Elance, textbroker, mechanical turk, etc?
Mechanical Turk has a terrible person hours:revenue ratio if you live in a developed country. Not as familiar with the others, but I think Elance tends to pay pretty poorly too.
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#12Not HN-ish but has she considered Avon? My wife sells Avon and it's a not half-bad way to make some income on the side.
Avon is not only a pyramid scheme but a terrible way to make money.
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#13I was looking for something similar for my girlfriend. I was thinking she could market/translate Western apps/websites for the Chinese market since she is Chinese and speaks Mandarin and Cantonese. Not sure how to get her started though. Would you pay for such a service?
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#14Maybe drop shipping? You have to make an effort in finding a !crowded niche but there's money to be made if you got your act together. Check out this Reddit IAmA http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/se78n/i_make_over_100k...
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#15Elance, textbroker, mechanical turk, etc?
Mechanical Turk has a terrible person hours:revenue ratio if you live in a developed country. Not as familiar with the others, but I think Elance tends to pay pretty poorly too.
From what I gather, it depends in part on the person. I never figured out elance but at one time was making over $200/week on textbroker. Yes, I felt the ratio amounted to slave labor but I was also clear a lot of the difficulties were on my end, not theirs. I am currently trying to develop my own sites, which have never made anywhere near $200/week. I remain torn between going back to those slave wages and continuing to gamble my time on a possible pay off somewhere down the road while, in the mean time, there is no income.
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#16I was looking for something similar for my girlfriend. I was thinking she could market/translate Western apps/websites for the Chinese market since she is Chinese and speaks Mandarin and Cantonese. Not sure how to get her started though. Would you pay for such a service?
I would (for the text of an app), but I have no real clue where one goes (other than a search) to find / advertise that type of service.
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#17Some random thoughts:
Prepare food and sell it or help tourists out.
Create a website about living with a hernia.
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#18Maybe drop shipping? You have to make an effort in finding a !crowded niche but there's money to be made if you got your act together. Check out this Reddit IAmA http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/se78n/i_make_over_100k...
Hi Arkitaip, there was a thread exposing this guys posting as dishonest. I can't find it on Reddit any longer, but I did find this:
http://r.bernsteinbear.com/r/self/comments/sgaka/dont_trust_...
The gist was the links he posted to the PPC/SEO companies were actually his own (and this was his true purpose).
[Edit, found the link!]
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#19Uh huh-huh. Huh huh-huh huh-huh-huh.
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#20AirBNB hires at home customer service reps or at least they used to anyways not sure if they still do. A lot of companies hire people to manage social media too.
Do you have any good links/references/experience with 'managing social media'? My wife has been offered a social media position with a small local company but neither of them know 'what to do' beyond managing facebook and she really wants to do well at the job (she's excited!) so is looking for ideas.