Ever wondered what life is like for someone who does mystery shopping in the UK? How much travel is involved? What planning do you need to do ahead? Can anyone make a living from it? – We chat to Money Shed member ‘Schewy‘ to find out all about it. Can you tell us how you first found out about Mystery Shopping and how you got into it? A chance remark from one of the mum’s of the children that I was looking after. She just made a throwaway comment about…
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It’s time for another giveaway and this time it’s a fantastic one for anyone who wants to earn some SERIOUS money from home each month via Matched Betting We’ve got together with the guys at Profit Accumulator and are offering 1 year of PLATINUM membership worth £115 for their site. Matched betting for those that don’t know if a system where you take advantage of the free bets that bookies offer in the UK on a constant basis. There is no ‘betting’ involved in the traditional sense, everything is calculated down…
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According to the latest figures from Nationwide, house prices in the UK increased by 0.3% in May, taking the average to more than £195,000. Low interest rates and an increase in mortgage approvals means that people will be looking to invest in property. If you’ve been thinking about putting your home on the market, you may be thinking now is a great time to sell up. But you have to ask yourself: is your home ‘sale ready’? You want potential buyers to be excited about coming to see your home, and…
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Recently we have been working with Clic and Walk to run some ‘fact finding’ missions to find out how it is that you guys and gals go about earning money online. Here are the results from the second of three missions that were run How often do you use new ways of making money online (mobile apps, surveys, websites…) For question 1, the results show that 120 of the 193 participants that gave their gender details were female, which is 79.6%, which means that 21.4% of the participants declaring their gender were male. Over…
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Recently we have been working with Clic and Walk to run some ‘fact finding’ missions to find out how it is that you guys and gals go about earning money online. Here are the results from the first missions that was run Have you already made money online (via the Internet, not mobile apps)? For question 1, the results show that 140 of the 224 participants that gave their gender details were female, which is 62.5%, which means that 37.5% of the participants declaring their gender were male. Almost half…
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When you first start out trying to find survey sites to sign up to it can take a while to find both decent ones which pay a good rate and ones that can be trusted. SurveyBee has solved that problem and is an excellent new service that basically lets you sign up to many survey companies by only joining one. We chatted to SurveyBee to find out more about this fantastic service. What exactly is SurveyBee? SurveyBee is a company, situated in Copenhagen, Denmark, providing a service, allowing panelists to quickly select…
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In this post we look at all the different ways you could be saving money on education and training if you wish to try and better yourself no matter what stage of life you may be at. MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) are free courses. The Open University runs their own courses, which operate from a subsidiary website, OpenLearn, which is highly reputable, accessible and run by experts in each field of study. OpenLearn lets you register and gain accreditation by taking its modules and courses, and you can…
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Saving Money On Transport. The average person spends £65.70 a week on transport. This accounts for all kinds of transport and travel, from running a car, to using the train each day to commute to work, or using any form of transportation for leisure pursuits, such as taxis and so on. Save money on your car There are many ways to cut the costs of owning a car, comprising two kinds of saving: fuel savings, and general car maintenance savings. Firstly, to save money on fuel costs, there…
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