The opportunities to take paid surveys on the Internet are
staggering. Countless websites offer people cash, products, or
gift certificates for their opinions. Many of these surveys are
legitimate offers that actually provide the rewards promised,
but many of them involve a lower likelihood of compensation.
Some websites let consumers access a database of paid surveys
for a one-time fee. Other paid surveys require participants to
go to a focus group to study a particular product in depth.
Indeed, paid survey offers are very common on the Internet. Many
of them appear as pop ups when people visit certain websites.
These pop up advertisements direct surfers to take opinion
surveys, offering them products like free Apple I-pods and gift
certificates to popular restaurants after the survey is
completed. These types of surveys often require that the people
who fill out the survey give personal information like their
name, address, phone number and email address, and then sell
this information to marketing companies that follow up with
advertisements, including emails, regular ?junk? mail, and
telemarketing.
Another way to find paid surveys is to buy access to a database
of companies that offer to pay people for their opinions. Many
of the companies listed on the databases merely offer the
opportunity to be entered into drawings for prizes upon
completion of the surveys.
The best bet for paid surveys is the focus group. They require
more time than online surveys, but they have much better
rewards. A focus group is a meeting that marketers have with
consumers, where the consumers are asked for their opinions
about a particular product. These focus groups can take an
entire day or even a weekend, but they often pay well or have
other rewards given out at the end.
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provides detailed information about free paid surveys, cash paid
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directories, and advice about paid survey scams. Paid Surveys
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