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Become a Document Translator

What does a document translator do?

When businesses grow globally, they need to communicate with their customers in a language that their customer understands. Most of the businesses communicate with their customers in written form such as email, product usage guides, help tutorials, written blog content and so on.

In order to do this, they need people who are multilingual and can effectively convert a document written in one language into another. As a document translator, your task will be to convert documents written in one language into another language.

The most common example you must have seen is a phone usage guide you get when you buy a new phone. You must have observed that this guide has multiple versions written in multiple languages.

Suitable For

Suitable for people who love to write and have an eye for detail

Skills Required

Ability to read write and ﬂuently speak at least 2 or more languages.
Ability to interpret the meaning of the context with right understanding.

Tips

Set up your home ofﬁce with a computer, internet connection, a recording headset. You'll require this if you decide to participate in live conversations and convert documents online.

Most of the translation jobs are in Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and French. So try to learn and be ﬂuent in any one of them. These will fetch you more money.

How To Get Started

The best way to get started is to register on Translatorscafe.com and upload your resume and list your rates and services. It contains a free online directory of translators and translation jobs.

Another way is to register yourself with the following websites, these sites will provide you translation jobs based on your expertise and abilities.

Gengo.com
Lingosaur.com

Expected Earnings

You will earn about $12/hour for translating normal documents and up to $40/hour for translating technical or scientific content.

Become a Captioner

What is Captioning?

In simple terms, captioning is the process of converting the audio content of a video into text.

You must have seen subtitles when you watch movies, television series and so on, these subtitles are typed by captioners.

Captioning is straightforward and similar to transcription work. But as a Captioner, your job will be to watch a video and correctly type everything you hear.

You'll also need to make sure that captions sync up correctly with the audio.

Suitable For

Almost anyone.

Skills Required

Ability to read, write and ﬂuently speak the language of your operation along with English.
Ability to listen and understand multiple accents in your language of operation.

What You'll Need

A computer with decent speed internet connection.
A Headset.

How To Get Started

The best option to get started is to apply for the post of a Captioner on Rev.com

Rev pays you $0.40 to $0.75 per video minute. The average Captioner at Rev.com earns $240 per month while the top Captioner earns over $1500 per month!

Rev sends payments weekly via PayPal so you don't need to wait longer for receiving your money.

Become a Proof Reader

What is a Proof Reader?

In simple terms, proofreading means examining any text carefully to find and correct typing errors, grammar, style and spelling mistakes. With the rise of the internet, blogs, and social media, demand for high-quality content is steadily growing. Which is why there is a huge demand for online proofreaders who can examine any text and make sure it's error-free.

You should definitely leverage this opportunity to earn some handsome money online.

Suitable For

Anyone who loves to read, write, ﬁnd and correct errors.

Skills Required

Ability to speak and write in English with native-like ﬂuency.
Excellent reading comprehension skills and the ability to follow written instructions and work independently.
An average proofreading speed of 1000-1500 words per hour.

How To Get Started

The best way to get started is by applying for the post of online proofreader on the following two websites:

Proofreadingservices.com

Before you can submit your application, you'll need to pass a 20-minute test which consists of 20 questions. These questions will test your basic English and Grammar abilities.

Strive to get maximum answers correct because your acceptance will be based on your test score. Higher the test score more are your chances of getting selected.

Scribendi.com

Scribendi offers great ﬂexibility for proofreaders, you can actually choose when and which projects you want to work on. But you need to commit to proofreading a minimum of 10,000 words per month.

Like Proofreadingservices.com Scribendi doesn't conduct any qualiﬁcation test but candidates having experience in editing, writing, document production or language teaching have higher chances of acceptance.

Payments are sent via PayPal, and you can also earn monthly incentives.

Become a Ghostwriter

What is a Ghostwriter?

In simple terms, a Ghostwriter is a person who writes for other people. Most of the busy bloggers, authors, publishers hire ghostwriters for completing their writing work.

As a ghostwriter, your completed work will be owned by the person who employs you. Your name will never appear anywhere as an author. But you'll get handsomely paid for the job.

Most of your jobs as a ghostwriter will include writing books, eBooks, blog posts, articles and press releases.

Suitable For

People who have the passion for writing.

Skills Required

Ability to get into the minds of clients, understand their needs and convert their story into writing.

How To Get Started

You can get started by visiting the following websites/URLs and applying for the available ghostwriting jobs:

Expected Earnings

At an entry level, you can expect to earn $10-$25 per hour. Once you reach an intermediate level you can expect to earn $30-$50 per hour.

You will make $60-S70 per hour once you have lots of experience and positive reviews.

Create a comparison website

Now the idea is to bring this comparison concept to the niche level and create a website comparing similar or related niche products.

To implement this idea you need to ﬁnd a niche which has hundreds of products with similar or confusing specs.

Think of Television (TV) niche for example. You'll ﬁnd a variety of TVs from multiple companies having similar specs and most of us don't what they really mean.

Such situations create massive confusion in the minds of buyers, and they take help of the internet for getting more clarity.

You could tap on this opportunity and create a site which compares products spec by spec and explains their meaning, beneﬁts, and value for money of them.

You can also add other related content such as tips, tutorials, installation instructions and more which your customers will ﬁnd helpful.

Once your site is ready, you can drive laser targeted trafﬁc from low competition keywords by doing SEO and generate stable passive income.

How to monetize:

Monetize by referring visitors via afﬁliate links and earn commissions when they purchase the product.

If you own an e-commerce store, you can refer site users directly to your store and generate sales.

Become a travel writer

If you love to travel and can compile your experiences in a beautifully written article, then you can become a travel writer and make money online.

There are travel websites and magazines that regularly need fresh travel articles, and most of them don't even require you to be actively traveling.

Matador Network

Matador Network was started in 2007, and since then they have worked with thousands of photographers, writers, and filmmakers. They're always looking for original travel experiences and photography.

You can join Matador by signing up by clicking the link above, once signed up you can submit your articles to editors. If your article gets accepted, you'll get paid.

You'll also ﬁnd a variety of other related job opportunities such as photo editing, project collaboration, interview, etc. in the marketplace section.

Payment: $40 USD per article upon acceptance

Travelista Club

Travelista is looking for people all over the world who can work for them as a freelance travel writer.

You can even start by writing travel guides about the place you live, and you do not need to be traveling.

Once you get signed up, you'll also get enrolled in a free professional training course where you'll learn all the essential skills you need to be an expert freelance writer.

Payment: $40 AUD per article (1000 words) upon acceptance

Go World Travel

Go World Travel accepts articles from experienced journalists to first-time writers. They need you to write a unique story and also recommend to visit GoWorldTravel.com and study their writing style and see what they have already covered.

You are required to cover details such as how to reach the destination, local customs, exciting places to visit nearby, food, markets and so on. You are also encouraged to include real photos to make the articles visually appealing.

Payment: $30 to $40 USD per article (Up to 1600 words) upon acceptance

The Expeditioner

The Expeditioner loves unsolicited article submissions from people who have a great travel story and want to share with it with the world.

They love ﬁrst-person narratives and require your article to be informative, exciting, and inspiring for the future travelers.

Your articles need to be ready for the following stuff to increase its chances of getting accepted.

The article should consist relevant, original photography including links to these photos stored on Flickr.

The article should be written in American English with proofreading.

Payment: $30 USD per article (From 1200 words and up) upon acceptance

Wanderful

Wanderful is looking for articles that are personal, inspiring, engaging, and community oriented. Their audience is primarily women between the age of 25-40 hence they prefer articles related to women and travel.

Before you submit an article to Wanderful make sure your article ﬁts in one of their following categories.

Destination and itineraries
Travel tips
Global issues related to women
Important women to watch

Payment: $50 USD per article (750 - 2500 words) upon acceptance

Write Poetry

If you love to write poetry, then this is the way for you. You can express your creative side and make quite a lot of money per poem, if yours is one that is selected for publication.

Each site or magazine has it's own style and tone that it likes to promote, so keep that in mind when writing your poetry.

The Sun Magazine
Payment: $100 - $250 per poem

Poetry Foundation
Payment: $10 per line with a minimum payment of $300

Crazy Horse
Payment: $20 - $200 per poem

Rattle
Payment: $50 per poem

Boulevard Magazine
Payment: $25 - $250 per poem

Three Penny Review
Payment: $200 per poem

Alaska Quarterly Review
Payment: $10 - $50 per poem

Chicken Soup For The Soul
Payment: $200 per poem

Arc Poetry Magazine
Payment: $50 per page

Slice Magazine
Payment: $75 per poem

VQR Online
Payment: $200 per poem

New Myths
Payment: $30 Per Poem

Dreams And Nightmares Magazine
Payment: $12 Per Poem

Leading Edge Magazine
Payment : $5 - $20 Per Poem

Become a copy writer

What is Copywriting?

Copywriting is writing copy for the purpose of advertising or marketing. The copy is meant to persuade someone to buy a product or inﬂuence their beliefs.

Suitable For

People who have the passion for writing.

Skills Required

Ability to write a sales copy in order to maximize product sales.
Time Required For Starting Copy-writing
You will have to learn the concepts and psychology behind successful copy-writing which might take time according to your learning speed.

How To Monetize

Good copywriters are paid a handsome amount of money for writing a single copy. In the beginning, you might not earn much, but once you will become an expert then no one can stop you from earning hundreds and thousands of dollars just by writing few hundred copies.

You can start by creating a sales copy for the product you are promoting. See the results and try to improve as much as possible.

You can also earn money by freelancing your Copywriting skills. Just register on the following websites as a copywriter: