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Market
Research
Sign up with the following companies and get
paid, in cash or points, for completing surveys:
Every user who registers at 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.
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.
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
QNA
Whilst not available to everyone, if you're an IT or Business professional in any business sector (includes most people running their own business) one site I'd strongly recommend is QNA. Once you join QNA, every survey you take earns a financial reward. You can either collect it personally in the form of Amazon or Virgin vouchers or donate it to one of their partner charities. Unlike other sites where you might wait weeks for payments, you can expect to receive your Amazon vouchers within an hour of completion (working hours only) with Virgin vouchers being posted out to you the next day! The one I completed yesterday has already paid me £5 and took no more than a couple of minutes to complete.
An online survey will carry an incentive of £5 or £10 (the typical online survey will be worth £10) with telephone surveys paying £5 to £10 and face-to-face interviews or focus groups offering a reward of £25 to £75
As a member your name is placed in the QNA Monthly Draw - whether you have completed a survey in that month or not. The prize is usually a typical "must-have" techno-gadget such as the latest iPod.
Find out more from QNA Surveys
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.
For a longer list of companies paying you to
complete surveys, go to the
survey page
Incentive Programmes
ipoints is a well established incentive scheme where you earn points
from your own on-line shopping plus points for
visiting sites, completing surveys and reading e-mails. Earn from purchases of computer products,
books, CDs, videos, insurance, flowers, electrical
goods and more and choose from a list of products
including high street gift vouchers, flight
vouchers, and vouchers or products from the
associate companies including music systems and games consoles.
There are always loads of free points available.
I've earned myself DVD's, CD's and a music system
so far almost without buying anything, and I've
almost got enough for a games console.
GET
PAID FOR YOUR KNOWLEDGE
Helium Knowledge
Make money on Helium Knowledge by answering questions. Every time somebody reads your answer, you get paid.
The amount you earn is limited only by the number of questions you answer and how many people read them.
Currently, answers are earning as high as $0.178 every time
somebody reads it. Subjects cover anything from gardening tips and cookie recipes to
favorite restaurants and investment advice. They show you the
highest paying categories to help you decide which questions
to answer. Once you've placed an answer, your answer is rated against others - the better the answer,
the higher up the page your answer will be and the greater the
chance of it being read. A lot of the answers are very basic so it shouldn't be too difficult to get rated highly
for a comprehensive response.
Keen.com
Unlike other sites where you
post your replies or reports, Keen operates a
telephone service where you state your expertise
and then get paid when somebody telephones you to
discuss the topic and obtain your advice. The call
revenue is split between you and the company so
obviously there is more potential to make money
here if you are happy to chat to people. If you'd
rather not have people phoning you up, there is
also the option to record a message instead, or
provide a standard text report.
UK version also available.
Keen.co.uk
The following sites all
work along similar lines and are available
worldwide. People post questions they want answered
and either state the price they are prepared to pay
or request bids. You then offer to respond and if
selected receive the sum agreed less any commission
charged by the site who deal with all payment
administration. You will often by required to show
evidence of your expertise by detailing your
relevant skills.
Obviously in all cases
you can use the sites to obtain answers to your own
questions. You sometimes receive a few dollars
towards your first questions.
LivePerson.com
is a unique service that matches people who have questions to the people who are qualified to answer them.
As a registered Expert on LivePerson, you will be listed according to your professional expertise and will be available
for hire by any LivePerson client. Wide range of sectors covered.
BitWine are a community of experts and hobbyists dedicated to sharing knowledge and skills with
those who can benefit from their experience. They have recruited professionals from fields as diverse as Nutrition, Travel,
Technology, and make these experts available for face-to-face consultation via computer, from the comfort of your own home.
An initial introduction with the advisor is free to make sure the advisor
is indeed a qualified professional who fits the needs of the client. Following the introductory phase,
the advisor may require payment for continuing the session. Each advisor sets its own rate. Advisors
may charge a fixed rate for your desired task, or may charge a per-minute rate.
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Signing up as an Advisor or Client is always free, and listing your service on the BitWine Network is also free.
All sessions start via chat (instant messaging). The chat remains active for the duration of the session. In addition
to the active chat, you, as an advisor, can optionally invite your client to a phone call or invite your client to a
Skype call and use your computer as a free phone/video-phone. To find out more about becoming an advisor visit Bitwine
Student of Fortune
Whether you're a teacher or student or simply know your stuff, you can get paid to help students
understand their homework assignments. You don't answer the questions so much as talk them through the answer. The
answers remain on the site so may be purchased several times, not just by the original poster. Very active site.
BumperBrain
As a registered BumperBrain expert, your earnings potential is limited only by the popularity and market-value of
your areas of expertise. As you use your knowledge and expertise to save other members time and money, you can earn
money wherever you are based and whatever hours you choose to work. But that's not the only way you can make money!
Every time you ask a question you can choose to add your question to the BumperBrain Library of Questions, whence it
can be resold at a discount to other members. Thus, by asking a question that is commonly asked, you
could make money too.
Ask Agent allows you to answer queries, blog, chat and earn real reward for your knowledge, based
on its market value. you are paid in AA$ which you can trade for US$. You can also add Google Adsense
code to your public member's page and earn US$ from Google. If you already have an on-line business or
website, their internal search system, AdAgent can be used to bring in new, targeted customers.
StudentQuestions.com -
Get PAID as a part-time tutor. Pick and choose the homework
questions you want to answer. Register and post your resume for free.
JustAnswer is currently looking for quality Experts to answer questions. Get paid on your own time by
offering advice to their rapidly growing customer base of over 3 million and counting. Please note that only
about 10% of Expert Applicants are accepted.
HotDispatch
- technical expertise only for
computer programmers. Work can vary from simple
questions to more complex projects.
Infomarkets.com - cash payments for answering
questions subject to acceptance of your expert
status based on your education and/or relevant
experience - state your rates and pay 20%
commission to the company.
IntellectExchange - cash payments for senior
professional business users only
Winzy
At Winzy.com, they give you points and prizes for doing various things on the site, such as:
- inviting your friends
- playing games
- and asking and answering questions!
Winzy Answers are the best way for you to get points and prizes. There are already thousands and
thousands of questions and answers across a wide range of categories. You can now do things like :
- ask a question about anything
- answer any question you wish (better answers get more points and more chance for instant prizes)
- vote on quality of answers and questions
- search for questions already asked
Invite friends to join Winzy and if they win, you win the same prize. Earn 250 points for each new Winzy friend plus
automatic entry into quarter-end Winzy Fan Club iPod Giveaway sweepstakes for each friend that joins during that quarter.
Available in U.S., U.K., and Canada.
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