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VIPKid.com I haven’t used VIPKid personally, so am not giving it a star rating at this time, but it is an excellent, reputable way to make money tutoring English online. With VIPKid, people who are fluent or native English speakers sign up to tutor English online to students in China. Tutors must have a bachelor’s degree in any field, and have a year of experience in teaching, tutoring, or mentoring. The tutoring is done during times of peak demand, so tutors must be available during the evenings and weekends on Beijing time, which can be a challenge for tutors living in North America. However, it’sRead More →

Fiverr.com Earning potential: 3 stars Quality of the opportunities: 3 stars Quality of the platform: 3 stars Overall star rating: 3 stars Fiverr started out as more of a GPT site, where nearly anyone could sign up and agree to do all kinds of online tasks for $5, and that is still the core of the site. However, it has evolved into a more robust platform, with more professional-level clients seeking higher quality work for more money, and more professional-level freelancers able to charge more for their work. While there are still plenty of $5 gigs on Fiverr, freelancers who have invested in the platform,Read More →

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Upwork.com Earning potential: 5 Quality of the opportunities: 2 Quality of the platform: 3 Overall star rating: 3 Upwork is an online marketplace where freelancers create and post profiles, and clients create and post jobs. Freelancers can search, sort, and filter contract jobs and apply for them on the platform, and clients can search freelancers and invite them to apply for their gigs. Upwork works by creating a platform where freelancers and clients can connect and get work done, with a comprehensive set of communication tools for every step of the process, and then they take a percentage of the earnings for every job inRead More →

ContentGather Earning potential: 2 stars Quality of content: 2 stars Quality of the platform: 4 stars Overall star rating: 3 ContentGather is interesting because, in addition to the client-requested writing jobs, it also has a content marketplace, where writers can post pre-written content for sale. What’s Great About ContentGather This content marketplace is a useful feature for writers for two reasons: It sometimes happens that you have written a piece for a client, but they decline it for some reason. It can be difficult to find a place to sell these finished pieces, in order to recover some of the time you’ve already invested inRead More →