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 entries in to sweepstakes prize drawings for taking paid surveys, plus free games, screen savers and other gifts.

What is Permission Research?
Permission Research is part of an online market research community of over two million members internationally. They rely on their members to gain important insight into Internet trends and activities. In exchange for having your Internet browsing and purchasing activity monitored, members will gain access to free software downloads and a variety of other benefits. The free gifts are My Virtual Disk (online backup & storage), File Shield (helps guard important files), Private Surf (surf online in private), Virus Scanner and Free Games.

The prizes are mostly entries into sweepstakes (I know what you’re thinking: I’d rather have cash! Me too), but when you join you do receive and entry in to their grand prize drawing for $50,000 and a prize draw for $1,000 given at the end of each month.

Why Become a Member?
Besides the free stuff available to their members, they’re in the business of improving the Internet. They gather data from their members to help them better understand how American’s use the internet; what they like and what they don’t like.

They have a secure registration form that’s very simple to use (it took me about 30 seconds to complete) and quite intuitive as well. All things considered, I joined because this is what I do I can’t state whether or not their will be enough from this company to keep you happy after you join but if entries in to sweepstakes and a few pieces of free software are something you’re interested in then you should join IMHO.

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When you join their panel, you will occasionally receive an email asking you to complete a survey

Little is known about this company; however, we can safely assume that they have resources because it’s not cheap to get a domain name like LiveSueveys.com. Their incentives are usually offered by their clients and range from monetary compensation to prize raffles and other giveaways.

I personally joined up with these guys quite a while ago and I have yet to receive an email invitation, so I’m not sure what the average reward is.

In summation, if you’re a serious survey taker it probably couldn’t hurt to give these guys a shot but if you want instant action this is not the proper online survey company for you. IMHO

Restrictions: US Residents only

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When you join their panel, you will occasionally receive an email asking you to complete a survey.

Talk about an expensive domain name, OnlineSurveys.com was likely to have been a very expensive purchase unless the owner got a true bargain on it. Each new member is entered into a contest to win one of two $250 cash prizes

Win prizes just for answering surveys:
Most people enjoy participating in market research, but there are other advantages too - like the chance to get paid for doing it. Your opinions are so valuable to us that we're willing to pay our members thousands of dollars every year to encourage them to help us.

At their site, they, as do most respectable market research companies state “All of your information is kept strictly confidential” and we never sell, rent or give it to anyone outside of our company, or use it for anything other than legitimate market research.” So I’m pretty sure any personally identifiable info is kept strictly confidential.

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Every time you take a KidzEyes survey you receive points which can be redeemed for cash.

Parental/Guardian permission required for registration: No exceptions!

KidzEyes is looking for children ages 6 through 12 regarding products and or services that many kids today are very much interested in. Using aggregate processing to evaluate the opinions of the panel members, KidzEyes is able to affect the way new products and services in the developmental stages will finally make it to the marketplace.

“The opinions of panel members will be used to help KidzEyes learn what kids think about many issues in order to advise companies on the design of products, or services, or advertising.”

This is a well respected market research company that my sister and niece have belonged to for quite some time (I haven’t joined because my daughter is only two). The questions are concerning various subjects, such as, movies, music, food, beverages, toys and really all kinds of stuff that children of that age are interested in.

Their surveys pay between $2 and $20, my sister informed me that the vast majority is of the $2 verity, however, they have fun sitting together with the laptop and she also suggests that it’s kind of cool to learn more about my nieces’ interests while they fill the survey out together.

Another neat thing is that they send you a log book to keep track of the surveys and amount of points accumulated “It's sort of like having a savings account” for your child who can cash out at 1000 points ($10) or save up for a really big check. And from time to time they give away T-shirts, games and other prizes as a gesture of thanks.

If you have a child that would be interested in such a site and you, yourself are interested, I suggest that you sign up.

Restrictions: US Residents only
Aged 6 to 12 years of age

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Administrator