How To Improve Online Get Paid To Survey Models
For More Profits!
Kenneth Echie

As somebody who has spent the last 2 years doing online
surveys, I have come to notice a few things wrong with most of
the current online survey models. The behavior of my affiliates
and visitors to my online survey review website
(http://www.extra-income-ideas.com/paid-to-survey.html) also
gives me unique perspective in the industry.

I know for me some of the things wrong with the current online
survey model have reduced the number of surveys I currently
take. I have no doubt it's discouraging a lot of the people
that came online to take surveys as a way of making extra
money.

I believe the current model is causing a lot of attrition in
the business. This needs to be reversed if online paid survey
companies want to continue to thrive. Making these changes will
help reduce the turnover of survey takers.

Below are the things I feel need to be changed:

1. The current model of taking surveys for a chance to win
prices should be changed. This model makes online paid to
surveys look like a lottery or gamble. It's frustrating for
people looking to make extra income to have to rely on luck to
make that income.

A person that signs up for online get paid to surveys to help
pay a kid's karate or piano lesson can not depend on luck to
pay the bill. He/She wants to be able to know that at the end
of the month, the money will be there to pay the bill.

What happens is that after a few months of taking online paid
to survey for a chance to win money or price and not winning
anything, they think online paid to survey is a scam. They stop
taking the surveys and start looking for other ways to make
extra money.

What I recommend is a model that guarantees every survey taker
some money or price. If an online survey company is going to
give a luck winner out of all survey takers $10000.00, why not
use a model that guarantees every survey taker some money or
price.

For example, the survey company could use 400 people in the
survey and pay every survey taker $25.00. A sample size of 400
people is enough to get the answer you're looking for in the
survey.

Like one internet guru said, "if I find out what 100 people
think, I can takeover the world." So a sample size of 400
people is more than enough to get the information needed.

2. Online paid to survey companies should reduce the number of
qualifying surveys. For those new to the business, a qualifying
survey is the survey they give you to see if you qualify for a
survey they're conducting.

Even though most online survey companies make you fill out a
profile when you register with them, they still send you a
qualifying survey. Granted there are surveys that require this,
I don't thin it should be done in each and every survey.

I have a survey company that regularly sends me qualifying
survey about buying computer system for the company I work for.
They have my profile that shows my background yet they
constantly send me this qualifying survey.

The qualifying survey will ask if I'm the CIO of the company I
work for. My answer is always No. Then they further ask, are
you in charge of buying the computer system where you work. My
answer again is always No. Then I get "sorry you do not qualify
for this survey."

After a few times of getting this, it starts getting
irritating. I have since started ignoring their surveys. I just
feel they're wasting my time when I could be earning extra
income in other ways. I don't think I'm the only one that feels
this way.

It may take a little work initially, but all it takes is a
database that has the profile of your registered survey takers.
Then when a survey comes up, you run a program that calls the
database for people that fit the profile you want. Armed with
this information, you'll then only send the survey invitation
to these people. I don't believe that's too much to ask.

In the end, all it will take is to send out a newsletter
reminding your registered users to update their profile when it
changes. They should be reminded that doing this will increase
their earning power.

In conclusion, I firmly believe doing the above things will
improve the online survey experience. Improvement of this
experience, will help the industry to continue to grow.


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