Working from home with Amazon Mechanical Turk (Mturk), I've made over $2,768 in my spare time over a 4 month period. It's not much but it's money I wouldn't have otherwise.
That is correct, you too can work from home and make up to $14 per hour on Amazon Mechanical Turk (Mturk). If you're new to Mturk, it's a service started by Amazon in 2005 that offers a crowdsourcing work marketplace where workers can complete tasks called HITS (Human Intelligence Tasks). These tasks pay anywhere from $.01/task to $10 or more/task. The payout is determined by the difficulty of the task and what the requester (the boss) wants to pay you. You can get paid in USD transferred to your checking or savings account with their payment service, or a Amazon gift card balance.
It may not seem like much money, but the key to making money on Mturk is calculating your dollars per hour when completing tasks and really don't bother with anything that pays you under $5/hour. Anything below that rate is not worth your time. You can learn more on my popular work at home blog, the No BS Zone.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
How to Make Money Getting Free Stuff on Craigslist and Re-purposing
From an old television to construction materials, the Free section of Craigslist is a great resource and is watched my many "scrappers." Surprisingly, it can be labor intensive to be the first one to contact and pick up some of these free things. Unless you don't have a job, it's difficult to always be available as many people giving these things away for free don't like to be inconvenienced and will give it to the first person that shows up or leave it on the curb.
With that said, I have scored many great items for free on Craigslist like a fertilizer spreader, a ceiling fan, TONS of free lumber, 2 rooms worth of brand new carpet, and much more!
I've been using some of these free items and still have much of the lumber and carpet. One thing I did is I made 6 Cat Trees with the lumber and carpet. My wife and I have 3 cats, and I had made a cat condo for them a couple years ago. I decided I would make 1 and try to sell it, on Craigslist even! I did it, I perfected my original design and sold it on Craigslist for $50 using all free materials with the exception of some hardware. I posted a picture of it and a tutorial how you can make your own cat tree for $50 on my blog: how-to-make-a-cat-tree.blogspot.com Then I made a second cat tree and sold it for $65, then I sold 4 more around $50-$100 and totaled over $400 in total income from my free carpet and lumber on craigslist.
This is an example on the small scale, but you could do this with anything. For instance, there are a lot of people getting rid of windows on craigslist that someone could use to make greenhouses, or art. The possibilities are endless, you too can turn someone else's trash into your treasure on Craigslist!
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