Stuff to Do Online for Cash

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I didn't want to hijack Ombud's thread.  Someone there asked about making money on Swagbucks, so I wanted to post some of what I know.

There are many places you can earn cash online. 

The best places to look for reputable income sources are:

wahm dot com forum

workplacelikehome dot com forum

reddit/beermoney

Additionally, there are a lot of blogs that post work at home jobs each day/week.  This one is good for that:  www.workersonboard.com/Weekly_Jobs.php

Google page rating jobs are through Appen, Lionbridge, Zero Chaos and iSoftStone and pay about $13 per hour.  You work at home rating web search results and have to work 20 hours each week, whenever you want to login and work. This job requires a BA/BS degree and the ability to think like Google does. 

Apple hires customer service people to work at home and even send you a Mac to do the work on. I hear they pay $15 per hour.

There are a million and one phone customer service jobs listed on the forums above.  All you need is a PC and a phone line.  Most pay $10 an hour or more.

Amazon's Mechanical Turk is a great option.  mturk dot com is the site.  The things you can do at first are pretty low pay and sucky, but once you get over 500 HITS more and more things open up.  I have over 19K hits and can easily earn $6+ an hour there when work is available. Money can go to Amazon as a gift card or transfer in cash to your bank.

I have also worked with a site called Clickworker for many years.  I claimed over $3K in income from them last year.  Their site is clickworker.com/en.  They work with Microsoft on what they call UHRS.  UHRS tasks are a lot like mTurk but clickworker pays much better.  When there is work available I easily make $10+ per hour there.

This is a listing of all of the "crowdsource" sites where you can sign-up and work: www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/list-of-the-best-crowdsourcing-websites-and-pay-per-task-sites?utm_expid=16418821-2.PAaBT_MORcmI67lBYq2pgw.0

There are virtual assistant jobs for companies like Fancy Hands.  I hated working for them, but some people like it.  The boss is a complete asshole....

Additionally, if you can write with correct grammar and use spell check, you can write for many of the content mills. The easiest being Textbroker. Higher pay is available through Writer's Domain but they are not hiring writers now.  Content Divas pays well as does Demand Stuidios. 

If you want to write articles and sell them on your own, Constant Content allows you to do this.  I can sell articles there for $60 or so a pop. 

Anyway, that's what I know/suggest for anyone stuck at home wanting some extra cash or a full-blown income.  I have/do live on the above so it can be done. 

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Ok, Archie should be showing up any second now to comment on this....

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Apr 28, 2014 15:16:51 GMT -5 minnesotapaintlady said:

Ok, Archie should be showing up any second now to comment on this....

Find an online message board filled with rubes focused on money issues.   Cry a them a river with a queen for a day story.   Set up an account on beglist.org and wait for the money to pour in.





Or did you expect me to talk about sticking cukes up your daisy dukes? 

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Apr 28, 2014 15:21:02 GMT -5 ArchietheDragon said:

Apr 28, 2014 15:16:51 GMT -5 minnesotapaintlady said:

Ok, Archie should be showing up any second now to comment on this....

Find an online message board filled with rubes focused on money issues.   Cry a them a river with a queen for a day story.   Set up an account on beglist.org and wait for the money to pour in.





Or did you expect me to talk about sticking cukes up your daisy dukes? 

Can you translate? 

Millions of people legitimately work at home.  Every single day.  It is fabulous for people who have a disability or even live a long way from town/jobs.

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Apr 28, 2014 15:22:53 GMT -5 @atsahsreborn said:

Apr 28, 2014 15:21:02 GMT -5 ArchietheDragon said:

Find an online message board filled with rubes focused on money issues.   Cry a them a river with a queen for a day story.   Set up an account on beglist.org and wait for the money to pour in.





Or did you expect me to talk about sticking cukes up your daisy dukes? 

Can you translate? 

Millions of people legitimately work at home.  Every single day.  It is fabulous for people who have a disability or even live a long way from town/jobs.

I was adding a couple of items to your list. 

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Apr 28, 2014 15:21:02 GMT -5 ArchietheDragon said:

Apr 28, 2014 15:16:51 GMT -5 minnesotapaintlady said:

Ok, Archie should be showing up any second now to comment on this....

Find an online message board filled with rubes focused on money issues.   Cry a them a river with a queen for a day story.   Set up an account on beglist.org and wait for the money to pour in.





Or did you expect me to talk about sticking cukes up your daisy dukes? 

 I was definitely expecting something web cam related.

[mollyanna58]

Thanks for the information. 

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Apr 28, 2014 15:21:02 GMT -5 ArchietheDragon said:

Apr 28, 2014 15:16:51 GMT -5 minnesotapaintlady said:

Ok, Archie should be showing up any second now to comment on this....

Find an online message board filled with rubes focused on money issues.   Cry a them a river with a queen for a day story.   Set up an account on beglist.org and wait for the money to pour in.





Or did you expect me to talk about sticking cukes up your daisy dukes? 

Are you insinuating I did this?  If you are, you are out of line.

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Apr 28, 2014 15:42:52 GMT -5 @atsahsreborn said:

Apr 28, 2014 15:21:02 GMT -5 ArchietheDragon said:

Find an online message board filled with rubes focused on money issues.   Cry a them a river with a queen for a day story.   Set up an account on beglist.org and wait for the money to pour in.





Or did you expect me to talk about sticking cukes up your daisy dukes? 

Are you insinuating I did this?  If you are, you are out of line.

I am just adding stuff to your list.   I didn't know it only had to be stuff you did. 

[Artemis Windsong]

Thank you.  This looks like the money fairy landed.

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@atsahsreborn, when you started your last thread about working from home, I copied the information from you and another poster and gave it to 2 people I thought might find it useful. I don't know if they even checked into any of it, I just wanted to say thank you for sharing the information. I don't think I said anything in your last thread.

[Deleted]

Happy to share.  If you all want I would be happy to update with other stuff as it comes along.

I love working from home.  I don't always like the variable/inconsistent income, but it feeds us and sometimes the work is really enjoyable.

[msventoux]

I wanted to thank you for your posts also.  After your last post I started using the Mechanical Turk website.  I had read about it a few other places but never tried it.  I'm not looking for another job, but I already buy an insane amount of stuff from Amazon so figured I'd give it a shot.  I've been lucky enough to work on some surveys that pay $2-$5 each and require minimal effort, so I've made enough in the last month to buy a few books and other treats. 

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Do you know about the forum?  If you go to mturkforum dot com you will find all of the scrips you can use to make mturk more friendly to deal with. Also, they have an ongoing 24/7/365 thread that talks about the good hits.

Sometimes if I can't find any work elsewhere, I go to turk and then follow that thread for a while. There is a lot of stupid crap there between teenage boys... but you will average more income if you use their thread for HIT suggestions.

Also, if there isn't much to do on Turk start taking all the qualifications. Most of them don't require you to do anything and over time you will find some better hits based upon those qualifications.

To get enough hits to pass the 500 and 1000 threshold you can do things like Crowdsource or Zing. Many of the highest paying batches also show up M-F during the day.

[resolution]

I have dabbled in mTurk and one thing I did to protect my computer from all the random sites is to run it in a sandbox. I used the Sandboxie application.

[Angel!]

Apr 28, 2014 22:57:35 GMT -5 @atsahsreborn said:

Do you know about the forum?  If you go to mturkforum dot com you will find all of the scrips you can use to make mturk more friendly to deal with. Also, they have an ongoing 24/7/365 thread that talks about the good hits.

I started mturk about 3 months ago & the forum is awesome in getting advice & finding good hits.  I know there are some people that make well over a thousand a month on there.  I have only been making ~$100/month, but for the most part I only do the hits that I enjoy & usually while sitting in front of the TV on the Ipad.  The hourly rate on some are low, but who else is going to pay me to rate how funny I think things are?  I would read funny stuff & watch funny videos for free.

Shasta, do you have a masters?  How long have you been at it to get 19K hits?

[tloonya]

Apr 28, 2014 22:40:03 GMT -5 @atsahsreborn said:

Happy to share.  If you all want I would be happy to update with other stuff as it comes along.

I love working from home.  I don't always like the variable/inconsistent income, but it feeds us and sometimes the work is really enjoyable.

Ok. Wait a minute here.
I had actually checked one of the sites you had recommended last time WAH.com I think it was.
Please, tell me how many hours does regular citizen must spend online to find ONE legitimate paying job?
I think it is Mission Impossible task and you are hearing from one who went trough 40+ interviews in 10 month to find my first
real job so I am aware of the saying that 'finding a job is 8 hours per day work'...
So please, guide me if you can. As of now it (those sites) seems like plate of noodles for people to go and play with.

[tloonya]

mturk just told me

Bandwidth Limit Exceeded...
e server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.

so they can't accommodate enough people?

[tloonya]

Apr 29, 2014 6:41:37 GMT -5 resolution said:

I have dabbled in mTurk and one thing I did to protect my computer from all the random sites is to run it in a sandbox. I used the Sandboxie application.

What does that mean? What is the isolated application? It is a whole new world!!!

[Angel!]

Apr 29, 2014 10:42:59 GMT -5 tloonya said:

mturk just told me

Bandwidth Limit Exceeded...
e server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.

so they can't accommodate enough people?

mturk.com is working just fine right now.  It is run by amazon, so I am sure they don't have bandwidth problems.  Are you sure you typed the right site?

[Angel!]

You went to the mturkforum.com site...it is down right now.  It goes down a lot for some reason.

And I used to think working online wasn't possible either, but mturk is legit & some people make big bucks on it.  Those people usually treat it like a full time job, whereas I only go on a few days a week & often for only an hour or two.  But, even with that I have transferred $200 to my amazon account so far & have something like another $60 that I haven't transferred yet.  You can send it to a checking account also, but I spend enough on amazon that it works for me to just send it there.

[teen persuasion]

So how do taxes work on this type of income?

[resolution]

Apr 29, 2014 10:45:13 GMT -5 tloonya said:

Apr 29, 2014 6:41:37 GMT -5 resolution said:

I have dabbled in mTurk and one thing I did to protect my computer from all the random sites is to run it in a sandbox. I used the Sandboxie application.

What does that mean? What is the isolated application? It is a whole new world!!!

It is just me being paranoid about all the strange sites and links you click in mturk.

If you run a sandbox program and then open mturk in the sandbox, then all the sites you visit are boxed into a small part of your computer. Anything in the box gets erased when you close the box, so if you accidentally hit a bad site, all the bad things are erased with the box and don't touch the rest of your computer.

[Rocky Mtn Saver]

Apr 29, 2014 10:39:16 GMT -5 tloonya said:

So please, guide me if you can. As of now it (those sites) seems like plate of noodles for people to go and play with.

There's noodles?  Awesome! 

[tloonya]

Apr 29, 2014 10:47:28 GMT -5 Angel! said:

Apr 29, 2014 10:42:59 GMT -5 tloonya said:

mturk just told me

Bandwidth Limit Exceeded...
e server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.

so they can't accommodate enough people?

mturk.com is working just fine right now.  It is run by amazon, so I am sure they don't have bandwidth problems.  Are you sure you typed the right site?

Thanks, yours is working.

[tloonya]

Apr 29, 2014 11:03:37 GMT -5 resolution said:

Apr 29, 2014 10:45:13 GMT -5 tloonya said:

What does that mean? What is the isolated application? It is a whole new world!!!

It is just me being paranoid about all the strange sites and links you click in mturk.

If you run a sandbox program and then open mturk in the sandbox, then all the sites you visit are boxed into a small part of your computer. Anything in the box gets erased when you close the box, so if you accidentally hit a bad site, all the bad things are erased with the box and don't touch the rest of your computer.

Thanks, I would install it as well...but
what does it mean you have to prepay for HITs?

[tloonya]

Please, tell me it is legit and worth it


Requester: VidAngel

HIT Expiration Date: May 7, 2014 (7 days 20 hours)
Time Allotted: 24 hours

Reward: $30.85
HITs Available: 1



Description: You are going to be tagging negative content in "Die Hard 2: Die Harder" by muting and skipping the content with our tagging tool. YOU MUST COMPLETE THE HIT IN 24 HRS! Any Turker can tag VidAngel YouTube videos after completing the training. To be able to tag Movies and TV Shows, first complete 3-5 YouTube HITs and then request the "Premium VidTagger" qualification. Search "vidangel youtube" to find these YouTube HITs.
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Sounds unreal to me. Do I have to get qualified for each hit?

[tloonya]

Apr 29, 2014 11:16:16 GMT -5 Rocky Mtn Saver said:

Apr 29, 2014 10:39:16 GMT -5 tloonya said:

So please, guide me if you can. As of now it (those sites) seems like plate of noodles for people to go and play with.

There's noodles?  Awesome! 

Yes, Rocky. With meatballs. Grab a fork.

[Angel!]

Apr 29, 2014 11:01:13 GMT -5 teen persuasion said:

So how do taxes work on this type of income?

From what I understand - any given requester has to report your income to the IRS if you exceed $600/year.  Unless you earn A LOT, then this is unlikely because generally you work for dozens & dozens of different requesters.

Also, Amazon has to report your income if you have exceeded $20K & 200 transactions.  Also unlikely unless you work at this close to full-time.

So it is unlikely you will have anything reported to the IRS.  However, in general it is all income & should be reported as self-employed income.

[Angel!]

Apr 29, 2014 11:27:29 GMT -5 tloonya said:

Please, tell me it is legit and worth it


Requester: VidAngel

HIT Expiration Date: May 7, 2014 (7 days 20 hours)
Time Allotted: 24 hours

Reward: $30.85
HITs Available: 1



Description: You are going to be tagging negative content in "Die Hard 2: Die Harder" by muting and skipping the content with our tagging tool. YOU MUST COMPLETE THE HIT IN 24 HRS! Any Turker can tag VidAngel YouTube videos after completing the training. To be able to tag Movies and TV Shows, first complete 3-5 YouTube HITs and then request the "Premium VidTagger" qualification. Search "vidangel youtube" to find these YouTube HITs.
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Sounds unreal to me. Do I have to get qualified for each hit?

If I was on my personal computer, then I could look up VidAngel & tell you how they are rated by workers, but I can't do that right now.

I wouldn't touch this one though.  Too much work & too much risk.  If you do it wrong, they don't have to pay you & you could easily waste 6 hours of work trying to figure out what you are doing & do the hit.