Making SOME money.

What's good? Making money, again.

What's bad? Not much about this site.

What's the difference? Steady income, just not huge amounts.

So, as promised, here is one of the sites I use the most to keep the money flowing into my account. Well….okay…..trickling into my account. You certainly won't get rich off of this, but you can keep a steady ten or twenty dollars hitting your account every day or two.

Amazon Mechanical Turk (or Mturk)

What's good?

Most everything about this site. For me, it's especially great if we notice we're going to run out of something before next pay and don't have any money left. It's pretty easy to build up ten or twenty dollars if you keep at it.

-You pick and choose which “Hits” you work on.

Hit stands for human intelligence task, meaning they can't get a computer to do it, so they pay us small amounts to do it for them.

-Even in the beginning you qualify for a LOT of hits.

-The larger your approved hit count is, the more hits you qualify for, which are also usually the higher dollar hits. (I spent a couple of nights doing hundreds of the 1, 2, and 3 cent hits just to get my count up there so I could qualify for the higher paying hits. I didn't get paid much for them, but they were very fast and easy to do.)

-Many of the requesters pay bonuses for high quality work.

I get so excited when I see those emails saying I've received a bonus for 9 cents or 17 cents. I know….whoopie? But when you get 50 such emails all in a row, that adds up.

-After your first time, they transfer the funds FAST.

At midnight last night I reached a balance of $20, at 3 am I received an email saying my transfer was complete. It's not in my bank yet, but that's because of my bank. When they do their download Monday morning, it'll be there.

-You can transfer ANY amount you want, no limits and no penalties.

Have $2.16 in your balance? You can transfer $2.16…..and I have.

-You choose the level of difficulty you feel like.

I'll normally go for the more challenging or creative hits, because they pay more and are more fun. Yet, when I'm on that first cup of coffee, my brain doesn't work. So I'll search out the easy hits. True, they may only pay 3 to 5 cents per hit, but most of them are beyond simple.

**Example – Data Entry, you are entering the date of birth from the image of a form, it only shows you the date of birth part of the image, so no searching. But they only want you to enter the month. So, you type two numbers, hit tab, type two numbers, hit tab, etc., til all 20 items are entered in that hit. It literally takes a minute to do and requires no thought process at all. (My favorite kind.)

-Many of the hits are just fun.

I've placed stop sign and traffic light icons on maps, I've written reviews for companies I've never heard of, I've described pictures for blind people, I've listened to songs and typed up the lyrics, I've played word search games, answered math questions (made a $25 bonus on that one for getting all 50 questions right), I've looked at photos and clicked on each one of whatever item they said. And so on.

What's bad?

--And this is a big one…..only TWO methods of payment.

You can choose either an Amazon gift card or direct deposit to your bank account. Now, I won't normally have anything to do with any site that wants access to my bank account. But I've been an Amazon customer for years and years, they've always had access to my debit cards, and I've never had a problem with them.

I am NOT in any way recommending that you do this, it needs to be your choice. But I chose the direct deposit to my account because I personally trust Amazon. And so far I have had no reason at all for concern.

-You cannot make your initial withdrawal of funds until you have at least 10 days worth of approved hits.

I don't believe they need to be 10 days in a row, but you have to have worked for them for 10 days before they pay you. And the first transfer took about five days to complete. But each one after that has been within a matter of hours.

-Waiting for the hits to be approved.

I get impatient and want my money!! Some people approve the hits right away, sometimes as soon as I submit them. Others take a week or so and that can be frustrating when you know you have $20 just hanging out there.

-If you have an issue with one of the requesters, Amazon will not back you.

But they pretty much say that right up front in their guidelines. I had one that did not pay after three weeks and ignored my messages to them. Amazon basically said they could do nothing for me. So I was out that $1.25.

However, to date I've completed 1253 hits and that was the only one that gave me any problems.

WARNING: Do not think this is something that you can just click your way through and not pay attention to what you're doing. The requesters review everything that is submitted and will reject bad work or wrong answers. The higher your rejection rate, the fewer hits you'll qualify for until you're finally just booted out the door. You will have to actually earn the little they pay you.

However, if I do a hit and find it's just too much work for that small amount of cash, I'll either return the hit (this does not look bad for you) or just never do one like it again.

Hope this helps someone. And I'll keep posting other methods to make some money while lounging on the couch in your jammies.

As always, take your time leaving but hurry on back. :)