During my investigation into the choices for folk who choose to Work From Home, I chose to add myself to the growing number of adults who are paid for completing surveys on the internet. I was required to register with numerous survey companies in order to ensure I had a wide spectrum of surveys to complete.

Their initial data would lead you to believe that if you are willing to do lots of Online Jobs, working on surveys, then you can find yourself earning good money and with the opportunity of winning prizes too. From my experience I would say that this Internet Business is certainly not all it is cracked up to be. If you were advised that you could find work for 30p an hour, would you take up the job? Probably not! Yet with a lot of these survey businesses, that is what you get. There are some which tell you they will pay out £2 to complete a 20 minute survey, but I never seemed to match the profile they were after. I usually did match the 10p for 20 minute survey profile.

It is advised that your details are supposed to be private, and you are not supposed to be called by anybody in response to any surveys you complete, yet on two events I was called, once by a holiday company wanting me to purchase their deal (equivalent to timeshare) and again by a firm wanting to clear my credit card debts. Not bad outlay for these companies, a good way of marketing themselves to people who fit their market, for the sake of 10p!

Other businesses are not survey companies at all, but want you to search through their cheap airline tickets or clothes. Some wish you to use their online casino and offer you an incentive of an amount of money to spend on your first visit. Be careful, you could lose all that money you accrued on the other survey panel web sites very speedily.

A lot of companies do not give you cash at all, merely points for you to “spend” on things they have available on their web site – think Green Shield Stamps here – how many points do you actually require to purchase a pair of socks?

Do not get me wrong, there are some sites that do actually pay money worth having – one seemed to pay 50p for undertaking a very short survey, the equivalent of £6 per hour, but as they do not actually pass many surveys your way, the hour could be spread over a considerable time period.

So, all in all, if you are choosing to Work From Home, and want Online Jobs which will pay good money and where you do not feel that you are being taken for a fool, look at some other Internet Business to survey panels. If, however, you just want to let people know your opinion on which car, moisturiser, or other items you buy, where you like to holiday, what your political views are, and are not financially driven, then this is a good pastime. Keep a note of all the surveys you have undertaken, and the dates, as you will on occasion be asked if you have done surveys in any of the following areas recently, and enjoy, but do not expect it to make you rich.

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