Sunday, December 5, 2010

Steps to start Paid Surveys Online Job

        Steps to start Paid Surveys Online Job
Paid online surveys work like this: you join a paid market research company in order to get paid to answer surveys at home. You'll fill out a profile and may get invitations to take surveys and get paid cash or other prizes and rewards. The reason these paid survey companies want to pay you for doing surveys is because they need your opinion on their consumer products and services. This way they can have an idea of consumer perception of the goods and services they're about to release to the public. So you can get paid for doing the surveys, so that the product companies don't lose money later on.
There are also thousands of survey sites that offer paid surveys online and various other incentivized survey offers. You should be able to locate these survey sites and subscribe for them, as survey sites are usually based on membership. The best way to locate such legitimate survey sites, if you have no previous experience with taking surveys, is to search for a survey site that offers you a database of many survey sites. That does not mean finding a link farm, because if a site simply contains links to survey sites, it does not mean these are legitimate. You should find a survey database that has some description of the resources it contains, and that you can use effectively to take paid surveys for more than a few companies. Such survey sites are usually intermediaries between the research companies that actually collect and analyze the consumer feedback, and the consumers – the surveys respondents. These sites must have clear membership policies and functional customer service. The legitimate survey sites also have well-functioning websites that contain lots of information about how to navigate and really earn through the paid survey opportunities that are featured.

Many paid survey sites require subscription. Actually, that is logical, because you mostly get survey invitations by email. You need to also provide some personal details, such as your age, gender, name, address, so that – first, you can be identified as a consumer within a particular consumer group (i.e., the consumer group of those aged 18-25, 26-30, etc.), and second, to be able to claim and receive your future earnings. Then, the survey companies can identify which surveys are suitable for you and which are not, because products and services have target groups – particular consumer audiences that purchase these products or services. Providing an accurate consumer profile is essential, because you can enjoy more survey invitations, and, therefore, more opportunities to get cash and prizes.

In order to take surveys at home you can join a paid survey website that offers access to paid survey online directories. Those Paid Survey lists contain links to paid-survey companies that you can sign up to to do surveys for them and get paid for your opinion.
Also, before you take a survey, you'll often get "screener" surveys to complete. Those are short surveys, to fill in your basic info, to determine whether you qualify for the longer surveys. Some will pay you for the screeners as well, and some will enroll you in drawings to win cash for taking the surveys.

Others won't pay you for the screeners, which have only a few questions and don't take much time to complete. If you match up and qualify for the real online paid surveys, you can get invitations in your E-mail to get paid to complete a survey. Do complete it, because you can not only get paid but also be registered as a more valued survey taker and get more surveys to complete and get paid for them.
There are many companies that will pay you to participate in online surveys, focus groups, and even product tests. These are market research companies that are paid by large companies to find out what the public feels about their products. They want to know if their advertising campaigns are working and how everyday people feel about their products. Large corporations spend billions of dollars a year on advertising. So to pay you a few dollars to find out if their advertising is working is not that big of a deal. So they hire these market research companies. And the market research companies send out surveys to everyday people to find out what the public is thinking.

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