Survey Exchange (OTX)

This is a warning that has been floating around the survey world for years. Never do any OTX surveys through any company and do not join their parent company. Most of their surveys have glitches and errors and it’s rare that you will fully qualify or get paid. I do not recommend them at all! Now watch out for Opinion Outpost. They are are using Survey Exchange for surveys that will waste your time and take your information for who knows what. Nail these bas***** to a web coffin.

How has outsourcing affected you? I know for myself, since graduating college three years ago, I have applied to a few hundred businesses with most of them not even considerate enough to have set up an auto response ( Thanks – go away- sorry filled) that  I applied.

Now, becoming a Freelance Web Designer has not been easy either. Just go on Odesk, Freelancer.com and some of the other job boards and look at the people you are bidding against  from India, Philippines, Russia and a whole host of other places with people bidding $2.00 per hr. That’s not the worst part,  it is the people from the United States that state in the job description that they only want people that bid $2.00 per hr. Now, we all know that here in the US minimum wage is $7.25 or more, but we have thousands of people ie. businesses paying outsourcers less than that and dodging taxes also. So, how has outsourcing affected you?

The main difference between http:// and https:// is  It’s all about keeping you secure.

HTTP stands for Hypertext Transport Protocol, Which is just a fancy way of saying it’s a protocol (a language, in a manner of speaking) for information to be passed back and forth between web servers and clients. The important thing is the letter S which makes the difference between HTTP and HTTPS.

The S (big surprise) stands for “Secure”. If you visit a website or webpage, and look at the address in the web browser, it will likely begin with the
following: http://.

This means that the website is talking to your browser using the regular ‘unsecure’ language. In other words, it is possible for someone to
“eavesdrop” on your computer’s conversation with the website. If you fill out a form on the website, someone might see the information you send to that site.

This is why you never ever enter your credit card number in an http website! But if the web address begins with https://, that basically means your computer is talking to the website in a secure code that no one can eavesdrop on.

You understand why this is so important, right?

If a website ever ask you to enter your credit card information, you should automatically look to see if the web address begins with https://. If it dosen’t, there’s no way you’re going to enter sensitive information like a credit card number.

PASS THIS ON (you may save someone a lot of grief)