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UK-Wide Shortage of Paid Market Research Participants; Due to unprecedented demand, the UK's leading recruitment service for focus groups and consumer testing urgently needs more participants to come forward!
[April 14, 2014]

UK-Wide Shortage of Paid Market Research Participants; Due to unprecedented demand, the UK's leading recruitment service for focus groups and consumer testing urgently needs more participants to come forward!


(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Saros Research Ltd have placed over a thousand participants into paid market research projects during the first quarter of 2014, ranging from focus groups to website testing to home-based trials of consumer products.



Each project is unique, and ranges from a 90 minute focus group to a year-long online panel, and they are on every subject under the sun. Taking part in these professionally-run studies is always interesting and fun, and also very well paid - typical earnings for a 2 hour focus would be around 40 pounds.

Saros' Managing Director Maya Middlemiss said, "In recent weeks we have had a surge of demand for larger projects, and some recent highlights have included recruiting for mobile app users, sports car purchasers, family food shoppers, luxury skincare and cosmetics enthusiasts, and low cost flight bookers. We never know what we will get asked for next, but we do know this is going to be our busiest year for a long while. We also have a growing range of medical and pharmaceutical projects - not drugs testing, but research into aspects of medical care like product packaging and communications, and the app development market is also exploding. All these new apps need to be tested on real people, before they are released to the open market, and we match the researchers with the right people, who can give them invaluable feedback on their creations. Coming up we also have some very well-paid business-to-business research for investors, IT specifiers and procurement professionals." Because each job has unique selection criteria, and because no one participant can take place too often, Saros needs lots of new members for this busy period. It's a win-win situation, because participants get to take part in interesting studies and learn a bit more about the brands and products they use, as well as actively influencing the way they develop for the future - it's very satisfying when the service you helped to shape gets launched, and you can say 'I helped with that!' But of course participants get paid for their time at the point of the research exercise itself, when they are directly contributing to the ongoing development, and the companies behind the new developments gain vital feedback and strategic insight exactly when they need it most.


Registering as a potential research participant is open to any UK resident aged 16 and above, and only takes a few minutes.

"Registering as a member of Saros means you can start receiving email invitations, for events you can apply for in your area", Middlemiss explains. "It is free to join and commits you to nothing, and although we ask a number of quite personal questions to best match you with appropriate research projects few are compulsory. We are registered information controllers and Company Partners of the Market Research Society, we guarantee never to use your contact details for anything other than sharing genuine paid research opportunities you can apply for".

*You can join Saros research right now at http://www.sarosresearch.com/participate/join-saros-research/ Maya Middlemiss is available for interview, case studies, quotes or unique content creation: contact [email protected] /020 8481 7160 Http://sarosresearch.com @Sarosresearch .

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