Survey Company Review: National Survey Panel

Are you looking to get paid a little extra or want to get some extra money for answering surveys? You may be better of promoting the Campaigns offered by the National Survey Panel instead. If you are looking for those types of Programs and need to find a legit work from home job, you might have decided to go with "get paid to take survey" opportunities. Between all the different ones you can find on the Net "The National Survey Panel" is one of the more prominently advertised ones.

So what happens when you sign up to get Surveys offering you Money and Rewards? You have links send to you like this one: Free Candy Offer inside! You will be asked to participate in a survey which is supposed to show which Candy Bar you prefer. The Choice given is between Snickers and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Sounds like a legit little survey and your gift offer is between $50.00 worth of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and $50.00 worth of Snickers. You click on the link and are taking to their official landing Page with this super cute Picture of a black Cat next to Candy. Very attractive and very professionally done! You need to click on your choice of which Reward you would like to participate in. Once this is done you are requested to enter your email address and hit continue. All nice and clear far correct. After all you are just required to answer some simple questions.

This is where it gets ugly for the consumer. If you didn't pay attention to the bottom of the page and the small print you missed a very important fact. This is what keeps it legal for them. In order to receive this type of promotions you are required to accept and complete offers in return. No big deal? Sure if you don't mind spending a lot of time going through at least 9 different pages of offers and about $30.00 or in some cases more. You will also need a Credit Card. You will have to accept 1 offer in the first sections, 1 in the second and 1 in the third. After all have been verified you will get the gift. They do have a contact link on the bottom which will give you the chance of finding out what happened if you don't get your product in a timely manner.

The good part is that this company makes certain it doesn't suddenly freeze up like so many others are prone to do at the end, which makes it certain that you can not get the prize. So they are actually legit, but they are a big hassle. And with having to spend money, the actual product value is not $50.00 put in reality more like $20 and up. Still, not a bad deal over all I guess and they do have several really good ones. Most of them are things you can use. I have personally participated in on for a $100.00 Home Depot Card a while back and have actually received it after 6 weeks. They do pay up, but it is a big headache and you will spend money and time to get the product. In case of the $100 Home Depot Card I spend about $40.00 which gave me a $60.00 profit. If you look at it in the Profit way, not bad that is a 120% markup.

Rating for this Survey Panel on the Consumer end for honesty, delivery and variation in products: I give it an 8

Now let's go on the Affiliate part of it. Yes, you too can get a piece of the Action. You need to have a way of promoting this type of product, but you are not allowed to use incentive marketing. The Company strictly prohibits this, since that is how they market for their clients them-selves. (Hence all those different offers you have to sign up for) Otherwise you would become competition. What you can do is place an ad in one of the free web advertisement companies, an online paper, a blog and mailing opt-in or email opt-in services are acceptable. So how much can you actually receive for doing something like this? That depends on which campaign you choose to work on. I believe it is anywhere from $1.60 on up per lead /Sale generated. A co-worker of mine is an Affiliate for them and from what she tells me they will pay you out after a minimum has been reached. Of course the market is pretty flooded with those types of advertisements and most people aren't that keen on it, so you may have a hard time generating the leads. On the other hand, most people don't read the fine print. In order for you to get the lead, the consumer has to sign up and go through at least the first 3 pages. This means you have a 50/50 change of getting the lead once they have landed on the entrance page and those aren't bad odds.

Rating for this Survey Panel on the Affiliate end for honesty, payments and marketability: I give it a 7

Overall, I have mixed feelings about this company. It is legit, you can work it and you will get the product. The Set up is very professional and easy navigate, but it is just a lot of hassle and I tend to shy away from that.
I give it an overall Rating of: 7.5