What Not To Do When Taking Surveys
If you are new to taking surveys for money or have been enjoying the many benefits of this “career” for a while, it doesn’t hurt to brush these three things NOT to do. When you focus on the positive and provide quality answers, your job in paid online surveys should continue to pay off for a long time.
Don’t give up. If you’ve been hearing crickets each time you check your inbox for paid survey invitations, don’t give up on the process. Commissioning paid surveys is a cyclical process for many businesses that corresponds to their product development and marketing milestones.
Don’t hurry. When you hurry through paid surveys, you unwittingly may provide inaccurate or incomplete information that the client company needs to base its marketing decisions on. Not only do you hurt the company, but you also hurt yourself because, after several paid surveys that are incomplete, you may be disqualified from that survey and even dropped from future initiations.
Don’t cheat. Another way to get dropped like a hot potato from survey sites is to act in an unethical manner. This can include trying to beat the system by registering as different people under different email addresses or providing false information in your answers. Also, as mentioned above, don’t fly through surveys by randomly clicking buttons, without regard to the data you are providing – this can be considered cheating. Many surveys have questions built in that check to see if you are paying attention – like repeating the same question and the beginning and end or asking you in the text to disregard the question but just mark a certain number as your answer to show that you are actually reading the text.
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