Miscellaneous

Sometimes work from home jobs are so unique that there’s just no category for them, but they still can earn you extra money each month nonetheless. If you’ve yet to find anything on this list that piques your itnerest, perhaps one of these will.

Turo – If you live in a multi-car household, chances are you’ve got an extra vehicle that does a lot of sitting in your driveway or garage. Instead of letting it collect dust, sign up on Turo. This free platforms lets you put your car to work by renting it out to others. It’s completely free to list your vehicle and Turo even covers your car for $1 million each time it’s rented. Plus, all renters must go through a background check — making it super safe and easy to make money with your car. List your car today and get paid tomorrow with Turo.

Slice The Pie – This is one of the most fun ways to earn extra money. You get to listen to music (at least 90 seconds) and write a review. You get paid for each review you write. Payouts are made through PayPal once you’ve reached $10.00. You can also review fashion items!

Data Collection – iSoftStone often has crowd worker projects available. Tasks are simple and can be done whenever you want.

Humanatic – Listen to and review recorded phone calls. You’ll judge them based on a set criteria. Pay is on the lower side, but if you get into a groove you can quickly get through a number of calls and earn extra money.

Reynolds & Reynolds – Similar to Humanatic, you’ll listen to phone calls between clients and customers. Your job is to identify any missed sales opportunities.

ChaCha – Become a ChaCha Guide and get paid to answer questions. You get to join a fun community, learn a lot of new things, and share your knowledge with others all while earning a little extra money.

Maven – At Maven, you can offer up your knowledge in a marketplace. You can ever offer micro-consulting services (it’s kind of like getting your brain picked for a fee!). Maven matches you with clients based on your knowledge base and the clients needs.

Call Source – Occasionally has opportunities available for call reviewers. You work as an independent contractor and get paid for each call you review.

Udemy – You don’t need to be a teacher to have an Udemy course. Whatever it is you know (yoga, piano playing, coding, anything) you can offer a course and get paid each time a student pays for it! Udemy will help you make and market the course.

Keaton Row – If you consider yourself to be a fashionista, you can earn extra money each month as a Keaton Row stylist. You build your own personal styling business and get paid unlimited commission for sales you make.

Shop Your Way – Become a personal shopper and get paid to shop. Invite people to shop, recommend products and offers, and get paid every time they make a purchase.

Pocket a little cash without getting scammed.

Avoid the get-rich-quick schemes by sticking to these sites. (iStockphoto)

It doesn’t take much time to run across someone pitching a “get-rich-quick” scheme online. We’ve all seen them – people who promise to show you how to make thousands at home in your spare time.

Guess what? Like any get-rich-quick scheme. it’s only going to make money for the person running the scheme.

That doesn’t mean there aren’t reputable ways to earn a little bit of money online during your spare time. There are many easy and legal ways to earn a few bucks on the Internet. Here are nine to try:

Mechanical Turk is a program run by Amazon where anyone can sign up and complete simple tasks – like choosing which of two pictures depicts a bridge – to earn a few cents per task. With some practice, you can earn a few dollars an hour while just sitting on your couch watching television. And with enough focus, you can earn an amount roughly equal to minimum wage.

YouTube allows anyone to post nonexplicit videos on pretty much any topic they desire. Recording a video can be as simple as turning on the camera on your computer and hitting the record button. If you enable advertisements on your videos, you can earn money at a rate of about $1 to $3 per 1,000 video views. The more videos the have, the more views you can accrue, so this option really pays off if you record a lot of videos and build a viewership.

eLance allows people in almost any profession to find freelance work at home in their spare time. While the projects on eLance aren’t going to earn you a ton of money, they do provide a great way to build an independent portfolio to show off your skills while also building a network of clients.

Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing allows anyone who has written a book on their own to upload it to Amazon to be sold on Amazon Kindle devices. Let’s say you write a novel and want to sell it. If you upload it here and then promote it online through social media or blogs, you can sell copies of your book and earn as much as a 70 percent return on each sale.

Fotolia allows you to sell photos you’ve taken for stock photography usage. For example, if a publisher is looking for a picture of a beach and you uploaded such a picture, the publisher can use Fotolia to purchase the rights to use that picture in its publication and you receive a cut of that money. For a photography hobbyist, this is a great way to earn a few dollars for some of your best photos.

Swagbucks is perhaps the most popular – and most legitimate – of the online survey sites. Swagbucks pays you a small amount for participating in a consumer survey, which companies then use to figure out what kinds of products to make and sell. You can participate in several surveys a day, and Swagbucks earnings can be redeemed for gift cards from Amazon, Target, iTunes and more.

Fiverr is a website where you can make $5 doing almost anything. On the site, people upload jobs that they’re willing to do for $5, like writing Facebook posts for companies. Many of the jobs require creative skills such as graphic design or audio editing, but tasks are things you can easily do on the couch in your spare time.

Skillshare is a website where you can teach an online class and get paid for it. You record series of videos on a topic that you know about – popular subjects include crafts, film, fashion and cooking – and then participate on the Skillshare forums related to your class. In exchange, you receive a cut of the money from the people who take your class. No teaching degree is necessary to get started, and the site says teachers can earn an average of $3,500 a year.