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Have a look at a website, say what you think about it and get $10 in your PayPal account. Not bad!
Won’t make anyone a millionaire, but $10 for about 20 minutes works is okay as it’s $30 an hour.

Usertesting.com, the company behind this, are offering first person reviews to website owners for $19.
That means that website owner gets a real persons thoughts and feelings about their website. They can see how user friendly it is and what the viewer likes and dislikes - very valuable information to a website owner. At the same time, they are letting people sign up to be reviewers and earn some spare cash. But, (and there’s always a but isn’t there?) they don’t guarantee regular work, so you might get to earn some money, you might not.

Here’s what they say about it on the site:

“This is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Most people shouldn’t plan on earning a steady income from UserTesting.com.
Why? You might not receive many (or any) work opportunities. There are three reasons for this:

1. Your demographics. If your demographic profile doesn’t match the target audiences of the websites being tested, you won’t receive work opportunities.
2. An oversupply of user testers. Because this is such a high-paying opportunity, we have more user testers in our database than we have work opportunities.
3. Your ability to provide useful feedback. To be a helpful user tester, you should be good at:
   • Thinking out loud. In other words, speaking your thoughts as you browse.
   • Taking the point of view of the customer.
   • Finding things that are confusing, difficult to accomplish, or other problems that might make you leave the site.

   Your “test” video. To be a helpful user tester, you should be good at:

   • Thinking out loud. In other words, speaking your thoughts as you browse.
   • Taking the point of view of the customer.
   • Finding things that are confusing, difficult to accomplish, or other problems that might make you leave the site.

   If your feedback is considered useful, then you’re more likely to receive work opportunities.”

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