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How much is your opinion worth? Opinions are the stock and trade of pollsters and market researchers. Not long ago the most common method of acquiring opinions was to conduct telephone surveys, but the backlash to all forms of telemarketing has steadily increased as people have become more and more intolerant of nuisance callers. Pollsters know that opinions should come from those who want to give them, and the easiest way to create a pool of willing participants is to pay them. Enter the world of internet and paid online surveys.
 
So how much does it pay? The rewards offered vary from survey to survey, and from one company to another; the prospective payout ranges in between $100-$300 a month depending how many survey panel you’re registered on. It is not enough for someone to quit his job but its extra money one would not have without it. So think of these survey panels like a plus to add to an existing revenue and not a source of revenue in itself.

Getting Started: The registration process is straight forward; you provide some basic information (name, username, email address, perhaps a real-world address) and complete a brief questionnaire (age, gender, locale, income level, occupation) about yourself. The questionnaires are supposed to enable the research firms to send you surveys that suit your demographic but in fact you will often receive invitations to participate in surveys that you don’t qualify for. Once you’ve completed the necessary introductory forms you wait until the pollsters begin emailing you invitations to participate in their surveys.
 
Technical Requirements: In order to effectively complete a large number of surveys, you should have a high-speed internet connection. That’s the only way you can make any money doing this kind of thing. And you must also have a computer that’s able to process sound and video feeds—you’ll watch a lot of commercials.

Get Paypal:  If you don’t already have a PayPal account, you should create one. PayPal is the most common method of payment, some Canadian survey panels also use Chapters and or Indigo books rebates, debit accounts to be applied to any products sold in these stores.
 
Once you begin participating in surveys you’ll notice a pattern. You must respond to the invitations quickly; most surveys are only open for a limited time; once the required number of questionnaires are completed the survey’s closed and you’ve missed the opportunity, and that’s why serious survey people respond to good paying surveys quickly.
 
Most surveys target a specific demographic. Consumer product surveys are aimed at shoppers, sports-related surveys are targeted at sports fans, and so on. Every questionnaire is preceded by a few screening questions to see if you fit into the demographic; if you don’t fit the profile, then you’re rejected for the current survey but there will always be another invite on another day.

Popular demographics include men between the ages of 18 and 35 (men tend not to take surveys so they’re in demand), and parents with kids living at home (it seems everybody is trying to make products attractive to kids these days).
 
Paid surveys do not pay that much money; a typical survey may pay a couple of dollars, more lucrative surveys range in between $5 and $50.  Of course, you can only complete a given survey once. Also, the more lucrative the survey the harder it is for participants to fit the required demographic. For example $20 surveys are often aimed at men if you’re a stay-at-home mom or a student you don’t qualify. One can expect, depending upon its demographic, to average earnings of $200-300 a month.

Cash is not the only reward offered for taking surveys. Some survey companies will give you points that can eventually be redeemed for prizes or entries in prize draws. The more surveys you fill in, the more chances you have to win.

Most common rewards include entries into prize draws and sweepstakes, reason for which they are often listed on contests and sweepstakes websites such as All Canada Contests which has one of the widest arrays of survey panels available to Canadian residents. The odds of winning a substantial prize such as a trip, a laptop, or a shopping spree are better than winning a major lottery prize, and the draws are more frequent.

Some websites exploit visitors by selling them survey lists. This is like double dipping because its a little known fact they actually make affiliate commisions by refering people to the companies on the list. So please don’t pay for such a list as the site owner is already making money when you register to survey panels. That’s why most good websites list them for free on their pages.

The wisdom, the more lucrative or attractive the survey, the quicker its quota gets filled and each opportunity is here today, and gone tomorrow if you don’t respond quick enough.