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Before you sign up with any of these, get a new e-mail account and use it only for paid surveys. Trust me!

How These Programs Work The list above is merely a sampling of some companies that offer paid surveys, focus groups, and other assorted market research—to give you a taste. Sign up with all of them that you haven't already, give it a few weeks to see what it's like, and if you have more time for this you'll find plenty more companies out there to sign up with if you do just a little research. It's important to distinguish between a company that wants you to pay to do paid surveys (a scam) with a company that keeps a researched database of paid survey opportunities and wants you to pay for access to that database (perfectly legitimate). Often firms of the letter variety have done all the work so you and I don't have to spend years doing research to try to figure what's a scam and what is not. Isn't it fair to compensate them for their work?

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I stress here near the beginning because it is very important: Always answer truthfully in your surveys. If people aren't answering truthfully it degrades the quality of the research, if the research is no good, the people paying for it will stop. I wanna keep getting paid. This means don't sign up for a women's-only market research organization only pretending to be a woman; don't sign up with a company researching kids pretending to be a kid. If it isn't important enough for ineffable reasons that you conduct yourself morally and ethically, consider that if you lie and say you have a car, you'll have to keep coming up with more lies when they ask what make, model, year bought—they may catch you with an inconsistency and 'fire' you.

Don't invest a whole bunch of energy worrying about whether a particular company pays in cash, or prizes, points, and contest entries. First, just because a company pays in ponts this month doesn't mean there won't be cash next month. You can convert most tangible prizes into cash with Ebay or a garage sale. Also, many don't do the surveys for contest entries and as a consequence, some contest have a very small number of entries, making your chances of winning great. With entries in a considerable number of contests over time the probability of winning something at some point becomes virtually assured.

Plus, if you own or are involved with a company in any way, many paid survey companies will give you access to their research results. Access to a given piece of information they've culled from the aggregate results of surveys and other research could end up being priceless to the entrepreneur.

Problems You May Encounter

There are some minor potholes in the daily routine of going through your paid survey e-mail. The following are the solutions I have come up with, yours may be different.

• The biggest challenge you're going to run into straight off is all the applications you'll have to fill out. No matter how much other sites tell you to get this or that auto-form filler outer, they're strying to sell you something, most of the salient features of these programs are already in your browser's auto-complete feature. You're just going to have to break down and fill those out.
• You're not done just because you completed signing up. Most companies that offer paid surveys rely on unpaid profile surveys so their software can determine whom to send invitations to real surveys. With the passage of time circumstances in your life will change and those profile surveys will slowly become dated, which is why I recommend you spend a couple hours verifying the accuracy of this information in all of your paid survey accounts at least every three (3) months. If the number of survey invites showing up in your inbox lately has diminished, maybe it's been too long since you've done this.
• Some surveys have been created unintelligently. You'll frequently run into a question very similar to 'How many pizzas did you order in the last 3 months?' There may be multiple choices for you to choose one from and possible anwers might be 1-2, 3-5, 6-10, or 11-more. Well, what if you didn't order any pizzas? In these cases the interface will often not let you progress without answering, and since there isn't a possible answer fitting your reality, you are forced to lie to continue with the survey. I know I said don't lie but you need to get paid and it's not your fault they don't have it together. There's an old saying: Garbage in, garbage out—that's what they get for not doing it right, may the best companies survive.
• Sometimes surveys get tedious. Imagine during a survey you get a series of ten or twenty pages, for example, on fast food restaurants. On each page is the same thirty statements and it asks you to rate how true each statement is to you on a scale from one to ten. This would test Ghandi's patience. If you can't imagine how tedious this gets after page two (sometimes it goes on for 20-30 pages) you soon will if you do paid surveys for a couple weeks. The only thing you can do is answer them randomly and get it done or quit that particular survey. Again, it's not your fault they can't construct a survey that normal people can do. Their results will be crap because their survey is crap because their ability and/or willingness to take into account realities of human psychology and behavior is crap. Too bad for them.

—Rodney Lewis; Wednesday, November 13, 2008

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