If you have been following the paid survey industry then you probably know that as much as there are so many thousands of paid survey offerings, only a few are good enough.
Now let me briefly go over some of the money making ones that you should be signed up with.
Focus groups Focus groups basically are based on the concept of people sitting around in a group and discussing a certain subject matter with a moderator controlling the flow of the discussion.
In most cases, the discussion will start by being general and then as it progresses the moderator may start asking direct questions to the group.
For example, if a bank was testing a new financial solution they want to launch, they would randomly select a group of people from a representative survey and have them respond to the various questions asked.
These may start from the general banking issues prevalent and then get narrowed down to financial solutions and finally the specific product being pre-tested.
This is an exciting money making paid survey in that you get tomeet new people and exchange ideas.
This is always good for intellectual growth.
Online panel group survey This is one is based on the traditional one-on-one survey where you had the field worker/Research Consultant right there when you filled in a questionnaire.
Alternatively you got these questionnaire through mail and were required to fill it up and re-send.
So with online paid surveys is undertaken by contacting initially signed up members to fill in a questionnaire survey.
You can either get it through your email inbox, fax or what ever mode you select.
The "panel" there means, it is based on a group of pre-contacted people.
It is possible to undertake this kind of survey without recruiting people prior.
Mystery Shopper This is one method that may have a bit more work to be done.
Fortunately the pay out tends to justify the work load.
Basically when you receive the questionnaire from the survey company, you may be asked to visit certain places and disguise yourself as a shopper and observe certain things.
Once you are satisfied with the observation, you may then go back to fill in the questionnaire.
It is not easy to pick and choose surveys online especially because of their sampling methods, which tend to be random.
However, I hope you have gained some little bit of knowledge to enable you to jump at the opportunity when one of these mentioned surveys some your way.