15 Legitimate Ways to Make Money from Home in 2016

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. – Albert Einstein

My wife Katie is not crafty so instead planned a local 5K run.

We bought our chickens from a woman who raises chicks to sell for $25/each (read on if you don’t want to raise and sell chickens).

1. Take part in surveys

Simply answer online surveys or product tests and make money from home. Take a look at some paid survey websites listed below. At all of these websites you not only earn some extra cash, but also get rewarded through gift vouchers, prize draws, free products, etc. Heads up: Don’t pay. If they ask you to pay, they are probably scams.

Pinecone Research
SendEarnings
MySurvey
CashCrate
Harris Poll
Swagbucks

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2. Rate pizzas

Many companies pay you for rating local pizza shops. You just have to rate the place on the quality of their pizza and note their delivery time. For this, you can get a free pizza, plus $5. Just register on Trendsource and get started.

3. Download apps

A lot of companies pay you for installing their apps. Moreover, you get paid for each month the apps are installed in your phone. Some of these sites include:

• Digital Reflections
• Nielsen Mobile Panel
• Media Insiders Panel
• MobileExpressions

4. Watch television

Now, this is a cool way of making money! RewardTV pays you for watching television and answering simple trivia questions about previous night’s shows.

With RewardTV, you can earn an extra $15 to $20 per month.

5. Review stuff

Write a review and earn anything between $1 and $50 per review according to the requirement. Yelp can give you some special invites.

6. Pet sitting

Do you adore pets? Go for pet sitting at your place. Make sure your house can accommodate numerous pets.

Websites like Care.com brings together pet sitters and people looking for pet care. Remember to quote your rates wisely.

7. Change your search engine

Do you use Google or Yahoo to search for something on the net? Now, leave them behind and opt for the Bing search engine.

Conduct your regular searches on Bing, make it your default search engine, and earn credits that can be redeemed for gift cards. You can earn as much as $5 to $10 per month. Tip: Just stay signed-in, when you perform a search.

8. Watch YouTube and like videos

Do you like watching videos in your free time? Now, you can get paid for watching videos on YouTube.

Sites like Swagbucks ask you to watch certain advertisements and like them. In turn, they will give you Swagbucks (points that can be redeemed for gift cards or Paypal).

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9. Test websites

Just open a website, click around, and get paid. New or updated website owners compensate you to test their sites.

Check out Fiverr and User Testing and earn almost $30 for an hour.

10. Data entry

Use your accurate and quick typing skills to enter information. Go through Craigslist or Upwork and find data entry and administrative jobs for yourself. These jobs can be easily done through telecommuting.

11. Work for Amazon

Pick micro tasks from Amazon Mechanical Turk. These are services that require human interaction. You can work from home, flexible hours and get paid by one of the world’s largest retailers.

Here are some examples of tasks workers have completed:

• Select the correct spelling for these search terms
• Is this website suitable for a general audience?
• Find the item number for the product in this image
• Rate the search results for these keywords
• Are these two products the same?
• Choose the appropriate category for products
• Categorize the tone of this article
• Translate a paragraph from English to French

12. Become a virtual assistant

Work for someone from home. Virtual assistances (VAs) can do everything from checking emails and making travel plans to handling internet research or working for their small business.

Some reputable sites are Zirtual and Upwork

Show your crafty side

Is your talent getting wasted? Use it for some better things!

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent. – Sammy Davis, Jr.

13. At-home daycare

If you are home with your children, why not start an at home daycare.

They are highly sought out in our area of Dallas because people like that they are close and that there are much fewer children involved that a more corporate daycare.

You will need to get a certification from your state, but you can make big bucks caring for children while getting to spend the day with your children as well.

14. Freelancing

Doing freelance work can greatly increase your income. Are you a stay at home mom with an English degree or a guy who naturally can find mistakes in written text?

Huge and trustworthy sites like Upwork have thousands of employers who want to hire for all kinds of tasks where you can write or edit about anything from technology to business articles. Get paid for every single article. Get a great reputation and you can turn this into a full-time job.

15. Technical freelancing

Freelancing isn’t all about writing. You can do everything from design, graphics, marketing, and web programming jobs from sites like:

• Upwork
• PeoplePerHour
• Freelancer
• Demand Media

Pick your payment on per project basis.

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Get paid to write

Always wanted to have a crack at the old writing game? Now's your chance. Textbroker pays for content for adverts, websites and newsletters. The company acts as a middleman between clients and writers, taking a cut from each piece sold.

Typical payments are £5 to £30 per article, and forumites have written about everything from sport and wildlife to finance and casinos. Some MoneySavers have suggested that article approvals can be patchy and it's often slow to accept new writers - a couple of things to watch out for.

We're not talking Stephenie Meyer's Twilight sums. But some forumites, such asSinkorswim, are turning over a grand a year:

I've been with Textbroker for nine months, and have made over £1,000. It's a godsend, as I had to give up my part-time job due to a back problem. I got another job, but am reluctant to stop writing, as I really enjoy it.
- Sinkorswim

Forumite Farmers-wife says:

I have recently started with Textbroker as a writer. Six articles down and I'm hooked. As a stay-at-home mum and farmer's wife it's lovely to be doing something for myself. Getting praise for writing is doing wonders for my confidence.
- Farmers-wife

Quick summary

• Who's it good for? People who enjoy writing and have high grammatical standards
• Typical earnings: £50/month (if you're committed)
• Payment method: Cash via PayPal
• How much you need to earn before it pays out: £7ish (pays in euros)
• Have you tried it? Share your experiences on the Textbroker forum thread

Make money online easy

If you are willing to dedicate some time and effort, it is possible to legitimately make money online. Some jobs, such as taking surveys or testing websites, provide only enough money for some spare cash each month. Other jobs, such as publishing a niche website or doing freelance writing, have the potential to earn you as much as a full-time job.

Method1

Completing Tasks Online

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   Take surveys. You can earn $50 to $100 per month in cash and products by taking online surveys. Find survey sites by searching for “paid survey sites” online. Sign up for several survey sites to increase your chances of being selected for higher-paying surveys. Register with an email address, and check your email often so you can respond quickly to survey offers.^[1]
   

   • Most surveys pay from $1 to $3, and the surveys generally take up to 45 minutes to complete.
   • You might also get paid in gift cards, free products or by being entered in a sweepstakes.
   • Never pay to participate in surveys.
   • Look for a privacy policy displayed prominently on the site so you know that they are not selling your personal information.
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   Test websites. Remote usability testing means getting paid to navigate a website for the first time and giving feedback to the website owner. Most tests take approximately 15 minutes, and you can get paid up to $10 for each test. A test involves performing a scenario on the client’s website and recording yourself doing it. For example, you might be asked to go through the process of selecting and purchasing an item on a retailer’s website.^[2]
   

   • You need a computer with a microphone, an updated web browser and a high speed internet connection.^[3]
   • Sites that pay you to test websites include User Testing, WhatUsersDo, UserLytics,UserFeel and YouEye.^[4]
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   Tutor students. Many families prefer the flexibility of using an online tutor. Depending on your background, you could be simply helping a child with homework or providing college-level support. You need to have your own computer and high speed internet. Experience required differs among companies. Some require “strong experience,” while others require a specific educational background. However, most companies do require a college degree.
   

   • Some companies assign students to you, while others post your profile on their site and let customers select you.^[5]
   • You can make anywhere from $9 to $30 per hour based on your educational background and the subject you teach.
   • Sites that hire elementary-level tutors include Tutor.com, HomeworkHelp.com,Eduwizards, Aim4a and Brainfuse.
   • Kaplan hires SAT and ACT tutors.

Who to make money from Steam

Hello guys, In this guide I'll discuss possible ways for you to make money using skins. I hope you find this guide helpful. Please feel free to point me wrong at any point, if you find this interesting please rate the guide :-)

I'll try to include everything regardless, lots of stuff might be obvious and well known to many. And please don't confuse this with a "How to get rich" guide, this should be merely a reference, and the actual money generated depends on the current market prices.

At the time of writing some of the methods may not be very effective (due to market prices). But that is not the general case.

I've also created this website[www.♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.org], which would help you guys compare prices, get inventory total worth, help with trades, and lots of other stuff. Check it out and tell me what you think

Market fluctuations (Best approach)

Basically most cs:go items don't have a definite price, but rather oscillates over a price every now and then.

Here is an example (AWP | BOOM Minimal Wear).

As you can see here, prices oscillates between 10.00$ and 13.50$ every now and then. So the point is you can keep track of some items that you have seen its price oscillates, get them (through trade or market purchase) on low prices and sell/trade them later when prices are high

But you have to be careful while buying / selling / trading because sometimes the average price of an item would tend to decrease overall. Your buying price can suddenly turn into a high price for that item.

Note that trade is always the best approach as you do not lose 15% on market.

Also note that you do want to always trade popular weapons, or else u'll get very hard time trading it out and you might end up losing (no matter how cheap you got it for)

To make things easier, you can check ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ [www.♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.org] for the market prices compared to previous day

Market irregularities (requires bots : against steam TOS)

Every now and then, you'll find a weapon entry that has a very low price compared to its average price on market. Not sure if sellers of such items do that intentionally or by mistake, but it happens.

Here is ★ Flip Knife graph, as you can see the average price of this item is about 65$. but some people have managed to buy if for around 40$


Some guys have programmed bots to automatically monitor the market prices and buy the items that fall far below the average price (like these). So basically its too hard to get lucky with those.

But as the number of bots increases, only the most aggressive bots succeed (checks steam market prices more often than others). This actually would get them noticed by steam and thus getting their account suspended.

Note that using Bots are against TOS:

STEAM® SUBSCRIBER AGREEMENT a scris:

You may not use Cheats, automation software (bots), mods, hacks, or any other unauthorized third-party software, to modify or automate any Subscription Marketplace process.

Here is a story of a guy that actually got suspended

Trade up contract

The point here is, there is be a price threshold for weapons where acquiring 10 copies of it and trading it up would guarantee more money (or atleast with high probability)

Here is a fast example

Lets buy 10 of "MAC-10 Urban DDPAT" (FT / MW): 0.11*10 = $1.10

Trade them up to get the one of the "PP-Bizon Carbon Fiber" (MW / FT), for simplicity lets choose the lowest priced : $1.34

So for this example you got about 20% more value which is about 0.24$.

Although this is not much, but that is not the general case. This appoach could be done with other high valued items were 20% is alot more.

So basically the former example had a 100% guaranteed profit because you will always end with a pp-bizon. If you want to take some risks though you can check other collections that can end up with items that have 60% profit chance or so, but make sure you do several attemps.

In my opinion, I do not recommend trading up with less than 100% profit chance, because you cannot always calculate the probability of the result weapons and weapon's paint

Anyways to successfully use this approach, you just need to monitor potential weapon and buy them when their price meets your calculated threshold, and then do tradeups. If you also mix that with your knowledge of weapons fluctuation (mentioned earlier), u'd get really nice results.

Trade up contract (new feature)

On 15 May 2014, cs:go had an update which altered the Trade-up Contract

CS:GO Official a scris:

- The Trade Up Contract no longer restricts items to a single collection. In exchange for 10 items of identical quality, the Trade Up Contract provides one item of the next highest quality, from a collection of one of the items provided.

So theoretically speaking, you can mix 9 weapons all worth $0.03 (total $0.27) and 1 weapon of some other collection worth like $1.00 .. and get some weapon worth $8 or so from that other collection (with some probability).

You can do it the other way around too, you can mix 9 weapons of high tier stuff from same collection, and 1 weapon that costs nothing from another. Then trade up and get a weapon that has more value than what you spent.

The fact is, I have no clue how Valve calculates the final result, and whether or not it is propotional to the amount of weapons for each Collection used, thats why its pretty risky until we can get some estimate probabilities.

Personally, I do not recommend this approach, I've been trying the 9/10 tradeups and It happened to give me the 1/10 unwanted result alot more often than it should (although the 9/10 was pretty much profitable, the loss was more sever). But anyways you can still try it out and tell me what you think

Mass weapon case opening

Lots of people think that opening mass cases is a total waste of money, well .. its totally true, atleast now adays as market prices are deflated

But that isn't always true, I've created a tool[www.♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.org] that simulates case opening based on current market prices, using the probabilities from this case study (which i think is accurate enough). It turns out that some "cases" are getting near to break-even point (with an average of -$0.10 per case), and others are total trash (with a lose over $1.5 per case)


So basically Mass weapon case opening could be profitable at some point, depending on the current market prices. So before attempting one, atleast make sure you are targeting the right "case" type.

There is one thing that is clear though, the more cases you open the better chance you'd get of not losing so much money (or gaining money)

Discontinued items

Ever seen what happens when Valve decides to discontinue some items ... It becomes so rare that its price gets rediculasly high.

Here is an example for a ridiculous price increase, the Glock Fade


price rises from ~11$ to 70$

This is not true for all items though, the price increase is "propotional" to the demand of such item and the quantity that already exists on the market.

You wont know which items would get discontinued before hand, and I havent even found an official source that talks about them (maybe leave a comment if you know). Only this guy here[goaggro.com]seems to be listing them. But the catch is, the prices goes up gradually for an item. So if you noticed that early enough, and you think that this skin is in high demand, you might want to make an investment.

Weapon Drops

Maybe slow, but yeah you can still get some cash out of it. According to this guide here you can get up to 8 drops per week. So if you have patience, and got multiple copies of the game. You can join idle servers (can be found in community servers) and keep the drops flowing.

But basically most weapon drops u'd get is around 0.15$~0.05$ unless you get a weapon case.b