TIPS BEFORE YOU BEGIN
Before you become an online focus group panelist, there are a few things worth knowing. First get a spare email account; as well as being a quick way to check the surveys you've been allotted, this means less spam to other email addresses. As a powerful free option, Gmail is among the best.
Never pay to become a member!
There's a glut of focus group sites on the internet charging up to $10 or more to register, promising to pay $50 or more after you've coughed up. Never, ever pay to register with a survey site. All the good ones are free, and it means you can't lose anything. Sign up to a number of different sites. This both gives both a range of online focus group studies or survey, and should mean you hit payout thresholds regularly, producing a steady income stream. Cash in as soon as you reach the threshold. Don't store $100 up in focus group survey account. Survey companies are not banks; there's no protection if one closes, taking your cash with it. When a previous survey firm closed down, many lost money. So cash in the points the second the threshold's hit. |
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Beware the ‘ screen-out'.
Some survey companies have a cheeky habit of asking several questions, then suddenly announcing that you don't qualify. Fine if it's only a few secs, but frustrating if 10 mins' time's donated for nowt. The list of top survey sites below notes the worst offenders, but in the long run, most people qualify for enough other polls to make up for it.
Some survey companies have a cheeky habit of asking several questions, then suddenly announcing that you don't qualify. Fine if it's only a few secs, but frustrating if 10 mins' time's donated for nowt. The list of top survey sites below notes the worst offenders, but in the long run, most people qualify for enough other polls to make up for it.