Other Earning Opportunity Want to be self employed and earn money self employed/on my own.

[Hil]

Hello,

I have looked through this forum and seen many different ideas, they all seem easier said than done but just wondering what might be the best option for someone who hasn't really got a direction. Any of your experiences would be great as well.

Thank you.

 

[rich110991]

There’s not much going on to be honest.

You could do surveys but it’s not big money.

Neevo used to be a decent site but I haven’t had a decent job on there for probably 2 years.

Lionbridge Social Media Evaluator used to be good but you can only do it for a year and I’m not sure if it’s still running. Some people do the Mystery Shopping task but I haven’t ever been able to join it. Shame they don’t have more jobs for us to do.

Some people use Appen but I’ve never had any success with it.

If you drive there are mystery shopping apps like Roamler, BeMyEye and Shepper that are decent.

Matched betting is something you might be able to try, I haven’t done it myself as I’m an addict and I’m barred from betting sites

Adult text chatting jobs are available if that’s your thing, I found it too boring and too much effort.

There’s another site called Crisp Thinking which is meant to be good but the waiting list takes years and I’m still waiting.

Just a few suggestions.

 

[Sherliarty]

Do you have any skills you can sell? Or are you able to make content that would be of interest to others? I think that's where the money is these days. I've seen people make really good money from youtube channels or providing skills that YouTubers or podcasters need to access.

In terms of online work, things are quiet and have been in decline for the last couple of years. Easy pickings are few these days and long gone are the days where you could make £50 a month from playing a few short videos daily. I agree with much of what Rich says.

 

[Blackpepper1]

I would say Prolific is worth joining. Lots of higher paid academic based studies compared to ordinary survey sites. Though I notice there is a waiting list at the moment but join as it may not be a long wait:
https://app.prolific.co/register/participant
Also look at Intellizoom:
https://www.intellizoom.com/
As others have said do you have any skills to make money from that you could offer others. Writing articles or proof reading?

 

[Hil]

I would say Prolific is worth joining. Lots of higher paid academic based studies compared to ordinary survey sites. Though I notice there is a waiting list at the moment but join as it may not be a long wait:
https://app.prolific.co/register/participant
Also look at Intellizoom:
https://www.intellizoom.com/
As others have said do you have any skills to make money from that you could offer others. Writing articles or proof reading?

wat kind of articles and what do you do with them? As in where do you post them?

 

[EdibleDormouse]

I'd really focus on skills you can sell. The major freelancing platforms are Fiverr (I've had - and continue to have - a lot of success here, including a book commission), People Per Hour (used to be great, not so good now), and Upwork (I don't have much experience of this site, but others have a lot of work through here).

Unless you have a particular niche, I would NOT launch yourself as a general article writer. To answer your question above, a client - usually a small business - might ask you to write something along the lines of 500 words on Five Ways To Clean Your Office. However, with the advent of ChatGPT, articles like that have gone from being a standard £25-30 to not even getting as far as a job board. Times are tight and if a small business can save £200 a month on 'writing' their own blog, they're going to do exactly that.

What AI cannot do is research. It's just mindlessly bad at it, and there's no sign of that improving (yet). To give an example, I asked it to write a 500 word biography of me - I'm a relatively established mid-profile classical musician, so that's easy enough from Google. It made the lot up - not a single 'fact' was true.

So I would advise setting up Gigs (Fiver) and Offers (PPH) along the lines of:

• I will fact check your ChatGPT article
• I will fact check and edit your ChatGPT article
• I will take your ChatGPT article and turn it into 500/750/1000 words of sparkling human content (still a desirable gig, from what I can make out)

I would also have a dig around and see what's out there in terms of people who are creating content - there's Jennifer Marie on YouTube (good for ideas), and it's always worth joining the monthly income thread in here to see what others are doing and get ideas.

And finally, don't expect it to come good overnight. You'll need to market the bejesus out of those gigs or they'll just get lost in the dross (and they are a race to the bottom). Set up a Twitter account, Threads account, Instagram account JUST for freelancing in addition to your others socials. Follow other freelancers and job boards, other content creators.

It's hard out there, but it's certainly not over and out.

 

[Blackpepper1]

wat kind of articles and what do you do with them? As in where do you post them?

Well there are freelance sites where you can write articles and get paid for them. You could start with Fiverr and People Per hour and Upwork websites as mentioned in the above comment and see how you get on.