Friday, March 25, 2011

Microworkers Tips

Microworkers has money making potential.  In my experience, it’s more suited to doing maybe four or five jobs per day and building up the dollars gradually.  That’s because there are slightly less opportunities for work and earnings than on MTurk, purely because there are usually far less jobs on offer.  If you are like me, however, you use a variety of websites to make money online, not just MTurk.  Anyway, here are my Microworkers Tips.

  • Create alternative email accounts etc. to use specifically on Microworkers.  That way, if you get spammed later, it’s not effecting your main personal account.  You can also do this with Facebook, Youtube etc. for some of the tasks that ask you to rate/favorite/like specific businesses etc. but be careful, as the requester may reject you if they work out what you’ve done!
  • Always read the job carefully before you agree to do it.  This might seem one of the most obvious of my Microworkers tips, but it’s quite easy to mess up and slip below the 75% approval rate if you’re not careful.  I came very close one time just by me making making mistakes with two small tasks.  One more mistake and I’d have been out of action on Microworkers for a couple of weeks.  (Microworkers is more generous than MTurk and allows your approval rate to recover over time.)
  • This is maybe my best Microworkers tips on how to make money online and learnt from experience.  Always check out the success rate of the workers who’ve completed the job previously, it will give you an indication of whether the job is easy to get right and also whether the requester is legit.
  • I guess it’s a question of conscience, but I personally avoid jobs that I think might be scams or not legitimate in some way.  I really don’t want to be responsible for posting some fake job advert that might defraud some desperate unemployed person.  (I would like to see Microworkers clean up their site where it comes to scammers and spammers, but I doubt it will happen anytime soon!)
  • I find that some of the competition voting is quick and easy money in Microworkers.  You can sign up and vote three times in ten minutes and earn a dollar.  The same goes for the facebook liking and twitter following etc.
  • I always say it with MTurk, but the same is worth mentioning for Microworkers, and that’s to always prioritise your own security and don’t give out personal information to requesters that could be used to defraud or spam you.  Always be wary of requesters who offer large sums for apparently simple tasks.

See links in sidebar for more Microworkers articles and make money online ideas.

29 comments:

  1. i m working in microworkers for the past 1 month..done over 40 works and have 95% success rate...till last week i m getting over 30 works a day... but now only 12 to 15 works...would u please help me...

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  2. I can't help you Jomz, sorry. I have the same problem. There just aren't that many jobs on Microworkers at times. It is a much smaller operation than MTurk and there isn't always enough work on there.

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  3. Great Website I Have Earned $61 Dollorz Total In 4 Months... In Start i am tooo slow... but when i receive pin code or first payment... i will do many tasks per day....

    In Starting...

    First 2 Months= Only $10
    40 Days: $10
    28 Days: $10

    and Now i am too fast

    30 Days= $20 to $22 Mostly Is $20 Dollors Per Month.

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  4. Thank you for the positive feedback on my blog, Prince!

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  5. Ive been using microworkers for going on 2 years now. In the last 5 months i havent anything, since ive been working at my real job. In the winter online sites is what i live on. I have 165.00+ saved up on microworkers. In the past 2 years ive been paid 315.00+ not including the 160+ i have saved. its a really neat place. Im happy with it.

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  6. have any idea how they pay?? i am from Bangladesh. how i will receive money??

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  7. Payment is a sore point. They used to use PayPal, which was good for me. Now they use Moneybookers and Alertpay, which isn't so good. I don't know any specifics for Bangladesh, sorry - I am Brit living in the USA.

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  8. i got regular payment from it

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  9. thanks for the blog,i m a new microworkers user just in 7 days, but i only get 2 or 3 job in a day, will u help me "how can i get more jobs in a day",

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    1. There are only a limited amount of jobs there. There is no way around that, as far as I can see!

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  10. I joined beginning of Feb. 2012. I do primarily quick 2 to 3 minute jobs like google+1, blog facebook comments, keyword search and rank, retweets. These only take a couple minutes. I've done 264 jobs so far and only failed one. Average earnings per job is just over $0.35. $61 earned in Feb., on pace to earn over $100 this month. Made my first $40 withdrawal. Took a week to get my PIN and was paid the day after I entered it into the site. Am using Moneybookers for pay and got my first deposit from them in just 2 days. I'm finding plenty of jobs to make $3 to $4 per day. That's my experience so far.

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  11. tell me some jobs(exemple venue qulity) sorry for my bad english thanks

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  12. I want to know about forum post on microworkers. how can i do this jobs? please help me

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  13. Very nice post and comments. Is there anyway of putting your microworkers id in the employers(who starts the campaign or job) list to get the more jobs?
    Thank you,

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  14. Paul, can you update us with your Microworkers experience? This post is over 1 1/2 years. Are you currently using it? I've been working on Amazon's Mechanical Turk (AMT). When I signed up to Microworkers, the majority of the jobs seem to violate the rules that AMT has in place... giving personal information... signing up for accounts on outside web pages. They ask for my ISP address. Isn't that something I'm supposed to protect? I've also read reviews that it is a scam and many people complain they never receive the PIN that is required to withdraw money. They have also switched off of PayPal to another payment method I've never heard of, AlertPay or something like that. So if you have a current update/article, I would enjoy reading it. Thank you.

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  15. I've stopped using Microworkers for some of the reasons you've outlined. It was a combination of the things you've outlined above. A lot of the jobs on there are ethically borderline to put it diplomatically. Also, to get paid the last time, I ended up having to open another account, not Paypal, to get my 10 bucks. MTurk is less trouble, in my experience, even if it is harder to get reasonably paid jobs than it used to be.

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    1. Hi Can you please give me your account so that i will use it and earn some amount if u have already left microworker. kindly contact me on mrutunjayhyd@gmail.com

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  16. another alternative is Chotujobs also has a refferal system for faster income generation

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  18. Well well well, many of the comments and also what I've read elsewhere about microworkers are not exactly inviting. Paypal removed, many bad requesters, lots of complaints with payments... now I'm sure to stay far away from microworkers.

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  19. Don't Skip It Will Help You:
    Create an account on Microworkers alternative to double your earning. Obviously microworkers is best, why don't you try alternative-
    Microearners

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  20. I don't think Mtruck is available for india, don't know the reason even iam not able to access Mtruck. +Anonymous

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  21. Can we open two accounts with microworkers ? If not why? Is there any process to maintain two accounts within same pc . Please help me by your suggestions. Thanks in Advance.

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  22. hi Paul, I have worked to microworkers since a month.only two weeks ago I try to get my money from my account.I have entered the requested pin and still yet i haven't received my payment.I do my payment from pay pal and I send a message and I inform them about my problem.please help me..

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  24. I,m from India. I use microworkers. If I get good reputation in this site , will I be able to get more reasonable and high paid work?

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  25. i finish the task but i am not getting verification code please guide how to get verification code i m new on microworkers

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