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Ciao will pay you cash for writing opinions about a wide range of products and services. Each month £2000 is awarded from their premium fund and each opinion you write may earn you up to £15. In addition some product opinions may earn 1 pence every time a member reads them. It's very easy to write or read and comment on opinions and you'll become addicted to them and earn and learn at the same time! They also pay you for filling out surveys (my recent ones have been for £2 and there was one for £16 once) which they e-mail you and often only take 10 minutes to complete.

A few helpful aspects of Ciao etiquette will help you on this great site:

Begin by reading and rating other people's opinions on Ciao before writing your own. This allows you to get a feel for the site.
Write no more than two opinions a day, otherwise you may become known as a churner and will lose votes and therefore cash.
Product reviews (shown in orange on the site, see my review on Mayonnaise, my user name is borntoloaf, as an example) pays but nothing in the Opinion Cafe pays.
The Opinion Cafe is a great place to read and write about diverse areas of topics.
Look in the community page to learn what the months competition subject is as this is what may earn you £20, other topics will earn you up to £15 each.
Unlike other sites you only need to accumulate £5 before you can request payment.
Write off line in a document such as Word. Then you can run a spelling and grammar check before copying and pasting onto Ciao.
Try breaking down your opinion into sections, perhaps with a separate heading. This will make your opinion more readable, give the impression it is longer and more "cared" for and make it easier to understand and appear logical.
Look in the community page to find out who the category assistants are: and ask them for help.

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Karyn Martin was cautious about launching her freelance career online, but she soon got results:

"I remember the days when I dreamed of being a freelancer," she says. "The word seemed magical to me somehow. Romantic, almost. Now, after having actually been a freelancer for a while, the scales have been lifted from my eyes and I have seen the light. You pay for being able to manipulate your time. You pay by working more, working harder, and - hopefully - working smarter. But what you get in return is priceless. Now I can call the shots about when I work, for whom I work, and how much I make."

One day, Karyn decided she was no longer willing to commute in smog-laden traffic to sit in a cubicle for eight hours, come home, eat, sleep, wake up, and then do it all over again. Going through the same routine, day after day, week after week , only to wake up one day old and tired - wondering how life might have been if she'd had the guts to go it alone.

So she decided to become a freelancer - but how would she find work? She had spent endless hours surfing the 'net, signing up with one freelance site after another. Yet there was an incredible amount of competition. She never seemed to win any bids, and was adamant about not lowering her hourly rate.

"Then I discovered Freelance Work Exchange," she says. "I had heard "don't pay to work!" repeatedly, and I was too poor to risk getting scammed, but I took a chance one day when I was flush and sent twenty bucks to gain access to the Freelance Work Exchange Professional Edition.

"Since then, I've edited a sales letter, a follow-up letter, an 11-page Web site, and a brochure. I'm 'on call' to do pinch-hit proofreading for a medical newsletter editor in Florida while he's on vacation, sick, etc. And I've landed a gig editing a new Canadian magazine coming out this fall. All this from taking a $20 chance on Freelance Work Exchange."

Of course, it helped to send prospects a few previous work samples she'd had the presence of mind to scan and save on disk. Also, since she has been 'in the business' for more than five years, she has a fairly good résumé with some experience to back up the claims, along with a strong list of references.

"For every one of you out there feeling a little discouraged, and especially for those of you on the verge of throwing in the towel, I'm here to tell you this. There may not be a Santa Claus, but there is a place to find work without paying some ridiculous "transaction fee" or never knowing whether or not the projects are 'fresh' - and even the name is easy to remember - Freelance Work Exchange."

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Another way to earn from your opinion is to write for various newspapers and magazines. I have been doing this for years and normally have something published each week. I earn enough between this and Mystery Shopping to earn a full time wage.
Study the magazines and newspapers you normally read and there is bound to be something you can write. I started my writing career by writing for nursing magazines. As a little side-line I write tips, letters, funny stories, TV reviews and short stories to magazines such as TV Times, What's on TV, Chat, Take a Break, That's Life, The Readers Digest, etc.

Always send your work to The Readers Digest first as they pay the most - up to £200 for a wee funny story. You can read these free online and learn the style. Although I take a subscription which pays for itself (remember to claim this as an expense) because I read the articles each month and write my thoughts in the "In Your View" section.

Claim free membership to be on paper which is a guide to being in newspapers and magazines when you join BeonScreen who are also offering free membership for a limited time. Beonscreen list many opportunities to appear on TV and get things for free such as garden or home make-overs or the chance to win cash and holidays from appearing on TV quizzes and game-shows.

Most magazines/newspapers will allow you to send them by e-mail, so it is free to do. I send at least two letters a week to The Sun letters page who pay £15 postal order for each one or £25 for the lead letter. The Sun Newspaper often publish you under another name and ask you if you would like to do this. This means you can have 2-3 letters published a week and get £15 or £25 for each one (paid about 2 weeks later). It is advisable to send these by e-mail so that the news stories stay topical, as they like to publish them within a few days. The editor likes you to write your paragraph and just write your details so that they are not sent bulky e-mails. You can read most of The Sun paper, including the letters page free online. I try to write about the headlines of the day and the lead stories.

I also write book reviews for nursing magazines - I get paid for writing the reviews and get to keep the book. The books are always new releases and some have yet to hit the shelves. When I am finished with them I either add them to my personal library to help me with my own research for articles and book chapters.

So consider your talents, qualifications, and skills and find a publication that prints book reviews and approach the editor to be kept on file as a book reviewer.

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