5 Alternative Fun Ways to Earn Money Online

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Tired of boring daily work? Why not try some other (fun) ways to earn a little bit of money? You won’t need any special skills or resources: just a bit of free time to earn some cash daily. 

1. How to Earn Money from Your Pictures

shareapic 5 Alternative Fun Ways to Earn Money Online

ShareAPic pays you cash if you are good at sharing your pics uploaded to the service; the details:

  • Get paid $0.22 per 1000 pic views;
  • Pay out within 30 days
  • Payments via PayPal
  • Alternative prizes: gift certificates from Amazon and eLuxury

2. How to Earn Money With Your Knowledge

justanswer 5 Alternative Fun Ways to Earn Money Online

JustAnswer pays its experts for answers the provide to the random user.

  • Earn 50% (25% if you are new) of what a customer is offering for an answer;
  • Payout threshold: $20
  • Payments via PayPal

3. How to Earn Money with Online Coupons

buxr 5 Alternative Fun Ways to Earn Money Online

Buxr offers you the way to earn money by sharing online coupons and deals. If you found a great deal, share it on Buxr, create compelling title and description and hope the community will find it useful.

  • Daily prizes: $10 and monthly prizes: over $100
  • Alternative prizes: mugs.

4. How to Earn Money by Participating in Social Networks

mylot 5 Alternative Fun Ways to Earn Money Online

MyLot is a social media community that pays its members for being active: participating in discussions, sharing photos, refer friends, etc.

  • Payment threshold $10
  • Payments via PayPal

5. How to Earn Money by Completing Simple Tasks

turk 5 Alternative Fun Ways to Earn Money Online

Amazon Mechanical Turk pays you money for completing "HITs" – Human Intelligence Tasks – simple tasks which are either impossible to do for a machine or work as a machine enhancer (a good example of such a task is Google image labeler which helps to improve Google image search).

Sample HITs: answer the question "Are these two products the same?" or complete the easy task: "Find the item number for the product in this image."

  • Rates depend on hits;
  • Payments via Amazon Payments account

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29 Comments For This Post

  1. fazlee Says:

    Good article… Thanks.

  2. Vu Says:

    Thanks

  3. Luis Says:

    I haven’t heard of any of these opportunities, thanks for the info.

  4. Jon Winthorp Says:

    The first one sounds a bit difficult $0.22 per 1000 pic views. Some very interesting new ideas to make money online that I’ve never heard of.

  5. Phaoloo Says:

    They are fun ways to earn some bucks, but Adsense is still the first choice of many bloggers.

  6. Mel Brown Says:

    At times like this, earning money online is the effective way. You can earn online while you are at home. Also, doing things like sharing your pictures and social networking are fun to do. It is like earning while having fun.

  7. Hesham Says:

    WOW! this is fun for sure :)

    I wonder when I will be able to have fun making money, because it’s kind of stressing sometimes when you try to push thing to work good for you and discover that you need more and more time!

    thanks for sharing this nice post!

  8. amkay Says:

    wow !! you are a super IT gig…..more to learn from you !! nice meeting you yesterday…. :-)

  9. Roberta Says:

    Good tips.TX

  10. Martin Lewis Says:

    Great list and very helpful in these gloomy times. Thanks.

  11. how to make blog Says:

    good post. now i have 5 more ways..:)

  12. MOORTHY Says:

    it sounds good if you can help me out to earn few buggs i ll great ful to you help

  13. tvbtorrent Says:

    nice article. love these tips..

  14. Vic – BusinessAccent Says:

    Hello,

    The list signifies the title on it. I have read many ways to earn online, but I was not expecting there are really alternative ways like these. One good thing is they are fun. Thanks for sharing.

    Vic

  15. ronel marin Says:

    all greats thumb’s up

  16. ronel marin Says:

    thanks to this awesome post..

  17. China Travel Guide Says:

    Thank you so much for share.
    I’d like to try ShareAPic, have a nice day!

  18. sohal Says:

    looks something different. I will try and hope it will work. Thanka a lot.

  19. Born to Sleep Says:

    Or… do porn.

  20. Akemi Says:

    Nice information, I will try some :)
    Thanks

  21. Lee Says:

    Wow! really nice info and I can’t wait to try all of them together. Happy earning.

  22. Jaykay Bak Says:

    Thanks for a good article, it makes me read about it help me gain more info. Thanks again and again… :)

  23. shocking pen Says:

    All useful points. Thanks.

    There’s another option and that’s about providing tech support using remote desktop software or over phone via Ether.

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  25. Jaykay Bak Says:

    I dint comment in a article most of the time, but this article makes me do it, and its so good for all readers like me. It help me learn something of what I’m looking for. Thank you…

  26. Dream Says:

    I think this hard time makes us all look for more ways to earn more money.
    Great article.I would use these information at my blog.

    Thank you

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