The Sun's Financial Diary

I got this email yesterday from Herron Associate for participating in a fast food study. Back in October I did a 40 minutes study with them about KFC hamburgers through SurveySpot and was paid for $35. They sent me this email because I am in their database.
This study, according to the email, is looking for [...]

I joined many paid survey panels back in June and July before I started this Diary, trying to collect some extra money in my pocket once in a while. At the beginning I really had fun doing some of the surveys and was happy to get paid for a few bucks for 10 to 20 [...]

Well, they are not really free as the money does not fall from the sky. But I call it “free money” because it comes from outside of my job (so I won’t get fired if I did poorly) and my investment (so I don’t have to spend money in order to make money). And, the [...]

by taking paid online surveys.
I just checked my record for paid online surveys I participated and it surprised me that I have already made $100 so far this month, enough to pay my phone and internet bills! Or I can use it to pay for the web hosting fees for my diary! Can you imagin [...]

Do you have a budget for your own domain?
It really took me some time to make up my mind to switch from free blog at Blogger.com, which I started in June, to this domain. First of all, I am not sure if it’s worth it. Secondly, where does the money come from to pay for [...]

I have signed up with some online survey sites, such as Greenfield Online, SurveySpot, SurveySavvy, Your2Cents, and Brand Institute, for more than a month and my overall experience with them so far was OK. Yes, many times I didn’t qualify for the paid surveys and I passed a lot surveys that only rewarded me with [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I submitted my blog to Bloggingads.com following a link on Getting Out Of Debt. About a week later, they emailed me, saying my blog was proved and I can post their prepared ad on my blog (you can choose to write yourself ad with keywords they provided, but I decided [...]

It really surprised me this morning when I opened my mailbox and found the response from Greenfield, lease than 24 hours after I complained about the problem I had. Here’s what I learned:
” … there was some technical problem with the servers. This could have resulted out of heavy user traffic within the survey, or [...]

Greenfield online is a company that provides paid online survey and I joined the panel last month. Since then I have been receiving nearly five survey invitations every day and almost all of them only rewarded me with an entry to their sweepstake, which I don’t have much interest. Once in a while, they did [...]

I have been doing online paid survey since July 2006 and here’s a list of surveys I completed so far:

Movie survey from SurveySpot, 07/22/06, $3.00
Credit card survey from SurveySpot, 07/26/06, $3.00
IT survey from SurveySavvy, 07/31/06, $5.00