Even though I’ve been having fun playing, I’ve managed to take a break from playing the game to do some w-o-r-k, …… =)

Vizu….

Not too long ago, I signed up for Beta testing polls with Vizu to not only contribute to their research polls but make some additional income. Depending on how valuable the information Vizu receives from polls on your site, they will pay you determined on a CPM (cost per thousand impressions). But not only do you get paid for the demographic information pulled from your site, you also get to view some yummy stuff.

Since having Vizu running, I’m able to see the numbers on gender, age, income level, education, marital status and household size of those that visit my sites. That’s valuable information!!! I can see that 80% of my visitors are male and mostly between the ages of 18-34. Even though I get territory information from Google Analytics, Vizu also shares this information with me. This is a great way of determining what demographic I’m targeting and mold it to the market that I want…or market it BETTER to the current demographic visiting the site. So of course, I had to add it to my personal blog… (view right)

If you are more interested in making money from the research polls, be forewarned it’s not too much. Vizu currently suggests to keep the amount recommended on their site (which is about .25 per CPM) but I doubled that amount in the past month to test it out. So for every 1000 times, I’ll earn .50 cents. If it doesn’t sound like much – it isn’t. So don’t rely on it for money, but instead use the poll information towards making your site more effective and popular to your audience. Depending on how things work out, you could increase your CPM. Polls will never be sold below the rate you specify, but if you’re able to get more per CPM…then go for it. I know I’ll be increasing mine. So far this December, my CPM for a site using Vizu, is showing Google Adsense CPM of about four dollars…much higher than the .50 cents tested with Vizu.

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