Telesales calls: the perfect solution

[Moonbear]

I've done a few paid surveys and I think they're a brilliant idea. I wonder what percentage of market research is conducted on under-funded students.

I'm going to venture the guess that they have a pretty skewed demographic on those. Only poor students who have time and will do anything for a free lunch, and senior citizens, seem likely to stop and talk to those folks doing the surveys. I can't imagine the mother trying to wrangle a 7 and 10 yr old kid away from the pet store window is likely to stop and answer any of those questions, nor is the middle-aged person just running in for something on their lunch break. Those surveys are more fun anyway, because you get to see the product, and often they are pretty cool. I did one where I got to rate stuffed animals, whether I'd buy it and what price would be reasonable vs too high. I wasn't sure if some were just there to test your honesty, because there were one or two in the bunch that were butt ugly! I wouldn't have wanted one of those if it was handed to me free with a $10 bill taped to its belly. A few were absolutely adorable, the kind you'd get for the holidays to display, not really hand to a kid to drool on, and then some were just average...the kind you would buy for a kid to drag around the floor and chew on the ears.

There was another I did that I remember they were probably very disappointed with all my responses. It was for frozen food items. Stuff like those french toast sticks (I think those were in that survey, they're on the market now). There wasn't a single item in the list I said I would buy. It all looked pretty gross to me. They didn't ask if I buy frozen food before I started the survey. Except for the frozen vegetables (and ocassionally some ice cream), I skip those aisles in the store entirely.