Thursday, November 24, 2005

Make Money Online -- Amazon Mechanical Turk Update

Woo hoo! I've just submitted my 200th HIT to Amazon Mechanical Turk!

Of those 200 HITs, 162 have been approved, 24 have been rejected, and 14 are still pending (including 8 from today). All up, I've got $4.86 in my account -- about half-way to my goal for 1 free book this month.

If you haven't tried Mechanical Turk, you really ought to give it a shot. It's a VERY EASY way to make money online. Lately, there have been two different kinds of tasks -- photo assignments and recording artist confirmations.

For the photo assignments, the Turk gives you the name and address of a business and a group of photos. Your job is to pick the best photo of the business, or if none of the photos are good (or aren't photos of the right business), you choose 'none.' Those jobs pay 3 cents each.

The recording artist confirmation gives you an album title and a list of possible artists who made the album. You pick the right artist and submit. That's it! You get paid 2 cents for each accepted submission.

This is sooooo easy to do when you've got a bit of time to kill. Just bookmark the site and pop in whenever you have time. My biggest day so far was Nov 12, when I submitted 45 HITs, with 37 accepted, 8 rejected, and $1.11 going into my account.