The Work From Home Blog

StudentOfFourtune is a homework help site where some people are earning good money by answering students’ questions. The most popular question category is maths but there are many other categories too including art and business. Many people are generating decent revenue by simply selling the same answers over and over again.

Something you might at first find confusing is that the word “Answered” is written next to most open questions. This means you can still answer them however and the buyer will choose which answer he wants to buy. He decides which answer to buy based on a small preview of answers available. Student Of Fortune acts as the broker and handles payment.

While this is a fairly new and not yet a very busy site, it is one worth keeping an eye on.
Found via Mashable

I came across Twittad.com the other day which is a site where people can sell advertising space on their Twitter profile pages. Some of the people selling ad space have as little as 20 followers so there doesn’t seem to be minimum. While I saw one ad that was charging $1000 for 7 days of advertising (!), the average price seems to be around the $10-$20/month range.

Australia only
2vouch is a new job site where you can receive a finders fee for referring someone who is right for the particular job that was advertised. It seems to be mainly IT jobs so if you work in the IT field or know someone who does, this might be an opportunity for you. With many of the finder’s fees being close to the $2,000 mark per job it is definitely worth a try.

At Common Ties you can submit an interesting answer (or some artwork) to one or more of their questions in 50 words or less. If your answer is chosen you will be paid $50. Currently their questions include things like:
What is your most obsessive thought?
What is the best/worst advice you’ve ever received?
What happened on your most unusual date?
What is the most embarrassing thing that has happened to you/someone else? Read more…

I ran across an article today at Get Rich Slowly about the joys of doing odd jobs, in particular medical or other types of research. I myself, while never having participated in a medical study have taken part in paid focus groups. They’re good for some extra cash and can be quiet fun too.

Get Rich Slowly pointed to an article on MSN money on the topic. The article talked about mystery shopping, babysitting, dog sitting and other kinds of jobs that people do to earn some spare cash on the side. I have done a few of these: babysitting, focus groups, typing up people’s essays for them (before everyone had computers) and a few small sales jobs.

Do you do odd jobs to supplement your income? If yes what kind of things? Or do you consider them a waste of time, time not so well spent?

Related from Amazon:
Odd Jobs: Portraits of Unusual Occupations

If you like to interact with others (or at least taking part in a discussion) you might like to look into making some spare cash by posting on discussion forums. This kind of work will not earn you a living but it is something that can be done in your spare time for a little extra money. Payment tends to average around 10-15 cents per post.

There are many places out there that offer a paid forum posting service. Some of them are:
Forumbooster
Ideal Posting
PostingDirect
Rock Your Forums
Wired Flame
Best Forum Posting
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
and no doubt there are others…

In addition to these you can also try offering your services independently in some forums’ marketplaces such as Digital Point and other webmaster forums.

What is it?

This is how it works: Users search for an answer to a question either at a search engine or via a text message to the company. This question then get passed to an available operator (ie. yourself). You research the question, find the answer and send it to the client with your computer.

The good and the bad

The great thing with this type of work is that you can usually set your own hours and work from anywhere as long as you have an internet connection. You don’t have to sit still for hours, Read more…