[Air-L] Alternative to Amazon gift card for incentives

[Fiona Morgan]

I'm a freelance consultant and not working within a university IRB
structure, for what that's worth. But I offer to pay focus group
participants via CashApp or Venmo. Paypal is another option.



On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 3:03 PM Ming-Yi Wu <mingyiwu at att.net> wrote:

> Hi, Noriko,
>
> I know some market research companies provide Starbucks Coffee gift cards
> as survey incentives.  Or, you can do “drawing” for any kind of gift cards.
>
> It also depends on the nature of the survey.  If you are partnering with a
> company by surveying members in their customer panels in order to write a
> research report, you may email the survey participants the research report
> when it is available.  Let them know in your survey invitation.
>
> No matter which method you use, please check with your university’s IRB
> officer to make sure that the survey incentives are distributed fairly and
> appropriately.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Best,
>
> Ming-Yi
>
> Ming-Yi Wu, Ph.D.
> Graduate Faculty
> Northeastern University
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Aug 5, 2021, at 11:30 AM, Douglas Zytko <zytko at oakland.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Amazon gift cards are one of many, many options for compensating study
> > participants. Could you clarify what attributes of Amazon gift cards you
> > would like to replicate in alternative compensation methods? Is it...no
> > processing fees? General popularity of the business that the gift card is
> > for? A fully digital form of financial compensation?
> >
> > I suggest looking into Visa gift cards, although they do have a
> processing
> > fee. Depending on the size of your sample you could also ask each
> > participant to designate a particular business they would like a gift
> card
> > from.
> >
> >> On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 11:23 AM Hara, Noriko <nhara at indiana.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> I am wondering if anyone can recommend any alternatives to Amazon gift
> >> cards for providing incentives for study participants.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions would be appreciated,
> >>
> >> Noriko
> >>
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