This week I received a $50 Best Buy gift card, a $25 Regis gift card, and a $25
Borders gift card, plus two checks worth a collective fourteen dollars. Was it my
birthday? Nope. These were rewards from survey companies.
Granted, those are not exactly rock star wages, but I earned them sitting at my
computer in flannel jammie pants nursing a cup a coffee while my two youngest
children colored at the kitchen table. Anyway, all frugal sages know that small
checks add up quickly, and those gift cards can be put to good use once
Christmas rolls around. The secret is knowing which are real, paying market
research sites and which are feeding troughs for the jerks who flood our inboxes
with spam. I've been doing this for seven years now, and I have a decent handle
on which places are legitimate.
First of all, you should never pay to work. They pay you. Second, real survey sites
rarely recruit for each other... they're business rivals, after all. And they should
never ask you to sign up for other offers, like credit cards.
The following survey places are, in my experience, reputable and dependable.
Some pay money per survey, some put members in pools for drawings (you have
a good chance of winning because of the small pool), and most give you points
that add up quickly and can then be redeemed for gift cards or merchandise.
Because you will only receive a handful of surveys from each place, you have to
sign up for all or many to get good results.
Survey Savvy
Opinion Outpost
NFO MySurvey.com
American Consumer Opinion
Mindfield Online
Greenfield Online
Harris Poll Online
Your 2 Cents
BuzzBack
Keynote
Food Quiz
The Socratic Forum
iOpinion
Ipsos I-Say
I am in the process of updating this list with even more sites!
Borders gift card, plus two checks worth a collective fourteen dollars. Was it my
birthday? Nope. These were rewards from survey companies.
Granted, those are not exactly rock star wages, but I earned them sitting at my
computer in flannel jammie pants nursing a cup a coffee while my two youngest
children colored at the kitchen table. Anyway, all frugal sages know that small
checks add up quickly, and those gift cards can be put to good use once
Christmas rolls around. The secret is knowing which are real, paying market
research sites and which are feeding troughs for the jerks who flood our inboxes
with spam. I've been doing this for seven years now, and I have a decent handle
on which places are legitimate.
First of all, you should never pay to work. They pay you. Second, real survey sites
rarely recruit for each other... they're business rivals, after all. And they should
never ask you to sign up for other offers, like credit cards.
The following survey places are, in my experience, reputable and dependable.
Some pay money per survey, some put members in pools for drawings (you have
a good chance of winning because of the small pool), and most give you points
that add up quickly and can then be redeemed for gift cards or merchandise.
Because you will only receive a handful of surveys from each place, you have to
sign up for all or many to get good results.
Survey Savvy
Opinion Outpost
NFO MySurvey.com
American Consumer Opinion
Mindfield Online
Greenfield Online
Harris Poll Online
Your 2 Cents
BuzzBack
Keynote
Food Quiz
The Socratic Forum
iOpinion
Ipsos I-Say
I am in the process of updating this list with even more sites!
Paid Surveys
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