys in general. There are many companies that remain creditable and profitable.

Pros

There are so many great things about paid surveys and it is hard to list all of them. The most obvious is being paid money for your opinions. Paid surveys completion generally requires no physical work and consumes just a small fraction of your spare time. As this is a paid survey review we must say that most online survey programs are reputable and will deliver what they say in the time frame outlined. Security in recent years with online moneymaking has increased significantly and it is generally safe to sign up with these programs.

Cons

Well you have just finished reading a paid survey review that outlined so many negative points on paid online surveys. This paid survey review one is no different! There are always risks involved with any online company. You better go by reputation, word of mouth and most of the time your gut feeling when signing up for paid online surveys. It is always wise to follow the rule “if it’s too good to be true, it probably is!”

Program choices

There are hundreds of paid online survey programs offering a wide variety of commissions and rewards. When you are considering a particular program, always search for the paid survey review for that product. This will allow you to see the feedback from other members and to gauge how stable and successful the online survey program is.

Personal information

It is important to be very careful giving out any personal information when it comes to paid online surveys. It is also important to be careful because many paid survey reviews have been know to ask for credit card details or other personal information. This personal information can be used for credit card fraud, identity theft or sold to marketing companies.

Reviews

When reading a paid survey review it is important to ensure is was written by an independent party and not someone program associate. This will ensure the paid survey review is unbiased and honest.

The best paid survey review should be written by someone who has been involved in the program. He should have experience and knowledge to answer your questions and would be able to tell you if the program has worked for him. Be careful and research everything before signing up for any program.

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By: Paul Schmitt

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