Give yourself a hike
by admin on February 13th, 2008
Imagine your boss telling you, you will get a 200$ or 10,000 Rupees per month increament after 6 months if you work for 2 more hours everyday. The best part is you get to choose the work you want to do in these 2 hours. Will you say no?? Then you will be surprised to know that everyday this deal is being offered to you and you keep saying no !!!
Here is a list of things you can do to accept that offer
Get paid to Code There are many websites where you can get paid for writing code. Topcoder is one. http://www.getacoder.com/ , http://www.project4hire.com and https://www.getafreelancer.com/ are some of the freelancing sites.
Get paid for finding bugs Programmers always had the option of freeleance programming. However the options for testers was rather less. However utest has started compesating the programmers for finding bugs.
Start a blog If you are passionate about a topic and do not mind typing, then you will love this option. Write about the topic that you love, do some search engine optimization, paste some adsense ads, get some initial users and voom..you have your raise.
Start a forum : If you have lot of knowledge about a topic like some programming language or mba colleges in india etc, then start a forum. The advantage with a forum is that you do not have to think about what to write next. The users will tell you what to write by asking you particulr questions.
Start a website If you do not mind a little bit of coding then you should start a website solving some particular problem of users. Look at some of the solutions in US and try to create a similar solution for India.
Get paid to contribute Many sites like ximmy and indianpad will pay you for contributing content to their site. This is the least favorite method with me but still check if it may be appealing to you.
Trust me earning money through these options are easier than you think. However make sure that you are ready to work for those 2 extra hours everyday. If you are interested in blogging but do not want to handle the problem of marketing it, then please leave a comment with your contact details. We will like to talk to you.
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