User testing is a service whereby you test websites for companies as if you are one of their customers or a casual site user.

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1. User Testing

User testing is a service whereby you test websites for companies as if you are one of their customers or a casual site user.

You record your screen and audio while you navigate through the website and comment on your experience.

When doing a user test, you’ll be given a task to complete, for example, in an ecommerce store you might be asked to find a pair of white shoes and add them to the basket. As you’re carrying out this task, you’ll be thinking out loud to give the company insights into what it’s like for a consumer to use their website.

You can sign up to get paid for user testing through sites like Conversion Crimes who offer the best user testing training, or usertesting.com, userbrain.com, and intellizoom.com.

Total time: tests are usually between 20-30 minutes long.

Setup: 1-1.5 hours to sign up and do some training tests.

How easy to start: very easy. Training is clear and easy to follow.

Age threshold: usually 18+.

Payment speed: usually one month.

Average pay: $5-$15 depending on the type of test.

Need to know: work frequency is sporadic. You need to keep an eye on your email inbox for when tests come in and they go pretty quickly as others are also waiting to do the tests.

Requirements: fluent English, age 18+.

2. Online Surveys

This service consists of filling out survey forms for companies for product, service, or industry research.

Some survey providers will post surveys in the account you create when you sign up for you to complete. The service is as simple as answering the questions on the survey, but some of these services include other ways to earn money online, including watching videos and searching the web.

You can sign up for surveys on sites like swagbucks.com, inboxdollars.com, qmee.com and surveyjunkie.com.

Total time: surveys are usually 2-25 minutes long.

Setup: 30mins to 1 hour to create your account.

How easy to start: very easy. Explainer videos often provided.

Age threshold: 13+.

Payment speed: 1-2 days.

Average pay: 50 cents to $20.

Need to know: some surveys pay gift cards instead of cash or points that equate to a cash amount. Surveys pay very little, so be prepared to take a lot regularly to make any significant income.

Requirements: online account like PayPal or a bank account, strong English, age 13+.

3. Amazon Mechanical Turk

Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing marketplace that Amazon businesses can use to find workers for simple operational tasks that are best completed by a human. From simple tasks like performing data deduplication to carrying out research.

You can sign up on the Amazon Mechanical Turk website.

Total time: variable depending on the jobs you sign up for.

Setup: 30 seconds to create your account.

How easy to start: straightforward to create an account.

Age threshold: 18+ .

Payment speed: workers are paid on a regular schedule.

Average pay: varies widely depending on the types of work tasks you carry out.

Need to know: the quality of your work is assessed by the requester. If the task wasn’t completed up to par, you may not be paid.

Requirements: age 18+, bank or online payment account such as PayPal.

4. Sell Old Clothes

There are platforms where you can sell your used clothes. For example, Poshmark has a sharing platform where you can post your clothes for sale. They’ll even provide you with prepaid labels to send your clothes.

However, eBay is an open marketplace with a much larger audience.

Total time: time to take photos of your clothes and create your posts. Also time needed to answer customer questions if necessary while your clothes are up for sale.

Setup: a few hours to create your account and publish your clothes for sale.

How easy to start: very easy. You just need to create an account, take some photos of your clothes, and post them for sale.

Age threshold: 18+.

Payment speed: within two business days after the sale.

Average pay: depends on the platform you sell your clothes on and what clothes you sell.

Need to know: depending on the platform, they may only accept certain clothing brands. eBay is open to all brands, though they do carry out authenticity checks on some products.

Requirements: you need clothes to sell with high-quality photos, age 18+.

5. Share Coupons

There are websites that pay you to share coupons you find on the web.

While you’re doing your online shopping, you might come across a promotion on a site or the brand might offer you a coupon for signing up to their newsletter. When you get those coupons, you can share them with couponchief.com and earn money.

Set up: a few minutes to create your account.

How easy to start: you just need to set up your account.

Age threshold: 18+.

Payment speed: you are paid when someone uses your coupon.

Average pay: 2-3% commission on each coupon sale.

Need to know: there might be a limit on how much you can earn from each store you share coupons for.

Requirements: the coupons you sell cannot have been shared before by another user, age 18+.

6. Research Projects

People make money online by carrying out research for companies via online platforms like wonder.com.

The research projects revolve around product or service recommendations, competitive landscaping, trends, statistics gathering, and market research.

To sign up, you submit an application, they assign you a quiz and a trial project, once accepted you can explore project requests and get paid to carry out research.

Set up: a quite rigorous application process compared to the other ways of making money online discussed so far. Could take days to be open to take projects.

How easy to start: difficult compared to other ways to make money online.

Age threshold: 13+

Payment speed: dependent on research tasks carried out

Average pay: between $8-$16

Need to know: since you’ll be working with content, you should be aware of Wonder’s terms of service around infringement and liability.

Requirements: pass through the application process, age 13+.

7. Transcribe for Cash

Platforms like rev.com offer transcription services. Humans transcribe the audios and videos submitted to Rev and anyone can sign up to make money online transcribing audios or captioning videos.

Rev is a huge platform where millions of audios are submitted every month, so there should be a decent amount of work for a transcriber. All transcribing consists of listening to audio tracks and typing what you hear.

You can earn more if you speak a second language and are able to translate audios.

Set up: take an English quiz, do a transcription or caption sample. Once approved, you’ll be able to explore the platform for jobs. You can start taking jobs within a few days.

How easy to start: the application process is pretty straightforward, then you can dive right into projects.

Age threshold: 18+.

Payment speed: payments made every Monday.

Average pay: transcriptionist: $.30-$1.10 per audio/video minute. Captioner: $.54-$1.10 per audio/video minute. Translator subtitler: $1.50-$3 per audio/video minute.

Need to know: the amount of money you make per minute depends on how quickly you’re able to accurately transcribe the audio. When you’re first starting, expect to spend more time completing projects until you build up the skills.

Requirements: pass the application process, age 18+.