Two-Hour Tuesday: Up Your Income Online

This week we are going to focus on making some extra money with our two hours instead of saving money. Earmark the money before you set to work, otherwise it will likely get spent wastefully. Use it to pay on debts, student loans, the mortgage, save for a new car or fund retirement. Keep in mind that if you earn a certain amount from these pursuits you must claim the income. The amount is usually $600, but you should check with a tax professional.

1-Mechanical Turk is an offshoot of Amazon. They offer small jobs at a small fixed fee. While the pay isn’t huge, the jobs are usually simple. Perusing the site I saw a job for secret shopping a website that offered $4.25, one asking for feedback on a website offering $4.00, and a short questionnaire that also offered $4.00. Most of the jobs can be completed in 20 minutes or less, so adding an extra $20 to your bank account once or twice a week is a real possibility.

2-Seed.com is one of AOL’s latest offerings. You sign up for the site and are sent to a workdesk that offers assignments. These are either photographs or articles. They pay $15 and up for an accepted piece, but keep in mind they do not accept all of them. Plan on doing your best work and peruse their academy to make sure you understand the format they need you to use. They pay out once a month to Paypal or they send a check.

3-Revenue share sites include places like Ehow, Hubpages and Suite 101 to name a few. You write an article and post it on the site, then they put advertisements on the article. You make a small percentage of the ad income your articles generate. Sites like Associated Content work the same way, but they may also pay a small amount upfront, usually less than $5. It can take time to make money from these sites and reach a payout, but it is a legit way to try and build up passive income without dedicating a lot of time.

4-Textbroker is a writing bank. Clients contact them with writing work they need done and writers claim the assignments. Textbroker works as the middle-man making sure everyone gets paid ad the clients get what they want. They are fairly open to hiring inexperienced writers, ad you only do the work you want to do when you want to do it. Pay isn’t excellet, generally ranging between $2 and $7 for a short article. They pay out twice a month into Paypal.

There are many more sites out there that are legitimate ways to make money. None of them are get-rich-quick places, and some may work better for you than others. But if you are only dedicating a small two-hour block of time a week to earning extra money, the sites I listed fit the bill nicely.

Do you know of any other sites like these to make a few quick bucks? Share them in the comments!