In my endless trawling through the internet
for ways o make money, I have found many different claims of get rich quick
schemes and many different people offering me services and items which cost to
sign up for and don’t really offer that much in return. All they are
essentially is somebody else trying to make money off other people trying to
make money. Quite a logical and simple idea right?
One thing that has really caught my eye
though is this service called slicethepie.com. Basically, you sign up, they ask
you a few questions about yourself and your musical tastes and then you get
presented with a screen with an mp3 music player and a text box. The
instructions are simple, listen to the music, and write a report on it and
after 45 seconds you can rate it between 1 and 10 and move on to the next.
It is not a simple as it may seem at first,
you have to comment on a variety of musical elements including texture,
harmony, melody and lyrics to be able to submit your review, but once you get
the hang of using these keywords, it is relatively quick. The automated system
which checks your review is also very clever in picking up whether your report
accurately reflects your scoring too. This is the bit which I find most
intriguing, as it is spot on.
Because of the way the website is designed,
you don’t get to see any of the information which your are inputting, like the
word count or the amount of keywords, which is good as this makes you add as
many as possible. If, like me you have a basic understanding of music, this is
really quite easy and also enjoyable, but I suggest you do some background
reading on musical elements before you start this endeavour.
I really like the way you are rewarded for you
work as well. It states you will earn between $0.05 and $0.20 for each review,
depending on how much you write and how well written it is, so these are always
good point to bear in mind. I have not yet got it into double figures yet, and
get around $0.08 per review, but this is still good. In 30 mins, I racked up
about $3, and I did this for a week and got myself about $12 in return. You can
only withdraw money of $10 or more, which does mean you have to work for a
substantial amount of time unfortunately, however there wards are well worth
it.
This is definitely something to consider if
you enjoy listening to new music and getting paid for doing just that. I find
that it really is inspiring listening to new music and enjoying what people have
to offer outside of the mainstream eye, and getting paid a little for it as
well. It isn’t really hard graft and the rewards are very pleasing and I think
fair for the amount of work that you do.
