Australian Online based Market Research company that offers participants a slow but steady variation of questionaires on certain chosen subject areas.
The website is free to join, users get paid between zero and twenty five pence for questionaire's in which they do not qualify using PureProfile. The Cash Rewards vary for a completed questionaire's from fifty pence to as high as four Pounds.
Registration at PureProfile.
To start the Account user must fill in some basic Detail's which can be seen on its frontpage. After this has been done, the user must then take time to fill in what is known as a profile dashboard.
I would say that it takes approximately twenty minutes to complete all fields. The ranges include Personal Detail's such as location,
Money, Finance, Health & Beauty, Work, Education, Shopping, Media, Online useage etc.
The Profile dashboard is essential to be able to qualify for Paid Survey opportunities, and advertising click pay campaigns.
Once the Account is Opened then what?
Every so often upon entering the site there is a next button that is displayed on the website that the company can send individuals messages. These messages would be invitations to some questionaires that are available depending on availability, demographic factors, gender and interests. These I would say are matched against the Personal Detail's contained within the profile dashboard.
Upon completion of questionaire's the history Detail's are stored under "next button- history section. This shows the you have taken and next to the users name at the top of the screen a personal display balance is shown.
Is there anything else to complete other than questionnaire's?
Every so often the site will pay five pence per advertising campaign to get people to click on sponsored Advert's on a particular business webpages. These advertising click campaigns are similar to clicking on google adverts though this time PureProfile. Also Telephonesurvey's and other similar are claimed to be on offer. I have no experience of these tactics as yet. The advantages here is that at least PureProfile will pay the user to click on adverts every so often in order to Earn Cash.
Do PureProfile attempt to sell goods/Services directly?
No definitely not, they are interested in getting data and analysing this for Market Research purposes only.
What are the drawbacks using PureProfile by giving them Personal data?
Well the data collected by PureProfile, can be used by selling this to third parties. Personally i have read the privacy policy and they do not disclose or sell individuals profiles, they are grouped together. So this minimises and effectively eliminates the risk of third party data intrusion.
Upon completion of enough questionaire's, and when the user account balance is twenty five Pounds or more, then the user can request a Payment directly into his/her chosen Bank Account.
Comment
The payout is stated as twenty one Business Day's from request of Payment until the Payment is successfully received. The drawback here is that 21 business days is approximately five to six weeks.
What other benefits are there of using PureProfile website.
The site has a nice well designed Search Engine that enables the users to Search and Browse Product's that people are interested in buying or finding out Information for.
Secondly the Company has its own blog area, where on a monthly basis business activities and other news which are worthwhile reading and interesting are displayed.
Thirdly PureProfile claim to be committed to following the guidelines of the MRS Market Research society United Kingdom. This indicates the professionalism of the website and goes some way to proving itself as a genuine intermediary for companies to interact with different people.
Fourthly and more importantly if users refer friends that join and earn twenty five Pounds themselves, five Pounds is awarded to each new referal. So if people refer ten friends that will take part and successfully complete questionnaire's, this would give the account holder fifty Pounds.
How many people are members of PureProfile?
On the website, they claim to have around four hundred and twenty thousand members with approximately five thousand new members joining each month.
Quality of the Website of PureProfile
It uses more innovative and unique color schemes, and navigation techniques which is good to use.
Conclusion
While I am very happy to be a member of PureProfile, I would like to see faster account payouts, and slightly more questionnaire's to take part in, I feel that the quality of the website is very good. The website makes direct Cash Payments eventually, which is somewhat better and less confusing than requesting and waiting for gifts and Gift vouchers.
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Dec 25th, 2007
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