Market Research / Focus Groups

[dpricenator]

Have any of you ever done these? I am on the mailing list for a big market reseach company that is only about 3 minutes from my office. Every few weeks I get an email with their up coming focus groups and the basic qualifications. They do a phone interview to make sure i fall into the criteria set forth by their client. They pay between $150 and $200 for roughly an hour of your time. So the past three times I have gone in, including today, they have over booked the study, and let me go home with out doing the focus group. Of course the reason i am posting this, is that they paid me anyway. And I am still elligible for another one, anytime, as I did not acctually do this one. normally you can only do 1 every 3-6 months. They also have food and drinks. So today at lunch I drove 3 minutes, had someone buy me lunch and pay me $175, to look at tail walk by for 20 minutes. :eyebrow: This was supposed to be about HDTVs, which I know nothing about, but the interview questions are basic and I know how to answer so they let me in. hehe sneaky.

Here's a link to the company I went to. They are in several cities.
http://www.fieldwork.com/

 

[Electric Sheep]

I've done a few of those...but my wife has done a TON of them. She typically has to participate in them, and they usually last about an hour to an hour-and-a-half, and she gets around $150-ish.

But you're right, the best is when they overbook...and give you the cash just for showing up!

 

[bballbaby]

wow. never heard of such a thing. nice money making venture. i like the part about watching tail for 20 minutes...and getting paid for it. Nice.

 

[Dougful]

sounds like a good way to earn box money

 

[JRL]

Sounds like a nice gig. Sign me up.

 

[mnelson]

yeah for real where do i sign up

 

[WhiteLightning]

That's a great deal. How do we find places like that?

 

[oneaday]

A good friend of ours is a manager at one of the market research groups, a couple of times a year they ask me to sit on one for business owners or CEOs. The pay is a lot better than $150 but the food sucks. Sat in one for cigar smokers a couple of years ago and mentioned to the clients as we were leaving, they ought to give out free samples.........he did, handed me a Macanoodle. I thought it would be rude to give it back so I waited until I saw a homeless guy and gave it to him.

 

[CWS]

You know when they say, "Four out of five businessmen agree" I'm that fifth guy.

 

[dpricenator]

That's a great deal. How do we find places like that?

gauranteed there are several near you. You are in a populated area, so market research is going to be big business there. here's a link to the home page of the company I went to. They are in about 12 cities.

http://www.fieldwork.com/

 

[Halon]

You think you get a good deal when they pay you a couple hundred bucks for the hour, but they get millions of dollars worth of advice from you guys. Everybody wins! They really benefit a TON from these things.


TYLER

 

[oneaday]

gauranteed there are several near you. You are in a populated area, so market research is going to be big business there. here's a link to the home page of the company I went to. They are in about 12 cities.

http://www.fieldwork.com/

Same company that my friend manages here in AZ.

 

[Saully]

Same company that my friend manages here in AZ.

Thanks, I'll sign up for it. I'm on the list of some other company but they always screen me out instead of inviting me to participate.

 

[WhiteLightning]

http://www.fieldwork.com/

Thanks Dave,

I think I'll sign up and see what happens.