[00:00] websites? And some of the platforms claim that&nbsp; they will pay you as much as $100 per study.&nbsp;&nbsp; UserAdvocate is one of them. But before you get&nbsp; too excited, there are some important things&nbsp;&nbsp;
[00:15] you need to know about how it works, how much&nbsp; you can realistically earn, and whether it's&nbsp;&nbsp; actually worth your time. And that's exactly&nbsp; what we are going to cover in this video.&nbsp;&nbsp; My name is Mikael and in today's video I'm taking&nbsp; a closer look at User Advocate. And let me just&nbsp;&nbsp;
[00:30] reveal right away that it is legit, but that&nbsp; doesn't automatically mean it's worth your time.&nbsp;&nbsp; And that really depends on a few key factors. So&nbsp; let's go through it all and start by going over&nbsp;&nbsp; who can join. On UserAdvocate's website, you can&nbsp; see here it says that you can get paid $5 to $100&nbsp;&nbsp;
[00:48] per start. We'll talk about the earning potential&nbsp; later there, but there is a sign up button. You&nbsp;&nbsp; just click here. It's free to sign up. You can&nbsp; sign up on the website and you can see the country&nbsp;&nbsp; you can choose here. It's basically all countries&nbsp; here. So, you can join from not all countries but&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:02] a lot of countries. But one thing you need to keep&nbsp; in mind even though you you can sign up on the&nbsp;&nbsp; website, it has an app. And the only thing you get&nbsp; out of signing up on the website is that it will&nbsp;&nbsp; actually just then take you to a page that tells&nbsp; you to download the app. If you want to do this,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:15] you might as well just actually download the&nbsp; app right away and then sign up there. So,&nbsp;&nbsp; to just signing up, you can also see you can&nbsp; actually choose many different languages.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:27] So it's not only that you can join from different&nbsp; countries. Also the user interface and all that&nbsp;&nbsp; can be in different languages. But let me now&nbsp; log in and then we'll take a closer look at&nbsp;&nbsp; how it works and how much you can expect to earn&nbsp; and all the important details you need to know.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:42] In addition to also having test there, they&nbsp; do say inside the app that you can also&nbsp;&nbsp; find opportunities on their Instagram page. But&nbsp; when you actually check out the Instagram page,&nbsp;&nbsp; there have been no new opportunities for months.&nbsp; So it seems like they haven't really updated the&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:58] app with this or they're just not using Instagram&nbsp; yet. So just keep that in mind. Even though they&nbsp;&nbsp; say that there are currently as of recording&nbsp; this video, they haven't been posted anything for&nbsp;&nbsp; months. But if you're interested in Instagram that&nbsp; is actually updated every day, then you know you&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:11] can follow me on Instagram. Also, I have a profile&nbsp; here where I publish uh small tips and tricks and&nbsp;&nbsp; small videos every single day. So you're welcome&nbsp; to follow me there also. That would be awesome to&nbsp;&nbsp; see you there also. I'll leave a link to that&nbsp; below. But anyways, back to user advocate.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:26] I am now logged into the app. And as you can see&nbsp; here, I just went to the test here, the homepage&nbsp;&nbsp; and said there are no test right now. And that's&nbsp; one thing you need to be aware of. There will not&nbsp;&nbsp; always be test available. For me personally, I&nbsp; have really not seen any. And that's just how&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:40] it is for some people with some profiles in some&nbsp; countries. So even though you can join from many&nbsp;&nbsp; countries, it doesn't mean that you're guaranteed&nbsp; to always find different tests you can participate&nbsp;&nbsp; in. So when you then have an test showing&nbsp; up here or get an email or if you find one,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:55] if they happen to start publishing or posting them&nbsp; on Instagram again, then you apply and then if you&nbsp;&nbsp; get approved and you complete it, then also keep&nbsp; in mind that they need to approve the study that&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:07] you participate in. You will see all the details&nbsp; about what you need to do. Um in most cases&nbsp;&nbsp; you need to share your thoughts. So that means&nbsp; when you test an app or website you're told this&nbsp;&nbsp; is your task then you need to record your voice or&nbsp; do different other things. They'll explain exactly&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:19] what you need to do and then you can decide to&nbsp; participate. Once you participated then they&nbsp;&nbsp; need to approve it again. So don't rush and make&nbsp; sure you actually are thoughtful and doing all the&nbsp;&nbsp; task carefully because if it is rushed or if you&nbsp; are not thoughtful or if you are recording in a&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:35] noisy environment because they need to be able to&nbsp; actually hear what you're saying or if you don't&nbsp;&nbsp; give any verbal feedback then they will likely&nbsp; not approve your study and that means you will&nbsp;&nbsp; not actually get paid. So keep that in mind that&nbsp; it's not something that you can just rush through.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:50] And typically test can take anywhere from 15 to&nbsp; 30 minutes. There are some interviews from what&nbsp;&nbsp; I've been able to see that can take up to 45 to 60&nbsp; minutes. Usually of course you will get paid more&nbsp;&nbsp;
[04:02] if you are participating in a higher paying&nbsp; study or a longer study. But and on the&nbsp;&nbsp; Instagram from the previous post and also what I&nbsp; can see from what I've tested and seen there then&nbsp;&nbsp; they do pay this anywhere from $5 to $100 per&nbsp; study. But of course the ones at $100 they're&nbsp;&nbsp;
[04:19] usually harder to qualify for. They will&nbsp; take time and effort. So that's of course&nbsp;&nbsp; always how it is. So just because they say up to&nbsp; $100 per study, that doesn't mean every study it&nbsp;&nbsp; says $5 to $100. So there are also some that&nbsp; will pay significantly less. But as mentioned,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[04:33] you can always see that inside the app before&nbsp; you decide whether you want to participate or not&nbsp;&nbsp; and how many tests are available. That depends&nbsp; heavily on your location. There are in general&nbsp;&nbsp; just most opportunities if you live in the US,&nbsp; UK or Canada. While in many other countries&nbsp;&nbsp;
[04:48] there are just not many invitations.&nbsp; It does say inside the app actually&nbsp;&nbsp; that they have this point system and they say&nbsp; they also have paid surveys. I have however not&nbsp;&nbsp; actually seen any of them. So now if you already&nbsp; use this site or if you decide to do it then&nbsp;&nbsp;
[05:04] please let me know what kind of opportunities have&nbsp; you actually seen paid service there and have you&nbsp;&nbsp; been able to get any studies here what kind of&nbsp; studies what did you get paid all that I love to&nbsp;&nbsp; hear from you and your experiences and also your&nbsp; questions so if you have anything to share have&nbsp;&nbsp;
[05:17] any questions just ask in the comments I make&nbsp; sure to reply to every comment and one more way&nbsp;&nbsp; you supposedly can earn also if you scroll down&nbsp; on the home page inside the app you can see it's&nbsp;&nbsp; where you can refer friends but  It's a little&nbsp; bit different than most other referral programs.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[05:33] inviting others. But here it just says contact us&nbsp; for details about our ongoing referral program. So&nbsp;&nbsp; that's very unusual. So they don't have any&nbsp; information about what can you actually earn all&nbsp;&nbsp;
[05:46] here. You actually need to contact them. So that's&nbsp; just something to keep in mind that if you want to&nbsp;&nbsp; invite friends, if you really like it, you want&nbsp; to recommend it, then you need to contact them&nbsp;&nbsp; to get information about. you can already just&nbsp; share it, but you don't know if you have to do&nbsp;&nbsp;
[06:02] anything particular or whatever the requirements&nbsp; are what you can earn. So, I definitely recommend&nbsp;&nbsp; that you check that out first. Personally, it's&nbsp; not necessarily I think it's a decent site,&nbsp;&nbsp; but it's not something where I'll use the referral&nbsp; program. So, that's why I haven't actually really&nbsp;&nbsp;
[06:15] looked more into it. I just don't like also when&nbsp; they don't just share the information. You know,&nbsp;&nbsp; it easier. So, I prefer when they do that. But,&nbsp; let's now talk about also how you can get paid.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[06:28] Whenever you join an online earning platform,&nbsp; it's extremely important to know first of all&nbsp;&nbsp; how can you get paid so you are sure that you can&nbsp; get paid with a method that you actually have and&nbsp;&nbsp; prefer. And in the FAQ section on the website,&nbsp; you can see that you can get paid by PayPal or&nbsp;&nbsp;
[06:43] bank transfer. So two good payout options in&nbsp; my opinion. And they transfer in the local&nbsp;&nbsp; currency to bank accounts in most countries.&nbsp; But just keep in mind here that they also say&nbsp;&nbsp; that you can expect to be paid within 21 working&nbsp; days after completing a user study or research.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[06:59] And then after that you will receive an email&nbsp; with a form where you need to potentially share&nbsp;&nbsp; some payment details. So it does take quite a bit&nbsp; of patience and be aware that it says 21 working&nbsp;&nbsp; days. So that does not mean including weekend.&nbsp; So it can be you know more than four weeks you&nbsp;&nbsp;
[07:15] have to wait from your actually participating in&nbsp; a study until you can get paid. So that's just&nbsp;&nbsp; something you need to keep in mind when you decide&nbsp; whether this is for you or not. So to sum it up, I&nbsp;&nbsp; think User Advocate is an interesting user testing&nbsp; platform. It pays decently if you are lucky enough&nbsp;&nbsp;
[07:30] to get the studies and that's a big thing. In some&nbsp; countries there will just not be a lot of studies.&nbsp;&nbsp; I think it's it's fairly userfriendly. There are&nbsp; some things there where they say you can find&nbsp;&nbsp; this but then you can't find it. You can find&nbsp; it at Instagram then you can't find it there.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[07:43] And for a website that works with usability, there&nbsp; are some optimizations there that could be made&nbsp;&nbsp; in my personal opinion. But I would say that it&nbsp; can be worth signing up for as one of the user&nbsp;&nbsp; test if you really like participating user test.&nbsp; You shouldn't expect to get a many test. Again,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[07:58] that depends on your country. Personally, I really&nbsp; have seen very very few where I'm located. But I&nbsp;&nbsp; would say because it does have some interesting&nbsp; opportunities once in a while, then why not sign&nbsp;&nbsp; up as an extra one? But definitely not rely on&nbsp; this one as the only one in my opinion. In general&nbsp;&nbsp;
[08:13] with user tests, it can be hard to qualify. There&nbsp; are not that many. But if you sign up for many&nbsp;&nbsp; platforms, you will get more opportunities or more&nbsp; frequent opportunities. So that's why I recommend&nbsp;&nbsp; when it comes to user testing to just sign up&nbsp; for quite a few. And I do have a list of my top&nbsp;&nbsp;
[08:26] recommended user testing platforms on my website.&nbsp; So I'll leave a link there so then you can go and&nbsp;&nbsp; get some inspiration there. And if you're just&nbsp; interested in combining with other side hustles,&nbsp;&nbsp; I also do have a list of more than 23 different&nbsp; types of online side hustles you can do. So,&nbsp;&nbsp;
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