No crazy amount here, but I have racked up over $110 from three online survey sites. There are lots of these online survey sites out there, so it’s pretty difficult to separate the good from the bad ones. Some of them even require membership fees! (Stay away from those).

Anyhow, I’ll be listing two sites that I recommend.

The first site is SurveySavvy from Luth Research, LLC.

Sign up through this link & I'll get a referral. Woot!

I found out about SurveySavvy.com from HowStuffWorks.com. They used to have an ad for SurveySavvy back in the days. My flawless logic dictated to me that, since HSW links to them, SurveySavvy must be a legit company. Luckily for me, they are.

I’ve mentioned SurveySavvy before in an old post when I first started the blog, telling Jonathan that I actually got a $20 check from them for just two surveys. I’ve since racked up $67 total from SurveySavvy, $14 of them from referrals taking survey! You can click on the picture below to see the earning report and to take a peak at the site interface.

Click here to see the site interface.

SurveySavvy notifies you about survey through email, with each survey taking various time to complete. Generally the longer it takes to complete a survey, the higher the payout amount. I think they usually overestimate the time required to complete a survey though. Before being able to take a survey though, you’ll be required to answer a few screener questions to see if you qualify for the survey.

SurveySavvy also has a referral system in which you get about $2 for every survey your referrals complete and about $1 for every survey their referrals complete. If you click on the image or link above and join up, I’ll get you as a referral. I’ve also notice that the high paying surveys ($20+) are generally geared towards IT questions. So if you’re working in some IT department for some company, you might want to try SurveySavvy out.

The amounts of emails/surveys you’ll receive from SurveySavvy will be pretty limited, so it’s fairly safe to use a primary email account to sign-up.

The next site is MySurvey.com from National Family Opinion.

I'm an image AND a link! Wowzer!

I can’t recall where I found out about NFO MySurvey, I think I was searching through a list on a forum somewhere. NFO MySurvey pays you in points amount, which can be redeem for cash or other rewards. 1,000 points = $10. Most surveys are very brief. They notify you of new surveys available by emailing you; you then login on the website and complete the survey there. So far I’ve only gotten a $10 check from them, but I’m getting close to my next $10.

The neat thing about MySurvey is that it allows for you to create a profile for each individual in your household, so the surveys you’ll receive can be either for you or your family members.

MySurvey.com also has a referral system, in which you get 150 points per referral that signs up. You’ll need to login to their site and fill out a form, in which they’ll send out emails for you. This is mostly to prevent spams. They also have a website affiliate program which is pretty much the same deal, but you’ll need to apply to the program and get an okay from them first.

The amounts of emails you’ll receive from NFO MySurvey will be between limited to moderate, depending on how many profiles you have on your account.

Here are some other noteworthy sites, Gozing and Pinecone Research.

Gozing can get a bit annoying. They get quite spam happy with the survey emails; half will be paid surveys while the other half will be sweepstakes reward surveys. I’ve actually got $19 from them in a one month period, but I’m not sure if it’s really worth it. As you can seen from the link, many of them are $1 surveys. It was a bit of a hassle to answer those $1 surveys, but it was summer and I had time.

I’m not even sure if Gozing is in operation anymore. I know their parent company, Greenfield Online is still sending out survey, but the amount has been drastically reduced. The only reason why I’m mentioning Gozing is because I did got paid, albeit it took awhile. They also have a referral & affiliate program which you can read more about at their site.

Pinecone Research is the elusive online survey company. I’ve heard many good things about them from various other bloggers. The pay seems to be fair and the surveys legit. The only problem is that they’re not open for enrollment. Occasionally they’ll be open for sign-ups, but that doesn’t seem to guarantee membership too. I’m mentioning it because it might be worth a bookmark.

That’s all folks.

This is a pretty long (and boring) post on online surveys. Whether it’s worth it or not to enroll in these online surveys is up to you. The survey from the two sites I recommend doesn’t take up much of my time though, and I answer most of these surveys while doing other things online. Some of the surveys from SurveySavvy are actually pretty interesting too. So uh… check them out, if you’re interested.

Wow, what a boring post. Ah well, it’s six in the morning and I can’t sleep.

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January 16, 2006