I joined BZZagent about a week ago. It's a program where after taking surveys that I found to average about 2 minutes and connecting your social media to the site you might get to be a product tester for various items. Looking back at recent campaigns they seem like they get pretty neat stuff (granola bars, razors, cookies, etc). I have already been invited to a campaign for Glade which is pretty exciting. I haven't actually gotten my package yet, but I believe they are sending me coupons to get free Glade products and then I use those products and write reviews about them. These reviews will show up on my social media and on the BZZagent site. The more active a person is the more likely they are to get into future campaigns. I will let you know more about the process once I have gotten my kit and am able to start participating in campaign activities (January 29th). Until then if you are interested in joining BZZagent you can click here.
Let me know what products you get to try for free!
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Sweepstakes Fail
I didn't even win a Goodreads book last week, but I am hoping that I just saved all of my good luck for the next few weeks. I am now trying to win...
Super Bowl tickets!!
I entered the contests (at least the ones that were still open to entries) at http://contests.about.com/od/sweepstakeslistings/tp/superbowlsweepstakes.htm and I have my fingers and toes all crossed.
Super Bowl tickets!!
I entered the contests (at least the ones that were still open to entries) at http://contests.about.com/od/sweepstakeslistings/tp/superbowlsweepstakes.htm and I have my fingers and toes all crossed.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Sweepstakes
I signed up for a bunch of sweepstakes today, so fingers crossed I win at least one! Even if it's just a Goodread's book I will be happy with that.
Saturday, September 7, 2013
SlicethePie
Slicethepie is a website I started using (today actually) and I think I am going to love it. Basically you just listen to music, give it a rating, and write a review of what you thought of the music. The reviews don't pay great (I have gotten between 6 and 10 cents for my reviews so far), but you can listen to the music in the background while you do something else then write a review. You have to listen to at least 90 seconds of the song before you start the review, but since I have the song playing in the background I just listen to the entire thing.
Also make sure that you are honest in the rating of which genre's you like at the very beginning when you sign up. I said I sort of liked classical music (which I do), but have found that I have a lot less to say about the instrumental and classical pieces that I have had to rate which makes writing the reviews difficult. I haven't found a way to change my preferences yet, and will be sure to update if I do because I would prefer NOT to have to rate classical music.
You have to make $10.00 before you can cash out your earnings which isn't much at all. I don't see anyone making oodles doing this, but it seems like a decent website to make some cash on the side. I did just start using it, so will keep this updated if I run into any problems or find any helpful tips for the website. I think Slicethepie is a great way to hear some new music and get paid to write reviews of it.
Earnings so far: $0.64
Let me know if you try it and what you think of it!
Update 01/21/2014: Once the novelty of this wore off I quit doing it. I believe I have $2.29 there and I doubt I will be making the additional money needed to get to $10.00 to cash out. Overall this was a bust.
Also make sure that you are honest in the rating of which genre's you like at the very beginning when you sign up. I said I sort of liked classical music (which I do), but have found that I have a lot less to say about the instrumental and classical pieces that I have had to rate which makes writing the reviews difficult. I haven't found a way to change my preferences yet, and will be sure to update if I do because I would prefer NOT to have to rate classical music.
You have to make $10.00 before you can cash out your earnings which isn't much at all. I don't see anyone making oodles doing this, but it seems like a decent website to make some cash on the side. I did just start using it, so will keep this updated if I run into any problems or find any helpful tips for the website. I think Slicethepie is a great way to hear some new music and get paid to write reviews of it.
Earnings so far: $0.64
Let me know if you try it and what you think of it!
Update 01/21/2014: Once the novelty of this wore off I quit doing it. I believe I have $2.29 there and I doubt I will be making the additional money needed to get to $10.00 to cash out. Overall this was a bust.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Great Turking Tasks Available Today
For some reason mturk had some AWESOME tasks today. I did one that took 5 minutes and paid $3.00 to answer around 10 questions. Most didn't pay that well, but I worked for 1.5 hours and made $18.61 which works out to just over $12.40/hour.
Ideas on why I found so many great HITs today:
-I recently got to over 100 hits accepted which opened up more task options
-I changed my searching technique. I now search for most recently posted that pay more than 10 cents that I am qualified for and then check over what the time requirements are for them. Here are a few quick tips.
*Good paying jobs are taken relatively quickly, so searching the newest tasks gives you a higher likelihood of being able to find these hits before other people have already completed them. http://www.reddit.com/r/HITsWorthTurkingFor/new/ is a reddit page that lists new and good HITs which is nice, but be aware most great HITs don't last that long and are all still completed quickly.
*Make sure you read what the description says for a time estimate because the amount of time you will take to complete it and the amount of time allotted are normally pretty different. Requester's don't want you to time out of a task when you are almost done because you read a little slower or have a slower internet connection.
*I try to make about 10 cents/minute spent working or better. I chose this because it works out to $6.00/hour (which I realize isn't really a great wage) and because it is really easy to quickly figure out. It means if a task pays 50 cents I am willing to do around 5 minutes of work, so if the description says it is going to take 20 minutes I know to skip it.
*I also do some quick tasks that pay 1 cent and take around 30 seconds because I still don't have that many completed hits and want to get up to 1000 because this opens up more well paying tasks. The quick 1 cent tasks don't pay well per hour, but will make it so I can get to 1000 accepted hits more quickly.
-It is the beginning of summer semester/quarter at many universities. I haven't been doing mturk for long enough to know this for sure, but I think it would make sense that a lot of studies are posted at the beginning of each semester/quarter when students start collecting data. They will want the data early, so they can analyze it and write about it before the semester/quarter is up. I will see if this holds up in the fall when most universities begin (mid-August to mid-September).
Ideas on why I found so many great HITs today:
-I recently got to over 100 hits accepted which opened up more task options
-I changed my searching technique. I now search for most recently posted that pay more than 10 cents that I am qualified for and then check over what the time requirements are for them. Here are a few quick tips.
*Good paying jobs are taken relatively quickly, so searching the newest tasks gives you a higher likelihood of being able to find these hits before other people have already completed them. http://www.reddit.com/r/HITsWorthTurkingFor/new/ is a reddit page that lists new and good HITs which is nice, but be aware most great HITs don't last that long and are all still completed quickly.
*Make sure you read what the description says for a time estimate because the amount of time you will take to complete it and the amount of time allotted are normally pretty different. Requester's don't want you to time out of a task when you are almost done because you read a little slower or have a slower internet connection.
*I try to make about 10 cents/minute spent working or better. I chose this because it works out to $6.00/hour (which I realize isn't really a great wage) and because it is really easy to quickly figure out. It means if a task pays 50 cents I am willing to do around 5 minutes of work, so if the description says it is going to take 20 minutes I know to skip it.
*I also do some quick tasks that pay 1 cent and take around 30 seconds because I still don't have that many completed hits and want to get up to 1000 because this opens up more well paying tasks. The quick 1 cent tasks don't pay well per hour, but will make it so I can get to 1000 accepted hits more quickly.
-It is the beginning of summer semester/quarter at many universities. I haven't been doing mturk for long enough to know this for sure, but I think it would make sense that a lot of studies are posted at the beginning of each semester/quarter when students start collecting data. They will want the data early, so they can analyze it and write about it before the semester/quarter is up. I will see if this holds up in the fall when most universities begin (mid-August to mid-September).
Sunday, June 2, 2013
6/2/13 Report
Today I only spent an hour or so working online.
I did 100 mturk jobs (I can't do more until I have done tasks for 10 days straight) and that's about it. Jon and I went to the farmers market on the Everett waterfront which was fun, but not very productive.
I am going to write up proposals for a few Elance data entry positions tonight and finish my Squidoo article on how to pick good professors. I would love to do Infobarrel, but I don't believe I can make any income with Infobarrel until I have an Adsense account which I can't get until I am more on top of writing in at least one of my blogs.
Goals for June:
-Write in each blog 5 times/week
-Make $50 with mturk (not including the $28 I already made)
-Write 5 Squidoo lenses
I know these don't seem like very ambitious goals, but I have finals and will be gone on a road trip for the second half of June. That won't leave much time for being online.
I did 100 mturk jobs (I can't do more until I have done tasks for 10 days straight) and that's about it. Jon and I went to the farmers market on the Everett waterfront which was fun, but not very productive.
I am going to write up proposals for a few Elance data entry positions tonight and finish my Squidoo article on how to pick good professors. I would love to do Infobarrel, but I don't believe I can make any income with Infobarrel until I have an Adsense account which I can't get until I am more on top of writing in at least one of my blogs.
Goals for June:
-Write in each blog 5 times/week
-Make $50 with mturk (not including the $28 I already made)
-Write 5 Squidoo lenses
I know these don't seem like very ambitious goals, but I have finals and will be gone on a road trip for the second half of June. That won't leave much time for being online.
Can't sleep
I think mturk has turned me into a crazy zombie because I am still not asleep! I did almost 40 new tasks in the last hour, so fingers crossed none of them get rejected!
I also wasted an hour updating my squidoo lenses just for fun. I don't expect to make money off them, so should probably quit messing with them, but they are fun to write
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