Get Paid to shorten url

You might not believe it, but here it is: now you can get paid to shrink your url as you would normally do. How, you might ask? Very simple: adf.ly. All you have to do is sign up with them, then convert your url on your website, facebook, twitter, youtube, google  ,forums or any other social network that you use to to adf.ly, and they will pay you into your account for everyone that clicks on it.

You get paid automatically in your paypal account the first Monday of every month once you reach a minimum of $5. Which, lets face it, it is not a lot.

 That is not all, if you refer other users to sign up for the service, you will earn 5% commision on every advertising order they make. A great way to boost your earnings, selling quality traffic with adf.ly!

 What are you waiting for? Sign up here.

Make Money Uploading Files

If like me, you love to share in the world of the Internet, then ShareCash is the right tool for you.

 Simply register and start uploading your files, such as e-book, torrents, music, zip files... you name it. They accept every format.


Unlike other upload websites that pay you insanely low prices, such as $10 for 1000 US downloads, ShareCash pays an average of 60 cents per download. Thats an average of $600 for 1000 downloads - sixty times more than any other upload cash website! The best part is that 60 cents is just an average: some downloads will pay 80 cents, some $1, some even $10, and they support downloads from nearly all countries! In fact, it's very normal for some users to average 80 cents to a dollar per download.

 Here are some of the features ShareCash offers:

• Affiliate System - refer users and get 10% of what they earn!
• Premium Memberships - downloaders can buy a premium membership. If they buy one after visiting your file, you get 30% of the price!
• Affiliate messaging system - you can now talk to and train your affiliate army to make you even more cash!
• Low cashout limit - get your money after earning only $10 !
• Accepts any file type!
• Super secure - your details, files, and earnings are safe with us!
• International downloads - get paid for any country!
• Flexible, on time payments!
• Easy-to-use folder-based uploads manager!
• Friendly, 24/7 Online Community on our Forum, Live Chat, TeamSpeak, and Ventrillo!
• High-tech FTP, Direct, and Remote Uploader!

What are you waiting for? Go to ShareCash and start earning right away!

Amazon Mechanical Turk

I discover Amazon Mechanical Turk about a year ago, more or less; just flipping through my Amazon Affliliates Account. I was very surprised by it, having tried other work-from-home jobs that turned out to be fake, or other sites that, even though the weren't fake, the minimum amount you had to reach for payout it made it almost impossible for you to see any of the money, and you more or less ended up working for free.
Amazon Mechanical Turk is not like that at all.

How this works, is, in theory, very simple. Big companies like Youtube, Ebay, or even Amazon itself do continuously outsource menial and repetitive task that usually a computer can't do. For instance, lets say that you are looking for a particular video in youtube, and you type in the search box 'Whitesnake, greatest hits' but all you get is a video of the latest hype of Lady Gaga. Now that, my friend, is disappointing. The workers at the Mechanical Turk will get little jobs (aka HITS) on thousands of videos, where they have to classify whether or not they are truly Whitesnake, or Lady Gaga. This is usually very easy to do, and you mostly watch the videos and tick in the boxes in the ready-made questionnaires.Some other times, the videos will be of adult, x-rated material, but you are told so before you decide to accept the HIT, so it is entirely up to you whether you want to watch it or not. Ebay also outsources a great deal of his work, too. This means usually checking that products are in the correct categories.

 But this is not everything you can do with Mechanical Turk. Other jobs are: checking for keywords (usually people) on a particular website; translating small documents or sentences from one language to another (that is, if you speak any other language than English); transcribing audio texts; checking products information; or even writting small articles. These are only a few of the examples you will find in Mechanical Turks.

 Sounds great, doesn't it? Well, it is about to get better. One of the greatest thing about this website, is that you can register for free (truly, for free) and start working right away. For certain HITS you will require to pass a qualification, you can do so within the same system, and if you pass it, you will be able to do that particular HIT, and any other upcoming HITS in the same category. Some other times, certain HITS won't be available to you because of the location of your country. Don't despair, there are millions and millions to choose from.

 Money, money! What about the money? Am sure you are wondering about that. Every HIT pays differently, you can earn anything from 1 cent to 50 dollars on a single small job. How much do you earn, it will depend on how much time and effort you are willing to put in it. How do you get paid, then? There is no minimum you can request for payout. For certain countries, they will be able to transfer directly to your account or send you a check. Unfortunately, at this stage, you can't withdraw your winnings in many countries, but you can transfer it to your Amazon account and use it later to buy whatever you want to. I usually do this and get all my DVDs that way. Some other times, I will buy something more expensive, like a laptop, and then sell it on Ebay for the same price I paid, so I can get the cold hard cash that I paid for it.

Golden Rules to Home-employment: Never Pay Upfront fees

At this point we all have seen adverts that it promises us that is going to find us a dream job that is going to earn you thousands of dollars. This will be something as simple as filling in forms, surveys,  questionnaires, or more sophisticated activities like data entry, typing jobs, etc. The adverts and websites are many, and not limited to the ones mentioned; but it is worth noting that this is also a very common type of scam within 'modelling agencies' that promises us to find us work; or 'casting agencies' that tells you that they can get you a job as an extra in movies, but you have to pay for your portfolio and admin fees. Don't fall for that. If they want your money, avoid them like The Plague.

Aren't any legitimate companies then that offer work even if they charge you a few? The answer is that there are some, very few and they are hard to find. But chances are that before you come across a genuine online employment agency of this sort, you would have already gotten ripped off many times by those who promise that they will find you a virtual job. If you are lucky, all they will provided you with is a list of out-of-date job listings and agencies to registered with; something you could have done in your own time without spending a penny.

Stick to common sense, if what you are looking to achieve is to earn a revenue working from home, then, find a job first before you go on spending the money that you don't have -otherwise, why would you be looking for a job in the first place?

Remember the last time your boss sent you to a course to improve your IT skills? Perhaps it was one of those boring seminars, or an open day, or a training day, etc. Did he asked you to pay for it? No, of course he did not. This is because companies that want to keep ahead of competitors will train their stuff on how to use the latest technologies, or which new legislation they should be aware of, etc. The more qualified a worker is, the better the results he or she delivers to the company. Corporations know this. Your boss knows this. And unless you live in China, they are not going to ask you to pay for your own training.

So, beware, if they ask you to pay upfront fees, tell them that you are not interested and walk away.

 But wait? There are genuine companies out there, even if they ask and upfront fee. But we will look in depth at all of them in the following posts.