20 Websites that Allow You Make Money at Home or Earn Extra Money Online

While they are not new, many of them are not often talked about, and people are often surprised, never knowing that they exist.

Like most online users, I fell in love with the internet more than a decade ago and in recent years, I have learned how and where to make money online and earn extra income. Most websites will not earn you enough to quit your job or pay all of your bills, but if you work at multiple websites, you can find that your earnings can increase across the board. Here are a few websites that you use to work from home, as a stepping board to bigger and better things or as a simple way to earn extra cash online.

Earn Money Online With Your Expertise

You may not consider yourself an expert but we all have something that we are very good at. Someone may not know the reasons why their tomato plants keep dying, but if you do, you can help them grow great tomatoes and earn money while doing so.

Ether - After sign up, you will receive a free 888 number and you can use it to forward calls to any of your phone numbers such as home phone, cell, etc. You will set your own rates and decide how much your time is worth. Set it at $15, $50 or $75 an hour. The decision is yours. When people call in to receive advice, you will get paid depending on how long they stay on the phone. You can also make money on Ether by selling digital content. Podcasts, videos, ebooks, images.

Bitwine - You will advise clients via instant messaging, email or phone calls. Once a client decides to get advice from you, you will charge them per minute. After each session, your money will be sent immediately to Paypal. You don't have to wait for a certain day like most websites.

Other Knowledge/Expert Sites

•Guruza

•Knowbrainers

•Expert Bee

•Live Person

•Qunu

Earn Online Writing

How to Do Things - At this website, you will write articles in steps to give the reader correct instructions on how to do something. Contributors will be paid when someone clicks on the Adsense ads that are on all of their pages.

Letter Rep - Writers are asked to compose letters and upload them. You can write your own letters or create one that was requested. Every time someone buys one, you receive $10. The content that you will write is letters, speeches or a press release.

WireTap - At this website, they cater to the young at ages 16 to 28. Any stories that you submit will have to be about the youth of today. WireTap is basically an online magazine/newspaper for young people and they want news stories or generally stories that will appeal to them. Payments range from $50 to $200 for every accepted article.

Xomba - Members are paid via Google Adsense from page views/ad clicks. You have the options of writing in your Xomba blog, or Xomblurb or both. Along with ad payment, users can also enter contests to earn extra money/prizes.

Trend Hunter - Only fashion divas need apply. At this website, you will write and make money writing about the latest and hottest fashion trends. This doesn't mean just the top 10 jackets of 2009. It means that weird sofa that is going for a couple thousand dollars or the weird heels that is as expensive as it is ugly. The choice is yours and the topics are wide. Trend Hunters are paid by a share of the sites ad revenue.

On trend hunter, the views can add up quickly when you write about hot topics and add a gallery. The best posts are published to 13 different online magazines and the hottest and newest posts are linked to from tons of fashion blogs. More than just the potential income, it can also help you make a name for yourself in the online fashion world. Users can write articles, add images and videos.

Life Tips - Life Tips sounds like another get paid to be an expert website, but its actually mixed with a content site. Instead of people calling or emailing to find out how to do something, you will write an article about it, similar to ehow.

ePIFfunnies.com - If you have an epiFfunny that they consider clever, original and funny, they may buy for $15 (up from $10) each. If chosen for the ePiffunny of the week, you will recieve your $15 payment and a free copy of their published book.

Cash for Reviews

We all try and buy new products only to find out that we should have saved our money. Millions of reviews are read and written to help others make a decision before they commit to a purchase. At these websites, you can make money online by writing reviews of products and services that you have tried.

Software Judge - At this review site, the topic of why write reviews for free comes up. If you use a computer, you use software. There is no getting around that fact. However, if you can write a great review on why you love or hate the latest version of an application, you may be accepted and receive compensation of up to $50 per review. Don't get too excited though, because you could start at $1 when you first begin.

Shvoong - At Shvoong, you will literally be asked to review everything! The reviews or summaries are what really make up this review website. You don't have to stick to products or software or any one item. For instance, Shvoong reveals their top writers, earners and how much they make. Their top user Fagov makes the most money on the website and the majority of his reviews are websites that he has visited.

Other Places to Make Money Online

Utest - Along with asking about online scams, people would like to know if its really possible to make money as a tester. The answer is yes, BUT they can be hard to find. One legitimate and paying testing website is called Utest.

At Utest, you will be paid to test software different companies who want to make sure that their programs are bug free before they put them up for sale. You can almost consider Utest a work at home job as you set your own hours and choose to reject any assignment that you don't want to complete. You will be paid depending on how many hours worked as well as the amount of bugs you find.

Reward TV - Unlike the rest, Reward TV is not a place to work but you can still earn points as you participate and have fun on the website. Your points don't simply look good; you can shop with them via their stores and auction sections. Also use them to enter weekly/monthly sweepstakes.

Niche Blast - After sign up, you will look through a list of articles that you would like to write. The editors will check over your work and when accepted, you will share in the ad revenue.

Flixya - If you already use social media websites then you may want to try Flixya. This website is known as MySpace with the opportunity to make a little bit of money through page views from your blog, video and images.