Lightspeed Panel

Money for Surveys

You may remember I signed up for a bunch of survey sites a while back. I haven't mentioned them much because as a rule I tend not to qualify for surveys. Apparently I'm not in many companies target demographic.

I have finally managed to complete enough surveys to see some cash though. I've done 5 surveys with Lightspeed Panel and have been payed £5 for my trouble. The easiest way to get the cash is via pay pal, but you can get slighty more cash for your points if you get amazon vouchers.

A New Tally

No grab today
I got home this evening ready to hit the blog, but I didn't go cash back hunting or matched bet hunting. I decided to do a bit of maintenance work instead. The way I've been showing my progress has been bothering me. It's not very clear and it was a pain for me to maintain.

My cunning solution
Being a programming type I went looking for a better way. The result is the tally widget you can see on the right. It's built from a google spreadsheet that I'll be maintaining online as I do the deals. That means it will be right up to the minute and may even contain info that hasn't made it into a blog post yet.

If you click on each of the rows it will expand to show you where the total numbers come from. Click again and it will shrink back up.

What the headings mean
Cashflow
This is a track of money going in and out of my bank account. I figure this will be the ultimate track of how well I'm doing. I'm theoretically well in profit at this point, but I won't be happy until cashflow is showing a big positive number.

Cashback
This is expected earnings from cash back sites. It will show purely the amount of profit I expect to get, without factoring in how much I may have spent to earn it. (Spendings are already shown in the cashflow section)

Betting
This is expected profit from betting. This will show losses and gains made from my betting activities. I'll also have a float at various bookies which I use to make the bets, but this won't be shown here.

Surveys
This section will show how much I've earned through doing surveys. I'm not sure how big a number will end up here. I've signed up for a bunch of survey sites, but I'm not getting a whole lot of offers to actually do surveys. Maybe I'm the wrong demographic?

Expected Earnings
This is a total of all the above except for cashflow.

Blog by blog earnings
I'll still be showing how much I've made in each blog, but it will now be much easier to distinguish how much was earned by the the day's grab and what the total is over all.

If you think things are still unclear let me know. I'm happy to shuffle things around to make them easier to follow.

A couple of busy days

Today's Grab
I'm pretty focused on a side project at the moment. I'll be telling you all about it soon. Takes a little more effort than just signing up for stuff, but I'm pretty excited about it.

Back to the task at hand though. I've just done a quick look at topcashback and picked off a new cash back on registrations for a mob called Brand Alley worth £0.64. I then went and completed another quote at confused (the first one has already validated) for another £1.

One of the survey sites finally sent me a survey I could do. The crowd was TechSay which is an IT focused survey mob. It earned me $10 USD and I got a $2.50 sign up bonus as well. I'll be watching out for more from this crowd, because I can't actually bag the cash until I hit $50.

The Tally

• Cash in hand : £-47.87
• Quidco : £139.77
• ING : £21.00
• Top Cash Back : £6.32
• RPoints : £1.00
• We Promise To : £4.44
• TechSay Surveys : £9 approx

I wonder if those surveys are any good?

Today's Grab

I've been up to two things over the last couple of days.  First up I've started going through the offers to topcashback see what I can find.  This was complicated a bit because some of the offers are the same as quidco, but the fact that I noted the offers I took up with quidco in this blog has made it easy to avoid trying the same offer twice.

The topcashback offers I've taken up since the last post are...

Who remembers me, Registration, £0.10

It's your View, Survey, £0.70

Super Free Bingo, Registration, £1.00

Just Rewards, Survey, £0.96

Great UK Surveys, Survey, £0.83

Orange, Sims, £0.60

for a total of £4.19.

One thing I've noticed with a lot of these smaller deals is that you'll frequently get offered the 'opportunity' to join other sites. I'd recommend not signing up for any of them, there's a good chance that doing so will lose you the chance to get a signup bonus for them. If you're interested, at least take a look at the cashback sites to confirm that there are no current deals on that site.

Surveys surveys!

The freebie cashback I've been enjoying so far are great, but they are limited in number and I suspect I'll be running short on them soon.  There seem to be a lot more offers where you can spend a little and get back more,  but I don't want to take too much cash out of my pocket chasing these offers.  Spending £5 now to get £15 later is something I'll be a lot happier doing with my profits.

So I've started looking for what other ways I can bring in some cash and there seems to be a bit of a buzz about paid surveys.  I figure it's worth a crack so I've gone on a bit of a sign up spree. I've gone and joined...

Global Test Market - Sign up via we promise to for £0.44 cashback

Lightspeed Panel - Sign up via rpoints for £1 cashback

You Gov - I couldn't find a cashback on this one, but sign up via this link and at least I'll get something for it.  =)

We promise to and rpoints are 2 other cashback sites that I haven't investigated very thoroughly yet.  Use the links above and I get a small bonus when you join. For the surveys themselves I haven't done any apart from sign up types. Hopefully surveys will frequently become available and they'll be useful earners.  I'll keep you informed.

The Tally

With the different cashback sites I've started joining I figured it will be useful to list the earnings seperately to give an idea of how they perform.  I'll be listing any survey earnings seperately as well.

Cash in hand : -£47.87

Net Position : £122.38

Quidco : £144.62

ING : £21.00

TopCashBack : £5.69

RPoints : £1.00

We Promise To : £0.44