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I'm working on my Commerce PEP badge. But I'm stumped on what I can do (or possibly have already done) for the internet section.

I need to "perform some sort of labor over the internet and get paid at least $100" (that's US dollars).

Is there anything I can do that someone would pay me money to do?

I suppose I could consult about textiles - People pay me for that in real life. But is there anyone online interested in this?

I have access to some powerful permies tools and limited permission to abuse that power. I could abuse my permies power to help someone promote their stuff. Who would pay money for that?

These options are highly stressful for me, so I think the minimum I would charge is $25(USD) for half an hour. Because it's never half an hours work. There are the emails, the agreements, the prep, the loose ends.

I also have writing skills (so long as someone else can edit away dyslexia). I've written for magazines before, but that's always been on a trade basis. I do enjoy writing and this would be a good way to promote my books.

This is less stressful. But how do I find someone? Worse, how do I know what is interesting to people?

Anyway, tossing this idea out there. You guys probably know me better than anyone. What skills do I have that people would pay money for?

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Look at upwork.com or fiverr.com - lots and lots of things that people do that they get paid for remotely.

But for this particular BB, it has to be a a wage income. Something that somebody pays for your time.

Maybe a custom dye or custom fiber?

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Does the pay have to be in cash? Barter items have a market value, so if you did a job for someone and they paid you in say honey or maple syrup and the fair market value of those items totaled $100, would that count?

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What about the sale of your cleaning book? Or does it have to be $100 all in one go?

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Does the pay have to be in cash?

For this badge, it has to be monies.

What about the sale of your cleaning book?

I think it has to be some sort of wage work where I get paid for my time.

I used the cleaning book in a different badge https://permies.com/wiki/115130/PEP-BB-Commerce-sand-Residual#938811

Keep the brain storm coming! There's got to be something I can do online to earn that cash.

I am very good at copywriting first drafts. That's something I do in my real life wage work for someone who is awesome at editing, but will spend hours a day, for weeks on end, staring at a blank screen just to get the first draft done.

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Although I am several months away from launching, and my budget is small, I would GLADLY pay you a small sum for writing a guest blog post, or short video for Youtube(nothing fancy, and could be about whatever you want in the farming/crafting realm).

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Dustin Rhodes wrote:Although I am several months away from launching, and my budget is small, I would GLADLY pay you a small sum for writing a guest blog post, or short video for Youtube(nothing fancy, and could be about whatever you want in the farming/crafting realm).

That would work.

Money (probably via paypal) for a service.

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Dustin Rhodes wrote:Although I am several months away from launching, and my budget is small, I would GLADLY pay you a small sum for writing a guest blog post, or short video for Youtube(nothing fancy, and could be about whatever you want in the farming/crafting realm).

That sounds like fun.

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Wonderful! I just PM'd you some more info

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Wonderful! I wrote you back. This is going to be fun. I enjoy your posts on permies.

I wouldn't mind trying my hand at a few other things as a way of diversifying my income for this badge. I'm also curious to try new things to see if I find anything I like doing. I'm not good at putting myself out there so I don't know what I would be good at.

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Another skill I have is finding, reproducing and documenting bugs (and things that cause PEBKAS bugs) in software. I make a great idiot for idiot proofing software.

But would someone pay me to break things?

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Sure they would. You've already broken hearts across the interwebs by hiding your face! I kid, but that does bring us to one of the biggest marketing events in my childhood:

KISS Unmasked. Even the teachers were talking about it in grade school, so you could probably make millions if you 'unmask' yourself.

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Might be a much bigger time commitment than you're looking for, but as much as you help on permies.com, I bet some burnt-out website admin would pay you to moderate a forum or two of theirs.

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I would also pay a per-piece price for some blog posts that were homestead-related (and/or fibre related). Send me a PM if that is of interest to you

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