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  • i am freelancer and doing work from home. for you i can suggest two very important way of earning. one is blogging. you can do viral blogging or event blogging you can get good traffic on such specific blogging ways . when you will monetize your blog. it will give you good earning.
    the second one that i ma using without any extra effort that is online paid surveys. you can generate massive income from such surveys.
    i hope this will help you alot.
  • faizak wrote: »
    the second one that i ma using without any extra effort that is online paid surveys. you can generate massive income from such surveys.
    i hope this will help you alot.

    A 'massive income' from surveys?:eek:

    You must be in the most in-demand demographic group in the universe or be sitting completing surveys 24/7;).

    I do online surveys as do a lot of people I know and I'd say it brings in a 'pocket money' income at best. I have recently cashed out £50 on one site but it has taken exactly a year to earn it. I respond to every invitation they send me and also log in every other day to see if I've missed anything. I'm also a member of 8 other survey sites and find I'm often 'screened out' after starting a survey I was specifically invited to do.

    Would you like to share with us which survey companies pay these massive amounts please?
  • Karonher
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    edited 24 July 2016 at 3:10PM
    I am sure there is a list of survey sites posted on MSE and there are a lot more than 8. Apart from Populus which is a great earner - I got £4 today for 2 surveys - there are a lot that soon mount up. I am a member of about 50 and some do get missed at times but I do make £700 -£800 at least a year.

    There is tax as I work as well but it is still a nice extra.
    Aiming to make £7,500 online in 2022
  • soolin
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    Karonher wrote: »
    I am sure there is a list of survey sites posted on MSE and there are a lot more than 8. Apart from Populus which is a great earner - I got £4 today for 2 surveys - there are a lot that soon mount up. I am a member of about 50 and some do get missed at times but I do make £700 -£800 at least a year.

    There is tax as I work as well but it is still a nice extra.

    I don't think though that most people would consider £700-£800 a year as 'massive income' which was what the comment was about.
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  • patman99
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    One of my workmate's sons sells sports shoes on ebay. He gets some stock from his place of work (a clearence outlet for a sports goods retailer) as they sell stuff with a 14 day money back promise, so what dosnt sell in week 1 gets returned for a refund.

    There are a lot of online and off-line sellers buying their stock from the same store and they know what time and day the deliveries arrive so a good amount of stock gets sold before it is even off the lorry.

    He also has accounts with 2 online retailers who regularly have sales. He sells their items on ebay and when he makes a sale, he orders the item from the retailer and when it arrives, strips it of the retailer's markings and ships it on to his customer.

    Makes around £300 a week.
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  • soolin wrote: »
    I don't think though that most people would consider £700-£800 a year as 'massive income' which was what the comment was about.

    Well said, soolin, that's my point exactly;).

    The poster, Karonher, who responded to my earlier comments mentioned that there are lots of other survey companies. I do know this:rotfl:, I've probably tried most of them over the years:o. From personal experience I am now just concentrating on the 8 better payers such as Prolific Academic, Populus etc as, unlike Karonher, I haven't the time or inclination to sit doing surveys (most of them mind-dumbingly boring:() from 50 sites. How he/she manages it and works as well must mean very little time for making any other amounts of extra money. The sum total of 50 sites resulted for him/her in £700/£800 over a year. As you say, soolin, (and the point I made originally), not the 'massive income' that faizak promises from surveys.
  • Karonher
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    Well said, soolin, that's my point exactly;).

    The poster, Karonher, who responded to my earlier comments mentioned that there are lots of other survey companies. I do know this:rotfl:, I've probably tried most of them over the years:o. From personal experience I am now just concentrating on the 8 better payers such as Prolific Academic, Populus etc as, unlike Karonher, I haven't the time or inclination to sit doing surveys (most of them mind-dumbingly boring:() from 50 sites. How he/she manages it and works as well must mean very little time for making any other amounts of extra money. The sum total of 50 sites resulted for him/her in £700/£800 over a year. As you say, soolin, (and the point I made originally), not the 'massive income' that faizak promises from surveys.

    I initially posted to try and help by saying there was a thread about survey sites.

    I am a teaching assistant so my day is a bit shorter than others plus there are more holidays so I have more time - mainly for mystery shopping and article writing. Surveys are done in the evening when I am watching TV. The odd hour over the course of the evening in between watching programmes and when the adverts are on.

    I do the ones I can - or qualify for - and dip out if they start to get boring.

    So the odd hour a night leaves plenty of time for other money-making activities - and social activities. I don't sit at home all night every night and I end a survey if it is boring. I fit them in around what else I want to do.

    £700 - £800 covers Christmas presents for me which is why I started to do them. On top of that, there are vouchers which I forgot to include and does increase the amount and the expression I used was "a nice extra" which for me it is.

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    Aiming to make £7,500 online in 2022
  • I agree, Karonher, surveys are a nice extra, that's why I do them too:)

    I wasn't 'getting at you' about the surveys, although I admit I took your mention of lots of other sites as meaning my 8 wasn't enough to expect to make much money from. The last thing I wanted was to give offence, I know you were trying to help.:)

    A poster earlier in the thread said it was possible to make a 'massive income' from them and that's what got me started trying to put the other side of the argument that it's more like pocket money than a 'massive income'. I'm very grateful for any extra that I make from surveys, it helps to provide a few little extras as I'm slogging my way through the debt tunnel:o

    It sounds as if you have some other nice money-making streams too. Good Luck:beer:
  • Karonher
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    I agree, Karonher, surveys are a nice extra, that's why I do them too:)

    I wasn't 'getting at you' about the surveys, although I admit I took your mention of lots of other sites as meaning my 8 wasn't enough to expect to make much money from. The last thing I wanted was to give offence, I know you were trying to help.:)


    I did wonder if you knew about others and I didn't take offence just wanted to explain that it doesn't have to mean sitting in all day every day ticking boxes.

    I read an article elsewhere by someone who has posted in this thread who can make £1000 a month from surveys plus a lot more fro other sources. She said she has a number on the go at the time. It seems it is possible but I admit I dont have that dedication.:)

    The article writing can be fun but not that well paid - but then again it is easy and there are lots of sites out there.

    Hope you make it to the end of the tunnel.
    Aiming to make £7,500 online in 2022
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