How To Make A Lot Of Money Rdr2 Online

As Sally Struthers used to say, would you like to earn more money? Sure we all would.

Fortunately in the "gig economy," there are plenty of ways you can earn a little extra cash for your time. Whether it's market research surveys or focus groups or donating your plasma, there are a lot of places that will pay.

I've spent nearly a hundred hours on this post to give you the most comprehensive list of sites that will pay you for something. In some cases, it's your time – doing tasks. In other cases, it's your stuff – selling your used goods and turning clutter into cash.

If you've ever said to yourself – "I need money?" This post is for you.

When I say I spent a hundred hours, it's because I've vetted these sites. A lot of places that purport to let you make money fast aren't real. You have to watch out for scams too and much of my time was researching the company, checking BBB listings, and making sure you aren't going to get ripped off.

I've separated the list into two main categories – sites that will pay you for "stuff" and sites that will pay you for your "work."

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Table of Contents

Sites that Pay You For Work
Sites that Pay You For Stuff

Try Their Service
Fill Out Surveys
Drive
Start a Blog
Go Shopping
Write/Illustrate Greeting Cards
Listen/Rate Music
Tutoring
Mock Juror
Play Games
Data Entry
Test Websites & Usability
Test Products
Mystery Shop
Freelance Writing
Freelance Work
Watch TV
Search/Surf the Web
Write Reviews
Miscellaneous
Used Books
Junk Mail
Stock Photos
Old Electronics
Make Videos
Unused Computer Resources
Luxury Goods

Sites that Pay You For Work

These are sites where you get paid to do something. If you want sites where you can turn your stuff into cash, go to Sites that Pay You For Stuff.

Sites that will pay you to…

Try Their Service
Fill Out Surveys
Drive
Go Shopping
Write/Illustrate Greeting Cards
Listen/Rate Music
Tutoring
Mock Juror
Play Games
Data Entry
Test Websites & Usability
Test Products
Mystery Shop
Freelance Writing
Freelance Work
Watch TV
Search the Web
Write Reviews
Miscellaneous

Sites that Pay You For Stuff

These are sites where you can turn things that you currently own into cash. If you want sites that will pay you to do something, those will be under Sites that Pay You For Work.

Sites that will pay you for…

Used Books
Junk Mail
Stock Photos
Old Electronics
Make Videos
Unused Computer Resources
Luxury Goods

OK, get ready… the ride is about to start! 🙂

Try Their Service

Companies are always trying to get you to try their new service and sometimes there are switching costs, such as with a cashback app (or it's a pain to switch), so these companies will give you a little extra:

TopCashback – $15 sign-up bonus after you earn $10 in cash back
HoneyGain – $5 sign-up bonus (read our HoneyGain review)
NetSpend – $20 bonus when you deposit $40
Robinhood – free share of stock
Webull – 2 free stocks worth up to $2,300
Moomoo – get a free share of LCID stock;, then one free share of GM after funding with at least $2,000

Fill Out Surveys

Surveys are great! Market research is a huge business and they always need people to fill out their rosters.

All of these companies are legitimate, according to my research, and I use the rules outlined in my post on how to tell if a survey company is legit.

United States:

SurveyJunkie Best Option!

Pinecone Research
MyPoints Surveys
Swagbucks – $5 BONUS!
InboxDollars
PrizeRebel
Vindale Research
Opinion Outpost
Toluna (read our full review)

Canada:

SurveyJunkie (Canada)
Pinecone Research (Canada)
Toluna (Canada)
Vindale (Canada)

Drive

If you have a car, you can start earning money as a driver!

You can earn hundreds of dollars a month working a flexible schedule and that's before bonuses. If you are lucky enough to live in a hot city, there are promotional bonuses (some cities it's as much as $1,000) that can boost your earnings even more.

Each of the rideshare companies has different rules but nothing prevents you from driving for multiple companies.

DoorDash – Similar to uberEATS, you get paid to deliver food and you can use your car or a bicycle. Check out your guide to maximizing your DoorDash driver earnings from a driver with nearly 6,000 deliveries!

Instacart – Shop groceries for other folks and get paid to deliver it to them.
AmazonFlex – You don't drive people, you deliver packages.
Lyft – You can rent a car to drive if you don't have one!
UberEATS – Instead of driving people, you deliver food. You can do this by car, scooter, or even bicycle.

Start a Blog

You won't be paid immediately but one of the best side hustles you can start is your own blog. In just ten minutes, you can have your own little corner of the Internet. If you play your cards right, as many have done, you could turn that little parcel into a burgeoning metropolis… one that could generate a nice side income for you.

If you've been tempted by the income reports, here's my guide to starting a blog in just 10 minutes.

Go Shopping

When you shop online, you should buy through a cashback portal. A cashback portal will give you a small percentage of your purchase back to you, usually as points and sometimes as straight cash, which is nice since you'll be spending the money anyway! Oftentimes the cashback portal will also include coupons that will help you save too.

Swagbucks
MyPoints – Get $10 gift card after $20 purchase
TopCashback – Get $15 added to your first cashout
Rakuten – Get $10 after first purchase of $25+ within 90 days
InboxDollars

Write/Illustrate Greeting Cards

I bet you didn't know you could make money writing greeting cards right? If you've ever considered yourself a wordsmith in the ultra-short form, consider looking at one of these:

~~Hallmark~~ – Hallmark no longer accepts unsolicited submissions. 🙁
American Greetings
Blue Mountain Arts – Longer form prose or poetry, not for rhymed poetry, religious verse, one-liners or humor.
Ephemera – Not greeting cards but novelty buttons, magnets and stickers.
Gallant Greetings – Not accepting verse submissions right now but I kept them on the list in case they change.
It Takes Two – Illustrators
Oatmeal Studios – Accepting artists and writers
Smart Alex – "Funny, edgy & risque" and looking for artists, photographers and writers.

Listen/Rate Music

Do you like music? Do you like rating?

Do you like making money listening and rating music? Get paid a few cents to up to $1 for reviewing music.

Slicethepie – Listen to 90 second tracks and leave your 50-word+ review on it. You start off by getting paid just a few cents a song but as you progress you're paid more per review. $10 minimum required to withdraw via Paypal.
Music Xray – Another review site with a ranking system that pays you more as you do more, you can get up to $1 per review which is the highest of any we've seen. $20 minimum payout though.

Tutoring

If you are knowledgeable about something, there will always be places for you to teach that knowledge to others. The following sites are for tutoring, rather than building your educational courses and selling them online, and unless it's noted they are based in the United States.

VIPKID – Part-time online English as a Second Language to children, $14-$22/hour
Education First
BuddySchool
HappyTutors
TutorVista
Tutorhub (UK)
Tutor.com

Mock Juror

Going to jury duty is terrible, but being a mock juror is great!

A mock juror doesn't have to go to a mock courtroom, hear a mock case, and render a mock opinion. A mock juror just gets a bunch of documents in the comfort of his or her home and get paid for your opinion and feedback. Legal teams need this as a trial run for their big cases and you can get paid to read interesting stories and see fascinating evidence… all without a trip anywhere!

Online Verdict
eJury.com

Play Games

If you enjoy games like slots, bingo, and wheel of fortune, you'll love getting paid to play games. This list contains legitimate places where you can get paid to play various games, usually after watching some commercials or other promotional videos.

They're fun if you're into that sort of thing, you earn a few points here or there, and can convert them into gift cards or sometimes cash.

Swagbucks
Bingozone
GSN Cash Games
Solitaire Cube
Pool Payday
Dominoes Gold
Blackout Bingo
21 Blitz

Data Entry

Data entry falls into one of two major categories – micro-tasks and transcriptions. Most micro-task sites, like Amazon mTurk, will have transcription jobs in addition to other jobs.

If you are a relatively fast typer, this is a great way to earn some cash in your spare time.

Transcription

Dion Data Solutions
Working Solutions
Scribie
AccuTranGlobal
Quicktate
SpeakWrite
Vitac
MegaTypers

Translation

The Word Point
ProZ
TRADUguide
TranslationDirectory

Micro-tasks

Amazon mTurk
Clickworker
Lionbridge (Virtualbee was acquired by Lionbridge)
Short Task

Test Websites & Usability

Website owners always want to know how users are seeing their websites and you can get paid to do the testing!

How much do you get paid? For example, UserTesting pays out $10 via Paypal for every 20-minute video you complete. That's $30 an hour! All it takes is a computer, a microphone (you will give your feedback verbally), and an internet connection so you can view the website in question.

Here's a list of places that will pay you to test websites:

TestingTime
Startup Lift
Analysia
TryMyUI
UserTesting
Userlytics
Enrollapp
uTest

Test Products

If there is mystery shopping to test the user experience in a store and there is website testing to test a website, it would make sense that companies would pay you for your opinion of an actual product right?

That's this category.

National Consumer Panel
Nielsen Homescan Panel
Contract Testing Inc. (Open to U.S. & Canada Residents)
Product Testing Services
Loreal Product Testing Panel
Software Judge
Tragon
Good Housekeeping Product Tester Panel
Brillo Consumer Advisory Panel
BzzAgent – Word of mouth marketing agency that will send you products from time to time.
Influenster
Vogue Insiders
PINCHme
Redbook Team Red
Stylehunters Trendsetters
Swaggable
All You Reality Checker from All You Magazine
MomSelect
VocalPoint
SheSpeaks
HouseParty.com
Brooks Shoes and Sports Wear
Nike Product Tester
New Balance
McCormmick Consumer Testing
Smile.ly

Mystery Shop

Mystery shopping can be a great gig – you get paid to shop!

It's a little more involved. Companies, especially those with stores, will want to get the opinion of the customer as they go through a transaction. For a bank, it might be opening up an account. For a retail clothing store, it might be trying on a shirt and checking out. Sometimes it's just calling up their customer service line with a problem and seeing how the representative treats you.

They just want to "test" their customer experience and mystery shopping is the best way to do that.

Below is a huge list of companies (over 90!) that do mystery shopping, remote call monitoring, or some other "customer engagement research." We did not vet the companies on this list, we only checked that their websites loaded and that they appear to still be in business. I wish we could've researched this more but that just wasn't feasible. Before you sign up for anything, please review my post about how to spot a mystery shopping scam plus the Federal Trade Commission's tips.

Mystery Shopper Providers Association Member Companies
A&A Merchandising
A Closer Look
A Customer's Point of View
ABA Quality Merchandising (UK)
Alta360 Research
Ann Michaels & Assoc
Anonymous Insights
Apartment Shoppe
Associate Consumer Evaluations, LLC
At Random Communications
Ath Power Consulting Corporation
Bare Associates International Inc
Barry Leads & Associates Inc.
BestMark
BMA Mystery Shopping
Business Evaluation Services
Capstone Research
Certified Reports
Cirrus Marketing Consultants
Confero Inc.
Comsumer Critique
Consumer Impressions
Consumer Research Group
Coyle Hospitality Group
Cross Financial Group
Customer Perspectives
Customer Service Experts, Inc
Data Quest Ltd.
David Sparks & Associates
Devon Hill Associates
Douglas Stafford North America, Inc.
DSG Associates
Ellis Property Management Services
Evaluation Systems for Personnel (ESP)
Graymark Security Group
Hilli Dunlap Enterprises, Inc.
Instant Reply Inc
IntelliShop
J.M. Ridgway Co. Inc.
Jancyn
Kinesis
LeBlanc & Associates
Marketforce
Market Viewpoint, LLC
Mars Research
Melinda Brody & Company
Merchandise Concepts
Michelson & Associates, Inc.
Mintel International Group Ltd
Mystery Shoppers
National Shopping Service Network, LLC
Northwest Mystery Shopping Service
Pacific Research Group
Patron Edge
Person To Person Quality
Premier Service Consulting
Promotional Network, Inc.
Quality Assessments Mystery Shoppers, LLC
QSI Specialists
The Quest for Best Mystery Shoppers
Reality Check Mystery Shoppers
Satisfaction Services, Inc.
Second To None, Inc.
Secret Shopper
Sensors Quality Management Inc.
See Level
Service Alliance, Inc
Service Evaluation Concepts
Service Impressions
Service Performance Group Inc.
ServiceSense
The Shadow Agency
Shoppers' Critique International, LLC
Shoppers, Inc
Shoppers' View
Sinclair Service Assessments

Freelance Writing

Do you enjoy writing? You could be paid to do it.

My friend Holly, mother of 2 and successful blogger, recently put together a course teaching you how to make more money freelance writing. Read her story here!

This list contains places where you can get a freelance job directly as well as marketplaces specifically for freelance writers. We avoided specific sites (with a few exceptions for very large, very stable companies like Cracked and College Humor) because these can change all the time.

Constant Content
College Humor – $35 for single articles, $50 for multi-page articles
Textbroker – Earn anywhere from 0.7 cents to 5 cents a work.
WritingJobz – A writing job marketplace.
Cracked
Listverse – $100 a post if accepted, 1,500 word minimum
KnowledgeNuts – Get $10 per knowledge nut!
SeekingAlpha – $500 the best ideas and a chance at two $2,500 weekly performance awards.
About.com – With a ton of different subject areas, becoming an editor means you take ownership and earning capacity of that category.
FreelanceWriting – Huge freelance writer job board
Freelance Writing Jobs – Another massive freelance writer job board
Writers Department – Freelance writing job for academic and business experts
Writer Access

Freelance Work

Outside of smaller or more specific jobs, like transcription or tutoring, you can find freelance work online as well. Many people earn supplemental income as a virtual assistant or performing other non-specific administrative work.

Below are popular marketplaces for freelancers:

FlexJobs – The largest remote, part-time to full-time freelance job board with thousands of jobs – use promo code FLEXLIFE for 30% off
Upwork – Formerly oDesk and eLance, this is one of the biggest marketplaces for folks looking for freelance work. They claim 4+ million clients on the platform and you can find anything from design and creative work to IT jobs to customer service, legal, and administrative support.
Guru – Smaller client base, 1.5 million, but also a place where you can post a job for free.
Fiverr – Fiverr is a huge marketplace where you can sell all kinds of work. From products, like drawings and videos, to services, like a review of your website or resume. Fiverr's differentiator is everything costs just $5 at a baseline, though you can sell add-ons like faster delivery, etc; for more. The marketplace is huge and there's a lot of fun and creative things you can do.
Freelancer – Can't beat the name right? Focused entirely on freelancers, their search functionality and qualifications system seems to be the most robust.
People Per Hour – Primarily for designers (everything from logos, banners, and websites) People Per Hour is a big marketplace for services related to the digital world. The marketplace also has SEO, copywriting, video and apps but the strength is clearly in design.
99designs – Primarily for visual design, whether it's logos or a t-shirt, and one of the best known places for it.
The Creative Group
Krop – Creative jobs
Aquent – Marketing, Creative and Digital Staffing

Watch TV

Yes, you can get paid to watch television. This is not a joke!

You won't get paid a LOT but you can get paid a little for something you're already doing.

~~Perk.tv~~ – Now completely gone.
~~RewardTV~~ – After 14 years, RewardTV has been shut down.

Search/Surf the Web

Web search engines constantly compete for your business and some of them have resorted to paying you.

Permission Research – You download a software on your computer to understand how people are using the internet. Our goal is to help companies understand digital content trends and patterns so that those companies can give people like you what you want. The businesses and media organizations rely on PermissionResearch to understand how people view and interact with content on the Internet and on TV.
Bing Rewards – One of the big search engines will pay you to search??? That's amazing! Bing Rewards is Bing's program that awards you points each time you search. The rate changes and right now it's 1 credit per 2 searches, up to 15 credits a day on a computer. You get 1 credit for 2 searches up to 10 credits on mobile. You can get an Amazon.com gift card for every 475 points.
Swagbucks – Swagbucks does EVERYTHING, including search.
Zoombucks

Write Reviews

Years ago, I joined Epinions and wrote reviews of products I liked. The model was simple – write a review, get paid a little for every page view and every commissionable sale the review generated. It was a fun little foray into the Internet and getting paid to write about a product seemed fun. Epinions was later acquired by eBay and shuttered in 2014.

That has not stopped a whole new set of companies to appear offering similar things. Sometimes you get free stuff, sometimes you get paid.

ReviewStream – Write a review, get paid if it meets their quality guidelines (get paid 1/5th if it doesn't), plus bonuses for votes.
SoftwareJudge – Write reviews for software products
Ciao! (UK)
Gen.video – Video based reviews and you earn a revenue share.

Miscellaneous

If the site didn't fit any other category, it's here!

Radio Loyalty – Listen to the radio through their app, get points. Boom.
Naming Force – Business name contests, you get paid if your name is picked.
Certified Field Associate – Mystery shop movie theaters!

Used Books

Below is a list of places where you can sell your books but we also maintain a list of the best places to donate your used books too.

Decluttr
Decluttr lets you sell everything from books to CDS to DVDs to electronics and even LEGO! It's my best recommendation for decluttering (hence the name!) by selling stuff you no longer want or need. With books, you just enter in the barcode or ISBN and they'll give you a value. It takes minutes to find out how much your stuff is worth and you don't have to register or anything to price things.

Bookscouter
Another site worth checking out is BookScouter, which will check the selling price on 55 different vendors. The list will include the offer price, how they pay (Paypal, check, etc.) as well as whether they pay for shipping and under what terms. If you have a lot of books to sell, they can search up to 3000 ISBNs in a single request if you upgrade to BookScouter Pro. There are also historical prices too in case you want to review trends.

Amazon.com
Bookscouter will give you Amazon.com's trade-in value, where you mail Amazon the book and get a gift card, they will not give you the used selling price because it's hard to compare apples to oranges. You may be able to get more for your book by selling it as a used book on Amazon, so be sure to double-check that price. As an example, the trade-in value of a book I looked up was $7.87 but used copies were on sale for $19.87.

If you're a fan of Amazon, you might want to see our Amazon hacks, including how to get $5 for using their app!

Junk Mail

I hate junk mail but did you know you can sell it? These are companies that will, in some way, turn your mail into money.

The Hauser Group – They are a marketing company that will mail you letters and ask you to report on them, like when they arrived. You are paid per item reported. They have pretty wide coverage already but you might get lucky if you sign up as an agent. This is often known as a "mail decoy" job.
Quotas – Another postal quality survey company based out of Germany.
Small Business Knowledge Center – They will pay you to send them your junk mail if you qualify.
US Monitor – Another test mail service where you get paid per item reported.

Stock Photos

Fancy yourself a photographer? You could get paid for your photos!

Stock photography has become a big business and you can list your work on a lot of sites, earning a nice little income for yourself. Some sites will take all contributions, others will require you to apply, submit samples, and be accepted.

For example, iStockPhoto.com, owned by Getty Images, requires you to apply to be a contributor. You can submit Photos, Illustrations, Video, and Audio but you will need three samples of your work. If accepted, you'll be paid a 15% commission for each file downloaded and if you agree to be exclusive. If you make iStock your exclusive royalty-free agent, you can earn up to 45% with additional attention.

Shutterstock, on the other hand, doesn't have a formal application process and anyone can create a contributor account. You retain the copyright for your work and are paid each time your photo is downloaded based on a schedule.

Here's a list of popular stock photography sites:

iStockPhoto.com
StockUnlimited
Dreamstime
Crestock.com
Fotolia.com
Veer.com
Shutterstock.com
PhotoStockPlus.com
Shutterpoint.com
BigStockPhoto.com
123RoyaltyFree.com

Old Electronics

Do you have an old phone, tablet, or other pieces of electronic equipment you aren't using? See if you can turn it into cash! There are a lot of services online that will let you instantly see how much your old electronics are worth and many are easy to use.

Gazelle
Decluttr
Amazon Trade-In
Best Buy Trade-In
eBay Valet you can sell it yourself for standard eBay fees or pay 20-40% for the Valet service.
GreenBuyback
Swappa

Make Videos

Have you heard about PewDiePie? Jenna Marbles? How about EvanTubeHD? They all make hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars a year through Youtube. MILLIONS. It's insane.

EvanTubeHD, by the way, is an 8-year-old (Evan) and his dad (Jared) and has 2.7 million subscribers. He's eight! And he reviews toys and other kids love it. It's amazing, good for them!

If you want to make money with videos, we all know about Youtube, but there are a litany of sites that will turn your videos into cash.

Youtube – Share of advertising
Dailymotion – Share of advertising
Metacafe – Share of advertising
Brightcove – instead of advertising, you sell video and get 70% of sales

Unused Computer Resources

Years ago, I remember installing SETI@Home to donate my computer's unused time towards finding extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI stands for SEarch for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). SETI@home still exists but a new set of companies have cropped up and they will pay you to run an application on your computer – don't do them.

You'll see lists of sites and companies elsewhere, they're usually out of date. Many of the companies (Gomez, Slicify, CoinBeez, etc.) are out of business. Gomez BBB listing states that they are believed to be out of business (you can't even find it on BBB now), though the website is up and taking registrations.

The ones that are left pay out very poorly, which explains why the other guys went out of business! I kept this listing here in case I find anything good but I suspect it's a fool's errand.

Luxury Goods

If you have luxury goods, like high-end clothes or accessories, and you aren't using them anymore, why not sell them? Rather than turn to sites like eBay, which everyone already knows about, you can try one of several high end online consignment stores.

The two popular ones are Poshmark and TheRealReal. Both make it dead simple to sell (and buy!) luxury items. The RealReal will pay you 60% of the sale price (more if you sell a lot) and Poshmark has a tiered commission structure. Sale prices under $15 pay a $2.95 flat fee and everything else is just 20%. Tradesy is another company and they take just 9%.

Lastly, you could always become a professional video game player!

I haven't used every site on this list so if you have and want to share your experience (good and bad), leave a comment below.