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Have you ever earned money online?

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Have you ever earned money online? If so, which money-making sites have you had luck with?

I've heard good things about Helium and Squidoo which are sites where you write articles for a profit, but writing obviously isn't for everyone. I doubt I'd be able to write so many articles as I'm sure I'd run out of ideas rather quickly. I guess that if I were to run out of ideas I could start researching things to write about, but I can't see myself enjoying this very much. Who knows . . .

Can anyone list sites they've successfully earned money from? Even if I was able to earn an extra $100 a month from doing a little bit of "work" online everyday, that would be quite adequate. It would allow me to buy extra books and other things that would bring me at least a bit of happiness.
 
I haven't used it in a while, but Amazon has this thing called Mechanical Turk, where you can do a multitude of paid tasks (article writing, very basic clicking, filling out questionnaires, commenting, translating,...). Now don't expect to become filthy rich from it, and I think the money you earn can only be spent at Amazon anyway, but since your main goal is more books, this might not be that much of an issue.
 
I used to do a little work on Mechanical Turk, and I don't really recommend it. For a very brief moment (I think it might have been around the time when Mturk was first introduced), they had some tasks that weren't too hard to do that paid pretty decently (I think I ended up making about $14), but they dried up pretty quick. I don't know if it's any different now, but the last time I used it, the pay for most of the tasks was a joke (just a penny for a lot of the tasks), and I ended up not even getting paid for several of the tasks that I did because they got rejected for reasons I couldn't figure out (according to some people, there's really not much to stop people who post jobs on Mturk to just not pay you if they don't feel like it). It was about that point that I decided that working on Mturk wasn't a very good use of my time.

If that's not enough reason to avoid Mturk, I think that a lot of the jobs that people post there (about 40% according to some people) involve posting spam on social media sites.

http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2010/12/mechanical-turk-now-with-4092-spam.html

I generally do like Amazon, but it seems rather strange to me that they would keep Mturk going since it seems rather ethically dubious in lots of ways.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_Turk#Criticism

Because HITs are typically simple, repetitive tasks and users are paid often only a few cents to complete them, some have criticized Mechanical Turk as a "virtual sweatshop". Because workers are paid as contractors rather than employees, requesters do not have to file forms for, nor to pay, payroll taxes, and they avoid laws regarding minimum wage, overtime, and workers compensation. Workers, though, must report their income as self-employment income. In addition, some requesters have taken advantage of workers by having them do the tasks, then rejecting their submission in order to avoid paying. However, at least some workers on Mechanical Turk are people who are middle class and do the work for fun.

Amazon.com does not monitor the service and refers all complaints to the poster of the HIT.
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Ow, well, maybe that's why I stopped using it. :) I don't know any others though, wish I did.
 
I used some dutch sites, where you got some emails and had to read them, click some... but that didn't really make that much progress. Getting about 1 cent an email and the need to have atleast 10 bucks on your account to get paid was really a drag. There were extra offers if you got a mail and bought through them as a referrer. My mom did that a lot, so she got more credits that way. But since I rarely buy at mailorder and even less at those advertised, it didn't really get me far. Though, I did it for a few years (and that was when the mails still got you 2 to 5 cents each) and made about 50 bucks of it over 2 years or so. Hardly worth the hassle... I guess. I found it more annoying to click all mails each day cause they had an expiration date. But yeah, it's dutch and you have need to have a dutch bankaccount.

There once was this site through which you had to visit 50 websites a day... and they paid you a dollar or so. Cut-off was 15 dollars, but that was easy made. After about a month, they paid 10 cents for 50 sites or so.. and after a while it was offline. Guess it didn't pay of for them... did for me though. They paid through paypal. Didn't remember what the site was though... as it was more than 5 years ago
 
Many, many years ago I earned a little bit of money from an ad-clicking venture. Basically, you clicked on banner ads. I can't remember what it was called. I think I once had a cheque mailed to me [an actual cheque heh, this is how long ago it was] to the sounds of $30.

I used to be a web designer and content writer, does that count? I had my own little hobby business.
 
I've been having luck with Canadian survey sites. $30-$50 a month is easily attainable . . . which isn't that bad. $50 can buy you lots of used books (which is probably what I'll be spending most of my survey money on). I did a five-minute survey the other day that paid $3 which may seem feeble, but that's the equivalent of $36/hour which isn't bad for clicking for five minutes. There are some survey sites that pay better than the ones I'm using, but I only use sites that pay you through PayPal since I, for various reasons, hate checks and I don't want to bother with Amazon gift cards.

I'm looking at various other ways of making money online. I know that there are ways of making "automatic" money through affiliates which involves you making lots of web-pages that attract traffic. I've come across people online who pretty much don't have to do anything anymore and still receive $2000+ a month just from all the clicks on the ads that they have on their webpages. Doing this usually means that you have to resort to spam tactics, but not always.
 
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kasmanaft08 said:
Find Freelancers - 90,679 Freelance Jobs on PeoplePerHour.com
Elance | Outsource to freelance professionals, experts, and consultants - Get work done on Elance

^ two links if you're good with computers, good at editing, know a foreign language etc.
I haven't done any of those myself, though, but maybe it's worth looking at.
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I tried Elance once before (someone at a local employment office recommended it to me), but I could never find out how to get any of the jobs on there since there was so much competition for them (it seemed like you were really at a disadvantage if you were new on the site and didn't really have a "portfolio" of work yet). I just generally felt kind of lost on that site. Maybe I need to give it another chance sometime.

I'm having a look at the other site right now, maybe it'll be a little better. I'd love to be able to earn a living by doing lots of little jobs on a site like this since I don't most conventional jobs are much of an option for me.
 
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IContainMultitudes said:
I tried Elance once before (someone at a local employment office recommended it to me), but I could never find out how to get any of the jobs on there since there was so much competition for them (it seemed like you were really at a disadvantage if you were new on the site and didn't really have a "portfolio" of work yet). I just generally felt kind of lost on that site. Maybe I need to give it another chance sometime.

I'm having a look at the other site right now, maybe it'll be a little better. I'd love to be able to earn a living by doing lots of little jobs on a site like this since I don't most conventional jobs are much of an option for me.
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A brief glance left me a bit intimidated for the same reason, particularly since all the 'examples' had impressive looking degrees and experience. But it also seems a bit unreasonable for that to be all of them, or even the norm. So I've bookmarked it and will probably give it a shot sometime later and see if anything comes up. Some extra side work/spending money would be nice...
 
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