"A paid focus group is a form of qualitative research in which a group of people are
given free paid surveys, about their attitude towards a product, concept,
advertisement, idea, or packaging".
Paid focus groups are brought
together to test a concept and see how it plays with various demographics. Paid
focus groups are used by people developing advertising campaigns to make sure
their message, whether print ad or television commercial, says what they want
it to say. They are also increasingly used by politicians to hone their own
advertising, either to get elected or to sell their policies to their
constituents.
Paid focus groups are the work of market researchers. People are recruited
to serve on a focus group and are typically paid a small fee for their
time to take free paid surveys.
They take free cash surveys that rigorously identify their demographic
group. Age, lifestyle, income, attitudes, political leanings and so on
are all used to categorize paid focus group members into a particular
segment of society.
Paid focus groups are a little known way for individuals to make money
for free from paid surveys.
Paid focus groups are closely observed groups of participants and mostly
pay from $50.00 to $200.00 depending on the topic for 1 or 2 hours
of your time.
A paid focus group survey is generally performed with a number of participants consisting from 5 to
50 people that meet in a designated place to give a more in-depth
opinion on tasting food, driving SUV's, drinking certain brands of water
or the like. One can sign up online with some of the paid focus groups
that have websites. There are times that you may have to call the
centers that offer focus groups to let them know you want to
participate.
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