Best Paying Online Focus Groups for Your Side Hustle

Best Paying Online Focus Groups for Your Side HustleBest Paying Online Focus Groups for Your Side HustleAre you looking for a side hustle to earn extra money? Participating in online focus groups can be an easy way to generate some cash. You wont make a ton of money, but you will be able to supplement your earnings. Whats a Focus Group? A focus group involves a group of individuals who have been invited to participate and share their opinions. They can be conducted in-person or online. Focus groups are used for market research for new and existing products, services, and organizations, for political campaign and issues research, to generate ideas, get feedback, test usability, evaluate concepts and data, and to understand customer perceptions. A focus group is composed of a group of participants led by a confrencier. How Online Focus Groups Work In a traditional in-person focus group, a moderator leads the discussion. Each participant responds to questions and shares their op inion with others in the group. With an online focus group, the discussion takes place via the web, chat, or your tablet or smartphone. When you sign up or are invited to participate, you will be given a link to access the focus group site. Youll be able to join the discussion, ask questions, and give feedback to the moderator and other participants. There are similar paid opportunities where you provide individual feedback using video or web-based software. How Much You Can Expect to Earn There isnt a set amount you can earn by participating in a focus group. Some groups offer a token payment as an incentive to participate, and others pay more. Earnings typically range from $30-$200 depending on the company and the time commitment, which is usually an hour or two. Some focus groups hold sessions on a longer-term basis where you may meet regularly for a few weeks or longer. Participants are paid in cash (via PayPal, for example), check, prepaid credit cards, or gift cards. Other s pay in points, where users can collect points to redeem for a prepaid credit card. Check the Details Before you start signing up to participate in a focus group, take a few minutes to check out the details and the group requirements. Its important to be sure the company running the group is legitimate before you share your personal information. As with any pay for participating website, its important to avoid getting scammed. Carefully read reviews before you sign up to make sure the site is legitimate and a good match for your interests. Be clear as to how, when, and how much you will get paid- is it in cash, check, gift cards, or points? Is it a set fee or a token for your time? Read the fine print so youre clear as to what you can expect to earn and what youll need to do to get paid. Survey Police have a list of reviews for survey sites you can use to decide whether a site is worth trying. Also, read the reviews on the facebook inc page for the sites youre interested in. Y oull find mixed reviews for most survey sites. Some people have great experiences others dont. How to Find Legitimate Focus Groups to Make Extra Money For some virtual focus groups, youll need to complete a survey to get an invitation to join. It is to ensure youre a good match for the group. For example, Focusgroup.com (Facebook) invites participants to groups based on their survey responses. When you click on the survey, youll get a list of survey questions to answer. Survey respondents will be considered for focus groups and invited by email if they are selected. Other sites will let you skip the surveys and register directly to participate in focus groups or online or video interviews for particular companies. Youll find the newest focus groups that are looking for participants on various Facebook pages. 7 Online Focus Group Listings Here are sevenwebsites you can use to find opportunities to participate in paid focus groups, along with their Facebook pages so you can re ad reviews and find the latest groups seeking participants. 2020Panel (Facebook) has paid opportunities for participants to share their opinions. You can sign up for local or online focus groups.Brand Institute (Facebook) seeks participants for pharmaceutical and consumer market research panel groups.Engage conducts consumer and healthcare (youll need to pick one) market research studies, and pay ranges from $50-$250.Mindswarms (Facebook) pays $50 for your insights. Youll need to answer seven questions using video.Userinterviews.com (Facebook) pays you for your feedback on real projects. After you sign up, youll be invited by email to complete surveys. If you qualify for a study, youll get paid to participate. You can search for online or over the phone interviews, as well as for in-person or in-home opportunities. warenmuster Market Research (Facebook) pays $50-$400 for group, telephone, or online interviews for their clients advertising campaigns, products, or services.Recruit and Field (Facebook) have nationwide webcam studies, as well as focus groups in a variety of locations. You wont earn a ton of money, but youll get a token of Googles appreciation or a donation to your favorite charity if you sign up to participate in Googles User Experience Research. More Ways to Find Focus Groups FindFocusGroups.com (Facebook), FocusGroups.org (Facebook), and FocusGroupFinder.com list current focus groups seeking participants, some of which are online. If you have the time to spare, there are many opportunities to participate in in-person focus groups. Plaza Research (Facebook), for example, has facilities across the U.S. and pays $50-$200 to group participants. SIS International Research (Facebook) conducts focus groups, one-on-one interviews, and research studies. You can find a variety of (virtual and in-person) focus group opportunities on Craigslist. Search Craigslist jobs and gigs for focus or focus group. You also can search Facebook for focus group to fin d a list of pages of companies seeking applicants. Read More New Sources for Side Income

Do you get Sunday scaries 5 ways to banish them

Do you get Sunday scaries 5 ways to banish themDo you get Sunday scaries 5 ways to banish themAs the clock ticks ever closer to Sunday evening, you might recognize a sinking feeling in your heart. Ugh, another day at that dreaded place is what your mind tells you, as you reluctantly get yourself ready for the new week at work.This feeling is something we call the Sunday scaries (its like the scary cousin of a case of the Mondays)Whether its a powerful feeling that overcomes you on a weekly basis, or just a hint of fear that creeps up on you as realize your Sunday off is passing you by, getting the Sunday scaries is that feeling of dread before going back to work on Monday morning.The good news is that you dont have to feel that way. Take action to banish the Sunday scaries and get back to enjoying your weekend so that you feel rejuvenated as the new week begins.What causes the Sunday scaries?Everyone dreads Monday morning from time to time. But if you find yourself sinking into the S unday blues week after week, something else is to blame. The Sunday scaries are a sign that youre not satisfied with the status quo. Perhaps you feel unfulfilled by your current job duties, youre overworked or underpaid, you got transferred to a new division and dont like your new coworkers, or you feel unsupported by your company. Or maybe youre just flat out bored.Everyones Sunday blues happen for a different reason, so the first step is to figure out whats trigging yours. Think about your ideal work sttte. What is the disconnect between your current job and that ideal, fantasy position? Imagine your boss came in tomorrow and said, I want you to do _____. How would you fill in that blank to feel more energized and excited about work?5 ways to banish the Sunday Scaries1. Re-evaluate your job dutiesWhen youre feeling stagnant at work, its a great time to talk to your supervisor about your role. A good manager is invested in your career growth and wants you to feel fulfilled. In many cases, taking on a more diverse set of duties can occur if you simply ask. Think about ways that you think your skills are going unused. Then, present your supervisor with an action plan. For example, I think my communication skills are my major strength, but I dont always feel like Im using them to the teams greatest advantage. I would love to create a monthly e-newsletter to send to clients.2. Take advantage of growth opportunitiesIts in your organizations best interest to retain you, so many workplaces offer a variety of employee enrichment activities. Check out your companys offerings. Management classes, mentorship programs, educational workshops, or even graduate school tuition remission may be available to you. If these programs arent currently offered by your organization, ask This shows that you are excited about growing and developing your skills. The worst they can do is say no.3. Look for opportunities to leadIf youre invested in your current organization but feel like you just cant move up to the next level, look for opportunities to show management what youve got. Rather than following your job duties to the letter, go above and beyond. Speak up with ideas at team meetings, offer to take the lead on an upcoming project, or ask to be trained on a new process. This shows that youre invested in learning and leading, qualities that upper management will look for when making promotion decisions.4. Burnt out? Time to schedule that vacationBurnout doesnt do you or your organization any good. If youre feeling overworked and dreading going to the office on Monday, you wont be an effective employee. It might feel like you have way too much work to get away, but schedule your vacation anyway. Even if its just a long weekend, you will return feeling rejuvenated and ready (even excited) to jump back into your job.5. Sometimes its not you, its your workplaceIf youve tried to make changes at work but still feel that familiar Sunday dread, it might be time for a larger change. Initiating a job change isnt something you should do lightly, so take your time to do your research. Think about the qualities that youre looking for in a new workplace. Potential for advancement, using a certain skill set, developing new skills, salary, work-life balance, educational or enrichment opportunities, location, and company culture are all important considerations.Once youve made a wish list for your new job, start exploring opportunities in your desired area. Check out honest reviews about company culture to figure out what business place might be right for you. Sometimes the fit of the workplace is more important than the nitty gritty details of the job you do. Figuring out the right balance of job qualities and office culture is crucial to get back to loving your Sundays again.Linda Le Phan is the Content absatzwirtschaft Manager at kununu US, a place where job seekers can get an authentic view of life at a company and where employers have a trusted pl atform to better engage talent. When shes not creating content about the modern workplace, company culture, and life work hacks, she is probably going out to get an iced coffee (even in Boston winter), raiding the snack drawer, or jamming to kununus Spotify playlist.This article first appeared on Kununu.

How to Get Yourself Fired By and On the Internet

How to Get Yourself Fired By and On the Internet How to Get Yourself Fired By and On the Internet If you havent already heard the shocking, sad tale of Taylor Chapman, who recently accomplished this, here it is (minus its coarser details). Chapman, a 27-year-old Dunkin Donuts regular customer, and, ironically, a commercial-video spokesperson, unwisely posted, on Facebook, her profanity-laced, racist-fueled and ultimately self-destructive 8-minute video that got her fired by her South Florida boss, online, in a retaliatory video, after a torrent of online and voice mail condemnations. (Warning the company video is also profanity-laced.)The lurid details and condemnations are everywhere on the Net. The fire(her)storm her video and behavior triggered has even spread to The Daily Show, where she was mercilessly roasted, in an equally vivid, livid skit. Overnight, she became the fruchtwein hated person on the Internet and poster child for self-sabotaging employees, as a direct result of the venomous, seething, self-indulgent and utterly miscalculated tirade sparked by her outrage. Outrage over what?1. Not having gotten a receipt with her late-night Dunkin Donuts purchase2. Having been told to wait until the next day to collect on the Dunkin Donuts guarantee of a free meal as compensation for an unissued receipt3. Alleged attitude from the counter server handling her purchase.At this point, further condemnation of her behavior and video is neither necessary nor constructive. Having allegedly gone into hiding and having erased as much of her trail on social media as possible, Chapman has, without a doubt, gotten the amply-made online-community, media and employers message.What is much more useful is to identify, in a general way and as a cautionary tale, the kinds of background factors, motivations, thinking and risks associated with such an egregiously failed cost-benefit calculation that can cost not only ones current job, but also future career opportunities. A G uide to Getting Fired OnlineAs a warning and an analysis, here is my how to get yourself fired by and on the Internet guide1. Claim rights, deny obligations This blunder is responsible for much of the incivility, narcissism, selfishness, self-entitlement and maybe even much of the violence of modern life (e.g., manifested in the exercise of someones self-perceived right to have your Nikes or iPhone- not just like yours, actually yours, with no offsetting obligation). Instead of seeing rights as but one side of a fair coin, balanced by corresponding equally important obligations on the flip side, anyone growing up now or in the past twenty years has been bombarded with the culturally approved message that a fair shake and fair toss require a one-sided coin stamped my rights. As ones inflated sense of entitlement expands without apparent limit, patience, gratitude and empathy tend to disappear into some black hole of and in the soul.Thats what appears to have made Chapmans rant so nat ural, so right- a matter of natural rights, e.g., for a replacement meal on demand, pure and uncontaminated by any notion or awareness of corresponding equally natural obligations, e.g., to be at least civil, maybe even understanding. Ask yourself this When, if ever, was the last time you heard or read a mention of the natural obligations of man in any discussion, e.g., of Thomas Paine, John Locke, the French or American revolutions, the Bill of Rights and, most importantly, of the natural rights of man?Google it (in quotation marks)- youll find at least 798,000 results for the natural rights of man. The natural obligations of man? Only 175.The natural duties of man?Nine.2. Confuse notoriety with fame, celebrity and community If you want to get fired and maybe sued or even jailed, ignore the difference between being famous, celebrated and being notorious. To increase those odds, also confuse these with community. Thats a lesson now incarcerated, heavily-fined and sued Vancouver hock ey rioters are learning after videos of them committing assaults, robberies, firebomb vandalism, etc., in 2011 were used to finger and arrest them. Because few of us still live in villages or even small towns, whatever sense of community and community acceptance and validation that may have once existed for us is sorely, if even only unconsciously, missed, leaving a void poorly filled by celebrity.Fundamentally, celebrity is the state of being familiar to and shown respect by a large percentage of the bevlkerung offered unstinting hospitality by many of them being a target of envy, gossip and sought favors and feeling that we matter to others, including those who barely know us. Reread this list. Think, village. Now think, Brad Pitt.Hence the pervasive, sometimes deadly insistence on respect from strangers on city streets, far from any village, among whom are those ready to shoot us for dissin them. Insecure with whatever validation their failing community can offer, they will deman d or extort it- or exact revenge if they and you fail. Completing this perversion and extension of community, celebrity itself has been broadened to include notoriety- fame for doing something awful. Hence, there is blanketing obliviousness to how utterly different community and notoriety are, among those who expect community in-group support for doing something rotten.Looking for fame, celebrity, justice and a sense of community through notoriety may, through a horrible irony and to your dismay, thrust you into an online community much larger, much more aware and much less forgiving of you than any village- and force you to look for another job.3. Ignore the difference between quantity and quality (of YouTube views, Facebook likes, tweets, etc.) Chapman gleefully warned the Dunkin Donuts staff that her surveillance video would be going viral, unmindful of the full and natural implication of the term exponential and potentially deadly growth. That blissfully nave personal equation of boundless growth with bounty is a reflection of the deeply entrenched bigger is better, gigantomania, growth-is-good, GNP growth fixation of modern economies, societies and cultures. Somehow, we have come to believe that quantity is good, no matter what its quality or amount, even when it should be abundantly clear it is not. I cant wait to post this on Facebook, Chapman exclaims in the video. This kind of thinking (to the extent that any occurs), fixating on anticipated quantity, recklessly and delusionally equates it with quality. If you want to get yourself fired, get fired up about racking up a huge Facebook or YouTube pinball score, without questioning the wisdom of the game or what the score really means. Cant wait? If only she had.4. Mistake your Facebook page for the observable universe Social media are supposed to be media, conduits and bridges of communication, not self-contained, self-absorbed 2-dimensional social universes that obscure or replace the rest of the worl d and the people in it. When that is not understood, it becomes easy to imagine that not only is the world flat (as a screen)- as ancient erroneously mariners thought, but also that it is populated only by friends- people (who) like us- on our Facebook page.Thats a very dubious and dangerous assumption- not to mention sloppy statistical analysis, given the non-random, selectively screened sample of heavily biased and filtered Facebook friends on which its likely to be based. 5. Watch and mimic too many Jerry Springer re-runs and other reality showsMaybe we should blame CNN and other news networks for incessantly asking, How do you feel? rather than, What do you think? Nah. Blame Jerry Springer and his live family feuds and brawls for elevating heat so far above light that an argument has come to mean only one thing, not two- war. Now, letting the world know how we feel seems to be widely regarded as so much more important than either thinking more about what we feel or whether we sh ould be feeling it in the first place. It certainly has become more important than thinking about or of the feelings of others- unless making them feel pain is what were thinking about. The upshot is that honesty has been reduced to or at least glorified as the emotional bullet to the heart, at the expense of the more thoughtful light shone on the mind.So, if you have some unfulfilled kamikaze need to vent rather than think, negotiate or empathize, go the Springer route- and, if you cant do it on TV, do it on your own show, on YouTube or Facebook. 6. Fail to grasp the difference between the privileged perspective of a video and an imagined perspective privilege of the video maker iPhones and other recording devices are easily misunderstood. The misunderstanding at issue here is to think that because they offer a privileged perspective (that of whoever is doing the filming), they also confer a perspective privilege, namely, to lay indisputable claim to absolute truth and self-righte ousness. Its as though filming is self-validating- in two senses The video is seen as validating its own content and therefore also as validating the video maker. To believe that is to imagine that the uniqueness of the video proves its truth and to confuse the privileged unique perspective with some presumed privileged knowledge.That is tantamount to forgetting a genuine truth Just because its all in your camera doesnt mean that what it means isnt also all or mostly in your head (case).Forget that, and you will be one step closer to stepping onto a global stage and falling off a career cliff.