– In this video I’m
gonna see how much money I can actually make by
spending my weekend filling out online surveys and
doing promotional offers. (lively music) So let’s assume you have
a 9-5 job during the week and are looking to earn
a little extra money on your weekends, but you don’t wanna go out and get a second job or do something in the gig-based economy. Well, to be honest, I don’t
think something as simple as doing surveys online
and downloading apps is gonna be worth my time or your time, but I’m happy to give it a
shot and be proven wrong. Let’s get started. Now, if your only
introduction to online surveys are like those annoying
pop-up ads from 2005, I’ll just tell you, there are
a lot of people making dozens upon dozens of cents,
filling out surveys online. Some sites are legit and some aren’t, so like any good millennial,
I’m gonna head to Reddit and do some research before I get started. Okay, so I found a
subreddit called Beermoney and there they’re all about
spending their free time earning a little bit of
cash doing little things like filling out surveys,
doing promotional offers, installing apps, et cetera.
And so they have a list of sites that they recommend to get started. So I’m gonna sign up for a few of those and then spend all of tomorrow seeing how much money I can make
doing all these menial tasks. I’ll let you know how it goes. Here goes nothing. So a lot of these surveys
ask similar questions ranging from your income and job, to your political beliefs
and purchasing habits. Most are related to consumer research so they may ask whether or not you’re in the market to buy a house, or a cell phone or whatever. They wanna know what brands
you’ve heard mentioned recently and how you perceive the
brands and their reputations.
Sometimes they’ll tell you
about a new television show and ask what you think of the plot and how interested you
would be in watching it. So the first place I signed up for was a site called Qmee
and they mostly have surveys, so that’s what I did. I completed 18 surveys
for a total of $10.07. So that breaks down to
56 cents per survey. And while they varied in
length, I would say on average it took me about 15-25 minutes
to complete one survey. I did this for about four hours. And so that breaks down
to roughly $2.52 per hour. So, not great. So these surveys were super tedious, with a lot of them asking
the same questions. So I wouldn’t really recommend this to anyone to make extra cash on the side unless you just love giving your opinion for like two bucks an hour. Next, I signed up for a
website called gain.gg. They too also have surveys but you have to reach a
certain level to unlock them. Instead it’s mostly promotional offers that want you to sign up for a service, stay past the trial, get
billed for the service, and then you get the points.
So needless to say, I
didn’t do any of that because, A, I’m not gonna spend money, and B, it takes like 30
days to get the reward. Instead, they did have a link for something called hideout TV which pays you to watch the pre-roll ads that play in front of
these YouTube style videos. And so I opened that up in
a browser window, turned off my volume and let
that run for a few hours to see how much I could
actually earn from it. I probably had a running
for about four hours and when all was said and done, I earned a whopping 36 cents. I did find one more lucrative offer through the Beermoney subreddit involving a casino slots iOS game. And the way it works is you download it, and once he reach level 27 in the app, they’ll pay you $25.
The issue is you’ll
typically run out of chips before you can reach level 27, and then they want you to buy chips in the app to keep playing. But the Redditor that posted this, pointed out there’s a
website where you can get these coupons for millions of chips. So I was able to load at my account with like 20 million
chips to start off with.
And within a few hours
I could reach level 27. So at one point I had videos
playing on hideout TV, while I was doing surveys on Qmee, and then I had this slots
game spinning on my phone all at the same Time. So it turns out I
clicked on the wrong link to sign up for the slots offer to get $25. Instead, I only got $2 for
reaching a lower level. So, then I decided to sign up for a website called Swagbucks. They had the right offer
for the slots game, $25. The only caveat is it’s
for new users only. So I signed up with my
iPad, downloaded the game, got the coupons for free
chips, and then three or four hours later, I
finally reached level 27 and saw on my account that I
was pending the credit for $25. So today I found another promo for an iOS game called Coin Master. And they’ll pay you $20
once you hit level seven. So the way it works is you
basically spin a casino style slot machine and
you build your village and keep leveling up.
And once again, I found
a site with free spins so I didn’t have to spend any real money. And within a few hours of playing, I was able to beat level
seven and earn the $20. And it was pretty fun. I also spent some time doing
some more surveys on Qmee. What I basically did was look around for the highest paying survey that took the least amount of time. But the downside is you always had to answer prequalification questions to make sure that you’re the
right fit for the survey. So sometimes you’ll spend
several minutes filling out all of these survey questions
and you haven’t even gotten to the real survey yet, and
then you’ll be declined. So it’s kind of frustrating to go through that process and spend that time, and then not even qualify for the survey. I also did one that took like 15 minutes, and then at the end, like, I don’t know, maybe they already had enough
answers from people like me, but they just gave me 5 cents
instead of the higher amount that it was supposed to be.
So with this weekend coming to a close, let’s add up everything
and see how much I made. Well, doing surveys on Qmee earned me $12. And it is by far the easiest
platform to cash out. There were no minimums and
it just sent it straight to my PayPal account,
so that part was great. The downside is the service
don’t pay that much, and the higher paying
ones that I did want, a lot of times I was declined for them, for reasons unbeknownst to me. They must be looking for a
very specific demographic that I was not a part of. Then over on gain.gg,
where I initially saw that pop slots offer and I watched some of the hideout TV ads, that I only learned about $2.50. And the way I cashed
out was by transferring my gain coins over to Bitcoin, which was kind of annoying,
but it is what it is.
Doing some promo offers over
on Swagbucks earned me $45, mainly those two iOS games. Now the downside is the
most lucrative options like those iOS games,
where I found coupons and didn’t have to spend any real money, those are few and far between. It can also take up to 30
days to credit your account, and then to cash out your Swagbucks, you can redeem them for gift cards like to Amazon, Home Depot
and PayPal in said mounts. So I was able to redeem
one $25 PayPal gift card and then two $10 PayPal gift cards.
So altogether this weekend, I made $59.50 for
roughly 16 hours of work, which comes out to $3.72
per hour before taxes. So here’s the thing,
you’re not gonna get rich by doing online surveys and promos. But if you do have some free time and wanna earn a few bucks on the side, it’s not such a bad way to do so. I do recommend looking for
these mobile game offers where you can hit the required level without any in-app purchases, because those are the most
lucrative and also the most fun. Keep an eye on the Beermoney subreddit to look out for those offers cause often they are posted there.
And then with the surveys, you are divulging a lot
of personal information and they get tedious really quickly. So it was not my favorite way to earn a few bucks on the side. So for me, I’d rather
spend my free time learning a new skill or working on a side hustle that has higher income potential. Now, if there’s anything
else you wanna see me try out in this money-making niche, let me know in the comments below. That’s it for this video, I’ll see you guys in the next one. Bye..