How I Made $150 In Less Than An Hour & You Can Too!
I already know what you’re thinking when you read that title, ‘Here comes another one of those get rich quick scams.’ I don’t blame you. Most titles that begin the way tend to lead to some ebook or sales page. But what I’m about to reveal to you is totally legitimate and involves nothing more than speaking your mind. No I haven’t lost mine! Just be patient.
As consumers we’re inundated with products. Some are more useful than others. The ones that are useful come about because the business did something smart and actually asked its customers what they wanted! Wow what a freaking novel idea? But I digress.
As much as I like helping people I’m not all that motivated to help big companies. After-all they have zillions of dollars that they ain’t sharing with me. Or are they? I recently made $150 by talking to a nice woman about a survey she was preparing for a huge financial company. I was sworn to secrecy so I can’t provide the company’s name. But I’ll say this, it’s one of those fortune 100 companies that have more money than you and I can ever imagine in this lifetime. This huge company was planning to survey its customers about various topics related to its service. But before sending out that survey, they wanted to ensure that it would be easy to complete. I guess they figured, " if we’re going to spend all this money creating and sending this survey, we better make sure that people will be inclined to fill it out." I don’t know about you, but this makes total sense to me.
So how did they go about getting feedback about the survey from their customers before actually sending it out? Naturally they decided that they would only ask a small number of them first which luckily for me lead to $150 in my pocket. And I promise if you keep reading, it may lead to the same for you.
So let’s examine how a small business gets feedback about its services verses a big business that has money to burn for fun.
With a small mom and pop shop, the owners may approach the situation like this:
Small Business Store Owner: "Hey Jim, Would you like a cup of coffee with your donut today?
Jim: "Sure Tom, I could use a quick bite."
Small Business Store Owner: "Here you go Jim. Hey do you have 5 minutes? I wanted to ask your quick opinion about a new item we’re adding to the menu?"
Jim: "Come on Tom, you know I always have some free time for ya!"
Now here’s how a big business with a zillion dollars approaches a similar situation:
Big Business With A "Zillion" Dollars: "Hey research department, I need the feedback of 100 of my customers on a survey we’ve just created. I needed this information yesterday so make it snappy!"
Research Department: "Do you need a specific group of people?"
Big Business With A "Zillion" Dollars: "Yes, I need men and women, age 30-50 that have purchased from us in the last month."
Research Department: "No problem. "How much should we pay them?"
Big Business With A "Zillion" Dollars: "Just give them our loose pocket change. $150 per person is fine. But I need them to stay for at least an hour or so."
Research Department: "No problem boss!"
Big Business With A "Zillion" Dollars: "Report your findings to me as soon as you can. I’ll be in my pool of $100 dollar bills practicing my breast stroke."
Research Department: "Will do!"
Okay, I know I oversimplified the process and hopefully made it entertaining for you. But this scenario I laid out happens with many big companies. Good companies want to make great products and services that their customers will buy. They don’t do this by looking into a crystal ball or calling Ms Cleo’s psychic line to figure this out. They go straight to the source, you the customer.
Fortunately for us, they are willing to pay for this feedback because it is extremely valuable to them in the long run. If a company conducts a focus group and learns that most of its customers like red phones. Guess what’s going to happen in a few weeks or months? They’re going to start selling red phones. If their research proves to be correct, then many others should want to buy red phones. Thus the company should make a "zillion" more dollars on a research investment that cost them a mere few hundred thousand. Sweet deal for them but more importantly for you that gets paid to tell them what they should be doing! How empowering is that?
This whole process basically sums up market research or better known as focus groups. It’s similar to paid online surveys but you get paid way more with focus groups. Focus groups also tend to be in person and usually involve sharing your views with other people. However I’ve done a few from the comfort of my home or in a one and one basis like the focus group I did today. Although the money is great, these things are tons of fun. I’ve done some really cool focus groups where where I got paid to eat cake, drink beer and watch TV. But again money has always been a factor for me. The best I’ve done is when I got paid close to $1000 just to monitor how I used my credit card and keeping a journal for a week. It brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it right now. 
So How Do I Find Focus Groups & Get Paid?
Well as usual, I’ve done all the work for you and we list them for FREE at our parent site www.WorkAtHomeCareers.com/focusgroups, we also provide you with some tips on how to make some consistent money with them. So if you have an opinion and I know you do! Or if you’re tired of paid online surveys that ONLY pay you pennies for your thoughts. Then move up to the big boys and get in a focus group! They’re totally free and they pay in hard cash, my favorite currency!
Speaking of opinions, what did you think of this article? Please leave your feedback below. I ain’t rich so I’m not paying you for it. But I’ll send you a thank you note and continue to deliver more tips on making money at home!
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I found this article very interesting also informative.
ReplyThanks Otis! We appreciate the comment.
ReplyHey good job, nice thinking on your part and Thanks for sharing with us.
ReplyHey Charlene,
Thanks for your comments. Always happy to share different ways to help people make money at home. I’m glad you appreciate it.
ReplyHi my name is Jen and I need a work at home job in ontario, canada cause i have a 15month old baby girl and I dont wasnt to leave here, also I do not and will not pay for a work at home job so can u find me 1 that is FREE and no surveys cause they don’t work.
ReplyHi Jen,
I emailed you some information. However in terms of your comments about surveys, I think you’ve probably run into companies that have charged you to get a survey list. We list them for free here: http://www.workathomenoscams.com/2007/12/13/top-5-paid-online-survey-websites/ They do work and I have been paid many times by the ones listed there.
They may not pay a lot but they do work. Focus groups on the other hand pay way more. So I wouldn’t jump into any conclusions quite yet.
Thanks.
ReplyHi, i currently work for a legitimate work at home company. the thing is that you have to fight to get hours. the work i do is customer service and I’m trying to get away from customer service. i would really like to fill out forms, rebates, etc. or just type. if you or anyone have any suggestions please let me know. and if anyone wants the name of the company i work for, just let me know. thanks.
ReplyHi Iris,
Thanks for your comments. First and foremost congratulations on actually landing a work at home job. That should be an inspiration to many others on this website.
Have you considered medical transcription instead of regular typing? There are tons of medical transcription jobs available. You just need to get some training though.
We commented about this in another post. But here’s the info again: “you can find tons of transcription jobs on your own after you’ve been trained at www.WorkAtHomeCareers.com/workathomejobs. Just do a search for medical transcription. We list those jobs nearly every day because there are so many of them unlike regular typing and data entry jobs.
In terms of training you can find some free information at:
www.meditec.com/free-training.html”
In terms of filling out forms I did fusion cash for a while. I made some good money with it I did a mixture of free and paid forms. http://www.workathomenoscams.com/2007/08/27/is-fusion-cash-fusioncashcom-a-scam/
I hope this helps.
Eddy
ReplyWhat an awesome site. Just saw it for the first time. Would love to find a legit co. to make extra money and cut hours of employment for someone else!! As a nurse, would medical transcription be a good fit? Thanks for any advice. Keep up the good work, now your in my favorites to check out when I’m online.
ReplyHi Stephanie,
Thanks for the compliments and your comments. I hope to see you back on the site a lot!
Medical Transcription is definitely the way to go considering your background.
By the way you can find legitimate companies hiring work at home seekers listed on the following page:
http://www.workathomenoscams.com/work-from-home-companies/
I hope this helps.
Eddy
ReplyHi Eddy,
In a world containing a lot of people trying to make a quick buck, it is so appreciating to see a handful of people trying to help others with no personal gain, I pray that God will bless and increase you for this.
I am also in the process of looking for a business I can settle at home, I am a Christian minister, recent business graduate, love computers, love to talk about Jesus, good at customer relations, fairly good at typing, love food, cars, spend a lot of time online…
I looking into doing something on my own, so I can spend more time doing outreaches and helping others.
Please feel free to advice and comment.
JR
ReplyHi JR,
Thanks for your kind words and comments. It means a lot to me coming from a minister. My efforts are truly inspired by my faith as cheesy as that may sound. I think it’s very important for everyone to help each other out whatever your faith or creed may be. And that’s what we try to do here on this blog and my other sites.
Now in terms of your question. First and foremost let me applaud you on the fact you’re open to a work at home business. Too often people are limiting themselves to work at home jobs which are so competitive. So applaud your direction.
Honestly I think the best business is to run your own website. I’ve tried so many different ways to make money at home and running my sites has proven to be the best and fullfilling.
You need to find something you’re very passionate about and start a website around it. It’s easy to do using blogger.com, wordpress.com or googlepages.com
Honestly my passion was work at home and making money from home so I started two websites about that. And as you can see all I’m doing is sharing my points of view, giving tips and providing resources I feel can help folks out.
I monetize my site with advertisers and that’s how I earn a living. For some it may be a matter of selling something. So that’s my suggestion start a site on something you love and write like crazy.
Then include links to your site in your emails, blog comments like this one, forums, message boards, etc. As you make some money then invest in some advertising.
So that’s my high level suggestion. I know this can work because I’ve consulted friends, co-workers and clients to do the same. All of them have earned money doing what I’m suggesting. Not everyone has been fortunate enough to earn a full living with it yet! But they’re all making some income.
And they all have no marketing background. So trust me it can be done.
I hope this provides you with some ideas.
Eddy
ReplyJust wanted to say thanks for all your advice and ideas.
ReplyHi Susanne,
No thank you just for stopping by and leaving that comment. It really makes us feel good when we hear our efforts are not in vain.
Replyjanurary 16 Iris commented on her job.Wold like to know where shes going through ive been checking ut paces like acd direct
ReplyHI Eddy…
Thanks for sharing this information with us. Very helpful indeed, and I was particularly amused at the way you presented the big business scenario, of getting a survey done.
Though I have never really participated in surveys and have not tried it yet, I work at home as well.. by providing services online like traffic generation, optimization, etc. But I have not yet made $150 in less than an hour though and that got me thinking, maybe I’m in the wrong gig.
ReplyHi Roy,
Thanks for your comments. I’m glad you found the article amusing but more importantly it got you thinking of some alternate ways of making money.
I’m also in the business of helping people get traffic via Search engine optimization and providing website monetization strategies. But as you can tell I also make it a point to find other fun ways to make money on the side. Focus groups has definitely been one of them!
So hopefully you’ll experience them as well.
Hope to see you back on the site real soon.
Eddy
ReplyHi Eddy,
Just want to say how wonderful your blogs are. I enjoy them very much. Keep them coming. I love all of the focus groups that you have listed and I have signed up already. A big thank you for your hard work.
Charlene
ReplyCharlene,
Always a pleasure to hear from you. Thanks again for the kind words! I can’t wait to hear back from you on your first focus group. You’re going to love it!
Actually my wife is at one right now. But it’s only paying $120.
Boo hooo for her. lol
Eddy
ReplyWOW!! this is an Awesome site! I think I have about 4 differant parts of your site saved in my favorites right now and about 7 tabs on this one page plus a whole other page opened with tabs as well LOL. Thank you so much for all your tips!! I am going to put a lot of them to good use!!
I am a sahm hoping to find a typing only type WAH job.. I have a 2 year old and talking on the phone does not work… unless they would allow HIM to talk… I might make quiet a few sales that way LOL.
Anyways. Thank you so much again!! While I have you… do you know of any Free or basically free training sites? I dont have a degree in anything and would love to have something positive to put on my resume…. Any info would be appreciated!!
Ty again!
ReplyHi Misty,
Thanks for your wonderful comments. I’m glad you’re actually saving the information and are going to apply it. Taking action is the best thing in trying to secure work at home.
Free training is tough. It depends on what you what training on?
But training is like college and most of the time you have to pay for it. But it may be a tax write off at the end of the year for you in which case it’s like getting the money back. But you should talk to your cpa about that.
Hope to see you on the site again.
Eddy
ReplyHi, I am from India and go thru all your mails. When u direct me to other links, they r either selling their book or ask for fees and most often I see the message that the offer or work is not offered to my location.
ReplyI really want to work from home, but free, as earlier I had paid the fees, I get a CD which is not very simple to understand and then they ask for more fees.
So, if you can still help and guide me and I am really able to work from home and earn real money,
it will be really great. GOD BLESS U!
Kamini
Hi Kamini.
Thanks for your comments. I think what’s happening is when you visit the pages I send you’re clicking on the ads and not reading the articles fully. In the articles I write I make it very clear what I personally recommend and it’s usually free. So I encourage you to visit the links I sent you again without clicking on any links until reading the whole article completely which will then make it clear where I’m sending you.
Since you live in India, here are some places you should visit first: www.workathomenoscams.com/2007/12/21/international-work-at-home-jobs/
www.workathomecareers.com/international
I hope this clarifies everything for you.
Eddy
ReplyJust thought I would ask you for your advice on this one. I’m a full time electrician and wondering what might fit me for part-time evening job on-line? I look forward to your suggestion. Thanks…
ReplyHi Josh,
I would say 1. try the opportunity you just read about which is focus groups. No brainer there. It’s easy money and usually takes place in the evening.
2. Visit our articles page we list a lot of opportunities there that you should go and do if you’re serious about working at home part time.
www.workathomecareers.com/articles
In terms of your actual skill set. There isn’t anything I can think of which could be applied to working at home. However I would probably suggest freelancing on craigslist.com and offering your services there on the weekends or evenings. I’m sure you would get a lot of calls. Lord knows I’ve been looking for an electrician to add a light fixture to two of my bedrooms here in White Plains, NY and have yet to find one. Home Depot and Lowes were useless in that regard.
Freelancing is not exactly working at home but you could make some extra money on the side using your skills.
I hope that helps somewhat.
Eddy
ReplyI thought the article was very informative and look forward to participating in focus groups.
ReplyHi Eddy:
I just finished your blog about focus groups. I’m signing up.
My experience with surveys hasn’t worked out too well. I have registered with a lot of them and answered tons of the surveys and so far not a single red cent. Grrrr! I think I will give up on them.
On a lighter note, your are giving many people ideas to check out that we can get closer to a home job.
Keep up the good work.
Ginny
ReplyHey Ginny,
Great to hear from you again! I knew you were not a big fan of surveys when I read your comment about my video on mysurvey. lol
Focus groups are way better than surveys since they pay a lot more. But you’ll have to leave the comfort of your home for an hour or two. But it will be worth it when you have that cold hard cash in your hand after an hour of just giving your two cents.
I am curios what survey companies have you joined? Mysurvey and pineconeresearch have always made me cash. Stay away from sites like erewards and crap like that. They don’t pay cash. So it may be the companies you’re using.
But honestly paid online surveys don’t make you huge amounts of money unless you do what I’ve suggested in my survey video:
www.workathomenoscams.com/2008/03/10/if-you-dont-work-for-this-company-youll-kick-yourself-later/
In any event, thanks for the acknowledgment about my efforts to help you guys work at home. I really am trying to give you all your options. There are plenty of sites like ours that offer work at home jobs. But I think it’s really important that you all are aware that there are other options that are less traveled and discussed.
So thanks for being open to them.
Eddy
ReplyThanks again. Wonderful. I’m going to delve into this more extensively as soon as I get home. I’d like to do some of the in-person type focus groups. Wonderful article and great information/leads.
ReplyHello Eddy, This is my second day at your site/blog. And, I just wanted to say: Thank You Very Much for having such a useful site/blog that people can use to make money. This is something that is really needed and I’m glad that you provided it with no scams. THANKS AGAIN. Johnnie
ReplyHi Johnnie,
Welcome to our little hole in the wall. I’m happy you’re enjoying our site. We’re just trying to do our part to help people make money and avoid scams. So I’m happy you appreciate the effort being put forth.
In any event I hope you become a member of our family:
www.workathomenoscams.com/subscribe
By the way if you really want to get a good feel of our blog, be sure to check out the articles section:
www.workathomenoscams.com/articles
You’ll learn a lot there.
Don’t be stranger! =)
Eddy
Reply(Fellow NY’er, Former Manhattan Commuter)
As always your articles are very informative and helpful in my search for work @ home. Keep up the good work!
ReplyThanks Deborah!
We’re trying our best to help more people like yourself work at home. So I’m happy you appreciate the effort.
Eddy
ReplyHi Eddy:
ReplyI also work as a home based indep. contractor for a virtual Operators company. I am just looking for something different to add to my reg. job with them. This site has some wonderful links and I would like to send you one more link if someone is interested. I dont know if you can put this on your site… but here goes.
www.alpineaccess.com
Hi Eddy,
I just read through the comments you replied to the people, they were totally amazing and so are your blogs and the site. I am quite good at typing, so i was wondering that can you help me find something. I am a student and i dont want something to do in the morning lol.
Ill wait for your comment, and thank you.
ReplyHi Taha,
Thanks for your kind words. You’re making me blush over here. lol
I’m not sure if you’ve had a chance to read our articles page: www.workathomenoscams.com/articles But
we have several articles there about typing at home and your options. Hopefully you’ll be open minded about the options we’ve provided.
You may also want to read our question page:
www.workathomenoscams.com/ask
And finally you should also visit the following pages:
www.workathomenoscams.com/jobs
www.WorkAtHomeCareers.com/help
www.WorkAtHomeNoScams.com/scams
Take the time to read through all that material and you’ll be rewarded with various work at home options and more importantly avoid getting scammed.
Hope this helps.
By the way if you haven’t done so already, feel free to subscribe: www.workathomenoscams.com/subscribe so
you don’t miss out on opportunities or scams we may cover.
Eddy
Take care.
Eddy
ReplyHi Deborah,
Thanks for the link and kinds words.
I’m actually very familiar with Alipine Access and we actually already have it listed in our work at home companies page:
www.WorkAtHomeNoScams.com/companies
But we appreciate you sharing another legitimate resource. We love seeing that here.
Hope to hear from you again.
If you want to be updated of new opportunities or scams, please be sure to subscribe: www.workathomenoscams.com/subscribe
Take care.
Eddy
ReplyHi Eddy, Thanks very much for your informative articles, I really appreciate them.. However, I have no luck making money on the net yet.. I am a stayhome mom from Malaysia..was trying to make money on the net since May.. Hope u could guide me a little bit more..Thank you again..
ReplyHi Farah,
You’re quite welcome.
I am sorry to hear about your trouble finding a work at home job but this is very common. But you do have options since you are located in a location outside the U.S.
Visit our international section:
www.WorkAtHomeNoScams.com/international
It should help you get started.
Good luck.
Eddy
ReplyHello Eddy,
Exactly how did it take before your wife started to hear from the focus group folks after she initially signed up? I’d signed up with several companies almost a month ago, and I have yet to be contacted AT ALL. Please advise.
Thanks,
Keep up the good work!
ReplyHi Stanley,
Thanks for the kind words.
The time frame of when you hear back from companies will vary for a number of reasons. Your demographic information may not be needed by any companies hiring the focus groups at this juncture.
They may have called in other people before you that have the same profile as you. Your area may not have many facilities close by. Or you haven’t been put in their system yet.
On average, I find people are called about 2-4 months after signing up. But once they do start getting calls. more come. Just be sure to follow the advice I provide in the focus group article and you should do well: www.workathomecareers.com/focusgroups
Hope this helps.
In the mean time, try online surveys since they tend to look for people right away:
www.workathomenoscams.com/2007/12/13/top-5-paid-online-survey-websites/
Eddy
ReplyInteresting, as is your whole site and yet practically useless since I don’t live in the US; what’s that about other options?
Granted, I don’t know enough about the Internet for my 5-6 years’ consistent experience with it, but it does seem like no matter what honest people and frauds alike say, making money from it is hard. I’ve yet to make a single eurocent off the Internet, but I have gotten proficient (I think) at discovering scams without ever losing any money.
Freelance work is a weak option for me, though I will certainly go there and see what I can do. I can certainly accept far smaller payments here, I’m a better writer than most Average Joes, my typing’s good and I daresay my English is excellent, but there are a number of disadvantages clung to my person of which I will not cry about here.
ReplyHi Rafael,
Thanks for your comments. I’ve never heard my blog referred to as useless but to each their own.
Looking at your comment, it seems like you’re a pretty decent writer. Unfortunately that isn’t the case for many of the international work at home seekers that visit our blog looking for work at home. So with that said you would probably do better than most of them since you seem to be able to write English very well. (Probably better than me. lol)
You may or may not know this. But article writing is one of the most available work at home opportunities on the freelance websites I suggested on my international page:
www.workathomenoscams.com/international
So it would be in your best interest to give this shot and not make any assumptions about the possibilities that may be available to you.
Folks that limit themselves or make assumptions about working at home are the ones that tend never to succeed at it. They have a negative attitude which leads to missing out on various opportunities or ignoring them all together because of assumptions.
Now with that said, I don’t know you from a hole in the wall. And I don’t know the situations that would make freelance websites a weak option for you.
But for many others that are open to it, it is a very good possibility for them. International work at home seekers will fair better there than elsewhere.
And finally this is a U.S. based site so the opportunities listed will tend to be geared towards these folks. I have nothing against folks outside the U.S. but the opportunities that I run into just happen to be limited to this geography.
My ultimate goal is to help everyone work at home. I don’t care if you’re purple, yellow, American, Indian, a Rebublican, a Democrat, etc. But I can only provide information on what I have access to. So keep that in mind.
In either case, I hope this helps.
Good luck either way.
Eddy
ReplyThanks! I will check these out! I am visually impaired and have been looking for a fun and easy way to make some extra cash from home. I appreciate it!
ReplyYou’re welcome Amanda!
Good luck to you.
By the way you may also want to check out our Work At Home For The Disabled area on the following page:
www.workathomenoscams.com/2008/01/23/work-at-home-for-disabled/
It may be of some use to you.
Take care.
Eddy
ReplyGreat work Eddy…Another very informative article…Recently retired bodily injury claims examiner and have extensive experience reviewing medical records. Think a medical transcription job could be right for me? …. Rick
ReplyHi Rick,
Thanks for the kind words!
I think your experience would definitely help. But ultimately you would probably need to get training:
www.workathomenoscams.com/typing
But I think considering your experience medical transcription might be the perfect fit for you.
Hope this helps.
Eddy
ReplyThank you so much for the information that you shared with us today. It feels so good to be able to read about a program from some one that has done it and is not getting paid by the company to make other people join. the inofmation was very refreshing and useful as well as entertaining to say the least.
ReplyThank you and I hope to hear more from you!!
Hi Peter,
You’re quite welcome. I can totally relate to your sense of relief. There are a lot of sites out there making recommendations on opportunities they have never tried or succeeded just to get you to join so they can earn their commissions.
I’m no angel, I know I was guilty of that in the past as well. But I have since changed my ways. I think it’s very important that when you make a personal recommendation you better be able to stand by it.
That’s why now when I make an personal recommendations I will try to back it up with videos so people can see that I have earned money with it.
I’m also forth right about the negatives about programs even if I like them and are affiliated with a given company. This way folks like yourself can make your own educated decision about if you’re willing to give it a try.
There is nothing wrong with making money referring people to products, services or websites that will help them. But I think when personal recommendations are being made, the least sites can do is actually try what they’re recommending and provide real feedback about it.
So that’s what I try to do here. I am sure that some of my recommendations people will not agree with or the company may change for the worst. But at least I’ll be able to sleep at night knowing that I was upfront about my feedback and not just shoving stuff down people’s throats to collect a check.
In any event, I hope to hear more from you on this blog Peter. We obviously have a lot of good information to share about other opportunities and scams to avoid. So if you’re not a subscriber already you may want to join:
www.workathomenoscams.com/subscribe
You may also want to check out our articles section:
www.workathomenoscams.com/articles
I hope this helps.
Eddy
ReplyI just completed a survey and now awaiting to see if I am chosen for a study. Thank you for sharing; great thing you got going here. I wish you well.
ReplyHi Clarena,
You’re quite welcome. Hopefully you get the focus group. If not, don’t worry. There will be many more.
Good luck,
Eddy
ReplyI joined PaidSurveys a couple of weeks ago and feel very discouraged – I am working from New Zealand and there are only very few survey companies who accept other than Americans and Canadians. COuld you help me?
ReplyI really enjoyed the story. And I’m going to get a lot of help from the website. Thanks
ReplyHi Eija,
I’m sorry to hear about your problems finding paid surveys and focus groups in your area. Unfortunately many non-traditional work at home opportunities are limited to the States.
I don’t think its fair but surveys are based on the research that a given company wants done. Since many of them are based here in the states that’s why they limit the pool of people they want.
You may want to try our international page for other work at home options in your area:
www.workathomenoscams.com/international
or consider a career in affiliate marketing:
www.workathomenoscams.com/aff
Hope this helps somewhat.
Eddy
ReplyHi Donna,
Glad to hear you like the site.
As long as you’re willing to take the time to read through a lot of the advice we provide you’ll do great:
www.workathomenoscams.com/articles
www.workathomenoscams.com/ask
www.workathomenoscams.com/scams
Eddy
ReplyI’ve done focus groups before and they do pay well. However, I find that with some companies, you can only participate in one focus group every so many months. You would have to sign up with a lot of market research companies to get a steady offer of focus group opportunities. Even though, you still may not get chosen for a particular study.
ReplyWe actually cover some of this in another article and some tips
Replyto maximize your income with focus groups:
www.WorkAtHomeCareers.com/focusgroups
Thank you so much for your post. You gave a lot of useful information. I am looking for a legitimate data entry job. I have an extensive customer service background. I am looking to get away from that though. I have landed a couple of home positions in this field but I have a 1 year old daughter that stays at home with me and they equire no background noise. I need something where I do not have to be on the phones and can still work full time. I have looked into transcripton but I only type about 35 words per minute and they require at least 60. Can you recommend anything for me?
ReplyYou’re welcome.
Transcription is definitely the way to go if you want to stay in the clerical field. Just practice to get your typing speed up and get whatever other training you need.
Trust me when I say it’s worth it because the demand is great for that field. The same can’t be said for generic data entry or typing.
My personal recommendations for other ways to make money can be found on the following page:
www.workathomenoscams.com/recommendations
Hope this helps.
ReplySounds like a great way to earn some extra money!! One question I have is this: I live in a small town so what happens if there are no locations near my town?
Thanks!!
ReplyHi Lori,
Ultimately this opportunity only works for areas that are in demand. So if you’re not in those areas it’s not going to be much of an option for you. But sometimes it may be worth driving half an hour or so if the pay is good enough.
And the only way you’ll know is if you actually just try registering for some focus group facilities and wait for the phone calls. But in the mean time, try some of the online paid surveys:
www.workathomenoscams.com/recommendations
They don’t pay as well but it’s a start.
ReplyHey Eddy, I like the site question though when you work with fusioncash you filling out offers are they like project payday and you sign up with these company’s for free trials and then have to try to cancel the free trials?
ReplyHi Tami,
Here’s the review of fusion cash I wrote that explains the various ways to make money with it:
www.workathomenoscams.com/2007/08/27/is-fusion-cash-fusioncashcom-a-scam/ You should also read the following article so you know how to get involved with get paid to try offer sites without losing any money:
www.workathomenoscams.com/2008/05/07/getpaidtotryoffers/
Hope this helps.
ReplyThanks eddy. Keep up the goood work. Love the site & will tell others about it.
ReplyThanks Tami!
ReplyI really appreciate your great assistance in getting a lot of folks out of the quagmire of ‘Work from Home’ and its concomittant frustration in times past. Thanks a lot. However, I am currently resident in Nigeria and the same problem of limitation affects us but, nonetheless, I would be glad to be getting updates on international jobs from you. Cheers!
ReplyHi Clifford,
Thanks for your kind words. This is a U.S. based site and 95% of our users are based here in the U.S. so the jobs will reflect this. With that said we do have an international work at home section that you should read that may help you:
www.workathomenoscams.com/international
Good luck!
ReplyWOOOOWWWWW!!!! This site awsome . So much to say I cant put int words . I Will pass it on and on and on . Thanks.
ReplyHello Eddy
ReplyI love your web site? I like to thank you for all the information you provide it’s very helpful. I’m looking for a work at home job as well and it hard to find one. I have sined up for alot of surveys but have not received anything from them yet, but I’m going to try out focus groups to see how it will turn out. Thank you again and keep up the good work.
You’re welcome Christina. Keep in mind surveys really depend on the companies that hire the survey folks. These companies look for different demographics depending on their new products, services, etc. So one month you may fit a profile and several months after that you don’t. That’s why its important to sign up for multiple legit companies to ensure a larger range of possibilities.
ReplyOh wow!! very interesting article you have on here Eddy.
ReplyContinues on reading
Thanks Veronica. Focus groups are one of my favorite ways to make money. It’s easy and pays well.
ReplyYes I’m searching all the time for company’s that pay well .
I look forward to more of your articles.
ReplyThanks for sharing its always cool to have friends like you around.
No problem Veronica. Its good to have great people like you supporting and visiting my blog. I appreciate it.
Reply@Eddy Salomon:@Iris:
ReplyHello I just read your post and I want to know if you could give me the name of the company. I worked in customer service for many years and it sounds like somthing I would be intrested in. Thank you
@Eddy Salomon:
ReplyThanks Eddy for all you advice.
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