The City Link man is coming tomorrow, bringing more goodies care of Amazon Prime. This one is a book to go with a TV series that just started yesterday – Grow Your Own Drugs. And now that I’ve mentioned that we’re going to get all kinds of odd people visiting the website… ;)
Anyhoooo… in the current economic climate there are plenty of people who aren’t in the market for having goodies delivered from Amazon or anyone else – but I’ll let you into a little secret: I wasn’t either, last year, and yet the occasional package still arrived – having cost me nothing but a little time.
There are lots of survey sites all over the internet that exchange cold hard cash or reward points for some of your opinions. Some are better than others; YouGov is a good one, although it takes a while to build yourself up to the £50 cash payout and there are plenty more that are open to everyone. Be a bit careful when you sign up – some are scams, but you’re much less likely to fall foul of a survey site (which needs quite a hefty infrastructure) than those awful pay-per-click schemes.
Anyway, if you’re still employed and can answer survey questions about business stuff then have a look at QNA. They pay out good rewards to people in business for participating in their online surveys. I’ve been doing it for some time now, there’s no commitment and it is genuine – I receive Amazon vouchers for each survey that I complete. You should take a look at it, here’s the link to their website, where you can read more about it and register to take their surveys.
The company behind it is Vanson Bourne, a well-known market research company in the technology and business-to-business field. I don’t get invited to surveys particularly often, but each time I complete one I get £5/£10 in Amazon vouchers – a nice chunk towards a book or a DVD. The amount you’ll receive is mentioned in the invite email, and once you’ve completed the survey you don’t have long to wait until your reward plops into your inbox as well. And then you’ve got the joy of choosing what you spend it on, and later still the joy of it actually arriving.
A little bit of Amazonia can go a long way when you’re strapped for cash….
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