Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

Bob_The_Terrible

Righto. :beer:

Chrisv

Work experiences
Hosted by Marius Van Dijke
£1.5015 minutes £6.00/hr 53 places remaining

mikep22

Had 3 studies when I logged in this morning, none of which taking long - probably coming to about £1.50. Boom Boom shake the room.

little_green

Recently joined PA so a bit of a noob. Not getting as many surveys as I had hoped for & have completed all the profile questions any tips?

AprilLady

It's just a bit of a wait and see, I'm afraid! It just depends on when people upload their surveys - which can be any time of day or night! Places do fill up quickly though, so it can be hard to get to surveys in time!

silvercar

Follow up 1
Hosted by Jennifer Barhorst
£0.756 minutes £7.47/hr

Failed on me last night. I kept answering the first "real" page of questions and getting error messages so couldn't proceed. Wasted time messaging the host, who just apologised and asked for more details.

little_green

No surveys since Friday ughhhhh it's so slow, had really hoped for more. I have answered ALL the about me questions

silvercar

Had a couple of 10p surveys that were really pre-survey qualifiers. Interesting that researchers are using prolific in this way.

little_green

Still nothing for me. Last one was Friday. Checked fairly regularly over the weekend and pretty much continuously yesterday but nothing. Is it normal not to have anything for days?
Looks like I'm going to have to sign up for another money earning site as well

mikep22

little_green wrote: »

Still nothing for me. Last one was Friday. Checked fairly regularly over the weekend and pretty much continuously yesterday but nothing. Is it normal not to have anything for days?
Looks like I'm going to have to sign up for another money earning site as well

Certainly weekends are quieter IMHO.

I think you are being unrealistic if you think Prolific, or indeed any, survey making site will be the answer to making cash. I use a plethora of sites as at times every site will be quiet.

I would generally say it is wise to keep the Prolific site open on a tab and also get yourself the Prolific assistant (its not officially supported by Prolific) for Chrome, which I find very useful.

You also need to bear in mind what type of site Prolific is, it is supporting academic studies - not commercial ones. Therefore there are generally less studies available. Recently there has been an influx is users in the last year....therefore with the same number of studies, and more users - there are less to go around.

But Prolific is still by some way my top earner, over sites like Qmee, Global Test Market, Populous, YouGov, Swagbucks and so on.