People making at least £400 per month with survey's?

Marvqn1

I don't understand how some people say they make £400 a month with survey's.

Even considering the fact that some people have the demographics which match a lot of survey's, as you can see from the posts from people on MSE, even people's earnings from their top earning survey site only equals to about £200 per year.

To earn £400 per month with survey's, you'd have to earn about £13.20 per day. There are only a handful of survey sites that pay a rate of at least £5 per hour, such as Prolific and PopulusLive, but there aren't many survey's available. So that leaves you with the survey sites that pay closer to about £3 per hour and even these seem in short supply.

Just where are people getting the regularity of good paying survey's to earn that sort of money?

sharpe106

I have no idea most of them are pretty much worthless, on most sites you probably could not even make £3 an hour after you take into account completing questions they already know the answer to as you put it in your profile and them deciding you do not fit the criteria, or getting half way through and it deciding either they are full or you no longer fit the criteria.

Sugarplum634

Could you quote a post where someone says they make £400 a month from surveys? I know people who do make that much a month but surveys are only a small part of that...they do other things too.

Marvqn1

Sugarplum634 wrote: »

Could you quote a post where someone says they make £400 a month from surveys? I know people who do make that much a month but surveys are only a small part of that...they do other things too.

I've quoted a post below. I've read other posts where people mention they do focus groups, but none of the survey sites that im with have mentioned anything about focus groups, so I don't know how people get these.

katykicker wrote: »

I make around £600-£1000 a month on surveys typically doing about 20 hours a month on them, however, this includes focus groups and product trials etc.

I know someone else who spends more like 40 hours a month and earns about £250-£300 a month.

Take from that what you will I have quite a few studies open in one go, one from most of the sites I'm with, and I also have a number of other avenues I make money online so I don't do surveys regularly or the moment they come in anymore

System

Hello! A friend directed me to this mention of my name here so I thought I'd drop by and give you some pointers.

Focus groups and studies are usually picked up through survey sites. The ones where I tend to get the best paying focus groups are through Opinion World (Where the actual surveys themselves are very low paying!).

I have also picked up focus groups with YourWord (great payment but no cash option just Amazon and other vouchers), Mingle, Valued Opinions, i-Say.

Product trials are from a variety of websites and some are low paying, like PineCone (£3 per initial survey and then for the follow up survey) and some of them are higher paying and I've just got into them over the years from working hard and being reliable with my answers and trustworhty with products.

For example in the last month I've reviewed more than £2,000 worth of products that must be sent back at the end of the trials. You don't just get into these by answering a survey, this comes over time from them building a profile on you and learning that you are trustworthy and you don't share the name of new upcoming products from sweet and chocolate manufacturers or people who make electrical goods.

I have shared, numerous times over the years, details of exactly how I am making my money, I've even done a full month where I itemised every single penny that I made that money, from where and what sort of work it was for, however, MSE doesn't allow self promotion so I won't link to my own website here.

In addition to making at least £1,000 a month from surveys, market research etc I also make money from my website (sponsored posts, paid reviews, being paid to host competitions and people signing up to referrals) and I also matched bet and do a bit of everything from mystery shopping to eBay selling. I actually make significantly more than £1,000 a month, however, I can easily make £600-£1000 a month from surveys/product trials/focus groups alone, if not more.

I'm not the only person doing it, but I'm probably one of the most frequently thought of 'survey queens' here on MSE because I've built upslowly and over the years I've offered lots of people here help. I hope this helps and answers some of your questions.

Nothing happens overnight and everything takes time, however, I have worked hard at it, and still do. I have to fit everything around my new daughter's naps at the moment but I'm still making it work and still hitting those goals! I've been featured in a few publications online too talking about how I make my money, one of which is Moneywise Magazine, who wanted physical proof of my moneymaking escapades before they'd print a story on me

Sugarplum634

I had a feeling the quoted post was going to be from you Katy! But you are the exception rather than the rule and as you say it's about much more than just surveys and you have worked at it for years.

Congratulations on the birth of your daughter, I know how much she must mean to you xx

[Deleted User]

I have had a few focus groups via https://www.researchopinions.co.uk. You need to log on every now and then and apply for ones which take your fancy. I have qualified for a few of them and some are quite interesting. I haven't quite got to the £400 per month mark via surveys yet but since I started doing them 2 years ago I have gone from £200 in my first year to £200 a month some months so I don't think it's impossible. It's finding the right surveys sites for you and knowing how long to spend on each one. I have a little routine now of doing my swagbucks daily goal then going through my emails and doing the better paid ones first. I also check onepoll and prolific academic throughout the day as they don't always send out invites.

mikep22

Katy is the exception to the rule I think!

I dont think £400 a month is unattainable, but for most people it is unrealistic. I make in the region of £100-£150 a month and I do maybe 1-2 hours a day, occasionally more at the weekend. Some surveys are interesting, particularly ones from Prolific - but they do get quite boring fast.

In terms of cost per hour then yeh it isn't amazing, but it is better then nothing and it is better then you would earn watching TV. But it all mounts up - in the months I get close to £150 per month that is basically my shopping for the entire month paid.

Matched Betting is the better option, in terms of earning, but you might not see an actual return for 3-4 months while you are building your bank (I believe there is a section dedicated to this on the forum) - this weekend alone I have made around £75 (others make far more).

Wizzbang

mikep22 wrote: »

Katy is the exception to the rule I think!

Katy's the first one to admit that (at the moment) she has good demographics. I add that caveat in brackets because that's the reality, as you age you get less surveys. If you don't follow the 'norm' you won't get so many surveys- that's things like having kid's in your 20s, retiring at 65, having a full-time job, buying branded products, buying new cars etc etc. You can add money-savers to that list- those that don't fritter away their earnings are far less appealing to manufacturers.

System

I may be an exception to the rule, however, I'm not the only person online doing this. I won't list other blogs, as again it might seem like self promotion, or promotion of friends, but I'm going to a blogging award show next month and some of the bloggers there make considerably more than me.

As to survey demographics I do follow the norm, in some respects, but not in others. I spend money, I have a child, I'm married, we are a high income family, etc. We don't buy a new car regularly and we don't buy the most expensive brands, preferring to spend money on holidays and buying a house than having a new registration car outside.

However, when the surveys dry up I'll be good as I constantly ensure that I am making more revenue streams and working on my passive income. If I stopped working online tomorrow I'd still be making in excess of £1500 a month, often more, from passive income. This has come from building my website, and a brand, that people have come to know and trust. I am helpful to people, kind, friendly and I have shared the ways that I make money with people in the past, literally 100s of people have PMd me here even this year, despite rarely finding time to visit now. It is a friend that links me back to threads where I am mentioned

Ultimately nothing lasts forever online, that is why it is important to branch out and find new websites regularly and new ways to make money. This is why I still push at it and regularly write about new websites/find new revenue streams, to ensure that I stay ahead of the game and when one avenue stops being as lucrative there is always another one waiting.

To sum up, for those interested, branch out from surveys. It can often be down to a confidence issue. I'm basically uneducated and I've managed to make a success of things online all from my own work. I don't mean that in a smug way, but what I mean is if you've been putting off trying something new, such as matched betting, why not take a leap. It is surprisingly easy and the money you could from matched betting alone could beat what I make. Infact, in June I won £8,000 from ONE offer and then went on to make around £2,000 from matched betting for the rest of that month. If you are going to choose one thing online let it be matched betting! (also, to anyone who may think I'm lying there is a screenshot of my big win quite widely available online I'm sure!)

System

[Deleted User] wrote:

I have had a few focus groups via https://www.researchopinions.co.uk. You need to log on every now and then and apply for ones which take your fancy. I have qualified for a few of them and some are quite interesting. I haven't quite got to the £400 per month mark via surveys yet but since I started doing them 2 years ago I have gone from £200 in my first year to £200 a month some months so I don't think it's impossible. It's finding the right surveys sites for you and knowing how long to spend on each one. I have a little routine now of doing my swagbucks daily goal then going through my emails and doing the better paid ones first. I also check onepoll and prolific academic throughout the day as they don't always send out invites.

I definitely agree with this, I have some websites where my 'great' demographics don't work well and others are making £50-£100 a month while I'm making £10 if I'm lucky.

Likewise there are websites I do great from where others don't. I've got rid of some survey sites over the years for not being so good for me and others are doing great.

It is more about finding what works for you than worrying about what works for everyone else. We all have different demographics, different mindsets and different working abilities. I don't have the patience for some things people do online, likewise some feel the same about what I do But what I do works for me and that is all I've ever worried about really.