subject: Paid Legitimate Surveys Online [print this page] Legitimate Survey companies recruiting online consumers to take product and services surveys, take part in focus groups, and test actual goods are needing consumers from all demographics for the provision of valuable marketing data for lots of consumer products and services companies. Several of these companies are members of the Fortune 500.
Consumers from many demographics are needed to take legitimate surveys and perform product reviews, especially in the biggest consumer economy worldwide, the USA. Market research departments in most of these companies have always had budgets allotted to independent market surveys and product trials and the budgets are substantial, particularly for the larger popular companies. Prior to now, the consumers from all of the demographics areas important to these companies were targeted by paid telemarketing and direct contact survey teams who eventually needed to be limited by regulation because of the invasion of privacy of the consumers they contacted. The quality of the data from these surveys was suspect because they were completed with data from consumers who were not really willing.
Since the world wide web has provided a means of working directly with consumers in their homes, legitimate survey companies have begun using online techniques to employ paid, willing survey takers who provide high quality survey data.
So what does this mean for the individual who is looking for either a part time or full time source of income? This means that there's the opportunity for generating massive income online, in the comfort of your own home, at your own schedule, and not requiring anything more than an Internet connection, a pc, and an email address. Just like any business method, your pay shall be proportional to the amount of work you put into it, but things being relative, filling out legitimate surveys are actually pleasurable and interesting tasks, and everyone who is a service or product consumer is an expert in the eyes of the companies needing the research data.
So what does this business of doing legitimate surveys involve?
First, what it doesn't involve:
* Getting up early each morning and commuting to the office or work location.
* Purchasing business attire.
* Compromising your family time due to work schedules.
* Not being able to take vacations due to work schedules.
* Needing babysitters for young kids while parents are working.
* Several other little things a "job" imposes on you...
What it does involve:
* On your own schedule, checking your email and internet based service for the surveys that are offered to you.
* Providing your honest opinion on services and products that you review almost every day.
* To make more money, participating in online product focus groups where men and women network online at high hourly rates to talk about products and make recommendations for improvement.
* Be a mystery shopper while you shop for yourself and getting paid for it.
* Driving a brand new automobile to provide feedback.
* Going out to eat free of charge to give feedback on restaurants.
* This list continues...
Exactly what are "legitimate surveys" and why is this important?
As the web isn't closely regulated, there's room for a bit of online fraud. Unsubstantiated promises, misleading sweepstakes contests, along with other methods are employed to solicit survey information from individuals with unkempt promises for rewards. Although these activities may not be widespread, they do usually warrant caution so that your time and effort spent will not be misused. Legitimate surveys providers are long term businesses who guarantee payment which is agreed to before the survey is performed. The survey companies also aggregate all of the paid surveys and remove those that are not legitimate surveys, focusing you on only profitable surveys, saving time.
How much money can be made taking surveys?
Naturally, the quantity of effort you are prepared to put into the work will determine much of this, but usually, it only takes one or two hours on a daily basis to perform from 4 to 5 surveys. * Online focus groups pay from $50 to $150 dollars per hour, again, dependent upon the service or product.
* Other activities pay a proportionate amount to the above generally , but for our purposes here, can be considered extra. (Although they can add up to a lot of money when combined.)
For the average survey taker, doing 4 surveys for approximately two hours per day is typical. This one thing, if calculated with the lower range of $20.00 per survey will total $1,600.00 every month, working two hours each day, 5 days per week. Using the mid-range of surveys ($20 - $70) and being conservative, $3,000.00 a month is easily attainable with the same work schedule. If an online survey taker does 1 online focus group each week, the mid-range could add $400 to $600 dollars each month. Again, you'll be able to do as many of these as are available.
It isn't difficult to see how many online survey takers are actually full-time in this business. All that is needed to get started is to register with several of the legitimate surveys organizations.
