Global Test Market is an international market research company that pays members for participating in their market research. Owned by Global Market Insite, it's based in America and open to people around the world.

1. sign up

You must be at least 18 years of age to join or you must be 14 to 17 years of age and have parental or legal guardian permission to join.

Signing up for an account is very easy and free. You can sign up by visiting www.globaltestmarket.com and clicking a blue banner “join”. You need to provide an email address, a password and your name and home address. Once registered, you will automatically receive an activation email with a link to confirm your membership. Then you need complete 8 short surveys on your profile to qualify for more opportunities. Bear in mind the membership is limited to one member per household.

The Surveys:

Similar to most survey websites you can only participate in their surveys after your get a survey invitation from globaltestmarket.com via your email account. In general the reward for each survey will always be stated in the survey invitation. Then you need to answer a few pre-screen questions to see if you are qualified to complete the survey or not.

The surveys are about different topics and subject matters. You get MarketPoints for completing most surveys or are given a couple of entries to its daily and monthly sweepstakes. The value of MarketPoints is fixed against the U.S. Dollar at 5 cents per MarketPoint.

Depending on the survey length the rewards start from 15 MarketPoints to 80 MarketPoints or even more. If you are not qualified for the full survey you will get a daily and monthly prize draws.

The Referral:

Global Test Market encourages you to refer your friends and family to the Global Test Market community. However at the present you can’t get bonus rewards for your referrals.

The Payment:

On the Global Test Market site you can redeem your MarketPoints for a cheque sent by post. You have to have at least 1000 MarketPoints and that's equal to $50. Usually the payment would take 6-8 weeks to complete.

What I like?

I have joined over 20 paid surveys websites since 2009. Global Test Market site was my favourite survey site and is still one of my highly ranked survey panels.

First, the layout of Global Test Market site is quite pleasing and easy to follow. You can find all the information you need under five items: Home, Join, Benefits, FAQs and About Us. Whenever I click any of the itmes, I am very quickly taken to my requested page.

Second, the survey rewards are appropriate for the time I have spent. After I've completed each survey, the reward has always instantly appeared in my account.

Third, not like most survey websites that pay you vouchers or prize draw entries, Global Test Market site pays you cash. To me cash is the ultimate redemption. I have the flexibility to spend it the way I want to.

Fourth, Global Test Market site has many surveys to participate. More often I can get 4 or 5 invitations per week.

What I dislike?

Although I can receive survey invitations regularly, I still feel the payment threshold a bit too high to me. It took me almost 4 months to redeem my first earning of £28. Once you made a redemption for your hard-made earnings you still need wait for another 8 weeks to let them process the withdrawal request.

In 2009 they used to give you 5 MarketPoints if you were screened out. Now for making the effort they just give you a daily and monthly draws. It also seems that the amount of time you get screened out has increased. For this reason Global Test Market site is replaced by mysurvey.com as my favorite survey website.

There is only one redemption option. To people who are worried about disclosing their private information it is not convenient. I would like to say it would make Global Test Market site more favourable if PayPal was included as an option to receive payment.

Conclusion:

Globaltestmarket.com is one of the most well established and reputed online surveys companies. I would be more than happy to recommend it to anybody who are interested in making money for surveys in their spare time.

For more paid survey websites please visit my other articles on Factoidz.

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