How To Start Making Money Online With Amazon Mechanical Turk

If you have an extra time and you want to use it productively, and you have a computer connected to internet than you can start making money online. If this is the thing that you want there are many ways you can make money working in front of your computer. One of the easiest ways to start making money online for free and quickly is completing small jobs called HIT’s (Human Intelligence Task) on one of Amazons services called Amazon Mechanical Turk or mturk like it’s also called.

There are always thousands of HIT’s available on Mechanical Turk at all times. Whenever you log in you can find 200.00+ hits listed from many categories. You can make money with writing description, retyping scanned documents like business cards into forms, transcribing audio files, participating in surveys, categorizing images and many more ways. The pay you will receive from a finished and approved hit is from $0.01 up to several dollars.

Step by step to start making money online on Amazon Mechanical Turk

To make money completing hits is simple and free and you can start immediately. Here are step by step instructions:

1. Go to Amazon Mechanical Turk homepage.
2. Open worker account. Once you are on mturk homepage you can choose to open a worker or requester account. To make money on mturk you will need to open a worker account. IF you wish to hire workers on mturk called turkers than you will need to open a requester account.
3. Browse through hits and find those you want to work on. You can do this by clicking on find hits and sort them by reward amount, title. most hits available, creation date, expiration date and time allotted.
4. Complete qualification test. Many high paying hits will require you to finish a qualification test to be able to work on them. There are also other requirement like your approval  rate, number of approved  hits but many times passing a qualification test will be sufficient to start working on them.
5. Complete the hit and submit it for review. If your hit is approved by the requester you will be paid. Once you reach the minimum payment amount you can request your payment or you can spend your earnings to buy stuff from Amazon.

What are advantages and disadvantages of making money online on Amazon Mechanical Turk

Mechanical Turk has many advantages when it comes to making money online. It’s free to join and there are  thousands of jobs available at all times. Compared to regular freelance jobs websites you don’t have to bid for a job and wait to be accepted to start working. On Mturk you can just log in and start working.   There are forums like Turker Nation and Mturk Forum where you can discuss with other workers about hits, requester and other things concerning Amazon Mechanical Turk.

Mechanical turk also has many disadvantages. Most of the hits pay to little for the time and effort you need to put in to finish it. There are high paying hits but they are much sought after by other workers, so you must log in frequently to find high paying hits to work on them. Another disadvantage of making money online on Mturk is that only US and India residents can receive payment. If you are from another country in the world you can however use your earnings to buy something from Amazon.com, so not everything is lost. Working on Mechanical Turk you will likely not make money to earn a minimum wage, but you can make an extra money working in your spare time. There are also scammers that avoid paying workers for completed.