Jumbo Rewards

Another Rewards Program, most of the opportunities to earn points come from buying or doing something with reward partner sites. Reasonable option, but would prefer RewardsCentral (EmailCash) at this stage. Check out Jumbo Rewards.

Fat Cat Rewards

Joined another 'rewards program' called Fat Cat Rewards. Lots of offers to take up that pay you a reward. $10 bonus on sign up, min pay out is $50 via paypal. Lots of the offers are dodgy competitions. Be careful if you sign up to this one..... Fat Cat Rewards.

SnapDollars - trying out a new rewards program

Here's a new program that I joined during the week: Snap Dollars

It looks bright and colourful....

Several options for generating money - free trial offers, reward emails, etc. Seems a little bent on promoting gambling sites and dodgy mobile phone competitions, but I will give it a try and see how it turns out.

At this stage, I would prefer something like SpiderMetrix where you can do surveys and review web sites to earn money.

The 3rd Economic Stimulus Package?

$210 in Cheques and Gift Vouchers in April

$50 from EmailCash (now RewardsCentral)
& $20 Gift Voucher from MarketView


$50 & $20 Target Gift Voucher from Your Voice


2 x $20 Bunnings Gift Vouchers from Valued Opinions

I suppose $210 in not a huge amount of money these days, particularly when the Australian Government is going to great lengths to stimulate the economy, but for a couple of hours of easy work, its still nice as an extra amount that helped us out with things like buying winter clothes for the kids.

This month I have picked up gift vouchers from Your Voice (Coles and Target $70), Values Opinions (Bunnings $40), MarketView (Coles $20) and a cheque from EmailCash (now called Rewards Central $50).

I am already looking forward to May as I can see a cheque from GlobalTest Market, a direct deposit from Pureprofile, and another gift voucher from Valued Opinions on the way.

MarketView - another source of gift vouchers

Slighty excited, I got my first gift voucher from a new player in the survey rewards arena. I joined the MarketView survey panel just before Christmas 08. The surveys have been coming reasonably regularly and they usually pay somewhere between 300 and 500 points ($3-$5) per completed survey. The screen-out is also quite generous at 50 points (50 cents).

Each survey takes around 5-10 minutes to complete and you need to complete about 5 or 6 surveys to get 2000 points to order a $20 gift voucher. There are higher value gift vouchers, but I wanted to test the ordering process to see how long they take to get the gift voucher out to you in the mail. I selected the Coles/Myer one as it is easier for me to use than some of the others.

You can join the MarketView Survey Panel Here

$70 for a Beer & Wine Focus Group

This week I attended a focus group on Beer & Wine and for about 1 hour of my time, some sampling and answering some questions I received $70 . I really enjoy these sessions and I pay no tax, completely legit, just cash in an envelope. The $70 came in very handy too because I wanted to buy my 6 year old a bike for christmas and this helped big time.

The invite to this focus group came about by being registered on the Light Speed Consumer Panel and if you are interested in getting invited to more of these then make sure you join the top 5 survey panels.

When these marketing research companies get a job like this one they will assemble a survey panel based around a set of demographics that their client is interested in as customers. Typically they will use the data that you have supplied in your profile to work out whether you fit the survey panel and then get in contact with you.

They rang me up while I was away in Adelaide last week and after a quick round of screening questions, I was locked in for the a session on the following Tuesday night.

When you show up to the venue they check off your name and with a group of other people you go into a room where there is a faciliatator and you discuss the product and give your opinion on it and the advertising /marketing for the product.

At the end of the session they give you an envelope with the cash in it, and you're away....

Need Extra Cash? A part time job may not be the answer...

Joining a Survey Panel is a Really Easy Way to Make Extra Money...

Many Australians are feeling the pinch of higher prices. Groceries, fuel, mortgage payments, everything is getting more expensive. Plus the Australian economy for the first time in almost 20 years looks like it may go into recession. There is no better time to get some more money into your budget so you can pay those credit card bills, or just put some money aside for a nice Christmas. But if you are considering getting a part time job to make some extra money, then consider:

• Every cent of extra pay you earn will be taxed at your maximum tax rate;
• it'll probably mean extra time away from your family & loved ones;
• longer hours may effect your performance in your full time job;

Thankfully there is a really easy way to make some extra money. Australian market research companies need people to test products and advertising campaigns. They pay you with cash, shopping vouchers and rewards. You DON'T pay any tax on the money you make.

Best of all its really easy, just join the Survey panels by entering your details and some demographic information and they send you surveys via email and sometimes call you to attend focus groups where you get paid for your attendance and feedback on products. Yes, you sometimes even get free products to try out!

I have been doing surveys and focus groups for over 5 years. I have learnt a few things over that time, and if you want to start making some money and receiving gift vouchers I have put together a list of the Top 5 Australian Paid Survey Panels to join RIGHT NOW !!