Day 5.3: Amazon Turk and Fiverr

If you're interested in making a few bucks for a bit of honest work, you're in luck! For this entry I'm going to take a look at Fiverr and Amazon Mechanical Turk, two different options to sell your services to people who want them around the world. Whatever you do--writing, singing, messing around with Photoshop--there's a market for it. Let's take a look at how these two popular systems work and what to expect from them.

Fiverr

Fiverr is very straightforward. Basically, you can offer to do anything you want for five dollars, and people pay you to do it. It's not guaranteed income. You have to be creative in coming up with your offers, and you have to offer things that people will like enough to pay five dollars for. However, there are some people who do make a lot of money doing very simple tasks repeatedly. If you have a special talent that will help someone out, you should definitely check it out.

Amazon Mechanical Turk

I'm a big fan of Amazon Turk. It takes a while to get fully registered and approved, but from there it's easy to generate a small income. There is a large and constantly changing list of hits to do that include everything from clicking links to transcribing messages and taking surveys. When you start out, you're confined to very low paying tasks, but depending on your skills, you can easily get approved to work on the ones that make it all worth it--up to $150 per task. I've put about two months of work on Amazon Turk myself and now have $70 earned from it. Not much of an income, I'll admit, but some people make a full-time job out of it, and you're working under a very well-known name.

Both of these sites are worth checking out if you have random skills that you feel you could make money on, and if you're wanting nothing more than some good pay for an honest day's work, this is one of the best ways to do it.

Well, I'm now five days into my blogging experiment and have over 500 views--amazing compared to anything else I have written. I've learned a ton about publicity in these past few days, and also about the work required to go anywhere with my writing (hint: it's much more than I would have guessed!). Money-wise, well, I haven't earned a cent. I'm still waiting on that, but from what I understand, only about one out of a thousand viewers actually goes so far as to click the link... and even fewer than that actually go through. I guess I'll find out! In the meantime, please follow me on Twitter or join forces with me on Clixsense or Swagbucks! It would be incredibly encouraging and won't do anything except  benefit you!