Highest Paying Surveys Ever: $350,000 and an iPod Touch
If you’ve ever tried one of those sites that pays you to take surveys, you know they’re always insanely long and they only pay you a few cents for each one, so it’s essentially a huge waste of time. I recently decided to start my own paid surveys site, with a twist. You visit the site, you fill out five surveys, you receive a confirmation email for each one and you click the link in the email, and you’re done. In return, you are entered into a raffle for a Lamborghini LP640 Roadster (the badass version of the Murcielago) as well as a side raffle for a number of iPod Touches that will be given away every single week until the raffle for the Lambo ends. Each survey takes about a minute, and five minutes of your time in return for a $350,000 car and a brand new iPod doesn’t sound like such a bad deal, does it? Click here to check out the site.
How do you know this is real and not a scam? I’ve already been asked this a few times so I even decided to put a little section on the actual site about it. It’s not a “scam” because you never have to enter a credit card number or a Paypal account, and you never have to spend ANY money. The most you have to lose is five minutes of your time. Everyone has an equal chance of winning all of the prizes and you might even win more than one, your odds never go down. Plus, look at how professional that landing page looks 
. Here are some more questions I’ve been asked, incase you were wondering the same things:
- How are you making money with this? The site is sponsored by a few companies who have provided the surveys for you to fill out. To enter the raffle, you must fill out all five surveys, and I get paid based on how many total surveys have been filled out. I’m gambling on the assumption that I’ll be able to market the site on a large enough scale that the number of people who sign up will generate enough revenue to outweigh the cost of the prizes. And hey, $350,000 ain’t nothin’ to a baller like me (actually it is, I just wanted to say that
) - Can I fill out each survey a hundred times so I have a hundred chances of winning? You’re not allowed to, but honestly there’s no way I would know if you did. I’m not sure if the sponsors will check IP addresses though, so you might want to think about it. You will also receive a confirmation email for each survey and you will need to click the link in this email, so obviously you will have to use real email addresses.
- What are my chances of winning? About 1 in 40,000 for the Lambo and 1 in 1500 for an iPod. Compare that to the odds of winning the lottery which is about 1 in 191,000,000. Plus, this contest is free to enter. How much better could it possibly get?
I’m also thinking about having a contest where you can win one of the iPods as well as a few hundred raffle tickets. It would work like a regular blog contest and it would require you to link to the site with the supplied anchor text. What do you all think, would you be interested in something like that?
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Yey I’m first to post lol.
That site looks really awesome. I don’t think I will enter this contest because I have my own business, but it would be nice to win a Lambo.
One tip: enable dofollow link on your blog haha
SL,
Great idea… I probably would have done something like win a Hummer (the automobile… get your head out of the gutter) or something MUCH CHEAPER!! That being said, I hope you make a ton of money on this.
Just an FYI. When I went to fill out survey 1 you get a page load error:
Firefox can’t find the server at survey1.lambosweepstakes.com.
I did not try the others…
Good Luck
Thanks for letting me know, it’s all fixed now.
I’ve seen other contests giving away cheaper cars like Beamers so I decided to just go totally ridiculous and give away a Lambo, thinking that anyone who has a choice would always want the Lambo over the other giveaways.
What happens if you dont get enough peeps to fill out the survey, you eat 350K minus those who did fill it out?
When does the contest end?
Basically yeah, but I decided to do it because I’m fairly sure I’ll be able to pull in enough signups. I’m planning on ending it in 6 months, so that should be enough time to get all the leads it needs.
What sort of marketing are you doing for this?
If you want to make it more legitimate looking I’d put proper contact details on the site like a PO box and even a 1800 phone number. If you don’t want to be bothered by calls I’d just outsource it to one of those PA/Secretary services in the Philippines (email me if you want some company names - dont want to appear spammy by listing url’s) who’d do it for you and cost like $500/month.
Also on your Privacy Policy you have a title tag html error.
Good luck with it - would love to hear how it goes in a future blog post.
I have a LOT of stuff in the works, I’ll write a post running through all the marketing tactics once it gets off the ground so I can let you all know which ones have been working and which ones haven’t.
Where’s the error, I couldn’t find it?
Seriously who designs your sites? I love their work.
I designed SL and my buddy designed that one. Send me an email info[at]stakloaded[dot]net and I’ll send you his info.
LOL sponsored sites look more like affiliate sites and the incentivized cash ones at that. Good luck on the contest though
i dont think any surveys can get us paid or get in few bugs … better wud b using that time in making some money online by other ways …
The only problem with this contest is you will always win. Who in their right mind is going to give a Lamborghini away to a random winner when they could just give one to their friend and list them as the winner OR not give one away and keep the contest running until it dies out. No offense it’s a great idea in theory but let’s be honest…people are greedy.
Yeah I see what you’re saying, but you could say the same thing about any contest. How do you know every blog who has contests doesn’t just rig them so their friend’s blog wins? When restaurants have those “fill out a survey online and win $25k” how do you know they’re ever going to give away the money?
Honestly I’d rather keep it legit because something this big would almost surely get found out, which would constitute as fraud.
Ok…I had to do the math on this one, it’s a $350k car, and the odds are 1 in 40,000, right? That means you’re only going to accept 40,000 entries on this? If that’s the case, then in order to cover the costs of the car you need to make $8.75 off each entry. And that’s at no profit for you. I’d think you’d want some money for your hard work, let’s add in your share so that bumps it up to a minimum of $10 per entry. Are your sponsors really paying you $10 / form ($2/survey) filled out for each person? If so, great job on finding such great partners…
Each one ranges from $1.50-2.50 but I’m also betting that there will be a lot of people who fill out 2 or 3 and then quit, which has been happening a lot so far, and if they don’t fill out all 5 their raffle entry isn’t counted.
This is a good idea to juice some some incentivized offers.
Did you have to pull a raffle license out in order to be able to offer this?
Anyhow, good work on being fresh and creative. At first glance the page looks like something I’m immune to: a landing page. But, there are things you could do to make it look more legit (try the 1-800 # / Po Box I would say) The design is good though.
No I didn’t need to get a license, since it’s not technically gambling. I’ll look into the # and PO Box, you have any other suggestions for making it look more legit? That’s been a big concern so far, even though I actually am planning to give away the prizes, it seems so ridiculous that a lot of people don’t believe it’ll happen.
If you’re doing this yourself you may want to consider going through a fulfillment company. There are MANY laws regarding sweepstakes and contests of this nature (don’t even get me started on taxes/titles for cars and such) and it is a lot more complicated than you probably think it is.
When I worked on Miller Lite’s web stuff we dealt with some major headaches around giving away a vehicle once–and that’s a company that has been doing these kinds of things for a LONG time.
I hope you didn’t bite off more than you can chew on this and consulted a good lawyer because you can get sued in a big way over these things.
In terms of making it look more professional…your “is this real” link at the bottom needs to have the pop-up window’s copy made much less casual. When someone is trying to determine if this contest for a high-ticket item is a scam or not, the last thing they want is what reads like the comforting words of a buddy. They want marketing/legal speak that sounds official and legit.
Just my .02, feel free to email me if you want to discuss further as I have a lot of experience with these sort of things.
I agree with Mike regarding the “is this real link”.
I’d also make it more prominent on the page by putting it above the fold and in a bigger font so it doesn’t blend in with the other stuff.
You say on this page “You visit the site, you fill out five surveys, you receive a confirmation email for each one and you click the link in the email, and you’re done.” But on the actual sweepstakes page, it says that you basically only have to enter once, i.e. “all you need to do is fill out a short survey”, and “to enter all you need to do is fill out the survey on the following page”, etc. Doesn’t that language contradict itself?
Also, your links to the privacy policy and the terms of use both go back to this page http://www.lambosweepstakes.com/#, and not to another page like I would expect.
Finally, I guess I’m not sure what your definition of “personal information” is, but on the second survey it asks for name, address, etc, which I would consider personal info…
I need to update that “five surveys” part, it was five surveys up until a few hours ago when I decided to drop the requirements to see if it would generate more leads.
The terms of use and privacy policy are javascript popups, that’s why it shows a #, they don’t popup when you click the links?
Timing is everything
Maybe the popup was blocked by my Firefox 3, because I added a new extension to it that seems to be blocking a lot of things like that - good news/bad news.
You are getting closer… Incentivized pages don’t give you the second step until you finish step one… but they require that you go to step two, and then three, etc. Their are scripts that can help you do create this.