Can you realistically earn £50 to £100 a month from surveys?

[HonestFox]

Is it possible to make 50-100 a month doing surveys or posting leaflets?

I’m on prolific and aim for 20 a week.

instagram seems to have moved from promoting solo travel to these super eager women telling you to complete surveys and mystery shop as a ‘side hustle’. It’s BS and just another scam it keeps coming up on my feed/reels. You’d be lucky to earn a few quid a month, it’s all copy and paste and repeat.

You have to declare it if it's more than £1,000 in a tax year

Tax rules for side hustles explained - HMRC Guide

Prolific is definitely the best paid by far, especially the AI ones. I am earning between £25 and £40 a day but that is sitting doing them for a good part of the day

I’ve just signed up for Prolific too and have been accepted this morning. They are asking for photo ID. Does this seem right?

Ive just done this too, and got accepted. They did want photo ID and also a video. That felt a bit too much, so Ive deleted my account.

I joined years ago but earlier this year they asked for id which I sent them. My DH who only joined last year was also asked for id this year. Seems to be something they are now asking for

I do mostly via playing the games listed on Swagbucks - never spend any money. Add in consumer pulse and user testing, it’s pretty easy to hit.

They have to check ID so they know who they are paying.

More and more of the tasks on offer require video, so maybe they only want to recruit new people willing to use video.

I’ve been on Prolific for years, I probably make about £30 a month if I go regularly. Unfortunately I cannot do the AI ones as I cannot make my screen size big enough. I don’t both either any of the other survey sites, but I do Influence (used to be VoxPopMe) and Shoppix

O, I also do Consumerpulse

I get £20-30 a month from one of them. Which is good to me after waiting about 8 months to get £50 from youguv.

Im on yougov but its taking forever...i reckon it will be 6 to 8 months before i make £50

I’m suspicious these sites basically pay far below the minimum wage. When I tried I lasted about a day before practically throwing my device across the room in a fit of pique, having filled in 20 minutes of questions to then be told I’d been screened out. Nice bit of data harvesting there. Plus the quality of the “research” these companies do must be absolutely abysmal.

If you’re short of a few bob, I’d recommend getting on a local neighbourhood site and picking up work that way. There are endless, endless people looking for cleaners, drivers, babysitters, grass cutters, flat pack assemblers and people needing a 3 suitcases moved from A to B on mine!

I'm plodding my way along on YouGov, I'm about a third of my way to my £50. I also use Shoppix, and get 'paid' in Amazon vouchers, which I use to buy Kindle books (I read a lot!). I would say that it's advisable to cash in any reward as soon as you reach the threshold, as it's not protected.

I've been on the Prolific waiting list for years!

I'm pondering using Swagbucks, and possibly signing up to Ipsos I say.

I'm retired, wake up very early, and always have a cup of tea in bed before getting up, so use that time to do surveys. It's not going to make me rich, but is a nice little boost!

I do Shoppix as well. Also considering IPSOSISay

Ipsos iSay rejected me 😂

Seriously though, I don’t get this survey malarkey. Is it not just the exploitation of women?? Your time is precious. I wouldn’t be spending my minutes after I woke on doing a survey for less than a £1. I’d rather sell some shit on eBay and enjoy my waking moments. Or just… enjoy my waking moments 😂

A way to boost your YOUGOV earnings is to go to the Connections Hub and then share what you do online. You can only do it on a computer, for some reason tablets and phones don't work. Desktop only.

You can share 3 bank accounts ( I choose dormant, empty accounts) which gives you 15 points a day.

Amazon shopping gives 25 points every 30 days
Google browsing history 10 points every 7 days
Google 25 points every 7 days
Netlix history 25 points every 7 days
Apple TV 75 points every 7 days
Disney 75 points every 7 days
Paramount 75 points every 7 days
Prime video 75 points every 7 days
Steam 75 points every 7 days

If you're happy to share what you're watching and looking at online etc then it soon mounts up. I'm approaching my third £50 since January.

The only other survey stuff I do is Prolific Academic and Opinium.

I don't do surveys, but I do 'make' £80-£100 per month from what I call Free Money - sometimes more from one-offs as well.

Maximising app / loyalty points from both my own & partner's apps for all the supermarkets. Using employer or other schemes to buy gift cards at discount for as much spending as possible. Free Esso card from BLC for money off petrol. Chase 2% cashback. Quidco or other / insurance etc cashback. Any other cashback that I can get my hands on - usually via MoneySavingExpert or Hotukdeals.

On top of this I stooze & earn approx another £150 a month from this, but appreciate it's not an option for everyone.