Get rewarded for completing paid focus groups online!

Alan Newman Research conducts hundreds of focus groups per year. A focus group is an informal, roundtable discussion lead by a professional moderator. Most frequently, the chat is in regard to a service or a particular product and or advertising proposal. “It was in focus groups that ideas like the automatic shut-off iron, bottled spaghetti sauce, and plastic shampoo bottles were invented.”

Participants generally collect a cash payment as a token of their appreciation for helping with their research efforts. Focus groups generally last about 2 hours and can be lot of fun. They currently have a database of about 10,000 people from which they select participants for their groups.

I’m not a big fan of the form you need to fill out in order to become a member but you should probably be able to get it finished in about a minute or two. This is the type of site where it’s really a hit or miss proposition. You will most likely go through a long draughts waiting for this company to even send you a survey to see if you might qualify but for someone like me who belongs to hundreds of these websites the formula are simple, peruse your email a few times each day, select the invitations that are most likely to be the most worthwhile, easy and perhaps even fun, then concentrate only on those surveys.

Believe me when I tell you that sooner or later it gets easier to identify some of the more highly rewarding paid surveys invitations than you might believe it to be at first.

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Executive Advisory Board is a worldwide collection of managers and executives who help shape the future through their participation in paid online surveys and online discussions. The knowledge and advice of their members helps governmental organizations, universities, and major international corporations to build better informed, more intelligent decisions regarding financial policy and business issues as well as the products, systems and services provided to major corporations and businesses.

As a member of their panel you will be paid for each online survey that you complete, rewards range from a minimum of $10 U.S. to $300 U.S. or more, depending on the length of the online survey. The cash can then be donated to a charity of your choice or mailed directly to you. They send out questionnaires which are called screeners to see if you qualify for each particular survey and if you don’t qualify you will be entered into a $250 monthly prize drawing just for completing the questionnaire.

I’ve been a member for a year now and I have to acknowledge that I do like this company. It’s not that they’re that important to me because they really don’t contact me too often but when they do I’m usually interested enough to answer the questionnaire. They’ve sent me several surveys for cash amount ranging from $5 to $30 and I usually qualify whenever I’m contacted by them; my assumption is that they have a pretty solid system at work as to not waste the time of their members by sending out inappropriate surveys.

They pay you upon request a check to be sent and it normally requires around 2 to 4 weeks arriving. More often they will send out invitations to partake in their polls but those do not offer a cash reward but rather an entry in their monthly prize giveaway. If you should choose to, you can participate in their polls but it’s not required to retain membership.

When all's said and done this is a pretty good site to be a member of, just don’t look forward to them sending out invitations too often. However but when they do you might be surprised at the fair compensation they offer. Have you had experience with this company? If so, please drop us a note at our contact email and share your experience with us.

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If you have an opinion and would like to express it you can earn Amazon.com gift certificates.

If you choose to register to their panel you will first need to answer a few questions about the products and services you use in order for them to decide whether or not you are eligible to become one of their members, although this should only involve a few minutes to complete.

Once you become a member you will receive email invitations to participate in their online surveys from time to time. Upon completion of these surveys, you’ll receive JD Power panel points which can be redeemed for Amazon.com®* Gift Certificates.

I must confess that I have never been real fan of websites that call for you to build up points in order to cash them in for gift certificates, however, I do like this one a little, mostly because they’re actually straightforward and the surveys are not too difficult to complete and sometimes they can actually be fairly interesting (particularly when they’re concerning new products that hasn’t been seen by the public yet).

One of the first questions they ask is whether of not you are an American or Canadian citizen but do not automatically exclude residents from other countries although I’m not sure they will accept residents from outside these two regions. Do you have a comment about this paid survey? If so drop us a line at our contact us email.

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I know exactly what you’re thinking: I’ve heard that before! Well, that’s exactly what I was thinking when I first signed up with them in 2004 and I wasn’t impressed at all with the quality of their website as I joined but soon after I learned that you can’t always judge a book by, well (I thought this was a no cliché website?) cover.

When I first joined Hagen Sinclair I was a taken aback just a bit because here they were making these seemingly outlandish claims like “Incentives range from $45 to $250 depending on the format and level of expertise required” and I thought to myself, who are these people? They sound like some of these other websites online that make such outlandish claims while all the time touting one of their affiliates to generate more income for themselves. Of course I knew that was unlikely since this company wasn’t touting an affiliate but rather asking those interested to become members.

The company’s website is not visually impressive at and their registration page looks like something you would have seen on the internet ten years ago. I’ve included a graphic from their website which gives you a pretty good indication of what I mean.

But let me tell you that after you get past the cheesy graphic and their disobliging sign up form you’ll be pleasantly surprised. Within a month I was sent an email that asked if I was interested in participating in an Interactive bulletin board discussion and that once I had fully completed the study, I will be sent an honorarium in the amount of $75.00.

I did take part in the discussion in addition to completing it, furthermore they sent me the check as promised about three weeks later. Since that time I’ve only had the opportunity to take part in three additional paid online surveys and two paid online focus groups but I did find out that they were in fact telling the truth when they stated how much they paid to their members for their efforts, moreover I’ve been almost completely impressed with just how professional this fine, outstanding company really is.

Their studies cover a diverse degree of topics and include professional, political and consumer opportunities. Study formats include face-to-face groups, one on one interview, telephone interviews and paid online surveys and focus groups.

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