Getting Started On Making Money During Your Free Time
Getting Started On Making Money During Your Free Time
This lens is the short guide to help people making use their free time maximally. Of course if you got a limited free time, i suggest you to take a rest and enjoy your life a little bit, but somebody have too many free times that they don't know what to do anymore. This lens is dedicated to the latter. Instead of browsing the web aimlessly, this lens offer you the chance to convert your free time into money by doing tasks on the Internet.
You don't even have to quit your job for doing these easy tasks. All it takes is just 5 minutes of your time, e.g. when you are taking a break at work or waiting for something. As long as you got 5 minutes, you can do the tasks below. Enjoy reading!
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You don't even have to quit your job for doing these easy tasks. All it takes is just 5 minutes of your time, e.g. when you are taking a break at work or waiting for something. As long as you got 5 minutes, you can do the tasks below. Enjoy reading!
Copyright image courtesy of Joel Kraut
Here are the lists for small task
Jobs that you can finish within 10 minutes
- Micro Workers

MicroWorkers is one of the leading website in small task field. It support PayPal with $10 withdrawal limits. If you want to create campaign in MicroWorkers you need to deposit $10 first.- Short Task

ShortTask is the second largest tasks provider website. It claims to have more than 20k tasks available to its members. The withdrawal limit is $10.- Amazon Mechanical Turk

The largest task provider in the Internet comes from Amazon itself called Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk). Amazon refer the provided task as Human Intelligence Task (HITs). Currently there are more than 100k HITs available. Sadly, only people with US billing address are eligible for registering at Amazon MTurk. If you happen to live in US, you can convert your Amazon account into Amazon MTurk.- Mini Jobz

Mini Jobz is almost the same with Micro Workers. At there every time you withdraw your money, you're subject to 5% transactional fee.- WahTasks

WahTasks is the clone of MiniJobz or vice versa, they both use the same script. Nevertheless, still worthwhile to try if you like.- My Easy Task

My Easy Task offer $1000 bonus for every registrant which can be use to spend on campaigns only. The tasks offered here are still in small numbers, probably because it is new.- Rapid Workers

RapidWorkers is roughly the same with MicroWorkers. The only difference is that RapidWorkers do not allowed referral unlike MicroWorkers. But in term of tasks provided, RapidWorkers got more tasks in its website.- Cloud Crowd

CloudCrowd is the only facebook application of all the websites in the list. Currently there are still small amount of tasks that are currently provided in the apps but I predict it will grow in the future.- Squad Help

In SquadHelp. all the task is provided as a contest between you and the other users. The money for every contest is quite large also, I've seen a contest asking a right domain name suggestion for $50.
Tips and trick to maximize your time
The theory is simple. Spend 5 minutes of your time, you earn $1, spend an hour of your time, you earn $12. If you do this for every day, in 30 days you earn $360. All you need is to spend 1 hour everyday and you earn $360; and don't forget that some jobs worth more than $1 for your 5 minutes.
Sounds so simple right?
But actually, it isn't. Usually after 15 minutes doing the small task, some people start to lost interest or lost focus and started doing something else. At the end, they actually spend more than 5 minutes for $1.
Here is one tool to really push your time as effective as possible. Enter the Pomodoro Technique! The Pomodoro Technique help you manage your time. The rule is actually simple: Focus on your work for 25 minutes and then take a break 5 minutes. During the break you can do anything, go browsing, chat with your family or something else that is fun. Do these two phase iteratively.
It is scientifically proven that human brain is like your muscle. You can't push it for a long time without break which eventually will break your muscle/brain very easily. By taking a short break, you help your brain to rejuvenate and make it ready for the next task.
For more in depth about Pomodro Technique I recommend you to read some books and use the tools.
Sounds so simple right?
But actually, it isn't. Usually after 15 minutes doing the small task, some people start to lost interest or lost focus and started doing something else. At the end, they actually spend more than 5 minutes for $1.
Here is one tool to really push your time as effective as possible. Enter the Pomodoro Technique! The Pomodoro Technique help you manage your time. The rule is actually simple: Focus on your work for 25 minutes and then take a break 5 minutes. During the break you can do anything, go browsing, chat with your family or something else that is fun. Do these two phase iteratively.
It is scientifically proven that human brain is like your muscle. You can't push it for a long time without break which eventually will break your muscle/brain very easily. By taking a short break, you help your brain to rejuvenate and make it ready for the next task.
For more in depth about Pomodro Technique I recommend you to read some books and use the tools.
Here are the list for selling your ideas:
- Idea Offer

Idea Offer allowed you to give idea and get paid for that. It is very easy, all you need is to read the listed project and suggest an idea to it. After that, if your idea is chosen by the project owner, you will get paid. If not maybe you will get a motivation award (ranging from $0.01 to $0.02). Overall, I think Idea Offer provide easier task than the others but higher income per ideas.- Quirky

Quirky can make you earn a lot of money but more difficult than Idea Offer. In Quirky, you are participating in a brainstorming contest in the creation of a new product for some companies. A lot of money is offered there with some of the people earn more than $10000 in Quirky. There is also an anthem of $10 for some contest to ensure the seriousness of the contestant, but some are free to enter as well.- Naming Force

Naming Force is a very unique website. Your task over there is to suggest a name to various naming request by companies or individuals. You can earn from $100 to $200 for every of your accepted proposed name. Easy task but hard competition. You have to come up with a very catchy name to win the money.- Idea Bounty

In Idea Bounty, you will be asked on how to help certain company to go viral or something like that. The bounty for each idea can be very high, some of it ranging to $5000 but of course you will be expected to offer a very great ideas for that. Some of the bounties are for video ideas, so prepare yourself for some video shooting at your home.- BootB

BootB got a lot of interesting projects such as idea on how to package a product or even a proposal for their product character. The money offered at BootB is quite high also (more than $1000 for each idea). If you have a lot of idea and have an artistic nature, you definitely have to take a look at BootB website.
Innovation books for helping you to get great ideas
Motivational Tips
If you decided to do the small job at home, here is the motivational video for you.
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Radamel
Nov 1, 2011 @ 2:33 pm | delete
- Some of the sites in the list above worth to try.. I am thinking to participate to two or three of them.
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Radamel
Nov 1, 2011 @ 2:33 pm | delete
- Some of the sites in the list above worth to try.. I am thinking to participate to two or three of them.
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cwimmer77
Dec 2, 2010 @ 9:19 am | delete
- never even knew there was this type of onlline opportunity and so many options. kind of overwhelming.
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Mrmakingusmile
Dec 1, 2010 @ 11:24 am | delete
- Good information. Thanks for sharing. Thanks for making me smile.
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