AffiliateBot

I keep a website at http://www.sagemommy.com/ as a online writing sample as well as a resource for work-at-home parents. No one is going to pay me to run my website, but I do expect to earn enough to pay the web hosting fees and maybe get minimum wage for the time I put in.

Like most web admins, I do this through affiliate links. There are two ways to find reputable affiliates. The first is to search the internet and hope that the ones you find a reputable companies that will pay you for your services and not spam the people who sign up. The second, and easiest, way is to go through AffiliateBot. I'm all about easy!

ChaChaCha

ChaCha is a website that pays you 10 to 20 cents each to answer easy trivia questions. It's not great money, but it is more than the nothing I usually earn while cleaning my bedroom. I log on and do other things in the room while it runs in the background. When I hear the 'doorbell' sound, I know there's a question waiting for me.

A few thoughts about ChaCha:

1. The sign up was a bit of a hassle, but entirely worth it. When you sign up, tell them emmiedahl sent you so I get my brownie points.


2. You make 10 to 20 cents per answer each trivia question. Because they take about a minute each if you are on the ball, that will translate into six to twelve dollars an hour. It's not a great wage, but did I mention it is usually fun to answer the questions?


3. It IS fun. Time flies when you are chachaing.

Back on the Ball

I'm back in the blogging business, and I swear this will be the last time I bail on my loyal readers. So here, as a make-up gift, is a lead to a paying writing gig. I couldn't post it before because the person who gave me the lead was still doing it, but now we're both tired of it.

Hotels By City needs hotel review writers. They pay $5 per review and, no, you don't have to have stayed in the hotel. They are very clear about what they want and it's a 'fill in the blank' kinda deal. When I was going a lot of them, I reached a point where I could do five per hour. That would be around $50,000 per year if you did it full time.