Get paid to click

Friday, February 15, 2008

If you are going to be sitting in front of the computer anyway, surfing the 'net, you may as well get paid a bit, right?

I've signed up for a couple of paid to read (PTR) and paid to click (PTC) sites. The money is not huge -- in fact, it's very tiny -- but, it's a chance to take time that would be spent earning nothing and make it into earning just a little something.

My favorite PTC right now is Clix4Coins. They usually have four or five links each day, and usually pay about two cents a click (although, I have seen one cent or three cents). They also have registration ads, where you are paid nine cents for a free registration. This is less than you'd get on a site like cashcrate, but, it pays instantly when you confirm by giving them a code word from your confirmation email.

They even pay a $3 bonus for signing up.

FInally put something up on Associated Content!

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Go check it out, one of my money-saving articles is on AC!

I wish I'd thought of this before... I offered them one of my older articles that I'd never published anywhere under a non-exclusive contract. This means that it can be published elsewhere. I was offered $5.71!

Not a kings ransom, but, not bad at all for something I can also put on my blog and offer through Constant Content.

Anyway, give it a read and tell me what you think!

Labels: Associated Content, food, saving money

I gots ~SKILLZ~

Thursday, February 22, 2007

Okay, the tone of the headline is ironic, but the message is not.

You will greatly enhance your options for picking up some sideshow cash by oomphing up your skills. The more you know how to do, and the better you can do it, the more opportunities you can take advantage of. A few of my recommendations:

Learn MS Office programs. You can pull in some nice casual paychecks by picking up the odd temp job. However, if you want to do anything more than file for $6/hr, you will need to know how to use Word, Excel, and proabbly also Access. My first temp job ever was filling in for a receptionist who was out of town. I really had no responsibilities outside of distributing mail twice a day and answering the phone. So, during my downtime, I played with the tutorials that came with all those programs. When the gig was done, I went back to my agency and asked to retest on all of those applications. My pay on my next job through them jumped by $2/hr. That's a hell of a raise.

There are some downloadable tutorials here that look pretty similar to what I used back when I was learning those applications.

Learn basic html. Even if your ambitions do not include designing webpages, a simple knowledge of html is helpful in, say, adding a referral link to a message. Once you are comfortable, you can use what you know to build simple websites for referral programs, or add links to a blog.

I especially like the tutorials at w3Schools.

Learn how to write. There's a pretty insiduous attitude out there that writing is a talent, not a skill. You can either do it or you can't. I think that's, frankly, crap. Sure, some people have more of a natural aptitude than others. However, anyone can learn proper grammar, and those who wish to study a bit can learn how to improve their written communication.

Any semi-decent writer (and even some who are frankly atrocious) can pick up small bits of extra money writing content for a few different brokers, and even make some money blogging on their own.

Two books I would recommend are Stephen King's On Writing and E.B. White's The Elements of Style. Both are enjoyable reads, and have a lot ot offer anyone who wants to write either fiction or non-fiction.

Labels: make exra cash, skills, temping, tutorials

Yay, more half.com cash!

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

I just sold my Rachael Ray "Guy Food" cookbook. That's an extra $6 in the bank. Shipping costs are reimbursed, so that costs me nothing. I wrap all my books in brown paper grocery bags that I've opened up and flattened. It looks fine, and the post office never complains.

It may not seem like much. But, I got the book as a reward for writing a 50 word review of my favorite vacation. It took me all of 15 minutes. So, Another way to look at it:

15 min work x $6 = $24 hour
50 words x $6 = 12 cents a word.

That's better than some other markets where I sell.

LIttle bit of this, little bit of that.

Friday, February 16, 2007

First, just a quick report back on Mechanical Turk. I just pulled another $6 of side cash into my checking account from completing tasks there.

- I'm completely addicted to Geospatial Vision's image-tagging tasks. Each one takes me about a minute... so if I looked at it in terms of hourly wage, it'd be pretty pitiful -- around $3 a hour for most stuff. But, I find the work very soothing, and I can do it while I'm watching a movie in another window or listening to music.

- I've also been doing a lot of the trivia tasks. They've had a real crunch lately, and so have been offering more money on the factoids and questions. I've been avoiding the latest batch of trivia questions, since I know roughly zilch about the topic (boxing). However, I've been doing well on the factiods, and am hoping for a more accessible topic for questions soon.

In other news, I've finally figured out how to make money on moola.com (doh!). I don't have a lot of luck on the games, and have not really been getting ahead that way. However, they have a cash "booster" called "Search and Win." It's a search engine powered by snap.com where you can win cash up to four times a day by doing regular internet searches.

I usually only get a chance to get a prize about once a day, but it's been anywhere from a penny up to a quarter each time so far.

I just got five more Moola invites, too. If you are intersted in joining, comment here with your email address, and I'll send an invitation to you.

Labels: Mechanical Turk, moola.com

Awesome community, nice extra cash

Thursday, January 25, 2007

I've been posting on myLot for about a week, and picking up a little sideshow cash for my efforts.

I like this, because it combines a pleasure activity and an income-producing one.

I'm not going to earn huge amounts of money there, but, it might pay for my beer next time I visit the tavern.

The payment structure is not public... but, you seem to earn more from responding than starting a topic. They'll also pay a couple cents when you post relevant photos. Nice place to share the ones that the stock photo place turned down, right?

In other news, I just sold a bunch more books on half.com. I love back to school time!

*click* hehehee... *click click* giggle..

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

There's money to be made with online games. Not a lot, usually. And, so far, I haven't found anyone to pay me to play tetris or minesweeper.

But, I have found three sites where you can earn actual cash playing simple games:

NetWinner - it's sort of an instant lottery. Entry is free, and you can play as often as you like. Jackpots range anywhere from 10 points (which equals one cent) all the way up to millions of dollars.

Exodus3000 - This is a turn-based game where you move about a Martian landscape mining in volcanos, attacking or joining settlements, and searching abandoned ruins for cash. The currency, Mars Dollars, can be exchanged out for US dollars, payable by paypal. I play most days.

Moola.com - here, you can play simple skill games against other players. The games themselves are nice little challenges, ones I'd play even without the payout. It's currently invite-only. Email me if you'd like an invitation. (weirdheroes @ gmail.com)

Selling clothes through internet auctions

The Dollar Stretcher has an article up this week that is great for eBay novices. If you've never sold clothes online, I'd give it a look. She covers all the bases well.

A few points I'd add to her wonderful advice:

- if you don't have web-hosting, you don't have to pay eBay's prices for image-hosting. Check out imageshack or photobucket.

- Learn a bit of basic html to give your listings more eye appeal. W3Schools has a really good tutorial to get you started.