by Blossom

Created on: October 13, 2009   Last Updated: October 14, 2009

My top five paid survey websites for UK residents

Since January 2009 I have joined over 20 paid survey websites that are open to UK residents. After 8 months I have been paid at least once, sometimes more, by most of them. I refer to sites such as: Global Test Market, Lightspeed, Valued opinions, OnePoll, MySurvey, Toluna, Ciao survey, Synovate, Ipoints, Adpaid etc.

Now I want to introduce you to what I consider the best five. The main criteria I have applied are: a) they are a genuine paid survey website; b) the payment per survey is reasonable, and c) the survey length is shorter than most others.

Number 1: globaltestmarket.com

Global Test Market, like the name, is an international market research company that pays members for participating in their market research.

Signing up for an account is very easy. You just need to provide an email address and a password. Then you need complete 8 short surveys on your profile to qualify for more opportunities. For British citizens you can also join it via some cash back websites, such as ecasher.co.uk, cashinbag.co.uk.

You can only participate in its survey after you receive an invitation via your email.

You get MarketPoints for completing most surveys or are given a couple of entries to its daily and monthly sweepstakes.

It has lots of survey topics and the survey design is user friendly. Normally it takes about 15-20 minutes to complete a survey, then you can get 5-50 MarketPoints immediately. The value of MarketPoints is fixed against the U.S. Dollar at 5 cents per MarketPoint.

Upon your successful completion of the survey you automatically receive 3 Sweepstakes entries. By completing a survey that you are not eligible for you will receive 1 Sweepstakes entry. When you have at least 1000 MarketPoints you can redeem your MarketPoints for a cheque sent by post and that's equal to $50.

Number 2: uk.lightspeedpanel.com

Lightspeedpanel.com was founded in 2000 and is owned by WPP, one of the world's leading communications services groups. In addition to the United Kingdom panel website, it has panels across Canada, North America, and Asia Pacific.

For people from the UK the website link is http://uk.lightspeedpanel.com/. Do remember you can also join it via some cash back websites, such as pigsback.com, cashinbag.co.uk.

Like Global Test Market you can only participate in its survey after you receive an invitation via your email. You get Lightspeed Points for completing most surveys or are given numerous entries to

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