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My Work At Home World: mTurk. Simple, Legit Way To Make Money Online. I have been a worker for Amazon mTurk for over 6 months now. As a worker you have the opportunity to choose from over 1000s of different, simple tasks (HITs) and work whenever is convenient for you. As with every online job, there are pros and cons to this site.

The pros? You can work whenever. You get to see exactly what it is you'll be working on before you choose to accept the task or not. There's ALWAYS a large variety of work. The cons? Another pro is that I can guarantee that they pay! You can see here that I've made over $100 using this site! If you are interested in mTurk, head HERE to learn about how to sign up! Amazon MTurk - tutorial for beginners. New to Mturk, Here's what you should know. : mturk. Can You Actually Earn Reasonable Money from Mechanical Turk? Over the last month, tons of readers have written to me asking me about Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service.

Can you actually earn reasonable money with it, or is it a scam? What is it? For those unaware, Mechanical Turk is a service from Amazon where you can complete simple tasks in exchange for a tiny payment. For example, you might look at an image and describe it in ten words for $0.08. You might fill out a multiple-choice survey for $0.10. You might be asked to write a product review for $2.50. For the most part, the tasks available through Mechanical Turk are quick and very simple. Well, can you? 8:46 AM – Signed up for Mechanical Turk. And here’s the outcome of that adventure. Some tips Here are several things I learned that can help someone interested in Mechanical Turk earn more for their time. First, it pays to be able to write comprehensible stuff quickly. Second, the extremely low-cost Turk tasks aren’t worth it. Third, most of the tasks fit well into short breaks. User Guide for the Amazon Mechanical Turk Command Line Tools v1.3.0. The Amazon Mechanical Turk Command Line Tools are a set of command line interfaces that allow you to easily build solutions leveraging Amazon Mechanical Turk without writing a line of code.

The goals of the Command Line Tools are to: To abstract you from the "muck" of using web services To allow you to create solutions without writing a single line of code To allow you to focus more on solving the business problem and less on managing technical details The Command Line Tools can be run on the following environments: Microsoft Windows Unix based system (i.e. Mac OSX, Linux, etc.) What's New in Amazon Mechanical Turk Command Line Tools v1.3.0 We have added the following new features to this version of the Command Line Tools: A new operation Make Template copies a Command Line Tools sample application. Amazon Mechanical Turk Concepts and Additional Information For additional information, check out these resources: Table of Contents Features and Benefits Return to Table of Contents.

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