Become the online agent for those Egyptian babies named ‘Facebook’…
I looked into the turk thing. Does anyone here do this? Seems like a lot of things that claim to take take two hours and pay fifteen cents. The few money makers seem to require you to sign up for things.
I tried the Amazon Turk thing. For most of the jobs, I’d make more money just picking up aluminum cans to turn in.
I grade writing tests at home online for two companies for excellent hourly pay. I’m also a freelance writer. I make about $400 in royalties each month just from some old articles I wrote a few years ago. You can make money online but you often need both a skill and a lot of determination.
**Kaio’s **idea of self publishing trashy porn and romance is actually pretty hot right now in self publishing circles. I’m starting to think an Umkay / Devotee piece might be a useful place to start. 
So, the Internet it perfect for me!
I’ve actually given it a go in times of extreme desperation. If you plug away really really hard at it, you can make a buck in an hour.
HOWEVER, based on the work I’ve done (less than $50 worth, if memory serves), it seems like many of the “employers” - for lack of a better word - offer a pretty generous (relative to the Turk) bonus structure and a system of “promoting” you to jobs that offer better pay.
As a guess, I’d say that under the current system a stay-at-home mom with some down time to put into it could make ~$50-100 per week, after a few weeks of building up into steadily better-paying jobs.
Whatever happened to Gigwalk? Some people here had tried it and thought it was good for a few bucks here and there, right?
I don’t live in a city where it’s supported, but I would have given it a chance.
It’s hit or miss, but occasionally Craigslist will have a gig you can do from home.
Just remember the old adage that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn’t true.
I frequent several forums and blogs devoted to combating online scams and it still amazes me how creative some of these scammers can be. Not to mention how insidious. And with all the various regulatory agencies being over worked and under funded it’s almost vanishingly rare for the people pushing scams to get arrested.
I learned a long time ago you can’t stop the scammers so we focus on educating the victims. If your emotional desire to believe in the sales pitch outweighs your common sense, kiss your money good bye. And while it’s true that a con artist needs to win your trust they need to inspire your greed first. Once you have dollar signs in your eyes you’ll start to want what they say to be true and you’ll start recruiting yourself.
You’ve got to spend money to make money, so I do a lot of online shopping. It hasn’t really paid off yet, but I’m patient.
Things like Mechanical Turk are a global economy. If you plug away you can make $2 or so an hour after you build your acceptance rate, but that is a lot of money if you are sitting in China as a student with an internet connection.
Fiverr.com looks like it has potential. You offer any kind of service (typical service is making some kind of short novelty video) for $5. I’m going to try it out next week and see how it goes.
I’ve also had some luck with Spreadshirt, which prints on tshirts a different way than cafepress.
If you had an idea for making money online that actually worked, but which would have diminished value if others got in on the market, would you share it? Probably not. So some fraction of online successes are unknowable, as no one will share them.
Thinking about it, billions are made online every day by the big Wall Street firms. Their computer programs compete against other computer programs at trading stocks. It is without a doubt the biggest, most successful, most persistent scam in human history. Conservatives say we are obliged to respect it. Interesting.
It’s possible to make money playing Diablo III by farming mobs all day and selling the decent items you find in game on their real money auction house. I’ve heard of people making hundreds of dollars doing this, though as for myself I only made around $11 before I got bored and quit. Although you need recoup the cost of the game ($60) just to break even.
Here’s an idea I’ve had (but never acted on): write e-books for the gullible (e.g., “How to Get the Most out of Your Psychic Reading”). I first thought about it back when e-books started but there wasn’t an easy distribution system, a problem that Amazon has solved rather nicely.
It was the standard Make Money Fast post. I can email you a copy of it, if you really, really can’t find another one to get in on. That particular one promised pounds, rather than dollars.
Plenty of regular people make money on the stock market using their meager savings. If it was a scam, why would they be allowed to play the game?
I do some online market research. It’s definitely not enough to live on, but it does bring in some money, and one of them periodically sends me things that are being test-marketed. So far, I’ve gotten a free bag of cat food, a pizza (shipped in dry ice) and a high-end bra. 
No thank you-I’m trying to lose weight right now.
Yep, it’s hit-or-miss, but I’d think vlogging on Youtube is a good bet. There are some amazingly successful people doing quite ordinary things, like KSIOlajidebt and Pewdiepie, who started out by making videos of themselves playing video games and commenting.That’s rare, but there are also quite a few people with modest followings that seem to get by just going on about their hobbies or interests. For instance, there have been attempts by some magazines get a following for motorcycle channels, and they all seem to wither and die; the most popular channels are amateurs with cameras strapped to their helmets riding around while talking.