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This is something a little different from your usual HfP article or your usual HfP competition.

Over the last few months I have been doing a bit of (unpaid) advisory work with a company called Internet Light Industries (ILITEAM) on their new app, 3More.  

3More is a new style of market research platform that will theoretically allow you to earn miles and points in return for completing surveys.

This is NOT another version of e-rewards or Rewards for Thoughts.  I want to make that clear from the start.  Both of those companies tend to make you sit through lengthy desktop surveys in return for earning a handful of miles.  e-rewards also has a habit of throwing you out of surveys after you have wasted a few minutes completing pre-qualifying questions.  Forget all that.

3More will be a very simple platform, designed for the smartphone era. It introduces the concept of nano-surveys, which are surveys consisting of just three questions. They call them ‘triplets’.

What is a ‘triplet’?

The idea is simple.  As an alternative to building and distributing lengthy market research surveys and waiting for results to come in all at once, 3More delivers a nano-survey consisting of just three questions which you can answer in seconds.

The company sponsoring the survey will receive the (anonymous, aggregated) replies to their survey in near real-time.  This makes it more attractive than traditional market research.  3More users can answer surveys in their ‘down time’ (on the train, in a taxi, watching TV) with just a few swipes on their phone.

What’s in it for you?

You accrue points for every survey response and those points will be transferrable into a wide range of travel and shopping-related reward schemes.

My role in this has primarily been introducing the team to the relevant people at Avios, Virgin Flying Club etc.  The final line up of reward partners has not yet been agreed, though.

Win your share of £1,000 of Amazon vouchers

The 3More app is still being tested and finalised.  The company is looking for a number of Head for Points readers who are willing to download it and answer a few test questions over the next few weeks.  The current version of the app runs in any web browser though it is optimised for mobile devices.  The beta test will help ILITEAM produce the iOS and Android versions of the app. 

Remember that each survey question will be multi-choice and can be answered with a simple swipe of your finger.

You will earn 3More points during the beta phase but they will only be for test purposes.  When the app goes live, all points balances will be reset.  However, all Head for Points readers that help with the BETA will get a bonus earning rate of 25% for their first year of using the app.  

Additionally, every reader who uses the 3More app and answers a minimum of 50 triplets (they take about 10 seconds each to complete!) by the end of September will be entered into the draw to win the following prizes:

10 readers will win a £50 Amazon voucher

50 readers will win a £10 Amazon voucher

Because this is a small scale trial, your chances of winning are good.

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How do I take part?

Just point your browser at https://goo.gl/2DqIwa.  Choose a sign-up method and you’re good to go. 

Things you should know

This is a test version so sometimes things might not work quite as expected.  If you have any problems you can contact ILITEAM by sending an email to support@iliteam.zendesk.com or by visiting their online HelpDesk at https://iliteam.zendesk.com/

Please do not contact Head for Points.  I am only acting as an intermediary here to help the team recruit some beta testers.

A note on privacy. The data you share when answering triplets is anonymous.  The organisations asking the triplets don’t know who answered them.  Using 3More will never result in our users getting unwanted messages, ads or spam from anywhere, nor will it put their personal information at risk.

Good luck with the competition.

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Comments (66)

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  • Carl says:
    31 Aug31 August 08:10

    Its not really an app though. it is just in the web browser, you dont actually download and install an app from what I can tell.
    It is a little slow loading as a result because it needs to generate everything in the browser of your phone (this is on android, no idea about ios.

    I maxed out my triplets too within 5 minutes and now have no more to answer.
    ill be interested to see the points conversion when its live

    Also I cant swipe to answer, I have to actually click on an answer and then push next.

  • Gavin says:
    31 Aug31 August 08:19

    Guessing a 100:1 conversion so 100 points = 1 avios? Assuming they’re on board

    Should provide some distraction on long conference calls I suppose

    • Nick M says:
      31 Aug31 August 09:08

      Surely it’ll be much better than this? – from the few that I’ve done that’d be around 1-2 avios/triplet… Not sure if they’d get the demographic they’re looking for / considered responses at that right?

    • Frenske says:
      31 Aug31 August 10:11

      As far I understand there will be no conversion until the beta testing is finished and points are reset before that.

  • Paul says:
    31 Aug31 August 08:21

    OT: Avios have posted for the Sunday Times Travel Magazine subscription today. First mag arrived and direct debit taken yesterday; Avios in my BAEC account this morning 🙂

  • Tony says:
    31 Aug31 August 08:22

    Harmless way to build up points over breakfast- maxed out at 5450. Will be interesting to see what the conversion rate will be. Thanks for the tip off, Rob

  • Peter says:
    31 Aug31 August 08:40

    I have no more triplets left to complete but only 5445 points. Shame it does not tell you how many actual triplets completed

  • the_real_a says:
    31 Aug31 August 08:49

    Isn’t there bias with “just” app surveys? You would be heavily swung to 15-30 age group… At least its not iphone only!
    On a positive, I always think on long surveys people just click anything towards the end as their attention waivers. So i think triplet question are an interesting way to go.

    • John says:
      31 Aug31 August 11:58

      Well, online surveys are biased towards people who complete online surveys. Phone surveys are biased towards people who answer calls from unknown numbers, etc.

    • ankomonkey says:
      31 Aug31 August 19:16

      The 15-30 age group is the holy grail for some companies though – Jagermeister and various others that I’m too old and uncool to know about…

      • harry says:
        31 Aug31 August 19:21

        it is, indeed

        15-30

        ABC1

        people with a university education in good jobs

        people who travel for business/ leisure

        ‘Duty Free’ people

        Raffles got himself a gold mine – but needs to dig up the nuggets through advertising & increase the readership without destroying the quality

        sorry Raffles – delete this if inappropriate

  • the_real_a says:
    31 Aug31 August 08:50

    The till always rejects AMEX for paypoint at my local CO-OP.

    • Simmo says:
      31 Aug31 August 10:13

      My Co-Op doesnt take AMEX at all!
      I think theyre system is either old or missed the update!

      • RTS says:
        31 Aug31 August 10:56

        I’ve never had my Co-op reject my Amex for CT paypoint payments. 🙂

        • Genghis says:
          31 Aug31 August 11:03

          I had one issue when I wanted to make a £250 payment. There’s a £200 max on Paypoint. I paid the £200 and then the £50 wouldn’t go through. After a bit more research and asking around on here, for some reason you’re meant to put through the smaller payment first (which is less than the max) and then the max £200 amount. No real problem as I just made another payment the next day.

  • Steve says:
    31 Aug31 August 08:51

    Mine maxed out after completing 46 triplets, saying no more triplets are available – so not sure whether it’s actually possible to get to 50 and enter the competition?

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