The rest of these additional work from home sources will not provide you a full time income. They are merely meant to be ways you can supplement your income from the comfort of your home. These things are relatively easy to do and therefore don't pay much.
I personally use a couple of these sources to help fund my Christmas shopping.
Swagbucks
Swagbucks is a program that allows you to earn points (points are called swagbucks ) by using their search engine, taking surveys, participating in daily polls, redeeming coupons. and completing special offers.
You can redeem your Swagbucks for gift cards or prizes. Some of the most popular gift cards are the $25 Amazon gift card (which only requires 2200 swagbucks) and the Paypal gift card.
By only using the search engine as you normally would you can rack up quite a few gift card throughout the year. If you want to ramp up your earnings you can participate in the other offers as often as you'd like. You can also earn even more points by referring friends and family.
InboxDollars
What I like most about Inbox Dollars is the email reading feature. It only takes a couple seconds to read an email (which is simply just viewing an advertisement) and click the confirm button.
Just like Swagbucks you can also search the web, take surveys. and participate in special offers to increase your earnings. You also get a $5 bonus just for opening an account.
Keep in mind though that you have to make it to $30 before requesting a check. In my experience checks arrive in the mail about two weeks after you make the request.
(This screenshot shows my InboxDollars earnings over about the course of a year. I always cash out in late October and use them for my Christmas shopping!)
Scanning Groceries with NCP
If you like taking surveys you might like National Consumer Panel. With NCP you're sent an at home scanner or a link to download a mobile app. You can then scan your groceries and take surveys about your shopping habits to earn rewards.
You can get started with NCP here.
Take Surveys
In my early days I spent a lot of time taking surveys online. Taking surveys is definitely not a way to earn a full time income but is an easy way to earn some supplementary income.
A lot of the the survey sites will only send you a few surveys per month. You can maximize your earnings by signing up with several different sites.
Mystery Shop
Mystery shopping is basically quality control for customer service. You simply visit a business or buy a product and then rate the businesses service. There are tons of businesses who use mystery shoppers to make sure that employees and branches are operating as they should be.
I've signed up for mystery shopping before but since I live in a small town all the jobs were so far away that the gas money I'd spend cancelled out the pay. However, if you live in a larger city mystery shopping could be a fun and lucrative form of side income.
Here are some mystery shopping companies you can sign up with:
Write for Content Mills
Content mills are platforms where businesses can request specific articles (usually in large batches.) Content mill writers will then have the ability to choose which articles they want to write from the list and get paid to write them.
When you sign up to write for a content mill you'll have to submit a writing sample or go through a writing test.
Writing for content mills is a way to earn a little bit of money quickly since jobs are continually posted. The downside is that content mills pay much, much less than other types of writing jobs. The other con is that a lot of the articles requested on content mills are usually very specific (like advantages of a certain type of printer, the best flea spray, the best hotels in a certain city, etc)
Don't expect to make a full time living writing for content mills. The pay usually only ranges from $1 $10 per article. Even as a beginner freelance blogger you'd stand to make much more at about $20 per article.
Here are some content mills you can check out:
