Don’t worry, this isn’t a sneaky referral post.
Until I figure out how to make my blog %100 self sufficient, I will continue to find other ways to generate some income to help run it. Usually when you search Google for the answer to your dreams (instant money), one of the more popular search results you get back are paid survey sites. I’ve signed up to so many survey sites over the last month, and they’ve been promising me 20 surveys a week paying £1 a survey. I now know and you probably already knew that it’s complete rubbish! Luckily for me, the sites I signed up for were all free, so I’m not out of pocket.
But before you write survey sites off as a complete waste of time, I think you should check this one out.
- http://us.lightspeedpanel.com for US and Canada
- http://uk.lightspeedpanel.com for the U.K
I signed up for Lightspeed way back in October. But unfortunately I had completely forgot about them as I signed up to Lightspeed on a Email address I hardly use. After opening up my Inbox, my first thoughts were ”Oh I’ve had a major spam attack” becasue I had 120 emails off one sender. Lightspeed.
After opening one of the emails up, I realised that it was the survey site I signed up for all those months ago. After having such a bad experience with Paid surveys I was tempted to just delete them all. Luckily I didn’t. Lightspeed surveys actually pay you instantly in the form of points. You can then head over to their shop and purchase items. You can also trade in your points for cash. 115 points is £1. I’m using the U.K version, so I’m not sure what the exchange rate for dollars is. Actually you don’t trade them for cash, you buy paypal money with them. Once you’ve purchased the amount of money you want, it gets deposited in to your paypal account. It takes about 3-4 days.
If you take a look at the picture of my inbox again, you will see I’m getting surveys coming through nearly everyday. Some days I’m getting 2 come through. In the week and a half I’ve been doing these surveys I’ve already cashed in £15 roughly $30. Not bad for answering 10 minutes worth of questions everyday.
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February 28th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Thanks for sharing. I’ve been looking at paid survey sites too. I’m going to give this one a try, I’ll let you know how it goes.
February 29th, 2008 at 1:40 am
Wow, an actual free survey website that pays. That’s a new one!
March 3rd, 2008 at 6:03 pm
I think I used to do surveys there, but then they started charging to cash out… Some percentage of your cashout was used to pay “expenses,” which I think is a crock. If they can’t make enough from their survey advertisers, then they need to rebuild their business model. The only one I still work is PineConeResearch.