Survey Savvy Great if you can wait... [Archive]

premiumtap

24th April 2005, 02:53

I really like Survey Savvy because they pay very high to specific fields of interest and employment. I worked in the IT field before an auto accident forced me to work from home a few years ago. When I first registered with them two years ago I failed to note this IT background in my profile, however, since updating my profile in March I have received 16 invitations ranging from as little as $3.00 to as much as $75.00 (I didn’t qualify for the $75 one but I have for $20, $35 and $45 ones). It’s not going to change my life but I was sent a check for $100.00 last week (It took 27 days from the time I requested it to arrive). Nice to see a company that’s upfront and uncomplicated, In an arena that’s usually oblique and quite complicated :!:

premiumtap

25th April 2005, 03:50

nice, do they have any over the phone surveys?

Yes but again the problem is the waiting game. By placing such an inordinate emphasis on the specifics of profiles they will faze most members out. For example, I have an IT background; a phone survey became available for me in late March, I completed the online screener of about ten simple questions regarding my previous experience but because I had little experience with Novell servers Netware 3.x and 4.x Installation and Configuration I was “screened out”.

The best phone survey I have ever had was from Harris Poll Interactive but I didn’t get the invitation from them I got the invite from a little known but very respectable company called Hagen/Sinclair. It’s an obscure California based Market Research Company “MRC”. They sent me an email regarding inkjet printers and the only qualification was that you needed to own one! I do so they scheduled a phone survey for that Monday morning at around 9AM; the survey took about twenty five minutes to complete (they asked questions ranging from how often I replaced my ink cartridges to what type of paper I prefer), an easy survey for anyone. They promised me $200 for the survey and even though they took four weeks getting it to me they did pay me. I honestly don’t know why they paid so much but my guess is they had a deadline and needed to fill a certain number of profiles for their client.

I have since received two more invites from Hagen/Sinclair but I didn’t qualify after taking the screener. I guess if I had really wanted to qualify for the screeners I might have taken a little more time researching the subjects before I took them but that’s my problem, I’m far too honest for my own good.

The real key to paid survey companies is, IMHO, that you have to signup with hundreds of them before you can really start receiving the invitations on a regular basis. I myself am a member of over 250 at the time of writing this post.

Do I get Spam? Yes, because when you sign up with hundreds of market research companies there will inevitably be a few that may go out of business and sell some email addresses but I don’t care because when I started this I decided to get an “Extra Free” email address, with yahoo (let’s say I named that address mypaidsurveys@biggywiggy.com), that way it would be easy to remember!

I now receive about twenty invites in an average day and after a while you get to know which ones are easiest and which pay the highest “ROI” (return on investment) and let’s face it that’s exactly what we’re all talking about the return on our time that we invest. We have all found, through availability or necessity an avenue for supplementing our income from investing our time at home but just because we are using this opportunity that technology has made available to us doesn’t mean we’re taken advantage of anything; there are people whom these market research companies are willing to pay hundreds of dollars an hour to sit in on focus groups so I don’t feel at all guilty when one is willing to pay me $200 for a study that a large corporation is likely funding them thousands if not ten’s of thousands of dollars for.

Good luck and keep in internet Free and Honest!