Emma Drew

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my lord.....how many times does she have to mention she's been ill in her poundland haul? you would think she'd been at deaths door the way she's milking it.......IT WAS A COLD EMMA! we all get them and guess what we carry on regardless and don't make half as much fuss, she really is dreadful.
 
lexiloo said:
my lord.....how many times does she have to mention she's been ill in her poundland haul? you would think she'd been at deaths door the way she's milking it.......IT WAS A COLD EMMA! we all get them and guess what we carry on regardless and don't make half as much fuss, she really is dreadful.
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The way I see it is that nothing else interesting happens in their life so she keeps moaning about it!
 
Dontspillthemilk said:
The way I see it is that nothing else interesting happens in their life so she keeps moaning about it!
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The Poundland haul was funny, she bought the builders hand cream and said she had bought tons of it - obviously to resell even though she was saying how great it is. She doesn't need builders hand cream, she barely makes it to her desk most days.
 
I've just found this thread (how did I miss it?!) and read through all the posts.

I don't think Emma Drew is a money saving /making expert. I'm not that much older than her and I'm close to paying off my mortgage. How have I done this? Here's my handy guide :

1) not buying crap
2)...

Okay, that's about it. I am old school thrifty. I don't buy stuff I don't need, I have a car that gets me about and nothing more, I don't eat out or have takeaways. I buy discounted meat and fish then freeze it. I batch cook at weekends. I work full time, as does my husband. I do use Shopmium but only if I'm actually in the right supermarket and if it is something I'll use. I do surveys but I earn maybe £20 per year from them. I'm a Shop and Scan panelist and get £80 of vouchers per year for that.

I've done mystery shopping before but it's time consuming as you have the actual visit then the report to fill in afterwards. It is difficult to find the time because of my actual full time job and because the mystery shops are few and far between if you live in a large city.

Blogging is over now. I think we're at saturation point so anyone hoping to follow Emma's advice and make £100k per year without leaving their bed is going to be sorely disappointed. Like all MLMs/pyramid schemes, the only ones earning money are at the top. If you are buying in, it's too late.
 
boostar said:
I've just found this thread (how did I miss it?!) and read through all the posts.

I don't think Emma Drew is a money saving /making expert. I'm not that much older than her and I'm close to paying off my mortgage. How have I done this? Here's my handy guide :

1) not buying crap
2)...

Okay, that's about it. I am old school thrifty. I don't buy stuff I don't need, I have a car that gets me about and nothing more, I don't eat out or have takeaways. I buy discounted meat and fish then freeze it. I batch cook at weekends. I work full time, as does my husband. I do use Shopmium but only if I'm actually in the right supermarket and if it is something I'll use. I do surveys but I earn maybe £20 per year from them. I'm a Shop and Scan panelist and get £80 of vouchers per year for that.

I've done mystery shopping before but it's time consuming as you have the actual visit then the report to fill in afterwards. It is difficult to find the time because of my actual full time job and because the mystery shops are few and far between if you live in a large city.

Blogging is over now. I think we're at saturation point so anyone hoping to follow Emma's advice and make £100k per year without leaving their bed is going to be sorely disappointed. Like all MLMs/pyramid schemes, the only ones earning money are at the top. If you are buying in, it's too late.
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A fellow shop n scanner!! Prolific Academic is a fab survey site - I easily make an additional £20-£30 a month on it.

I agree with everything else. She just preys on the vulnerable with her courses that promise the moon and affiliate links
 
SunshineSally said:
A fellow shop n scanner!! Prolific Academic is a fab survey site - I easily make an additional £20-£30 a month on it.

I agree with everything else. She just preys on the vulnerable with her courses that promise the moon and affiliate links
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I've made £5 on Prolific in 6 months. I guess I get filtered out of a lot of surveys and sometimes I'm too late for others. If you are the right demographic and you are fast enough when the email comes in, I'm sure it's a good earner but I wouldn't want to rely on it for money to live on!
 
boostar said:
I've made £5 on Prolific in 6 months. I guess I get filtered out of a lot of surveys and sometimes I'm too late for others. If you are the right demographic and you are fast enough when the email comes in, I'm sure it's a good earner but I wouldn't want to rely on it for money to live on!
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I have never understood how people claim live on them.
 
boostar said:
I've made £5 on Prolific in 6 months. I guess I get filtered out of a lot of surveys and sometimes I'm too late for others. If you are the right demographic and you are fast enough when the email comes in, I'm sure it's a good earner but I wouldn't want to rely on it for money to live on!
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I found the same on Prolific. It’s barely worth the time and how Emma says she earns significant money from surveys is beyond me as I’ve tried!
 
Frensham90 said:
Wow look at her go! Working ever so hard practicing writing her numbers 1-100. Definitely deserved that nap this afternoon!
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I believe the constant lists give the illusion of doing something productive while actually procrastinating.

Think of the time that would be saved if instead of writing down a list of short tasks, she just, you know, did them.
 
Boblebob said:
I can't stand survey sites they bore me to 😭
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I've signed up to a few over the years. I've had my fair share of answering 100 questions then being "filtered out" because I don't meet the criteria or ones that take 20 minutes and pay you 10p.

I still do YouGov surveys but the cashing out value is £50 and the surveys are usually 50p each. It takes a couple of years for me to cash out.

I would like to see exactly how much Emma earns from all these survey sites as well as her hourly "wage" from them. I bet it's a couple of quid per hour at most and, even then, you don't get the cash straight away or perhaps have PayPal fees.

Also, Emma doesn't say what her take home pay is, just what her business turned over. Here's the breakdown of her earnings "pre-costs" :

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So she's not factored in the amount she's spent buying stuff to resell or the money she's paying for an office they don't need or for her assistant.

Also, just had a look at all the UK Money Bloggers listed on her easter giveaway. I assume a lot of them are her clients because their blogs look exactly the same as hers and the content is pretty much identical!
 
boostar said:
I've signed up to a few over the years. I've had my fair share of answering 100 questions then being "filtered out" because I don't meet the criteria or ones that take 20 minutes and pay you 10p.

I still do YouGov surveys but the cashing out value is £50 and the surveys are usually 50p each. It takes a couple of years for me to cash out.

I would like to see exactly how much Emma earns from all these survey sites as well as her hourly "wage" from them. I bet it's a couple of quid per hour at most and, even then, you don't get the cash straight away or perhaps have PayPal fees.

Also, Emma doesn't say what her take home pay is, just what her business turned over. Here's the breakdown of her earnings "pre-costs" :

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So she's not factored in the amount she's spent buying stuff to resell or the money she's paying for an office they don't need or for her assistant.

Also, just had a look at all the UK Money Bloggers listed on her easter giveaway. I assume a lot of them are her clients because their blogs look exactly the same as hers and the content is pretty much identical!
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Your breakdown of her earnings sums it up. Emma isn’t making her living doing surveys, she’ll be doing the odd ones to show people she is doing them, it’s people singing up to these sites via her links that’s earning her money

As much as she is annoying she is business savvy and knows how to work things. I’ve no doubt she makes what she says.

The top 3 things in that list, account for 80%ish and have basically no expenditure. It’s just sales of products either her own or others, so if her overheads are pretty low she’ll be making very good money.
 
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