: Singapore based Speak Asia Online makes a foray in the state of Tamil Nadu by offering opportunities for accessing influential and opinionated people. Business during 2010 has been brisk and Speak Asia is enjoying an ever-growing international client list. Speak Asia Online has more than four lakh panelist spread all over India. A panelist is a consumer who participates in surveys. The company is looking to increase its panelist base to meet the shortfall of over 10 million panelists and envisions being the key player of this fast growing USD 750 million market in Asia and aspires to cross the benchmark of USD 115 million by 2010-2011. Unlike conventional market research firms, Speak Asia pays the researcher for imparting their valuable opinion.
Panelist with Speak Asia can be enrolled if the candidate has been an existing online panelist with top 10 market research companies with a valid income proof of at least $1000 in a year. Alternately one can pay $ 60 take to take an exam and on passing the exam go through an interview process to be enrolled as a panelist. Fresher and other panelists are required to go through training and read training material from “Online Surveys Today” which is also sent to them as an “E-Bulletin, an independent media organization.
Vivek Gautam Chief Marketing Officer, Speak Asia online says, “We are strategically growing our supply chain to ensure we are fitting the needs of our existing and growing client base as well as those clients that have expressed a desire to reach certain niche audience groups. With this increased supply base, we are perfectly placed to offer researchers and buyers of sample the widest choice of high quality panels within one unified platform anywhere.”
Speak Asia online panel platform is attractive to organizations wanting to do market research because it helps minimize costs, generate a new revenue stream for them and assist in limiting panel attrition, keeping panel investment returns high. I think the biggest attraction to trusting our model is simple, we are fair in our sampling and revenue opportunities for our partners and I think they are beginning to recognize that. In the months to come we will continue to focus on bringing in quality supply to service the needs of the research industry as a whole. The focus will be geographical as well as niche specific. Added Gautam.
Speak Asia Online, has created a paradigm shift in research by eliminating the need of executives for conducting surveys. In spite of investing precious time, prospects got little or no reimbursements for their valuable opinion and the benefits were enjoyed by the market research companies and their executives. But now, things have changed. Speak Asia Online empowers panelist to part with their opinion and get paid for it
Speak Asia Online is not a finance or an investment company or a bank. Speak Asia online does not take any payments from anyone for participating in its surveys as a panelist. Experienced panelist can join Speak Asia Online without any payments and fill surveys and get paid for all correctly filled surveys. Speak Asia Online in turn gets paid by Indian and international market research organizations for the services it renders for them. The people (potential consumers) who are new to online surveys business have an option to get a subscription to get training periodical to get equipped but this by itself does not guarantee any income. Income is generated only in case they participate in relevant survey programs and fill correct surveys regularly. This training periodical is independent of Speak Asia Online.
Speak Asia online has a very attractive reward program for its panelist, that demonstrates the determination and commitment of Speak Asia towards being the number one online research company in the world and recognizing and rewarding best performance. One can win Toyota Fortuner, Tata Safari, Ford Figo, an all expense paid trip to Singapore / Manila and laptops.
About Speak Asia online: Speak Asia – the largest integrated online survey group in the Asian Sub continent. Dynamically driven by the genius of Ms. Haren, Speak Asia is our group’s first inroad into the Online Market Research space backed by a well-planned and strategic presence in Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, Philippines, Nepal, Bangladesh and Singapore.
