Post by The Curmudgeon on Feb 17, 2016 14:59:43 GMT 2
Sometimes things just fall in your lap. I responded, bored at work and just killing time, to an ad on Facebook looking for willing participants in a three day survey about crisps (chips to you American types). I clicked and hey, I get paid £60 for taking part, and if my answers were the best of the bunch I get another £60. £120 for talking about CRISPS? Like, my favourite thing ever? Sign me up.
So I did sign up, and it turned out to be Walkers (called Lays in America, I think?) doing the researching. Basically if you answered three or four of their online questions a day you would be paid £60. You had to qualify first because they only needed 18 people. I got in.
So what kind of questions do you think a crisp company would ask you? Your favourite flavour? How many bags you eat a week? Where you buy them? Yeah, 'cos that would make way too much sense.
How exactly do you answer these questions?
If Walkers were a real life person, what would they look like? How would they dress? What would their personality be like?
If the Walkers person held a party, what kind of party would it be? What music would they play? Who would turn up?
Draw a picture of how the Walkers brand makes you feel.
If you go to a shop and Walkers isn't available, what do you pick instead? Draw a picture of how THAT brand makes you feel.
And those answers? If you happen to write some bullshit about what Mr Walkers would sound like and what kind of parties he'd be into, they'll be on you to go into detail on WHY you think that. Fucking madness.
As for the pictures, I can barely write my name, never mind draw a picture. I spend a few terrible hours trying to draw something..anything..for how Walkers made me "feel." I then had to contact a friend who was an art student to help me out because if I was to send them MY attempts they'd think I was some dribbling lunatic. He sent me something that looked like a 70's album cover it was THAT good, so I dodged that bullet at least.
So that's been my week. Talking in-depth about crisps trying to get some money. How was your day?
So I did sign up, and it turned out to be Walkers (called Lays in America, I think?) doing the researching. Basically if you answered three or four of their online questions a day you would be paid £60. You had to qualify first because they only needed 18 people. I got in.
So what kind of questions do you think a crisp company would ask you? Your favourite flavour? How many bags you eat a week? Where you buy them? Yeah, 'cos that would make way too much sense.
How exactly do you answer these questions?
If Walkers were a real life person, what would they look like? How would they dress? What would their personality be like?
If the Walkers person held a party, what kind of party would it be? What music would they play? Who would turn up?
Draw a picture of how the Walkers brand makes you feel.
If you go to a shop and Walkers isn't available, what do you pick instead? Draw a picture of how THAT brand makes you feel.
And those answers? If you happen to write some bullshit about what Mr Walkers would sound like and what kind of parties he'd be into, they'll be on you to go into detail on WHY you think that. Fucking madness.
As for the pictures, I can barely write my name, never mind draw a picture. I spend a few terrible hours trying to draw something..anything..for how Walkers made me "feel." I then had to contact a friend who was an art student to help me out because if I was to send them MY attempts they'd think I was some dribbling lunatic. He sent me something that looked like a 70's album cover it was THAT good, so I dodged that bullet at least.
So that's been my week. Talking in-depth about crisps trying to get some money. How was your day?
