Separate Email Account for Online Surveys
Taking paid surveys is a great way to earn extra money in your spare time; you get to tell companies around the world what you think of their products and services and in return, you get rewarded with cash or the chance to earn or win some equally cool prizes. Really, the only drawback of taking paid online surveys is the occasional survey site that requires you to “opt-in” to receive their electronic newsletters or share your information with third-party partners (this is why we recommend reading the privacy policies of each survey site that your sign up with). There is nothing at all wrong with receiving these emails, they actually are quite beneficial to keep you in the loop about upcoming market research and cash survey opportunities. However, it can be very helpful to set up a separate email address specifically used for staying organized and managing your online survey “business”.
By maintaining a separate email address for your online surveys, you will keep your personal email free from clutter and will have a stand-alone account specifically for conducting business. We recommend you register a new email address using a free email service such as Gmail, Outlook, or AOL. You can then use your new email address to sign up for online survey sites that interest you. Using your new email address as your primary point of contact with the survey sites helps stay organized while keeping your personal emails separate from survey invitations emailed to you in your new email account. If you are feeling really organized, you can create a classification system for your paid surveys by creating new folders for each account; drag and drop the correspondence from the appropriate survey provider into the corresponding folder. Log on to your new email account daily to check for paid online survey invitations, special announcements, payment notifications, and more!
Below is a list of free email service providers you can choose from. Keep in mind you only need one new email account for your paid surveys.
Gmail: Gmail is Google’s answer to free mail and instant messaging. With tons of free online storage space, you can collect all your messages as well as organize them nicely with labeling, flagging, and other productivity features. When you use Gmail, you will see advertising embedded in your message that is based on the context of words found in your email. Actually, this could be of interest to you, if you want to see what ads come up for online surveys.
AOL Mail: AOL features unlimited online storage space, decent spam protection, and a user-friendly interface. Lacking a bit in productivity features such as labeling, smart folders, and threading, you’ll still find this free option for email to be a very viable choice for your online survey communications.
Yahoo! Mail: This well-known free email service treats account holders to unlimited storage, RSS news feeds, SMS texting, instant messaging, and more. Pretty much everything you need and more for keeping in touch with administrators of paid surveys. Productivity and searching features are pretty good but still could use some refining as could the spam filter.
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