With milk and petrol seemingly costing more per litre than champagne, few people can afford to turn away easy money. The good news is that there are plenty of undemanding ways to supplement your salary online. From filling out short surveys to being a virtual PA or writing brief articles for online encyclopedias, you could soon be bringing in hundreds of pounds per month. However, before you book that Seychelles trip or a Mercedes-Benz SLK test drive remember to put some of your new-found riches aside for when the taxman cometh.
CASH FOR QUESTIONS
Sign up with a reputable market research company and you will be rewarded for completing short web-based surveys. Most take five minutes, so you could pack a few into your lunch break. Some of these companies “pay” you with free entry to a legitimate prize draw. Others such as
http://www.surveys.com/ – which is run by GfK, the analyst – entice you with vouchers redeemable against a range of items. Best of all are firms that cough up hard cash. YouGov (
www.yougov.com/uk/panel), the pollster, pays 50p-£1 for every survey. Once you accumulate £50 of credit, YouGov sends you a cheque.
Ciao!, the shopping advice portal, pays £1-£5 for each questionnaire (tinyurl.com/ 5dbl6s) and payments are made by bank transfer after £5 has been earned. If you are a Ciao! member, you can write reviews of products or services you have bought. You will receive payments (of up to 2p) every time a fellow member rates one of your reviews as useful. It won’t generate a salary to match AA Gill’s, but every little helps. You can also write reviews and make money too!