Free Online Paid Surveys

Posted:Abigail Andrews – Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

There are loads of opportunities to make money out there on the internet and it doesn't cost you a thing to sign up and start to make money by giving your opinion. One of the easiest ways to make money online is through free paid survey sites.

Companies want your feedback, and these days, rather than sending somebody out into the street to stop you and ask your opinion, it is cheaper and quicker for them to pay people online to fill out surveys. The company gets instant feedback in a format it can quickly analyse. By getting instant feedback from several thousand people, they save thousands of pounds by not employing street canvassers, and you get the opportunity to make easy money at home online.

You won't become a millionaire by any stretch of the imagination, but if you sign up to enough sites and you fit the right demographic profile, you could easily earn over £1000 a year, in cash, prizes and reward points. Think of it this way, for a couple of hours a week you could make enough money to pay your gas and phone bill every month, or be able to take your family out for a nice meal more often.

It takes time and effort at first to get yourself going. I spent a whole week browsing the internet, reviewing sites, and signing up, however, after that you need to just sit and wait for the surveys to roll into your inbox and start making some money while sitting and watching some tele...easy money eh? :). Of course, there are ways to make the task easier and in this article I will provide some tips, links to the better sites, and tools which will help on your quest to make money online.

One important point is be wary of the paying membership sites. In your search you will find loads of sites that request payment from £10 - £50, it's your choice if you pay for the information, but please review what they offer and weigh-up the cost. Some will sign you up automatically for hundreds of sites, keeping you updated of new sites as well as providing free software to make surveys easier. Others charge ridiculous amounts for what is otherwise free information that can be found, with a little effort, by searching the internet. Be wary!

Anyway, there is a bit of background, but I can here you shouting, 'just tell me what to do!', well, now that you have found this site, I have saved you some of the time and effort I had to make. Though not exhaustive and definitely a work in progress, I have started reviewing some of the paid survey sites I have signed up for on the following pages - all free and no joining fees! Read my rating and join up for those you feel suit your needs. To be honest I think it's even best to join the surveys sites with lower ratings as the more you sign up for the more chance you have got of making money. Please keep coming back as I will continue to update it and add more as I get chance and have reviewed the sites for long enough to have an objective opinion and there are still many more that I am currently reviewing.

Site	Details	Reward
	Paid surveys between 50p and £3. At £5 or more, your rewarded with a voucher for a well-known high street or Internet shop. Surveys are fairly frequent, and I was invited to test a hair product which paid £10, plus I got some free conditioner. Surveys very frequent!	High street Vouchers Sign up now 10/10
	One of the UK's leading paid survey companies. Results often featured in national newspapers and on the television. £1 to sign up, then 50p to £1 per survey. Nice site, frequent surveys. Min £50 balance before cheque issued.	Cash Sign up now 9/10
	Test&Vote, now also known as La Luna, is an interactive, modern site. Test products and earn vouchers for surveys. Surveys are fairly regular. Payment is in points which are traded for vouchers for stores like HMV, Halfords and CDwow!	Vouchers Sign up now 8/10
	Well established and one of the originals. You can earn money by completing surveys but by also writing reviews on anything from appliances to hotels! Rewards are good and surveys are frequent. Payments range from £1 to £3.	Cash Sign up now 8/10
	Dialego is an established German market research institute. Complete surveys and earn points making money. You can help sponsor children from developing countries, redeem them for online shopping at Chateau Online or Amazon or with £40 in Points you can redeem for Money. Surveys not very frequent but pay nice amounts.	Cash/ Vouchers Sign up now 5/10
	A leading market research panel. Every survey earns you points. 100 points = £1 and with up to 500 points attached to each survey, the money soon adds up and can be taken in the form of cash! Nice!	Cash Sign up now 9/10
	Basic site with reward in form of amazon voucher. No cash option. Worth signing up to but don't expect too much from it. I still have my eye on it and will come back with a more informed opinion in the next couple of months.	Amazon Vouchers Sign up now 5/10
	TNS operates in over 70 countries worldwide. Obviously good for those of you who shop at Sainsbury's as all your points can be immediately transferred to your Nectar card, if you don't have a Nectar card then you may not want to bother with this one or you may want to go get a card first at as it is the only reward available. However, if you do collect nectar points it is well worth signing up. In one month I collected approx £8 in nectar points, does not sound much but probably only took about 30 mins of my time in total,it was easy money!	Nectar Points ONLY Sign up now 9/10
	Another established market research business with a great reputation. They have been quiet in recent years due to the sale of myvoice, however, they promise now to be back and the surveys should come flooding in. Once you have gained 2000 points you can convert your points into £20 vouchers from leading high street retailers. I will not rate them highly for now because of this, but if the surveys do appear I will reassess my opinion.	Highstreet Vouchers Sign up now 4/10
	When you have accumulated a total of 150 bonus points, you will receive a pay-out of £15. I have given this a rating of 7 so far as it offers a cash reward, which I believe is what most people are after. They also automatically transfer funds for you when you reach your total, which is very handy as you don't need to keep an eye on your account balance. However, I have not received many surveys as yet. This is another of those sites where you cannot just join, you need to receive a personal invite, I am still searching for one for you so please keep checking back.	Cash Sign up by invitation only - come back later 7/10
	A modern trendy site, with CASH incentives for completing surveys. Must accumulate £25 first, but money is transferred straight to your bank account. Good site, but again still need to see how many surveys I get approved for so will update in a couple of months. For now, I like the site design and it looks promising.	Cash Sign up now 9/10
	Receive Lightspeed Points for completing most surveys. Then, redeem your points for Paypal cash, high street vouchers or Gifts. Surveys are regular and points are generously awarded.	Cash / Vouchers/ Gifts Sign up now 10/10
	By one of the leading names in UK market research namely ICM Research. Typically paying £1 for every 5 minutes you spend completing surveys, provided the survey is completed in full and within an acceptable amount of time (based on average length) so be careful, no cheating and wizing through questions to complete quickly! Minimum withdrawl is £50, and payments will be made by cheque.	Cash Sign up now 6/10
	Synovate is one of the largest marketing research firms in the world. Accumulate points which are equivalent to cash. Surveys are regular. Withdrawals can begin at £5. You can transfer points to other members of your household which is also a good feature.	Cash Sign up now 10/10
	Ipsos Access Panels is a European company and is part of the Ipsos Group, one of the leading market research organisations. I seem to get regular surveys from this company and the points are really mounting up. One problem however, is finding the link to sign up. Ipsos was on my list of sites to join but I could find no way of signing up for their panel. In the end, I sent them an email asking if I could join the response was "no"! Panel membership is by invite only. BUT no worries i have done some digging........the links to sign up to the right may or may not take you to the membership page. If it doesn't go to "A Penny Earned" site recommended in the free directories section below and you can find a link there.	Vouchers-Argos. Boots, WHSmith Sign up now 9/10
	ZoomPanel members can participate in surveys, in home tests, focus groups and other market research projects. A one stop site for a variety on money making schemes. I only gave this a lower rating due to the reward of "gifts". I am not keen on this type of reward as the gifts look a bit naff and probably are not really worth the amount the per point they claim they are, however, if you are a traveller you could probably mount up some nice points for hotels like the marriot which may come in handy!	Gifts e.g. memory sticks, cameras, etc. Sign up now 7/10
	If you want to raise money for charities there is no better way than joining opinion world. Perhaps it should be done as a gesture of good will? But it is not a money making survey site. You will get the chance to enter draws for prizes but there is no other reward I am afraid. Funnily enough though surveys from this site are more regular than any other.!!!	Sign up now 5/10
	Voice in a crowd is a new survey site that offers registered users the chance to win prizes from £20 to many thousands of pounds in value. You have to login to the site to complete surveys for which you recieve entries to a monthly draw for prizes. I am not that impressed with this site at the moment, I always forget to login and there are no email reminders. Its worth signing up to be a member, but is in my list of poor survey sites unfortunately.	Prize Draw Entries Sign up now 4/10
	Canvasse Opinion offers 2 main incentives such as a Quarterly Prize Draw and Individual survey incentives. It also brings you the results of the Top Gear Motoring Satisfaction Survey to help you make informed decisions about your car purchases. A strange incenive, I know, but it must appeal to some people! :)	Prize Draws & Gifts Sign up now 5/10
	Join GlobalTestMarket now to start earning money for your opinions! Registration is easy and you will start receiving online paid surveys shortly. Share your thoughts on the latest movies, products and events, and you will be rewarded with cash.	Cash Sign up now 6/10
	Become a member of the Harris Poll Online and you will have the opportunity to influence important decision makers in government, corporations, and non-profit organizations. You can help shape the policies, products, and services they offer you! Redeem points for rewards that include a variety of merchandise and gift certificates. You can also participate in our sweepstakes for cash prizes!	Points for Gifts Sign up now 6/10
	KNOTs was established in 1996 so its a well established panel. You will be invited for surveys by e-mail where you will be told you will be exactly how many points you will be rewarded. You can redeem your points for vouchers from a wide range of leading shops. You will automatically receive an invitation to this campaign once you’ve reached 1600 points for a £10 voucher.	Vouchers Sign up now 5/10
	Rest assured your personal information is safe, and participation in surveys is anonymous. When a survey which matches your profile you'll receive an invitation by email. The invitation tells you what the survey is about and the rewards you will earn once you complete the survey. For those of you with morals you can dontate your earnings to a number of charities, of course if you already donate elsewhere then you can choose to be paind in cash and add your earnings to your pot!	Cash & Charities Sign up now 7/10
	Panelbase.net is 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 will be added directly to your account. In addition to receiving cash, other surveys may include entry in to one of the many prize draws where you could win anything from a case of wine, to an iPod or huge plasma TV! As soon as you reach the redemption threshold of £10 you can withdraw your money or convert it to high-street vouchers.	Cash, Prize Draws & Charities Sign up now 8/10
	You will receive £5 just for signing up and as a member of Response Panel, you will earn points for every survey you take part in. Each point has a value equal to £0.05 and points are awarded based on the length of time the survey takes to complete: 1 point = 1 minute = 5p. You will receive anything from 5 points (£0.25) to 60 points (£3.00) according to length of the survey. We also give a token 1 point as a good will gesture if you are screened out of the survey mid way.	Cash by PayPal or cheque Sign up now 6/10
	Planet Pulse values your opinion and rewards you for your time. 'Pulses' is the e-currency of Planet Pulse. You will be rewarded with Pulses for every completed survey. 100 Pulses = USD1.00. Convert them to cash, donate them to charities or redeem them for great gifts!	Cash, Charities, Gifts Sign up now 5/10
	Through thats-what-i-think.co.uk, you can express your opinions about what you see on TV and Movie screens and hear on the radio. You will have a chance to see and hear new releases before they're made public and help decide if they are up to your standards. Your opinions are passed directly to the decision-makers in the entertainment industry! Earn opinion points which are redeemable for great prizes, including gift certificates from Amazon.co.uk. You can even use your points to make donations to your favorite charity!	Cash, Charities, Gifts Sign up now 6/10
	For every survey you participate in, they credit virtual money, in so called trendchips, to your account with which you can shop at one of the cooperation partners such as amazon.co.uk. Not received many surveys at all but is worth signing up just incase as I have been a member of sites like this before and received little for motnhs then all of a sudden been inundated with surveys.	Cash, Vouchers, Charities Sign up now 4/10

Free Survey Directories

These sites will find survey sites for you saving you the hassle of searching the internet by sending you emails to let you know to sign up to any new sites. However they are not exhaustive and if you want to make decent money i also recommend doing your own searches occasionally:

Site	Details	Rating
a-get-paid-site	This is a really cool site with lots of surveys to sign up for, it also includes paid email sites, paid surf sites and paid to shop sites.	10/10
A penny earned	Another good useful resource, with lots of links to paid surveys and earn money online sites.	10/10

Paid Survey Directories

These sites will find survey sites for you saving you the hassle of searching the internet by sending you emails to let you know about any new or existing survey sites. However they are NOT FREE so if you want to spend some cash to save some time, here are some sites you could start with. Please research and read about these yourself to check out what exactly you get for the cost, i cannot guarantee all the information below is completely up-top-date but it will give you some idea:

Site	Details	Approx Cost
Paid Surveys etc	100% satisfaction money back guarantee! Trial period - Get 8 Weeks to Try it Out!	approx $69 /£35 Sign up now
Paid Surveys Online	1INSTANT $20 SURVEY! ****PLUS A SURPRISE BONUS!***	approx $35 /£18 Sign up now
Survey Hawk	Access to 400+ survey companies, software to auto-fill your survey forms and FREE access to a UK-wholesale-database.	approx £18 Sign up now
Survey Scout	£10 instant survey, free software, hundreds of surveys.	approx $35/£18 Sign up now

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