How far can I go?

*Disclaimer* Before I post this I wanted to add a polite note asking people to please not PM me asking for names of the companies I work for. A couple of them have their own threads on this board. Others don't, but at the end of the day I am self-employed and I found this work off my own bat. You wouldn't start up work as a plumber and expect another local plumber to give you the details of his customers! Last time I posted something similar, I was snowed under with messages from people wanting the details handed to them on a plate, and some weren't too polite about it either! *

I'm not sure how much further you could go with survey sites and the like, but it's definitely possible to replace regular job income with income made online. I've been doing it for years and have made a good living from it. My worry about the surveys would be how little you could rely upon it.

Most of my opportunities have come from starting fairly basic and then developing and expanding my role as I proved my value to the company. Examples of things I do or have done in the past:

- Working for a mystery shopping company (not as a mystery shopper, but this is how I got into it). I've been a proofreader for two different companies, reading other shoppers' reports, and I also worked as a scheduler and as a project manager.

- Doing mystery calls, but as a regular income. Again, I got into this through mystery shopping and was taken on by a company who do many mystery shopping phone calls each week. This was paid at an hourly rate and 20-25 hours a month.

- Audio typing. If you're a fast and accurate typist there's quite good money to be made here. You do need to be fast though, or you'll be making less than minimum wage as you're paid per hour of audio, not per hour of your time. Again, this was something that developed into another opportunity for me. After a few months of getting consistently good scores as a typist I was offered the chance to be a proofreader for the company, and eventually to join the proofreading team of their more specialised department which pays at a higher rate.

- Data entry work for a grocery market research company, inputting data from photographs into an Excel file.

There are definitely lots of online opportunities out there that are not scams, as long as people are prepared to put the graft in and don't expect a 'get rich quick' type of thing.

Matched betting or selling stuff on Ebay/Amazon/Etsy

I tried matched betting and within a day or two I had made £36. It was like taking candy from a baby. I didn't feel comfortable with this. You could try building a great website and do some affiliate marketing.