May, 2006
Pinecone Research is at the fore of “online paid surveys”, taking a sophisticated and leading-edge approach to gathering consumer opinions.

Consumer participation is vital to the development of new and improved products and services and traditional survey methods, although effective, can be problematic and time consuming. Their online research helps to solve this quandary. With online research, you can answer paid surveys from the comfort and convenience of your home PC and at a time that is convenient for you. Your opinion is always worth something to them. They are happy to pay you $5.00 every time you evaluate a product or service which takes no more then 15 to 20 minutes (occasionally they may ship you a product to test). You can expect to be called upon to answer a survey once or twice each month.

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Get paid for what you know?

I joined Click IQ over a year and a half ago and I was pleased at first! However, it’s been so long since they’ve sent me a paying survey that I’m thinking about inquiring to them and asking if they’re legitimate.

When you join you become what they call an e/visor and subsequently they reward you in visor points which equate to cash. They’re minimum payout is $25 when you’ve accumulated 2,500 visor points, well, I was fast off the blocks when I first joined and filled a few surveys and got my total up to around the 2,000 visor point range but then the survey invitations almost completely stopped. I know it’s not my email because I continue to receive invites to participate in their monthly poll but that does not count toward visor points.

I’ll sum up by stating that I’m not sure if it’s a coincidence or not, perhaps you’ll join and get enough points to cash out as quickly as I had hoped to but I don’t know. If you do receive payment please drop me a line.

P.S. The day after I wrote this I was sent another survey by Click IQ and it offered 150 points for an easy paid survey that took me about 6 minutes to complete. Does this alone make me less suspicious of this company you may ask? Nope but it does bring me a little closer to cashing in and if the requests to complete surveys keep coming in now with better regularity I might ad, then I’ll keep this one in the database.

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Make a little cash by answering surveys and participating in focus groups..

They pay Web panel members for answering surveys. You can also win prizes through random drawings. They usually have several studies a month and you can participate as much as you like. You could have a little fun and perhaps help to pay for part of your Internet access but don’t expect to make much money with Speedback because I’ve been a member for awhile and I don’t recall earning very much at all.

They invite you to join the Speedback Web panel. As part of their panel, they will pay you to answer surveys online or participate in an online discussion (called a focus group). Sometimes they will ask you to visit a specific Website and ask you what you think about the site and other times, they will just ask you to visit their survey center and complete a short questionnaire on a specific topic.

One additional point I need to state is that their sign up menu is not very intuitive with a bunch of dropdown menus that I found very frustrating to navigate through.

“Take a survey and get paid”

That’s their company line but I don’t know too much about this survey company. I can’t recall having a bad experience but as I look through the email address I use for paid surveys I can’t seem to find any correspondence past my original registration confirmation they sent when I joined over a year ago.

The registration is simple and straight to the point and I personally found it a breeze to complete. It also isn’t too intrusive in case that’s something you’re concerned about. As for me I have no qualms about my personal information as long as I setup an email address that I use only for taking paid surveys.

KidsPanel.com is a market research panel that rewards you with cash and prizes for taking paid surveys.

As a member you will be presented with new concepts before they are available to the general public, through original online surveys, you will provide input into how the products should be designed, developed and marketed. Each time you participate in the project, you will be paid in cash or entered into a drawing to win a great prize.

This is obviously a panel for kids (duh, right?), well of course that means the only way for those under legal age can join is to get their parent or guardian’s permission or better yet to have them fill out the registration form for them. Have your parent fill out this permission form and fax or mail it to them.

I have just joined this paid survey company and I’ll post back after I have gathered enough additional information about them to comment on how good or bad it is to be a member.

Have an opinion? Express it and earn Amazon.com gift certificates.

To apply to their panel you first have to answer a few questions about products and services you use in order for them to determine whether you are eligible to become a member of the JDPowerPanel but this will only require a few minutes to complete.

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

I have to admit that I’ve never been a big fan of sites that require you to build up points in order to cash them in for gifts certificates but I do like this one, mostly because they’re really straightforward and the surveys are not too difficult to complete and are often fairly interesting (especially when it’s about a new product that hasn’t been made public yet).

They make it a point right off the bat to inquire if you are an American or Canadian citizen but don’t necessarily exclude other countries but I’m not sure they will accept residents of other countries though. Do you have a comment about this paid survey? If so drop us a line at our contact us email.