Getting paid online?

[anthonyS13]

I'm currently a college student looking for a job. The problem is that I live far from any place where I can get a good job that pays well enough for me to get by. I live around rural Arizona, so there's nothing but sand and rattlesnakes!

Anyway, I've been looking for online jobs and learned about surveys where people get paid. I know a majority of them are scams and were created by money-hungry scum-of-the-earth, but some actually pay a few bucks. Does anyone know of any good survey sites that aren't ripoffs?

 

[kamya]

Go to
http://www.mturk.com and make an account. When searching for hits just search for the term "survey". There are new surveys posted there all of the time. Get the turkopticon plugin for your browser though so you can make sure the requester is legit before wasting your time.

If you want other easy daily hits visit http://hitsworthturkingfor.blogspot.com/. This is an easy way to get started making money on mturk.

Once you get into it, go to the http://turkernation.com/ forums to improve your skills. Eventually surveys will become your backup for when there aren't better paying hits to do. Most people make their big money on there doing writing, but you can make some with transcription too. I find there's less competition for transcribing because no one wants to do it.

You can get your mturk earnings directly deposited into your bank account whenever you want after you've completed at least 100 hits. (Sorry for anyone outside the USA reading this but only United States citizens get paid in cash with mturk. The rest of the world can only get paid via amazon gift cards)

http://opinionoutpost.com/ is about the only other legit survey site that will actually payout with cash.

Mturk, and other GPT sites are my only income sources atm. I mostly do transcribing but sometimes I write. I make enough that if I had to support myself I could. Right now though I'm just saving it all up.

 

[anthonyS13]

Go to
http://www.mturk.com and make an account. When searching for hits just search for the term "survey". There are new surveys posted there all of the time. Get the turkopticon plugin for your browser though so you can make sure the requester is legit before wasting your time.

If you want other easy daily hits visit http://hitsworthturkingfor.blogspot.com/. This is an easy way to get started making money on mturk.

Once you get into it, go to the http://turkernation.com/ forums to improve your skills. Eventually surveys will become your backup for when there aren't better paying hits to do. Most people make they big money on there doing writing, but you can make some with transcription too. I find there's less competition for transcribing because no one wants to do it.

You can get your mturk earnings directly deposited into your bank account whenever you want after you've completed at leas 100 hits. (Sorry for anyone outside the USA reading this but only United States citizens get paid in cash with mturk. The rest of the world can only get payed via amazon gift cards)

http://opinionoutpost.com/ is about the only other legit survey site that will actually payout with cash.

Mturk, and other GPT sites are my only income sources atm. I mostly do transcribing but sometimes I write. I make enough that if I had to support myself I could. Right now though I'm just saving it all up.

Wow thanks for all the info!

 

[kamya]

No problem dood. Starting out if you just do the hits worth turking for, and maybe an hours worth of surveys you should be able to easily make $15 a day. Turns into about $450 a month which is possibly enough for rent. It's not bad starting out until you get your approval rating up and you can start doing other HITs. After that it's all about how much time you are willing to put into it.

If you calculate the hourly wage it really sucks unless you are big on the writing HITs, but it's nice that you have as many hours as you want, and you can set your own schedule.

 

[nerdygirl]

Wow, seriously? I thought all of them were fake.

 

[Callie]

There are a lot of customer service jobs that are people working from home. Some of them are scams, but there are a lot of legit ones out there as well. You just have to know what to look for. If it says you're going to make thousands each day/week/month, chances are, it's a scam. Also, never PAY THEM to get started, that's another indicator of a scam. Check out http://ratracerebellion.com/ They have a lot of good possibilities for people. Just make sure you use common sense if and when you contact anyone.

 

[keam28]

Hey, I have never done the survey thing. I heard that they take for every and you barely get paid a dime. I tried the creating website thing and putting adsense up on them as well but that isn't promising since google can drop your rankings whenever they want if the SEO isn't what they like. However there are many ways that you can make money online. If you are interested in making some money then you should check out this video >>> [*removed* <<< and watch that video. I think that you will be surprised at how possible it is to make money. The video will explain everything, and it might be something that you are looking for, especially if you are trying to make some money.

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[nerdygirl]

Well, I've earned 42 cents today. It isn't much, but I didn't try for very long, and that's 42 cents I didn't have earlier! *chuckle*

 

[kamya]

It can be fun. It's nice to do in your free time while chatting or watching TV.

 

[LeaningIntoTheMuse]

I've heard things about making money by selling stuff on eBay.

Not sure how to go about doing that, but some people make a living off of it.

 

[anthonyS13]

Hey, I have never done the survey thing. I heard that they take for every and you barely get paid a dime.

Actually, opinionoutpost.com is pretty good. You get paid $.50 to a few bucks depending on how long the survey is.

 

[LeaningIntoTheMuse]

Hey, I have never done the survey thing. I heard that they take for every and you barely get paid a dime.

Actually, opinionoutpost.com is pretty good. You get paid $.50 to a few bucks depending on how long the survey is.

Really?

Might be something I should try? I am in need of extra cash.

 

[gvsridhar171]

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[anthonyS13]

So far, it's been very difficult to earn money doing surveys on Opinion Outpost and a lot of other survey sites. It's very easy for the survey to stop, saying it's "not for me". It's hard finding surveys that relate to me.

What can I do to earn money a little easier?

 

[kamya]

Have you tried mturk yet?

 

[Felix]

I tried this site http://www.clixsense.com/

My first experience w/ this kind of thing, it was kind of misleading. They say they pay you $0.01 per ad you click but they only give you one of those in a day the rest are just crappy $0.001 ads...

They have tasks which pay a bit more but it doesn't seem like enough money to bother...

I'll take a look at that mturk thing kamya

 

[anthonyS13]

Have you tried mturk yet?

I'm not sure exactly what you have to do.

 

[kamya]

You make an account and sign in. Then click on the hits tab. In the containing field type in "surveys". Click the box that says "for which you are qualified" and then hit go. That will bring up all of the hits with the name survey in the title.

You can set the minimum value if you want. I usually set the minimum value at .30 and then sort by "reward amount, least first". That way the hits make me more money as I go along.

Right now there are 164 surveys that pay at least .30 (that I'm qualified for) 104 of those pay at least .50, and 53 that pay .75, and 43 pay at least $1. Just make sure you get the turkopticon plugin so you can make sure you are taking surveys from requesters with a good reputation.

 

[Felix]

I tried it! (mturk)

It's quite confusing... I guess it takes some practice and also time to start making a decent amout of money. It might be worth a try. I'll keep trying. Surprisingly I find some of the activities to be slightly amusing... tough I can't addapt to the system yet...