Post by Mahnarch on May 1, 2011 22:39:15 GMT -5
I've hit a milestone a few days ago. I have officially earned $400 on the internet for doing absolutely nothing but clicking my mouse in my free time (and some writing at times when it's deemed worthy).
In case you missed it, I posted about a work online opportunity last August called Amazon Mechanical Turk.
Working on Amazon's Mechanical Turk [or, Mturk, for short] can range anywhere from verifying a URL for various websites to categorizing merchandise to translating from broken spanglish to English to writing a 200-350 word article - all at different pay rates based on the work involved.
I'll work through a pictorial of how a simple HIT (Human Intelligence Task) is done.
The sign up page is: www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
Click on the "Make Money" Side.
Put in your pertinent information during sign up and you will come to a page that looks like this:
Except your page won't have any dates and/or totals because you haven't done anything yet.
Click on HITS:
And you'll see a page that looks like this:
You can filter your HITs available by searching for specific terms or dollar amounts by filling in the bars like this:
You will click on "for which you are qualified" and click "Go" until you get the hang of it.
Some HITs require you to take a small 'test' before you can do the work just so they can be sure that you know what you are doing.
Now, I will show you an example of what I'm doing at the moment:
I'm going to choose nothing in particular to search for. With a minimum of $0.05, for which you are qualified" and click 'GO'.
I see 'Verify The Correct Category for 5 Car & Garage Products'.
Click on "View a HIT in this group":
If you like what you see you can click "Accept HIT" in order to do the job. (once in a while, if you wait too long, a flag will come up saying that the HIT isn't available to you. It just means that someone else took that HIT. Just click 'Accept HIT' again.)
Well, I see that's a Tonneau Cover so I scroll down:
NO, it is NOT a 'Sporty Pedal' (They will sometimes make a guess as to what it is, whereas you'd click 'Yes' but, 99% of the time, you have to click 'No' and categorize it, yourself).
From experience I know that this is an Exterior Car Accessory so I will click through to there. (Your first few HITs will be slow, until you get the hang of it.)
Git'r'done and click "Submit" at the end.
Get Paid.
Ignore the Timer in the upper left corner since I'm CTRL+Prt Scr(ing), copying into Paint, uploading into Photobucket and posting onto this forum.
The average time for a HIT that you're blowing through is from 1-2 minutes but, it all depends on work required. The more the pay the more the time required - which is subjective, you have to be careful that a certain requester isn't low-balling you.
With the diversity of HITs available this truly is an example of:
1. Click HIT
2. ?
3. Profit
If you want to see your progress you just "Right Click" on 'Your Account'.
And it takes you back to here.
You can click on the day(s) to see the status of payment [some HITs take several days to pay], and you can click on "Account Settings" to see the money that you have RIGHT NOW:
From there you can set up Amazon Turk to link to your bank account to send the money there or, you can shop online on Amazon.com and use that money to buy stuff.
It's all pretty much self explanatory from there, really.
I've made over $400 in a year by working in my free time, after work and on weekends - mostly during commercials.
I've done some HITs that equated to $10/hr if you can do them fast enough and consistently enough (which isn't hard once you get to know what you're doing).
In the past year I've bought:
A side bag for my mother's wheel chair.
An all weather rug for inside my doggy door.
A plant.
Two different USB cables to two different Cell phone cables.
A USB powered lamp for my keyboard.
3 water spray bottles.
Tubes for rolling my own cigarettes (yeah, you can get those on Amazon)
A bathroom scale
Plus some other things I've probably forgotten about - all for "free" on Amazon.
I've also put the rest of the cash (minus the $30.65 in this example) in my bank account [which transfers in about 3-5 business days].
The $30.65 (plus about $2.50 that hasn't been paid, yet) is what I've earned since 4/23/2011, but, I've been going Gung-Ho in the last few days - since I found a gravy job that was paying 20 cents per HIT a few days ago [finding information about certain people (emails and job titles and such)].
In case you missed it, I posted about a work online opportunity last August called Amazon Mechanical Turk.
Working on Amazon's Mechanical Turk [or, Mturk, for short] can range anywhere from verifying a URL for various websites to categorizing merchandise to translating from broken spanglish to English to writing a 200-350 word article - all at different pay rates based on the work involved.
I'll work through a pictorial of how a simple HIT (Human Intelligence Task) is done.
The sign up page is: www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
Click on the "Make Money" Side.
Put in your pertinent information during sign up and you will come to a page that looks like this:
Except your page won't have any dates and/or totals because you haven't done anything yet.
Click on HITS:
And you'll see a page that looks like this:
You can filter your HITs available by searching for specific terms or dollar amounts by filling in the bars like this:
You will click on "for which you are qualified" and click "Go" until you get the hang of it.
Some HITs require you to take a small 'test' before you can do the work just so they can be sure that you know what you are doing.
Now, I will show you an example of what I'm doing at the moment:
I'm going to choose nothing in particular to search for. With a minimum of $0.05, for which you are qualified" and click 'GO'.
I see 'Verify The Correct Category for 5 Car & Garage Products'.
Click on "View a HIT in this group":
If you like what you see you can click "Accept HIT" in order to do the job. (once in a while, if you wait too long, a flag will come up saying that the HIT isn't available to you. It just means that someone else took that HIT. Just click 'Accept HIT' again.)
Well, I see that's a Tonneau Cover so I scroll down:
NO, it is NOT a 'Sporty Pedal' (They will sometimes make a guess as to what it is, whereas you'd click 'Yes' but, 99% of the time, you have to click 'No' and categorize it, yourself).
From experience I know that this is an Exterior Car Accessory so I will click through to there. (Your first few HITs will be slow, until you get the hang of it.)
Git'r'done and click "Submit" at the end.
Get Paid.
Ignore the Timer in the upper left corner since I'm CTRL+Prt Scr(ing), copying into Paint, uploading into Photobucket and posting onto this forum.
The average time for a HIT that you're blowing through is from 1-2 minutes but, it all depends on work required. The more the pay the more the time required - which is subjective, you have to be careful that a certain requester isn't low-balling you.
With the diversity of HITs available this truly is an example of:
1. Click HIT
2. ?
3. Profit
If you want to see your progress you just "Right Click" on 'Your Account'.
And it takes you back to here.
You can click on the day(s) to see the status of payment [some HITs take several days to pay], and you can click on "Account Settings" to see the money that you have RIGHT NOW:
From there you can set up Amazon Turk to link to your bank account to send the money there or, you can shop online on Amazon.com and use that money to buy stuff.
It's all pretty much self explanatory from there, really.
I've made over $400 in a year by working in my free time, after work and on weekends - mostly during commercials.
I've done some HITs that equated to $10/hr if you can do them fast enough and consistently enough (which isn't hard once you get to know what you're doing).
In the past year I've bought:
A side bag for my mother's wheel chair.
An all weather rug for inside my doggy door.
A plant.
Two different USB cables to two different Cell phone cables.
A USB powered lamp for my keyboard.
3 water spray bottles.
Tubes for rolling my own cigarettes (yeah, you can get those on Amazon)
A bathroom scale
Plus some other things I've probably forgotten about - all for "free" on Amazon.
I've also put the rest of the cash (minus the $30.65 in this example) in my bank account [which transfers in about 3-5 business days].
The $30.65 (plus about $2.50 that hasn't been paid, yet) is what I've earned since 4/23/2011, but, I've been going Gung-Ho in the last few days - since I found a gravy job that was paying 20 cents per HIT a few days ago [finding information about certain people (emails and job titles and such)].
