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$6.7 Billion Spent On Marketing Research Each Year

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casroI thought this was interesting and wanted to share it with you today.

According to CASRO (Council of American Survey Research Organization), spending on marketing research in the United States has reached $6.7 Billion. If you look at spend world wide, it is closer to $18.9 Billion.

This is money that fortune 500 companies (and of course smaller companies) spend to collect data from people like you and me, either via phone surveys, or online paid surveys.

A large percentage of that money is paid to the marketing research firm conducting the survey. This goes to pay to set up the survey, the management software that manages the survey, the collection of the data, the storage of the data collected, and interpretation of the data, and delivery of the data to the client.

Lastly, a good chunk of that money goes to pay people like you and me for taking those surveys. This is either awarded in cash, points that convert to cash or other merchandise, or rewards.

Needless to say, there is a ton of money being put into marketing research and a ton of money to be made by taking paid surveys. If there is ever a time to get involved, now is the time!

Here is a link to their report

Reasons to Participate in Online Paid Surveys

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Why should you participate in online paid surveys?

There are several things that will make you want to participate in online paid surveys. And the most common reason is the cash incentive. Since this is something that can help you make easy money, online paid surveys can definitely appeal to you.

But money is not just the reason why you should sign up for online paid survey sites. There are other things that matter. Here are some of them:

1. You will become a significant member of the online community. If you are always surfing the Internet to play games or watch YouTube videos, then there will come a point when you feel bored. You’d feel like you are not doing anything worthy; you are simply wasting your time. But when you participate in online paid surveys, you will become more productive because you are earning some money. You won’t feel guilty spending hours in front of the computer because you are using it for work.

2. You will become an important voice in the online community. By answering online paid surveys, you are sharing your thoughts and opinions about certain things: products, services, etc. When you give out your opinions, these are viewed and reviewed by companies that sent out the surveys. They will use your opinions to formulate strategies on how they can improve their business.

3. You can meet people and increase your network. You can participate in forums and meet other survey panelists. Here, you can exchange views about the work you do and just about any other thing. This will allow you to diversify and expand your horizon. By meeting new people, you are expanding your networks and experiences.

4. Answering online paid surveys offer you the opportunity to help influence the products and services you use on a daily basis. Since most of the things you are going to review are products, you will be able to tell manufacturers the things you like and don’t like about their goods. And because you are an important voice, they will take your thoughts into consideration and use it to come up with improvements on their products.

5. More importantly, you get to have a job that doesn’t feel like a job at all. Answering online paid surveys is very easy. You don’t need to do much thinking because all that’s required from you is your opinion. Online paid surveys will also allow you to have total control over your time. Now, you don’t have to wake up early in the morning to clock in. You can do whatever you want with your time. But the best part about it? You are your own boss.

Identify Real Online Paid Survey Sites With These Helpful Tips

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How do you know if you have found the right online paid survey site?

Though there are a lot of people who claim they have earned good money by answering online paid surveys, not a lot of them were successful during their first try. This is because there are a lot of scam sites floating around the Internet today. And most of the times, online surfers have no idea how to identify them. In all the excitement to earn good cash from online paid surveys, they forget to think about how they can identify fraud sites.

If you are interested in making establishing an online career out of paid surveys, you need to make sure of one thing first: you are connected with the right online paid survey site.

But if your are inexperienced and this is the first time you are going to try a hand at answering such surveys, you will need some guidance on how you can identify legitimate sites. Here are some helpful tips:

– Ask around. If you already have friends or family members answering online paid surveys for quite some time, find out what their company is. And since they have been in the industry for quite sometime, they are more likely to know legitimate sites.

– Do a Google search. You are most likely to find the best online paid survey sites by searching the Internet.

– Once you find a potential online paid survey site, you need to study the site carefully. Check their profile and see how long they have been in the business. A company that has been around long in the industry are very likely to be legit.

– Look for testimonials of people who have already used the service. Testimonials are good reference but then there is always the chance that the site owners have filtered testimonials that are not that favorable.

– You can search for forums about online paid survey sites and look for what people have to say about certain survey companies. Since this is not the official site of the companies, you can expect to see honest and uncensored opinions here.

– Look for customer service hotlines and other contact details. First and foremost, having a customer hotline already means that the company is serious about helping its members. You can also direct your queries directly to the company by calling or sending them an email.

With these tips, there is no reason for you to fall prey to fraud online paid survey sites.

Are You Frusturated With Online Paid Surveys?

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One of the negative things I hear most about online paid surveys is the fact that some people just can’t qualify for a survey for the life of them.  I can completely understand and relate to everyone of you who feel frusturated because of this.  You see, marketing research companies are looking for a very specific demographic (traits of an individual) to take certain surveys.  Because of this, if they are looking for hispanic females who are pregnant, those who aren’t hispanic females who are pregnant will not qualify.

So, what is there to do? As we talk about in our free training, you need to take about an hour and fill out every profile and bit of information that these paid survey companies are asking for. You might be asking yourself why?  Isn’t this dangerous?  NO! They companies are restriced by law from sharing your information.  They need this information to have more accurate records of who is interested in what so they can send you the exact surveys that you will qualify for.  So, if you want to avoid the frusturation, you need to put in some extra effort.

One free paid survey company, Global Test Market just recently launched something called Survey Shuttle.  This is a very innovative tool that they have provided their members to help alieviate some of this frusturation you are feeling due to closed and non qualified surveys.  Survey Shuttle immediately re-directs you to another survey if you do not qualify or the study is closed.  By doing this, they allow you to make even more money than you can with their competitors.

Please keep in mind that paid surveys are hard work.  They take effort and dedication, but it is possible to make money on the internet with paid surveys.  You actually get paid to take surveys and you can do it from your current job, school, or at home.

Best of luck to all of you in this endevor.  If you will fill out profiles, I can promise you more money!

Why Free Paid Survey Companies Are Legitimate!

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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.