Everything About mTurk (Amazon Mechanical
Turk)
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 businessesand 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.