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via: Lifehacker
Many “online jobs” promising quick riches and little effort are really scams. While the tasks below won’t make you rich, they can earn you a little pocket money on the side—and these days that can make a big difference.
Most of these online money making opportunities only require you have a computer, a decent internet connection, and some sort of marketable skill (or the ability to provide valuable consumer insight to marketers). You’ll be operating as a free agent and can choose when, where, and how much to participate.
Sound too good to be true? It’s not, because as mentioned earlier, you won’t likely be able to quit your day job with any of these programs, which typically pay way less than regular part-time gigs. But if you’re a student, insomniac, or just someone who wants an occasional cash boost without the commitment required by a typical job, these are some of the best tasks you can do online in your spare time.
Also beware: because specialized skills aren’t always required, you do have to be wary of scams. Before you sign up to become a virtual focus group participant, paid survey taker, mystery shopper or any online worker, keep in mind this important rule of thumb: you should never have to pay to work. Also, read the fine print.
That out of the way, here are a few sources of legitimate online single-task jobs:
Research Study/Survey Participant: Harvard Business School Computer Lab for Experimental Research (CLER): Participate in research studies at Harvard Business School and you can earn $15 to $40 or more per on-site study (in Cambridge, MA) or do one of their occasional online studies, which typically take less than 15 minutes to complete and usually compensate you with a $5 electronic gift certificate. The studies ask you about decisions you would make in various business-related disciplines, such as economics and psychology. Additional options: Lightspeed Consumer Panel, Pinecone Research, SurveySpot.
Focus Group Participant: 20|20 Panel: Since 1986, 20|20 Research has been providing companies with qualitative research from focus groups. Recent calls for focus group participants include: an online study of cell phones usage that pays $60 (adults 18-44) and an online study of household products purchases that pays $150 (adults 25-65). Additional options: Focus Forward, Hagen Sinclair, AlphaBuzz.
Artificial Artificial Intelligence: Amazon Mechanical Turk: Yeah, that’s a weird title. As a Mechanical Turk Worker (or MTurk), you complete odd jobs like looking up companies’ hours of operation, checking translations, coming up with ideas for marketing projects, and so on. The pay can be extremely low — a couple of cents even — but the tasks can usually be done quickly and some tasks pay more. Additional option: ShortTask.
User Tester: UserTesting.com: Get $10 for visiting a website and providing live, honest feedback about it. Your reactions as you traipse the site are recorded by UserTesting’s software. Additional option: uTest.
Tech Support Expert: FixYa.com: Put your knowledge to good use at FixYa and earn $2 to $6 for answering a posted question, $6 to $10 for helping someone in chat, $10-$15 if you do it by phone, or a variable amount for written tips and how-to’s. Additional options: Support Space, JustAnswer.
Blogger: Commission Junction: If you maintain a blog already, you can monetize it by inserting advertising links or affiliate links from Commission Junction, LinkShare, Chitika, Dev Hub,Smorty, and, of course, Google AdSense. There’s no set amount you can make (and no guarantee you’ll make anything at all), but if you write often and get a decent following, you can generate some nice supplemental income.
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I have fun with, lead to I found just what I was looking for. You have ended my four day lengthy hunt! God Bless you man. Have a nice day. Bye
1plz check it
2Thanks for sharing this. I think I will enjoy fixya.com because I have a lot to share and to learn and at the same time, I can earn while doing this.
3A money-making site that I really enjoy is mylot.com. It’s just pay to post and you can post about pretty much anything.
4I never comment on any webpage. But you sir, just made my day. Thank you so much!!!!
5Good article! People ask me all the time about the best way to make money online and I tell them – “if you dont have a business then why not try affiliate marketing?”
The below article explains how it works
http://www.ebusinessmatters.com/earn-money-with-affiliate-marketing/
6Looking forward to sites that accept international members. Maybe you’ve got some ideas about that?
7Yea, blogging can be especially lucrative if you have bit of social media savvy about you.
8I found a good site called Cash Crate You can make money for doing surveys and referrals! The site pays a small amount for each survey you do and pays you a small portion of what your referrals earn!!
This is by no means a way to make tons of cash but it is a great way to earn supplemental income!
Come check it out to see if it is right for you and use my referral!!!
http://www.cashcrate.com
The best way to find out how to make the most money is to check out the Forums on the website, Tons of helpful people post on here to help you!
One suggestion I have, is it is a definite must to create or have a Junk e-mail account so you don’t flood your real emails with crap.
9same as here freind who said about mylot i also happy with mylot . com
same here other
10talk.learnwebpage.com
are there any such opportunities available in INDIA?
11making money on the internet is hard in the beginning, but after some time it is damn easy!
12Are these oppprtunities just for U.S. Residents?
13Great article!!
I do agree there a lot of scams out there, that promise the sky and deliver dirt.
I am not familiar with doing survey’s, but I do know about CJ and affiliate marketing other products for a specific niche that pays well
Anything is possible, if you are willing to do what it takes to make it happen.
There is really big money in making your own products
Thanks for your contribution,
14Jeff Faldalen
Thank you for this information , I am certainly going to give this a try
15nowdays, there’s lot of scam around the internet about making money in online… it adds, less time needed to get more money through online…. web users should need an awareness before signing up in any online business activities…. nice article and well needed one at this time…
16Isn’t this just a copy/paste job from a lifehacker article?
17yes. yes it is. they didnt even change anything. just a fat repost.
18Setting up a WordPress site with affiliate programs and Adsense is one of the easiest ways I know to make passive income.
I wrote a guide for folks wanting to know how to do this quick and easily.
Building A WordPress Website
19wow. this is a repost from lifehacker. i love how the internet is not a huge gelatinous blob of plagiarism nowadays.
20Some great suggestions here, I think it’s really good you make the point that these are not ‘get rich quick’ schemes.
One more way you should add to the list is ‘Using Facebook, twitter and any other social media platform’ I generate income by using a link shortening tool that earns you money everytime it’s clicked. For example if I see a new episode of a show I like, I shorten the link and share it, then I earn up to $4 per 1,000 visitors.
It takes a while to create a following but once you’ve got it, every click you get can earn you money. Here’s my invite code, I think it only allows ten people to sign up before it expires: http://adf.ly/?id=29788
21Lifehacker? I’m not familiar with this. Explanation? Thanks.
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