How Much Money Can You Make With Bubblews?

I’ve been playing around with Bubblews the past couple of months, using the name: BigBrains.  It is quite possibly the best way to earn some extra spending money at the moment, if you just want a quick earner and don’t mind putting in some time. 

Bubblews user, Southern Teacher (aka Holle Abee), who’s word I trust (she’s a fellow online earner who has had a strong presence on HubPages for a number of years), claims to have earned $1,738.86 on Bubblews since September 10, 2013.

I do believe that’s absolutely possible, although I myself earned less than 10% of that over a similar period.  Plus I also suspect that you have to put a lot of time in to achieve that level of earnings (more time than I have!).  The earnings probably don’t sound quite so impressive if you work out the hourly rate.

Anyway, here are my personal experiences, good and bad, when I tried earning with Bubblews.

What is Bubblews?

Basically Bubblews is a website where you get paid for writing short “bubbles” (essentially written pieces) and socially interacting with other “bubblers”, “liking” and commenting on their work, as you would do in something like Facebook.

The articles you write are meant to be clippets of news, or short factual pieces, but in practice people write just about anything, including personal blog posts, poetry, and opinion pieces.  The great thing is that your articles only have to be a minimum of only 400 characters long (yes, you read right, that’s 400 characters, not words!) which is pretty short.

Earnings

You can earn around a dollar for an article, in my experience, provided you’re prepared to put in some time liking, following and commenting on other people’s stuff.

You are limited to posting 10 bubbles within any 24 hour period, however, making it difficult to earn much more than $10-$15/day in my experience.

Writing and posting the 10 Bubbles doesn’t take too much time, but if you add to that all the liking, commenting, etc. that you also need to do, it can get pretty time consuming and I assume that the high earners put in quite a bit of time.

There is a “passive earning” element to Bubblews, but it is nothing significant.  I found that on days when I didn’t post, I still earned, but it was only in the region of 15-30 cents/day.

I assume that the passive element will get bigger, the more followers that you have, but I doubt that it will ever bring in large earnings.

The ideal, of course, would be to have a Bubble go viral on Twitter or one of the other social media sites.

 

Payment

Bubblews has a range of payment options.  I opted for payments via my PayPal account, but you can be paid by other methods, including by check.

 

Pros and Cons of Bubblews

 

Pros

• Very easy to use.  Writing 400 characters is quick and doesn’t take too much effort.
• Very few restrictions on topics that you can write about.
• Socially interactive and fun.
• Payments are relatively generous for this type of program.

Cons

• Some users complain of not being paid, usually with no explanation given.  I don’t know how often this happens, but it has happened to me once.
• Threshold for payment was raised from $25 to $50, which means it takes longer before you’re entitled to request a payment.
• It can take at least a week to get your money after you click the redemption button, as you typically have to wait a few days for approval, followed by a few more days to access your money in PayPal.
• Some of the writing quality on there is very poor quality – obvious spelling and grammar errors, as well as bland or thin content – which makes you wonder if the site will survive in the long run without more stringent quality control.

 

My Earnings Stats

In a 4 month period, I worked on Bubblews most days.  Sometimes I just wrote one or two bubbles, but there were days where I worked more intensively, and some where I wrote the maximum 10 bubbles.  I wrote just over 200 bubbles in total.

Over that period, I had 3 payouts of $25, 1 payment of $50, and 1 of my requests for payment rejected (no explanation given).  

I also gained just over 700 connections during this period, and my bubbles received just under 16,000 views, and over 500 comments.

 

Conclusion

The payments/earnings are generally reasonably generous for this type of site.  That said, when you factor in all the time spent, the hourly rate isn’t that great.

You won’t make a living from Bubblews, certainly if you live somewhere with a high cost of living like the USA, but it’s a great site if you just want to earn some extra spending money and have some fun!

 

Joining Bubblews

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How much money do you earn online with Amazon MTurk?

How much money do you earn online with Amazon MTurk?  This is good question and a relevant one for someone who is weighing up various ideas to make money online.  In my experience Amazon Mechanical Turk is actually a relatively straightforward option for making money online, as it is free to sign up to and once you have got used to the set up of the site, you can easily find out details of what each Amazon MTurk hit (task) entails and how much money that you will earn for its completion before you click to accept it. 

If you want actual earnings figures for MTurk then I will give you an idea of how I work and how much I earn in return for completing MTurk hits.  I tend to work in stints of two to three hours per day on MTurk.  Where possible, I do hits for MTurk requesters that I have worked for before, as then I know that there is a good chance that I will be paid and I also have a rough idea when.  For those two or three hours work, I would normally expect to come away with somewhere between and $8 and $18.  There may well be MTurk workers out there who do much better than that, if so, please feel free to comment.  I think the most that I have made is $27 in a half day but that is not typical for me.

On my bad days, a lot of my time is wasted on trying to find suitable MTurk hits.  On the good days, I find hits straight away and get straight on with it.  I don’t use any programs to cheat, though I am aware that there is software out there that some people have experimented with, such as software for generating reviews, blog posts, written articles etc.   

There are people who say that they have stumbled on reasonably well paid tasks that they can complete a lot of very quickly and they’ve come away with earnings of  $200+ for a day’s work, but that has never happened to me.  I would also remind people to be wary of the very high paying hits, as many of them are scams, designed to get you to hand over personal information.

I am relatively cautious when it comes to choosing jobs, but my wife is more experimental and that means her MTurk earnings tend to be more variable.  You can sometimes find lucrative MTurk hits by looking around and trying things.  But one risk of doing a lot of completely new MTurk hits all at once is that sometimes the requester will reject all your hits, either because you didn’t understand the instructions properly and did the tasks wrong, or because you have been unlucky and got one of the dishonest Turk requesters.  This can damage your rejection stats and effect your future work, as well as waste your time.