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2. How do you make money with paid surveys?
Taking paid surveys is by invitation only. In order to get invited to take a paid survey you must arrange to
get your name, contact information and demographic data "on file" with survey makers beforehand.
You do this by making application to the survey makers online, asking to be put on their list of active
potential survey participants. In these applications you will be asked for:
1. How can you be contacted. This includes your e-mail address, your mailing address and your physical
address (to send sample products to, for testing purposes so that you could give an informed opinion, if this is part of a survey
procedure).
2. They will probably also ask for your telephone number, for two reasons.
a. First, many survey makers want to be able to verify that you are really there, where you said you were,
and that your voice is consistent with your other data. (If you said you were an 18 year old female college student, do you
sound like an 18 year-old female?)
b. They confirm location by comparing your area code with your zip code to check for consistency, and by calling you and
asking you to call them back or respond to an automated message that works as a callback checker.
c. Second, there are some surveys that, like political polls, are taken by telephone, generally because there is some
interaction between the person calling and the person taking the survey.
3. Your demographic data. Surveys are aimed at specific "populations" of the target market which is
the subject of the survey. For example, if the purpose of the survey is to determine brand recognition for a product sold only on
the West Coast of the U.S., they only want to invite participants who live in that geographical area. If the subject has to
do with golf, they may only want participants who play golf as a regular activity. Typical demographic data requested might
be:
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