Paid Surveys, How You Can Make Top Dollar!

Paid Surveys
Do you know that you no longer have to pay survey sites in order to make a little extra cash. Well, its true, there are a number of survey sites that will allow you to sign up and make money for free. Paid surveys are good for everyone, but they are really good for stay at home mom, college students who are looking for extra cash to pay for tuition or books, and hobbies.

How much can you make?
The amount of money you can earn depends on the paid surveys and the amount of paid surveys you participate in. Some surveys pay $2-$20 per survey and others pay $10-$100 per survey. Some surveys sites like GlobaltestMarket.com make you take a pre survey to see if you qualify for the big survey. GlobaltestMarket.com pays on a point system. For example, if you were to take a number of surveys, you would earn points, and when you accumulate enough points you can convert it to cash. The best way to make good money with paid surveys is to sign up with as many paid surveys as possible. In less than a month you will receive more surveys than you can handle. The more surveys that you participate in, the more paid surveys you will receive.

Why would people pay you for your opinion?
Easy, when a new product is produced, big companies want to know how this product would sell before it hit's the market place. So they put out surveys for you and I to participate in and give our opinion on the product. These companies are willing to pay big money for people's opinions on these products.

What type of surveys are there?
There are all types of paid surveys. The ones that I am familiar with are the surveys on products and T.V. ads. I have taken surveys on beer commercials and new television series that are now out in the market place. I even had product such as food sent to my home for me to eat and give an opinion on the taste.

Why take paid surveys?
Because it is at great way to make extra cash and to see what new products are coming to the market place. There are 25 top free paid survey sites that I recommend all survey takers sign up with. To find those top 25 click the link below.

http://www.surveyclub.com/go/12741

Profit From On-line Self-Surveys

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By Stephen Bucaro

Which subject do you think people are most interested in? a) money, b) movie stars c) themselves. If you answered c, give yourself five points and move on to an interesting Web business opportunity: on-line self-surveys.

People love to learn about themselves by taking those little self-surveys found in magazines. Here are some possible survey topics:

- Marital happiness
- Romantic relationships - Likely success in business - Likely success in career - Healthy lifestyle

There are many more possible topic areas like creativity, child rearing, and negotiating.

Your Web site provides these surveys and the results of the surveys on-line for free. You make money with back-end products. Here are some possible back-end products:

- Self-help books or ebooks - Training materials
- Topic related newsletters - More in-depth self analysis - Personal coaching

After taking a survey, many people will learn that they could use a little improvement in that area, resulting in the purchase of these back-end products. The interesting thing is that the people who receive positive results will also purchase some of these back-end products. People love to learn that they are good at something and this motivates them to further develop that area.

The nice thing about surveys is - after an individual receives their results, they develop an insatiable curiosity about how their mate or best friend would score on the same test. This results in a flow of referrals to your web site.

How to create surveys:

- Obviously you will have to study the subject area a bit before you can develop survey questions. - Provide enough survey questions to produce relevant results, but not so many as to make the survey a chore, say around 20 questions. - Test your questions with friends and relatives to make sure they are worded correctly.

How to create a surveys Web site:

- Each survey is a Web form. Spice up your forms by adding a background image, colorful text, and a graphic submit button.
- Provide the ability for the user to email the survey to a friend. This will result in more traffic to your Web site. - On the Web page that presents the results, provide a congratulatory, or encouragement message, along with a subscription form for your newsletter. - On your Web site, post articles related to your surveys for search engines to find.

The thing people are most interested in is themselves. You can receive substantial traffic to your web site by providing free on-line self-surveys. How can you can profit from a Web site that provides on-line self-surveys? a) promoting an MLM program b) promoting credit cards c) selling back-end products. If you answered c, prepare to start a successful Web business. ----------------------------------------------------------- Resource Box:

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Free Paid Survey Spotlight - Survey Savvy

Survey Savvy is one of the most highly promoted paid online survey sites out there. This is primarily because of their fantastic referral program, which, unlike other paid survey sites, offers recurring payment for those you recruit. Although their referral program is a very nice bonus, it is by far not the only reason why Survey Savvy stands above the crowd. Over the years Survey Savvy has proven itself to be a very solid paid online survey site, even for those of you who do not want to recruit your friends. Their overall commitment, to not only their clients, but to their survey respondents as well, makes them stand out above the crowd.

First, a little background information. Survey Savvy is owned and operated by Luth Research, a market research leader since 1977. To date, they have paid out more money to their members than any other market research company. They are also a member of the BBBOnLine? Privacy Program, participate in the TRUSTe Privacy Program and also conform to numerous survey and market research organizations. All of which are important when submitting your personal information to any online survey company. Survey Savvy accepts survey respondents from around the globe and currently has participants from 190 countries worldwide.

Survey Savvy's website also sets them a notch above the rest. Once you sign up, you'll be able to login and check any number of things. When you first sign up you'll want to take their "profile enhancers". These surveys tell Survey Savvy more about you, which helps them match you up to relevant surveys, as well as, increasing your chances of receiving surveys from them. You'll also be able to change your sign up information if you need to, view your earnings, see your referral count and cash out. Any surveys that are available to you will also be listed here. You'll also have access to a great online help database, which can answer almost any question.

Survey Savvy pays strictly in cash for participation in their online surveys. Any cash received will be deposited into an online "account" which can be accessed through their website with your username and password. There is no minimum or maximum amount that you need to have in order to "cash out". Once you cash out, you'll receive a check in the mail, their website say to allow 3-4 weeks, but I usually receive payment within 2 weeks. When you receive a survey, you will first be asked a few qualifying questions. If you do not qualify for the rest of the survey, you will be entered into a monthly prize drawing for 50, $10 prizes. Payment amounts can range anywhere from a couple of bucks to $15 or more depending on the survey. These amounts seem to be slightly higher than other paid online survey sites vs. the time spent per survey. I have never had a problem receiving credit for a survey I have taken with them, nor have I ever had a problem with getting my check in a timely fashion. In fact, it's been my experience that I receive payment faster through Survey Savvy than most of the other sites that I participate in. A little reminder here: Don't forget to login from time to time and check your account balance and cash out. You'll not receive payment unless you do.

The online surveys from Survey Savvy have always proven to be interesting and flawless. Surveys are well thought out and flow very nicely from question to question. Technically, surveys go off without a hitch, no glitches, and no problems. Generally I receive around 4 or 5 survey invitations per month, of course this will vary based on your demographic information. Surveys will vary on any number of topics, anything you can imagine really. As of late, they have had a bit of a focus on technology based surveys. So if you're a techie, you should really make out. If not, don't worry; there are plenty of other interesting topics for you to voice your opinion on.

Now let's get into that referral program. Survey Savvy has, by far the best referral program of any other paid online survey site that I am aware of. Where other paid survey sites may offer a referral program which credits you in one way or another, once (when that person signs up), Survey Savvy credits your account every time that one of your referrals take a survey. Not only that, but they also credit your account whenever one of their referrals takes a survey. Every time that one of your referrals completes a survey, your account will be credited with $2, and every time one of their referrals takes a survey, you will be credited with $1. Over time this can certainly add up. Now, don't get delusional here thinking that you can get rich by getting all of your friends to sign up. You can however, make a good deal extra simply by spreading the word. You can access all the tools you need to refer you friends through their website.

All in all, Survey Savvy has proven over the years to be a very solid paid online survey site, definitely a step ahead of many others. If you are interested in taking paid online surveys, you should consider this a "must join".

For more information about Survey Savvy, including user reviews, and over 300 more paid online survey sites, visit FreePaidSurveys.net

Understanding Survey Software Features

If you take a look at the features that different survey softwares offer, you will quickly realize that understanding all of them is no mean task. But it is very important that you do because only then you can choose the right survey software. It is important for one other reason, it determines your price. More features invariably means more dollars. So if you don't choose the right survey software, you might end up paying more for features you don't need.

While it is impossible and not even worthwhile to look at all the features, here is a look at some of the important ones. Chances are that these are the ones will make or break your decision. The features have been divided into 6 categories based on their function in the process of conducting an online survey.

Survey creation

• Images, sounds, video - This allows you to insert images, sounds, and videos in your surveys, and can enhance the appearance of your surveys. However, use it only when necessary since it increases the time it takes to download and display your survey, and certainly don't overdo it.

• Question library, response library, sample surveys - These allow you to create surveys quickly since you don't have to create them from scratch. They are a must if you do a lot of surveys regularly. And they don't impact the price that much, so you might as well opt for them.

• Skip logic - This allows you to skip questions depending on the answers to previous questions. Most survey softwares allow either AND or OR logic to decide whether to skip or not, but some allow a combination of any logical conditions. It might sound like a "nice-to-have" feature rather than a "must-have", but you will be surprised how often you need to skip questions in your surveys.

• Data piping - This allows you to use the answers to some questions in the following questions. This is a very neat feature and it allows you to "personalize" your surveys. For e.g., you can say "Thanks Steve" instead of only "Thanks" if you know that the name of the respondent is Steve from a previous question. It also allows you to ask questions like "What do you like most about Coke?" when the respondent has selected Coke as his/her favorite drink in the previous question.

• Advanced survey creation features (spell check, auto-correct, thesaurus, import from MS Word) - These are fairly advanced features and not really required in most cases, especially if you don't do surveys regularly. You can spend the time to spell check the survey yourselves. However, if you do a lot of surveys, then you might want these features. But they will impact the price quite a lot since they are considered as "premium" features.

• Branding (your logo and background color) - This allows you to place your company logo and use your company website's background color for your surveys. This is good enough in most cases, but not if you are looking to customize each and every aspect of the survey. It is quite an important feature since it gives your respondents the feeling that they are still on your website.

• Advanced survey presentation features (pre-designed editable survey templates, new templates, full-customized look) - These are fairly advanced features and allow you to customize almost every aspect of the survey. Survey softwares do this in a variety of ways: they have pre-designed editable templates, ability to create new templates, or create surveys with a full-custom look. These features are also considered as "premium" features and will impact the price quite a lot.

Survey Distribution and Tracking

• Handheld device - This allows you to distribute your surveys on hendheld devices. This method of distributing is not as common as the other methods like placing link on website, embedding entire survey in websites, sending email invitation with link, or embedding entire survey in emails and newsletters. But it is definitely becoming popular because of the convenience it offers for taking surveys "on the road". As of now though, it is considered as a "premium" feature and will impact the price.

• Track respondents - These allow you to track your respondents after they receive your email invitations. The simpler ones allow you to maintain an email list and send email invitations to all or some email addresses in the list. The more complex ones allow you to create an "audience" from the list in a variety of ways. They also allow you to track who read your email invitation and clicked on what links, who took the survey and who didn't, send reminders to the ones who didn't, etc. All these complex tracking activities fall more under the realm of "campaign management" than conducting surveys though. If you need these features, you are much better off going for a full-blown campaign management solution than a survey solution with half of what you need.

Taking Survey

• Password protected surveys - This allows you to protect your surveys with a password. The respondents have to know the password to be able to take the survey.

• Save and continue later - This allows your respondents to save the survey and continue later. It is a very good feature to have especially if your surveys are going to be long. Some survey softwares make the respondents explicitly save a link and bookmark it to continue later. These don't work that well compared to some others that don't require the respondents to do as much.

• Response validation - This allows you to validate the responses your respondents enter. These features are very important since they ensure that your respondents enter "valid" responses and increases the quality of the results. Always prefer survey softwares that have more types of response validation.

• Respondent uniqueness control - This allows you to ensure that a respondent takes the survey only once. There are a few ways to do this and not all of them are "full-proof". If you want to strictly enforce respondent uniqueness, make sure that the survey software allows you to send unique URLs to every email recipient. It is the only "full-proof" method of enforcing respondent uniqueness.

Response Collection

• Email notification upon response submission - This allows you to get email notifications when a respondent completes a survey. It is the only way to get the responses with survey softwares that don't store them in a database. But it is also offered as an addon by those that do store them in databases.

Survey Analysis

• Graphical reports - This allows you to graph the results and not all survey softwares have this feature. If you like to see results in neat-looking graphs, make sure that the survey software has this feature. Check out the sample reports; most companies have them on their website. Or better yet, try out the product and generate them yourselves!

• Advanced analysis features (cross-tabulation, sub-set analysis, 360 degree feedback, etc) - These allow you to perform advanced analysis on the results. Cross-tabulation allows you to relate the responses of one question to those of another. Sub-set analysis allows you to perform analysis on a sub-set of the responses by filtering out certain responses. These are definitely "premium" features and will impact the price.

• Export data - This allows you to export the responses so you can do analyses in your favorite tool, like Excel or SPSS. Make sure that the survey software has this feature, especially if it doesn't natively support the advanced analyses that you want to do.

Report Distribution

• Save in PDF, Word, Excel, Powerpoint format - This allows you to save the report in one of the mentioned formats. It is a very convenient feature to have if you are going to distribute your report a lot.

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Make Money Online Taking Free Surveys

Is it really possible to make money taking free paid online surveys? The answer is a resounding Yes!! As a stay-at-home Mom, taking surveys was one of the first things that I decided to try. I currently am making an average of $100 to $200 per month, not including any prizes won, and I'd be happy to show you how.

The first thing you should know is that you should never pay money to join any survey company. Any legitimate survey company is free to join.

Survey companies will compensate you for taking surveys in several ways. Most initiative include entries into drawings for cash, free products, gift certificates, points redeemable for various incentives, and cash via check or pay-pal.

You should sign up for several companies in order to maximize your profits. I am currently signed up with all 200 free online survey companies listed on Melody's Mommy. You can view this list by going to Melody's Mommy http://www.melodysmommy.com and going to the section called Paid Surveys. This gives me an average of five to ten surveys to fill out per day. It takes me approximately a half an hour per day to respond to all the surveys. The more surveys you take, the more invitations you will receive, and the greater the incentives become. It is very similar to building a business.

Filling out the initial questionairs on each of the websites can be time consuming. In order to cut down on your time you can use a free form filler to process most of the work for you. One that I personally use and recommend is Roboform. It is free and very easy to use. You can download your free copy at Roboform.

Once you've completed the initial surveys for each website, the surveys will start rolling in. You want to check your e-mail as often as possible. The reason for this is that you want to respond quickly to the ones that offer higher incentives. These invitations sometimes are limited to a select number of responses. If you scan your e-mail frequently, you will ensure that you don't miss any of these opportunities.

Brandy is the webmaster of Melody's Mommy and is committed to helping Moms and Dads work from home. She lives in MA with her daughter Melody and is a successful work at home Mom. This article may be used on any site or in any newsletter as long as it is not altered in any way and this signature line remains intact. http://www.melodysmommy.com.

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