Monday, January 02, 2006
Ways to make money on the internet: Mturk.com
Before you start dreaming about all the things you can do once you have mastered all aspects of personal finance, you first need to get some actual cash in hand. I will provide you frequently with new ways you can make some money online in order to allow you to earn some additional income, or perhaps even allow you to work less at a traditional job. One newer program that started is Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Located at www.mturk.com , the website offers you the ability to complete simple tasks that pay a dollar amount for each successfully completed task.
The idea behind this website is that there are some tasks that just cannot be done efficiently by computers. These include tasks like determining which photograph best shows a certain building or who is the artist of a certain CD. These tasks can be completed quite easily by a person, so companies are paying users to complete these simple tasks. Most tasks pay quite low ($0.01-0.04 per successfully completed task), however there are some tasks that require more work and pay upwards of $1.00.
This is a program you can trust, as it is run by Amazon. Once you complete one of these tasks (called HITs), they are sent to be approved. HITs are approved by either a human or computer, and this is done to ensure that quality work is being submitted. By reading the instructions carefully and not rushing too fast, you can usually have an approval ratio of well over 80-90% (meaning about 8 or 9 out of every 10 hits you send in are approved). Once your HITs are approved, you receive payment. This payment can either be send directly to your bank account or be redeemed for Amazon.com gift certificates. I recently redeemed a $35 gift certificate, and was able to purchase 3 DVD’s from amazon.com. As a Canadian I was still able to use the gift certificate at amazon.com, but I was limited to purchasing CD’s, DVD’s and books.
Currently it appears that there is a lack of HITs available, but I still encourage you all to try out www.mturk.com and see if you can earn some extra cash. By using certain scripts that work with the Firefox web browser, many people have been able to earn well over $10 per hour.
Please feel free to ask any questions about this program. There is no benefit to me if you sign up, but I do encourage you to test it out as there is no loss for spending a bit of time on it.
The idea behind this website is that there are some tasks that just cannot be done efficiently by computers. These include tasks like determining which photograph best shows a certain building or who is the artist of a certain CD. These tasks can be completed quite easily by a person, so companies are paying users to complete these simple tasks. Most tasks pay quite low ($0.01-0.04 per successfully completed task), however there are some tasks that require more work and pay upwards of $1.00.
This is a program you can trust, as it is run by Amazon. Once you complete one of these tasks (called HITs), they are sent to be approved. HITs are approved by either a human or computer, and this is done to ensure that quality work is being submitted. By reading the instructions carefully and not rushing too fast, you can usually have an approval ratio of well over 80-90% (meaning about 8 or 9 out of every 10 hits you send in are approved). Once your HITs are approved, you receive payment. This payment can either be send directly to your bank account or be redeemed for Amazon.com gift certificates. I recently redeemed a $35 gift certificate, and was able to purchase 3 DVD’s from amazon.com. As a Canadian I was still able to use the gift certificate at amazon.com, but I was limited to purchasing CD’s, DVD’s and books.
Currently it appears that there is a lack of HITs available, but I still encourage you all to try out www.mturk.com and see if you can earn some extra cash. By using certain scripts that work with the Firefox web browser, many people have been able to earn well over $10 per hour.
Please feel free to ask any questions about this program. There is no benefit to me if you sign up, but I do encourage you to test it out as there is no loss for spending a bit of time on it.
# posted by mikeyarmo @ 10:03 AM 
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Can you still do this if you live in Europe? And have the money be transfered to your banmk account?
# posted by 
: 2:34 PM
: 2:34 PM
You can work towards a gift certificate from amazon.com for sure. The only problem is you will need to pay for shipping and handling (which will likely be a large portion of whatever you can earn for the gift certificate. If you are able to transfer the money to a bank account, it would have be U.S. funds only.
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