How to make money with Amazon Mturk - Begginers guide

 

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in this video i'm going to show you some

tips and tricks on how you can make

money online using amazon mechanical ter

so amazon mechanical turk otherwise

known as mturk is a service by amazon in

which you can work as a worker to earn

money online by doing various different

tasks so typically when you think of

amazon you're probably thinking of the

shopping online web store where you can

buy a bunch of different products but

this is not actually what we're doing at

all because despite this online store

amazon actually has other various

different services that they offer

different customers and one of those

services is called amazon mechanical

tert which is basically described as a

global on-demand 24 7 workforce so if we

look here we can see that amazon

mechanical turk is a crowdsourcing

marketplace that makes it easier for

individuals and businesses to outsource

their processes and jobs to a

distributed workforce who can perform

these tasks virtually so that is

basically what we would be doing we are

going to act as the amazon worker who is

going to perform different tasks and

these tasks can include survey

participation content moderation and

there's other things that you can do as

well such as testing different features

on a different websites and basically

companies will come to amazon or

amazon's mechanical turk and they want

to either have someone test out features

on their website so that they can

collect data and maximize and optimize

their website to be the most efficient

and basically we act as the testers we

are basically testing websites for

different companies and then those

companies pay amazon and amazon gives us

a percentage cut for each test that we

perform so obviously the benefits of

doing this are to optimize efficiency

increase flexibility and reduce costs

for the companies and basically right

here we can see that requesters have

tasks they need to be complete so

they'll send those tasks over to the

mtech marketplace and then the workers

which is us earn money and work on these

different tasks that are presented to

mturk by the company so let's go ahead

and see how this actually works let's

click on where it says get started with

amazon mechanical turk and it's going to

present us with two different options to

create tasks this is for companies that

want to submit their work so we're going

to be making money as a worker on the

mechanical turk so let's go ahead and

click on request a worker account then

we need to sign in to our amazon account

so if you don't have an amazon account

you want to go ahead and create one but

if you do have an amazon account go

ahead and sign in right here and once

you have set up your mechanical turk

account you're going to see something

like this on your dashboard and this is

just an example so yours is going to

look a little bit different but

basically we can see the requesters on

the left hand side this is going to be

the business that is sending a request

to mechanical turk in order to have you

perform a certain task and these are

typically called hits and this whole cue

right here is called your hit q and

under the hits column here you can see

how many times this task has been

performed these are called hits so you

can see that this task has been

performed 1091 times and every time this

task is performed the person that did

the task will earn two cents according

to the reward column right here so you

can see that rewards vary from different

amounts some tasks will earn you a

dollar some tests will earn you 25 cents

and some tasks can only be about 3 cents

and this is because different tasks have

different difficulties and time

consumptions some tasks will take longer

to do than others some tasks will be

really quick and easy for example this

task right here we can assume it's gonna

be really easy because it is only three

cents but a test that earns out a dollar

is probably going to take a little bit

more time to do it's probably a little

bit more complex

in what you actually need to perform on

the task and of course you can preview

all these tasks by clicking on the

preview button right here and if you

want to accept a task all you have to do

is click on where it says accept and

work and it will guide you through the

process of how to complete that task so

basically if you're wondering how you

get paid if you accept the work then you

will be paid for doing that work but if

you reject the work the worker is not

paid so if you reject a certain task you

obviously won't be paid for that task

and you also want to make sure that when

you do tasks that you are doing them

correctly in the way that the company

wants because the company can decide not

to pay you for tasks if they deem that

you did the task incorrectly or not to

the standard that they wish so that's

just something to keep in mind is when

you're doing tasks you want to make sure

that you're actually doing that task

correctly and if we look at this chart

here we can see how much someone made in

30 days so on average they made about

33.75

cents per day by doing 145 tasks per day

obviously you can do more or you can do

less and of course your average day is

going to reflect that but as we can see

here he made on day one ten dollars the

next day he made twenty five dollars the

third day he made forty seven dollars

and yes you can see depending on how

much work you do you'll sometimes make

40 you'll sometimes make even 60 here

and i see we have a 70 as well on the

16th day and some days we only see 0.81

and point 47 cents so we can assume that

either he's not doing tasks which in

this case he only did two this day but

sometimes you can do 42 tasks and still

not make a dollar but it just depends on

the complexity of the tasks and how

difficult they are to complete because

of course you can do five tasks and you

can still make around ten dollars just

by doing five tasks per day so it's just

something to keep in mind that this can

range and it really depends on how much

effort you're willing to put into amazon

mechanical turk but anyway that's how

you can make money on amazon mechanical

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