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Market research is one method companies use to listen to their customers. Focus groups, online bulletin boards, mobile studies and In-depth interviews are a few methods to make your opinions heard. They often provide the opportunity to try out new products and view new services before they are even released. Participants are compensated for their time, and many people often find the groups and studies a fun and rewarding experience.

Problems rarely occur when dealing with an established marketing research company as these companies rely on the goodwill of their community to attract people like you to participate in their studies. Check the Insights Association’s Company Member Directory or with your local Better Business Bureau or Chamber of Commerce. Any company that asks for money is not a legitimate company. Legitimate marketing research companies conducting focus groups pay you and never the other way around! 

Paid market research isn’t and never will involve a sales pitch. The goal is to gain feedback on products and services used in our everyday lives. Companies want your feedback before bringing a new product or service to the general population. Rest assured, there will never be any sales attempt made by our company. Ever.

The aggregate data collected in surveys is transferred to our clients. This means that your survey answers are not connected to you personally. Our client will receive a summary of all survey answers of the participants as a group.

Yes – You will receive an honorarium, in the form of a virtual reward ecard, which will be sent to you via email after you participate in a study with Engage in Depth. These reward ecards can be used for prepaid Visa debit cards or major merchant gift cards. The amount of your honorarium will vary and depends on the type of study you participate in. You will be informed of the honorarium amount at the appropriate time during the study screening process. Receiving an honorarium is a courtesy to thank you for volunteering your time and sharing your opinions with us. Participation is not considered a part-time job, nor is it a source of income.

All marketing research projects compensate participants for their time and opinions. In-Person Studies: 
Payments are made, via virtual gift card 5 to 7 days after completion of a study or in-person once the study has concluded Telephone, Virtual, Online Boards: Payments are made, via virtual gift card, 5 to 7 days after completion of a study.

Research invitations to studies will arrive by email from the Engage recruiting specialist responsible for that study or you will receive a phone call to go through the preliminary screening questions. Each invitation will include a short description of the study, its timing, and the compensation being offered. It may will also include some questions or a survey link that will help us see if you pre-qualify. If interested, please reply to the email or click the link and take the survey. The research recruiter will call you if meet the initial criteria, ask you a few more questions by telephone, and include you in the project if you are a good fit.

In market research, the goal is to achieve a representative sample of the target population for each study. To do this, we ask a series of questions, usually ranging between 5-15 minutes, to determine if someone is an immediate fit for our study. If we have too many people who are too similar, thus unbalancing our study, or if we believe someone is very close to what we are looking for but may not be an exact fit, we will place them on what is called a HOLD. This simply means we are trying to communicate with the team running the study to ensure we can use that participant prior to committing them to a group time. During this process, at no time is any identifying or contact information released. Participant personal identifying information is only used by the Engage team to update research participants as we find we can use them.

We do occasionally dismiss participants from groups or in-depth interviews early, but in these cases, compensation is almost always offered, unless it is determined that someone has truly been inconsistent or dishonest in the screening process. To account for those who do not show up or cancel at the last minute, we often over recruit for a research session.  As such, there will be instances where all participants are not needed to participate. If it is determined that your participation is not needed and you have shown up on-time as requested, we will still pay you the promised incentive.  Our research participants are the lifeline of our business and all of your opinions are truly valued. We hope that you will continue to participate in our screening process so that you will have another opportunity to participate in research with us again soon.

We recruit only qualitative research, in which researchers interact directly with the participants. We are not a survey company, although we often use surveys in our screening process. Our projects range from in-person and telephone interviews and focus groups to online, video, and mobile studies, in which you and the researchers connect and communicate with others nationwide. Still other studies include contextual site visits, ethnographies, and shop-alongs, with researchers meeting with you in your natural habitat.

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