What are some good ways to make money on the side ?

[Jake]

You can look through the jobs available in the freelance marketplace sites like odesk.com, elance.com or freelancer.com, the Anything Goes section of the last one shows how non technical some of the work is, though web development and graphic design are most in demand, there are a lot of article writing jobs for sites needing to maintain search engine ranking.

Article brokers can eliminate the bid rejection headaches. One example article broker http://iwriter.com/ pays something like $2.50 for articles at first, graduating to about $4 after getting some good reviews. there are more elite article sources with higher quality, higher cost writers 'on staff'.

http://TextBroker.com pays based on quality
Article Quality | payment per word | payment per 500 words
2 stars: legible 0.7 cents 3.50 USD
3 stars: good quality 1.0 cents 5.00 USD
4 stars: excellent quality 1.4 cents 7.00 USD
5 stars: professional quality 5.0 cents 25.00 USD


There are also micro task sites that pay small change for a few minutes work, the original was created by Amazon, the online store to 'automate' tasks a computer couldn't do, like pick the better of 2 pictures. They named mturk.com after the 18th century Mechanical Turk chess playing machine that had a man hidden inside, shortTask.com and microworkers.com have similar micro tasks, some individual jobs are a bit shady, like signing up for product trials, doing surveys, but you get to choose which tasks to perform.