Tag: Surveys

Measure (MSR)

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Ratings
Earnings: star-3
Time Commitment: star-2
Fun: star-3

MSR is an app which allows you to earn money through answering surveys. You can also share your app and browser usage if you wish to.

MSR is currently only available on Android and Apple devices.

One of the unique selling points of MSR is that any personal information you give to the app is encrypted. The data is used to match you to relevant surveys but you need to explicitly give permission for the data to be shared with the survey provider.
One other thing I like about the app is that, although payouts are in a MSR currency it always tells you how much you’ve earned at the end of each survey in your local currency.
So far each survey I’ve done has been very short and generally pretty interesting and the payout seems very fair.
Payout is available to a variety of gift cards including Amazon and, at least for Amazon (the only payout method I’ve used) the payout is immediate.
The only downside for me is that the frequency of surveys isn’t particularly high.
All in all I’m very impressed with MSR and would recommend it.

StormX

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Earnings: star-2
Time Commitment: star-3
Fun: star-2-5

How does it work?

Update: I’ve found that the app hasn’t paid out automatically on a few occasions since writing this review. However, their support team have been helpful and have sorted out any issues. It can take a while though.

Update 2: StormX now uses dollar values for tasks rather than “bolts”.

StormX is another service which allows you to earn “Bolts” by completing surveys, playing games and shopping.

This is very similar to many other services we’ve reviewed like Swagbucks or Treasure Trooper. The twist is bolts can be exchanged for Cryptocurrencies. At the time of writing the available cryptocurrencies are:

  • Storm X (their own currency)
  • Bitcoin
  • Ethereum
  • Dai
  • Litecoin

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HuYu

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HuYu is a service similar to Receipt Hog which rewards you with points for uploading receipts, completing short surveys, referring friends and (optionally) sharing browser history.

Points can be redeemed for a huge variety of gift vouchers, ensuring that you’ll almost certainly find something useful or fun to redeem.
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Ratings
Earnings: star-1-5
Time Commitment: star-1-5
Fun: star-1-5

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Apple Season Team Challenge Signup now live on Swagbucks

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Apple Season Team Challenge 2019

If you’re unfamiliar with Swagbucks, I discuss it in much more detail in my blog article.

The Swagbucks Apple Season team challenge is now available for signup and will begin on 16th September at 12 AM PT (8 AM for anyone in the UK).

Once signed up here, you will be allocated to a team and you can begin earning points. If you earn 600 or more points over the course of the event you’ll receive a reward, with the reward you receive depending on how well your team as a whole performed. The Swagbucks team describe it as follows:

All members who participate and contribute at least 600 points to their team’s total will receive a SB bonus in the form of a SB Swag Up Rebate! Members of the 1st place team will receive a 100 SB Swag Up Rebate, members of the 2nd place team will receive a 50 SB Swag Up Rebate, members of the 3rd place team will receive a 25 SB Swag Up Rebate. The Swag Up Rebate will be made available by September 21st at 4pm BST and expires on October 1st at 7:59am BST.

You can accrue points in the following ways:

Apple Season Team Challenge 2019 Ways to Earn

Google Opinion Rewards Mini Review

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Google Opinion Rewards is an Android app which periodically asks you to complete very short surveys. So far most of the surveys I’ve been asked to take part in have been a single easy to answer question.

Although each survey is worth very little (usually around 6p) it adds up fairly quickly and involves almost no work.

So far I’ve been using the app for three months and have answered 18 very short surveys, making £1.61.

The upside is you make this almost without noticing that you’re doing anything. The downsides are that each survey is few and far between and earnings can only be spent in the Google Play store. It’s also worth noting that credits expire 1 year after earning them and can not be used for partial payment.

Personally because of the extremely low effort I think I’ll continue using the app but won’t expect to be rich any time soon.
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Ratings
Earnings: star-1
Time Commitment: star-1
Fun: star-2-5

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Back to School Team Challenge Signup now live on Swagbucks

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If you’re unfamiliar with Swagbucks, I discuss it in much more detail in my blog article.

The Swagbucks Back to School team challenge is now available for signup and will begin on 12th August at 12 AM PT (8 AM for anyone in the UK).

Once signed up here, you will be allocated to a team and you can begin earning points. If you earn 600 or more points over the course of the event you’ll receive a reward, with the reward you receive depending on how well your team as a whole performed. The Swagbucks team describe it as follows:

All members who participate and contribute at least 600 points to their team’s total will receive a SB bonus in the form of a SB Swag Up Rebate! Members of the 1st place team will receive a 100 SB Swag Up Rebate, members of the 2nd place team will receive a 50 SB Swag Up Rebate, members of the 3rd place team will receive a 25 SB Swag Up Rebate, and members of the 4th place team will receive a 10 SB Swag Up Rebate. The Swag Up Rebate will be made available by August 17th at 4pm BST and expires on August 31st at 7:59am BST.

You can accrue points in the following ways:

Swagbucks back to school team challenge how to earn points

 

Sushi Team Challenge Signup now live on Swagbucks

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Sushi Team Challenge on Swagbucks

If you’re unfamiliar with Swagbucks, I discuss it in much more detail in my blog article.

The Swagbucks Sushi team challenge is now available for signup and will begin on 15th July at 12 AM PT (8 AM for anyone in the UK).

Once signed up here, you will be allocated to a team and you can begin earning points. If you earn 600 or more points over the course of the event you’ll receive a reward, with the reward you receive depending on how well your team as a whole performed. The Swagbucks team describe it as follows:

All members who participate and contribute at least 600 points to their team’s total will receive a SB bonus in the form of a SB Swag Up Rebate! Members of the 1st place team will receive a 100 SB Swag Up Rebate, members of the 2nd place team will receive a 50 SB Swag Up Rebate, members of the 3rd place team will receive a 25 SB Swag Up Rebate, and members of the 4th place team will receive a 10 SB Swag Up Rebate. The Swag Up Rebate will be made available by July 20th at 4PM BST and expires on July 30th at 7:59AM BST.

You can accrue points in the following ways:

Sushi team challenge Swagbucks How to earn points

 

Treasure Trooper

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Summary
Note: Links may award me referral rewards such as in-app points or money.

Treasure Trooper is a money making site in a similar vein to Swagbucks but with a stronger emphasis on colourful design, games and social elements. Although I’m not sure that Treasure Trooper is the fastest or best way of making extra money it does have a charm which is largely missing from the other sites I’ve tried so I think it’s worth giving it a shot to see if it works for you.

It’s also worth pointing out that if you sign up via my referral link you’ll receive a $5 starting bonus rather than the $1 you receive if you sign up normally. Treasure Trooper also have a blogger program; so if you have a blog and you’d like to discuss the site you can sign up here.

More: Treasure Trooper Hints and Tips

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Ratings
Earnings: star-2-5
Time Commitment: star-3
Fun: star-3

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Swagbucks Tip #8 : Member Recognition Program

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If you’re unfamiliar with Swagbucks, I discuss it in much more detail in my blog article.

Swagbucks recently introduced a member recognition program which rewards you for reaching certain milestones. At the time of writing I’m on the Amethyst level and approaching Jade.

The rewards are mainly centred around SB rebates and bonus SBs but also offer shopping bonuses and Swag ups such as double points on your next survey completion.

The announcement post containing the complete rundown of levels can be found here.