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You know, when it comes to making money online in your spare time from the comfort of your own home then we really are living in very good times! Because these days there are many ways to do just that and make money online from home in your spare time without really doing much of anything at all. In fact so much so, who says that it’s hard to make money online? Nobody that knows about these methods obviously!
Make Money by Changing Your Default Search Engine
SwagBucks
This is more a set and forget method. It wont make you rich overnight but earnings can stack up long term. But there are companies out there that will pay you to search in their Search Engine instead. SwagBucks will pay you for searching in it instead of your normal search engine. It’s powered by Yahoo so it’s the same results if you use that. You will earn points which you can exchange for PayPal and Amazon gift cards and other things. It’s not hard to earn up to $150 a year with SwagBucks and it’s not any hard work using it to search for things you might normally look for and get paid for that.
Bing Rewards
Bing and Microsoft are paying people to use Edge Browser and Bing Search Engine in Windows 10. The Bing Rewards system works very similar to how SwagBuck works and earnings could be about the same or more. The Bing Rewards system is Microsoft and Bing’s attempt at gaining some marketshare back so could be willing to pay quite generously for it. You wont get rich with it but you could earn up to $150+ per year.
QuickRewards
QuickRewards lets you earn rewards for doing things you already do online! QuickRewards rewards you for taking surveys, shopping online, reading emails, trying out products, visiting sites, playing games, answering trivia questions, printing grocery store coupons and much more. Redeem your earnings anytime for cash, gift certificates or prizes. They pay daily & most earnings are paid within 24 hours.
MyPoints
MyPoints is very similar to QuickRewards, in the way you can earn money using the site. Earn Points by shopping online, playing games, taking surveys, reading emails, and referring friends. Points can be redeemed for gift cards, gas cards, travel opportunities, or cash. You can earn and get paid within 4-5 business days if you use Paypal cash out method.
InstaGC (Instant Gift Cards)
InstaGC is a rewards site you can use to earn points for things you already do online like completing surveys, watching videos, shopping online & searching the web. Then redeem your points for gift cards that are delivered instantly with no waiting that can be used across hundreds of brands and online shopping portals and stores.
Install Qmee On Your Browser
Install Qmee in your Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, or Opera browser, and then just sit back and use the internet as you normally would. When you search for things on Google, Bing, Amazon, Qmee will occasionally pop up in your sidebar with some sponsored links. And every time you visit a sponsor, you’ll earn anywhere from two to fifteen cents (most seem to pay around eight cents). Qmee pays instantly when you cash out with no minimum required for redeeming.
Use the Perk TV app
Perk TV is a mobile rewards app similar to SwagBucks TV where you can earn points for watching videos which you can exchange for gift cards you can use at many different online stores. This one is very set and forget and hands-off because you can set up the Perk TV app to run in an infinite loop. You can just leave it running on your mobile while you are doing other things. A good trick is to use the Perk TV app on an old smartphone that you don’t really use anymore. You can rack up enough points with it to exchange for $15 or $15 Amazon gift cards per week.
Take Video Surveys with Mindswarms
I’ve not used Mindswarms myself yet but have heard good things about it. They pay up to $150 for completing simple mobile video surveys that last a few minutes at most. You’ll need to apply to join first and there’s no guarantee you’ll be accepted but the video surveys you take if you are, are based on your geo and demographical information you provide when you join. They pay by PayPal within 24 hours of your completed survey being accepted. Well worth a checkout if it means you can make a quick $150 bux before Christmas!
Get Cashback for Shopping Online
Cashback sites are nothing new but many people are still discovering the benefits to using them. They are what they sound like in that you can get cash back from anything you buy through that site on your preferred site such as Amazon etc and they give you a little cash back for it each time. But more than this, they can be used to make a little extra pocket money with too. Some of them pay you for taking surveys or checking out offers and also have an affiliate system you can refer shoppers and get paid a commission on each of their purchases for life.
Get Paid to Teach English Online
The translation industry is big business and millions of people are trying to learn a new English. If you have an excellent command on the English language then you could help other people trying to learn English by becoming an English tutor on Cambly. You wont really need any teaching experience and can do it in your own time whenever you want. But you will need a computer with a webcam and mic and recording ability. On last check Cambly were paying $2.17 per minute or $2.85 per 5 minutes or $15.02 an hour depending on how you look at it.
Test Free Products From The Comfort of Your Own Home
There are some big brands and names and companies out there that need feedback on their products and are willing to pay you for it. All you have to do is sign up for that to make yourself available and depending on your region you can earn from $15-150 just testing simple products of all kinds from many different brands and companies depending on who it is you’re testing for. Some sites you can use become a product tester and reviewer are Toluna and Bzz Agent. Using these sites you can earn a nice amount of extra residual income without much hard work on your behalf.
Become An Official Website Tester
Talking of testing things from the comfort of your own home how about becoming a website tester? If you love seeing and checking out new and trendy websites and are quite web savvy, there are companies out there that need people to BETA test their websites for them. You could just be visiting a site and checking it out, seeing how fast it loads, how easy it is to find the information there is on it. These companies want to know what your experience and feedback is so they can use it to improve their website with. If you’ve been reviewing peoples sites on forums for years already for free, this will be right up your alley and you can earn anything from $15 to $15 dollars for simply testing out a website for 15 minutes and providing your review.
To find this kind of work check these following sites.
Companies That Pay You To Test Websites from Home
UserTesting - Get paid for testing websites around $15 in cash for each test. Teets last about 15 mins and you wont need a webcam for this one.
Userlytics - Providing Omni-Channel UX testing at around $15 per test taken. Each test takes 10-20 mins and you’re paid by PayPal.
Whatusersdo - They pay about $13 by Paypal per tests that take around 15-20 minutes to complete. You’ll need a PC with a microphone.
UserTest - They pay about $15 per test study. It’s completely free to join and only takes 5 minutes to become a qualified tester.
Enroll App - Will pay you to test websites before they are published. Earn cash rewards paid via PayPal.
UTest - This company offers a variety of website testing opportunities.
UserFeel - Conduct usability tests on peoples websites. Get paid around $15 per test.
Feedback Army - Another usability test site. The pay varies with this company.
Analysia - Another site that pay around $15 per tested website that takes about 15 minutes per test.
TryMyUI - Get paid around $15 for testing a website that lasts around 15 minutes per test.
So that’s about 10+ methods and as many sites you can use to make money online from the comfort of your own home with. Without really doing anything. Of course you will have to do those things on your computer to get paid. But you’ll be either doing them from the comfort of your own home, on the bus or on a beach in Hawai!
That’s the beauty of these actionable make money online methods.
Christmas only comes but once a year, and with it comes many opportunities for a Freelancer to make some money from the festive period as well. If only for a short while! But since there is a demand for things to get done by people at Christmas time, as an entrepreneur you can cash in on this demand that people need by offering them as a service to those that do.
Think about some of the things people need doing around Christmas time. Things they don’t have the time for or would much rather prefer to outsource. Things that both offline businesses and online businesses and people might need. From gift wrapping to present wrapping collection service. From putting lights up and taking them down! Plus more opportunities online such as writing and promotion to many more.
Here are 5 potential hands-on ways to make money at Christmas.
Christmas gift wrapping.
Don’t knock it but if you’re a gift gift wrapper, you can cash in on that talent by offering it as a service. Think about offering it to your first family and friends first. Let your local community know at your town hall, social buildings and events. Make up a few flyers advertising it with your contact details. Offer a collection and return or even on-site gift wrapping service with a “24 hour on-call” service for people who are in a rush and are rubbish at gift wrapping and you’re onto a winner! You could charge a nice amount for this as it’s quite an important job.
Christmas gift wrapping collection.
Some households have a lot of people and there’s a lot of gift giving! And there’s also about a ton of gift wrapping paper, cardboard and clip ties and stuff to throw away or recycle. To many people it’s a hassle and they just throw them in the garbage. So you could offer this as a service by placing flyers through doors before Christmas and offering to collect it. You’d have to set a price though like $10 or something to make it fairly worth doing. You’d probably need a council truck too or something. All might cost you money but get 100 customers at $10 each and that’s $1000.
Christmas Light fitting service.
A much more feasible service that is in demand this time of year is putting up Christmas lights. From residential people that are getting on a bit in years and don’t have the strength or balance on their feet they might have had and wouldn’t mind paying some young sonny Jim $100 to do it for him instead. To high street shops and stores that are so busy with all the extra customers and shoppers they wouldn’t mind paying a small and reasonable fee to have it done for them either. Especially if you are going to do a good job! You would have to do the work though and they’d need to supply the lights but it could work! 5 Potential Hands-on Ways Entrepreneur Freelancers Can Make Money at Christmas
Christmas gift buying service.
This one would require a bit of trust on behalf of the client but you could offer a gift buying service to people. You could provide your own catalog of things or take requests. You could just then go out and buy what it is they want and then deliver it to them and collect the payment for it charging a little extra on top of course + tax.
Provide a Catering service.
Food is a big deal at Christmas. If your passion is with cooking and you can do a great Christmas spread with all the trimmings. Then you can offer this as a service to people, families in your local area or nationwide that might need it. You could Christmas Dinner delivery for people who didn’t have the time to cook a Christmas Dinner. For families or even the lowly student living on his own right now. You could charge quite a lot for this service and they would pay for it as well.
How to Promote Your Services?
You would probably have to create some flyers you could post through doors or place in shops and send to people and businesses in your local area or even do it on an International scale. But you could probably just walk into shops and speak to the manager or owner and fly talk them into agreeing to it if you show some nice photos of your previous work / customers.
In fact this might sell really well door-to-door canvassing in your local area. You could do it yourself, or even employ a team to do that for you and pay them a small cut of what you get of course if they get you a client. You’d probably have a client for life as well the next year and so on.
Online Ways to Make Money during Christmas
Don’t forget that many websites will be adding Christmassy items to their site an want to write and publish articles for Christmas for promoting their good and services. Many small blog owners will love to have Christmas themed content for their blogs around this time of year. If you’re a write you can provide this as a service. Perhaps to create Christmas themed articles like top 10 gift lists for him and for her.
Likewise, those same blog owners and webmasters, business website owners etc, will want promotion as well. There’s a big demand for Social Media Management and they’d love for a professional to promote their Christmas products on Social Media for them.
Well that’s 5 potential methods to make money during the Christmas holidays!
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