My quest to find extra income online has been a long and hard road. I did not go to college, but I have my Real Estate License and I have been an assistant for several years. So getting a good paying job online was not the easiest thing for me.
I tried being a virtual assistant, but you need a website, a sole proprietorship, and a lot of experience being a virtual assistant. (I have never understood when jobs say that you need years worth of experience, but it is a position for someone who just graduated or is an entry level position. Like, where am I supposed to get this experience if no one will give me a chance to learn.) I never found a good source for where to go to get started, but I got the inspiration from other bloggers like myself and each one had a different suggestion. So I went on to the next recommended thing.
I tried freelance writing. Now I am not the best writer in the world, I mean you know this just by reading this blog. I have good ideas, but putting them to paper and making them into something that makes sense is the part that I cannot do. Blogging is something I can do because I can just go off on a tangent and people will read it. (At least I hope they will.) If this something you excel at then here is a link for a great website to get started in your freelance writing career. They pay a couple of dollars per assignment you choose from, and the assignments are anywhere from 150 words to 1000 words. hirewriters.com So the freelance writing failed.
The next thing I tried to do, I'm actually still trying to do this, is to become a search engine rater. Meaning that you go onto search engines and check to see how efficient their pages and answers are. Now to be able to qualify to do this you do not need any schooling, but you have to pass a series of three qualification tests. Now these aren't normal tests to see if you can just use the normal google search engine. These are tests to see if you know all the extreme technical terms and systems. (Which I do not because that is not something that interests me in my spare time to learn about.) If this is something that you like to do, here is a link for you to try it. I believe that this company was going to pay $13 an hour if you pass all the qualifications. leapforce.com I will let you know how my attempt at this method turns out.
I also tried the survey system. I went to several different websites to try and get aid for taking surveys, and most of the ones I tried just gave you a point system for each survey you took and after you got to a certain amount of points then you could turn them in for a gift card to a certain place. But you had to complete a ridiculous amount of surveys to get to that magic number and then the gift card was only for like $10 and only to a couple of places. Here are a couple of links to the websites I tried if you are interested. vindale.com surveys.ipsosinteractive.com
So all in all I failed at the whole making an extra income online. Unless by some miracle my blog takes off. But because I am being so bluntly honest about everything I doubt it will take off. If you try any of these methods above please comment on whether they failed and if you succeeded where I did not. And maybe I can learn something from y'all that I am doing wrong. Not to mention I am new to this whole blogging thing so some encouragement or some constructive criticism would be welcome. (Notice I said constructive criticism.)
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