Earn Money with Ciao Paid Surveys and Reviews:

As well as providing valuable product advice for shoppers, the Ciao site offers its community members many exclusive features designed to help them...

• make money
• make friends and
• have fun!

Make Money

With Ciao, you can make money in a variety of ways: Ciao pay you cash for reviewing selected products and services, for participating in online surveys and even for recommending Ciao to your friends.

Get rewarded for writing reviews

Do you want to recommend a product or warn other users about a bad buying experience you have had? Share your views with millions of others, and we'll pay you for it!

You can write reviews about any one of...

• millions of consumer goods
• thousands of services
• and hundreds of online shops featured on Ciao

Writing a review is easy: just search for the product you want to write about, and click on "Write a review". It only takes a few minutes, but it helps other people and earns you money.

Participate in paid online surveys

Our online surveys are a great way of expressing your opinion, influencing the manufacturers, and contributing to the development of new products...and you'll earn money as you do so!

Ciao surveys cover subjects as diverse as...

• what you would call a new car model
• what most annoys you about your current DVD player
• and many more interesting issues

For every survey you complete, we will credit your Ciao account with up to £10, and you could also win one of a wide range of prizes on offer in our regular competitions.

Earn cash for recommending Ciao to your friends

If you enjoy Ciao, spread the word! By inviting friends and acquaintances to become members, you can substantially increase your earnings.

Invite your friends to Ciao and receive:

• 50 pence for referring each new, "active" member
• 50% commission on each of your friends' earnings from reviews for his/her first year of membership

If you are a webmaster, you can also put a banner on your website and get paid for referring visitors of your website to Ciao - you can just sit back and watch the extra revenue come in!

Firstly, it's important that you realize you've got to sign up to take part in the surveys. This is done in our 'My Ciao' section where you just tick a little box to say that you would like to participate in surveys. These surveys are then sent to you by e-mail.

Ok, so the surveys themselves. Well generally a survey will not take very long and the estimated time it is supposed to take you to complete a particular survey is stated when you first open your e-mail from ciao. This is generally pretty accurate, but (of course) will vary depending on your connection speed and all that kind of stuff. Most surveys will take roughly around 20 minutes.

Right, now that bits cleared up les get onto the important stuff.

How often do surveys come?

Ciao is quite organized in comparison to other survey distributors as they only send you surveys which you are eligible for under the companies preference. This is determined with your 'Interest Profiles' found at the side on 'My Ciao' under 'Account Balance'. When you fill in all the sections of this ciao uses the information to filter through all the people who fit the description of what a company is looking for in the recipients of their surveys and sends them to the appropriate people. Please note that if you haven't filled out all of this, then you are unlikely to receive many surveys as the number of surveys you receive is determined by the how much of this section you have completed.

So far, I have received around 4 or 5 surveys a month. Sometimes this has been more and sometimes down to 2, but without fail in 2 years at ciao I have done a survey each month.

How much do you get paid for doing surveys?

How much ciao is offering you to complete a survey is all good. You can be paid anything from between 33p to £25 for a survey and they are often around the £1 - £3 mark.

What are the surveys on?

Well, the surveys can be on just about anything. This is one of the best things about ciao surveys. The variety of companies involved with the site is so huge. This also makes a lot of surveys really cool, because you are not only helping decide what kind of products will be available in the future, but you can predict the future (because you've seen everything before everyone else - like movie trailers).

What about data protection?

Fortunately, ciao are big on data protection, and so none of your details will be spread around - so in this respect you are very safe completing any survey offered to you as a result of ciao. Also, you won't recieve any junk mail as a result of completing a survey.

So, that's it. Overall, I would recommend taking part in ciao surveys because they're interesting, not too time consuming, and also (despite not paying that well) help you to accumulate a decent amount on your ciao account, which is always nice.

Good luck with the surveys, have fun, and hope you have a bit more luck than I have in being paid for doing them!