These are my own words and experiences. So please know others will have a different view
dealing with paying Surveys, paying Focus Groups, and product testing.
How do paid Surveys work?
A. Basically, you
sign up on the company's web site. Provide some personal information, such as age, gender, location, etc. When the company has a survey available that you qualify for, they'll
e-mail you an invitation, usually with a direct link to the
paying survey. COPYRIGHT Annika's 1999 - 2012 www.amylynn.org/home
Can I Get Rich Taking Online Surveys?
A. No, and any website that says yes, is lying to you. You can have fun, Product
Testing, sampling, and more though. You will certainly make enough to pay your
Internet Connection, and several of your house hold bills,
but you won't become a millionaire, and that's why I created Annika's. To help
make ends meet, and have some breathing room.
What are Paid Focus Groups?
A. Paid Focus Groups are a number of respondents gathered together to generate ideas through the discussion of, and reaction to, specific stimuli. Under the steerage of a moderator,
Focus Groups are often used in exploratory work or when the subject matter involves social activities, habits and status. Some are paid some are not. Some you trial products, some you just answer questions in a group.
How do I get paid from these Surveys or Focus Groups?
A. Each paid survey company will have its own payment system. Some will send you a check for each
paying survey you take. Some pay you through PayPal. Others use a points system where you earn points for each paid survey, and the points can be cashed in for cash payments, gift cards, or other merchandise. Some paid
Surveys will enter you into drawings, or sweepstakes. COPYRIGHT Annika's 1999 - 2012 www.amylynn.org/home
Tips for getting picked for paying Surveys and paying Focus Groups?
A. Yes,
these paying surveys, Focus Groups, and Product Testing tips can be found in our forum. It's updated as time goes by.
How many paying Surveys do you get a day?
A. About 100 that includes Beta Testing, Focus Groups, Product Testing and surveys.
How much can you make in a month?
How long do you spend doing
paying Surveys?
A. Depends on how much I do. I belong to so very many survey companies that it varies all the time. Plus because I run a online business and never do 1 thing at a time I can not give a time limit on how much time I spend doing
Surveys.
Paying Surveys never take more than a few minutes. Once you get into a pattern doing them you automatically get into the groove of the questions. Age, race, location, etc. Helps if you are a fast reader too. I'd have to say the most time I ever spent on a survey is 10-13 minutes. They are never as long as they claim to be, partly because I read fast and I know the questions as I have been doing
Surveys since 1997. The amount varies on how many you join, how many Surveys you do, how much you meet their criteria.
What pays the most?
Paid Surveys, Paid to Read Emails, Virtual jobs or Paid Focus Groups?
A. Virtual jobs.
Paying Surveys lead up to paying Focus Groups which are usually why everyone claims
Surveys pay so much.
Paying Focus Groups are rare but they do happen. Myself I love Freelancer but you have to have skills to do that. Like work on web pages, graphics, programming, audio etc. Most of the virtual jobs you have to have cable or another phone line. COPYRIGHT Annika's 1999 - 2012 www.amylynn.org/home
What are your favorite
paying companies, or which paying survey programs do you highly recommend?
A. Well if you want to get off to a fast start be sure to register with the whole of page 1 before you take a break - they offer some of the best survey opportunities anywhere, and you don't want to miss them.
Pinecone Pinecone Research
OpinionOutpost OpinionOutpost
Global Test Market
GTM. Global Test Market. - World Wide.
All the below pay by check unless other wise noted.
Memolink Memolink
Surveysavvy Survey Savvy
Brand Institue Brand Institue
ClickIQ (USA only) ClickIQ
ACOP ACOP - World Wide
If you enjoy Amazon vouchers:
Keynote Keynote
OpinionOutpost OpinionOutpost
Other types of prizes:
E-rewards E-rewards
See the forum for how to join.
My points (USA
only) My points
Do you find any problems with the
paying survey or paying Focus Groups companies that ask for certain info when you register? Does this ever bother you?
A. I don't mind providing companies with info. The only thing I dislike is providing them with my phone number. I can't stand phone or email spam. I don't mind them asking what products I use or what car I drive etc. As most of the questions they ask, are not for the company you are doing the
Surveys for. Companies hire companies like
Greenfield etc, to do these census and Surveys. I have noticed time and time again on the news them mentioning a company and how they did a survey of people 25-40 who voted for Bush etc their thoughts. Well the really wild thing was 7 times out of 10, the survey they are talking about, I took! So it makes me feel good whether it's paid or not, that it has the chance of possibly making the news as well as helping others out.
How is one to know what
paying survey or paying Focus Group company is best to fill in profiles and not to fill in?
A. I suggest, getting a hotmail address and don't fill out your profiles and test for yourself. This is how I found out about how to fill out what profiles and not. See before I moved to England caretaker
AKA CT was there. So I had set up an account for him (I did the Surveys though with his answers) age, sex etc. I had noticed a pattern. At 1st I had thought it was male/female age difference. So I created me another account with
Gozing. Thus having 3 (no idea how I have 4 now but I did.) Indeed it was the profiles that were preventing me from getting invited to
Surveys! Shocking eh? So I guess the best tip is, with companies you are unsure of, don't fill the profiles in and see what happens. Further testing of other companies are Spidermetrix, fill in your profiles for the points it makes no difference towards the invites.
COPYRIGHT Annika's 1999 - 2012 www.amylynn.org/home
When doing
paying Surveys, what's the most you ever won?
A. $500 check, a 2
times a $50 check, and a $50 Amazon gift voucher. I mostly win Amazon vouchers; I had over $90 in vouchers at one point. So save them they add up. You never know when you may get more. Plus the more sites you belong to and do the
Surveys the more chances you have to win. I lose count all the time. I get checks in the post weekly from companies I have forgotten I did
Surveys for.
Is doing
paying Surveys worth the payment?
A. Yes, as most of it is under the table payment (which means tax free). Some sites don't pay in cash though they pay in rewards which you can either cash in for cash or prizes. So even then it's worth it. Because you end up building those points and forgetting about them. Then one day you are reminded, log in your account and see you can order something you have been needing for ages or even do your Christmas shopping for others with the prizes you won. Plus think about the time you spend doing the survey, and the payment. Like with
Greenfield. That cash really adds up. And $5 for less than 8 minutes is more than a person in the store makes in an hour newly hired. So you tell me, is it worth it? I think so lol
How do I get more paying survey and paying Focus Group invites?
A. Logging into your
survey or Focus Group account is important. If you don't they think you aren't active and why should they send you anything?
How long before you joined till you started getting products to test?
A. About 3 weeks with
My Survey NFO you should start to get paying Product Tests.
How can I maximize my
paying Surveys and paying Focus Groups earnings?
A. Easy, if you have a website or belong to a paid to read email site, advertise your own links. Any emails you send jokes and such, include a link to join in your signature. Spread the word, with out spamming. There are tips for this and more located here.
I noticed some
paying Surveys and paying Focus Groups only pay with PayPal, Can you tell me a bit about PayPal?
A. PayPal is free to join, free to get funds and fee to withdraw funds. As a personal account. To get PayPal join here. It's safe and secure providing you pick a good password as well as secret questions even family members don't know the answers to.
How come you don't have all
the paying Surveys and paying Focus Groups companies listed?
A. Because there are loads of scam
survey sites. They appear to be fine and work right which is how I found out they are scams. I have joined them and waited for
Surveys to discover how they operate. If you should find more, please by all means inform me. So I can warn others to. But please provide me with details of how you feel they may be a scam site. So I can explain it to others and or check myself. Also I test companies before I post them. I belong to a lot that aren't posted.
Did you gather that database all by yourself?
A. Yes since 2000 to the mid of 2006 at which point I got assistance by Gail.
Then Gail left mid 2007 and from that point on, it was just me again.
Do you belong to ALL the
survey, Focus Groups and Product Testing sites that you list?
A. Yes, or did belong to. As it's hard to maintain them all,
and I (or my volunteer members) test before posting. After all many are in another language
and country. Annika's is a world wide paid survey site. COPYRIGHT Annika's 1999 - 2012 www.amylynn.org/home
Can I invite you to join paying survey companies as my referral?
A. Why? I'm already a member of all these sites and more. Simply because they may not be posted doesn't mean I'm not a member yet. I do test the links before posting.
Does registering with so many different sites cause you to receive a lot of spam?
A. No. If any company sends spam I post that information. I only list good companies. I even have a list of companies I refuse to post.
Do you find the
Surveys that are only for drawings or points are worth it?
A. Yes. Because people that think that they aren't and can't be bothered to fill them out raise my chances for winning. And yes I have won several times, from several different company's. Also points add up to things, like with Harris poll. I have over 80,000 now.
Should I pay for a list of paid survey sites?
A. Definitely not! Annika's has all the free paying Surveys world wide you need, and more.
I know of several websites that even come to Annika's to get the information
their members need.
When I'm e-mailed a paying survey invitation, do I have to participate?
A. No. If you do not feel like participating in a particular study, the choice is simply yours.
How long does it take to get paid survey invites?
A. Depends how many paying Surveys companies you register with. Also depends if you are using a free email account like hotmail. Yes many survey companies don't wish to have hotmail users. Anywhere from 2 weeks to 2 months.
Some websites you can earn right away. The long term proper companies, such as
MySurvey, will take some time. This is why I suggest joining them all, that way
you won't be waiting around for income. You have several
listings of Payments, I don't understand them, can you please explain? A.
Sure!
Payment listing information:
Cash = This could be any number of things, PayPal, actual cash, Amazon
Gift Cards, Visa Gift Cards or Check. Example, you earn in cash on their site,
$15.90 but could end up being offered one of the above forms of payments.
Basically, anything that converts into something spendable.
Amazon Gift Cards/ Amazon Gift Certificates = Could be emailed, or
through the regular mail.
Points Converted = This means you earn points, 100 points = $1 for
example. Each survey panel is different.
Check / Cheque = Just as it states, paper writing of payment.
Sweepstakes = drawing, which may lead to check, PayPal, Cash, Amazon. All
depends.
Other = Could be products, coupons, freebies, samples, wire transfer,
direct deposit.
We list them like this to make it easier for you to understand. Sometimes it's
hard to tell because companies change their payments without notice, and often
without listing it on their website. All Panels will tell you in the FAQ section
what the pay options and rules are.
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