Focus Group on Air Conditioning in Brisbane 80 250 of you are an installer

Research Connections are conducting research on residential air conditioning and are looking for 2 types of people to contribute to the study:

• Home owners who have had a ducted or split system installed in the last year – a researcher would like to visit your home for a short interview and take photos of your system;  Incentive $80 for up to one hour.
• 2 Dealers/installers have at least 7 years experience working in the residential sector;  Incentive $250 for 1.5 hour interview  (at your place of work, a quiet cafe or telephone interview)

Dates:   16^th – 22^thAugust (includes Saturday 17^th)

If you are interested in taking part in this study – please respond via email with answers to the questions relevant to your segment:

All

Name:                                                                  Daytime contact number:

Home owner

Which suburb do you live in?                                      How long ago did you have your system installed?                           Do you have ducted or multi split system?

Dealers/installers

Which suburb is your company located in?                           Would sales of residential aircon systems be above or below $2mill over the past three years?                         

Looking forward to hearing from you

Pam
Research Connections [coordinator@researchconnections.com.au]

Australian Mystery Shoppers How You can earn an extra 5 10 for each assignment

If you have been doing Mystery Shopping to make extra money or a small part time income then you will know that every dollar you can get makes it just that extra bit worth it. So here is a fairly simple way to add an extra $1 to every assignment that you do without having to do any extra work.

When you conduct a Mystery Shop you are normally required to prepare a written summary of the shopping experience to complete the assignment.

Word of Mouth Online (WOMO) is an Australian customer review web site that pays you to provide reviews of stores and services. As a Mystery Shopper all you need to do is take the short summary (100 words) from your mystery shopping assignment and edit/paste it into the business review on WOMO and you get 100 points (equals $1).

They pay you in gift cards from iTunes, Westfield, or WISH that you can use at Woolies, Big W etc. After joining I had enough points (2000) in no time at all to get my first $20 WISH gift card.
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Earn an Extra $1 for each Mystery Shopping Assigment
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Paid 60 for an hour drinking some beers

I did a short survey with Lightspeed Consumer Panel on Thursday that paid me $2 for about 5 minutes of survey answers. At the end of the survey I was asked whether I would like to participate in a Beer tasting focus group, naturally I said ok.

A lady from Research International rang me on Friday and arranged for me to attend a focus group on Saturday. Cant say too much about the actual focus group, but it involved drinking a new beer range from a popular brewing company and answering some questions. All up it took about 1 hour and I was paid $60.

The money was great because it meant that I could buy my oldest boy a second controller for his new playstation. Unfortunately it also meant he could play against me in his AFL game and he seriously kicked my butt, but no matter, I grounded him till hes 15 :)

Read: All about Focus Groups

AmpSurveys an example of what to AVOID

AmpSurveys looks at lot like the kind of survey panel I would recommend avoiding. You do surveys and maybe you win a prize...

Open to US, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia.

They say that if you join their panel you will get opinion surveys and contests, no mention of cash. The company (Ampario) is owned by OTX Research who I know, and am reasonably positive about, from doing Movie reviews. Maybe it just looks bad?

Anyway, if you decide to try it, use an email address that you dont need to rely on, and let me know what you think. AmpSurveys.

WOW up to 700 for an Online Survey Focus Group Are You Visiting BANGKOK in Nov Dec

From Chitchat Research..

We are seeking those who are booked to visit Bangkok within the next 8 weeks (November or December) for an online project taking part in October/ November. You will be required to fill in online tasks before, during and post trip. Those who complete all three tasks will receive an incentive of up to $700 CASH!

 If you would like to take part in this project please click the below link to register your interest

(pls note, you will be asked to re-confirm your contact details and answer a few questions to ensure you fit the profile we are looking for. If you are selected to take part in the project you will be required to show proof of booking).

Click below to register!

https://www.chitchatresearch.com.au/online-survey/qcae20lvc5vfqw1

If you have friends or family who fit the above profile and you think they would be interested in taking part, forward them this email and they too can click the link to register their interest.

Free Bus Fares and an Excuse to Buy That iPAD or Smartphone

If you are looking for an excuse to but that iphone, ipad or smartphone, or you need a justification for one that you got for christmas, here is a little piece that might help you....

Bus Fares in Brisbane recently rose by 15%. This has taken the price of my daily commute from $8.28 to $9.54. Now this doesn’t seem like a lot at first glance, but $47.70 a week is one of the larger expenses in my personal budget.

Now on this bus trip each morning and afternoon I spend about 50 or so minutes. What to do? Catch up on some sleep? Maybe read a book?, the paper?, laugh manicly everything 2.5 minutes? or maybe just stare blankly into the bus void avoiding eye contact with all the other humans...or do like most people seem to be doing and engage lovingly with my smart phone…

If you have a smart phone (I have a HTC desire...I think its smart?) how about putting this dead time to use and offsetting the cost of the transport? How about doing online paid surveys and paid messages while you are on the bus, you can easily earn back the cost of your bus fare.

Take a little bit of time to set up a daily / weekly routine and bookmark the web sites.

I check out these survey and reward panels daily or every second day:

RewardsCentral – you can earn points each day and bank amounts over 100 points to earn interest until you are ready to withdraw to get real dollars. You can also get reward point each day by clicking on stuff and playing their lucky number game. (just two clicks)

Pureprofile – you can earn money here with online surveys and by viewing adverts. I try to do one short survey and view a few ads. Most days you can easily earn enough to cover the cost of your bus trip.

GlobalTestmarket - I get a pretty good number of surveys to do here, you can easily get at least one done on a bus trip each day.

These about once per week:

MyOpinons – I regularly have surveys to complete here, but also you can transfer points earned to your Rewards Central account and deposit them in their bank and earn interest until you are ready to withdraw. You can also play an ‘instant win’ game weekly to earn extra points.

Valued Opinions – has regular surveys to do, but only pays out in gift vouchers.

Of course the extra money isnt huge, but it is tax free, and a slightly more productive way to use that time you spend on public transport.

(Note: Some of these survey panels now also have apps for mobile phones, after you sign up for the survey panel you can download them from your phones market for google people or whatever you iphone people call your app store. I have downloaded some and they are frankly pretty crappy....maybe they will improve, but for now I just go to the page on the phones web browser.)