Homeworking UK - get paid to complete surveys online, work from home

Although a few of the following are US companies, and pay out in dollars, I have only listed companies accepting international applications. Please let me know if any of them are no longer accepting applications.

Don't expect to get dozens of requests; in most cases one or two qualified surveys a month from each company and you'll be doing well. Only sign up if you are genuinely interested in offering your opinion, and look on any payment as a bonus.

ZoomRewards program is open to legal residents of the UK plus the US, Canada, France and Australia.

GlobalTestMarket has a very active survey division and requires participants worldwide over the age of 14. If you've got children, you'll also often get invitations for your children but the invitation will go to you as consent for the child to take part in the research.

You earn "marketpoints" each time you respond to a survey request - the closer you fit the demographics for the survey, the higher the points earned but you'll always earn a few points even if you don't qualify at all. A typical survey of 30 questions that takes approximately 12 minutes to complete will earn 60 to 80 MarketPoints. You can also earn extra points when you refer others. Each point is worth $0.05, although you are paid in pounds not dollars when you live in the UK, and you need 1000 points to qualify for payment by cheque.

They seem to be fairly active. I receive survey invitations most days at present. For full details and registration form, visit GlobalTestMarket

MyTNS.com offers you the chance to participate in online research and earn Nectar points. I receive regular surveys to complete and even when you don't qualify you still earn a few Nectar points (usually at least 35).

Available to UK residents and also residents of Ireland, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, USA and Canada, although different rewards apply for each country.

Originally conceived as a site where you could publish your opinion on products, services etc. Ciao is now also one of the more active sites offering paid surveys and the occasional product test. The amount earned will depend on the length of the survey and you often earn entry into a prize draw if you respond to an invitation but don't meet the criteria for the survey. Ciao pays in cash, at just £10, unlike many sites which offer only gift vouchers or high cash thresholds.

panelbase.net was first launched in 2004 and has become one of the fastest growing research communities on the internet. For every survey that you complete, you will be rewarded in one of two ways. Some questionnaires will carry rewards between £0.50 and £3, which is added to your panelbase.net account. In addition to receiving cash, other surveys may include entry into prize draws where you could win anything from a case of wine, to an iPod or a plasma TV. As soon as you reach the redemption threshold of £10 (you get £3 just for signing up) you can withdraw your money or convert it to high-street vouchers.

Anyone aged 16 years or older with access to the Internet, a land line or mobile phone can join the panelbase.net research community. As they conduct research in a variety of ways (via the Internet, telephone, SMS, product testing, focus groups or postal) you can participate in a range of surveys that are not solely reliant upon you having access to the Internet.

Opinionworld - Become a member of OpinionWorld and receive regular invitations to take part in interesting surveys and opinion polls. Each time that you take part you have the chance of winning instant prizes, entries into the monthly prize draw, and the opportunity to support charities. Every time that you take part in a survey some money is set aside for a charity; the actual amount depends on the size of the questionnaire. The greater the number of people who take part, the more money donated. Charities include WWF, Amnesty International, Unicef and Barnardos - just state at the end of the survey which charity you wish to support.

Newly launched, Mi-Info enables you to earn points by visiting ads relevant to you based on profile questionnaires you complete. You can make a claim when you have 1,000 points and then in multiples of 1,000 points. Claim vouchers from such stores as Argos, M&S and Homebase or donate your points to charity. 250 points when you sign up and a further 50 points for each person you invite who subsequently joins.

When you join Mi-info you will also have the opportunity to fill out surveys in order to gain more points.

Mi-info currently runs two competitions. The fortnightly Win a Wii competition for a Nintendo Wii games console and the launch day special prize draw to win a Smart car. To be entered into these competition you must register as a Mi-info user and complete the Mi-details and Mi-profiles section, this gains you entry into the Win a Wii draw and one entry into the Launch Day Special Prize Draw. For every person you refer who registers as a Mi-info subscriber you will gain one additional entry into the launch day special prize draw for a Smart car.

Opinion People is an international online access panel, inviting you to participate in online studies covering current issues and get involved in the development of future products and services. You get paid for your input and also get the chance to win great prizes.

After registering with opinion people and filling in a few personal details in the basic profile, you will receive your own electronic account which will be credited with your first 7 bonus points. You will then receive a further 10 bonus points for the special profiles (Household, Internet & Technology, Job & Career, Cars & Motorbikes, Travelling, Health & Wellness, Finance, Media Use, Interests & Hobbies). 1 bonus point is equivalent to 10p. When you have accumulated a total of 150 bonus points, you will receive a pay-out of £15 direct to your bank account. For every survey you participate in (even if you do not complete it if you do not belong to the desired target group), you receive a ticket for the monthly raffle, so the more often you participate in surveys, the higher the number of entries you'll have. This company only very occasionally opens the panel to new members, so grab the opportunity when you see one.

SSI is a Dutch research company that have recently expanded into the UK through their Choozz website. They operate an Instant Win Game program which gives you a chance to win thousands of pounds in cash & prizes every time you take a survey. For surveys that take more-than-usual effort, you can receive personal cash rewards or special prizes like iPods, flat screen monitors, games & CD vouchers plus much more. They may also need you to test products at home & give your opinion about them later. Of course, you get to keep the products.

Register now and you also have a chance of winning a helicopter ride! You must be between 13 and 35 to be a Choozz member. US Panel also available

IPSOS Interactive Services is one of the world's leading market research agencies. By joining their research panel, you'll earn points that can be exchanged for High Street vouchers. One of the more active panels - I receive survey requests most weeks from this agency. Available to UK residents over 18

Smart Phone Users Required
Mobile media authority, M:Metrics, the only research firm to measure the audience for mobile media, provides the most accurate metrics on actual mobile content consumption by applying trusted media measurement methodologies to the mobile market.

One of their products is MeterDirect, which is the first service that tracks directly and continuously the way that subscribers used their smartphones. This enables them to measure how often and for how long subscribers of many different operators surf the Internet with their phones, which games they play, which sites they visit, how many e-mail messages they send and what other features they use.

The purpose of the Smart M:Panel campaign is to recruit mobile phone users for their research panel. Mobile users will be rewarded for voluntarily installing a software client on their mobile device. Panelists get £15 and they also receive a £5 per month ongoing incentive plus entry into a prize draw every 3 months.

If you have a smartphone and are interested in joining the panel visit M:Metrics for more information

If you enjoy getting paid to complete surveys but hate waiting months to qualify for a payment then Valued Opinions is definitely worth a look. They generally pay at least £1-£2 per survey, and you can claim your reward when you reach just £10, in the form of vouchers for Amazon or a selection of high street stores. At the moment I'm getting a voucher most months usually for little more than watching draft TV ads or planned product ideas and giving an opinion. Sign up now and you also have the chance to win an iPod Nano, just for registering.

Whilst not new (Synovate is a world-leading provider of market research, information and analysis, with over 50 years of experience) Synovate have recently revamped their rewards program so that you are now rewarded for every survey you complete. When you join you are entered into the Monthly Sign-up Sweepstakes with over 200 winners monthly and hen for each survey you complete you earn points redeemable for cash plus an entry in the quarterly sweepstakes with 10 cash prizes ranging from £50 to £2,500. You can also refer friends to earn even more points. Most surveys take less than 15 minutes to complete.

Opinion Square offers you the chance to earn OpinionRewards Points (exchangeable for a wide range of gifts, gift certificates and charity donations) or entries into sweepstakes worth up to $10,000.

Available in the UK plus the following countries: U.S.A, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan, South Korea, South Africa, Australia, Finland, Brazil and Argentina.

Itsyourview.com
Earn £1 for every five minutes of your time! Designed and administered by one of the leading names in UK market research, ICM Research, Itsyourview.com are looking to massively grow their panel in the next 12 months and so need new participants. Paying in cash, you can expect to earn around £1 for every five minutes, so for example a 25 minute survey will pay £5. Sign up at Itsyourview.com

Originally conceived as a site where you could publish your opinion on products, services etc. Ciao is now also one of the more active sites offering paid surveys. The amount earned will depend on the length of the survey and in addition to payment for the survey you'll also often be added into a prize draw. Ciao pays in cash, at just £10, unlike many sites which offer only gift vouchers or high cash thresholds.

They have recently added product testing to their range; I've just had a new electric toothbrush and toothpaste to test.

Home of Research is a new market research panel - choose which surveys you want to complete and earn points which can be exchanged for cash, vouchers or even donated to charity. 100 points = £1 and with up to 500 points attached to each survey, the money soon adds up! You can redeem your points once you have over 2,000. It's up to you what you do with them: convert them into Amazon vouchers, cash (for PayPal account holders) or donate the equivalent value to charity.

What I particularly like about this company is they tell you in the e-mail what criteria they are looking for, so if you aren't going to qualify you don't need to waste time completing pre-screeners.

Lightspeed Consumer Channel are an international research company and have been one of the more active in the UK over recent years. Until recently the only reward for completing surveys were entries into prize draws. Now however they've revamped their scheme so that you still earn prize draw entries for completing qualifiers but whenever you complete a survey you also earn points exchangeable for a range of high street vouchers. You only need to earn £5 to claim so there's no long wait to get rewarded.

Toluna (formerly Test&Vote) is slightly different from other survey sites I've come across in that you don't have to rely on getting invitations for completing surveys, but have several other ways of earning points or getting free items.

Registration earns you 1,500 points
Quick votes, each time you take part earns you 15 points (there are always loads of these on the site so visit regularly. They take a matter of seconds to complete.)
Product testing, registering for each trial earns you 75 points even if you're not selected to take part
Surveys earn you between 3,000 and 30,000 points
Referring a friend, for each person who joins Toluna because of you, you will earn 500 points
Subject panels - complete these to get 500 points per subject.

You can either exchange your points for gift vouchers or use them to buy tickets in the monthly lottery for £1000 in vouchers.

Visit Toluna to get further details and register for the UK site.

Yougov.com require regular contributions for opinion polls, often on behalf of national newspapers on topical matters. They usually pay 50p or £1 for each survey, but some are prize polls awarding up to £500. Generally they e-mail you when surveys are available - usually about once a week. You also earn 100% of the earnings of anyone you refer for 3 months eg if your brother signs up and completes 14 surveys paying £1 each he earns £14 and so do you.

Join pureprofile and earn at least £1 every time you choose to read and respond to marketing messages! Profile Pages are web pages of information you choose to publish on a particular product or service you have or are thinking about buying. Your Profile Pages are published in pureprofile's Reverse Search Engine, where relevant marketers can search for and send you messages on the products that meet your needs. Note: your personal identity is never revealed so you won't get bombarded with spam or junk mail, just paying surveys.

MyOffers - Just complete short customer surveys to be in with a chance of winning from a range of great prizes. Even if you don't win a major prize, from time to time you get your choice from a selection of prizes (mousemats, baseball caps, mugs etc) just for completing a set number of prize surveys, or get an entry in a major draw for a car/holiday etc with assigned surveys.

Completing Voice in a Crowd’s surveys earns you entries into the monthly prize draw with the chance to win top prizes ranging from cash and the latest gadgets to once in a lifetime experiences. The more surveys you complete the more entries you receive into the monthly prize draw. Watch out for the bonus prize surveys for even more chances to win great stuff.

Saros Research members are financially rewarded for giving up their time (typically £30 - £50 for 2 hours work) and sharing their views in discussion groups, or participating in interviews or surveys. To maintain quality standards you will not be able to take part in a discussion group more than twice a year.

In particular they are concentrating on recruiting for groups in the Greater London area, plus other key urban centres.

qSample work directly with the market research companies. Their QuestionPro Survey Software is used by over 2000 companies worldwide to conduct online surveys.

They believe that everyone spending their time should be compensated - not one lucky winner. Hence they've structured this program such that the clients pay everyone who take the surveys. That's how they guarantee that you'll get paid. When you receive an invitation to take a survey, the compensation amount will be clearly noted on the email invitation. Expect to get paid anywhere between $1 to $15 per survey, through PayPal. Note that in some cases the clients insist that they use a prize or give-away. In such cases, there will still be a per/completion payout, although it will be nominal - between $.10 to $1, and you'll be entered in to the grand prize.

qSample is not a survey review site. They do not pass your data outside their network. They do not share your information with others, not even with their clients.

You can refer friends to signup with qSample, and earn more cash. For every survey that your friends complete, you get an additional 5% of their incentive. Furthermore, if your friends refer other people, you get 1% of that too.

No matter which country you are from, if someone is conducting market research there, they need you!

ResponsePanel.com - as well as the usual cash, vouchers, prizes etc. for completing surveys (award will depend on client) you also earn points for each survey you complete which can be exchanged for rewards which appear to be in the form of high street gift vouchers. With points worth £5 for the first survey and 50p for each subsequent survey, on top of payment from the client, this could be one of the better paying sites. You also get extra points for any friends you refer so remember to add my username "homeworker" in the "Referred By" box. There's even a monthly draw for all members, with extra entries for each survey completed.

NFO Consumer Club is the UK arm of one of the world's top 3 consumer research organisations, over 50 years old, and one of my personal favourites. Forget getting paid in points or having to reach minimum payout thresholds, NFO pay you every time you are asked to complete a survey, even if you don't qualify. Expect to receive a £1 gift voucher, valid in most high street stores if you don't qualify or £2-£4 for a complete survey. They also have occasional product tests as well. Click Here to register or get more details.

Also available in US and Canada, although different rewards apply.

Contrary to appearances suggested by the name, American Consumer Opinion™ is made up of consumers worldwide who have agreed to participate in surveys over the Internet. Occasionally, these consumers are asked to participate in mail surveys or telephone surveys, but generally the surveys are all conducted over the Internet.

As a panel member, you will participate in several surveys a year, typically. The average survey will take 10 minutes or so to complete, and the questions are usually easy to answer.

Panel members can expect to receive a "screener" (a short questionnaire) every six weeks or so.

All registered members participate in a monthly drawing to win cash awards, just for being a member.

If you answer a screener (a short questionnaire), you will be entered into a drawing for cash awards and when you participate in a survey (a longer questionnaire), you will always receive some type of incentive in the form of a free product to test, cash, a check, or a gift.

Incentives typically range in value from £4 to £25, per survey, depending upon the length of the questionnaire and the time it takes to complete it. If a survey is extra long, then the award could be £25 or more. Participants in online focus groups generally receive more than £25.

I've received several payments from this company

Surveys.com
NOP, the UK's leading market and opinion research company using its online survey service, Surveys.com, pays in ipoints, exchangeable for a wide range of items including flowers, books, computer games, flights and hi-fi's. If you're not already a member you can find out more about ipoints here

For signing up and for each survey you complete you will also be entered into prize draws.

SurveySpot Each survey you complete gives you an entry into the monthly draw. 113 prizes will be awarded, totaling approximately £5,000, every month: One prize of £500; two prizes of £250 each; 50 prizes of £50 each; 60 prizes of £25 each. With so many prizes it isn't difficult to win - I've had two myself.

Every user who registers at gets automatic entry into the £10,000 prize draw. At the end of the sign-up survey, you get immediate access to a rewards page with the latest discounts, offers and prizes. After this, you can return to the rewards page as often as you like to take up the latest offers, without having to go through the registration again.

Incentives to date have included free holidays, 3G video phones, book and music discounts, shopping vouchers and a host of other lifestyle-related offers.

Survey Savvy pay $3 cash for completed surveys and also earn from referring friends - $2 for survey completed by your referrals, and $1 by their referrals.

What is particularly good about this company for non US residents especially, is that you can request payment at any time (no minimum), let the cash accumulate if you wish to save on bank charges, or even make the checks payable to somebody else if you wish to make a dollar payment.

PlanetPanel is a worldwide community of consumers from 21 different countries. For every survey you choose to complete, you earn an extra chance to win cash prizes in both the monthly drawings and the annual $12,000 prize draw. Each month there is 1 US$1000 prize winner drawn among ALL countries and 4 US$50 prize winners drawn from UK panelists.

Free Paid Surveys with TestSpin - Register with TestSpin and earn up to $600 in Amazon gift certificates for taking paid online surveys and participating in their market research panel.

want to hear your views, opinions and answers on a whole variety of topics. With every survey you complete, you will be entered into a prize drawing.

Opinionate Consumer Panel
Opinionate.co.uk offers CASH (PayPal) and VOUCHER incentives (Amazon, Virgin Megastore and more) for participation in Online Research Surveys. The choice of cash or voucher is yours. Earn between £0.50 and £3.00 per survey. Voice your opinion and influence the way companies develop their products and services. By registering you will be entered into the £1000 prize draw.

The MBS Internet Research Center is looking for people who are willing to participate in surveys and focus groups over the web. Many of their customers are willing to pay incentives in the form of cash, prizes, and drawings for your opinions.

Incentives for online surveys are usually in the form of cash, product samples and/or gift certificates. The type and amount of incentive are based on the type and size of survey and the respondent profile required by the contract and can vary from $2-$10 or more. Sometimes, surveys offer no incentive at all and sometimes you are entered into major drawings. In the case of review surveys, you may be allowed to keep product samples. Payment is based on the submission of a completely answered, requested survey form You are never obligated to participate.

Incentives for focus groups tend to be much higher than for surveys, but do not occur as frequently. Focus groups require you to have access to the Internet for 1 - 1½ hours of your time and a Java-capable web browser. All of the latest versions of Internet Explorer and Netscape are capable and are available for free download from the web. All you have to do is go to a website that we will provide you with at the time of the focus group and participate in the discussion.

KNOTs is a little different from most of the sites listed here. Not only is KNOTs available in much of Europe, but you also have the choice of taking your awards in vouchers from any of the countries participating, so if you're planning to holiday in Europe or have friends or family abroad you can opt for vouchers from the appropriate country. Currently KNOTs Club is operating in the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands so providing you're over 16 years old and live in one of these countries you qualify. You'll get your first 250 points when you complete the entry questionnaire

http://www.cosmeticresearchonline.co.uk supply research information to manufacturers of cosmetics and toiletries in 7 different countries. They don't offer payment but you do get to try the latest in cosmetics, toiletries and skincare free of charge. Trial products have already been tested for safety so they just want to know whether they work or not, whether they are pleasant to use and whether you think they could be improved. None have been tested on animals.

http://www.thats-what-i-think.co.uk lets you express your opinions about what you see on TV and Movie screens and hear on the radio. You get a chance to see and hear new releases before they're made public and help decide if they are up to your standards. You earn "Opinion Points" which are redeemable for such prizes as gift certificates from Amazon.co.uk or to make donations to charity. Not only do you earn points for joining up, completing surveys and earn 20% of the points earned by friends you refer, but they also give away points just to say thank you for being a part of the thats-what-i-think.co.uk community, or for responding quickly.

OpiStat
OpiStat is a European Research Institute that measures Internet usage and survey participants according to their profiles and online habits. Their surveys are short and rewarded and are currently available in the United Kingdom, Germany and France.

http://www.myvoice.co.uk
You can earn points by doing polls. The number of points for each poll will be clearly indicated on the poll pages. UK only to to exchange points for vouchers. If you live elsewhere they can be donated to charity.

General polls open to everyone pay out only to the first 3000 completed surveys, but all respondants get an entry into the monthly draw for each poll regardless of length (some polls are just one short question). You can opt to be notified by e-mail whenever a new survey goes live,and will also receive occasional e-mails for invitation only surveys which are generally longer and better paid.

You can exchange MyVoice points for vouchers when you have collected 2000 of them (worth £20) or give your points to charity when you have at least 1000.

You can currently choose from the following vouchers: Marks & Spencer, Boots, Dixons, Virgin Megastore, WH Smiths, Choice vouchers (valid in Argos, Woolworths, HMV, Dolcis, Mothercare, BHS, JJB Sports, H. Samuel) and Leisure Vouchers (valid in Pizza Hut, TGI Friday's, Thresher, Victoria Wine Shops, Marriott Hotels, David Lloyd centres).

Consumerlink pay you in iPoints for completing surveys, so you need to be an ipoints member first. Click here for more details and to sign up for ipoints. Whenever you take part in a survey, you are either awarded a set number of ipoints, or more often, entered into a draw to win ipoints.

Lightspeed also operate in the U.S., Canada, France and Germany

Vividence As a panelist, you'll evaluate leading Web sites and provide vital feedback on your experience. For each evaluation you complete, you'll receive an Amazon.com gift certificate, usually for $10.

I have received several payments from this company

Spidermetrix - Australian site, but available worldwide. Get points (exchangeable for goods or cash) for reviewing websites, and extra points for referring others. Some surveys don't award points automatically but the chance to win points for giving one of the best reports. However these surveys are also often pre-qualifiers for other surveys, so well worth doing anyway.

Yahoo are looking for people to join their User Research program. Participants may receive up to $40 an hour, depending on the type of research! They are are looking for all types of people: Web novices and experts, Yahoo! users and non-users, people who use Yahoo! at home or at work, adults and kids ... everyone! Feel free to ask others to sign up too, especially those who are not yet on the Web!

They conduct research in many ways, such as:

Visiting you at your location in a field study
Inviting you to come into a Yahoo! office to participate in a usability study
Speaking with you in a telephone interview
Participating in an online focus group study
Connecting with you with an online survey

Obviously the "in person" surveys are mainly applicable to those in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, they do carry out surveys worldwide, and of course the online surveys are available to everyone, subject to the criteria of the study.

Sign up to become eligible to be part of the Capitol Records focus groups, which they will be holding throughout the next year. If we select you and you take part in a focus group, we'll send you music in the mail, you can listen to it, tell us what you think, and then for your time they'll send you more free music and other goodies.

Songpeople.com conduct offline and online research for the music industry. Prizes include MP3 players, cash and CD's for reviewing music and videos.

Michael Herbert Associates pay £15 plus online expenses for approximately one hour's discussion on the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network.

Sporting Insights is an ongoing UK based research site, that tracks sports fans and participants around the world. They provide sporting events, websites and their sponsors with information on who sports fans are and what they want from their sports. This includes all kinds of information such as the sports that people are interested in, the profile of sports fans and the media that people use to interact with their sports.

In return they give respondents the chance of winning great prizes across a wide range of sports, as well as offering unique incentives to people who join their sports panel.

http://www.ithinkinc.com/
A chance to win money and prizes by completing a sponsored survey. Usually the amount is from $2-$10 for about 10-15 minutes of your time. Your check will arrive in the mail within a few weeks of submitting the questionnaire for a sponsored study. I have been paid by this company

International Advisory Panel
Fill out a background questionnaire and participate in surveys about twice a month. There are drawings for $75 for shorter surveys and $100 or more for longer surveys, plus T-shirts to be won.

NPD Online Research
With many of their studies they hold a cash or prize drawing. All members who participate are eligible for a chance to win the prize associated with that particular study. When they conduct a focus group you usually can choose a thank you gift from a pre-defined list of gifts.

Opinionsite
You have a chance to win $500 or $10 Web coupons when you register. You will also receive a free gift or enter into a contest to win a cash prize for every survey that you complete. Notified by e-mail when suitable surveys are available.

Voice of the Internet
For each survey a portion (dependent on number of participants and cash available) of those responding get $5.

As a participant in the Harris Poll Online, you have the opportunity to influence important decision-makers in government, non-profit organizations, and corporations and help to shape the policies, products, and services they offer you. Your responses to Harris Poll Online questions can make a difference! The Harris Poll has been around for over 40 years, and is a trusted name.

Aside from having your say in matters that affect you, you'll also be able to see the survey results, so you can compare your opinions and experiences to those like and unlike you. Occasionally, you may participate in surveys whose results will be published in national or international media. If time permits, they'll email the results to you before they are published. You can scoop your friends!

They often show their appreciation for your participation by giving you the chance to enter sweepstakes. Prizes may consist of a cash award or special offer (such as free computer games or discount coupons). Surveys that include sweepstakes, cash awards or other special offers will be identified as such in the email invitation. In instances where prizes are awarded, you will qualify for these offers only after completing the survey or following the instructions for mail-in entries found in the sweepstake rules page, linked from the email invitation and the final survey page.

Survey Site pay a minimum of $35 if you participate in an online chat discussion and pay cash or hold contests if you answer an online survey. In the past month they have given away prizes such as a Compaq Presario Computer, $500 in cash, Amazon gift certificates and Palm Pilot Hand Held Computers. They also hold monthly draws for cash prizes. As part of their panel, they ask you to answer online surveys or participate in online chat discussions (called focus groups). Sometimes they will invite you to visit a specific Web site and ask what you think about the site. Other times, they will invite you to visit their online survey center and complete a short questionnaire on a specific topic. For example, they might ask your opinion about certain products or services that you regularly use.

Digital Research As panel members, you and the other members of your household have the opportunity to participate in opinion polls and product tests. All of their research projects involve participation incentives. Usually, you will be entered into a sweepstakes, offering prizes that consist of cash or merchandise. On other occasions, you may receive valuable coupons for your participation.

SpectraCom
Members of their research database will receive e-mail invitations to participate in a variety of online and off-line research projects. Most projects include an incentive for completion, such as a cash sweepstakes, free product or an online gift certificate.

Some research projects you may be invited to participate in include:

reviewing new web sites
evaluating creative concepts
testing new products
assessing content preferences
describing Internet or website use

Focusline.com
Focusline.com is an online consumer research service that conducts online interviews about a variety of consumer oriented topics. We use your opinions and suggestions to help companies better meet your needs as a consumer. Participation in our paid surveys is fun, interesting, and financially rewarding, and is only open to registered members! The only prerequisites to join are that you must be an adult and you must have a valid email address.

To become a member and enable them to match your demographics to their research projects, they need you to complete a profile of yourself. As a member, you'll be eligible to participate in web based surveys, one-on-one interviews and group sessions. You may be required to fill out a short prequalifying survey to help them determine your suitability for an upcoming paid study. Prequalifiers only take about a minute to complete and full surveys usually take about 10 minutes. Group sessions and one-on-one interviews are conducted in a chat based environment and generally last for 30 minutes to an hour. They typically pay between $25 to $45 for participation in their studies.

IntelliQuest Technology Panel For each survey that you complete and return by the specified date, you will earn PERCS (Points Earned for Returning Completed Surveys, converted to cash and paid quarterly. The value of PERCS currency is $1.00 for every 100 PERCS points. ) or be entered in a drawing for prizes, such as notebook computers, CD-ROM drives, software, and cash.

The Internet Poll provide incentives to complete surveys, but no details given

Product Testing Services With product beta testing, there is always an incentive for you. Usually, you get to keep the product. In the case of testing products with little actual value, additional incentives are usually offered.

http://www.clarionresearch.com/ Panelists who qualify for online surveys are generally compensated with cash, product incentives or service incentives.

Consumerviews When you are invited to complete a questionnaire for a client, you will be told what the token payment or gift will be for participation. Typically, participants will receive a check for $5.00 or perhaps coupons worth $5 or more on the client's products. In some situations, participants may receive larger payments. I have received payment from this company.

Marketview Research. - random drawings for cash or merchandise prizes every time you answer one of their surveys.

eLab are looking for people to participate a few times a year in their innovative online experiments and surveys about how people behave in the digital world. All of their projects are academic research conducted by eLab faculty and post-doctoral fellows at Vanderbilt University.

Every month eLab holds a random drawing for a $250 cash prize. As a registered panelist, you are eligible for the drawing. Your chance of winning increases as you participate in our experiments and surveys.

Additionally, if you choose to participate in an eLab experiment or survey, you are also eligible for separate drawings for $100 cash prizes.

WARNINGS
Here are a few buyers' experiences of survey companies:

www.money4surveys.co.uk

I stupidly paid my money to join the http://www.money4surveys.co.uk. website. They have not supplied me with the said amount of surveys I could expect and I have asked for a refund to which I have heard nothing. Most of the survey sites pay you in free sweets or entry into a monthly draw, not the £5 a survey claimed in the initial application.

http://surveyjunction.com

Thinking that with me being on-line so much, I may as well put my time to good use and earn myself some much needed funds, hence one of the reasons for joining CIAO! I had also joined a few other online survey sites, but as yet had no surveys to do for them, so in my ignorance of these things, and on looking round the net, I came across a website that said they had an exclusive list of nearly 200 internet marketing companies, with paid and rewarded survey opportunities, I also got an email into my account telling me about this opportunity.

I knew that many companies worked only with selected groups, and thought that this was a way of getting into these groups, and broadening my chances of increasing my funds. Survey Junction stated that these were 'worldwide opportunities', and so I thought that I would give it a go.

After paying 'the small one time $32.95 Membership Fee' I was given access to their members only area, which contained two pages of links to such websites as CIAO! and other sites which do surveys for prize draws, or to earn points. Most of the ones which paid out monies were for people who reside in the USA, also along with these survey sites (which could have been found by searching through a search engine) were many links which infact were not survey sites, but 'freestuff' sites!!!!!!!!

PLEASE NOTE - You are likely to come across many sites offering a similar service to Survey Junction above. Some may be listed in the Google box in the menu bar on this page, over which I have little control. Whilst others are more comprehensive and better value, they are generally only worth considering if you are U.S. based and would rather pay a one-off fee for a regularly updated listing than do your own research. However, almost all do offer money-back guarantees so there is no risk to checking them out.

For a much more comprehensive list of survey sites, please visit http://www.WhichSurveys.com