Online Paid Surveys – What’s so Great About Them?
The number one, two and three questions I get about staking paid surveys is “what’s all this about? Why would someone pay me for my opinions? How does all of this work?”
Surveys are a simple name for Market Research, which is a process businesses use to gather and process information that will help that company understand what people like to buy so that they can make developmental, advertising and marketing decisions about their products.
Market research used to be done exclusively over the phone. These calls usually came at the most inconvenient time possible – they know you are home when it’s time to make dinner, so they call then – or later when you are trying to bathe your kids and put them to bed. I am afraid I used to be mean to the poor telemarketers who I’m sure were parents too, trying to earn a living!
Then came the Internet! Now Market research companies can pay you and me to take surveys online, instead of paying telemarketers to sit in a boiler room full of phones attached to a random dialer.
One survey site can’t supply you enough surveys to make it worth your time, but if you do some research or join a survey site like SurveyCasher who has already vetted the survey sites, you can increase the amount of money you can make. You won’t get rich from taking surveys online; definitely you won’t be moving to Maui each summer to lie on the beach outside your summer house, but you can earn extra cash for fairly reasonable investment of your time.
