
Our human nature has traditionally been characterized by a willingness among individuals to express an opinion on just about any subject known to mankind. As far back as history can relate people have eagerly rendered their viewpoints on anything and everything. Traditionally we have been taught that opinions should be taken with a grain of salt because that is all they are worth. Well, according to the economics of today, opinions are not only valuable, but they are worth money. Paid surveys have become the rage of the Internet in the first decade of the 21st Century, and people around the world are beginning to join in the frenzy.
There is not one subject in the history of mankind that has been sheltered from public opinion. The entire sports gambling industry, a twelve billion dollar annual business world wide, is built on the fact that people have diverse opinions about the outcome of sporting events. There were differences of opinion back in ancient Rome when royalty would bet on the outcome of the chariot races. Heaven forbid if it was your neck that was riding on the outcome of a wager. The entire Olympic development emerged because people from different countries had a divergence of opinion as to whose athletes were better. The fields of wrestling, bow and arrow shooting, chariot and horse racing, and a variety of other competitive events laid the foundation for wagering on these varying opinions. The differences were ultimately settled by Olympic competition. These events helped shape peoples’ opinions regarding which army was better prepared to fight, which country made the most effective warring equipment and which country constructed the sturdiest chariot. Today, by virtue of paid surveys, people are being paid for expressing their opinions.
Technological advancements have propelled certain industries to the forefront. Within those industries, there are products manufactured that sustain these businesses. Competition in the free market is what drives the price of the products. Their ultimate success or failure is determined by the amount of sales generated in relation to their competition, and for this reason paid surveys have become an invaluable marketing tool today.
Paid Surveys – Test Market for Products
Paid surveys are the test tracks for marketing firms hired to determine how the public views a particular product or concept, and whether or not the product will be ultimately successful on the open market. Paid surveys have become an important facet of the world’s economy over the past ten years. Since the utilization of the Internet as a tool in business today, the use of paid surveys has increased by leaps and bounds. Paid surveys have been around for decades, however, and many companies have used paid surveys strategies in order to make critical administrative decisions regarding the production and marketing of a particular product.
One company based in New England that employed paid surveys to make administrative determinations regarding their product is the manufacturers of what we will call X Brand Ice Cream. X Brand Ice Cream was produced by a New England company that wanted to give their ice cream a special quality. The firm understood that the ice cream industry had some major players in the 70’s, such as Sealtest, Borden, Carvel, Baskin-Robbins and the packaged brands of the big-time supermarkets, such as A&P, Key Food, Shoprite and Pathmark. The makers of X Brand hired a marketing firm to conduct paid surveys to test their product. The paid surveys were conducted initially in New England. Subsequently, there were additional paid surveys in the New York metropolitan area, paid surveys in the Washington DC area, and paid surveys in the Philadelphia-Trenton area.
Since the company’s philosophy was to produce exotic ice cream flavors, the paid surveys would be a great indicator of the preferences of the public. The initial response from the participants of the paid surveys was luke-warm at best. You must keep in mind that these paid surveys consisted of a taste test of various flavors of ice cream However, during these paid surveys, neither the name of the company, which was X Brand, nor the name of the flavor of the ice cream was disclosed to those participating in the paid surveys.
The results of the initial paid surveys were curious at first, but they taught marketing firms a crucial lesson in the value of paid surveys. The reason that the people were not that receptive to the different flavors of ice cream was because the paid surveys revealed that the participants felt that the ice cream lacked a pizzazz about it. Several months later, the same paid surveys were administered once again to the same corps of paid surveys participants. This time, the name of the brand of ice cream, X Brand (actually a European sounding name), was revealed to these paid surveys takers. The paid surveys had a completely different outcome. The participants of these paid surveys approved overwhelmingly of the different flavors of the ice cream. The reason given in these paid surveys for the change of opinion is because the paid surveys participants believed they were eating ice cream imported to the United States from Europe, presumably Holland or Switzerland.
The makers of X Brand then utilized paid surveys to determine which particular flavors they should market, and which others they should not. The cities that they chose were:
Paid Surveys – New York City, New York
Paid Surveys - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Paid Surveys – Baltimore, Maryland
Paid Surveys – Boston, Massachusetts
Paid Surveys – Portland, Maine
Paid Surveys – Providence, Rhode Island
Paid Surveys – Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Paid Surveys – Montpelier, Vermont
Paid Surveys - Concord, New Hampshire
Paid Surveys – Cape May, New Jersey
Paid Surveys – Old Greenwich, Connecticut
Paid Surveys – Dover, Delaware
The interesting findings in these paid surveys was that the more affluent the area of the paid surveys, the more favorable the results were. Additionally, the paid surveys yielded the information that the more affluent the area, the more impressed those tested were with the foreign sounding name, and the more willing they were to pay a higher price for the ice cream. The more exotic-sounding the flavor of the ice cream, the more positive was the response from the paid surveys.
These results allowed the manufacturers of the ice cream to concentrate on those areas earmarked in the paid surveys, and X Brand Ice Cream became a staple in the American culture. The same ice cream that received moderate reviews in the initial paid surveys had received a completely different opinion by the same corps of participants in subsequent paid surveys simply because the brand was given a foreign-sounding name. The people thought they were purchasing ice cream that was a better value to them than their American counterparts.
Paid surveys are now conducted today through the services of the Internet. People are in great demand to become participants in these paid surveys. If you are interested in participating in paid surveys, kindly log on to your computer and consult a search engine, such as Google or Yahoo, for the term “paid surveys.”
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Are there any legitimate sites to earn money, (surveys) ..no credit card or pay pal required?I am in desperate need of extra money right now due to layoff. The bills keep coming but the pay check is gone. I need a way to make money online, but I do not want to open a pay pal account, and I don't have a credit card to purchase stuff to get started. Is there a website that pays people to take surveys, that actually mails a check to you without going through pay pal?
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nope all of them are fake trust me.been there done that
Comment by sgdjfbgjsh s — June 18, 2010 @ 3:13 pm
I do surveys too and you’re right about signing up for multiple companies. People really can make money doing surveys! It may not be a sh!tload but they will pay you. My fav is Opinion Outpost, I have cashed out so many times with Amazon gift codes now I’m doing the check. Best one is Pinecone research they paid me all the time!! I messed up because I stop doing the surveys so after a while they stopped sending them but surveys do pay but you should never pay to do surveys. NEVER!!!
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Comment by . — June 18, 2010 @ 4:15 pm
also try swagbucks? its free and easy. earn money and free stuff.
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Comment by WPMixer — June 18, 2010 @ 4:34 pm
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Comment by Free Blog — June 19, 2010 @ 3:20 am
I used to use this site called http://www.prizerebel.com/index.php?r=739940 . Its legit. u can order prizes or get credit to buy things off of ebay. i got a chip for my phone off of that site. There is a bunch of testimonials too if your still unconvinced (which they COULD be faked but i highly doubt it).
Comment by kristen36 — June 19, 2010 @ 3:50 am
They are all scams.
Comment by Amanda T — June 19, 2010 @ 6:41 pm
Cool outfit and your pretty smart too. I’m gonna try it & I hope you’re right.
Comment by Blogger — June 19, 2010 @ 9:06 pm
i here what your saying but there’s some surveys wesites that the only way you can take a survey if you sign up for let’s blockbusters or home depo lows and so on and so on so I’ve left them alone but i know that they have some real shit out there but I didn’t know where to start but are you sure this is legit
Comment by WPBlog Shop — June 20, 2010 @ 7:50 pm
i dont KNOW ABOUT SURVEYS BUT I HAVE SOME OF MY OWN FAVOURITE WHICH I WOULD LIKE 2 SHARE WITH U, ACTUALLY THE SITES I M USING IS PTC SITES(PAID TO CLICK),IF U WANT TO JOIN SUCH SITES THAN JUST GO HERE http://bestptctoearnmoney.blogspot.com/2009/12/earn-with-most-trusted-elites-ptc.html
Comment by Dusty — June 20, 2010 @ 8:13 pm
http://www.sendearnings.com I've used it for a few years now. You can't make too much off of it, but it can get you enough to pay for a tank of gas…………you get 50 cents per survey and they email you with links you just click on and earn a few cents. I don't even read them, just click the link and close the window.
Comment by girl123 — June 20, 2010 @ 11:15 pm
My opinion….total waste of time
I sat in front of the computer for hours doing surveys and wasted most of the time as the surveys were only to gain entry to win a cash prize or you have an acct with them and can only get a check if you are over a certain amount
It's a lot of run around for very little money
Good luck!
Comment by COG — June 21, 2010 @ 11:12 am
I use Rewards1. Its legit and for your age. You take online surveys for points. Then redeem your points for prizes like iPods, Game consoles, Abercrombie gift cards, Amazon gift cards ect. They even have custom orders so you can redeem your points for anything you want.
http://www.rewards1.com/index.php?referrer_id=530134
Comment by Johnny S — June 21, 2010 @ 3:02 pm
Try some online jobs, where you don’t have to pay upfront money. Online data entry is an excellent career to consider if you want to work at home. The equipment needed for this type of job is very minimal. You only need a computer with an Internet connection, a table and a comfortable chair. Data entry duties include the inputting of correspondence, reports, and spreadsheets into a home computer and then transmitting that data using the Internet. Work at home data entry personnel may also proofread text, edit information, and maintain databases. Data entry jobs usually offer flexible scheduling, allowing people to work when they want to and as little or as much as they want to. Some of the growing fields for work at home data entry include medical and legal transcription, medical coding and litigation coding.
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This type of work is becoming so popular that many fraudulent websites have emerged offering data entry jobs, which promise huge profits. The best way to find a legitimate data entry job is visit a reputable career website. You are more likely to find a genuine work at home job using these websites.
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There are several freelance websites that post freelance data entry jobs. Avoid responding to ads that do not list a company name or contact information. There are many reputable freelance work forums that can provide you with work at home data entry job listings. The forums are usually free to join and provide trustworthy information. Once you have found an advertisement for a work at home data entry job, check out the company by visiting their websites. You can also do an online search using the company name and visit the Better Business Bureau website to see if they have been listed as a fraudulent company.
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Comment by Dylan — June 21, 2010 @ 10:43 pm