About mTurk (Amazon Mechanical Turk)
Everything.
Everything.
There is no doubt mTurk
(Amazon Mechanical Turk) is one of the simplest way of earning some little
extra income in part time but many of the people don’t know about some of the
smart tips & tricks to get the full advantage of mTurk.
This article will
explain you everything about Amazon mechanical turk with some of the best tips
only few of mTurk workers are using & earning double than other workers
with no extra efforts.
After reading this
article, you can even work on other top 10
crowd sourcing websites & make even more money.
Know everything about MTurk before you start working
Don’t start blindly.
Learn everything about MTurk that you will see once you logged in to your MTurk
account. Once you understand everything then it will be easy to work on Amazon
Mechanical Turk. We have also included some of the best tips & tricks in this article that will help you to maximize
your MTurk earnings.
What is Amazon
Mechanical Turk or mTurk?
Amazon Mechanical Turk
or mTurk is a marketplace to work on small micro jobs that can’t be completed
automatically by computers and so require human ideas to complete these small
jobs. MTurk allows small businesses and website owners to access to a diverse,
on-demand, scalable workforce and gives workers a selection of thousands of
tasks to complete whenever it’s convenient.
Amazon Mechanical Turk
is based on the idea that there are still many things that human beings can do
much more effectively than computers, such as identifying objects in a photo or
video, complete a small survey , rate or like a website, share the contents on
social media sites, transcribing audio recordings, finding some data online,
review a product or site and hundreds of different tasks. Earlier, if you want
to complete such tasks, you need to hire people on temporary basis which is
time consuming and expensive but same thing on Amazon Mechanical Turk is the
easier, faster and cheaper.
What‘s the difference
between a Worker & Requester in mTurk?
A requester is a person,
website owner or a company who provides the tasks to mTurk so that thousands of
its workers can see these tasks and complete them. A worker is a person who
wants to make money on mTurk & completes the tasks provided by requester.
What is a HIT?
A Human Intelligence
Task, or HIT, is nothing but task provided by the requester to be completed. On
successful completion of the task, worker gets rewarded.
How do I join mTurk as
a Worker?
Visit mTurk signup details for joining this.
How do I complete a
HIT?
One you signup on MTurk,
login to your account and view thousands of HITs available there. Click the
“Accept HIT” button while viewing the HIT. Complete the HIT according to its
instructions, fill out the form with the results, and click the “Submit HIT”
button. After you submit your results for the HIT, another similar HIT will be
presented for you to accept.
How do I receive my money from MTurk?
Once you complete a HIT
in mTurk, the requester will check this and if satisfied approves your HIT.
When Amazon checks the approval from requester, it transfer the money from
requester’s prepaid balance to worker’s Amazon payment account. You can check
everything on the dashboard like how many tasks you have completed
successfully, how many rejected, how much is the balance etc.
Once your account in
Amazon Mechanical Turk reaches more than US $10, you can ask to withdraw your
payment. Its better, you withdraw after every US $100 as there is $4 deduction
every time you request a withdrawal. People in India will receive money by INR
cheques.
What is a bonus
payment?
A bonus is an extra
incentive from a Requester. If a requester feel your work is excellent and
better than what he wanted, he may choose to pay you extra commission for the
same reward you already paid for.
I am from India. How
do I receive my payment in INR?
Its good if you are from
India. After US dollar, Amazon has INR as the only second currency option and
sends all the cheques in INR to Indian people. You will need to provide your
birth proof, PAN card, voting card, passport or any other ID proof issued by
Govt. You can scan this and send by email or mail your documents to mTurk
mailing address.
All the information you
need to sign up to receive payments in Indian Rupees is provided on the Account
Settings page. After your submitted information is verified, you will be
eligible to withdraw your money in INR. Amazon will send you the cheque payment
on your given verified address.
My task was rejected,
what should I do?
A Requester has the
right to reject the task if he thinks, its wrong or not satisfactory. But if
you feel your answer was right or you did the task successfully, you can
directly contact the requester. In most of the cases, requester approves the
work if a worker contact him and justify his work.
How much time do I
have to work on a HIT?
Requesters can specify a
HIT’s “Allotted Time” or how long a worker can hold on to a HIT once he accept
the HIT. So once you accept the task, its your responsibility to give the
priority to that task and complete that in the allotted time. In many cases, the
worker accept this but does not complete so other workers who wants to complete
that have no option to complete that.
In this case neither you
nor other worker completed the HIT and requester does not get his task
completed in the reasonable time period. So this ensures that if you did not
complete the task in allotted time, the HIT is available to other worker.
MTurk Tips & Tricks
At present, MTurk is
very strict about new signup. Its difficult to get the approval from Amazon
Mechanical Turk. But you can try your luck. Its a good thing if you get the
approval but there is no need to worry, if you don’t get approval. You can
signup other 10 websites like MTurk & start working on these sites.
But if you have already
got the approval from Amazon Mechanical Turk, then you can try thesesmart tips to work on
MTurk. I am sure these tips
& tricks will maximize your earnings in MTurk.
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