1000 hits Approved.... Now What?

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  1. russ43015

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    I just got 1000 hits approved and am looking for suggestions to maximize my earnings. I can Turk for 4 or so hours a day during the usual work hours of the New York time zone. It seems sometimes some Turkers make some $7 or $8 per hour. Before I got 1000 hits, I could only make about $2 per hour. I have done mostly surveys on MTurk. I did Oscar Smith and catalog choice to get to 1000, but these don't make much money per hour.

    Could some experienced Turkers make suggestions for me? Thank you very much.


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  2. Neona

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    Search for "hits you are qualified for" and search for anything over .05 - you should now qualify for alot of the hits that required you have 1000 approved before you could do them.

    Also if you haven't already start requesting qualifications for any of the hits you think you can do that require some sort of qualification - if they turn you down, it wont hurt your approval rating good or bad and the more you qualify for, the better of finding good hits.
     
  3. Neona

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    Also consider trying your hand at a couple of the transcription jobs - I make the most of my money on Mturk from doing transcriptions and I'm finding the more I do the faster I get at it.
     
  4. pohlow

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    Hey, I just started this week, and I am interested in doing the transcription jobs.

    Could you give me a kind of overview of them, and what jobs/requesters I should look for? What is a good time/money ratio when doing these jobs?

    Thank you!
     
  5. Neona

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    This is only my second week. I started with ClariTrans - most of those are verbatium - they want all the "ah, um, and stutters you here. The nice thing about ClariTrans is most of their jobs are less than a minute and you can hear the audio before you accept the hit. I sometimes will skip thru the hits until I hear one that I think I can do without alot of problems. Also ClariTrans usually approves within a few hours and pays within a day or two after approval.

    SpeechInk I just started with, there hits are usually much longer (several minutes compared to several seconds) but their pay is better usually and most of their jobs are non verbatim - they don't want the ah, um, and so forth. I am still waiting on approval for the few hits I've done for them, someone said its been taking two weeks for them to approve anything. (so if you are looking for fast pay, this isn't the one you want to start with).

    Casting Words - has a great website with a very detailed style guide (if I can't find the answer I need from one of the other companies I refer back to their guide until I hear differently)
    http://turkerdocs.castingwords.com/documentation/style/index.html

    Casting words and Speechink you have to request qualification - Casting Words will grant you an approval rating of 80 without a test, Speech Ink will email you a test - you can retake it 3 times if you need to.

    There might be other transcription jobs on here but these are the main ones that I've seen. I did a job a few days ago where the requester only had two jobs - he wanted an interview of someone transcribed.

    To find transcription jobs, just do a search for transcription - and put .06 in the value field to avoid getting all the Oscar Smith hits listed.
     
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    Why did you settle for the pitiful Oscar smith and other poorly paying hits even before you hit the 1000 hits mark. There are a lot of easy and nicely paying hits which don't even require to cross the 1000 hits mark.
     
  7. russ43015

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    because they don't reject.
     
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    So you would better settle for low paying hits than being rejected. It's the same like marrying an ugly girl because you don't like being rejected by a super hot chick.

    There are many super hot chicks (requesters) on mturk which will never reject you as long as you do a good job on their hits. You need to build up the courage and it's time you propose to them (do their hits).

    It's better to propose and be rejected than to spend the rest of your life with an ugly bitch (Oscar smith) and when you do propose to them, you will find that they are not that bad as you were thinking, actually they are quite accommodating.

    I hope my dating tips in the Mturk world helps you.
     
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  9. Neona

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    Get turkoption ASAP! Then you can see which requester have a good history and which ones to avoid and you can go after the higher paying jobs.
     
  10. Neona

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    Crowd Source is a very good one if you are looking for easy and almost never rejects and they pay better than Oscar.
     
  11. russ43015

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    Some one in the hits thread said they did 3000 hits in one day a few days ago. If they worked for 10 hours, thats 3000 hits in 600 minutes, 5 hits per minute. Which ones were they doing? Crowdsource cuts me off after doing 20 or so hits saying there are no more hits to do.
     
  12. russ43015

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    I watched Two lakes hits a few days ago. I watched the number of hits go from over 900 to 17 in less than 5 minutes. Apparently, everybody likes doing those. The variety of hits available on MTurk are rejects because few people do them. If they made good money with those hits, they would be gone.
     
  13. footballchick29

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    I am one of those people that can do 2,000 and up a day in hits. They are batch hits mostly.. the only way to keep hitting this number is to work for certain requesters that have batch hits and just keep doing them until you get the hang of it.. the more you do the faster you become and the more you can crank out.
     
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    Not necessarily. Some people complain that most hits take too long to do for the pay offered. It seems to me people are just lazy and greedy sometimes and don't want to put in work. Being new you will have to experiment with different types of hit and requesters to get a feel for what you like and what you are good at. Some people just do surveys (which I hate), some do just batches, (which I love), some do transcription hits, others do writing hits, some do a little bit of everything.
     
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    I don't really "like" any of them. The faster the better. The more money per hit the better(and easiest to find, but more likely to be scams). The more money per amount of time the better.
     
  16. russ43015

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    I would do Crowdsource Google page rank hits all day long if they allowed it. But they limit the number of hits you can do over a certain period of time. Sometimes they let me do 20 hits and a few days later they let me do 2 hits. Go figure!!
     
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    I'm probably just mostly stick with doing survey hits. I noticed that there are more surveys available now that I got over 1000 approved. I've got Turkalert set for certain requesters like Taggereds which pay well.
     
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    This is why I prefer batch hits. The more you knock out the more you'll earn daily. But you have to evaluate the time per hit / pay ratio, and make sure it's paying what you need.

    Here's one of my days:

    Submitted Approved Rejected Pending Earnings
    Nov 1, 2012 3774 1717 0 2057 $59.09
     
  19. russ43015

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    At any given time on MTurk, there are around 300k hits available. Since you submitted 3774, you did over 1% of total available hits. Hence there are not enough batch hits to go around being that there are 10's of thousands of Turkers.
     
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    There are plenty of batches to go around, its just that many turkers don't like them for various reasons.. they either get bored, they feel the pay is too low, they don't qualify for the good ones, they turk at work and can't do some, ect.. I agree with razor, the more you do the more you earn in baches.. the time it takes to look for and do surveys you could make that same amount in batches.. but hey, all that matters is that we are all making money!
     

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