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Fortunately in the “gig economy,” there are plenty of ways you can earn a little extra cash for your time. Whether it's market research surveys or focus groups or donating your plasma, there are a lot of places that will pay.

I've spent nearly a hundred hours on this post to give you the most comprehensive list of sites that will pay you for something. In some cases, it's your time – doing tasks. In other cases, it's your stuff – selling your used goods and turning clutter into cash.

If you've ever said to yourself – “I need money?” This post is for you.

When I say I spent a hundred hours, it's because I've vetted these sites. A lot of places that purport to let you make money fast aren't real. You have to watch out for scams too and much of my time was researching the company, checking BBB listings, and making sure you aren't going to get ripped off.

I've separated the list into two main categories – sites that will pay you for “stuff” and sites that will pay you for your “work.”

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Sites that Pay You For Work

These are sites where you get paid to do something. If you want sites where you can turn your stuff into cash, go to Sites that Pay You For Stuff

Sites that will pay you to…

Sites that Pay You For Stuff

These are sites where you can turn things that you currently own into cash. If you want sites that will pay you to do something, those will be under Sites that Pay You For Work.

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OK, get ready… the ride is about to start! 🙂

Fill Out Surveys

Surveys are great! Market research is a huge business and they always need people to fill out their rosters.

All of these companies are legitimate, according to my research, and I use the rules outlined in my post on how to tell if a survey company is legit.

Sign up for more than one!

United States:

• Swagbucks – $5 BONUS!

Canada:

Drive

If you have a car, you can start earning money as a driver!

You can earn hundreds of dollars a month working a flexible schedule and that's before bonuses. If you are lucky enough to live in a hot city, there are promotional bonuses (some cities it's as much as $1,000) that can boost your earnings even more.

Each of the rideshare companies has different rules but nothing prevents you from driving for multiple companies.

• Uber – the most well known
• UberEATS – Instead of driving people, you deliver food. You can do this by car, scooter, or even bicycle.
• DoorDash – Similar to uberEATS, you get paid to deliver food and you can use your car or a bicycle.
• Instacart – Shop groceries for other folks and get paid to deliver it to them.
• Lyft – You can rent a car to drive if you don't have one!
• AmazonFlex – You don't drive people, you deliver packages.

Start a Blog

You won't be paid immediately but one of the best side hustles you can start is your own blog. In just ten minutes, you can have your own little corner of the Internet. If you play your cards right, as many have done, you could turn that little parcel into a burgeoning metropolis… one that could generate a nice side income for you.

If you've been tempted by the income reports, here's my guide to starting a blog in just 10 minutes.

Go Shopping

When you shop online, you should buy through a cashback portal. A cashback portal will give you a small percentage of your purchase back to you, usually as points and sometimes as straight cash, which is nice since you'll be spending the money anyway! Oftentimes the cashback portal will also include coupons that will help you save too.

• MyPoints – Get $10 gift card after $20 purchase
• TopCashback – Get $15 added to your first cashout
• eBates – Get $10 after first purchase of $25+ within 90 days

Write/Illustrate Greeting Cards

I bet you didn't know you could make money writing greeting cards right? If you've ever considered yourself a wordsmith in the ultra short form, consider looking at one of these:

• Hallmark – Hallmark no longer accepts unsolicited submissions. 🙁
• Blue Mountain Arts – Longer form prose or poetry, not for rhymed poetry, religious verse, one-liners or humor.
• Ephemera – Not greeting cards but novelty buttons, magnets and stickers.
• Gallant Greetings – Not accepting verse submissions right now but I kept them on the list in case they change.
• It Takes Two – Illustrators
• Oatmeal Studios – Accepting artists and writers
• Smart Alex – “Funny, edgy & risque” and looking for artists, photographers and writers.

Listen/Rate Music

Do you like music? Do you like rating?

Do you like making money listening and rating music? Get paid a few cents to up to $1 for reviewing music.

• Slicethepie – Listen to 90 second tracks and leave your 50-word+ review on it. You start off by getting paid just a few cents a song but as you progress you're paid more per review. $10 minimum required to withdraw via Paypal.
• Music Xray – Another review site with a ranking system that pays you more as you do more, you can get up to $1 per review which is the highest of any we've seen. $20 minimum payout though.

Tutoring

If you are knowledgeable about something, there will always be places for you to teach that knowledge to others. The follow sites are for tutoring, rather than building your own educational courses and selling them online, and unless it's noted they are based in the United States.

• VIPKID – Part-time online English as a Second Language to children, $14-$22/hour

Mock Juror

Going to jury duty is terrible, but being a mock juror is great!

A mock juror doesn't have to go to a mock courtroom, hear a mock case, and render a mock opinion. A mock juror just gets a bunch of documents in the comfort of his or her home and get paid for your opinion and feedback. Legal teams needs this as a trial run for their big cases and you can get paid to read interesting stories and see fascinating evidence… all without a trip anywhere!

Play Games

If you enjoy games like slots, bingo and wheel of fortune, you'll love getting paid to play games. This list contains legitimate places where you can get paid to play various games, usually after watching some commercials or other promotional videos.

They're fun if you're into that sort of thing, you earn a few points here or there, and can convert them into gift cards or sometimes cash.

Data Entry

Data entry falls into one of two major categories – micro-tasks and transcriptions. Most micro-task sites, like Amazon mTurk, will have transcription jobs in addition to other jobs.

If you are a relatively fast typer, this is a great way to earn some cash in your spare time.

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Test Websites & Usability

Website owners always want to know how users are seeing their websites and you can get paid to do the testing!

How much do you get paid? For example, UserTesting pays out $10 via Paypal for every 20-minute video you complete. That's $30 an hour! All it takes is a computer, a microphone (you will give your feedback verbally), and an internet connection so you can view the website in question.

Here's a list of places that will pay you to test websites:

• UserFeel (not currently accepting new testers)

Test Products

If there is mystery shopping to test the user experience in a store and there is website testing to test a website, it would make sense that companies would pay you for your opinion of an actual product right?

That's this category.

• Contract Testing Inc. (Open to U.S. & Canada Residents)
• BzzAgent – Word of mouth marketing agency that will send you products from time to time.

Mystery Shop

Mystery shopping can be a great gig – you get paid to shop!

It's a little more involved. Companies, especially those with stores, will want to get the opinion of the customer as they go through a transaction. For a bank, it might be opening up an account. For a retail clothing store, it might be trying on a shirt and checking out. Sometimes it's just calling up their customer service line with a problem and seeing how the representative treats you.

They just want to “test” their customer experience and mystery shopping is the best way to do that.

Below is a huge list of companies (over 90!) that do mystery shopping, remote call monitoring, or some other “customer engagement research.” We did not vet the companies on this list, we only checked that their websites loaded and that they appear to still be in business. I wish we could've researched this more but that just wasn't feasible. Before you sign up for anything, please review my post about how to spot a mystery shopping scam plus the Federal Trade Commission's tips.

• ABA Quality Merchandising (UK)

Freelance Writing

Do you enjoy writing? You could be paid to do it.

This list contains places where you can get a freelance job directly as well as marketplaces specifically for freelance writers. We avoided specific sites (with a few exceptions for very large, very stable companies like Cracked and College Humor) because these can change all the time.

• College Humor – $35 for single articles, $50 for multi-page articles
• Textbroker – Earn anywhere from 0.7 cents to 5 cents a work.
• WritingJobz – A writing job marketplace.
• Listverse – $100 a post if accepted, 1,500 word minimum
• KnowledgeNuts – Get $10 per knowledge nut!
• SeekingAlpha – $500 the best ideas and a chance at two $2,500 weekly performance awards.
• About.com – With a ton of different subject areas, becoming an editor means you take ownership and earning capacity of that category.
• FreelanceWriting – Huge freelance writer job board
• Freelance Writing Jobs – Another massive freelance writer job board
• Writers Department – Freelance writing job for academic and business experts

Freelance Work

Outside of smaller or more specific jobs, like transcription or tutoring, you can find freelance work online as well. Many people earn supplemental income as a virtual assistant or performing other non-specific administrative work.

Below are popular marketplaces for freelancers:

• FlexJobs – The largest remote, part-time to full-time freelance job board with thousands of jobs – use promo code FLEXLIFE for 30% off
• Upwork – Formerly oDesk and eLance, this is one of the biggest marketplaces for folks looking for freelance work. They claim 4+ million clients on the platform and you can find anything from design and creative work to IT jobs to customer service, legal, and administrative support.
• Guru – Smaller client base, 1.5 million, but also a place where you can post a job for free.
• Fiverr – Fiverr is a huge marketplace where you can sell all kinds of work. From products, like drawings and videos, to services, like a review of your website or resume. Fiverr's differentiator is everything costs just $5 at a baseline, though you can sell add-ons like faster delivery, etc; for more. The marketplace is huge and there's a lot of fun and creative things you can do.
• Freelancer – Can't beat the name right? Focused entirely on freelancers, their search functionality and qualifications system seems to be the most robust.
• People Per Hour – Primarily for designers (everything from logos, banners, and websites) People Per Hour is a big marketplace for services related to the digital world. The marketplace also has SEO, copywriting, video and apps but the strength is clearly in design.
• 99designs – Primarily for visual design, whether it's logos or a t-shirt, and one of the best known places for it.
• Krop – Creative jobs
• Aquent – Marketing, Creative and Digital Staffing

Watch TV

Yes, you can get paid to watch television. This is not a joke!

You won't get paid a LOT but you can get paid a little for something you're already doing.

• Perk.tv – Formerly Viggle (you redeem your points here if you were a Viggle user), you check in on the App before you watch a show on your TV and then check in at the end. You get some points and redeem them for gift cards.
• RewardTV – After 14 years, RewardTV has been shut down.

Search/Surf the Web

Web search engines constantly compete for your business and some of them have resorted to paying you.

• Permission Research – You download a software on your computer to understand how people are using the internet. Our goal is to help companies understand digital content trends and patterns so that those companies can give people like you what you want. The businesses and media organizations rely on PermissionResearch to understand how people view and interact with content on the Internet and on TV.
• Bing Rewards – One of the big search engines will pay you to search??? That's amazing! Bing Rewards is Bing's program that awards you points each time you search. The rate changes and right now it's 1 credit per 2 searches, up to 15 credits a day on a computer. You get 1 credit for 2 searches up to 10 credits on mobile. You can get an Amazon.com gift card for every 475 points.
• Swagbucks – Swagbucks does EVERYTHING, including search.

Write Reviews

Years ago, I joined Epinions and wrote reviews of products I liked. The model was simple – write a review, get paid a little for every page view and every commissionable sale the review generated. It was a fun little foray into the Internet and getting paid to write about a product seemed fun. Epinions was later acquired by eBay and shuttered in 2014.

That has not stopped a whole new set of companies to appear offering similar things. Sometimes you get free stuff, sometimes you get paid.

• ReviewStream – Write a review, get paid if it meets their quality guidelines (get paid 1/5th if it doesn't), plus bonuses for votes.
• SoftwareJudge – Write reviews for software products
• Ciao! (UK)
• Gen.video – Video based reviews and you earn a revenue share.

Miscellaneous

If the site didn't fit any other category, it's here!

• Radio Loyalty – Listen to the radio through their app, get points. Boom.
• Naming Force – Business name contests, you get paid if your name is picked.
• Certified Field Associate – Mystery shop movie theaters!

Used Books

Decluttr
Decluttr lets you sell everything from books to CDS to DVDs to electronics and even LEGO! It's my best recommendation for decluttering (hence the name!) by selling stuff you no longer want or need. With books, you just enter in the barcode or ISBN and they'll give you a value. It takes minutes to find out how much your stuff is worth and you don't have to register or anything to price things.

Bookscouter
Another site worth checking out is BookScouter, which will check the selling price on 55 different vendors. The list will include the offer price, how they pay (Paypal, check, etc.) as well as whether they pay for shipping and under what terms. If you have a lot of books to sell, they can search up to 3000 ISBNs in a single request if you upgrade to BookScouter Pro. There is also historical prices too in case you want to review trends.

Amazon.com
Bookscouter will give you Amazon.com's trade in value, where you mail Amazon the book and get a gift card, they will not give you the used selling price because it's hard to compare apples to oranges. You may be able to get more for your book by selling it as a used book on Amazon, so be sure to double check that price. As an example, the trade in value of a book I looked up was $7.87 but used copies were on sale for $19.87.

If you're a fan of Amazon, you might want to see our Amazon hacks, including how to get $5 for using their app!

Junk Mail

I hate junk mail but did you know you can sell it? These are companies that will, in some way, turn your mail into money.

• The Hauser Group – They are a marketing company that will mail you letters and ask you to report on them, like when they arrived. You are paid per item reported. They have pretty wide coverage already but you might get lucky if you sign up as an agent. This is often known as a “mail decoy” job.
• Quotas – Another postal quality survey company based out of Germany.
• Small Business Knowledge Center – They will pay you to send them your junk mail if you qualify.
• US Monitor – Another test mail service where you get paid per item reported.

Stock Photos

Fancy yourself a photographer? You could get paid for your photos!

Stock photography has become a big business and you can list your work on a lot of sites, earning a nice little income for yourself. Some sites will take all contributions, others will require you to apply, submit samples, and be accepted.

For example, iStockPhoto.com, owned by Getty Images, requires you to apply to be a contributor. You can submit Photos, Illustrations, Video and Audio but you will need three samples of your work. If accepted, you'll be paid a 15% commission for each file downloaded and if you agree to be exclusive. If you make iStock your exclusive royalty-free agent, you can earn up to 45% with additional attention.

Shutterstock, on the other hand, doesn't have a formal application process and anyone can create a contributor account. You retain copyright for your work and are paid each time your photo is downloaded based on a schedule.

Here's a list of popular stock photography sites:

Old Electronics

Do you have an old phone, tablet, or other piece of electronic equipment you aren't using? See if you can turn it into cash! There are a lot of services online that will let you instantly see how much your old electronics are worth and many are easy to use.

I've looked up the value of a good condition iPhone 6 on Verizon, 64GB, Space Gray, and listed it below next to each of the sites. Price quote is from the end of March.

• Gazelle – $210
• Amazon Trade-In – $262.53 (Amazon Credit)
• Best Buy Trade-In – $244
• NextWorth – $320
• eBay Valet – $391 and sell it yourself for standard eBay fees or pay 20-40% for the Valet service.
• GreenBuyback – $210
• Swappa – Listing site, like eBay for electronics, so they don't buy it back directly.

Make Videos

Have you heard about PewDiePie? Jenna Marbles? How about EvanTubeHD? They all make hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars a year through Youtube. MILLIONS. It's insane.

EvanTubeHD, by the way, is an 8-year-old (Evan) and his dad (Jared) and has 2.7 million subscribers. He's eight! And he reviews toys and other kids love it. It's absolutely amazing, good for them!

If you want to make money with videos, we all know about Youtube, but there are a litany of sites that will turn your videos into cash.

• Youtube – Share of advertising
• Dailymotion – Share of advertising
• Metacafe – Share of advertising
• Brightcove – instead of advertising, you sell video and get 70% of sales

Unused Computer Resources

Years ago, I remember installing [email protected] to donate my computer's unused time towards finding extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI stands for SEarch for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). [email protected] still exists but a new set of companies have cropped up and they will pay you to run an application on your computer – don't do them.

You'll see lists of sites and companies elsewhere, they're usually out of date. Many of the companies (Gomez, Slicify, CoinBeez, etc.) are out of business. Gomez BBB listing states that they are believed to be out of business (you can't even find it on BBB now), though the website is up and taking registrations.

The ones that are left pay out very poorly, which explains why the other guys went out of business! I kept this listing here in case I find anything good but I suspect it's a fool's errand.

Luxury Goods

If you have luxury goods, like high end clothes or accessories, and you aren't using them anymore, why not sell them? Rather than turn to sites like eBay, which everyone already knows about, you can try one of several high end online consignment stores.

The two popular ones are Poshmark and TheRealReal. Both make it dead simple to sell (and buy!) luxury items. The RealReal will pay you 60% of the sale price (more if you sell a lot) and Poshmark has a tiered commission structure. Sale prices under $15 pay a $2.95 flat fee and everything else is just 20%. Tradesy is another company and they take just 9%.

Lastly, you could always become a professional video game player!

I haven't used every site on this list so if you have and want to share your experience (good and bad), leave a comment below.

Treasure hunters would revel at the idea of getting free money. But is it really a thing? I mean, are there seriously companies out there that will just give money away because they are nice?

More on that in a minute…

We all need our savings accounts to be much larger than they are. But with bills, credit card debt, and our careers, it sometimes feels almost impossible to increase our savings.

16 ways to get cash:

1. Take online surveys.

If you don’t think it’s possible to boost your savings, then you might be surprised to find out how easy it is to score a few extra bucks each month. And thanks to the internet, all it usually requires is filling out some paid surveys, playing around on the web, or signing up for a few specific offers.

Doing just a few of these things can easily add up to thousands of dollars in cash each year, so what are you waiting for?

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Want some free money of your own? Are you a college student looking for ways to make money while in school?

While you might not get rich quick with the items on the list, you’ll be getting free money with very little effort.

Check out these 16+ companies that offer free moneywhen you complete simple tasks in your spare time:

1. Give your opinions for money.

Online survey sites have become a top way for people to cash in doing something pretty mindless in their spare time. While there are a ton out there to choose from Survey Junkie has one of the longest histories and has a consistent record of paying their users.

Our list of the top reputable survey sites includes:

• Survey Junkie:Learn more in our review or get started here.
• Swagbucks:Learn more in our review or get started here.
• Vindale Research:Learn more in our review or get started here.
• Pinecone Research:Learn more in our review or get started here.
• iSurveyWorld:Learn more in our review or get started here.

Just sign up for any one of these free accounts and you’ll be on your way to scoring free money for your musings on everything from new products to advertising campaigns. Some, Pinecone Research, for example, will ship you products to try and then answer questions on them.

Payouts vary, but the points you earn can add up fast. You can even redeem your points through PayPal if you want, with a $10 redemptions starting at just 1,000 points. Read more in our list of the top online survey sites.

2. Earn points redeemable for gift cards.

Ever heard of MyPoints? Simply put, it’s a website that offers points for nearly anything you can do online – from shopping to online surveys.

With MyPoints, the “points” you can redeem are good for cash back and a variety of gift cards to stores like Amazon.com, Best Buy, Nike, and even GameStop.

A gift certificate to Applebee’s, for example, starts at just 790 points. Paypal cash, on the other hand, starts at just 3,970 points.

To get started with MyPoints, all you have to do is sign up for a free account and use the site to shop online, take surveys, watch videos, or participate in fun, daily polls. It’s as simple as that.

3. Score an easy $10 with Ebates.

Ebates is a great place to earn money for all sorts of online tasks, but you’ll also get a $10 welcome bonus just for signing up and making a $25 purchase.

Simply open an account, spend $25 at an online store like Walmart.com, Kohls.com, Groupon.com, or Amazon.com, and the $10 bonus is yours for the taking.

And if you use Ebates for the long haul, you’ll earn even more. Just by clicking through the website when you shop online, you can earn up to 40 percent cash back at certain stores. Sounds pretty good, huh?

4. Earn a free $5 with Inbox Dollars.

Inbox Dollars is yet another website intent on paying you for living and breathing. In all seriousness, the tasks Inbox Dollars pays for are crazy-easy. Simply surf the internet, use the website to play games, complete surveys or questionnaires, or print grocery coupons to score free cash!

It’s fairly easy to earn an extra $20 – $30 per month for regular use, plus you can get a free $5 just for signing up.

If you like to get free money, it’s hard to beat this offer. Read more in our Inbox Dollars review.

5. Rack up some Swagbucks.

Swagbucks are ridiculously fun and easy to earn. Believe it or not, this website will pay you free money to shop online, watch videos (or space out and pretend you’re watching) surf the internet, or answer survey questions. Have you ever heard of a part-time job that will pay you just to hang out?

Once you start earning Swagbucks, you’ll learn all the fun ways you can redeem them as well. For example, you can cash in your Swagbucks for a wide range of gift cards. Don’t like that option? Turn in your points for PayPal cash instead.

Signing up is free and you literally have nothing to lose, either. If you’re going to be on the internet, why not get paid? You can learn a little more about Swagbucks in our full review.

6. Let Trim save you money automatically.

Trim markets itself as an assistant that saves you money. Trim is an app that tracks your spending and automates the day-to-day process of saving money for you, helping you cut out recurring charges for services you no longer need.

Trim takes it a step further, helping you tackle debt and strategically cut down on your spending. The app even checks competitors’ prices on products like your auto insurance to ensure you’re getting the best rates for the services you use.

7. Make bank playing trivia.

Do you dominate game nights with friends when it comes to trivia? If so, you could be banking on your expertise with trivia apps. Why not put your wealth of knowledge to use and earn some free money fast from the comfort of your couch?

SwagIQ is a live trivia game show where you can make some serious dough. You just download the app, tune it for the weekly game, and answers the questions in 10 seconds or less. Answer all the questions correctly, and you get paid. With SwagIQ, even if you don’t win, you still rack up digital currency for the questions you get right.

It’s a fun and free way to put your brain to the test and earn a little money.

8. Sign up for a rewards credit card.

Rewards credit cards offer something for nothing if you are able to meet a small minimum spending requirement. This free cash usually comes in the form of a signup bonus, and can easily be worth hundreds.

Since a lot of rewards credit cards don’t even charge an annual fee, you can get this money for free provided you never pay interest on your purchases. Super cool, huh?

Check out these cards for the best deals at the moment:

• Chase Freedom^® – Sweet $150 Bonus
• Chase Freedom Unlimited℠ Card – Sweet $150 Bonus
• Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card – $500 in Free Money

9. Score a bank bonus.

All kinds of banks offer a bonus if you are willing to put a certain amount of cash on deposit or sign up for direct deposit. From Chase to Huntington Bank and others, these bonuses can add up to some serious cash if you can meet their requirements!

My post on the best online checking accounts highlights some of the best deals in this space, but you can also check with local banks to see what they offer. Just make sure you read the fine print and watch out for any “gotchas” or requirements you don’t understand.

Another way to score bonuses from the bank is to simply have an interest-earning savings account. So after you get that checking account bonus, find a high yield savings account, too.

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10. Book reservations with Seated

Seated is an app that can earn you up to 30% back on your meals, and it’s practically effortless. Seated is incredibly easy to use. You just download the app and book your dinner reservations with one of Seated’s partner restaurants.

Each time you book, you’ll get up to 30% back in the form of gift cards for companies like Amazon and Starbucks. The only drawback when it comes to Seated is location. Seated is currently only available in major cities, currently Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, NYC, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.

If you live in one of those cities, you can get free money as fast you can download the app and get to your favorite restaurant.

11. Get rebates at local retailers.

Mobile coupon apps like Ibotta and Checkout 51 allow you to cash in rebates for items you buy on a regular basis.

The apps allow you to select coupons for things you are already buying and then upload your receipt for those coupons. You get the money back and all it took was a quick picture of your receipt.

If you are a Walmart shopper, then use the Savings Catcher on the Walmart app. When you are done with your purchase, scan your receipt and the app will go out over the next several days and search competitor pricing for your products. If they find that someone offered that item for less, you will get a rebate for the difference in the form of a Walmart gift card (redeemable directly from the app.

12. Invest money with Stockpile.

Stockpile makes investing easy and affordable, offering you thousands of stock and ETF options. You can buy fractional shares of companies like Apple and Netflix. Best of all, you get $5 to invest when you sign up.

If you were thinking of joining an investment app already, you might as well earn $5, right? Join today for a free bonus, $0.99 trading fees, zero management fees, and no account minimums. You’ll be glad you did.

13. Get refunds with Paribus.

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Have you ever bought something only to find out the price dropped a few days later? With Paribus, you can get that money back with zero effort. All you do is shop online as usual and let Paribus monitor your confirmation emails from retailers. Whenever the price drops on what you buy, Paribus helps you get refunded.

You can use Paribus to save with popular retailers, like Target, Amazon, Walmart, Nordstrom, and more. Paribus also applies its services to hotel bookings through Expedia, Priceline, Booking.com, Marriott, and Hilton.

14. Get $5 for installing an app.

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Smart Panel is a market research app aimed at gathering valuable insights from people who use their smartphones. To sign up, you’ll fill out a simple questionnaire to see if you qualify. Once you do, you’ll get a free five bucks just for installing the app on your phone.

For each month you keep the app installed, you’ll score another easy $5. Plus, you’re promised some kind of loyalty bonus every three months.

The only way to see if you’re eligible is to fill out their questionnaire.

15. Get Paid for Selfies

This is a funny one. Basically, a company called Pay Your Selfie will pay you to take pictures of yourself in various locations.

They use the information to help companies do marketing in different parts of the country based off of demographic data (age, gender, race, etc.)

The pictures are all very easy and your first $1 is just for taking a quick pic of yourself. There are always a good number of selfie tasks waiting and people are making a little side money just for taking a few pictures.

16. Trade your junk mail and get free money.

While this might sound absolutely nuts, it’s absolutely true. A company called Small Business Knowledge Center will actually pay you to mail in your junk mail and forward them your spam email.

This might sound bonkers, but it works! According to the company’s website, the company uses information from our junk mail to help their clients develop and market their own products with a watchful eye on their competitor’s practices.

If you sign up and qualify, you’ll be rewarded for your junk mail with gift cards to some of your favorite stores. That’s a pretty sweet deal considering you were probably going to throw your junk mail straight in the trash, right?

17. Let Billshark Negotiate Your Bills

Billshark is a platform that works magic on your bills. If you hate negotiating rates but want lower bills, this app is your go to. You just upload your bills to the app or website (or email them in) and let their Sharks go to work.

Billshark will send you updates as they work to negotiate your bills and save you money. Billshark regularly reduces phone, internet, cable, satellite, and home security system bills. You can get started by entering your provider and monthly cost for a 15-second quote on what you could be saving with Billshark.

The Bottom Line

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