Online Surveys
Your opinion is very important.
Every company likes to know what people think of their product, what they like and dislike, what they are looking for when they shop, which product or service they prefer. They need your opinion to make better products and services, and to make more money.
These companies pay online researchers to carry out surveys for them, in order to gauge the market for their products or services in various market segments. . And the researchers pay you to answer those surveys.
‘Market segment’ refers to dividing the market into segments according to age, income, occupation, geographical territory, etc. The researcher therefore has to first find out your ‘demographic’ profile, to decide on whether you ‘fit the bill’ with respect to a particular ‘market segment’ the product or service targets. Ex: The market for ‘Pop songs’ would obviously concentrate on the young rather than the old, going by age-wise classification. Furhter segmentations that may be applicable in this case are by income or occupation, etc. (middle class and above)
There are many online surveys companies. Some of them send many surveys monthly, and some may send one or less a month. Some pay cash and some give you points to trade for merchandise or even enter your name in a contest when you answer a survey.
When you sign up for these companies and they have a survey that fits your demographic information, they usually send a short screening survey to confirm that your opinion is useful to them for that particular study. If you are accepted, the actual study begins, and it might take as long as one hour to finish. This study might be in the form of a questionnaire, a group board, or a chat session. The questions are mostly in terms of the extent of your awareness or knowledge of the product, and your rating of various characteristics or attributes of the product – either existing or to be launched in the market – in terms of your likes and dislikes. The ‘surveys’ are so designed that if you try to avoid honest answers and hurriedly choose answers at random, you will caught contradicting yourself in cleverly disguised successive questions – once you answer a particular question, the computer screen changes to a new page, and there is no way you can refresh your memory by cross-reference. Only if you actually follow your own tastes will such contradictions not arise, as otherwise you are unlikely to get further surveys from the same provider researcher. ‘Don’t know’ and ‘Prefer not to answer’ are also options you can choose for many questions.
Some companies accept international members, while others only accept members from certain countries. Some companies pay referral commissions and some don't. Payments are mainly through ‘Paypal’, ‘E-gold’ or internationally known money transfer agencies. In an earlier lesson, we have already discussed how to operate a ‘Paypal’ account.
Remember to always read the Terms of Service and FAQs before signing up for any company to avoid nasty surprises later on.
Trouble is, there are very few companies or survey agencies who are open to Indians. Besides, once you complete a survey with a particular agency, the next one may be a long time coming! But the pay per survey is good – so the trick is to sign up with as many survey providers as possible – many agencies give a bonus just for signing up! Input the phrase ‘Paid Surveys’ in ‘Google’ or other ‘Search Box’, and you will find many websites providing ‘surveys’. Open these sites and go through their terms and conditions, especially the ‘pay’, choose the ones which appeal to you, and ‘register’ by clicking the appropriate button on the site and filling up the ‘Forms’ which are then displayed.
However, here is a list of survey sites which are availaile to Indian residents:
http://www.inboxdollars.com
http://www.inboxdollars.com
https://www.surveysavvy.com/ss/ss_index.php?action=join
https://www.brandinst.com
http://www.arcSurvey.com
http://www.biglook.com
http://www.busreslab.com
http://www.executiveadvisoryboard.com/ExecV5/
http://www.e-research-global.com/register/index.php
http://www.focusworldint.com
http://www.awsurveys.com
http://www.focusworldint.com/respondent.htm
http://www.focuslinesurveys.com
http://www.fhios-uxd.com/surveys
https://www.goglobal.com/Membership/
http://www.gmrnet.com/
http://www.gartner.com/0_admin
http://www.mysurveycenter.com
http://www.npdor.com
http://research3.hi-ho.ne.jp/survey/contents/entry/index.shtml
http://www.insideheads.com/panel.html
http://www.insightexpress.com/ix/screener.aspx?
http://www.jcoc.net/join.php
https://www.globalopinionpanels.com/
http://www.qsample.com/
http://www.globaltestmarket.com/
It is advisable to register with as many ‘survey’ sites as possible, because offers for opinions from any one site are spaced between long intervals
That’s all, friends. Hope you find this useful – at least in enabling you to exercise your choice wisely
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