In need of extra cash, and have a web connection and a brain? August 24th’s issue of First Magazine highlighted the following three cool options for getting extra green while sitting on your couch in your pajamas. (Which I can then head over to Old Navy’s clearance area with …) I’m a member of lots of marketing survey groups, and I earn bits of money here and there filling out forms (as I’m in the coveted marketing group of women 30-40 who have two kids) but these seem much more fulfilling, particularly the first one:

Associated Content

Pays $3-$30 per accepted submission plus $1.50 for every 1K views..
Yes, that’s lower than a traditional freelance writer, but what if you’re just getting started? This seems like a great way to accumulate clips as well as earn cash.

LivePerson.com

This site offers pay-per-minute fees to chat online with experts. So, what are you an expert in? Whatever your knowledge, most experts charge .50-$3.50 an hour, LivePerson takes 30-35% of that as commission. Work the hours you want, and hope that people are looking for the answers that you have.

MechanicalTurk.com


This one is the lowest paying, but also needs the least amount of brain power. Owned by Amazon.com, you earn your money by doing what they call HITs – Human Intelligence Tasks. What the heck is that, you’re asking yourself. It’s doing things like transcribing audio recordings, identifying photos, and other menial tasks. Of course, you can have your earnings dumped directly into your amazon account.

In no way am I suggesting that you could earn your living using these tools, but rather as a means of lowering the cost of things you want to purchase online. As for me, I feed my iPhone app addiction.

My assignment? I signed up and quickly reviewed the list of available tasks and found the perfect one for me – get paid to test and write a review for an iphone app, and the added bonus of getting the app for free. I followed the instructions, played with the app a bit and posted my review. Okay, it only earned me a buck fifty, however, I got a free app and I can use that small earning to go get ANOTHER one without guilt. I reviewed a program called Where to Eat, visit http://www.ondemandworld.com/ for details.