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!

Day 5 - Amazon Associates

One of the affiliate programs I have found some success with is Amazon Associates. I have sold a few items, although most of them have been through Squidoo, rather than direct posts on my other blogs. I'm sure that with a bit more focus, I could increase my sales, particularly since Amazon seems to sell anything and everything under the sun. It is just a matter of finding the right products for your audience.

The link below is an example of one of the widgets you can create. This particular one lists the deals of the day and other discount items.