| Website | Description |
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| Etsy | Do you knit? Make jewelry? Sew? If so, there are lots of opportunities to sell handmade wares online. As a member of Etsy, you have your own online store to showcase your items. It's free to become an Etsy seller, but you will pay a 20 cent fee to list an item with up to five photos for four months. When the item sells, you pay a 3.5 percent commission to Etsy. There's no limit to how much you can charge, and what you earn is abased on how your crafts sell. |
| Jewelry Wonder | At Jewelry Wonder, sellers must have a least 30 items to open a free online store. There is no charte to sellers and sellers set their own prices. |
| ArtFire | The home of artists, crafters, suppliers, and media creators from around the world. Sellers can choose either a basic free account that includes unlimited listings with four pictures per item plus the ability to sell directly from a blog or website, or a Pro account for $15.95 a month with 10 pictures per item plus a customizable "store" and promo features. There are no transaction fees. |
| Fiverr | Offer services that use your skills--designing a business card, creating a podcast jingle, planning a trip--for five bucks a pop. Fiverr keeps $1 and the seller gets $4 per gig. |
| Demand Studios | This site will hire experienced freelance writers, editors and filmmakers to work on projects for sites like eHow, LiveStrong.com and YouTube. Assignments pay anywhere from $15 to $100. If you meet tenure and activity requirements, you can be eligible for health insurance plans. |
| Associated Content | This site will hire experienced freelance writers, editors and filmmakers to work on projects for sites like eHow, LiveStrong.com and YouTube. THere are three ways to earn money: upfront payments for content you write ($2 to $15 per article), assigned articles ($10 to $100 per article), and performance payments ($1.50 for every 1,000 page views of your article if it's posted online). |
| Elance | Elance works like an online marketplace, setting up designers and computer programmers with companies that need their services. Companies post jobs and freelancers bid on them. Elance gets a commission of four to six percent of what you earn. |
| Tutor.com | Tutoring online. Tutors work as independent contractors and earn around $10 to $14 per hour based on the subject and hours worked. Very active tutors can earn anywhere from $800 to $1,600 a month. |
| Just Answer | A paid question-and-answer site that's growing its community of expers ni the medical, legal, and financial fields, as well as in other specialties like car repair and home improvement. Registered customers ask a question and then name the price they are willing to pay (usually from $10 to $40) for an expert answer. The expert usually responsds within an hour, and once the customer accepts the answer, keeps from 25 to 50 percent of what the customer pays. |
| Mechanical Turk | Mechanical Turk will pay you to complete little tasks that they need done, such as searching the Web for certain products or answering questions and giving opinions. Pay ranges from a few cents to a few dollars. This may not sound like much, but do enough tasks and you have earned yourself some extra spending money. |
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