Earning Amazon gift cards is great fun, especially when you want to put them towards something you’re saving for. Below is a list of website that pay out via Amazon gift cards.

• Swagbucks pays you to complete surveys, perform tasks, watch videos and even search the internet. Payout starts at just £5.
• Gift Hunter Club pays you to complete tasks and surveys. Payout for an Amazon voucher is at £5.
• Valued Opinions is a survey website, with each survey netting you 50p+. Payout is at £10.
• iPoll is both a survey site and a smart phone app, and you can earn by completing small shopping tasks using the app. Payout for Amazon is at $23, roughly £13-£14.
• InstaGC is similar to Swagbucks where you earn points for surveys, watching videos and completing tasks. The great thing about InstaGC is that payout is at just £1, and you get your Amazon gift card instantly.
• IPSOS is a survey site that pays out at $10 (approximately £6).
• Toluna is a survey site, where you earn points. The points can be converted into various rewards.
• Vason Bourne is a survey website for IT or business professionals only.
• Opinion outpost is a survey website that pays once you reach £3.
• Just the answer is a survey website that pays once you reach £5.
• Amazon Trade in is where you can send your unwanted books and games and receive Amazon vouchers.
• WePromiseTo is a cash back website, where you can request payout via Amazon gift cards. If you choose to cash out via Amazon gift cards then WePromiseTo will boost your earnings by 5%. Payout is made once you reach £25.

If you know of any other sites then please let me know and I can add them to the list.

How to earn:
People4U will regularly send emails with focus group invitations (mostly based in London) but you do occasionally receive an email for an online survey or mystery shopping. Each “job” is paid differently and the rate is explained in the original email you receive. I recently took part in a study, online, over 3 days, that earned me £70 in Amazon vouchers.

Payment method(s) and thresholds:
Each job is paid differently, and the payment method will be explained in your original email. It can be paid into your bank account, Amazon vouchers, expensive trade equipment and more.

My verdict:
The emails that People4U send out are annoying when they aren’t relevant (for example, focus groups in London), so it would be great if they could create two different databases for those interested in London-based focus groups and those who are only interested in online projects or nationwide projects. I’ve been a member for a few months now and there have been two projects I have expressed an interest in, and one that I was accepted for. During this project there was a delay with the payment, but People4U kept me informed every step of the way and apologised for the delay. I’m looking forward to completing more tasks with them.

The site:
Viewsbank - where your experiences and opinions count.

How to earn:
You can earn on Viewsbank by completing surveys, projects and mystery shopping. There’s also a chance to win prizes with their competitions. Although surveys are often emailed to you, it is worth logging in regularly to see if there are any that haven’t been emailed. You also earn £1 for every friend that you refer who meets the £6 payment threshold.

Payment method(s) and thresholds:
Payments are calculated at the end of every month, and if you’ve met the £6 threshold then your payment should be made on the second Tuesday of the following money, via Paypal.

My verdict:
Earning on this site can be slow, but in a month my earnings are £6.30 for very little effort. The surveys (so far) have been short and sweet, and they often come with further earning opportunities – such as appearing in a journalist’s article – to sign up to at the end of the survey.

Happy 2014! I hope that your Christmas and New Year were fantastic and that you’re ready to brace 2014 head on. This year holds a lot of exciting challenges for me – from planning a wedding to growing From Aldi To Harrods. Of course most of what I want to achieve in 2014 involves needing extra cash, so here’s my New Year Cash Boost. Below are my favourite, and fast, ways to earn some extra cash.

As you’re putting away all your Christmas presents, you’re probably thinking that you’re due a clear out and a fresh start. This is a great time to go through your wardrobe, DVDs, games, books and anything else that you’ve accumulated. You can put aside anything not quite worthy of eBay to sell at boot sales later in the year, but for now, you can get listing.

eBay have free listing until 5th January for items priced over £1. If you’ve been put off selling on eBay due to buyers opening cases against you, then you can read my extensive guide, Help, An eBay Buyer Has Opened a Case Against Me.

Zapper is dubbed as a “Music Magpie” for books and is a great place to sell your unwanted books, DVDs, games and CDs with very little effort. This means that you don’t get top dollar for them, but Zapper are reliable and pay quickly.

Qmee pays you for searching the web – and even better, there’s NO minimum payout.

Join Swagbucks to earn Paypal cash or Amazon gift vouchers, among others.

Download Qustodian onto your smartphone and earn money every time you read one of their messages.

Play free daily games on Jackpot Joy (deposit required).

Use iPoll to complete surveys and shopping tasks.

For many, many more ideas, be sure to check out my guide to making £1,000, which has 100 different ways for you to make £10.

However, using the iPoll app is where things start to get more lucrative. There are a number of tasks to complete, either whilst out shopping or filming videos of your opinions on various matters. The shopping missions involve visiting a particular retailer and purchasing an item – a recent one I completed was a beverage purchase, with the reward being £5. The task involved uploading the receipt and answering a few demographic questions, such as gender and age. Earlier in the year, they carried out the “Brit’s Voice” study, which involved filming yourself for 3-5 minutes a day talking about a topic they provided – and once even filming the contents of your fridge. As well as receiving a payment for each video and question I answered during this study, they also provided an additional reward of £53.77.

You can redeem your earnings in numerous ways. The redemptions are listed in US Dollars, but this is converted to GBP at the current exchange rate.

$23 (roughly £14-£15):
Amazon gift card
New Look eGift card
iTunes code
Prepaid Mastercard Virtual Account
M&S online voucher
WOW HD gift card
Pizza Express

$25 (roughly £15-£16):
Rixty online entertainment card

$50 (roughly £30-£32):
Paypal (a 3% transaction fee is applied if you decide to redeem via Paypal)

I’ve been using iPoll for a few months now, and I’m very impressed that my overall earnings to date are almost £100. You can use the app alongside the website, so you’re never short of earning opportunities. I requested my payout via Amazon and Paypal on 29/08/13 and I received my Amazon gift card code on 01/09/13 and my Paypal payment on 5/09/13.

You may have been reading my blog for some time, or you’re a new comer. Hello. I really want to hit home to you about how you can make extra money. There’s always something you can do, but knowing where to start can be difficult. So here, I present you with possibly the best blog post ever. I’m going to show you how to make £1,000.

You see, £1,000 is just 100 £10s. And I’ve even come up with a list of 100 things to do that should, on average, net you £10. Now obviously some of them will earn you more (switching banks to First Direct nets you £100!), and some of them may not be relevant to you, or you may earn less than the £10. But hopefully it all evens out so that you can make at least £1,000.

This idea came from a thread on Money Saving Expert, set up by Little Miss Uni Debt. The challenge is that people set themselves a target – either a savings target or debt that they need to pay off, and then split it into 1% goals. To make £1,000 you need just 100 ideas to make £10. And here they are, all ready for you to start earning! Bookmark this post and keep coming back to it. It is great for giving you ideas, or for you to keep on track with everything.

 Selling – with effort. Read my selling guide here.

1   eBay clothes, shoes and accessories
2   eBay cosmetics
3   eBay furniture and homewares
4   eBay DVDs
5   eBay CDs
6   eBay games
7   eBay books/comics
8   Facebook selling – furniture and homewares
9   Facebook selling – clothes, shoes and accessories
10 Facebook selling – everything else
11 Amazon Marketplace DVDs and CDs
12 Amazon Marketplace games
13 Amazon Marketplace books
14 Play Trade DVDs and CDs
15 Play Trade games
16 Play Trade books
17 Green Metropolis books
18 Handmade goods on Etsy
19 Handmade goods on Folksy
20 Sell your smelly shoes on eBay
21 Gumtree selling
22 Freeads selling
23 Hold a yard sale
24 Sell at a boot sale

Selling – quickly (LITTLE EFFORT). Read my selling guide here.

25 Sell you unwanted gold and silver
26 Sell books to WeBuyBooks
27 Sell books to Fat Brain
28 Amazon Trade in books
29 Amazon Trade in games
30 CEX DVDs
31 CEX games
32 CEX CDs
33 Send clothes, shoes and accessories to Clothes 4 Cash
34 Zapper books, DVDs, games and CDs
35 Music Magpie DVDs, games and CDs
36 Music Magpie clothes
37 Music Magpie tech
38 Music Magpie electronics
39 Sell any old mobile phones
40 Sell empty ink cartridges to The Recycling Factory

Surveys & Paid to Click. Read my survey guide here.

41 Swagbucks
42 Pinecone
43 Valued Opinions
44 Pureprofile
45 Maximiles
46 Survey Network
47 Lightspeed/My Survey
48 Yougov
49 Toluna
50 Crowdology
51 Indiefield
52 Shop & Scan
53 One poll
54 New vista
55 IPSOS
56 Write reviews at DooYoo
57 InstaGC – complete offers to earn Amazon giftcards
58 Qmee search bar

Smartphone earning

59 iPoll (search in App store)
60 Getjam
61 Qustodian
62 AppXpert
63 AppTrailers
64 Quidco check in (search in App store)
65 Field Agent (search in App store)
66 Confused.com Motomate App

Cashback including bingo for cashback. Read my cashback guide here.

67 Cashback for bingo sites listed. There is £100 to be made here.
68 Quidco
69 Topcashback
70 WePromiseTo
71 Greasy Palm

Bingo (all FREE apart from 1)

72 No deposit bingo Iceland bingo
73 No deposit bingo – Bingo Cams
74 No deposit bingo – Little Miss Bingo
75 No deposit bingo – Sun Bingo
76 No deposit bingo – City Bingo
77 No deposit bingo – Costa Bingo
78 Jackpot Joy (deposit required) FREE daily games

Tasks/Working from home

79 Cloud Crowd
80 Writing gigs at Textbroker
81 Work as an internet researcher for 63336
82 Offer your services at Fiverr
83 Various jobs at Freelancer
84 Various jobs at People per hour
85 Listen to music and rate it on Slice The Pie

Mystery Shopping

86 Market Force mystery shopping
87 Grassroots mystery shopping
88 Amber Arch mystery shopping

 Everything Else

89 Get your foreign currency changed. Use here for coins
90 Cash in loose change
91 Pick up some overtime
92 Switch to a Halifax rewards bank account to earn £5 per month
93 Switch to First Direct bank for £100
94 Switch to Santander 123 current account for cashback
95 Send a funny video to You’ve Been Framed for a potential £250
96 Upload a funny photo to a magazine
97 Send a top tip with photo to a magazine for a potential £25
98 See if you’re due a tax refund
99 Claim your uniform tax rebate
100 Use a cashback credit card (but pay in full!)

I would absolutely love to hear back from you if you’re going to embark on this list. Please leave a comment or find me on Twitter to let me know how you’re getting on. I’m also available to answer any questions you may have.

Here is the sign up link but be quick – they accept one sign up per household and it is definitely worth being on their panel!

If you’re not a member of Swagbucks.com, click this link to come join me there and start earning gift cards for your time online!

Prizes include Amazon gift vouchers and Paypal money. For 1,000 points you can earn a £5 Amazon gift voucher, or $10 into your Paypal, which is roughly £6.33. I know which one I’ll be doing! Payouts are made weekly, often on a Monday or Tuesday.