Short Task Review
If you’ve ever been into a freelancing site, or a site that helps employers find good quality virtual assistance, you will like this post. Making money online is basically trading time for cash. You have the time to do some sort of service for other people who have the money to pay for it. It’s a win-win, and this short task review is all about that.
Short Task is a company that connects people who want to trade their time and talent for rewards (real cash that employers shell out to get their projects done). Surprisingly, the site’s design reminds you of a beehive, and the “solvers” (bloggers, internet professionals in search for ways to make money online, ordinary internet goers with time on their hands etc.) are the bees that work on specific areas of a project for “Seekers” (project owners who want to outsource the tasks needed for their projects to different individuals).
Who is this for?
It’s for Work at Home individuals like me who ditched the 9 to 5 for more lucrative online pursuits. Of course, you have to be reasonably tech savvy to finish some of the tasks on this site, like writing blog posts, doing data entry, finding online business competitors, researching keywords etc. But, there are also tasks that aren’t at all related to internet marketing, like finding a caterer, researching the logistics of going from one city to another and comparing prices of consumer goods.
How does it work?
You can join as a seeker if you need help for a project or a job. You can join as a solver and look for tasks that you can do. You can do this part time, but you’re going to have to compete with those that Work from Home (i.e. people who have more time to complete many tasks in a day) for the good ones. As soon as you complete a task and the seeker approves, you get your reward.
How is this different from freelancing sites? Just by reading the info on the site, there doesn’t seem to be an escrow service, which can be funded to guarantee that the task-doer will get paid as long as the requirements are met. With an escrow, we’re safer, and so are the employers.
Now, maybe an escrow isn’t needed because the rewards for the tasks are relatively low. For instance, the reward for one comment on an article is $1.25, which is higher than what most employers offer in freelancing sites for a comment.
All in all, this is another way to save time so that you can keep on creating lucrative websites without stressing about the small tasks that need to be completed before the money rolls in. If you’re into doing the tasks, this is an extra source of income.
*This is a paid review
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