Quick Way to Make Some Easy Money With a Blog

For the last couple of months, I have been participating in the Techdirt Insight community. If you have a blog, you can register your blog and register as an expert in certain areas.

Companies then offer rewards for responses to questions. For instance, there is a question now about what features you would suggest for a mobile recommendation service. The best answer gets $100. Some pay more, some pay less. Some reward multiple participants. But it's worth checking out.

http://www.techdirt.com/insightcommunity.php

I'm not affiliated with them in anyway, just signed up and got paid for an answer, and thought I'd share on DP.


Rob

 

Sounds pretty cool, I will check it out later. How do they determine the best answer?

 

The business that paid to post the question chooses the best responses. I believe the Techdirt model is to provide these answers as part of a full research package to companies. That way, companies can feel like they are getting valuable perspectives from bloggers who are out on the cutting-edge, in addition to reports prepared by research analysts.

Right now, there are not many bloggers signed up, so it is easy to get your answer chosen. In the long run though, it will probably become much harder.

 

It's market research at it's finest. I'm not familiar with the place you mention, but the concept has been in use for some time. It's a win-win usually.

The company gets lot of information VERY CHEAP. But, you can get some cash.

Before the Internet, you'd have to get lucky to get paid. Companies would hold focus groups (they still do). They'd usually pay people, like you, to come spend a day (or whatever) at a location. Sometimes they go cheap and try to get people for free in exchange for getting something like being the first to see a movie.

It's cool that you got paid. Why are you telling us? LOL

 

LOL yea!

 

thanks for sharing ...just registered ..

 

Come on now, you know how web marketing works. The more good vibes I can give off by giving away some good free information, the more likely you are to click on my sig, visit my sites, and buy stuff from me.

And anyway, Techdirt won't stay unknown for long. I may as well benefit from spreading the word.

 

hmm r0b have you been paid yet from this good thing?

 

I thought it was pretty interesting, so I applied. Thanks for the tip!

 

Yes. I registered my blog, www.businesspundit.com, and signed up as an expert on business. I've answered three questions. All took me less than one hour. One paid me $100. One paid me nothing. One hasn't closed yet, but pays $300 to the top three answers. It's not a scam. Techdirt has been a legitimate research group for a long time. They are just trying to expand their offerings.

 

Thanks man for sharing.

Axzim