How much your group earns largely depends on how many people sign up to support you. For example, Hospice NZ has 1,221 supporters and has earned over $18,000 from us over four years. Otumoetai Intermediate school has 271 supporters and has earned $1,450. A small school in Auckland has 10 supporters and has earned $385. The important thing is to get a range of people to join (men, women, young, old, different ethnicities and interest) as then you’ll get the most survey invitations.

Once you've signed up, you can either use our 'Invite Supporters' page, or copy and paste a link we'll give you into your own email and send it to your supporters. If you have a website (e.g. a school, sports club, or charity), you can even put the link up on your website.

If you are a school joining up, we have noticed that the schools that get the kids to do the recruitment get a lot more sign ups than relying on newsletters to parents.

We have a very wide range of clients from public organisations like the District Health Boards, to advertising agencies and media companies. This means our survey topics are very broad. Most of them are interesting!

We try very hard to keep all surveys under 10 minutes. However, sometimes we have to do longer ones, and when we do we tell you in the invitation email and we also offer more points for the survey.

Just post your group sign up link onto your Group wall on Facebook and invite people to join.

Each group has an administrator who can log in and see who is signed up as a supporter and how much they've earned.

The administrator logs in and orders the cheque. When they do this, they tell us who to make the cheque out to and where to post it. 

When you set up your group you can tick a box to make it a 'Public Group'. This means that people signing up through our normal website, will see your group and be able to join. This is great for charities and large well known groups. If you don't tick the 'Public Group' your group remains 'Private' and people can only join if you or another supporter sends them your group link.

At any time people can log in at buzzthepeople and change their reward settings or leave your group. Any points they have earned up until then stays with your group.

Yes, you can close your group at any time. Any points under $50 will be forfeited (so good to close a group just after ordering a cheque). All supporters will be automatically changed to be earning shopping vouchers for themselves. Supporters can unsubscribe from your group and buzzthepeople at any time - every email we send out has an unsubscribe option.

This is absolutely fine. If people are busy they can delete our email and hopefully they'll have time to do the next one. If they don't do any for a while, they may stop getting asked.

In general we like people to get one survey every 1 to 2 months. This may vary quite a bit depending on how many organisations are wanting to talk to New Zealanders.

No, the number of surveys really depends on our clients' needs and who they need to talk to at a particular time.

Never with a survey. The only time we occasionally phone someone is if they have won a prize.

Yes, you can set up more than one group, but you'll need a different password for each one. E.g. you could have a cricket team for summer and a rugby team for winter.

No. People can only have one buzzthepeople membership.

Log in at buzzthepeople, click on 'Edit Details' and change your option.

Yes! Your supporters will be in all the buzzthepeople prize draws. If they are drawn as cash prize winners we'll ask them if they want to share their cash prize with the group, and its up to them!

You may only have one administrator per group. One person can administrate more than one group, but they'll need different log in details. Also, you may only have one actual buzzthepeople membership.

In general you'll earn $1 towards your group for a 10 minute survey. If a survey is longer or more difficult, we'll offer you more money and we tell you this in the invitation email.

If you are too busy, you can ignore our email invitation. Once you start we usually ask a series of questions to see if you are eligible for the survey. If you are not eligible you need to wait for the next survey invitation.

Any age is fine for joining up. If we are running a survey to younger people we may ask for their parent's or guardian's permission depending on the topic.