If you’ve searched for work from home jobs online, it’s likely that you’ve heard of – or even tried – Amazon Mechanical Turk. This website is all about microtasks, or jobs that are usually pay little money, but are short and quick to complete. The idea is that, if you are able to complete several microtasks, or “turks”, within an hour, you can make a decent hourly wage. It all depends on what’s available at the time and what type of tasks you’re skilled at completing. Most people don’t earn a full-time wage from Amazon Mechanical Turk, also known as Mturk. … [Read more...]
36 Best Ways to Earn Cash Online with Super Quick Tasks
A little extra money can go a long way. How great would it be if you can earn some spare cash in addition to your regular job – and you don’t need a second job to do it? Short task websites are perfect for people who want a way to earn some extra income without needing another job. Think about it: you can have extra cash to put toward debt, spend on entertainment for the month, or even to stash away into retirement savings. This post is going to be all about short task websites, how they can make you some extra money, and what ones are the best to … [Read more...]
The 18 Best Micro Jobs Online List: Work from Home Today!
You have a full-time job, but still need to earn some extra cash on the side. You’re not alone! With today’s iffy economy, it seems that almost everyone is in the same boat. Fortunately, the internet is ripe with ways to earn some money that won’t interfere with your day job. Instead, you can have a flexible way to earn money in your spare time by completing micro tasks online. If you want to complete small jobs for extra money, you’ve come to the right place! Micro tasks can help you do just that, and you can do them whenever you have a free … [Read more...]
What Are the Best Amazon Mturk HITS for Cash? Find Out in This Guide
Amazon Mechanical Turk, also known as Amazon Mturk specializes in microtasking. As the word suggests, a microtask is a small, quick task that should only take a few seconds to minutes to complete, but will also pay a small amount. The idea behind Mturk is for people to earn some extra cash as flexibly as possible. You can sign in any time you’re available for work, choose the tasks you want to complete, and start doing them. Businesses and individuals set up jobs through Amazon Mechanical Turk when they need to take a load off their shoulders by outsourcing … [Read more...]
Make Money Delivering Healthy, Organic Meals at Sprig
Would you like a flexible job which does not involve sitting at a computer all day? Do you have reliable transportation and an overall good driving record? Are you friendly and have been told you have an outgoing personality? Well, then you might want to consider becoming a server at Sprig. What is Sprig? Sprig is a food hub, which makes quick and delicious meals, for delivery. While there are many other careers available at Sprig—many of them culinary in nature—the server position will be the one covered in this article. As a server, your job would be … [Read more...]
Review of Ticket Puller
Are you someone who enjoys working competitively and quickly? Are you a fast typist? Do you need a fun, little "side egg" to go with your main gigs? Then Ticket Puller may just be what you need. What Exactly is Ticket Puller? Ticket Puller is a site where you sign up to literally become a ticket puller or someone who helps customers quickly find the tickets for the event that they want to attend. You will be working for a client who has the tickets or the event that people are calling in to get. You help customers find the tickets quickly before the event … [Read more...]
Earn an Extra $240 a Month Captioning Videos for Rev
Rev is a freelance closed captioning business that pays remote workers to write captions for videos. No experience is necessary, and those that work for them say the videos are usually interesting, sometimes educational, and can even be fun. How Much Does Rev Pay? The pay is not huge, but it isn’t bad either considering there is no previous experience required. Generally projects pay between $.50 to $.75 per video minute. If you know anything about transcription you know that an audio minute is different than and actual minute, and the same is true of a … [Read more...]
Our Ten Favorite Extra Cash Online Gigs
Making extra cash online is so easy to do nowadays. There are many ways to earn here and there, the best thing to do, however, is to find things that you enjoy or are easy for you to keep up with. Once you find the right extra cash gigs, then you start earning money easily- after time that money can really add up and help pay for special events or possibly get you out of a short financial bind. I've chatted with the other writers here at WAHAdventures and we have compiled a list of our top places to earn extra cash online or with our smartphones. 1. … [Read more...]
An Honest Review of ReviewStream.com
Have you ever hoped you could get paid for doing something simple? Review Stream may be a hidden gem that neither you nor I knew much about previously. However, with a little research I’ve been able to learn a little more information about ReviewStream.com. I will be the first to admit that this website does seem rather confusing and it does take a little clicking around to understand what’s going on. Here’s what I’ve gathered: Basic Concept of ReviewStream.com As you probably guessed, Review Stream is a website that pays you to write reviews. They don’t … [Read more...]
A Second Look at Thumbtack
One of my post popular posts was a review of the networking site, Thumbtack, which published on September 10, 2012. The post received over 60 comments, and still continues to receive them to this day. At the time, opinions varied on whether Thumbtack was a legitimate service or not. Personally, I have never doubted that Thumbtack is a legitimate site and service. I chose to close my account, because the site was not as user friendly as I thought it could be, and the leads were expensive. Sometimes the leads were as much as $8 each, which was non-refundable, … [Read more...]
iPoll: Surveys and Tasks
When I registered for iPoll, I thought it was a new-to-me survey site, I was surprised to find out I was already registered. Turns out it used to be called Survey Head. They changed the name to iPoll and dropped the Survey Head brand when they launched their mobile app. What is iPoll? iPoll is a survey site that also has a mobile app. You can do surveys online, or through the mobile app, and my experience was that there were different surveys offered depending on whether you were online or on the app. What Makes it Different? Survey sites are old news, so I will … [Read more...]
Five Things I Hate About Elance
Elance was one of the first places I turned to when I started working from home as a freelancer. I landed a few gigs and even had a few long-term clients for about a year. However, just because something is good, doesn’t mean it will last forever. Elance has some great things going for it, but here are 5 things I cannot stand about Elance. #1. Waiting for money I’m not going to lie. I did a few social media updates and a blog post for a client and I’m still waiting on that money. This can be so very frustrating because I worked for that money and I want it now. … [Read more...]
Review of GetACoder
Are you a freelance writer who is always struggling to find work? Do you have a limited marketing budget to advertise your services? Have you exhausted the content mills? Well, then GetACoder might be the freelance place for you. What Exactly is GetACoder? GetACoder is a freelance writing site where freelancers go to bid on jobs. GetACoder likes to call itself a "global services marketing place" and has providers in 234 countries to back up that claim. GetACoder also prides itself on being a site that breaks down the barriers between buyers (clients) … [Read more...]
Earn Using Bing Rewards
There are a lot of legitimate ways to make some extra cash while being online. The Bing Rewards program is certainly one we should all consider for those extra few bucks, that combined can truly add up. If you are a registered Bing Rewards member then you can earn points for searching the web. About the Bing Rewards Program Use Bing to do your daily searching online so you can rack up points as a Bing Rewards member. The points can later be redeemed for rewards like Applebees Gift Cards, Amazon.com shopping, donating to a charity- among many other … [Read more...]
PeoplePerHour for All Types of Freelancers
What is PeoplePerHour? PeoplePerHour is similar in its core to sites like Odesk or Fiverr where you list your services and/or bid on tasks posted by freelance seekers. As a freelancer you can quickly set up a profile page to display your skills and services along with your hourly rate. Small Businesses turn to PeoplePerHour and post jobs they need completed, usually jobs that can be done remotely. Freelancers can then Bid on the Jobs posted. Doesn't "Bidding Site" Mean Low Wage Work? Usually that generalization would be correct. However, PeoplePerHour show … [Read more...]
Hundy Review- What Would You do for $100?
Hundy is an online market place where you are able to sell your products or services at prices starting at $5 but most of the jobs posted are $100. Examples given on the Hundy website include: “I will professionally design your business/event advertising flyer, night club poster or web banner for $100.00.” – Under the advertising category. “I will give a link on a PR10 site for $100.00.” –Under the business category. “I will cast an extremely powerful Mayan Spell to get you whatever you want for $100.00.” –Under the fun and bizarre category. “I will send you 4 … [Read more...]
We Go Look- Extra Money to Go Look!
Wegolook.com provides a service to those needing to look at things that they cannot physically get to by completing Onsite Inspections. Examples given on the We Go Look website include: • Out of state rental property • Vacation homes that may have suffered storm damage • The graves of loved ones • Expensive items for sale of Craigslist or EBay We go look hires "lookers" to perform these tasks for clients that request them. Clients can request that lookers look at anything they may need checked out. Clients and lookers never have contact with each … [Read more...]
Virtual Assisting with Ziptask
I was recently introduced to a company called Ziptask. The more I learned about the company, the more I was reminded of FancyHands, another virtual assisting company. Ziptask relieves the burden of busy people by allowing them to post tasks that can be done remotely and then returned. They have a great explanation of who they are in this video: Work from Home for Ziptask? Ziptask offer remote based work that allows you to use your computer skills to become a virtual assistant. Whether you are skilled in Microsoft Office or Photoshop, they may have a … [Read more...]
A Very Honest and Balanced Review of CloudCrowd
For the past few weeks, I have been using an application called CloudCrowd which uses Facebook as its interface. Its objective is to take work that companies give them and break it down into smaller bits of projects which are then sent to the crowd with specific instructions for completion. It is the very essence of crowd sourcing. As I have been using it in a fairly limited capacity – I have found my niche in website categorization – I am going to give a quick overview of what I like and what I haven’t liked so far about this particular company. Items that … [Read more...]
6 Ways to Make Extra Money Between Calls
Working a phone job is often one of the most lucrative home based job fields. Pay is almost always fair and the hours often stable. However, depending on the company you work for, time of day or the number of other phone agents working- you could end up with a lot of down time waiting for your next call to come through. There are plenty of ways to fill that time and give you the highest earnings possible for your hours worked! Here are six online money making ideas and things I did when I worked as a virtual call agent: Data Entry with … [Read more...]
John Gaddy Hits on Amazon’s Mturk
Amazon has a section they call Mechanical Turk, mturk for short, which allows small businesses and individuals to post task based work (called hits) they need completed on a project basis. Then, workers (who often refer to themselves as Turkers) can complete the work at the rate set by the project poster. Amazon is the middle man, hosting the site, ensuring payments are made and helps diffuse any conflicts. Last week RealWaystoEarnMoneyOnline.com revealed some of the best mTurk Hits worth your time. I treid a few myself and I became a huge fan of the John Gaddy mturk … [Read more...]
Working Online for Short Task Site Clickworker
Written By: Erica Martin Several reviews have been done on companies that pay you to do various tasks, from surveys to general transcription and even writing articles. I previously did a review of Mturk, and Miranda did a review of Minute Workers. I've also been doing some work on another short task site, Clickworker. What is Clickworker? Clickworker is a site that pays you to do various short tasks. Tasks I've done on Clickworker include surveys, short writing assignments and judging different websites and descriptions of different applications. … [Read more...]
Minute Workers- Task Based Work
There are many many sites online where you can complete simple tasks for a set rate. Erica recently reviewed mTurk and there are also companies like Shorttask and cloudcrowd. While these sites are pretty much known for cheap labor, many people have been fortunate to find recurring and well-paying work and some have even landed long-term gigs. While the pay is usually low and you have to sift through the work, I would never just write-off working for a task based site. When I first read a little about Minute Workers I wondered if there was anything different from all … [Read more...]
Fancy Hands- Virtual Assisting
While doing my daily run-through and checking online for home based job leads for the new job board located at WAHJobLeads.com, I ran across a highly intriguing company. Fancy Hands has recently advertised on Craigslist that they are hiring Virtual Assistants to complete tasks for their hundreds of clients. The types of tasks they listed included calling and canceling a client's cable service, setting up doctor appointments and other general errands that many people would rather pay someone else to do! What is FancyHands.com? Fancy Hands is new to me and so I … [Read more...]
Real Ways to Earn Money Online: How to Make Money Online Today
"Guest Post by Miranda Grimm of WAH Adventures: It sucks being broke. There is just something about having absolutely no money that makes..." When money is tight and you need some extra cash in a hurry, check out my suggested, quick paying, work-at-home companies. These sites are the best places to turn to make money online- today. Learn more by reading my guest blog post at Real Ways to Earn Money Online. … [Read more...]
Clickworker – The Company to WATCH
clickworker.com provides digital tasks to registered Internet workers – we call them Clickworkers. -clickworker.comClickworker is still in the beginning stages of work in the US. Clickworker has been active in Europe since 2005. Currently there is little work here in the states, but I feel they may be a company to keep an eye on. From my experience, I make the most money with a company in their earliest stages, before the influx of workers come rushing in grabbing jobs and lowering the rate of work. (Yes, I know I am only adding the influx...)OVERVIEWClickworker is one … [Read more...]