Make Extra Money

Walk dogs

If you have a flexible schedule and a passion for pets, ask friends, family or neighbors if they might need a dog walker. You can also post your services on dog walking sites like or even at Care.com

Babysit

If you love babies and love to take care of them use SitterCity or Care.com to get your desired job for babysitting or caring for someone. You can also ask your family, friends, and neighbors if they could use a sitter or know of other families looking for one.

Photograph or play music at weddings

If you’re a musician or photographer, advertise your skills for weddings or other commercial events on your own portfolio site or with a service like Thumbtack, Gigmasters, Gigsalad, WeddingWire, and Snapknot.

Be a mystery shopper

Mystery shopper services are an independent assessment of your operating procedures, code of conduct and your customers’ real experience. Mystery shopping in a retail, hotel, restaurant or automotive environment helps you identify gaps in expectation and take the necessary remedial action.

Get hired to shop and then report back on your experience. Find out how it works and then, to avoid mystery shopping scams, find legitimate opportunities at the Mystery Shopping Providers Association.

Test websites for $30 an hour

Ever visit a website and you thought about how bad or how great it was? Now you can get paid to share your thoughts.

Just open a website, click around, and get paid. New or updated website owners compensate you to test their sites.

To do this job from home, you will need to be internet savvy and speak fluent English. You will also need some basic equipment like a computer with a microphone, internet connection, and an updated web browser. Most tests take between 5 – 25 minutes to complete and pay an average of $10 per test.

If you’d like to work from home testing websites, here are many sites to check out:

TestingTime, TryMyUI, Userfeel, Userlytics or Validately.

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