PaidViewpoint
Depending on your experience and your mindset you either love paid surveys or think they're a total waste of time or scam!
I can totally sympathize with the latter group. Let's face it, too often many market research companies will have you spending nearly 5 or more minutes on screener questions only to discover that you didn't qualify for the survey! I just lost minutes of my life that I could have used to earn guaranteed money on some other site! Because of this, many people start to resent these market research companies.
Another common beef is not getting any surveys at all. You spend all that time filling out demographic information about yourself and then you wait for those survey opportunities to come. But they never do! You end up feeling one of two things; rejected or pissed! I understand the sentiments either way, but market research is based on supply and demand. Some demographics are more valuable to certain companies than others. If you don't fit that demographic then you're outta luck!
But, never fear ... finally there is a market research company that seems to have heard our complaints and has created a paid online survey company with us in mind!
PaidViewpoint! Like most market research companies they're in the business of gathering information and reporting their findings to businesses so in turn they can make better products, services, websites, advertisements, etc. All of which adds to a company's bottom line and why they are willing to pay us for our feedback.
What makes PaidViewPoint different?
I think they pretty much summed it up best in their own words:
"PaidViewpoint is the market research survey site built upon 4 principles:
- We pay cash for every completed market research survey.
- We never screen you out once you've been invited into a survey.
- We've cracked the code that takes "boring" out of the survey answering experience.
- Privacy – we never ask you to register your real name or complete physical address."
So how does it work?
Like most survey companies you'll usually get an email when there is a survey ready for you. At the time of this review, I usually get a paid survey from them every day! This may or may not be the case for you.
In any event, once you get an email, you just log in and answer a series of short questions. They are very short multiple choice questions. After answering maybe 10 questions or so you are then awarded some money, guaranteed! If you've ever taken
InstantCashSweepStakes polls, they're exactly like that! (you may want to see my blog posts about that site:
Taking Surveys To A New Level).
How much money can you make?
Well at the time of this review I earn about $.10 per completed survey. There are times when they send higher paying surveys that can pay anywhere from .30 up to $2. Those surveys are usually limited time offers so you need to respond as quickly as you get them to qualify for the larger amounts. But it seems like $.10 per survey is the average. Again it could be different for you. What I do know for certain is you're paid for every survey which is a refreshing change!
Now you may think to yourself a lousy dime is nothing! No, not making anything is nothing! That's what often happens with other survey companies that put you through non-paying screener questions or surveys and then disqualify you! You get nuttin' honey! So it's all about perspective with this opportunity. You'd be surprised how fast .$10 per day can add up and considering it takes you less than 2-5 minutes to complete the surveys, why not!
When do you get paid and how do you get paid?
Currently there is payment threshold of $15 that you must reach before you can get paid! This is rather high, unfortunately. You can cashout only with Paypal (which is my preferred method anyway)! They usually pay within a few hours.
How to make more money!
PaidViewpoint understands that trusting us to answer questions honestly and consistently is important to their customers. So, they have a trust factor built into their surveys. Again if you've used
InstantCashSweepstakes before, you might be familiar with this concept. On ICS if you respond to the same question the same way, they reward you for it. Well sort of the same thing happens with PaidViewpoint. Your trust score goes up as you answer the same trait questions in the same way.
But they really mix up the way the questions are asked to confirm that you are really consistent! So be honest! If you are, then your trust score goes up and allegedly once it reaches the highest level you'll earn a lot more money on the surveys. My trust score is getting up there. So we'll see if this is true or not but it takes a lot of time which I guess makes sense.
The next way you can earn more money is with referrals! Duh!! If someone you refer takes 6 or more business surveys you earn $1. Initially it sounds pretty sweet. But read the previous sentence again. The users need to be
active for you to get paid! So, that's a bit of a downer, but I guess everything can't be perfect, right?
It's quick and easy and doesn't take up too much of your day! Give it a try:
PaidViewpoint
