Freelance Work

Everyone has talents of some sort, and the internet is a great place to take advantage of those. There are a few freelance work sites out there where you can advertise your services and get business. If you can find work this way, you will make money a lot faster than you would on any PTC site, but you have to realise that these are actual paying jobs and if you do not or cannot complete a job after accepting it, it will hurt your reputation tremendously.

The kinds of jobs that are available are limitless. Jobs I have bid on recently include getting followers for someone on Twitter, updating someone's blog, answering customer service e-mails. There are also jobs for those of you interested in photography, creative writing, web design... the list goes on. I'm sure anyone could find something they're interested in.

This is the freelance site I currently use the most, because I like the set up a lot better than most of the sites. The only down side is that if you have a free account you are limited in the number of jobs you can bid on each month.



There's also a site I found that lets you share your expertise with other people through online classes. Everyone has a subject they are interested in and know a lot about. You can sell your knowlege on this site by starting an online class and uploading articles, videos and sound files. People will sign up for seats in your class for whatever price you have specified, and then have access to the information for whatever time frame you have specified.



The other option, for all you writers, is to join up with a site like Triond, where you can post stories and articles about whatever you're interested in and earn commission every time someone sees it. Make sure you read and understand the terms and conditions on these sites especially (you should always read them, but on creative sites it's even more important). You need to make sure you know things like whether or not you are allowed to publish your work anywhere else, who owns your work after you've published it, ect... if you are writing solely for the sake of getting money, then go for it. If you're like me and do a lot of creative writing and might want to publish your writing on your own site or in magazines and newspapers you might want to steer clear of certain sites.