Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Day 8 - Amazon Mechanical Turk

Kind of a strange name, and not exactly the greatest money-making site out there, but hey - if you can have fun making that $0.40 (yes, forty cents) a day, they why not?

Amazon's Mechanical Turk program allows users to submit 'tasks' that are then completed by other users, who are paid for their work. The downside here is that most tasks pay less than $0.07, so it takes some time to build up a respectable sum, but I do have to admit, by spending 5 minutes every so often on the site, I have earned $10 without much effort.

Don't expect to be making that $300 from this site alone, unless you are excellent at transcribing and can build up a reputation in that area, but it is a nice break, and kind of fun to watch your pennies add up!

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