I made my first $100, it took exactly 45 days, at one hour a day. If we do the math, that comes out to about $2.22 an hour. I've learned a few things since the beginning and i'd like to share them:
Don't do jobs under that pay under a dime. They are usually just not worth your time.
Learn to write if you don't already know how too. Most of the decent jobs require that you write articles.
Avoid the spam, it's popping up everywhere. Although you can make a decent buck off these jobs, they require you submitting personal information that is used for God knows what. It's not hard to detect 'spam jobs'. Be aware.
Learn to recognize the reputable Requesters on Mechanical Turk, there are some that have been around since the beginning and are very reliable. Use the Mozilla Plugin that I mentioned in a previous post.
The good jobs go fast, so you need to be on your toes if you intend to take Mechanical Turk seriously. One job got posted with a pay of $5.55, and there were two available HITS, and it was gone in seconds, I luckily got to it, and it was a very simple job and well worth my 15 minutes.
You can't make a fortune using Mechanical Turk, but you can make some decent spending money from the comfort of your own home. I spoke to one Mechanical Turker who makes $200 a week, I didn't believe him at first, but he proved it to me. Granted, he spents a considerable amount of his time getting that amount of money. You learn to recognize jobs that are worth your time, and jobs that are not -- and I think that is the most important thing to consider.
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The most important thing to focus on is the HITS with the big dumps at once that you can do one after another. They may pay little but it adds up in the long term. I do a lot of the Venue quality ones that pay .01 a hit and usually drop close to 200 a time. That is 2.00 for about 5 seconds of time. I usually do about 100 of these. I did one where they were going for .02 and had 246 HITS. I did all 246 and made like 4.92 for 1 hour. Same requester put out another 248 for .02 that day for 2 hours made over 10.00 dollars for 2 hours of work and I had already done a lot of HITS earlier in the day. It just depends on the HITS and how many are out that you can make a lot of work. I made 28.78 in a day before. The HITS were .09 a HIT. So don't say that under a dime you can't make any real money. I make around 5-10 a day.
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