I am seriously thinking of becoming a ChaCha guide, but some questions first...

Aw, I'm glad that you found my topic, crazynurse! ^_^ It seems like I could make a lot more with Chacha than I do here, and I really need the money. I would still stick around Mylot - I love it here - but ChaCha is the first online opportunity I've heard of where I might be able to make enough to actually relax a bit, even though the whole idea of live training and helping live people with searches is pretty daunting to someone as shy as I am *laugh* I'm really not afraid to download the toolbar. Hearing that ChaCha has been around since last October gives me some reassurance. I would love to see some proof of payment, though, from someone, and I really would like to know what the payout level is. I don't know if I want to join if they have a really high payout requirement, as that always makes me feel leery. For the poster above you, I have given my SS# out to online companies before. i wouldn't worry about it too much. With the rates Chacha is paying, I think that they are expecting most of their guides to make over $600 in a year, and they _have_ to have your SS# and send you a tax form if you make that much. So I'm sure that's why they want/need it.

From what I've heard, if you're doing a ChaCha search for someone and get stumped, you can pass the search onto another guide. I was accepted as a guide, but had to turn it down because I use a Mac (it's PC-only for now).

yeah thats correct, in the monthly payment option they direct deposit into your bank account.

Thanks a lot for rating my responses as plus

You've been incredibly helpful. Thank you so very much! I am giving you plusses for your wonderful answers. I wish that I could do more. You have definitely given me some useful information about the payment options! ^_^

I think the payout level is $20 and they pay with paypal. It took a while for me to get the hang of it and it does get frustrating at times because you have to wait for someone to accept your answer, but it sounds like it is easier to start getting paid than at cha cha.

I have heard that just answers is good but i tried it and i haven't gotten anything.. and i have answered questions.. Am i doing something wrong.. But thats great that you have been paid from them.

Rachel, thanks for the link. I have also been considering ChaCha, but something doesn't feel quite right about it. I am going to look at justanswer a little bit more.

It was actually wmg's discussion that got me thinking really seriously about becoming a guide *laugh* I had heard mentions of ChaCha on here before, but not one that had really explained what ChaCha was, so I kept not really paying attention. Then that topic caught my eye and I had been reading it closely, but I still had questions, so I posted my topic hoping for a quicker answer than I figured one person could give me. Thanks for giving me the link to her discussion, though! I needed to look it over some more! ^_^ I have never filled out a W2 form.. this is all new to me. I've never had what one would consider a 'real' job. I'm definitely feeling pretty shy about the whole thing, but this sounds like such a great opportunity for someone like me who is too shy to apply for a job in person but can see maybe being able to help people online. I love searching on the internet, already, and have done some pretty deep searches for things that were eluding me in the past, going around to all sorts of engines to gather results, so I really think that i could do this. I realize that it wouldn't be exactly like that, but still.. i feel that this is work I could actually do, and be earning possibly more than ever before online.

LOL, I was typing my above comment when you left your second one. Thanks for doing that! I was about to do the same thing, but felt a little shy of doing so. Thanks! ^_^

I sent wmg2006 a comment on her discussion and ask her if she could come to this discussion and answer questions. Hope she gets the comment.

That makes sense, ohioblondie. I knew that it was for tax purposes, and i personally have no problems with giving them my social security number. I can understand why other people feel wary about giving out their SSN, but i have heard about ChaCha for awhile now and it looks like they've been around for months, and there hasn't been anything bad filed about them at the BBB (according to a friend) so I trust them enough to give them my SSN without worrying. ^_^

Ok thats fine. No problem to me. All the best then.

Thanks! I really appreciate you posting your email for me to get ahold of you, but I already promised someone else on this site that I would hopefully get an invite from them when they start having invitations available. If they do not get any invites to give out soon, I will get back to you. Thanks again. ^_^

Talisman, you gave me some amazing answers, thanks! I agree that I need to figure out where the training manual and videos are, but I haven't run across them yet. Do you have the link for those things? It would help me out a lot if you or someone could help guide me towards those resources *laugh* Thanks again! ^_^

Prenuer, I have no idea what a 'tin' is. I would just give them my social security number. I'm really not that worried about doing so. I am much more nervous about the idea of giving them my bank account info in case I decide to go that route to get paid, since I am not keen on the debit card idea. Almost all the money I have in the world is in my bank account, as little as it is, so I don't much like the idea of anyone having access to it, not that I think that ChaCha would do anything illegal. I just get nervous about the thought. Anyway, it's good to hear that they are making the training process simpler! Thanks for your valuable info! ^_^

I looked into Justanswer a bit, and it seemed tougher to get started with than ChaCha. I really wanted to do it, but I didn't like the $20 payout too much. I really appreciated the person who gave me the link, though. I'm always looking for better ways to earn. I don't really feel anything 'off' about the ChaCha site, but the whole thing is a bit odd. But the thing is, they've been around for months now, since like Oct of last year, and someone told me that there are no complaints about them at the Better Business Bureau website.. surely if they were not paying or people were frustrated with them, there would be at least one complaint? I think that I trust the whole idea, but I wish that they would pay via Paypal. If they did, I'd be rushing to try to go ahead and join as soon as possible. I guess that I would have to go for the $100 payout deal to my bank account, because I have wary feelings about debit cards in general, and I don't like the idea of having to make $100 and then possibly not getting paid. But if you can really make up to $5-10 in an hour, I guess that it wouldn't take that long to make the payout for the month. I really would like to give it a try. I just feel shy. But I am still thinking it over. I definitely don't want to completely leave Mylot, lol! I love it here, and one could easily reach payout at Mylot by just posting about 20 times per day... so I am sure that I will stick around, no matter what happens with other money making opps! I would miss my friends here too much! ^_^

Thanks, Mari! I'm glad that my discussion was able to help you out, as well. You might want to look around the Mylot site for other discussions about ChaCha - there is one posted by another user who I can't remember the full username here, but it had a lot of great stories and info in it, as well. Anyway, this does seem like a great opportunity, and I hope that you enjoy being a ChaCha guide if you decide to become one! ^_^

ChaCha is a program where you can search through a guide to find things on the internet. YOu give them a prompt and they do the searching for you, providing you with what you're looking for. You can make up to about $5. in an hour, and it completely depends on you how often you work, and how often you get paid. You have to be at least 18 and US resident.