Submitting Surveys: Every Little Minute Counts!
Sometimes taking online surveys can get tedious. No, not the part of the online survey where you get to rate your impression of a product or offer suggestions for improvement – that is fun! The part of online surveys that I am talking about, the snoozer part, is filling out all your contact information and answering the opt-in / opt-out questions – the same stuff that you do over and over again. There are several little tricks of the trade that will help you fill in your paid survey information faster, making you much more efficient, and hopefully earn you more money in the long run.
Auto-Complete: The easiest way to save a little time is to make sure your browser has its “auto-complete” function turned on. Auto complete is a common program embedded in software that can predict a word or phrase you want to type in without actually having to type out the whole thing. For example, you can start typing in the first couple letters of your name or address, and like magic, the rest of the word will appear.
Windows Live Toolbar: You can down load this welcomed help for survey takers for free and make filling out your forms easier, among other functions. Windows Live Toolbar will automatically recognize forms with fields such as first name, last name, and credit card number and auto-fills them based on your past saved information.
Roboform Password Manager: Roboform is another free form-filler program and more that is very useful to folks who take surveys. Not only does this program fill out all your standard forms with one click, it also securely stores online and offline passwords, automatically logs you into online accounts without having to remember and key in your passwords. I have also found that if you just want to fill out part of a page full of text form boxes, you can just highlight the desired area before clicking the Roboform “fill” button and just that section will get the Roboform treatment.
Keyboard Tricks: There are so many shortcuts and timesavers that your keyboard can offer you if you just take the time to learn and memorize them. For example, ALT and the + Key can be quite amazing in shaving seconds and minutes off your response time. On survey web pages where there is a long list of offers rows of “yes” or “no”
selection circles, you can hit ALT+ instead of manually filling out every circle in the row. Using ALT+ this will mark all of your answers as “no” and, if need be, you can go back through the list and change one to “yes”.Submitting Surveys: Every Little Minute Counts!