Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Paid Survey Reviews - General Opinions vs. Meaningful Metrics
5:29 AM
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Working with paid surveys to get paid for taking surveys is a lucrative activity. Many people are interested in getting involved. But good information about paid surveys and paid survey sites is hard to find.
One potential source of such information is paid survey review sites. This article explores the subject, compares various types of paid survey review sites and points you toward the types that provide good, reliable information.
A lot of money is being made with paid surveys. Many, many people get paid for taking surveys every month. And so other many people who have some spare time and would like to earn extra cash become interested. Making money with paid surveys is easy, you set your own hours, work from home - in many ways it is ideal.
When you begin to investigate the subject of online paid surveys, to find out more about it, you are likely to come across various Paid Survey Review sites. Some of these provide useful information. Most are of dubious origin and credibility and caution is advisable.
First there are the "straw men" paid survey review sites that supposedly check out several paid survey sites before making recommendations. They seem to locate the worst sites that are out there, then set them up as "straw men" to be knocked over in favor of the webmaster's pre-ordained favorites.
Then there are the quick opinion, nothing-to-back-it-up sites with several large paid survey sites recommended, almost at random. The recommendations are the webmaster's opinion, unsupported by any outside data. Many of these look suspiciously like they were set up by the paid survey sites recommended there!
Neither of these two types of paid survey review site has contact information, privacy policy, etc... all the things you look for in a permanent site. You know that a site is shallow and temporary when these things are missing.
There are the well-meaning "Good Ol' Boy" paid survey review sites where the writer is recommending certain paid survey sites that he says he has experience with. Nothing wrong with that, but it leaves the question, compared to what? And when? Maybe they WERE good at one time, but now? Recently?
Still this type of site offers recommendations based on personal experience, which is something. It is a valid way to know that these sites are being recommended by someone with experience with them.
But all in all, there are just opinions, nothing firm, nothing objective or measurable.
Then there are some more serious paid survey review sites that take a thoughtful, orderly approach to making comparisons. They look at a number of online paid survey sites, which they name, and proceed to make objective comparisons.
They look at such things as the presense or absence of money-back guarantees. They look at the strength and credibility of these guarantees. They look at objective measurements of size and at the claims taken from the paid survey site's own literature.
Probably the most important metric of all of the information about paid survey sites is the opinions that their past clients hold about them. If you were going to join a paid survey site, wouldn't you want to know what the clients that went before you thought of it? Said about it?
The most credible hard measure of these clients' opinions can be found in the refund rate of each paid survey site. Low refund rates mean happy clients. High refund rates mean many unhappy clients demanding their money back!
And since these things change over time, you would want to see frequent updates to show how the sites mentioned are doing NOW, or recently.
Most paid survey review sites present opinions and soft data, with no way to check their "data" or know whether it was valid or not.
But if you look hard enough you can find some serious paid survey review sites out there. Sites that present hard, objective, verifiable metrics. The kind of real information on which you can base good decisions about which paid survey site to choose.
About the Author
For more info on how to get paid for taking surveys, see: get paid for taking survey For more about refund rates, comparing paid survey sites, see: Paid Survey Sites
Jorge Chavez - experienced paid survey expert: http://hulkhelton.forsurveys.hop.clickbank.net
