part time jobs online
by Ahmad Hilmi affiliate marketingIf you want to make a little spending money from home or earn a full-time salary, now’s the time — especially if you have a computer. Just going online opens up a host of opportunities. The trick is knowing which businesses are legitimate. Here are my top picks.
Sell your crafts
Do you knit? Make jewelry? Sew? If so, there are lots of opportunities to sell handmade wares online. As a member of Etsy (etsy.com),
you’ll have your own online store to showcase your items. It’s free to
become an Etsy seller, but you’ll pay a fee of 20¢ to list an item with
up to five photos for four months. When the item sells, you pay a 3.5
percent commission to Etsy. There’s no limit to how much you can charge,
and what you earn is based on how your crafts sell.
At Jewelry Wonder (jewelrywonder.com), sellers must have at least 30 items to open a free online store. There’s no charge to sellers — no setup fee, monthly or transaction fees, or listing or hosting fees. And sellers set their own prices, so the sky’s the limit.
ArtFire (artfire.com) is the home of artists, crafters, suppliers and media creators from around the world. Sellers can choose either a basic free account that includes unlimited listings with four pictures per item plus the ability to sell directly from your blog or website, or a Pro account for $15.95 a month with 10 pictures per item plus a customizable “store” and promo features. There are no transaction fees on ArtFire, so you keep what you make. The site also offers online training in merchandising and marketing.
Make money from your talent
At Fiverr (fiverr.com),
you can offer services that use your skills — designing a business
card, creating a podcast jingle, planning a trip — for five bucks a pop.
Fiverr keeps $1 and the seller gets $4 per gig. Stefanie Strobel, 28,
of Newport Beach, California, writes people’s messages in the sand at
the beach and takes a picture that she then emails to them. “I make
about $300 per month and can do about 10 to 15 messages per hour,
depending on length and complexity,” says Stefanie.
Be a nurse on call
If you’re a registered nurse, consider a company like Fonemed (fonemed. com),
which provides phone-based triage and medical information to their
customers in Canada and the U.S. These companies contract with
medical-related clients, mostly doctor’s offices and especially
pediatrician’s offices, to answer questions when the offices are closed
(the work hours are typically evenings, nights and weekends). You must
be licensed in the state or province where you are located and have at
least three years of recent clinical experience with adults and
children. Fonemed nurses are paid an hourly minimum plus a fee per call,
and are eligible for benefits like health insurance and paid leave. A
typical Fonemed nurse makes $27 per hour, according to Fonemed owner
Charlene Slaney.
Write, edit, proofread
Sites like Demand Studios (demandstudios.com) and Associated Content (associatedcontent.com)
hire experienced freelance writers, editors and filmmakers to work on
projects for sites like eHow, LiveStrong.com and YouTube. At Demand
Studios, assignments pay anywhere from $15 to $100; if you meet tenure
and activity requirements, you can be eligible for health insurance
plans. At Associated Content there are three ways to earn money: Upfront
payments for content you write ($2 to $15 per article), assigned
articles ($10 to $100 per article) and performance payments ($1.50 for
every 1,000 page views of your article if it’s posted online).
Design graphics and websites
Elance (elance.com) works
like an online marketplace, setting up designers and computer
programmers with companies that need their services. Companies post jobs
and freelancers bid on them, listing their experience, portfolio and
the price they will charge for the job. If your bid is chosen, you’ll
pay Elance a commission of 4 to 6 percent of what you earn.
If you have a college degree or are currently enrolled in college and think you have the skills to tutor math, science, English or social studies, tutoring online might fit you perfectly. Check out Tutor.com, where tutors work as independent contractors and earn around $10 to $14 per hour based on the subject and hours worked. Very active tutors can earn anywhere from $800 to $1,600 a month.
Give advice
Know a lot about medicine or car repairs? JustAnswer
(justanswer.com) is a paid question-and-answer site that’s growing its
community of experts in the medical, legal and financial fields, as well
as in other specialties like car repair and home improvement.
Registered customers ask a question and then name the price they’re
willing to pay (usually from $10 to $40) for an expert answer. The
expert usually responds within an hour, and once the customer accepts
the answer, keeps from 25 to 50 percent of what the customer pays. How
much experts earn depends on how many questions they’ve had accepted by
customers. Experts are vetted through a fairly grueling process, with
credentials, education and background verified.
Provide customer service
Many retailers are outsourcing their customer service
operations to third-party companies like Alpine Access
(alpineaccess.com) and Working Solutions (workingsolutions.com), who in
turn contract with home-based workers. The reps, who typically work 20
to 40 hours a week, take calls for large and small companies. The hourly
rate is about $9, but agents can earn up to $13 with incentives and
bonuses or up to $30 for special projects. Some companies offer benefits
like health and dental insurance and a matching 401(k) plan. LiveOps
(liveops.com) is similar, but service reps operate as independent
contractors, typically invoicing LiveOps $10 to $15 per hour depending
on the type of call and performance. And with LiveOps you can work as
many hours as you want. The hiring process is rigorous: Expect a
comprehensive written or online application, skills exam, phone
interview and background check.
Make a little spending money
When career librarian Rachel Singer Gordon, 40, of Lombard,
Illinois, quit her job in 2005 to take care of her children and pursue
freelance writing, she knew she’d need to find other sources of income
to supplement her writing. She dove headlong into couponing and
frugality, and became a wizard at finding ways to earn money online.
Soon Rachel was bringing in small amounts of income from lots of sources
she calls “multiple profit centers.” “They’re the equivalent of a nice,
steady part-time job,” says Rachel. In 2009, she started the blog
Mashup Mom (mashupmom.com) to share all the stuff she was learning. In
fewer than two years, the blog has become yet another profit center for
Rachel, as has her first book, Point, Click, and Save: Mashup Mom’s
Guide to Saving and Making Money Online. Tap into multiple profit
centers with Rachel’s favorites.
- Launch a blog. “If you have something interesting
to say, grow your readership, post ads and earn some dough,” says
Rachel. Start your blog at a free site (go to blogger.com or
wordpress.com), then go to Google AdSense (google.com/adsense) or the
affiliate program at Amazon.com (affiliate-program.amazon.com) to
feature advertising on your site. With AdSense, you make a little bit
every time someone clicks on one of the ads hosted on your site. With
Amazon’s program, you earn a small commission when someone clicks
through on an ad and makes a purchase at Amazon. The income will start
small, but if you build your following, your cash flow will increase.
Rachel typically makes several hundred dollars per month from ads or
affiliate links on her blog.
- Give your opinion. At MySurvey.com, Surveyhead.com
or ValuedOpinions.com, you can sign up to take surveys about products
and services and get paid for it. Sites typically pay $2 to $5 per
completed survey and will send you a check or deposit to your PayPal
account, or gift cards or merchandise once you reach $20 in your survey
account. Scam alert! There are lots of survey sites out there, but not
all are trustworthy. Avoid participating in anything that charges a fee
up front to participate. “I try to take three or four surveys each week
while the kids are watching TV, and that brings in $20 to $30 per
month,” says Rachel.
- Search the Internet. Rachel loves to scour the Web,
and one of her favorite things to do is use Swag Bucks (swagbucks.com)
as her search engine instead of, say, Google or Yahoo. By doing this,
she earns Swag Bucks points — called “SBs” on the website — redeemable
for merchandise like Target gift cards and beauty products. (Maximize
the number of points you earn by installing the Swag Bucks toolbar on
your computer.) You can also earn more Swag Bucks points by taking the
site’s daily poll and by participating in the company’s “trusted
surveys.” But be warned, it could take awhile to accumulate SBs. A $300
Apple gift card, for example, costs 37,000 SB. If you don’t want prizes,
you can trade your Swag Bucks points for PayPal deposits into your
account.
- Do online tasks. Have a few extra minutes with nothing to do? Companies like Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk (mturk.com) will pay you to complete little tasks that they need done, such as searching the Web for certain products or answering questions and giving opinions. There’s usually a time limit of anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour, and pay ranges from a few cents to a few dollars. This may not sound like a lot, but do enough tasks and you’ve earned yourself some extra spending money
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