Some More Tips for mTurk. Get more in Less Time

So you are just new to Amazon Mechanical Turk and in the mood of making some extra dollars through this online job. You might also be an experienced person in mTurk but still looking to make more from the same efforts. So here are some of the best tips to make more money from mTurk.

If you are new to mTurk, you start with the easiest HITs available so that you get approval for almost all the HITs. The idea here is to increase your approval rate. Many of the Requesters keep most of the HITs for workers with high approval rate.

• You can pass the qualification test to become eligible for more and more HITs. Check out the qualification tab for this.
• Check each and every details before you accept the HIT and start completing this.
• Use Chrome or Firefox to check different details in different tabs. Sort out the things in  different order in different window and compare and check every now and then through the reload button.
• Once you are used to the system, try to do more and more with highest commission HITs. If you are not able to complete such tasks, try to analyze such HITs on regular basis to develop the skill and then work on high paid HITs.
• If you think that some of the HITs are not approved even if you have done this properly or requester had not provided much details for that HIT, you can contact the requester directly. This way, you can get the approval for many of your rejected HITs.
• Try to establish good relation with the requesters. This way, you will always have high approval rate from such requesters and sometime they can send you most of the HITs to you straight away without going to mTurk. This way, they can save the mTurk commission and you get Tasks which are available to you only.
• Checkout mTurk communities and forums like http://www.turkernation.com/ and www.MturkForum.com and always look for some ideas, share your experience, ask questions etc.

So keep working and make more. Good luck to all Turkers!

Mechanical Turk: Complete Guide to Make Money on Mturk

One of the few websites that pay for your hard work is Mechanical Turk – though it can be small for many people across the world. But it’s still worth a few hours of your time to work on some fun HITs or task.

One thing which is good about Mturk is that there is no fixed time that you should allot to work. It’s like you’re your own boss at Mturk. Plus no phone calls to make or to respond emails. Any time of the day you can log on to your account and start your work, but depends on the type of HITs available at that point of time

Work available is plenty, most of the time to the tune of lakhs (hundred thousand) of HITs. Task that reward from 1 cent to 10 dollars. While most experienced turkers advice not to work on tasks that pay .01 cent. To a new comer the lowest paying HITs is a way to spend some time on doing HITs as well as getting familiar to the interface and the site workflow.

Now for many people who are looking to make money on the Internet and yet haven’t found a genuine website that pays, Mechanical Turk can be the first time that you earn money online. Withdrawing money is prerogative of yours. There is no fixed schedule for withdrawing money; it can be done anytime that you like.

Now let us consider two types of persons that might consider working on Mechanical Turk.

• Exclusively looking to make money on the Internet.
• Looking to make a part-time income on the Internet.

Generating a Full-time Income Online

For those who are looking to make a full-time or close to that income on the Internet should consider Mturk only as a part of the whole strategy apart from writing articles on revenue sharing websites such as Hubpages, Squidoo etc. and maintaining their own site.

It’s true that writing articles and maintaining their niche sites is the top way to earn money online, but considering that nobody can write all day along, Mturk is a way to spend some time doing other task. Look to start small by spending some time on Mturk. Slowly and steadily anyone can make at least USD 100 to USD 200 provided you work daily. Not good but not bad at all.

For a Part-time Income

For part-time workers Mturk is really fun to work, consider spending 1-2 hours daily and increase that time at the weekends. Also on weekends the numbers of HITs also go up. Target of USD 100 for the first month is a good start.

 

10 Points to Keep in Mind.

1. If it’s your first month consider doing HITs which pay less i.e. 1 or 2 cents. Some HITs are adequately priced even at 1 cent such as a requester might tell you to type an 8-digit number from an image in to the form.
2. As your experience grows try doing only HITs that pay more than one cent. Avoid task which you feel are inappropriately priced. This time your target should be to at least to make three dollars for every work of hour.
3. Beware of scammers. HITs which require to sign up or ask for personal details should be completed avoided. The task which pay exorbitant reward should also be shunned as they are most probably by scam requester.
4. Read the Help section and understand which types of HITs are genuine. Task which require creating accounts on third party sites also violate the policies of Mturk; even if the requester pays adequately and promptly. Report HITs that are against the terms and conditions of MTurk from the link “violates the Amazon Mechanical Turk Policies”.
5. Test the requester before doing large number of HITs. Do a small number of HITs from a requester to check if he pays properly.
6. Install Turkopticon add-on to your browser. Add-on exists for Firefox and Google Chrome. Using Google chrome will be helpful because its low on memory and is a fast browser compared to others. If you are using Internet Explorer there does not exist a similar add-on. This add-on is a gem; it gives other turkers reviews on a requester who has worked for the requester. Do the same and help in expanding the add-on by adding your reviews.
7. Surf mturkforum.com for more information on the happenings, and what others have to say about their experiences, also share your experience; ask questions if you have an issue.
8. Contact a requester if you feel you have been cheated. Very few requesters will respond. Often times it’s a futile exercise, but still consider it to explain your concerns.
9. Never try to scam Mturk by creating more than one account for a person. Creating more than one account will lead to closing of all accounts and all the earnings will be forfeited. No further explanations are provided. Even though it's not mandatory but operate a single account from a house or IP address; it creates confusion among the fraud detection department of MTurk which may lead to cancellation of accounts.
10. Work daily in order to make it a viable amount of money at the end of the month. At the most transfer or request money only after 15 days, though not mandatory. Don't get discouraged by negative reviews from other turkers and consider it as fun way to make money.

So, by keeping the above mentioned points in your mind you can definitely make the most of your free time and earn money.

Happy Turking!

How to Make Money Online From Mturk - Genuine and Easy

Spending too much time on Facebook, Twitter or Youtube is just not my cup of tea. If you are also one of those who has an active internet connection and seem to get bored from much of using social media or watching your favorite shows etc.

Now you can take a break and at the same time earn money.

Seems like the many advertisements that you may have read before.

Do you think that you are reading some kind of an advertisement?

The answer is a big NO.

Let me assure you this is not a sales ploy or any such thing to get you involved in any kind of scam. Many of those advertisement stress upon the "fact" that you don't have to work or just have to spend about hour a day and the income is guaranteed.

It doesn't work like that, and never will work like that.

Likely if you are one of those who are a stay at home mom, and are looking for some money to make; at the same time spend adequate time with your children. You may have say half-hour in between of your other chores to work on the net.

No Problem! Mechanical Turk is just for folks like you.

Then there is a genuine opportunity for you to putting your computer to use and make some dollars. The website, mturk.com, comes from the internet's largest shopping site, Amazon.com. Because the site is operated from a trusted source you can be assured of getting the money for which you have worked. One more thing I'm sure that working for this site should not be taken as a substitute for a full-time job. That's why I have made the word "some dollars" bold.

The money which you'll earn can be USD 5 on one day or USD 20 the other day and zero on some days. The money earned is not consistent and depends wholly on the amount of work done.

There are no restrictions that you have to give certain period of time daily; you can work at the time from which you are comfortable. For example, one hour each in morning, afternoon, and evening or say every evening only. There is no dearth of task on mturk - work is there every time, say 2 a.m.

Mechanical Turk - Link to site

• Amazon Mechanical Turk - Welcome
  No, its not an affiliate link. In fact, Amazon Mechanical Turk doesn't have an affiliate program.

 

What is Mturk?

The simple answer to your question is that it's just like any other online freelance website. The only difference is that in other freelance websites there is a bidding process, and if you win the bid (which is for most people highly unlikely) then you get to work on that job.

It cuts the unnecessary part of bidding and all that so you can work almost instantly when you signup. The tasks are not as time-consuming like many other freelance jobs, it can take say minute to at the maximum a few hours (which is highly unlikely). Most task will only take a few minutes.

 

How to Complete Your First Task (HITs) and Get Approved?

In mechanical turk, there are tasks which are known as HITs or Human Intelligence task. When you first signup, which can be done from the site or if you have an amazon.com ID you can use that; your HIT approval rate will be 0%. Hit approval rate is a kind of qualification used for keeping quality-check on the work done.

As with other freelance websites also on mturk there are two parties viz. the workers (i.e. You) and the requestor (i.e. the Job provider).

There are three links at the top when you log on where it says "Your Account", "HITs", and "Qualifications". At this time you should concentrate only on the HITs link. When you click on the HITs link you will see the many task that are available currently.

******Click on the link which says " HITs Available To You "*******

This is because, mturk workers are from all over the world, clicking the link will show the HITs that are available to people from your country of residence, say for example, India. Still there will be many task that will be available for you. Your country of residence is also a kind of Qualification. Means, some requesters want workers from a specific country like USA to do their task.

At the time of writing these are some of the task that were available to me:

• Find the email and the phone number of each business. Reward: $0.05 HITs Available: 6368
• Find description of the company. Reward: $0.03 HITs Available: 3195
• Match places - restaurants/hotels/tourist attractions. Reward: $0.04 HITs Available: 1314

To further explain this, for the first task you have to find the email and the phone number of the business that is provided and the reward that you'll get when the requester approves the task is $0.05, and the number of HITs available is 6368. Means for each completed task you'll get $0.05. Since there are thousands of HITs in that group you can earn more. Like wise there will be other HITs, and for each HIT there will instructions from the requesters that make the process of completing the task easier.

One thing to keep in mind before hoping onto any task is that to accept only those task that you think you'll be able to complete. There is also a time alloted to complete each task which can be 10 minutes for smaller task to any amount of time for the other. If for some reason you accepted a HIT and feel that you can't complete it correctly then "Return the HIT". Returning the HIT means you are returning it for someone else to work. Returning a HIT does not affect your Approval rate and Qualification. More on that later in this article.

Don't unnecessarily accept HITs and submit without doing the work properly. The requester has the option to block you, and if you are blocked by three or more requesters in a short period of time then you'll lose your account and the money accumulated will be forfeited. To avoid that only accept and complete HITs that you are capable of doing.

As you get familiar with the interface and the process the task will get much easier and you can work more confidently and efficiently.

 

Qualifications and Approval Rate

Each requester will set a specific qualification level which may include different factors. Factors may include such as only from a specific country workers can perform the task. One basic qualification many requester will set is the "HIT Approval rate"; this is the percentage at which you have done your previous work or HITs.

Let us assume if you have done 1000 HITs in total in which 100 HITs were rejected, then your HIT approval rate will be 90 %. HIT approval rate is very important so as to keep you eligible to work on different HITs. Many requesters will set the HIT approval rate between 80 % to 95 %. There are many requesters who do pay genuinely, so don't worry if you have done the task well.

There are also some other HITs which require you to complete some kind of test, after which the HITs can be accepted.

The qualifications link will show you all the qualifications that you have. The link "All Qualifications" shows all the qualification test that you can take so that the next time when they upload another batch of HITs you'll be directly entitled to them without retaking the test.

 

How to Withdraw Your Money?

To withdraw the money earned from your work is simple and does not take much time. The payment of your work also depends on your place of residence. Mechanical Turk has divided it in three different sections: One for workers from USA, another for Indians, and other for the people from rest of the world.

For workers from USA:

Can receive money in their bank account or through Amazon.com gift card balance. For receiving money in your bank account there is a small process, which ask you to enter some mandatory information to verify your bank account. Once verified you will directly receive the money in your bank account.

For workers from India:

Workers from India can avail the money to be received in form of a check in Indian rupees. There is a verification process which has to be completed before you can request for a check. You have to submit a scanned photo-identity proof, that could be anything from PAN card, Electoral Identity card or Drivers licence. Verification process can take as much as 14 days.

Other option is to receive the money in form of gift card balance.

For workers from rest of the world:

Only option to receive the money is in the form gift card balance.

So logout from Facebook and start Turking!