Are Online Paid Surveys Legitimate?
by Pino Santiago

You may have heard of focus groups as opposed to an online paid survey. These are basically surveys done in person. You may be alone or with a group while an interviewer will spend an hour or 2 with you asking questions about a specific topic. Don't let this scare you off - these are the high paying jobs! Last month I attended a focus group on car washes and was paid $65.00 for 2 hours. I'm not in a large city where these happen regularly but I wish I were because this is where some people make the most income. I was invited to another focus group this week paying $100 for only 2 hours but it was looking for men age 35 and up - I'm only 31! First time I've been bummed about being too young since I was a teenager.

Why will these companies pay you? Sometimes the large companies want to test a new product on a small number of people to see how it is taken. They would rather fork out a few thousand dollars on testing than spend millions on promotion and production to find out their new product sucks. It's like video game makers hiring video game junkies to test the new games before releasing them. They have to know what the public wants and they'll pay generously for the input. Without survey panelists these large companies would be losing millions of dollars. Think of it as a part-time job working for a lot of different Fortune 500 companies.

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