In this article, I'm going to reveal everything
you need to know about paid survey sites on the Internet - can you generate
massive amounts of cash from completing surveys online or are they just nothing
but scams? On top of that, I will also be sharing my experiences with these
websites with you.
What Are
These Paid Survey Websites About, And How Do They Work?
I'm sure you've seen lots of websites claiming
that you'll be able to earn massive amounts of cash simply by completing
surveys - all you need to do is to pay a one-time fee to get access to their
website. Does these websites really work? We're going to take a look at them
now.
In these websites, you're actually paying for a
list of paid survey sites they have in their database (this database is being
updated from time to time by these paid survey websites).Besides a database of
a list of these sites, you'll also get access to a database of sites where you
can sign up and get paid to read emails or shop (However, I'm just going to
cover paid surveys in this lens).To start making money from these paid survey
websites, you'll need to sign up as a member for each of these sites in the
database (of course, if you are not residing in the United States, you can't
sign up for these sites where the region is only for the United States only).
Once you've signed up for these sites, they'll
then send you surveys for you to complete from time to time (based on the areas
you've selected to receive surveys in), and upon completion of a survey, you'll
be paid a certain amount of money from these sites.
The amount of money you'll receive will be based
on the amount of time required to complete the survey - so the more time you'll
need to complete the survey, the more you'll be paid.
How Much
Money Can I Make From These Paid Survey Sites? And How Will I Get Paid?
The amount of money you'll be able to make every
month from these sites that offers cash for surveys will depend on the number
of surveys you complete every month, which, in turn, will depend on the number
of surveys you're asked to participate in by these paid survey sites.
This is again based on the categories you've
opted to receive surveys in (based on your areas of interest), the area/country
you're residing in, as well as your age group.
As for payment, you'll be paid directly by these
paid survey sites that you've signed up for.
When Will
I Get Paid By These Paid Survey Websites?
It depends on the individual websites - normally
they'll issue payments (via check or to your PayPal account - again depending
on the individual websites) either every fortnightly or monthly.
My
Personal Experience With These Paid Survey Sites
I've signed up as a member for a couple of these
paid survey websites, and I discovered that most of the survey sites in the
database are looking for surveyees residing in the United States. I could not sign up
as a member in these survey sites as I'm not from the United States (I'm from Singapore).
There are, however, a couple of sites that are looking
for surveyees around the world, which I signed up for but I didn't get many
surveys from these sites to complete. As such, I did not manage to make a lot
of money from these websites.
That's my experience (from Singapore) with these websites that
offers cash for completing surveys. However, I do personally know people in the
United States
who are currently generating a good income from these paid survey websites! ;)
Thus, my conclusion about these websites for paid
surveys is this - unless you are a resident in the United States, you will not able to
generate maximum income from these paid survey websites.
Should
You Sign Up As A Member Of These Paid Survey Websites?
As mentioned earlier, you'll only be able to reap
huge profits from these sites if you are residing in the United States, as most of these paid survey
companies are based in the United States
and most of them are only interested in responses from people who are residing
in the United States.
So, if you are from the United States, then I would
recommend you to sign up for these websites.
If you are not from the United States, then I
would not recommend you to sign up for them as chances are you're not going to
get many requests to complete surveys (and hence you're not going to make a lot
of money from it, based on my experience with these paid survey sites)
Should I
Use A Separate Email Address To Sign Up For These Paid Survey Websites?
I would recommend you use a separate email
address when you sign up as a member for these websites that will pay you for
completing surveys - reasons being that as a member of these websites, you'll
be receive quite a lot of emails from them to complete surveys (for cash) every
single day (especially if you are a US citizen).
Thus, you may want to separate emails from these
paid survey websites from your personal emails.
Which
Paid Survey Websites Do You Recommend?
The following are 3 paid survey sites I would
recommend you to sign up for (ranked in the order of sequence).
The reason why I have recommended the following
websites is because they are very well established and also very highly
reputable.
1. Paid Surveys Etc.
Paid Surveys Etc. is currently the top website
for paid surveys on the Internet, with its large database of survey
opportunities available.
You'll also receive get a full 60-day
unconditional money back guarantee from Paid Surveys Etc.
Membership to Paid Surveys Etc. is currently
priced at $34.00 (one-time payment).
2. Legit Online Jobs
Legit Online Jobs is another top-notch website
that offers cash for completing surveys on the Internet. It has very good
resources to help anyone get started, as well as a round-the-clock live chat
service to help all members - I personally find this live chat service to be
very, very useful. This is something that's only provided in Legit Online Jobs.
You'll also receive get a full 8-week
unconditional money back guarantee from Legit Jobs Online.
Membership to Legit Jobs Online is currently
priced at $49.95 (one-time payment).
3. Survey Scout
Survey Scout has been a leader in paid survey
arena for years and have a very good customer support to help you along the
way.
You'll also receive get a full 60-day
unconditional money back guarantee from Survey Scout.
Membership to Survey Scout is currently priced at
$34.95 (one-time payment).
Should
You Sign Up For All The Paid Survey Websites I've Recommended?
There's no need for you to sign up for all the
websites I've recommended above - Just sign up for 1 of them will do.
The reason is because, based on my experience with these
websites, I found that the databases of survey sites in these websites are
somewhat similar
Survey Best
Practices - 11 Lessons Learned - Conduct Expert Surveys
As a survey company we are often asked questions
about survey practices: What is the best way to conduct surveys? How can we get
the highest possible response rate? Should we use a survey company, or should
we try to use a self-use online survey service? The questions we receive are
many and varied.
While we have extensive survey experience and
expertise, we decided to conduct a survey to identify employee survey best
practices at organizations we do not conduct surveys for. The findings of the
survey validated our own survey experience and produced interesting and useful
information and insight about employee surveys.
This article includes the key Lessons Learned and
Actions for You to Consider from Quantisoft's Survey about Employee Survey
Practices. Please contact Howard Deutsch at hdeutsch@Quantisoft.com to receive
the full Employee Survey Best Practices Report, including the survey findings,
data and verbatim comments.
Lessons
Learned
1. Types
of Employee Surveys -- Participating organizations are using a wide
range of employee surveys to gather information and insight for making better
decisions and making informed changes. Types of surveys they conduct include
employee satisfaction/engagement, employee benefits opinion, employee turnover,
sales force opinion, IT customer satisfaction, business risk assessment and
other surveys.
2. Survey
Frequency -- The most common frequency for conducting surveys is
annually.
3. Satisfaction
with Survey Companies vs. Self-use Survey Services -- Organizations that
primarily use survey companies are significantly more satisfied with their
survey process than organizations primarily using self-service online survey
services. The reasons survey companies are providing greater satisfaction and
value than self-service survey services include the expertise and experience
provided, receiving survey reports quickly without the need to take time to
generate graphs and other reports in-house, objective analysis of survey
results, more focus on implementing changes, greater support and involvement
from management and other factors.
4. Effectiveness
of Survey Practices -- Organizations primarily using survey companies
rate the effectiveness of key survey practice significantly higher than
organizations using self-service online survey services. The survey practices
with the largest gaps in effectiveness ratings are receiving support from
managers, producing timely useful reports, communicating survey findings,
developing implementation plans, analyzing survey results and achieving results
from surveys.
5. Importance
of Survey Practices -- Survey respondents identified the
"most" important survey practices as keeping responses anonymous,
conducting follow-up surveys, time taken to complete survey and analysis of
survey data.
6. Survey
Response Period and Rate -- Responding organizations strive to achieve a
high survey response rate. A 2-week survey response period is most popular. A
third week typically generates a higher response rate. 60% of responding
organizations typically have a survey response rate of 60% or greater.
7. Primary
Survey Approach -- Online/Web surveys are the most often-used approach.
Organizations are learning ways to end the use of paper surveys, even for
employees that do not use computers to perform their job. 70% of responding
organizations use Online/Web surveys as their primary approach, 20% use paper
surveys as their primary approach and 10% use Online/Web surveys supplemented
with paper surveys as their primary approach.
8. Reasons
for Conducting Employee Surveys -- The top reasons for conducting
employee surveys include identifying performance improvement opportunities,
assessing employee satisfaction and engagement levels and trends, part of
ongoing measurement process and identifying causes of employee turnover.
9. Surveys
Achieving Their Objectives -- Some organizations are achieving very strong
results from surveys while others are falling short. Key factors for achieving
survey objectives include management support for conducting surveys and
implementing changes, using a survey company and executing well on all of the
survey practices. Surveys generate significant quantitative and qualitative
results when designed and executed well, followed up by effective analysis and
implementation of changes identified by surveys.
10. Using
Normative Benchmarking Data -- Survey respondents prefer to benchmark
their survey results with survey results from other organizations. However,
they are not comfortable using benchmarking data unless they can be sure the
data enables "apples-to-apples" comparisons. Similarity of
organizations being benchmarked, similarity of survey questions/wording, common
time frame for when survey data was collected and other factors are important
for making valid benchmarking comparisons.
11. Survey
Best Practices -- Knowing and consistently following best practices is
very important for successfully conducting surveys and achieving results.
Organizations that fail to follow best practices for all survey practices fail
to achieve the full potential results from surveys.
Actions
for You to Consider -- Conducting Better Surveys
1. Share the full Employee Survey Best Practices
report with people in your organization who are responsible for conducting
surveys, and with managers that can benefit from conducting surveys.
2. Compare your organization's approach for
conducting surveys with the best practices, lessons learned and other
information and insight included in the full report available from Quantisoft.
Identify and implement changes your organization can make to achieve greater
results from surveys.
3. Consider conducting surveys to gather
information and insight for increasing your organization's competitiveness and
bottom line in this difficult economic environment. Beyond the usual employee
satisfaction/engagement surveys, other types of surveys can enable your
organization to identify ways to increase sales, identify and manage risks more
effectively, gather feedback for reducing costs and increasing quality and
customer service levels, enhance your organization's "going green"
profile, get more value from employee benefits dollars spent and much more.
Information about many types of surveys is presented at Quantisoft's website.
4. The world has changed dramatically during the
past year. The information and insight gathered from surveys conducted just a
few months ago may no longer be valid. Update previous surveys now to gather
current information and adjust action plans to reflect the "new
reality".
5. Make sure to focus your organization's surveys
on gathering actionable information that will positively impact employees,
customers, the environment and your bottom line.
