Best And Easiest Ways To Earn Money Online

My Task Log:

8:46 AM – Signed up for Mechanical Turk. It took roughly a minute to open an account there – no problem.
8:47 AM – Chose my first task – write a 350-500 word article on “email autoresponder marketing” for $4. I’m just going to churn it out off the top of my head.
9:02 AM – Done – if that type of “off the cuff” writing is accepted, maybe Mechanical Turk is a decent way to earn money. I basically just wrote in a nearly train-of-thought style, something I would consider a weak first draft for The Simple Dollar, but still readable. I’m going to try categorizing some images at a penny pop for a bit.
9:08 AM – I managed to do six images in six minutes for a whopping six cents. Not a good use of time. Note to future self: stay away from the single-penny tasks.
9:09 AM – After browsing some tasks, I decided to try a series of really short questionnaires from MasterCard for $0.10 a pop.
9:18 AM – I was able to do five of the dime surveys in eight minutes – totaling out to just under $4 an hour. Not good, but it could definitely be worse.
9:19 AM – I decided to try some simple product categorization for a nickel pop. It seems easy – just look at a picture of an item and come up with some short tags to describe it.
9:25 AM – I managed to complete two of them in six minutes. I actually completed three, but one was lost to the Turk’s horrible page design, which eliminated everything I had filled in because I hadn’t clicked on the “Accept HIT” button. Ten cents in six minutes is not a win.
9:26 AM – I take on a task that involves looking up addresses for wineries at $0.40 a pop.
9:32 AM – Should have read more carefully, as it requires entering a bunch of wines from each winery as well. Six minutes work for $0.40 is NOT a good deal.
9:36 AM – I notice that if I sort by dollar value, some higher-dollar entries will pop up and then disappear before I can accept them – $6 to $10 a pop. Chasing them might pay off, but it seems to be a time-waster.
9:37 AM – I take a short test to “qualify” me to do some higher-value HITs. Apparently, they don’t want just anyone writing service reviews. You have to at least be aware of the company.
9:41 AM – I finish the test – but the ones I would be “qualified” to do are now gone.
9:45 AM – I spent five minutes looking at really awful HITs. If they pay a penny a piece, if you can’t do them FAST, they’re not worth it.
9:46 AM – A moment later, I found a service review, enabling me to describe a service I received for $2.55.
9:50 AM – I finished the review, earning $2.55 for four minutes of work. That task was actually the one I was “qualified” for because of the earlier test, meaning I invested eight minutes to earn $2.55 – or $19.13 an hour. Not bad at all!

The Outcome:

I spent a total of one hour and four minutes there and earned a total of $7.61 (assuming everything I did was accepted), giving an hourly wage of $7.11 for my effort. I probably could have done better than that if I weren’t logging what I was doing as I went along.

4. Online Publishing (E-book)

Regardless of your socio-lifestyle, there is probably a book inside of you that would be screaming out. Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) platform has given thousands of people a chance to become published authors and earn money. It may also serve as a way to get noticed by more established and traditional publishers.

Not only can you sell ebooks on platforms like Amazon.com; but you can also sell ebooks directly from your own website as well. This allows you to sell your ebooks at higher prices and get all of the profits.

Publishing ebooks are simple. Amazon provides some great tools to publish your own book and earn from it. With the use of these tools, access to outsourcing graphics, cover design, etc. you can self-publish a book and have the same professional presence and credibility as a big publishing house.