Hacktastico!

So, you’ve come to the (mostly) uncharted territories of the Internet to make money, have you? Well, let me first tell you that unless you’ve got a completely original idea, awesome web programming skills, mad design skills, and a gift for marketing, you won’t make tons of money. Or even a livable amount quickly.

In my experience, Internet Money comes slowly. That said, if you’re a college student like me with a knack for procrastination, the Internet’s a great place to make enough money to buy food other than ramen every once in a while or save for the holidays.

Thus far, I’ve done everything from survey sites, ebay, craigslist, menial tasks for pennies, product reviews, mystery shopping, search-to-win sites, and just about everything in between. What can I say, I’ve got a lot of free time. What they all boil down to is this:

There is no such thing as free money. Everything has an opportunity cost and the tradeoff is your time.

Hopefully, this post will help save you some time in your search for some additional income. I’ll be highlighting the following websites:

• Pinecone Research(Must join at certain times but pays well. $3 per survey, one to two times a week)
• Amazon mturk (Menial tasks. Need strategies to effectively earn money. Payout as soon as you earn anything)
• SurveyHead (Survey site. Sometimes hard to qualify for surveys. Payout at $25)
• Swagbucks (Search-to-win site. Very slow, leave this to relatives)
• Campus studies (College student staple. Not really on the internet, but I’ll cover that later)

Tags: college, money, mturk, Pinecone Research, survey, SurveyHead