What Is Your Ideal Survey Site Like?

[LapisLee]

I am preparing an article for another website that will eventually be posted here, so if anyone has any additional suggestions other than those mentioned below, please post them here.

• Frequent paid surveys (Daily Survey Panel, GlobalTestMarket, Opinion Outpost, Surveyhead, SurveySpot, Valued Opinions, YourFreeSurveys)
• Fair compensation for amount of time ($1-$10 for 10 to 45 minutes) (ACOP, GlobalTestMarket, HCD, Opinion Outpost, Pinecone, Socratic Forum, SurveySpot, Toluna, Valued Opinions)
• Cash instead of points system (ACOP, Greenfield, Mindfield, Pinecone, Socratic Forum, SurveySpot, Surveyhead, SurveySavvy, Valued Opinions)
• Offers Invoke Interactives for higher incentives ($10-$150 for 45-120 minutes) (ACOP, Greenfield, SurveySpot)
• Offers product testing) (ACOP, Global Opinion Panel/Synovate, Greenfield, MySurvey, Pinecone Research, SurveySpot)
• Low cash out point ($1 to $10) (Daily Survey Panel, Epoll, Greenfield, HCD, Mindfield, Opinion Outpost, Socratic Forum, SurveySpot)
• Pays via PayPal in a timely manner (3-4 days) (Daily Survey Panel, Epoll, Greenfield, Pinecone, Surveyhead, YourFreeSurveys)
• Good customer service by email, phone and snail mail (ACOP, Daily Survey Panel, GlobalTestMarket, Greenfield, Opinion Outpost, SurveySpot, Valued Opinions)
• Well-organized easy-to-navigate website with payment and survey history (GlobalTestMarket, Greenfield, HCD, Mindfield, Socratic Forum, Surveyhead, Valued Opinions)
• Screeners insure that you are qualify for most surveys received (80-90%) (GlobalTestMarket, HCD, Pinecone Research, Socratic Forum, Valued Opinions)
• Forum to air complaints with dedicated customer service representative (Greenfield, YourFreeSurveys)
• No sweepstakes, advertisements, spam or trial offers (GlobalTestMarket, HCD, Opinion Outpost, Socratic Forum, Surveyhead, SurveySavvy, ValuedOpinions)
• Few or no programming errors or survey glitches (GlobalTestMarket, HCD, Opinion Outpost, Socratic Forum, Surveyhead, SurveySpot, Toluna)
• Instant or quick confirmation (DailySurveyPanel, GlobalTestMarket, HCD, Toluna, YourFreeSurveys)
• Surveys that do not ask repetitive questions or bombard you will tables full of very specific traits of a product (HCD, Socratic Forum)
• Surveys that have progress-bars (varies widely)
• Surveys that have Next and Previous buttons so you can go back (varies widely)
• Surveys that have answer-bars instead of small circles for your answers (varies widely)
• Surveys that disqualify you quickly (GlobalTestMarket, Opinion Outpost, SurveySpot)

[Michelle99]

All good ideas.
I would especially like to see screening out done right at the beginning. For me this is the biggest survey turn off. Also customer service that provides an actual service and responds to emails.

[maplaver]

shorter surveys...
im sooo sick of surveys now!!!

[eddieMX07]

An ideal survey site would sent 4 invites per week. No more, No Less. And of course a good length like 10 minutes plus a fair reward like $3.