Don’t you hate it when you click on a link titled like this and it turns out to either be a generic list of activities or a veiled suggestion to think for yourself?

You won’t get that here. I hate it when I fall for clickbait, and I’m sure you’ve probably run into that stuff yourself. So, I should probably get to the list.

Referral links included. Use or ignore, no worries.

1. Rev: Closed Captioning

If you have watched any videos online, you will have likely seen the CC option to enable subtitles or closed captioning.

Rev is a company that employs freelance workers to create those captions. I came across this service back in 2021, and my application was accepted after a short while.

The way it works is, after logging into your account, you can review a list of available captioning jobs and watch previews of the content. Once you find one you want, you can claim it.

There are estimates on each video for how long it is expected will take to finish the project. So, you try to finish the work within the time limit. If a job is proving difficult, you can ‘un-claim’ it and leave it for a more experienced captioner.

The service uses a ranking system to designate job availability. As you improve your captioning skills and receive good grades on your completed jobs, your rank will improve, and you can get access to higher-paying captioning tasks.

They issue payment for jobs completed each week on Fridays. Payments are sent to your PayPal account.

You need to be 18 years or older to work as a freelancer at Rev.

Here is the Eligibility article for the service.

2. Get Paid To sites

You may or may not have heard of these; they’ve been around since the early days of the dotcom boom and subsequent bust.

Generally, these types of sites are used by commercial businesses to advertise apps or digital products to highly engaged target groups. They also serve as hosts to data acquisition firms and survey issuers.

Many of the offers or deals on the site can be completed for free, such as completing a survey, answering a poll, or playing a game. They also offer points for using their referral links when you shop at online retailers.

You can upload your receipts from grocery stores to get points on the items you bought. They will have special deals where you can get large chunks of points for buying specific branded items.

The sites each have different point valuations for redemption. Swagbucks is 100 points per dollar, and MyPoints is 150. FreeCash and InboxDollars both use direct USD reward amounts. All sites allow you to redeem for gift cards, PayPal, or a bank transfer. FreeCash also allows for Crypto redemptions.

The game offers are the most lucrative, in my opinion. The highest-paying game I’ve seen was $395 USD (Puzzles & Survival). You need a smartphone if you’re going to do the mobile games.

Android is preferred, but you can manage with an iPhone. The main problem with Apple devices is that the Privacy settings on them block the tracking cookies that are used to track your gameplay and completion of other types of offers. This can be disabled in settings, but updates will usually re-enable it, which could cause you to lose money.

You can see my lifetime earnings above. I joined Swagbucks in January 2020 and have earned $3833, with $3013 of that from deals and games.

Most of the platforms support users from the US, UK, Canada, and other countries. I have guides to the offers and games elsewhere on the site.

3. Payhip

I must apologize, but this last one skirts dangerously close to “think for yourself.”

Payhip is a selling platform primarily for digital goods and services. I started using it after I ran into problems with Amazon Publishing. I have used Payhip to publish a free digital magazine.

I actually made more money with Kindle Unlimited. However, after a while, it became too much trouble because they kept sending me mixed signals about which categories my content should be listed in.

This option for making money is less certain than the two previous choices I provided. With this avenue, you will need something to sell.

• If you have some insight into a particular subject, maybe you could put together a course teaching the topic and sell that.
• Have a large photo collection? You might consider packaging it all up for sale as stock imagery and slap a price on the download.

There are websites where you can try to sell stock imagery, but the competition is intense. I think you would have a better shot if you promoted your collection on WordPress.

That is it for my list of “3 Ways to Earn Extra Income Online.” I hope it has been of some use to you.

Please let me know in the comments if you have any other ideas for making money online. I’d love to get your insights.