Survey Web Sites (Make Money on the Internet)

I have been using Valued Opinions web-site for more than six months now and have found it to be the second highest paying site out of the ones I have been using: Global Opinions has paid me about £100; Valued Opinions more than £50; Ciao-Surveys and One Poll both about £20 each; Global Opinions Panel and Home of Research only about £5 or so. Valued Opinions does however pay a good rate per hour, probably almost as much as Global Opinions Panel (I estimate about £4 per hour for me - typically about £1.00 for a 15 minute survey)

Valued Opinions web-site is very easy to use and navigate and generally the surveys are not too boring (assuming you don't spend all day answering surveys) and the payment is reasonable. The web-site claims that surveys are typically between £1 and £5 and up to £50. I have never received more than £5 but £1, £1.50 and £2 surveys are the most frequent ones. The money is credited to the account within 28 days of completing a survey and once £10 has been accumulated a gift voucher can be requested. If you opt for Amazon vouchers these are emailed to you and can be used immediately.

If you start doing a survey that you have been invited to participate in and don't qualify for some reason (most surveys start with some questions about you to see if you are part of their desired audience) rather than receiving a small amount of money like with some survey sites you will be entered into a prize draw. This has happened to me quite a few times, but so far I have not won anything. More often than not, though, I do qualify for the surveys.

The surveys can be about a very wide range of topics: business and office equipment, grocery shopping, consumer electronics, cars, holidays and travel etc.

Overall I would say that Valued Opinions is one of the best of the many survey sites. The surveys are not too long or boring, the payment for the time taken is as good or better than most of the competition, although still probably no more than minimum wage.

Advantages: Low payout threshold. Well paid surveys

Disadvantages: Payment in gift vouchers

Summary: One of the best survey sites

Global Test Market is one of many survey web-sites that I have tried in my search for ways of making some extra money when I have some spare time. In my experience it is one of the best and does give a reasonable payout for the amount of time involved. It is an American web-site and payment is in US dollars, but this is not a problem for people in the UK.

I have been using globaltestmarket.com for a few months. They have invited me to do quite a few well paid surveys and now I have earned almost £100. The surveys are paid in "points" where one point is $0.05 and a survey may pay 35 to 100 points on completion or 5 point if you don't qualify, so even when I don't qualify I don't get the feeling of disappointment and wasted time that I get with some other sites.

I estimate payment per hour to be about $8.00 to $10.00 (i.e. about minimum wage), but this will depend on how fast you are at doing these surveys or whether you are doing something else at the same time. Minimum payout is 1000 points (i.e. $50.00) which sounds quite high, but it doesn't take long to reach this amount. When you reach 1000 points or more you can request a cheque which will arrive within a few weeks.

The web-site is easy to navigate and is similar to so many other survey web-sites. Registering is quick and easy and once you have registered emails will start arriving inviting you to participate in the surveys. Clicking on the link in the email will take you through to the survey and you account will be credited on completion so you only need to log into your account occasionally to check your points balance or request payment. The surveys vary in length, but generally take between ten and twenty minutes.


Advantages: Good payment

Disadvantages: None

Summary: The Best Survey Site (probably)

I signed up for several review and survey sites about six months ago, partly just as an experiment to see if any of them really did pay enough to make it worth while spending my time contributing to these sites. I have found the review sites (such as dooyoo) quite addictive, whereas the survey web-sites can be rather dull. Surveys do, however, sometimes pay a reasonable amount of money for your time. OnePoll has the advantage that the surveys are often very short and therefore less boring.

Many of the surveys that I get invited to take, from other web-sites, are about business or shopping and take a significant amount of time, perhaps 20 minutes, for £1.50, whereas some of the OnePoll surveys are less than 5 minutes for £0.10. It's still not a good rate of pay, but I can rattle through several while doing something else. Some surveys may even be just one or two trivial questions, such as: "Which of these celebrities would you most like to have dinner with?" although some may be rather longer with just a 5p payment or entry to a prize draw for an iPod Shuffle or Amazon vouchers. Some of the surveys are targeted to certain groups e.g.: women, men over 27, drivers, children under 18, people with pet dogs etc.

Typically I might be offered a few surveys per day, so potentially an income of a of pound or more a week! O.K. When I put it like that it doesn't sound that great. OnePoll does not email you to invite you for a survey. Instead you will need to sign in to the site and check the available surveys. Many of the surveys recently have been about changes in behaviour or spending habits since the credit crunch, shopping and cooking etc.

The minimum payment is £40 which could take months to achieve, even if you check your available surveys every day. Signing up for OnePoll pays an initial fee of £2.50 into the account to get you started (or hooked) I have made about £20.00 already, so just another few hundred surveys and I can claim my money.

Conclusion

You are not going to get rich by answering surveys on OnePoll, although the payment per hour is probably comparable to many of the other, better survey sites, but with far shorter, more trivial surveys. Reaching the £40.00 minimum payout could take months.

Advantages: Lots of short trivial surveys

Disadvantages: only a few pence per survey and £40 minimum payout

Summary: It will take a while to get any money