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Work from Home — Short Task Review

January 12, 2010

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If you’re like me you might have spe­cific require­ments for small tasks for a client or a project at any given time. Now that doesn’t mean I want to hire a num­ber of full time employ­ees (to be hon­est, I can’t afford that and the projects sim­ply don’t require it).

So off an on I am con­stantly look­ing for low cost ways to have a tem­po­rary work­force out there for any num­ber of tasks. It could be some con­tent I need writ­ten, link built, social media men­tions. The list is pretty much end­less and it also causes me some headaches.

It’s tough to find a group of peo­ple out there. I could eas­ily place Craigslist or Kijiji ads but that’s time con­sum­ing and a pain.

That’s why when I ran into Short Task I was pleas­antly sur­prised. The basic idea is this:

  • You have some tasks you need per­formed online for a spe­cific project.
  • Short Task con­nects you to a mar­ket­place of peo­ple who can com­plete that sim­ple task for you.
  • Your work­force will work at home.
  • You pay.
  • Task is completed.
  • Every­one moves on with life.

It’s a cool idea and uber con­ve­nient so I thought I would include a Short Task Review for those of you who have never used it before.

Short Task divides their site up into “Seek­ers” and “Solvers” which is pretty straight for­ward. If I’m a solver I can per­form the tasks that are in their Marketplace.

Once you login into http://shorttask.com you’ll see “Tasks” in the Main Menu. Select that and then you can fil­ter based on Key­words or Amount Offered.

I just checked a few of the tasks and started at $9.00 — I also got a few hits for $15.00 tasks. Not a bad pay­out if you get your­self into a sys­tem and become quick and pro­fi­cient with this. You won’t retire tomor­row but you could make a nice sup­ple­men­tary income from this type of work if you take it seri­ously plus you can work from home.

Hav­ing looked through the Mar­ket­place I’d also sug­gest you stick to the $3.00-$8.00 cat­e­gories. These could be com­pleted rel­a­tively quickly (less than 15 min­utes) if you’re a decently quick writer and are rel­a­tively good with a search engine (so you can find the sites you need to find).

The higher pay­ing cat­e­gories look like they want some pretty in depth research done for $15.00. If you think about it, if you can post a qual­ity com­ment in 10 min­utes for $3.00 you can make $18.00 in one hour eas­ily. Instead of spend­ing that sin­gle hour on one in depth research article.

That’s just a thought though.

From the per­spec­tive of a Seeker, I like it. I can assem­ble a rel­a­tively strong human work force in min­utes by post­ing tasks and hav­ing peo­ple com­plete them for me. If I took $300.00 of a bud­get here and wanted to build some links for instance I could eas­ily post it for $3.00 and would be able to get 100 human edited inbound links.

Neat idea. You should check out Short Task what­ever side of the coin you might be on.

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5 Responses to “Work from Home — Short Task Review”

  1. Mary Kellner Coon on January 13th, 2010 7:01 am

    You can also save your­self time and money by let­ting the work­ers “bid” for the jobs throught freelancer.com and ifreelance.com

    Not only will you have many choos­ing to try to get the work, but you will be able to access their qual­i­fi­ca­tions through a bul­letin board and pri­vate mes­sage and since they are bid­ding you will find that the rates will go down while the work com­pleted goes steadily up in your favor.

    I know because I have been doing free­lance work for months as a sec­ondary income and have ghost writ­ten hun­dreds of arti­cles and a few books as well as tran­scribed more than 50 hours of audio and video for some of the sem­i­nars and new prod­ucts that are now being released online.

    Mary Kell­ner Coon

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  3. John on February 3rd, 2010 9:36 pm

    Very inter­est­ing, I’m tak­ing a look at this as I write this. I was think­ing about try­ing out Amazon’s mechan­i­cal turk ser­vice but this appears to be bet­ter for small jobs.

  4. Ken Patterson, Author of make Money Online on April 24th, 2010 9:49 am

    Out­sourc­ing is the key but find­ing both afford­able out­sourc­ing and qual­ity is not always easy. one source a lot of folks tend to ignore is hir­ing the dis­abled. A lot of the folks are way over qual­i­fied, have the desire to work and many cer­tainly have the time. You get excel­lent qual­ity at an afford­able price.

  5. Clinical Research on June 29th, 2010 8:10 am

    Very nice share! As Mary Kell­ner Coon said, i think such free­lanc­ing web­sites are also good way to make money online. Work­ing for some other peo­ple are more authen­tic and yet long term ways to make money over internet.

    There are ways through which you can make money but what you need is to either sell other prod­ucts by being an affil­i­ate or sell­ing your skills like web­site design­ing or devel­op­ing it or any other…

    Any­how, i have book­marked your blog in my deli­cious account and will love to visit it again…

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