There is no shortage of websites looking for people to join their opinion panel and take surveys for businesses. The reputable ones are marketing research firms that contract with individual businesses to run the surveys. They may or may not also analyze the survey results and prepare reports for the business owners. Whether you can [...]

Marketing research companies have been paying people to take part in paid surveys for cash and focus groups for almost as long as manufacturers have been creating and marketing products to the public. The simple fact is that gathering consumer information on their current products and services can determine what marketing methods will work best [...]

The easiest answer to that question is to use some common sense. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is a scam at worst or terribly over exaggerated at best. Here are some of the things can help you weed out the paid surveys scam websites. Read the testimonials – if they [...]

Let’s do some paid surveys review. There are basically five ways to get paid for taking surveys: focus groups, telephone interviews, mailed paper surveys, in-person interviews and online surveys. Let’s look at each of them individually. 1. Focus Groups – Many companies use focus groups to see how an audience responds to an advertising campaign [...]

Have you seen the Microsoft Windows 7 television commercials? They portray ordinary people who provided information to Microsoft about the features they wanted in the new Windows operating system. That information was most likely collected by a marketing research firm hired do an online survey. Every respondent of those surveys was able to get paid [...]