Market Research Surveys for Mums

Statistics have shown that if mums in the UK had enough money they would love to either quit work or reduce their hours in order to spend more time at home with their families. By working online with market research companies and taking paid surveys earning extra cash or vouchers from the comfort of your own home is now a possibility.

Market research is important for companies to learn about their what their potential customers will think and feel about their products and services and whether they will actually go out and buy them. Research companies technically work as the middleman and send out online surveys to their members then report back the information to various companies who then pay them. This is why you are able to earn money by taking surveys online.

Particular groups of people are often targeted by market research companies who need them to join their survey panels. Mums are particularly important as they will know and use products that are related to babies, children or household products. There would be no point getting the general population to join and then surveying them on their use of nappies or baby food.

As opportunities for mums are very targeted, quite often the rewards will be higher than at regular survey sites that are only for the general population. For example a survey site that is only open to mothers of kids under 3 would pay as much as £10 per online survey that is completed where as a standard survey at the same site will only pay 50p - £5 each.

Other High Paying Opportunities

As well as being invited to take higher paying surveys mothers who join market research sites may at some point be invited to take part in focus groups or telephone surveys. Focus groups and telephone surveys will involve discussing a particular product or service face to face with an interviewer or within a group. These types of activities will most likely be much higher paid than standard surveys.

Top 5 Highest Paying Market Research Sites for Mums

The following are the online survey sites that are currently available for mums to earn extra money or gift vouchers. All of the following sites listed will send out high paying online surveys specifically for mothers. We recommend that you join all the sites you possibly can as the earning opportunities can be high:

 

 

The Nielsen Consumer Panel (Homescan) is a great fit for mums who do most of the grocery shopping. By joining you will get the opportunity to influence what products are sold on Supermarket shelves in the UK and around the world. If you qualify for the panel you will be sent a free hand held barcode scanner which you can use to scan each of the products you buy. Once a week the scanner will send the data free of charge back to Nielsen. For your participation on the home scan panel you will earn points which can be exchanged for gifts and vouchers from their online catalogue. At this point in time Nielsen are only accepting members who are aged 16 - 24 or 64+.

 

 

You should expect between 10 and 30 online surveys from this survey site every month. Global Test Market pay you in points that you can redeem for cash, you are given at least 5 points even if you don't qualify for the full survey, so points do add up pretty quick. The average amount you will be paid is £1 - £3 per online survey you take, this can range right up to a maximum of £30 each although its rare to receive one for this high amount but still it is possible. Higher paying surveys will be longer and sent to particular groups of people. The points you accumulate can be exchanged for cash, and payment is sent via cheque

 

 

 

For completing online surveys you will share up to 35% of all the money they earn, plus the opportunity to earn an additional 15% by referring friends to the site. They offer a 3 tier referral program where you can tell your friends about the site and get paid every time they complete an online survey. They have lots of members earning hundreds of dollars every month without taking a single survey. Survey Downline is available to new members who are living in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia.

 

 

Incentives on ACOP range from $2 - $50 per survey you take and $25+ for online focus groups, making them one of the highest paying paid survey sites. You should receive numerous online surveys from this site every month. You can cash out by logging into your account and payment is sent via cheque in your own currency.

 

 

Unlike other survey panels at Survey Network you will get the opportunity to try out new products, they pay for every single survey you complete, new online surveys are added almost daily, payments are processed within days not months, with a low minimum payment and sent quickly via Paypal. Only available to new members who are resident of the UK.