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4 Commonly Held Misconceptions About Paid Surveys

October 10, 2012 by Steve Anderson Leave a Comment

This is a guest post from one of our regular readers. Hope you enjoy the post!

Manufacturers must get feedback from consumers of their products. If not it would have a negative impact on sales. Market research and consumer feedback is essential to the success of any product.

1. The Questions Don’t Apply To Me

The number one complaint from persons who have signed up to take surveys is that the questions don’t apply to them. All online survey companies ask the survey taker to answer specific questions and give pertinent information as to their likes and interests. If the survey takers profile indicates they have knowledge or have worked in banking and finance then they can expect to receive surveys along those lines.

2. I Got What I Paid For

Getting what you pay for should not apply to being paid for completing surveys. As with any other business you should never pay to be allowed to work. Imagine walking into a fast food restaurant or a retail store and stating that you will pay them a monthly fee if they will let you work. There are online survey companies that require sign up fees and monthly membership dues. These should be avoided.

3. Surveys Are Only Done Online and By Phone

Market research must be performed to maintain sufficient interest in the manufacturers’ product. There may be two almost identical items on a store shelf. If one of them is selling and the other is not the manufacturer will want to find out why it doesn’t sell. These questions can be asked on a survey to purchasers of either product.

It may be an online questionnaire or the survey could be carried out by an independent contractor, or a merchandiser in the store.

Manufacturers must utilize any and all resources to remain competitive.

4. Assuming All Survey Companies Want Something for Nothing

There are several legitimate companies online and otherwise that are happy to pay substantial fees to someone who can provide the information they need. The survey may be a simple comparison of certain foods and other purchases. It may involve getting opinions from consumers on new products or new product names. The most reputable survey companies offer choices in receiving payments for survey work. Either cash or reward points that can be turned into cash may be offered. Once a certain amount of reward points has accumulated they can be exchanged for cash, gift cards or store credits.

Brendan Mitchell is a blogger who relies on the Australian business directory HirePulse for all his marketing needs from hiring people to help survey his customers to finding the right advertising agency.

Filed Under: Paid Surveys Tagged With: Market Research, Paid Surveys

Why Are Paid Surveys Conducted?

August 11, 2012 by Steve Anderson Leave a Comment

One of the mor common questions that are asked by the visitors or MDXResearch.com is, why are paid surveys conducted? To most, it just doesn’t make sense that someone or some company would be willing to pay a person for completing a survey.

The answer to this is quite simple, paid surveys are conducted because businesses (big and small), government agencies, public bodies, and other types of organizations are interested in the views and opinions of average people like you and me who already use their products or services or who might be interested in using their products or services.

By conducting survey research (paid surveys), they are able to know more about what their customers think about their product or service offering and from there, they are better able to tweak it to better fulfill their wants and needs.

What it comes down to is that businesses want to make MORE money and the way they do that is to find out what their current and potential customers want in a product or service and tweak their current offering or add to it so that they can offer something that more people will buy.

This is why paid surveys are offered and why companies are willing to pay you for participating in this research. If you put simple math to it, if they pay you $10 for taking a survey and they can get you to buy a product or service from them for more than $10, that is a win. So the next time someone tells you that paid surveys aren’t legit or are a scam, now you know the truth and can point them in the right direction.

Filed Under: Paid Surveys Tagged With: Market Research, Paid Surveys

Christmas Is Coming – – Do You Need Extra Cash?

November 12, 2008 by shuey03 Leave a Comment

We are just about six weeks away from the 2008 Christmas holiday.  As a parent myself, I know that cash can be very tight when it comes time for the holidays.  Not only that, but in addition to the current economy, money is even tighter.  All the more reason for you and I to be taking free paid surveys so that we can afford an awesome Christmas for each of our children and family members.

I read an article yesterday about all these over the phone market research companies that are going out of business.  They specifically said that the online panels are where there money is at, both for the client, the research company, and those who are involved in taking these paid surveys.

There has never been a better time to start taking paid surveys than today!  It doesn’t matter if you want to compeltely support yourself and your family from paid surveys, if you want extra cash for the holidays, if you want to suppliment your current income, or if you want some extra spending cash.

Go right now and sign up for the top ten survey companies and have checks coming to your home well before Christmas.

Filed Under: Market Research, Paid Surveys Tagged With: Christmas, Market Research, Paid Surveys

Why Free Paid Survey Companies Are Legitimate!

September 26, 2008 by shuey03 5 Comments

There is a lot of negativity around the principle of paid surveys and how they are scams.  These individuals and companies have no reason or evidence that this is a true statement.  I, however, have been there and done that and want to share with you some very personal and detailed information about legitimate free paid surveys and how they are a great way for anyone to make money on the internet!

I believe that 99% of the websites and individuals who are promoting paid survey companies have no idea if they are for real or not.  I, however, have had the opportunity to work for one of the paid survey companies that I represent.  Not only did I work for this company, but I had many opportunities to work with the other survey companies in the industry and know of their validity.

Four years ago, I was fortunate enough to be hired by a local marketing research firm in Orem, UT.  The name of this firm is Western Wats.  When I was hired, I, along with another individuals (who I will not name) were responsible for the launch and growth of a new paid survey panel called Opinion Outpost.  Honestly, we pretty much started from scratch!!  When I was first hired, I had never heard of online paid surveys before.  In fact, I was probably as skeptical as you are now about their legitimacy and validity.  I thought, first “who in their right mind would want to take surveys for cash”, second “who in their right mind would pay someone cash for taking surveys on the internet”?  Of course, being a new employee at the firm, I just did what I was told and didn’t think much about it again.

About three months into my employment, the lady in the accounting office who was in charge of printing checks for the survey takers came to my desk and dropped a stack of checks that I needed to seperate, put in enevelopes, stamp, and deliver to the post office.  I thought, “WOW, this is for real!  People actually make money doing this!!!”.  That night I went home and signed up with every survey company that I could so I could make as much money as possible.  The surveys started rolling in and so did the cold hard cash!

Shortly after I received my first check from one of the companies (if you think I can remember which company, you are insane, it was 4 years ago) I went to my boss to ask how we could afford to cut all those checks to those people.  I really didn’t know anything about marketing research, how it worked, and how people made money from it.  He taught me all about it that afternoon and I am going to share with you exactly what I learned.

Companies such as General Motors, Target, Sony, Apple, Blackberry, Fisher Price, and thousands of other companies need to learn how their current customers and others who are not their customers feel about their current products and possible future products that they might release.  This is called marketing research.  It is very obvious that we, as individuals, respect our own privacy and expect others to do so as well.  In the past, we have received so many telemarketing or survey research phone calls that we have become frusturated and flat out annoyed to the point where we just hang up or not even answer the phone at all.  From this was born the Do Not Call Registry which pretty much put every telemarketing company out of business.  Let me be clear, marketing researchers collecting data are not restricted from calling you for research purposes, however, the industry has suffered a huge blow because people think that any phone call from any company falls under the registry.

Because of this, marketing research companies needed to evolve and provide a way for their clients to still collect the data that they need, while making it worth while for the people taking the surveys.  They came up with a business plan of how they could provide value to both the client and the average person spending their time taking surveys.

So, they came up with a non-intrusive way of collecting market research data.  They have people sign up to make money by taking paid surveys.  These people volunteer their time for compensation.  The marketing research companies charge their clients extra money for this type of research so they can reasonably compensate their survey takers for their time and effort.  This is how you and I can make money by taking paid surveys!

Now that we have cleared up the legitimacy of Opinion Outpost, how about those other companies that MDX Research and hundreds of other survey sites represent?  Well, first off, we personally test every offer that we present to our users and make sure that they provide sufficient monetary value.  Also, toward the end of my employment with Opinion Outpost, we had many opportunities to work with other companies like Greenfield Online, Harris Poll, My Survey, Ipsos iSay and other marketing research companies.  If they could not collect enough data for their clients, they would have us fill the rest and provide compensation for our members.  This is a testimony to me and hopefully everyone reading this post that these paid surveys are legitimate and you can make money from them!

The last three months at Opinion Outpost was probably the most miserable months of my life!  I hardly got any work done because I was stuffing checks for our survey takers for 8 hours a day, about 3 or 4 days a week.  We literally sent out hundreds of thousands of checks a month to our survey panel members.  I have created a video that is currently on YouTube that talks about paid surveys and shows a couple of the checks that I have received.  This is legitimate, if you want to make money on the internet, this is an excellent way to do it!

I left this company about a year ago to pursue other opportunities including the launch of MDX Research.  I knew first hand that this was for real and wanted to share it with people like you, that is why I compiled our paid survey directory.  It has been very rewarding receiving countless emails from happy users of MDX Research.  It has also been very challenging trying to overcome all of the negativity and lies that are surfacing about this industry.

I want everyone to know that I appreciate you visiting our site and I highly encourage feedback and suggestions.  You can emails us with questions, feedback, or suggestions by clicking here.

You will probably also notice that our site has begun adding international paid surveys for individuals living outside the US.  We are also providing surveys for Hispanics and teens.  Over the next six months, you will also see a re-design of the website that will provide more information about each company, their contact information, and anything else that we think will make this a better experience for you.

I strongly encourage you to click here and sign up with the top ten paying survey companies on the internet today!  You will start getting surveys and start making money within a day’s time.

Filed Under: Market Research, Paid Surveys Tagged With: Free Paid Surveys, greenfield online, ipsos i say, legitimate paid surveys, make money from home, Market Research, marketing research, my survey, online paid surveys, Opinion Outpost, Paid Surveys

Why Are People Scared To Give Out Information?

June 1, 2008 by shuey03 1 Comment

Fraud is the number one reason why people like you and me are scared to give out information about themselves.  However, if you are looking to make money online with paid surveys, you have to work up the courage to let these market research companies pretty much know everything about you.  When working with individuals one on one, they ask why they aren’t making as much money with paid surveys as they were told they could make.  Folks, it all comes down to one concept and that is demographics!!!

Paid survey companies want to know as much about you as they possibly can.  They want to know who you are, what drives you to act the way you do, what you like to do for fun, how many people you have in your family, etc.  By knowing each of these things, they are more likely to send you surveys that are directly related to you and your interests.  This will allow you to make more money because you are qualifying for more surveys.  It also allows you to receive more surveys because they aren’t just shooting off the hip in guessing what you like.  All in all, it allows you to make way more moneyl!

Take Opinion Outpost for instance.  Once you register with their comapny, they have about ten to fifteen other “profiles” that they want to you fill out.  Each one takes less than about five minutes to complete.  Some people complain that they don’ want to waste their time filling out “fake surveys” and not get paid for them.  GREAT!!  More money for me and everyone else that takes the 20-30 minutes to fill everything out

I’m telling you people, do it!  Don’t worry about the time it take or worry about your information being shared.  If it is a true paid survey company, they are bound by law to keep your information safe and confidential!

Filed Under: Demographics, Market Research, Paid Surveys Tagged With: Demographics, Market Research, Paid Surveys

The Market Research Industry Continues To Grow

August 9, 2007 by shuey03 1 Comment

We have noticed over the last few weeks that the number of surveys that a user receives from each company continues to increase. The longer you have been a member of these companies and the more information you have given them in your profiles you will get more survey invitations. The market research industry continues to grow each day with many companies taking advantage of being able to collect data from the members of the survey companies. This is a multi million dollar industry and it continues generate more revenue at the months go on. Take advantage of these survey companies now, the longer you wait, the more money you will miss out on.

Filed Under: Market Research Tagged With: Market Research

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