3 Benefits of Becoming a Tester
Once you learn what beta testing is, a great next question to ask is why becoming a tester would benefit you. Besides the invaluable life skills you’ll learn from testing, becoming a beta tester helps you develop your professional toolset, improve your current arsenal of tech products, and lets you explore what’s next on the technological horizon.
1. You’ll Develop Professional Skills
As a beta tester, you’ll develop new skills for your professional toolbox. Participating in beta tests improves your writing, heightens your observational skills, and allows you to collaborate with other like-minded individuals. Given the secure and time-sensitive nature of beta tests, these environments will also build your trustworthiness, timeliness, and responsiveness — all skills that translate well into the professional working world. Once you’ve acquired a good reputation as a beta tester through the building of these tester skills, you can even put them on your resume to showcase your continued professional advancement.
2. You’ll Improve the Tech You Already Own
Two of the biggest perks of beta testing might be your ability to improve the tech products you already own and the products you will own in the future. For example, let’s say you’ve been selected for one of our private Betabound Exclusives. It’s a smart home device that won’t connect to its associating app on your smartphone — so you’ve submitted a bug report. Other testers might comment on your bug report asking what software version you’re running on your smartphone or if you’ve tried rebooting the smart home device. When collaborating with these testers, it’s very likely you’ll improve the tech products you already own by learning how to upgrade your software systems or find lesser-known workarounds to technical difficulties regularly experienced within your home.
Our ideal tester isn’t necessarily techie, so beta tests are a great way to develop your own technical skills toward improving your home’s tech. Conversely, by participating in beta tests, your feedback is helping improve the consumer tech products of tomorrow — that you’ll more than likely own in the near future. So either way, you’re helping to improve the tech product you (and your time-traveling self) own.
3. You’ll Explore Emerging Tech Trends
Beta testing is a great way to step outside your comfort zone as a consumer. Are you hesitant to adopt streaming devices or fitness wearables? If so, beta testing is a great way to explore these emerging tech trends without any financial investment on your part. Ensure your tester account‘s Testing Interests and Test Platforms are up-to-date so that you receive notifications about upcoming beta tests we think you might be a good fit for. When you receive an email about an available beta testing opportunity that interests you, go ahead and apply. And who knows — maybe you’ll stumble upon your next favorite tech product in the process.
As a Betabounder, you’ll develop professional skills, help improve the tech you already (and could someday) own, and have a chance to explore the next big thing in technology. If you have any questions before taking the dive into beta testing, please email us at hello@betabound.com or comment below! We’re always here to help answer your questions.