Can We All Share Income Streams Now?

[mtshastawriter]

Now that we have all escaped the MSN TOS... Can we have a thread about how people earn side income, links for referrals, etc...?

I'll start....

I work on a website called LiveWork answering questions for $0.31 per 150 character answer.

I work for a company writing GSA Applications. (This is my main gig and the one that pays the best. Wish I could find more tech writing opportunities...)

And, I work at writing hubs for hubpages.com earning income via amazon and google ads.

What do you all do to earn some side income? Any good suggestions on places to work?

[Deleted]

I do surveys (make about $30 per month), have done amazon mturk, I do kgb text service, which isn't really worth the money about $2 an hour but I still keep doing it about 8 hours a month

Its all small potatoes but its another $50 a month or so.

[mtshastawriter]

Saver, you might want to check out LiveWork. It is owned by the LiveOps people. The project I work on is called "Compose answers to questions" and it pays $0.31 per 150 character answer. (That's about a sentance and a half.) It is way less work than Ch@Ch@ or KGB for about three times the pay. I have no association with Livework other than having worked for them and earned over $1400 last year.

I forgot, I also get a $3-4 check from what is now the Yahoo Contributor Network, which used to be Associated Content. Here's my link if anyone wants to see what I have there...
contributor.yahoo.com/user/29353/donna_hentsch.html

I haven't posted really anything new to the AC site in years, but every month like clockwork another $3 or $4 shows up in my PayPal account. (That's actually what's spurring me on to make a lot of Hubs. I know the passive income is very possible.)

I'd love to look at Windy's site - if you are around - hint hint

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Dec 27, 2010 16:44:51 GMT -5 @mtshastawriter said:

Saver, you might want to check out LiveWork. It is owned by the LiveOps people. The project I work on is called "Compose answers to questions" and it pays $0.31 per 150 character answer. (That's about a sentance and a half.) It is way less work than Ch@Ch@ or KGB for about three times the pay. I have no association with Livework other than having worked for them and earned over $1400 last year.

I forgot, I also get a $3-4 check from what is now the Yahoo Contributor Network, which used to be Associated Content. Here's my link if anyone wants to see what I have there...
contributor.yahoo.com/user/29353/donna_hentsch.html

I haven't posted really anything new to the AC site in years, but every month like clockwork another $3 or $4 shows up in my PayPal account. (That's actually what's spurring me on to make a lot of Hubs. I know the passive income is very possible.)

I'd love to look at Windy's site - if you are around - hint hint

Thanks for the idea, but actually right now I have a love/hate relationship with doing these online jobs for money lol...I go through spurts where I feel ambitious and others where I don't and right now not feeling it.

[NancysSummerSip]

I do a lot of freelance writing...several columns of my own for Examiner.com. I also write for AOL, Suite 101, Kitchen Daily and several others. Not bad money. I got started seriously in March of this year and made close to $1,000.

[TD2K]

I'm surprised WCP isn't using this site to solicit people for his real estate group.

[blackcard]

Does DH income count as #2?

[skweet]

I invest in real estate, and small business. This side job, over the last 10 years, became 80% of my total income, however, in the current economy, I am glad to have my 9-5. I am interested about the survey incomes. Do you just take the surveys / answer the questions and get paid? OR Do you answer questions about certain topics in which you are expert, as consulting?

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Dec 27, 2010 18:47:48 GMT -5 skweet said:

I invest in real estate, and small business. This side job, over the last 10 years, became 80% of my total income, however, in the current economy, I am glad to have my 9-5. I am interested about the survey incomes. Do you just take the surveys / answer the questions and get paid? OR Do you answer questions about certain topics in which you are expert, as consulting?

The surveys I take are all about different consumer products from banks to chewing gum....again they are not going to make anyone rich...the most I've ever been paid was $100 for a 90 minute focus group. Alot of the sites pay in 'points' and it takes tons of points to rack up enough to actually get some money out of it. Average pay I would say is somewhere around $1 per survey, with each one taking 20 minutes or so.

Pinecone is the best that I know of, they do pay $3 for 20 min surveys, so in a good week if you do 2 surveys you can make $6 out of pinecone.

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

A few year's back I was looking under every rock for investors-- and I was spending (wasting) a lot of time letting amateur-hour idiots with a life savings of $10,000 qualify me.

I've wised up. I cashed out of expensive, highly leveraged, low cash flow property and gotten into the very low end, very high ROI SFHs and I now have all the investors I need-- and they do not get to qualify me. It's investors that have to fill out an application to invest with me, and the first box they have to check is "Accredited Investor" followed by a POF from their bank.

Our other business is a very high end residential and commercial short sale service. I have people lined up to do that now down in FL. We're opening an office of a company already doing business in the midwest-- just replicating the system like franchise. I do nothing, but I take a cut for running the office-- and I charged enough to pay a an office manager's salary so step one will be to get one trained-- then it's on to the next project.

I never really did successfully do anything worthwhile online. My websites are still up and running, I tweak them from time to time-- but it's more time consuming than I like. They bring in between $500 and $3,000 a month if we don't touch them, and I'd rather have $500 a month on auto-pilot than $10,000 a month I have to work for. When I didn't have any money, I would have done it full time no sweat. Now I'm frankly a little lazy.

Then there's my true love-- my mistress of the business and professional world-- small business marketing consulting. I charge a LOT of money up front, then I take a cut on the back end from sales. If clients really want to spend money-- I'm about $2,000 a page for long-copy direct-response sales letter copywriting (plus commissions). I just completed a project for a cleaning service: $8,000 up front, and I get $10 per client every month for as long as they remain clients. It's a risky proposition, I know-- that's why I charge UP FRONT money. So far, in the month of December, the week prior to Christmas I got her 80 new clients-- she didn't have that many total when we started. She told me December revenue is up almost $11K (that's revenue, not profit, there's the ad cost, plus labor, supplies, etc)-- but still, that's in addition to her existing client base.

I'm working on the copy for her website right now-- another probably $10K.

All that means to me is at least two more houses-- and that means another $900 - $1,200 a month in pure free cash flow to the property business.

So, yes- once upon a time I would have tried to recruit some poor slob to invest with me, and I would have put up with their abuse, and been at their beck and call. Now, if you want to invest with me-- well, you can't. So, it doesn't matter.

I'm going boat shopping.

[stats45]

I edit research papers, dissertations, screenplays, etc. I charge $20 - $30 a page, but it depends a bit on the amount of work needed.

It would probably be difficult to start doing something like this unless you spent some time in university networks where you know people who need these services. I do know one person, however, who makes a good living just doing this through people she finds emailing graduate student lists from different programs across the country.

[mtshastawriter]

I agree Stats45 that the hardest part is finding clients. The writing is the easy part.

I have some long-form copy out there that I ghost wrote that is converting nicely. I just don't know where to find new, paying, clients for copy writing type work.

[stats45]

I always have more work than I want because it isn't a full-time job for me. Along with the boards, it is a great distraction from dissertation work. I take a few projects a month and that is usually good for about $1k or so.

I would say that 75% of the work I've done has been for foreign students. Though many of them know some English before they come to the states (and some have studied all their lives), they still don't produce work that is similar to that of a native English speaker. There are huge numbers of these students in graduate school.

I would also add that I have ethical standards about these things that some other people don't have. I won't edit an absolutely awful paper into an excellent thesis. I've rejected quite a bit of work for that reason.