Survey frustration!

Matthew67

Hi all - I just started taking these surveys online. In principal I like the idea. I can see a maximum return of £1.50 - £2.00 and hour. If spend 3 hours a night this equates to a fiver a day. £150 extra a month . But it doesnt seem I can get enough surveys consistently. This is all I want!

I have signed up with vivatic and so far acrued £12 in three days . Not bad...but why do none of the other survey sites offer such consistent work? I have signed up with mysurvey and onepoll. Nothing! I did not lie about my demographic. I am in full time work . So is my partner. We are in the 20-34 demographic and no kids.

Please any tips as I am happy to sacrifice my time earning penny's. It all adds up. Like I mentioned £5.00 a day is my target.

nehpets81

My best advice would be to sign up to as many as you can. The survey sites will only have as many surveys as they have projects ongoing - some will only be one a week or so. Sites like Vivatic, I think, aggregate surveys from other companies who are having trouble shifting them.

Onepoll don't send you emails and they surveys only stay on their website for a few hours so the best advice I can give here is log in regularly to do more. My Survey seem to have stopped emailing me about surveys (not sure it's only me) so try logging on to them every day to see what they have.

Finally if you are looking for quantity over quality then Toluna is definitely worth a look - they always have loads to do. Whether it's worth your time is another matter...

gaspode38

Agree with the PP, best idea is to sign up for as many sites as possible. i think I'm registered with about 12 or so now.

Onepoll is great for me and I'm exactly same demographic as you. I do log in every hour or so or, if I'm at home all day, just keep it open and refresh every now and then as surveys appear and disappear in a blnik of an eye and they rarely if ever email them through.

Vivatic is good but I find if you don't click on the links on their page (i.e. to newvista and to populous or whatever) several times you won't get all the surveys that are availalbe that day - don't rely on clicking on each link once, filling out the survey and then saying you'd like to do another - if it says there are no more close the newvista (or wherever) page and then try their link again - you might just get another.

Mysurvey and Globaltestmarket also regularly send me emails and surveys so I have found them quite good tbh

Good luck!
Gaspode

bellkat

I've just had can email inviting me to Shoppers Thoughts, which seems to be linked to Tesco. Does anyone else do surveys for them?
It says you get points which can either be clubcard points or vouchers, or be entered into prize draws. I'm don't really want to do them for prize draws!!

Mags30

Toluna while kind of annoying does have a lot of surveys but they pay in vouchers for Amazon and a few other places rather than cash or paypal.

I like the £5 a day target, good luck with it Let us know how you are getting on.

geordie_joe

bellkat wrote: »

I've just had can email inviting me to Shoppers Thoughts, which seems to be linked to Tesco.

How did you get invited?

They say

"We've invited a broad range of Clubcard Members and those who have registered on tesco.com to take part. We have only chosen people who have indicated that they are happy to take part in market research."

How do you indicate that you are happy to take part in market research?

Savvybunny2009

Just for reference, Vivatic, PopulusLive, New Vista and Survey Network use the same providers (possibly more than just these mentioned) therefore if you do your surveys through Vivatic and then go to Survey Network you will probably find you don't qualify for any on there and vice versa.

Three hours seems like a lot of time to spend making £5 especially if you have that time free in one sitting. Maybe you could look into mystery shopping, depending on the job you could make at least £4 for 30 minutes work. You could also try writing articles if you enjoy researching and writing, I think that pays around £10 a job which would take you less than a few hours.

Different sites work well for different people, I reckon £2 a day is a good target to aim for from surveys alone.

bellkat

geordie_joe wrote: »

How did you get invited?

They say

"We've invited a broad range of Clubcard Members and those who have registered on tesco.com to take part. We have only chosen people who have indicated that they are happy to take part in market research."

How do you indicate that you are happy to take part in market research?

They just sent me an email. I assume it's linked to other survey sites I'm with. I've done a lot with OnePoll the last couple of weeks, and just a few others.

nehpets81

Savvybunny2009 wrote: »

Just for reference, Vivatic, PopulusLive, New Vista and Survey Network use the same providers (possibly more than just these mentioned) therefore if you do your surveys through Vivatic and then go to Survey Network you will probably find you don't qualify for any on there and vice versa.

Three hours seems like a lot of time to spend making £5 especially if you have that time free in one sitting. Maybe you could look into mystery shopping, depending on the job you could make at least £4 for 30 minutes work. You could also try writing articles if you enjoy researching and writing, I think that pays around £10 a job which would take you less than a few hours.

Different sites work well for different people, I reckon £2 a day is a good target to aim for from surveys alone.

Pupulus live and New Vista seem to be broadly the same. Both rather well paid comparitively but I haven't seen the same survey appear on both sites yet. The surveys do seem to get farmed out to people like Vivatic and Survey Network who aggregate surveys from other providers (Opinion World is another).

Agreed £2 is a good target if you have limited time available. If you have plenty of spare time, perhaps aim for about £5 a day from the surveys.

How do you get into writing articles out of interest?

nehpets81

bellkat wrote: »

They just sent me an email. I assume it's linked to other survey sites I'm with. I've done a lot with OnePoll the last couple of weeks, and just a few others.

Actually I do recall doing a survey for Tesco through a survey site (am I allowed to disclose who?) and at they end they asked if I wanted to enter my clubcard number. I refused I thought this was a bit more intrusive than normal but maybe that is how they got the list. Otherwise is there somewhere on the Clubcard website you can tick a box?

bulktrans

i have stopped doing surveys as mid way or towrds the end they fill all the quotas .. waste of time/enery/effort