Quest for Quiescence

Yesterday I wrote a follow up review of GreenfieldOnline.com. Today I’m going to post another follow up review, this time of SurveyLion.com. You can find the original review of Survey Lion over here. Last time I discussed the the company, their website, referral program etc. This time, I’m going to share my personal experiences after participating in their panel for a month.

Survey Lion was very different from the other panels I tried. They are an independent research firm and only deliver their own surveys. As a result I received much fewer surveys from Survey Lion than from the others. Read on to find out more…

Quantity of Surveys

If you remember from yesterday, I received 50 surveys in total over my one month trial. In fact, I only received three surveys from Survey Lion during the entire month. It may not be entirely fair to compare stats from Survey Lion with the other two panels because of the small sample size. But, I’m going to anyway. Of the three surveys delivered by Survey Lion, I actually completed all three. That’s a 100% completion rate! So far so good. Not once did I get booted out of a survey for not meeting demographic or any other requirements.

Duration

On average the time specified to complete a survey from Survey Lion was 23.3 minutes. My average time to complete these surveys was 31 minutes. The worst case, in terms of duration, was a particular survey that was spec’d to take 30 minutes but actually took 45 minutes. That’s 50% over the specified time. Although the surveys took longer, I think you can feel better knowing that you have a higher probability of completing the survey and not wasting your time. In total, I spent a total of 1 hour and 33 minutes completing surveys for Survey Lion.

Compensation

All Survey Lion surveys offer cash rewards as incentives.The cash rewards I received ranged from $3 for a survey spec’d to take 10-15 minutes to $6 for a survey spec’d to take 30 minutes. In total I earned $15 for my hour and 33 minutes spent completing surveys. That translates to an hourly rate of $9.68 per hour. Not terribly bad for filling out surveys.

I requested payment a few days ago but so far haven’t heard anything. The confirmation page indicated that I should receive a check in 4-6 weeks. I’ll be sure to update this post when I receive the check and let you know how long it took.

Other observations

The surveys for Survey lion were interesting which was good. They were simple and didn’t try to get to fancy. They stuck to multiple choice questions with a few text boxes for custom entry. The surveys focused on products and services that I actually use and care about. It will be neat to see when the products emerge, whether any of my suggestions were incorporated into the final products.

Conclusion

I didn’t receive many surveys from SurveyLion.com, but I was able to complete every single one I did receive. The reward value for surveys was good. The surveys were easy to complete and I didn’t need to waste time working on surveys I didn’t qualify for. These factors made for a pretty good pay out rate. The surveys were also interesting and relevant which was nice to see. Over all, I was pretty pleased with Survey Lion. If only they could provide more surveys, and switch to a paypal system for delivering rewards, they’d be perfect.

There’s just one more follow up review left. After that I’ll be posting a comparison between the three panels and I’ll also give my take on whether or not its worth completing surveys online as a source for alternative income.

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