If you really enjoy doing research and/or sharing your existing knowledge, you might be cut out for getting paid to answer questions from home. You may already be aware of several sites where you can do this, but hopefully in the list I’m about to provide below you’ll find a few new ones that you’ve never tried out.
For most people, this kind of work is just extra money (some of these sites might be more lucrative than that, but I haven’t tried them all so I can’t vouch for each one). But if extra money is something you need, you might find this a lot more enjoyable than taking paid surveys or doing website usability tests.
Here’s a list of sites to use for getting paid to answer questions:
ChaCha – This one is definitely just extra money. It used pay decently, but now it’s just something to do in your down time. Even though you can’t make much answering questions for ChaCha, it’s still fun to do and you can get paid every day to Paypal (they do deduct a $1 fee every time you cash out your earnings). You are required to go through training and pass a test in order to start working. Read the full review of ChaCha.
KGB – This is another site very similar to ChaCha where people send questions in via their mobile phones and you answer them from your computer. I used to do work for KGB a few years ago and had a decent experience although the pay was not really any better than ChaCha. It’s been a long time since I’ve heard much at all about KGB, and their website says they don’t currently have any open positions. You must also train and take a test to work here. Read the full review of KGB.
Weegy – Weegy is a site people can visit and ask questions, and you can sign up to be an expert helping to answer the questions. I signed up here a long time ago, but I never answered the first question. You receive 20 cents for each conversation you are involved in, and Weegy will transfer this money to your Paypal account once you have accumulated $20. I wrote a review of Weegy a long time ago if you want to read it.
Experts123 – Sign up to be an “expert” and receive revenue share for answering questions in the Experts123 community. I’m a member here too, but I never did much with it. In addition to earning for answering questions, you can also earn money for writing articles here. Read more about answering questions for Experts123.
WebAnswers – I have heard lots and lots of good things about this site! If you are interested in earning money for answering questions, this one is highly recommended by many people. Apparently what you earn is just royalties, but some people are doing pretty well here.
JustAnswer – This site will pay you to answer questions, and from what I understand it’s possible to make decent money. However, they do want you to prove you’re an expert in your chosen category so getting in here might not be as easy as just signing up. Their users pay for the answers and you get a portion of what is paid. I wrote a full review of JustAnswer here if you want more details.
IMShopping – Sign up to be a shopping expert and help people with shopping questions. They may or may not need shopping experts at this time. Read more about earning money at IMShopping here.
And there are many more! But the ones above I know most about. If you are interested in other sites where you can earn for putting your knowledge and/or researching skills to the test, you can find a list of them in my directory.
If the people at Mahalo are reading this, please bring the Guru program back! This was one of the best question/answer gigs out there but sadly they did away with it over a year ago. You get paid $1 a question for answering terribly easy questions, and they paid promptly to Paypal.
You can still answer questions at Mahalo, but you are paid in Mahalo currency which is only good at the Mahalo store. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but I do not think the Mahalo currency can be converted to cash. Are any of you former Mahalo Guru’s?
Now I would love to hear from you! Do you have any experience with the sites listed above? Which is your favorite to use?
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ChaCha is an easy one, unfortunately they have not had much traffic ever since they added Paypal. It takes me hours to make just one dollar, ridiculous! I remember a year ago when I was able to make $500/month there, why is it that the good sites always go bad?????
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I know what you mean. I was doing it some the other day and I don’t think I ever even got to a dollar
I finally just logged out. Maybe their traffic will pick up soon. I would love to see ChaCha become lucrative once again (especially since they added Paypal!)
I signed up for Cha Cha a long time ago when the site was new and fresh, went through the hiring process and was accepted into their fold. However, I regret that I didn’t follow through with it and actually do the work (my schedule changed and I didn’t have time then). I may sign up again.
I did sign up for Weegy and got a few assignments that I unfortunately had to turn down because I didn’t have prior knowledge/experience (both questions were asking for advice/opinions about the University of Phoenix). I look forward to seeing how things progress with Weegy. Thank you for these links!
Your site redesign looks fabulous, very clean and bright.
Thank you! I am really happy with the redesign
And good luck with Weegy!
I also am a member of ChaCha. I joined a while back, when the traffic was GREAT and I could barely keep up with all the questions. At one point, they were charging only $.005 per question answered, but that also included any NSAs that you got. I could make quite a lot of money back then. However, I didn’t like that they didn’t have PayPal as a withdraw method. The fact that you had to make an account with some random bank in some state I’ve never even been to seemed incredibly sketchy.
For whatever reason, I left ChaCha for over a year, and decided to come back a few weeks ago. The traffic is non-existent. However, you now make $.01 for each question that you answer. You no longer get paid for NSAs.
Yeah, I haven’t been a fan of many of the changes they’ve made. I would love if traffic would pick back up again. If it would, I wouldn’t mind logging on occasionally and doing some questions.
I found this has been updated?
Guides earning cash per task are compensated as follows:
A Guide completing a transcription task earns $0.03 per task completed.
A Guide completing an expedite task earns $0.02 per task completed.
A Guide completing a vetting task earns $0.01 per task completed.
A Guide completing an affiliate task earns $0.15 per task completed.
A Guide completing a liaison task earns $0.15 per task completed.
A Guide completing a search task earns compensation per the information in section 6.
A Guide completing a content task earns $3.00 per task completed
Yeah they have for sure made some changes. I need to do an updated review of them soon since things are not much the same anymore.
Hi, I recently signed up for http://www.weegy.com and the work has been steady so far. Most of the questions are easy. If you’d like to sign-up, please click on this link http://www.weegy.com?r=87C92C0E
thanks!
I am a transcriber for ChaCha and its usually always busy. And we send those to the guides so I wonder why you guys are not busy then? Unless the expiditors are getting them and answering those with the auto answers.
And search guides only make $0.01 per search? Transcribers make $0.03 per transcription. At least that is what I make.
I was a vetter for Cha-Cha sometime around May of last year. I got paid about $0.01-$0.02 a question. Unfortunately, my membership was deactivated within five days of being accepted. The people at Cha-Cha said that it was because I did not link my Cha-Cha account with my bank account. Ironically, I was going to do that the particular day they deactviated my account. They said I could’ve linked my bank account to cash out the money I already earned (which was about $20.00 and some change). To make a long story short, I could never reactivate my account according to one of the Cha-Cha people. And I eventually had my account terminated. It’s their loss not mine. Now I see I wasn’t losing out on anything knowing that Cha-Cha has less traffic than before.
I started working for ChaCha when they were still in Beta. At the time, there was lots of money to be made, not only answering questions, but “vetting” new members. After they changed the pay scale, and quit allowing senior members to vet new ones, it was no longer profitable. Needless to say, I haven’t been back since.
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