You will have seen the advertisements on the internet if searching on ways to make money. 'Make money whilst sitting in your pyjama's', 'Make hundreds each week' etc.

These are the sort of adds that gets your mouth to water and that is exactly what happened to me, I fell for the ads, hook, line and sinker and splashed my cash to join one of the companies.

I soon found out that what they were saying was a tad over exaggerated. I was disappointed at first but I soon realised there's no use crying over spilt milk and got to work on making some money.

I do not regret spending the money on getting information on all the survey companies I could join as all the information is there for you straight away, you don't have to spend hours searching through a search engine. Another good thing about the database it that it tells you important information which can save you time:

Company Name
Countries of people that can join
What type of market research you will do, i.e. surveys, product testing etc.
Type of rewards you can get. i.e. money, vouchers, prizes etc.

The first thing I did was open a separate email account, I used Yahoo. I then went through the database and joined all the companies that I was able to. As I am from the UK this was not as large a number as the US but still a decent size.

I like to keep a note of everything that I do so I bought a note book and gave a page to each company I joined, I input important information like the website address, my user name and password (don't worry I kept it safe), what type of rewards I received and then I could input the date when I got the survey and what I received as and when.

This has been good as it has helped me see which of the surveys are worth doing and which ones are not really worth my time. I must say that the more you participate in surveys, the more you are likely to receive.

Surveys can be long and repetitive but I have never had to do one that has been longer than 30 minutes, I have had to product test many things with recent products been Pringles, cornflakes and some oat bars – who can grumble at that?

I enjoy completing surveys, I get the feeling of satisfaction of knowing I may have influenced if a product gets the go ahead, I haven't earned hundreds each month but the rewards are steady and only this week I received £16 Amazon Voucher, £30, £21 and £11 – which isn't bad going.

Surveys aren't for everyone but if you are wanting to make money without having to put any money forward then I would say go for it!