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Saturday, September 12, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Earn through your Holiday
1. Buy your holiday through a cashback site
Book your holiday through a cashback site and you will get back a percentage of what you pay. Usually the sum is quite low (around 4%-5%), but it is possible to find affiliates which will reward you with up to 10% of the cost of your flight. Also, register with sites that offer cash just for signing up, such as Rpoints which gives you £5, Cashback Shopper which gives you £5, and ecashback which gives you £2.50 immediately.
2. Use a cashback credit card
If you're the kind of person who pays off their credit card before they incur any interest then you might consider taking a cashback credit card with you. These are cards which put a bit of money back in your pocket whenever you use them. Rates vary, but some offer as much as 5% cashback (usually in return for spending a large amount). Currently, American Express's Platinum Cash Back Card is offering 5% for the first three months on spending up to £2,000, so on a £1,000 holiday you would get £50 back.
3. Sell your photos
Your holiday snaps can be more than just something you bore people with at dinner parties. If you have an aptitude for photography then selling your pictures to photo agencies could be an easy way to make money for years to come. You don't have to be a professional to sell your pictures, but you do need to get some good shots. Try fotolia, 123RF.com and picturenation which are all online agencies that will take good photos and sell them on for you.
4. Video your hotel or resort
If you have your video camera with you on holiday then film your hotel or resort and upload it to tripr.tv. Future holidaymakers can browse the site and watch reviews of hotels they might stay at themselves. The videos (which range from the very complimentary to the completely brutal) offer a candid, customer's-eye view – often more helpful than photographs on a sleek hotel website. Set up a Google Adsense account and you can have adverts appear next to your video and earn money each time someone clicks on one – tripr.tv estimates this could earn you around £40 a year.
5. Review your holiday
Qype is another site where you can earn while writing reviews, but this time it is points, not cash. Writing a review earns you eight points, writing the first review of a place earns you 20 points, and uploading a photo gets you two points. If you attach a video you get another four points and if you invite a mate to Qype you'll get 25 points. Once you get to 1,000 points you could become a "Qype ninja" – as well as kudos you could get a box load of goodies.
6. Give a guided tour
If you are know a lot about a specific area relevant to the country you are visiting you could offer yourself as an English speaking tourist guide to a holiday company. Its guests could be interested in a tour you lead and you could either get paid or get a discount on your holiday with the same company. If you're a bit of an architecture boffin you could host some tours in Greece, for example, or if you're a film buff you could take tourists on a film locations tour in New York.
7. Buy and sell collectibles
If you're going somewhere where there are attractive collectibles at low prices, stock up, take them home and sell them domestically. The key to spotting an item which would make you a profit after resale is research. Read up on the country you are travelling to and find out what is produced locally and cheaply, but is in high demand around the world. Look for items produced exclusively in your holiday destination but bought by people back home. There are of course strict guidelines in the UK governing the importing of works of art, antiques and collectibles; check with HM Revenue & Customs for a full list of rules and regulations concerning importing into the UK.
8. Take two of everything
If you're planning a trip using a camper van you could sell useful products to other people on campsites. Stock up on essentials like washing-up liquid and toothpaste at a cheap supermarket and sell them at a mark-up. Check with the owners of the site whether you are allowed to do this. If not, find a spot nearby where campsite residents will walk or drive past and sell your wares there. Again, there will be different laws about selling on spare ground depending on the country you are in so check first.
9. Rent out your home while you're away
If you live in a "des res" you could rent your home out as a short-term holiday let. Try websites like Gumtree or local lettings agents that specialise in short-term lets. If you are in a popular city or an attractive part of the countryside you could make hundreds of pounds while you are away.
10. Tell your friends about your holiday
Make some extra cash by signing up to social networking site Yuwie and reviewing your holiday. You can set up a profile, write a blog, upload photos and videos and basically do what you do with all the other networking sites, but make money at the same time. You can also make money by signing up your friends, and even when they in turn sign up their friends. You get paid by PayPal or by cheque.
Book your holiday through a cashback site and you will get back a percentage of what you pay. Usually the sum is quite low (around 4%-5%), but it is possible to find affiliates which will reward you with up to 10% of the cost of your flight. Also, register with sites that offer cash just for signing up, such as Rpoints which gives you £5, Cashback Shopper which gives you £5, and ecashback which gives you £2.50 immediately.
2. Use a cashback credit card
If you're the kind of person who pays off their credit card before they incur any interest then you might consider taking a cashback credit card with you. These are cards which put a bit of money back in your pocket whenever you use them. Rates vary, but some offer as much as 5% cashback (usually in return for spending a large amount). Currently, American Express's Platinum Cash Back Card is offering 5% for the first three months on spending up to £2,000, so on a £1,000 holiday you would get £50 back.
3. Sell your photos
Your holiday snaps can be more than just something you bore people with at dinner parties. If you have an aptitude for photography then selling your pictures to photo agencies could be an easy way to make money for years to come. You don't have to be a professional to sell your pictures, but you do need to get some good shots. Try fotolia, 123RF.com and picturenation which are all online agencies that will take good photos and sell them on for you.
4. Video your hotel or resort
If you have your video camera with you on holiday then film your hotel or resort and upload it to tripr.tv. Future holidaymakers can browse the site and watch reviews of hotels they might stay at themselves. The videos (which range from the very complimentary to the completely brutal) offer a candid, customer's-eye view – often more helpful than photographs on a sleek hotel website. Set up a Google Adsense account and you can have adverts appear next to your video and earn money each time someone clicks on one – tripr.tv estimates this could earn you around £40 a year.
5. Review your holiday
Qype is another site where you can earn while writing reviews, but this time it is points, not cash. Writing a review earns you eight points, writing the first review of a place earns you 20 points, and uploading a photo gets you two points. If you attach a video you get another four points and if you invite a mate to Qype you'll get 25 points. Once you get to 1,000 points you could become a "Qype ninja" – as well as kudos you could get a box load of goodies.
6. Give a guided tour
If you are know a lot about a specific area relevant to the country you are visiting you could offer yourself as an English speaking tourist guide to a holiday company. Its guests could be interested in a tour you lead and you could either get paid or get a discount on your holiday with the same company. If you're a bit of an architecture boffin you could host some tours in Greece, for example, or if you're a film buff you could take tourists on a film locations tour in New York.
7. Buy and sell collectibles
If you're going somewhere where there are attractive collectibles at low prices, stock up, take them home and sell them domestically. The key to spotting an item which would make you a profit after resale is research. Read up on the country you are travelling to and find out what is produced locally and cheaply, but is in high demand around the world. Look for items produced exclusively in your holiday destination but bought by people back home. There are of course strict guidelines in the UK governing the importing of works of art, antiques and collectibles; check with HM Revenue & Customs for a full list of rules and regulations concerning importing into the UK.
8. Take two of everything
If you're planning a trip using a camper van you could sell useful products to other people on campsites. Stock up on essentials like washing-up liquid and toothpaste at a cheap supermarket and sell them at a mark-up. Check with the owners of the site whether you are allowed to do this. If not, find a spot nearby where campsite residents will walk or drive past and sell your wares there. Again, there will be different laws about selling on spare ground depending on the country you are in so check first.
9. Rent out your home while you're away
If you live in a "des res" you could rent your home out as a short-term holiday let. Try websites like Gumtree or local lettings agents that specialise in short-term lets. If you are in a popular city or an attractive part of the countryside you could make hundreds of pounds while you are away.
10. Tell your friends about your holiday
Make some extra cash by signing up to social networking site Yuwie and reviewing your holiday. You can set up a profile, write a blog, upload photos and videos and basically do what you do with all the other networking sites, but make money at the same time. You can also make money by signing up your friends, and even when they in turn sign up their friends. You get paid by PayPal or by cheque.
Six fun ways to earn
We could all do with earning a bit of extra cash. But I suspect (and stop me if I'm wrong here) that now isn't a great time to ask for a pay rise.
If you're looking to earn a bit on the side, you might as well try to have a bit of fun at the same time.
Of course, what one person sees as fun, another might see as mind-numbingly boring or just plain soul-destroying. But in the following mix of moneymaking schemes, you should be able to find something you enjoy doing...
1) Take photos
If you enjoy take photos, trying registering with a stock photo website. You pop your shot in its stock 'library', and if punters want to use your image, you get a cut on a per-download/per-sale basis.
All the stock photo sites operate slightly different terms and conditions (and take different percentage cuts for themselves) so make sure you compare a few before you sign up. Sites to check out include Fotolia, iStockPhoto, Alamy and PictureNation.
2) A spot of gardening
If you've got green fingers, trying growing and selling some really fresh fruit and veg. Because you'll be operating on such a small scale, it's probably best you keep it on a friends/family/neighbours basis, rather than trying to do a big supermarket deal!
Alternatively, if you have a large garden and only use half of it, why not turn the other half into an allotment and rent it out? They're all the rage at the moment! That way, you might have some company when you're pottering in your half of the garden, too.
3) Get out and about
Do you like animals? Do you relish a nice brisk jaunt in the fresh air? Put the two together and become a dog walker!
Experienced dog walker sometimes manage several dogs at once, and get paid around £10, per dog, per hour. Obviously this is a fairly responsible job - but you can generally fit it in around other commitments, and at least it gets you out of the house.
5) Make blogging pay
Blogging for money was big news a couple of years ago, when internet geeks everywhere thought it would make them rich. It won't, (probably) but if you already write a popular blog, introducing advertising could make some pocket money for very little extra effort.
Google AdSense allows you to run relevant ads alongside your copy. These ads will generate revenue for you on a per-click or per-impression basis - so the more traffic your blog gets, the more money you're likely to make.
Another way of introducing advertising is to invite 'sponsors' to advertise on your blog. So for example, if you write a blog about interior decoration, you could try approaching the major paint brands.
6) Get crafty
Are you any good at sewing, knitting, jewellery making, sculpting, crocheting, drawing or doing interesting things with felt? If you're crafty in any way, shape or form, try turning your hobby into a money-spinner by selling your handmade goods on specialist sites like Etsy (US), Folksy (UK) or DaWanda (Europe).
If you're looking to earn a bit on the side, you might as well try to have a bit of fun at the same time.
Of course, what one person sees as fun, another might see as mind-numbingly boring or just plain soul-destroying. But in the following mix of moneymaking schemes, you should be able to find something you enjoy doing...
1) Take photos
If you enjoy take photos, trying registering with a stock photo website. You pop your shot in its stock 'library', and if punters want to use your image, you get a cut on a per-download/per-sale basis.
All the stock photo sites operate slightly different terms and conditions (and take different percentage cuts for themselves) so make sure you compare a few before you sign up. Sites to check out include Fotolia, iStockPhoto, Alamy and PictureNation.
2) A spot of gardening
If you've got green fingers, trying growing and selling some really fresh fruit and veg. Because you'll be operating on such a small scale, it's probably best you keep it on a friends/family/neighbours basis, rather than trying to do a big supermarket deal!
Alternatively, if you have a large garden and only use half of it, why not turn the other half into an allotment and rent it out? They're all the rage at the moment! That way, you might have some company when you're pottering in your half of the garden, too.
3) Get out and about
Do you like animals? Do you relish a nice brisk jaunt in the fresh air? Put the two together and become a dog walker!
Experienced dog walker sometimes manage several dogs at once, and get paid around £10, per dog, per hour. Obviously this is a fairly responsible job - but you can generally fit it in around other commitments, and at least it gets you out of the house.
5) Make blogging pay
Blogging for money was big news a couple of years ago, when internet geeks everywhere thought it would make them rich. It won't, (probably) but if you already write a popular blog, introducing advertising could make some pocket money for very little extra effort.
Google AdSense allows you to run relevant ads alongside your copy. These ads will generate revenue for you on a per-click or per-impression basis - so the more traffic your blog gets, the more money you're likely to make.
Another way of introducing advertising is to invite 'sponsors' to advertise on your blog. So for example, if you write a blog about interior decoration, you could try approaching the major paint brands.
6) Get crafty
Are you any good at sewing, knitting, jewellery making, sculpting, crocheting, drawing or doing interesting things with felt? If you're crafty in any way, shape or form, try turning your hobby into a money-spinner by selling your handmade goods on specialist sites like Etsy (US), Folksy (UK) or DaWanda (Europe).
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Earn through surveys
Business Opinions requires the views and opinions of a wide range of the business community. This means Business Opinions isn't for everyone as they are only looking for the opinions of professional people (eg business owners, those in management positions, professionals in such sectors as engineering, teaching, medical, legal, IT etc.)
As you might expect, this means that they only pay out in cash, rather than vouchers, gifts etc. You can cash out at just £20. Within each email you receive, you will be told how many credit points (Each point is worth 1 pence) completing the survey is worth. This will range depending on the survey length as they reward you more for the time spent on each survey.
GfK have just reopened their media panel and would like to invite you to take part in a study to give your opinions of programmes shown on television and radio, and the websites you visit.
The answers that you give are important in deciding what TV and radio programmes are made and what websites are produced. It doesn't matter how much TV you watch, how much radio you listen to or how often you access the internet, it's what you think and feel about the TV programmes, radio and internet that's important in this survey.
The survey is available every day. It only takes a few minutes to complete, and it's your chance to share your thoughts and feelings with the programme producers themselves.
Sign up now and you will be able to start giving your opinions from tomorrow. If you complete a questionnaire at least 10 times per month you will be entered into a monthly prize draw with over 4,000 cash prizes totalling almost £15,000 to be won and a top prize of £1,500. Every three months you will be entered into a loyal lottery draw, with a total prize fund of £8,500 per quarter and a top prize of £4,000.
Unlike other sites offering prize draws instead of guaranteed payment, this one has enough prizes to stand a real chance of winning on a regular basis. I tend to get a few wins every year and I only tend to complete 3 surveys a week. With more discipline I'm sure I'd win more often.
Before you can participate you'll need to fill out a short survey about you and your household. Fill this in and you will receive 5 tickets towards your entry into this month's prize draw.
GfK only open their panel to new participants a few times a year so if you're interested you do need to act quickly. Get started by visiting GfK
Ciao
Originally conceived as a site where you could publish your opinion on products, services etc. Ciao is now also one of the more active sites offering paid surveys. The amount earned will depend on the length of the survey and in addition to cash payment for the survey, you'll earn an entry into a prize draw with a top prize of £25,000. Even if you don't qualify you'll always earn an entry into the prize draw. Ciao pays out in cash direct into your bank account, at just £5, unlike many sites which offer only gift vouchers or high cash thresholds.
They have recently added product testing to their range; I've just had a new electric toothbrush and toothpaste to test.
panelbase.net was first launched in 2004 and has become one of the fastest growing research communities on the internet. For every survey that you complete, you will be rewarded in one of two ways. Some questionnaires will carry rewards between £0.50 and £3, which is added to your panelbase.net account. In addition to receiving cash, other surveys may include entry into prize draws where you could win anything from a case of wine, to an iPod or a plasma TV. As soon as you reach the redemption threshold of £10 (you get £3 just for signing up) you can withdraw your money or convert it to high-street vouchers.
Alternatively you can donate your cash to charity. Currently you can choose from the following charities:
World Wildlife Fund
British Red Cross
Oxfam
Anyone aged 16 years or older with access to the Internet, a land line or mobile phone can join the panelbase.net research community. As they conduct research in a variety of ways (via the Internet, telephone, SMS, product testing, focus groups or postal) you can participate in a range of surveys that are not solely reliant upon you having access to the Internet.
MySurvey.com (formerly MyTNS.com) offers you the chance to participate in online research and earn Nectar points or MySurvey points exchangeable for Amazon vouchers or charitable donations. I receive regular surveys to complete and even when you don't qualify you still earn a few Nectar points (usually at least 35). They are one of the best sites when it comes to longer duration surveys (eg a few minutes once a week for a month or every day for a week) which pay pretty well and for product trials.
Available to UK residents and 70 other countries including Ireland, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, USA and Canada, although different rewards apply for each country. See http://www.whichsurveys.com/europe.htm for more details of these panels.
MobileXpression is a new market research panel designed to understand the trends and behaviors of people using the mobile Internet. Are the most popular sites on the Internet also the most popular sites on the mobile Internet? Where are people surfing to and what mobile applications are they using? These are the kinds of questions MobileXpression can answer.
In order to participate in this research community, members install software on their mobile phones or devices. The research software monitors the community member’s mobile Internet activity, allowing MobileXpression to develop an understanding of how they use the Internet on their mobile phones. They never monitor any phone calls, only online activity. In addition, MobileXpression may occasionally invite its members to participate in online or phone-based surveys that are designed to help companies understand their attitudes and interests regarding their mobile device activity. Participation in these surveys is optional.
Join MobileXpression today and you can win a £5 Amazon gift card, a Garmin nuvi 350 GPS Navigator, a Panasonic Plasma HDTV or one of many other exciting prizes in the MobileXpression Instant Rewards Game. Everyone wins a prize!
Members are eligible to participate in the "Your Opinion Matters" sweepstakes and win a chance at the Grand Prize of $100,000. One winner will be chosen each month who will win $100 and will have the chance to win $2500, $5000, or even $100,000. Once you’ve joined, you can refer family and friends to join MobileXpression and receive additional entries into the Grand Prize drawings.
To find out if you qualify to join our research community, simply answer a few questions about your mobile device. If you’re eligible to join MobileXpression, you’ll be asked to provide additional information about you and your mobile device as well as download our research software onto your phone.
Palm Research
Join the Palm Research panel and get paid to take surveys, participate in focus groups or test and review different products and services on the internet. You are entered into a $50,000 drawing for every survey taken and can take a survey every day.
Open to residents of UK, US and Canada
TV Networks Study
Survey #15469
Payout: $1.00
Time: 5 Minutes
Demos: Male, 18-34 YOA
Quals: None
Location: USA
Click Now to Participate!
UK Cinema Study
Survey #15390
Payout: $1.50
Time: 15 Minutes
Demos: Male/Female, 13-54 YOA
Quals: United Kingdom Only
Location: UK
Click Now to Participate!
General Study #2
Survey #15391
Payout: $1.00
Time: 15 Minutes
Demos: Male/Female, 18-99 YOA
Quals: None
Location: USA/UK/GER/CAN
Click Now to Participate!
Itsyourview.com
Earn £1 for every five minutes of your time! Designed and administered by one of the leading names in UK market research, ICM Research, Itsyourview.com are looking to massively grow their panel in the next 12 months and so need new participants. Paying in cash, you can expect to earn around £1 for every five minutes, so for example a 25 minute survey will pay £5. Sign up at Itsyourview.com
Whilst not new (Synovate is a world-leading provider of market research, information and analysis, with over 50 years of experience) Synovate have recently revamped their rewards program so that you are now rewarded for every survey you complete. When you join you are entered into the Monthly Sign-up Sweepstakes with over 200 winners monthly and then for each survey you complete you earn points redeemable for cash plus an entry in the quarterly sweepstakes with 10 cash prizes ranging from £50 to £2,500. You can also refer friends to earn even more points. Most surveys take less than 15 minutes to complete.
IPSOS
IPSOS Interactive Services is one of the world's leading market research agencies. By joining their research panel, you'll earn points that can be exchanged for High Street vouchers. One of the more active panels - I receive survey requests most weeks from this agency. Earnings can build up surprisingly quickly; I recently logged into my account and discovered I'd accrued £60 in earnings. Available to UK residents over 18
GlobalTestMarket has a very active survey division and requires participants worldwide over the age of 14. If you've got children, you'll also often get invitations for your children but the invitation will go to you as consent for the child to take part in the research.
You earn "marketpoints" each time you respond to a survey request - the closer you fit the demographics for the survey, the higher the points earned but you'll always earn a few points even if you don't qualify at all. A typical survey of 30 questions that takes approximately 12 minutes to complete will earn 60 to 80 MarketPoints. You can also earn extra points when you refer others. Each point is worth $0.05, although you are paid in pounds not dollars when you live in the UK, and you need 1000 points to qualify for payment by cheque.
They seem to be fairly active. I receive survey invitations most days at present. For full details and registration form, visit GlobalTestMarket
Opinionworld - Become a member of OpinionWorld and receive regular invitations to take part in interesting surveys and opinion polls. Each time that you take part you have the chance of winning instant prizes, entries into the monthly prize draw, and the opportunity to support charities. Cash payments are also made on some surveys with payment made individually by Paypal rather than having to reach a minimum payment, even if you only earn £1!
Every time that you take part in a survey some money is set aside for a charity; the actual amount depends on the size of the questionnaire. The greater the number of people who take part, the more money donated. Charities change on a regular basis and include multinational charities and smaller organisations - just state at the end of the survey which charity you wish to support.
Surveys.com
NOP, the UK's leading market and opinion research company using its online survey service, Surveys.com, pays in ipoints, exchangeable for a wide range of items including gift vouchers, flowers, books, computer games, flights and hi-fi's. If you're not already a member you can find out more about ipoints here
For signing up and for each survey you complete you will also be entered into prize draws.
Bangers & Mash
The Bangers & Mash Community has been designed as a unique place where foodies of all ages and backgrounds from all over Britain can come together to take part in a feast of food-related discussions. Whether your passion is fast food or fine dining, this is the place to discuss and have your say on products still in their development stages. In this kitchen, YOU are the head chef!
Once you've joined Bangers & Mash, you'll receive questionnaires approximately once a month on a range of different food and drink related topics, and in the meantime if you're hungry for more Bangers & Mash you can log in and take part in a host of polls and discussions.
Every time you fully complete a survey on Bangers and Mash, they'll automatically credit your account with points. Surveys are usually worth between 50 - 1000 points, and each point is worth one penny. This means the cash value of the reward for completing a survey can vary from 50p to £10.
Register with Bangers & Mash and you'll be entered into a prize draw to win a luxury food hamper.
Lightspeed Consumer Channel are an international research company and have been one of the more active in the UK over recent years. Until recently the only reward for completing surveys were entries into prize draws. Now however they've revamped their scheme so that you still earn prize draw entries for completing qualifiers but whenever you complete a survey you also earn points exchangeable for a range of high street vouchers. You only need to earn £5 to claim so there's no long wait to get rewarded.
Membership of the UK panel is open only to residents of Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) who are 16 years of age or over. Irish members should join the Irish panel.
Surveyhead was founded in 2008 by the founders of goZing.com, one of the first and biggest online paid survey opportunities. In 2005, goZing was acquired by GreenfieldOnline and is now part of Ciao. Today, Surveyhead’s parent company, United Sample, works with corporations and market research firms around the world to help them gain competitive intelligence through online surveying. By joining this new panel, and in exchange for providing your opinion, Surveyhead will pay you a cash reward via PayPal for each survey you complete plus $5 just for registering. Open to UK residents over 14 plus residents of US, Australia and Canada.
If you enjoy getting paid to complete surveys but hate waiting months to qualify for a payment then Valued Opinions is definitely worth a look. They generally pay at least £1-£2 per survey (but could be up to £5 for each survey or up to £50 for specialist surveys), and you can claim your reward when you reach just £10, in the form of vouchers for Amazon or a selection of high street stores. At the moment I'm getting a voucher most months usually for little more than watching draft TV ads or planned product ideas and giving an opinion. Sign up now and you also have the chance to win an iPod Nano, just for registering.
Contrary to appearances suggested by the name, American Consumer Opinion™ is made up of consumers worldwide who have agreed to participate in surveys over the Internet. Occasionally, these consumers are asked to participate in mail surveys or telephone surveys, but generally the surveys are all conducted over the Internet.
As a panel member, you will participate in several surveys a year, typically. The average survey will take 10 minutes or so to complete, and the questions are usually easy to answer.
Panel members can expect to receive a "screener" (a short questionnaire) every six weeks or so.
All registered members participate in a monthly drawing to win cash awards, just for being a member.
If you answer a screener (a short questionnaire), you will be entered into a drawing for cash awards and when you participate in a survey (a longer questionnaire), you will always receive some type of incentive in the form of a free product to test, cash, a check, or a gift.
Incentives typically range in value from £4 to £25, per survey, depending upon the length of the questionnaire and the time it takes to complete it. If a survey is extra long, then the award could be £25 or more. Participants in online focus groups generally receive more than £25. No minimum payout levels - Payment is always made at the end of each survey.
I've received many payments from this company
Crowdology is an online research community, which rewards members for participating in online market research Surveys paying you for your opinion. Their clients are leading consumer brands, media, advertising, Public relations and publishing companies, who want to measure opinions on a wide range of subjects.
Crowdology surveys are varied and often focus on current issues or fun ideas with most of the surveys ranging from 2 minutes to 15 minutes. Examples of recent polls include, spending and saving patterns in the credit crunch, knowledge of cooking, wasting food, accidental landlords, mid life crisis, things you cant live without on holiday, the pains of looking good, celebrities who wear glasses, the stresses of getting married, frustrations of online shopping, and using plastic bags to save the environment. The amount of money you receive depends on the length and type of survey, from £0.50 up to £10 or more.
Home of Research is a new market research panel - choose which surveys you want to complete and earn points which can be exchanged for cash, vouchers or even donated to charity. 100 points = £1 and with up to 500 points attached to each survey, the money soon adds up! You can redeem your points once you have over 2,000. It's up to you what you do with them: convert them into Amazon vouchers, cash (for PayPal account holders) or donate the equivalent value to charity.
What I particularly like about this company is they tell you in the e-mail what criteria they are looking for, so if you aren't going to qualify you don't need to waste time completing pre-screeners.
Opinion Square offers you the chance to earn OpinionRewards Points (exchangeable for a wide range of gifts, gift certificates and charity donations) or entries into sweepstakes worth up to $10,000.
Available in the UK plus the following countries: U.S.A, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan, South Korea, South Africa, Australia, Finland, Brazil and Argentina.
Toluna (formerly Test&Vote) is slightly different from other survey sites I've come across in that you don't have to rely on getting invitations for completing surveys, but have several other ways of earning points or getting free items.
Registration earns you 1,500 points
Quick votes, each time you take part earns you 15 points (there are always loads of these on the site so visit regularly. They take a matter of seconds to complete.)
Product testing, registering for each trial earns you 75 points even if you're not selected to take part
Surveys earn you between 3,000 and 30,000 points
Referring a friend, for each person who joins Toluna because of you, you will earn 500 points
Subject panels - complete these to get 500 points per subject.
You can either exchange your points for gift vouchers or use them to buy tickets in the monthly lottery for £1000 in vouchers.
Visit Toluna to get further details and register for the UK site.
Yougov.com require regular contributions for opinion polls, often on behalf of national newspapers on topical matters. They usually pay 50p or £1 for each survey, but some are prize polls awarding up to £500. Generally they e-mail you when surveys are available - usually about once a week. You also earn 100% of the earnings of anyone you refer for 3 months eg if your brother signs up and completes 14 surveys paying £1 each he earns £14 and so do you.
Join pureprofile and earn at least £1 every time you choose to read and respond to marketing messages! Profile Pages are web pages of information you choose to publish on a particular product or service you have or are thinking about buying. Your Profile Pages are published in pureprofile's Reverse Search Engine, where relevant marketers can search for and send you messages on the products that meet your needs. Note: your personal identity is never revealed so you won't get bombarded with spam or junk mail, just paying surveys.
MyOffers - Just complete short customer surveys to be in with a chance of winning from a range of great prizes. Even if you don't win a major prize, from time to time you get your choice from a selection of prizes (mousemats, baseball caps, mugs etc) just for completing a set number of prize surveys, or get an entry in a major draw for a car/holiday etc with assigned surveys.
Completing Voice in a Crowd’s surveys earns you entries into the monthly prize draw with the chance to win top prizes ranging from cash and the latest gadgets to once in a lifetime experiences. The more surveys you complete the more entries you receive into the monthly prize draw. Watch out for the bonus prize surveys for even more chances to win great stuff.
Join ZoomPanel and earn points, prizes or gift certificates when you complete eligible surveys. The ZoomPanel exists strictly to conduct online market research for large consumer products companies. They may want to know what you think about new products that they are working on or may ask for your point of view about package designs, television ads, etc. Panel members will be invited to take a survey no more than 4 times each month. Some surveys offer ZoomPoints (exchangeable for gifts/vouchers in their online catalogue); some offer prizes; sometimes sweepstakes entries are your reward.
ZoomRewards program is open to legal residents of the UK plus the US, Canada, France and Australia.
qSample work directly with the market research companies. Their QuestionPro Survey Software is used by over 2000 companies worldwide to conduct online surveys.
They believe that everyone spending their time should be compensated - not one lucky winner. Hence they've structured this program such that the clients pay everyone who take the surveys. That's how they guarantee that you'll get paid. When you receive an invitation to take a survey, the compensation amount will be clearly noted on the email invitation. Expect to get paid anywhere between $1 to $15 per survey, through PayPal. Note that in some cases the clients insist that they use a prize or give-away. In such cases, there will still be a per/completion payout, although it will be nominal - between $.10 to $1, and you'll be entered in to the grand prize.
qSample is not a survey review site. They do not pass your data outside their network. They do not share your information with others, not even with their clients.
You can refer friends to signup with qSample, and earn more cash. For every survey that your friends complete, you get an additional 5% of their incentive. Furthermore, if your friends refer other people, you get 1% of that too.
No matter which country you are from, if someone is conducting market research there, they need you!
NFO Consumer Club is the UK arm of one of the world's top 3 consumer research organisations, over 50 years old, and one of my personal favourites. Forget getting paid in points or having to reach minimum payout thresholds, NFO pay you every time you are asked to complete a survey, even if you don't qualify. Expect to receive a £1 gift voucher, valid in most high street stores if you don't qualify or £2-£4 for a complete survey. They also have occasional product tests as well. Click Here to register or get more details.
Also available in US and Canada, although different rewards apply.
SurveySpot Each survey you complete gives you an entry into the monthly draw. 113 prizes will be awarded, totaling approximately £5,000, every month: One prize of £500; two prizes of £250 each; 50 prizes of £50 each; 60 prizes of £25 each. With so many prizes it isn't difficult to win - I've had two myself.
Every user who registers at Emailinform gets automatic entry into the £10,000 prize draw. At the end of the sign-up survey, you get immediate access to a rewards page with the latest discounts, offers and prizes. After this, you can return to the rewards page as often as you like to take up the latest offers, without having to go through the registration again.
Incentives to date have included free holidays, 3G video phones, book and music discounts, shopping vouchers and a host of other lifestyle-related offers.
Survey Savvy pay $3 cash for completed surveys and also earn from referring friends - $2 for survey completed by your referrals, and $1 by their referrals.
What is particularly good about this company for non US residents especially, is that you can request payment at any time (no minimum), let the cash accumulate if you wish to save on bank charges, or even make the checks payable to somebody else if you wish to make a dollar payment.
PlanetPanel is a worldwide community of consumers from 21 different countries. For every survey you choose to complete, you earn an extra chance to win cash prizes in both the monthly drawings and the annual $12,000 prize draw. Each month there is 1 US$1000 prize winner drawn among ALL countries and 4 US$50 prize winners drawn from UK panelists.
Free Paid Surveys with TestSpin - Register with TestSpin and earn up to $600 in Amazon gift certificates for taking paid online surveys and participating in their market research panel.
want to hear your views, opinions and answers on a whole variety of topics. With every survey you complete, you will be entered into a prize drawing.
Saros Research members are financially rewarded for giving up their time (typically £30 - £50 for 2 hours work) and sharing their views in discussion groups, or participating in interviews or surveys. To maintain quality standards you will not be able to take part in a discussion group more than twice a year.
In particular they are concentrating on recruiting for groups in the Greater London area, plus other key urban centres.
Opinionate Consumer Panel
Opinionate.co.uk offers CASH (PayPal) and VOUCHER incentives (Amazon, Virgin Megastore and more) for participation in Online Research Surveys. The choice of cash or voucher is yours. Earn between £0.50 and £3.00 per survey. Voice your opinion and influence the way companies develop their products and services. By registering you will be entered into the £1000 prize draw.
ResponsePanel.com - as well as the usual cash, vouchers, prizes etc. for completing surveys (award will depend on client) you also earn points for each survey you complete which can be exchanged for rewards which appear to be in the form of high street gift vouchers. With points worth £5 for the first survey and 50p for each subsequent survey, on top of payment from the client, this could be one of the better paying sites. You also get extra points for any friends you refer so remember to add my username "homeworker" in the "Referred By" box. There's even a monthly draw for all members, with extra entries for each survey completed.
The MBS Internet Research Center is looking for people who are willing to participate in surveys and focus groups over the web. Many of their customers are willing to pay incentives in the form of cash, prizes, and drawings for your opinions.
Incentives for online surveys are usually in the form of cash, product samples and/or gift certificates. The type and amount of incentive are based on the type and size of survey and the respondent profile required by the contract and can vary from $2-$10 or more. Sometimes, surveys offer no incentive at all and sometimes you are entered into major drawings. In the case of review surveys, you may be allowed to keep product samples. Payment is based on the submission of a completely answered, requested survey form You are never obligated to participate.
Incentives for focus groups tend to be much higher than for surveys, but do not occur as frequently. Focus groups require you to have access to the Internet for 1 - 1½ hours of your time and a Java-capable web browser. All of the latest versions of Internet Explorer and Netscape are capable and are available for free download from the web. All you have to do is go to a website that we will provide you with at the time of the focus group and participate in the discussion.
KNOTs is a little different from most of the sites listed here. Not only is KNOTs available in much of Europe, but you also have the choice of taking your awards in vouchers from any of the countries participating, so if you're planning to holiday in Europe or have friends or family abroad you can opt for vouchers from the appropriate country. Currently KNOTs Club is operating in the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands so providing you're over 16 years old and live in one of these countries you qualify. You'll get your first 250 points when you complete the entry questionnaire
http://www.cosmeticresearchonline.co.uk supply research information to manufacturers of cosmetics and toiletries in 7 different countries. They don't offer payment but you do get to try the latest in cosmetics, toiletries and skincare free of charge. Trial products have already been tested for safety so they just want to know whether they work or not, whether they are pleasant to use and whether you think they could be improved. None have been tested on animals.
http://www.thats-what-i-think.co.uk lets you express your opinions about what you see on TV and Movie screens and hear on the radio. You get a chance to see and hear new releases before they're made public and help decide if they are up to your standards. You earn "Opinion Points" which are redeemable for such prizes as gift certificates from Amazon.co.uk or to make donations to charity. Not only do you earn points for joining up, completing surveys and earn 20% of the points earned by friends you refer, but they also give away points just to say thank you for being a part of the thats-what-i-think.co.uk community, or for responding quickly.
OpiStat
OpiStat is a European Research Institute that measures Internet usage and survey participants according to their profiles and online habits. Their surveys are short and rewarded and are currently available in the United Kingdom, Germany and France.
http://www.myvoice.co.uk
You can earn points by doing polls. The number of points for each poll will be clearly indicated on the poll pages. UK only to to exchange points for vouchers. If you live elsewhere they can be donated to charity.
General polls open to everyone pay out only to the first 3000 completed surveys, but all respondants get an entry into the monthly draw for each poll regardless of length (some polls are just one short question). You can opt to be notified by e-mail whenever a new survey goes live,and will also receive occasional e-mails for invitation only surveys which are generally longer and better paid.
You can exchange MyVoice points for vouchers when you have collected 2000 of them (worth £20) or give your points to charity when you have at least 1000.
You can currently choose from the following vouchers: Marks & Spencer, Boots, Dixons, Virgin Megastore, WH Smiths, Choice vouchers (valid in Argos, Woolworths, HMV, Dolcis, Mothercare, BHS, JJB Sports, H. Samuel) and Leisure Vouchers (valid in Pizza Hut, TGI Friday's, Thresher, Victoria Wine Shops, Marriott Hotels, David Lloyd centres).
Consumerlink pay you in iPoints for completing surveys, so you need to be an ipoints member first. Click here for more details and to sign up for ipoints. Whenever you take part in a survey, you are either awarded a set number of ipoints, or more often, entered into a draw to win ipoints.
Lightspeed also operate in the U.S., Canada, France and Germany
Also available to US smartphone owners
Vividence As a panelist, you'll evaluate leading Web sites and provide vital feedback on your experience. For each evaluation you complete, you'll receive an Amazon.com gift certificate, usually for $10.
I have received several payments from this company
Spidermetrix - Australian site, but available worldwide. Get points (exchangeable for goods or cash) for reviewing websites, and extra points for referring others. Some surveys don't award points automatically but the chance to win points for giving one of the best reports. However these surveys are also often pre-qualifiers for other surveys, so well worth doing anyway.
Yahoo are looking for people to join their User Research program. Participants may receive up to $40 an hour, depending on the type of research! They are are looking for all types of people: Web novices and experts, Yahoo! users and non-users, people who use Yahoo! at home or at work, adults and kids ... everyone! Feel free to ask others to sign up too, especially those who are not yet on the Web!
They conduct research in many ways, such as:
Visiting you at your location in a field study
Inviting you to come into a Yahoo! office to participate in a usability study
Speaking with you in a telephone interview
Participating in an online focus group study
Connecting with you with an online survey
Obviously the "in person" surveys are mainly applicable to those in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, they do carry out surveys worldwide, and of course the online surveys are available to everyone, subject to the criteria of the study.
Sign up to become eligible to be part of the Capitol Records focus groups, which they will be holding throughout the next year. If we select you and you take part in a focus group, we'll send you music in the mail, you can listen to it, tell us what you think, and then for your time they'll send you more free music and other goodies.
Songpeople.com conduct offline and online research for the music industry. Prizes include MP3 players, cash and CD's for reviewing music and videos.
Michael Herbert Associates pay £15 plus online expenses for approximately one hour's discussion on the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network.
Sporting Insights is an ongoing UK based research site, that tracks sports fans and participants around the world. They provide sporting events, websites and their sponsors with information on who sports fans are and what they want from their sports. This includes all kinds of information such as the sports that people are interested in, the profile of sports fans and the media that people use to interact with their sports.
In return they give respondents the chance of winning great prizes across a wide range of sports, as well as offering unique incentives to people who join their sports panel.
http://www.ithinkinc.com/
A chance to win money and prizes by completing a sponsored survey. Usually the amount is from $2-$10 for about 10-15 minutes of your time. Your check will arrive in the mail within a few weeks of submitting the questionnaire for a sponsored study. I have been paid by this company
International Advisory Panel
Fill out a background questionnaire and participate in surveys about twice a month. There are drawings for $75 for shorter surveys and $100 or more for longer surveys, plus T-shirts to be won.
NPD Online Research
With many of their studies they hold a cash or prize drawing. All members who participate are eligible for a chance to win the prize associated with that particular study. When they conduct a focus group you usually can choose a thank you gift from a pre-defined list of gifts.
Opinionsite
You have a chance to win $500 or $10 Web coupons when you register. You will also receive a free gift or enter into a contest to win a cash prize for every survey that you complete. Notified by e-mail when suitable surveys are available.
Voice of the Internet
For each survey a portion (dependent on number of participants and cash available) of those responding get $5.
Opinion People is an international online access panel, inviting you to participate in online studies covering current issues and get involved in the development of future products and services. You get paid for your input and also get the chance to win great prizes.
After registering with opinion people and filling in a few personal details in the basic profile, you will receive your own electronic account which will be credited with your first 7 bonus points. You will then receive a further 10 bonus points for the special profiles (Household, Internet & Technology, Job & Career, Cars & Motorbikes, Travelling, Health & Wellness, Finance, Media Use, Interests & Hobbies). 1 bonus point is equivalent to 10p. When you have accumulated a total of 150 bonus points, you will receive a pay-out of £15 direct to your bank account. For every survey you participate in (even if you do not complete it if you do not belong to the desired target group), you receive a ticket for the monthly raffle, so the more often you participate in surveys, the higher the number of entries you'll have. This company only very occasionally opens the panel to new members, so grab the opportunity when you find an invitation. Ages 14 and above.
UPDATE - Registration has just re-opened. Sign-up at Opinion People .
As a participant in the Harris Poll Online, you have the opportunity to influence important decision-makers in government, non-profit organizations, and corporations and help to shape the policies, products, and services they offer you. Your responses to Harris Poll Online questions can make a difference! The Harris Poll has been around for over 40 years, and is a trusted name.
Aside from having your say in matters that affect you, you'll also be able to see the survey results, so you can compare your opinions and experiences to those like and unlike you. Occasionally, you may participate in surveys whose results will be published in national or international media. If time permits, they'll email the results to you before they are published. You can scoop your friends!
They often show their appreciation for your participation by giving you the chance to enter sweepstakes. Prizes may consist of a cash award or special offer (such as free computer games or discount coupons). Surveys that include sweepstakes, cash awards or other special offers will be identified as such in the email invitation. In instances where prizes are awarded, you will qualify for these offers only after completing the survey or following the instructions for mail-in entries found in the sweepstake rules page, linked from the email invitation and the final survey page.
Survey Site pay a minimum of $35 if you participate in an online chat discussion and pay cash or hold contests if you answer an online survey. In the past month they have given away prizes such as a Compaq Presario Computer, $500 in cash, Amazon gift certificates and Palm Pilot Hand Held Computers. They also hold monthly draws for cash prizes. As part of their panel, they ask you to answer online surveys or participate in online chat discussions (called focus groups). Sometimes they will invite you to visit a specific Web site and ask what you think about the site. Other times, they will invite you to visit their online survey center and complete a short questionnaire on a specific topic. For example, they might ask your opinion about certain products or services that you regularly use.
Digital Research As panel members, you and the other members of your household have the opportunity to participate in opinion polls and product tests. All of their research projects involve participation incentives. Usually, you will be entered into a sweepstakes, offering prizes that consist of cash or merchandise. On other occasions, you may receive valuable coupons for your participation.
SpectraCom
Members of their research database will receive e-mail invitations to participate in a variety of online and off-line research projects. Most projects include an incentive for completion, such as a cash sweepstakes, free product or an online gift certificate.
Some research projects you may be invited to participate in include:
reviewing new web sites
evaluating creative concepts
testing new products
assessing content preferences
describing Internet or website use
Focusline.com
Focusline.com is an online consumer research service that conducts online interviews about a variety of consumer oriented topics. We use your opinions and suggestions to help companies better meet your needs as a consumer. Participation in our paid surveys is fun, interesting, and financially rewarding, and is only open to registered members! The only prerequisites to join are that you must be an adult and you must have a valid email address.
To become a member and enable them to match your demographics to their research projects, they need you to complete a profile of yourself. As a member, you'll be eligible to participate in web based surveys, one-on-one interviews and group sessions. You may be required to fill out a short prequalifying survey to help them determine your suitability for an upcoming paid study. Prequalifiers only take about a minute to complete and full surveys usually take about 10 minutes. Group sessions and one-on-one interviews are conducted in a chat based environment and generally last for 30 minutes to an hour. They typically pay between $25 to $45 for participation in their studies.
IntelliQuest Technology Panel For each survey that you complete and return by the specified date, you will earn PERCS (Points Earned for Returning Completed Surveys, converted to cash and paid quarterly. The value of PERCS currency is $1.00 for every 100 PERCS points. ) or be entered in a drawing for prizes, such as notebook computers, CD-ROM drives, software, and cash.
The Internet Poll provide incentives to complete surveys, but no details given
Product Testing Services With product beta testing, there is always an incentive for you. Usually, you get to keep the product. In the case of testing products with little actual value, additional incentives are usually offered.
http://www.clarionresearch.com/ Panelists who qualify for online surveys are generally compensated with cash, product incentives or service incentives.
Consumerviews When you are invited to complete a questionnaire for a client, you will be told what the token payment or gift will be for participation. Typically, participants will receive a check for $5.00 or perhaps coupons worth $5 or more on the client's products. In some situations, participants may receive larger payments. I have received payment from this company.
Marketview Research. - random drawings for cash or merchandise prizes every time you answer one of their surveys.
eLab are looking for people to participate a few times a year in their innovative online experiments and surveys about how people behave in the digital world. All of their projects are academic research conducted by eLab faculty and post-doctoral fellows at Vanderbilt University.
Every month eLab holds a random drawing for a $250 cash prize. As a registered panelist, you are eligible for the drawing. Your chance of winning increases as you participate in our experiments and surveys.
Additionally, if you choose to participate in an eLab experiment or survey, you are also eligible for separate drawings for $100 cash prizes.
WARNINGS
Here are a few buyers' experiences of survey companies:
www.money4surveys.co.uk
I stupidly paid my money to join the http://www.money4surveys.co.uk. website. They have not supplied me with the said amount of surveys I could expect and I have asked for a refund to which I have heard nothing. Most of the survey sites pay you in free sweets or entry into a monthly draw, not the £5 a survey claimed in the initial application.
http://surveyjunction.com
Thinking that with me being on-line so much, I may as well put my time to good use and earn myself some much needed funds, hence one of the reasons for joining CIAO! I had also joined a few other online survey sites, but as yet had no surveys to do for them, so in my ignorance of these things, and on looking round the net, I came across a website that said they had an exclusive list of nearly 200 internet marketing companies, with paid and rewarded survey opportunities, I also got an email into my account telling me about this opportunity.
I knew that many companies worked only with selected groups, and thought that this was a way of getting into these groups, and broadening my chances of increasing my funds. Survey Junction stated that these were 'worldwide opportunities', and so I thought that I would give it a go.
After paying 'the small one time $32.95 Membership Fee' I was given access to their members only area, which contained two pages of links to such websites as CIAO! and other sites which do surveys for prize draws, or to earn points. Most of the ones which paid out monies were for people who reside in the USA, also along with these survey sites (which could have been found by searching through a search engine) were many links which infact were not survey sites, but 'freestuff' sites!!!!!!!!
PLEASE NOTE - You are likely to come across many sites offering a similar service to Survey Junction above. Whilst others are more comprehensive and better value, they are generally only worth considering if you are U.S. based and would rather pay a one-off fee for a regularly updated listing than do your own research. However, almost all do offer money-back guarantees so there is no risk to checking them out.
For a much more comprehensive list of survey sites, please visit http://www.WhichSurveys.com
As you might expect, this means that they only pay out in cash, rather than vouchers, gifts etc. You can cash out at just £20. Within each email you receive, you will be told how many credit points (Each point is worth 1 pence) completing the survey is worth. This will range depending on the survey length as they reward you more for the time spent on each survey.
GfK have just reopened their media panel and would like to invite you to take part in a study to give your opinions of programmes shown on television and radio, and the websites you visit.
The answers that you give are important in deciding what TV and radio programmes are made and what websites are produced. It doesn't matter how much TV you watch, how much radio you listen to or how often you access the internet, it's what you think and feel about the TV programmes, radio and internet that's important in this survey.
The survey is available every day. It only takes a few minutes to complete, and it's your chance to share your thoughts and feelings with the programme producers themselves.
Sign up now and you will be able to start giving your opinions from tomorrow. If you complete a questionnaire at least 10 times per month you will be entered into a monthly prize draw with over 4,000 cash prizes totalling almost £15,000 to be won and a top prize of £1,500. Every three months you will be entered into a loyal lottery draw, with a total prize fund of £8,500 per quarter and a top prize of £4,000.
Unlike other sites offering prize draws instead of guaranteed payment, this one has enough prizes to stand a real chance of winning on a regular basis. I tend to get a few wins every year and I only tend to complete 3 surveys a week. With more discipline I'm sure I'd win more often.
Before you can participate you'll need to fill out a short survey about you and your household. Fill this in and you will receive 5 tickets towards your entry into this month's prize draw.
GfK only open their panel to new participants a few times a year so if you're interested you do need to act quickly. Get started by visiting GfK
Ciao
Originally conceived as a site where you could publish your opinion on products, services etc. Ciao is now also one of the more active sites offering paid surveys. The amount earned will depend on the length of the survey and in addition to cash payment for the survey, you'll earn an entry into a prize draw with a top prize of £25,000. Even if you don't qualify you'll always earn an entry into the prize draw. Ciao pays out in cash direct into your bank account, at just £5, unlike many sites which offer only gift vouchers or high cash thresholds.
They have recently added product testing to their range; I've just had a new electric toothbrush and toothpaste to test.
panelbase.net was first launched in 2004 and has become one of the fastest growing research communities on the internet. For every survey that you complete, you will be rewarded in one of two ways. Some questionnaires will carry rewards between £0.50 and £3, which is added to your panelbase.net account. In addition to receiving cash, other surveys may include entry into prize draws where you could win anything from a case of wine, to an iPod or a plasma TV. As soon as you reach the redemption threshold of £10 (you get £3 just for signing up) you can withdraw your money or convert it to high-street vouchers.
Alternatively you can donate your cash to charity. Currently you can choose from the following charities:
World Wildlife Fund
British Red Cross
Oxfam
Anyone aged 16 years or older with access to the Internet, a land line or mobile phone can join the panelbase.net research community. As they conduct research in a variety of ways (via the Internet, telephone, SMS, product testing, focus groups or postal) you can participate in a range of surveys that are not solely reliant upon you having access to the Internet.
MySurvey.com (formerly MyTNS.com) offers you the chance to participate in online research and earn Nectar points or MySurvey points exchangeable for Amazon vouchers or charitable donations. I receive regular surveys to complete and even when you don't qualify you still earn a few Nectar points (usually at least 35). They are one of the best sites when it comes to longer duration surveys (eg a few minutes once a week for a month or every day for a week) which pay pretty well and for product trials.
Available to UK residents and 70 other countries including Ireland, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, USA and Canada, although different rewards apply for each country. See http://www.whichsurveys.com/europe.htm for more details of these panels.
MobileXpression is a new market research panel designed to understand the trends and behaviors of people using the mobile Internet. Are the most popular sites on the Internet also the most popular sites on the mobile Internet? Where are people surfing to and what mobile applications are they using? These are the kinds of questions MobileXpression can answer.
In order to participate in this research community, members install software on their mobile phones or devices. The research software monitors the community member’s mobile Internet activity, allowing MobileXpression to develop an understanding of how they use the Internet on their mobile phones. They never monitor any phone calls, only online activity. In addition, MobileXpression may occasionally invite its members to participate in online or phone-based surveys that are designed to help companies understand their attitudes and interests regarding their mobile device activity. Participation in these surveys is optional.
Join MobileXpression today and you can win a £5 Amazon gift card, a Garmin nuvi 350 GPS Navigator, a Panasonic Plasma HDTV or one of many other exciting prizes in the MobileXpression Instant Rewards Game. Everyone wins a prize!
Members are eligible to participate in the "Your Opinion Matters" sweepstakes and win a chance at the Grand Prize of $100,000. One winner will be chosen each month who will win $100 and will have the chance to win $2500, $5000, or even $100,000. Once you’ve joined, you can refer family and friends to join MobileXpression and receive additional entries into the Grand Prize drawings.
To find out if you qualify to join our research community, simply answer a few questions about your mobile device. If you’re eligible to join MobileXpression, you’ll be asked to provide additional information about you and your mobile device as well as download our research software onto your phone.
Palm Research
Join the Palm Research panel and get paid to take surveys, participate in focus groups or test and review different products and services on the internet. You are entered into a $50,000 drawing for every survey taken and can take a survey every day.
Open to residents of UK, US and Canada
TV Networks Study
Survey #15469
Payout: $1.00
Time: 5 Minutes
Demos: Male, 18-34 YOA
Quals: None
Location: USA
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UK Cinema Study
Survey #15390
Payout: $1.50
Time: 15 Minutes
Demos: Male/Female, 13-54 YOA
Quals: United Kingdom Only
Location: UK
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General Study #2
Survey #15391
Payout: $1.00
Time: 15 Minutes
Demos: Male/Female, 18-99 YOA
Quals: None
Location: USA/UK/GER/CAN
Click Now to Participate!
Itsyourview.com
Earn £1 for every five minutes of your time! Designed and administered by one of the leading names in UK market research, ICM Research, Itsyourview.com are looking to massively grow their panel in the next 12 months and so need new participants. Paying in cash, you can expect to earn around £1 for every five minutes, so for example a 25 minute survey will pay £5. Sign up at Itsyourview.com
Whilst not new (Synovate is a world-leading provider of market research, information and analysis, with over 50 years of experience) Synovate have recently revamped their rewards program so that you are now rewarded for every survey you complete. When you join you are entered into the Monthly Sign-up Sweepstakes with over 200 winners monthly and then for each survey you complete you earn points redeemable for cash plus an entry in the quarterly sweepstakes with 10 cash prizes ranging from £50 to £2,500. You can also refer friends to earn even more points. Most surveys take less than 15 minutes to complete.
IPSOS
IPSOS Interactive Services is one of the world's leading market research agencies. By joining their research panel, you'll earn points that can be exchanged for High Street vouchers. One of the more active panels - I receive survey requests most weeks from this agency. Earnings can build up surprisingly quickly; I recently logged into my account and discovered I'd accrued £60 in earnings. Available to UK residents over 18
GlobalTestMarket has a very active survey division and requires participants worldwide over the age of 14. If you've got children, you'll also often get invitations for your children but the invitation will go to you as consent for the child to take part in the research.
You earn "marketpoints" each time you respond to a survey request - the closer you fit the demographics for the survey, the higher the points earned but you'll always earn a few points even if you don't qualify at all. A typical survey of 30 questions that takes approximately 12 minutes to complete will earn 60 to 80 MarketPoints. You can also earn extra points when you refer others. Each point is worth $0.05, although you are paid in pounds not dollars when you live in the UK, and you need 1000 points to qualify for payment by cheque.
They seem to be fairly active. I receive survey invitations most days at present. For full details and registration form, visit GlobalTestMarket
Opinionworld - Become a member of OpinionWorld and receive regular invitations to take part in interesting surveys and opinion polls. Each time that you take part you have the chance of winning instant prizes, entries into the monthly prize draw, and the opportunity to support charities. Cash payments are also made on some surveys with payment made individually by Paypal rather than having to reach a minimum payment, even if you only earn £1!
Every time that you take part in a survey some money is set aside for a charity; the actual amount depends on the size of the questionnaire. The greater the number of people who take part, the more money donated. Charities change on a regular basis and include multinational charities and smaller organisations - just state at the end of the survey which charity you wish to support.
Surveys.com
NOP, the UK's leading market and opinion research company using its online survey service, Surveys.com, pays in ipoints, exchangeable for a wide range of items including gift vouchers, flowers, books, computer games, flights and hi-fi's. If you're not already a member you can find out more about ipoints here
For signing up and for each survey you complete you will also be entered into prize draws.
Bangers & Mash
The Bangers & Mash Community has been designed as a unique place where foodies of all ages and backgrounds from all over Britain can come together to take part in a feast of food-related discussions. Whether your passion is fast food or fine dining, this is the place to discuss and have your say on products still in their development stages. In this kitchen, YOU are the head chef!
Once you've joined Bangers & Mash, you'll receive questionnaires approximately once a month on a range of different food and drink related topics, and in the meantime if you're hungry for more Bangers & Mash you can log in and take part in a host of polls and discussions.
Every time you fully complete a survey on Bangers and Mash, they'll automatically credit your account with points. Surveys are usually worth between 50 - 1000 points, and each point is worth one penny. This means the cash value of the reward for completing a survey can vary from 50p to £10.
Register with Bangers & Mash and you'll be entered into a prize draw to win a luxury food hamper.
Lightspeed Consumer Channel are an international research company and have been one of the more active in the UK over recent years. Until recently the only reward for completing surveys were entries into prize draws. Now however they've revamped their scheme so that you still earn prize draw entries for completing qualifiers but whenever you complete a survey you also earn points exchangeable for a range of high street vouchers. You only need to earn £5 to claim so there's no long wait to get rewarded.
Membership of the UK panel is open only to residents of Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) who are 16 years of age or over. Irish members should join the Irish panel.
Surveyhead was founded in 2008 by the founders of goZing.com, one of the first and biggest online paid survey opportunities. In 2005, goZing was acquired by GreenfieldOnline and is now part of Ciao. Today, Surveyhead’s parent company, United Sample, works with corporations and market research firms around the world to help them gain competitive intelligence through online surveying. By joining this new panel, and in exchange for providing your opinion, Surveyhead will pay you a cash reward via PayPal for each survey you complete plus $5 just for registering. Open to UK residents over 14 plus residents of US, Australia and Canada.
If you enjoy getting paid to complete surveys but hate waiting months to qualify for a payment then Valued Opinions is definitely worth a look. They generally pay at least £1-£2 per survey (but could be up to £5 for each survey or up to £50 for specialist surveys), and you can claim your reward when you reach just £10, in the form of vouchers for Amazon or a selection of high street stores. At the moment I'm getting a voucher most months usually for little more than watching draft TV ads or planned product ideas and giving an opinion. Sign up now and you also have the chance to win an iPod Nano, just for registering.
Contrary to appearances suggested by the name, American Consumer Opinion™ is made up of consumers worldwide who have agreed to participate in surveys over the Internet. Occasionally, these consumers are asked to participate in mail surveys or telephone surveys, but generally the surveys are all conducted over the Internet.
As a panel member, you will participate in several surveys a year, typically. The average survey will take 10 minutes or so to complete, and the questions are usually easy to answer.
Panel members can expect to receive a "screener" (a short questionnaire) every six weeks or so.
All registered members participate in a monthly drawing to win cash awards, just for being a member.
If you answer a screener (a short questionnaire), you will be entered into a drawing for cash awards and when you participate in a survey (a longer questionnaire), you will always receive some type of incentive in the form of a free product to test, cash, a check, or a gift.
Incentives typically range in value from £4 to £25, per survey, depending upon the length of the questionnaire and the time it takes to complete it. If a survey is extra long, then the award could be £25 or more. Participants in online focus groups generally receive more than £25. No minimum payout levels - Payment is always made at the end of each survey.
I've received many payments from this company
Crowdology is an online research community, which rewards members for participating in online market research Surveys paying you for your opinion. Their clients are leading consumer brands, media, advertising, Public relations and publishing companies, who want to measure opinions on a wide range of subjects.
Crowdology surveys are varied and often focus on current issues or fun ideas with most of the surveys ranging from 2 minutes to 15 minutes. Examples of recent polls include, spending and saving patterns in the credit crunch, knowledge of cooking, wasting food, accidental landlords, mid life crisis, things you cant live without on holiday, the pains of looking good, celebrities who wear glasses, the stresses of getting married, frustrations of online shopping, and using plastic bags to save the environment. The amount of money you receive depends on the length and type of survey, from £0.50 up to £10 or more.
Home of Research is a new market research panel - choose which surveys you want to complete and earn points which can be exchanged for cash, vouchers or even donated to charity. 100 points = £1 and with up to 500 points attached to each survey, the money soon adds up! You can redeem your points once you have over 2,000. It's up to you what you do with them: convert them into Amazon vouchers, cash (for PayPal account holders) or donate the equivalent value to charity.
What I particularly like about this company is they tell you in the e-mail what criteria they are looking for, so if you aren't going to qualify you don't need to waste time completing pre-screeners.
Opinion Square offers you the chance to earn OpinionRewards Points (exchangeable for a wide range of gifts, gift certificates and charity donations) or entries into sweepstakes worth up to $10,000.
Available in the UK plus the following countries: U.S.A, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan, South Korea, South Africa, Australia, Finland, Brazil and Argentina.
Toluna (formerly Test&Vote) is slightly different from other survey sites I've come across in that you don't have to rely on getting invitations for completing surveys, but have several other ways of earning points or getting free items.
Registration earns you 1,500 points
Quick votes, each time you take part earns you 15 points (there are always loads of these on the site so visit regularly. They take a matter of seconds to complete.)
Product testing, registering for each trial earns you 75 points even if you're not selected to take part
Surveys earn you between 3,000 and 30,000 points
Referring a friend, for each person who joins Toluna because of you, you will earn 500 points
Subject panels - complete these to get 500 points per subject.
You can either exchange your points for gift vouchers or use them to buy tickets in the monthly lottery for £1000 in vouchers.
Visit Toluna to get further details and register for the UK site.
Yougov.com require regular contributions for opinion polls, often on behalf of national newspapers on topical matters. They usually pay 50p or £1 for each survey, but some are prize polls awarding up to £500. Generally they e-mail you when surveys are available - usually about once a week. You also earn 100% of the earnings of anyone you refer for 3 months eg if your brother signs up and completes 14 surveys paying £1 each he earns £14 and so do you.
Join pureprofile and earn at least £1 every time you choose to read and respond to marketing messages! Profile Pages are web pages of information you choose to publish on a particular product or service you have or are thinking about buying. Your Profile Pages are published in pureprofile's Reverse Search Engine, where relevant marketers can search for and send you messages on the products that meet your needs. Note: your personal identity is never revealed so you won't get bombarded with spam or junk mail, just paying surveys.
MyOffers - Just complete short customer surveys to be in with a chance of winning from a range of great prizes. Even if you don't win a major prize, from time to time you get your choice from a selection of prizes (mousemats, baseball caps, mugs etc) just for completing a set number of prize surveys, or get an entry in a major draw for a car/holiday etc with assigned surveys.
Completing Voice in a Crowd’s surveys earns you entries into the monthly prize draw with the chance to win top prizes ranging from cash and the latest gadgets to once in a lifetime experiences. The more surveys you complete the more entries you receive into the monthly prize draw. Watch out for the bonus prize surveys for even more chances to win great stuff.
Join ZoomPanel and earn points, prizes or gift certificates when you complete eligible surveys. The ZoomPanel exists strictly to conduct online market research for large consumer products companies. They may want to know what you think about new products that they are working on or may ask for your point of view about package designs, television ads, etc. Panel members will be invited to take a survey no more than 4 times each month. Some surveys offer ZoomPoints (exchangeable for gifts/vouchers in their online catalogue); some offer prizes; sometimes sweepstakes entries are your reward.
ZoomRewards program is open to legal residents of the UK plus the US, Canada, France and Australia.
qSample work directly with the market research companies. Their QuestionPro Survey Software is used by over 2000 companies worldwide to conduct online surveys.
They believe that everyone spending their time should be compensated - not one lucky winner. Hence they've structured this program such that the clients pay everyone who take the surveys. That's how they guarantee that you'll get paid. When you receive an invitation to take a survey, the compensation amount will be clearly noted on the email invitation. Expect to get paid anywhere between $1 to $15 per survey, through PayPal. Note that in some cases the clients insist that they use a prize or give-away. In such cases, there will still be a per/completion payout, although it will be nominal - between $.10 to $1, and you'll be entered in to the grand prize.
qSample is not a survey review site. They do not pass your data outside their network. They do not share your information with others, not even with their clients.
You can refer friends to signup with qSample, and earn more cash. For every survey that your friends complete, you get an additional 5% of their incentive. Furthermore, if your friends refer other people, you get 1% of that too.
No matter which country you are from, if someone is conducting market research there, they need you!
NFO Consumer Club is the UK arm of one of the world's top 3 consumer research organisations, over 50 years old, and one of my personal favourites. Forget getting paid in points or having to reach minimum payout thresholds, NFO pay you every time you are asked to complete a survey, even if you don't qualify. Expect to receive a £1 gift voucher, valid in most high street stores if you don't qualify or £2-£4 for a complete survey. They also have occasional product tests as well. Click Here to register or get more details.
Also available in US and Canada, although different rewards apply.
SurveySpot Each survey you complete gives you an entry into the monthly draw. 113 prizes will be awarded, totaling approximately £5,000, every month: One prize of £500; two prizes of £250 each; 50 prizes of £50 each; 60 prizes of £25 each. With so many prizes it isn't difficult to win - I've had two myself.
Every user who registers at Emailinform gets automatic entry into the £10,000 prize draw. At the end of the sign-up survey, you get immediate access to a rewards page with the latest discounts, offers and prizes. After this, you can return to the rewards page as often as you like to take up the latest offers, without having to go through the registration again.
Incentives to date have included free holidays, 3G video phones, book and music discounts, shopping vouchers and a host of other lifestyle-related offers.
Survey Savvy pay $3 cash for completed surveys and also earn from referring friends - $2 for survey completed by your referrals, and $1 by their referrals.
What is particularly good about this company for non US residents especially, is that you can request payment at any time (no minimum), let the cash accumulate if you wish to save on bank charges, or even make the checks payable to somebody else if you wish to make a dollar payment.
PlanetPanel is a worldwide community of consumers from 21 different countries. For every survey you choose to complete, you earn an extra chance to win cash prizes in both the monthly drawings and the annual $12,000 prize draw. Each month there is 1 US$1000 prize winner drawn among ALL countries and 4 US$50 prize winners drawn from UK panelists.
Free Paid Surveys with TestSpin - Register with TestSpin and earn up to $600 in Amazon gift certificates for taking paid online surveys and participating in their market research panel.
want to hear your views, opinions and answers on a whole variety of topics. With every survey you complete, you will be entered into a prize drawing.
Saros Research members are financially rewarded for giving up their time (typically £30 - £50 for 2 hours work) and sharing their views in discussion groups, or participating in interviews or surveys. To maintain quality standards you will not be able to take part in a discussion group more than twice a year.
In particular they are concentrating on recruiting for groups in the Greater London area, plus other key urban centres.
Opinionate Consumer Panel
Opinionate.co.uk offers CASH (PayPal) and VOUCHER incentives (Amazon, Virgin Megastore and more) for participation in Online Research Surveys. The choice of cash or voucher is yours. Earn between £0.50 and £3.00 per survey. Voice your opinion and influence the way companies develop their products and services. By registering you will be entered into the £1000 prize draw.
ResponsePanel.com - as well as the usual cash, vouchers, prizes etc. for completing surveys (award will depend on client) you also earn points for each survey you complete which can be exchanged for rewards which appear to be in the form of high street gift vouchers. With points worth £5 for the first survey and 50p for each subsequent survey, on top of payment from the client, this could be one of the better paying sites. You also get extra points for any friends you refer so remember to add my username "homeworker" in the "Referred By" box. There's even a monthly draw for all members, with extra entries for each survey completed.
The MBS Internet Research Center is looking for people who are willing to participate in surveys and focus groups over the web. Many of their customers are willing to pay incentives in the form of cash, prizes, and drawings for your opinions.
Incentives for online surveys are usually in the form of cash, product samples and/or gift certificates. The type and amount of incentive are based on the type and size of survey and the respondent profile required by the contract and can vary from $2-$10 or more. Sometimes, surveys offer no incentive at all and sometimes you are entered into major drawings. In the case of review surveys, you may be allowed to keep product samples. Payment is based on the submission of a completely answered, requested survey form You are never obligated to participate.
Incentives for focus groups tend to be much higher than for surveys, but do not occur as frequently. Focus groups require you to have access to the Internet for 1 - 1½ hours of your time and a Java-capable web browser. All of the latest versions of Internet Explorer and Netscape are capable and are available for free download from the web. All you have to do is go to a website that we will provide you with at the time of the focus group and participate in the discussion.
KNOTs is a little different from most of the sites listed here. Not only is KNOTs available in much of Europe, but you also have the choice of taking your awards in vouchers from any of the countries participating, so if you're planning to holiday in Europe or have friends or family abroad you can opt for vouchers from the appropriate country. Currently KNOTs Club is operating in the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands so providing you're over 16 years old and live in one of these countries you qualify. You'll get your first 250 points when you complete the entry questionnaire
http://www.cosmeticresearchonline.co.uk supply research information to manufacturers of cosmetics and toiletries in 7 different countries. They don't offer payment but you do get to try the latest in cosmetics, toiletries and skincare free of charge. Trial products have already been tested for safety so they just want to know whether they work or not, whether they are pleasant to use and whether you think they could be improved. None have been tested on animals.
http://www.thats-what-i-think.co.uk lets you express your opinions about what you see on TV and Movie screens and hear on the radio. You get a chance to see and hear new releases before they're made public and help decide if they are up to your standards. You earn "Opinion Points" which are redeemable for such prizes as gift certificates from Amazon.co.uk or to make donations to charity. Not only do you earn points for joining up, completing surveys and earn 20% of the points earned by friends you refer, but they also give away points just to say thank you for being a part of the thats-what-i-think.co.uk community, or for responding quickly.
OpiStat
OpiStat is a European Research Institute that measures Internet usage and survey participants according to their profiles and online habits. Their surveys are short and rewarded and are currently available in the United Kingdom, Germany and France.
http://www.myvoice.co.uk
You can earn points by doing polls. The number of points for each poll will be clearly indicated on the poll pages. UK only to to exchange points for vouchers. If you live elsewhere they can be donated to charity.
General polls open to everyone pay out only to the first 3000 completed surveys, but all respondants get an entry into the monthly draw for each poll regardless of length (some polls are just one short question). You can opt to be notified by e-mail whenever a new survey goes live,and will also receive occasional e-mails for invitation only surveys which are generally longer and better paid.
You can exchange MyVoice points for vouchers when you have collected 2000 of them (worth £20) or give your points to charity when you have at least 1000.
You can currently choose from the following vouchers: Marks & Spencer, Boots, Dixons, Virgin Megastore, WH Smiths, Choice vouchers (valid in Argos, Woolworths, HMV, Dolcis, Mothercare, BHS, JJB Sports, H. Samuel) and Leisure Vouchers (valid in Pizza Hut, TGI Friday's, Thresher, Victoria Wine Shops, Marriott Hotels, David Lloyd centres).
Consumerlink pay you in iPoints for completing surveys, so you need to be an ipoints member first. Click here for more details and to sign up for ipoints. Whenever you take part in a survey, you are either awarded a set number of ipoints, or more often, entered into a draw to win ipoints.
Lightspeed also operate in the U.S., Canada, France and Germany
Also available to US smartphone owners
Vividence As a panelist, you'll evaluate leading Web sites and provide vital feedback on your experience. For each evaluation you complete, you'll receive an Amazon.com gift certificate, usually for $10.
I have received several payments from this company
Spidermetrix - Australian site, but available worldwide. Get points (exchangeable for goods or cash) for reviewing websites, and extra points for referring others. Some surveys don't award points automatically but the chance to win points for giving one of the best reports. However these surveys are also often pre-qualifiers for other surveys, so well worth doing anyway.
Yahoo are looking for people to join their User Research program. Participants may receive up to $40 an hour, depending on the type of research! They are are looking for all types of people: Web novices and experts, Yahoo! users and non-users, people who use Yahoo! at home or at work, adults and kids ... everyone! Feel free to ask others to sign up too, especially those who are not yet on the Web!
They conduct research in many ways, such as:
Visiting you at your location in a field study
Inviting you to come into a Yahoo! office to participate in a usability study
Speaking with you in a telephone interview
Participating in an online focus group study
Connecting with you with an online survey
Obviously the "in person" surveys are mainly applicable to those in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, they do carry out surveys worldwide, and of course the online surveys are available to everyone, subject to the criteria of the study.
Sign up to become eligible to be part of the Capitol Records focus groups, which they will be holding throughout the next year. If we select you and you take part in a focus group, we'll send you music in the mail, you can listen to it, tell us what you think, and then for your time they'll send you more free music and other goodies.
Songpeople.com conduct offline and online research for the music industry. Prizes include MP3 players, cash and CD's for reviewing music and videos.
Michael Herbert Associates pay £15 plus online expenses for approximately one hour's discussion on the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network.
Sporting Insights is an ongoing UK based research site, that tracks sports fans and participants around the world. They provide sporting events, websites and their sponsors with information on who sports fans are and what they want from their sports. This includes all kinds of information such as the sports that people are interested in, the profile of sports fans and the media that people use to interact with their sports.
In return they give respondents the chance of winning great prizes across a wide range of sports, as well as offering unique incentives to people who join their sports panel.
http://www.ithinkinc.com/
A chance to win money and prizes by completing a sponsored survey. Usually the amount is from $2-$10 for about 10-15 minutes of your time. Your check will arrive in the mail within a few weeks of submitting the questionnaire for a sponsored study. I have been paid by this company
International Advisory Panel
Fill out a background questionnaire and participate in surveys about twice a month. There are drawings for $75 for shorter surveys and $100 or more for longer surveys, plus T-shirts to be won.
NPD Online Research
With many of their studies they hold a cash or prize drawing. All members who participate are eligible for a chance to win the prize associated with that particular study. When they conduct a focus group you usually can choose a thank you gift from a pre-defined list of gifts.
Opinionsite
You have a chance to win $500 or $10 Web coupons when you register. You will also receive a free gift or enter into a contest to win a cash prize for every survey that you complete. Notified by e-mail when suitable surveys are available.
Voice of the Internet
For each survey a portion (dependent on number of participants and cash available) of those responding get $5.
Opinion People is an international online access panel, inviting you to participate in online studies covering current issues and get involved in the development of future products and services. You get paid for your input and also get the chance to win great prizes.
After registering with opinion people and filling in a few personal details in the basic profile, you will receive your own electronic account which will be credited with your first 7 bonus points. You will then receive a further 10 bonus points for the special profiles (Household, Internet & Technology, Job & Career, Cars & Motorbikes, Travelling, Health & Wellness, Finance, Media Use, Interests & Hobbies). 1 bonus point is equivalent to 10p. When you have accumulated a total of 150 bonus points, you will receive a pay-out of £15 direct to your bank account. For every survey you participate in (even if you do not complete it if you do not belong to the desired target group), you receive a ticket for the monthly raffle, so the more often you participate in surveys, the higher the number of entries you'll have. This company only very occasionally opens the panel to new members, so grab the opportunity when you find an invitation. Ages 14 and above.
UPDATE - Registration has just re-opened. Sign-up at Opinion People .
As a participant in the Harris Poll Online, you have the opportunity to influence important decision-makers in government, non-profit organizations, and corporations and help to shape the policies, products, and services they offer you. Your responses to Harris Poll Online questions can make a difference! The Harris Poll has been around for over 40 years, and is a trusted name.
Aside from having your say in matters that affect you, you'll also be able to see the survey results, so you can compare your opinions and experiences to those like and unlike you. Occasionally, you may participate in surveys whose results will be published in national or international media. If time permits, they'll email the results to you before they are published. You can scoop your friends!
They often show their appreciation for your participation by giving you the chance to enter sweepstakes. Prizes may consist of a cash award or special offer (such as free computer games or discount coupons). Surveys that include sweepstakes, cash awards or other special offers will be identified as such in the email invitation. In instances where prizes are awarded, you will qualify for these offers only after completing the survey or following the instructions for mail-in entries found in the sweepstake rules page, linked from the email invitation and the final survey page.
Survey Site pay a minimum of $35 if you participate in an online chat discussion and pay cash or hold contests if you answer an online survey. In the past month they have given away prizes such as a Compaq Presario Computer, $500 in cash, Amazon gift certificates and Palm Pilot Hand Held Computers. They also hold monthly draws for cash prizes. As part of their panel, they ask you to answer online surveys or participate in online chat discussions (called focus groups). Sometimes they will invite you to visit a specific Web site and ask what you think about the site. Other times, they will invite you to visit their online survey center and complete a short questionnaire on a specific topic. For example, they might ask your opinion about certain products or services that you regularly use.
Digital Research As panel members, you and the other members of your household have the opportunity to participate in opinion polls and product tests. All of their research projects involve participation incentives. Usually, you will be entered into a sweepstakes, offering prizes that consist of cash or merchandise. On other occasions, you may receive valuable coupons for your participation.
SpectraCom
Members of their research database will receive e-mail invitations to participate in a variety of online and off-line research projects. Most projects include an incentive for completion, such as a cash sweepstakes, free product or an online gift certificate.
Some research projects you may be invited to participate in include:
reviewing new web sites
evaluating creative concepts
testing new products
assessing content preferences
describing Internet or website use
Focusline.com
Focusline.com is an online consumer research service that conducts online interviews about a variety of consumer oriented topics. We use your opinions and suggestions to help companies better meet your needs as a consumer. Participation in our paid surveys is fun, interesting, and financially rewarding, and is only open to registered members! The only prerequisites to join are that you must be an adult and you must have a valid email address.
To become a member and enable them to match your demographics to their research projects, they need you to complete a profile of yourself. As a member, you'll be eligible to participate in web based surveys, one-on-one interviews and group sessions. You may be required to fill out a short prequalifying survey to help them determine your suitability for an upcoming paid study. Prequalifiers only take about a minute to complete and full surveys usually take about 10 minutes. Group sessions and one-on-one interviews are conducted in a chat based environment and generally last for 30 minutes to an hour. They typically pay between $25 to $45 for participation in their studies.
IntelliQuest Technology Panel For each survey that you complete and return by the specified date, you will earn PERCS (Points Earned for Returning Completed Surveys, converted to cash and paid quarterly. The value of PERCS currency is $1.00 for every 100 PERCS points. ) or be entered in a drawing for prizes, such as notebook computers, CD-ROM drives, software, and cash.
The Internet Poll provide incentives to complete surveys, but no details given
Product Testing Services With product beta testing, there is always an incentive for you. Usually, you get to keep the product. In the case of testing products with little actual value, additional incentives are usually offered.
http://www.clarionresearch.com/ Panelists who qualify for online surveys are generally compensated with cash, product incentives or service incentives.
Consumerviews When you are invited to complete a questionnaire for a client, you will be told what the token payment or gift will be for participation. Typically, participants will receive a check for $5.00 or perhaps coupons worth $5 or more on the client's products. In some situations, participants may receive larger payments. I have received payment from this company.
Marketview Research. - random drawings for cash or merchandise prizes every time you answer one of their surveys.
eLab are looking for people to participate a few times a year in their innovative online experiments and surveys about how people behave in the digital world. All of their projects are academic research conducted by eLab faculty and post-doctoral fellows at Vanderbilt University.
Every month eLab holds a random drawing for a $250 cash prize. As a registered panelist, you are eligible for the drawing. Your chance of winning increases as you participate in our experiments and surveys.
Additionally, if you choose to participate in an eLab experiment or survey, you are also eligible for separate drawings for $100 cash prizes.
WARNINGS
Here are a few buyers' experiences of survey companies:
www.money4surveys.co.uk
I stupidly paid my money to join the http://www.money4surveys.co.uk. website. They have not supplied me with the said amount of surveys I could expect and I have asked for a refund to which I have heard nothing. Most of the survey sites pay you in free sweets or entry into a monthly draw, not the £5 a survey claimed in the initial application.
http://surveyjunction.com
Thinking that with me being on-line so much, I may as well put my time to good use and earn myself some much needed funds, hence one of the reasons for joining CIAO! I had also joined a few other online survey sites, but as yet had no surveys to do for them, so in my ignorance of these things, and on looking round the net, I came across a website that said they had an exclusive list of nearly 200 internet marketing companies, with paid and rewarded survey opportunities, I also got an email into my account telling me about this opportunity.
I knew that many companies worked only with selected groups, and thought that this was a way of getting into these groups, and broadening my chances of increasing my funds. Survey Junction stated that these were 'worldwide opportunities', and so I thought that I would give it a go.
After paying 'the small one time $32.95 Membership Fee' I was given access to their members only area, which contained two pages of links to such websites as CIAO! and other sites which do surveys for prize draws, or to earn points. Most of the ones which paid out monies were for people who reside in the USA, also along with these survey sites (which could have been found by searching through a search engine) were many links which infact were not survey sites, but 'freestuff' sites!!!!!!!!
PLEASE NOTE - You are likely to come across many sites offering a similar service to Survey Junction above. Whilst others are more comprehensive and better value, they are generally only worth considering if you are U.S. based and would rather pay a one-off fee for a regularly updated listing than do your own research. However, almost all do offer money-back guarantees so there is no risk to checking them out.
For a much more comprehensive list of survey sites, please visit http://www.WhichSurveys.com
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