making money online - ptcs, short taks, website reviews, software testing, etc
@roadwarrior62 (26)
United States
January 4, 2011 7:45am CST
Okay, here is the next round of my ongoing effort to make extra money online.
I joined several ptcs and have discovered one simple fact: these sites are a great way to spend time for very little monetary gain. Assuming the site is legit and not a scam, if you diligently visit the site and click every day, you can earn a few cents a day. Most of the ptcs have timers on their offers, so you must spend a minimum amount of time on the page in order to earn the money. This means that you cannot rush the process - if you work it out, you are earning a few cents per hour. I have no referrals and do not intend to buy or rent any, so the actual clicking is the only way I make money on these sites. In the approximately 10 days that I have been a member of these sites, the most that I have earned is about 48 cents. Not a great monetary return for my time, but it is easy to do.
I also joined several short task sites such as microworker, minuteworkers, clickiq, clicknwork, clickworkers, ework, rapidworkers, shorttask, and myshorttask.
I was already a member of mturk, and I have been doing tasks daily on most of the sites. I believe this is a slightly better use of my time since the tasks pay between 5 and 50 cents. I find I can do several tasks in an hour, so my hourly rate of pay works out to maybe $1 per hour. While this is not great money in my opinion, at least ti's better than a few pennies. In my experience, mturk is the best of these sites - I have made several dollars in the last week or so.
I also joined a few website review sites such awsurveys, userfocus.co.uk, etc. Unfortunately, the one site that appeared to be very well paying requires a microphone, which I don't currently have. That site is usertesting.com. I have not been paid by any of these sites, but I just started with them about a week ago. I'm not sure that awsurveys is legit - their minimum payout is $75 and that seems a bit high. So far, I have earned $28 with them - I hope they pay off. These sites are a good use of my time - I can earn about $4 in about 20 minutes. If you work that out, it comes to over $10 per hour! Of course, you don't get to do 3 website reviews in an hour, because they don't usually offer more than 1 or 2 at any one time. Still, this seems to be promising - it will be interesting to see if they really pay off.
I also joined a few software testing sites, such as testarmy. I haven't used it yet, so I have no information on it. In the future, I intend to try it out and see what I can earn. One little problem I have with it is that I will have to download and install software on my computer. I'm a little worried that I will screw up my computer with this software, but maybe it will be okay. As I said, I haven't tried it yet.
And of course, there are always the paid survey sites, of which I am a member of several. The main ones ones I'm doing are surveyspot, surveysavvy, and epoll. The problem I find with these sites is that they offer very few surveys that I qualify for. I have done some surveys and been paid for them, but they are few and far between. The paid survey sites are a good source of occasional money, but not rergular income for me.
I hope this information is useful to the mylot community. Please tell me your experiences and comment on this information. If you have any sites that you have made real money from, I'd like to hear about them. If you know of any sites which are definitely scams, Id like to know that so I can not waste my time with them.
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@flydream123 (9)
• China
5 Jan 11
Hello,as my point of view,i hope you find a stable job.The network is not fit for everyone to make money,and i guess your family will object to you use web for a living.perhaps use your ability to find a job in computer company is easy to do.
I hope my recommdation will make value to you.