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Some More Tips for mTurk. Get more in Less Time

by Pritam Nagrale on September 2, 2010

So you are just new to Amazon Mechanical Turk and in the mood of making some extra dollars through this online job. You might also be an experienced person in mTurk but still looking to make more from the same efforts. So here are some of the best tips to make more money from mTurk.mturk-tips

If you are new to mTurk, you start with the easiest HITs available so that you get approval for almost all the HITs. The idea here is to increase your approval rate. Many of the Requesters keep most of the HITs for workers with high approval rate.

  • You can pass the qualification test to become eligible for more and more HITs. Check out the qualification tab for this.
  • Check each and every details before you accept the HIT and start completing this.
  • Use Chrome or Firefox to check different details in different tabs. Sort out the things in  different order in different window and compare and check every now and then through the reload button.
  • Once you are used to the system, try to do more and more with highest commission HITs. If you are not able to complete such tasks, try to analyze such HITs on regular basis to develop the skill and then work on high paid HITs.
  • If you think that some of the HITs are not approved even if you have done this properly or requester had not provided much details for that HIT, you can contact the requester directly. This way, you can get the approval for many of your rejected HITs.
  • Try to establish good relation with the requesters. This way, you will always have high approval rate from such requesters and sometime they can send you most of the HITs to you straight away without going to mTurk. This way, they can save the mTurk commission and you get Tasks which are available to you only.
  • Checkout mTurk communities and forums like http://www.turkernation.com/ and www.MturkForum.com and always look for some ideas, share your experience, ask questions etc.

So keep working and make more. Good luck to all Turkers!

{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }

Erik Emanuelli December 10, 2010 at 9:33 PM

Thanks for the tips in your post,
MTurk is a great No Scam way to make money online..

If you are good, you can make more than few bucks/hour.
Erik Emanuelli recently posted..FREE MONEY ADVICE n 58 – How to make money as Real Estate Agent

Damodara Surya Rama Prasad Dubey October 1, 2010 at 6:34 PM

Kindly provide me registration although I am an Indian.

Pritam Nagrale September 30, 2010 at 12:22 PM

The problem with many people comes when they think they can start making money from online jobs as soon as they even join any company. This is the only reason many people can not make a single penny online.
They just don’t think they need to upgrade themselves first and need to know every details that is required to do the job. They don’ even think they will not able to take even a Rs. 5000/- 9-5 job in an office if they have not spent some years in schooling and college and get qualified.
But here they don’t think about qualification, they need instant money.
But I am sorry, if you are one of them never think to make money online.

Sridhar V September 29, 2010 at 7:42 PM

All online job packages claim that there is no qualification needed to perform online tasks to earn. But when we begin with jobs there are so many qualifications required that we land up with no job which actually qualifies us. I mean tasks offered not meant for any tom dick and harry contrary to what the packages claim.

Secondly, when we start with working online jobs, there are so many questions that pop up that there is no immediate solution available which handicaps us and leads to dropping the task.

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