Monday, March 23, 2009

On Ways to Earn Online


There are a lot of different ways on how to earn online. The past year was, for me, a good year where I learned and earned in different ways.

Like most who started earning online, I got myself project based jobs. I had Data Entry and Writing projects.

The longest Data Entry project I had lasted for more than two years (that is if my memory serves me right). It was a simply cut and paste job, just updating and submitting the daily excel document of a client. I felt a bit sad when my US based client terminated the project. I felt sad not because he found a better, faster and ultimately cheaper way to do what I was doing but because the client was such a nice person to work with who paid in advanced and went the extra mile to make sure I got my money.

I also did technical data entry where I was introduced to HTML. It was basically a cut and paste project too but it was coded with all those HTML gibberish. It was actually an outsourced work from a Pinoy middleman.

Another data entry project I did was encoding captchas. Captchas are those letters and numbers that you sometimes have a hard time deciphering that you need to copy in order to be given access to the next step. It is just the online world's way of making sure that the person they are transacting business is a real person and not just an automated program.

The writing projects I did were articles of less than 500 words, about 1 page of a legal sized bond paper. The articles had to be written in such a way that certain keywords are incorporated, meaning you have to use the keyword in the title, opening sentence or paragraph, in the body and closing.

I also dabbled in HYIP (High Yield Investment Program) where my investment earned 12% daily or 144% after 12 days. HYIP is a very risky type of investment program where scammers abound. The minimum investment was just $6 and I entered the company when they were barely a month old and had a promo where they offered a $3 incentive for signing up. The company didn't last long though but I was wise enough to have kept my investment to a minimum and just used some of the profit when re-investing.

I also did PTC or paid to click. Here you get paid to either manually click on or automatically view ads for a few seconds. This is really time consuming and on hindsight really isn't worth it because I was just paid $0.01 per click. What was good about that online earning episode was I was able to be part of a team who really did their due diligence and we usually were able to bail out before we got further ripped off. PTCs are a haven for scammers.

I don't recommend though that you tread the same path that I did if you want to earn online. My purpose here is to just give you an idea that, yes, it is possible to earn online and it is not confined to just getting a job.