• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
permaculture forums growies critters building homesteading energy monies kitchen purity ungarbage community wilderness fiber arts art permaculture artisans regional education skip experiences global resources cider press projects digital market permies.com pie forums private forums all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
master stewards:
  • Nancy Reading
  • Carla Burke
  • r ranson
  • John F Dean
  • paul wheaton
  • Pearl Sutton
stewards:
  • Jay Angler
  • Liv Smith
  • Leigh Tate
master gardeners:
  • Christopher Weeks
  • Timothy Norton
gardeners:
  • thomas rubino
  • Jeremy VanGelder
  • Maieshe Ljin
  • Likes 9
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum. Completing this BB is part of getting the sand badge in Commerce.

Perform some sort of labor over the internet and get paid at least $50.

Here is a list of some ideas of things you can do for money over the internet, sometimes called Agile work.
Wondering what is Agile work? Have a look here.

To get certified for this BB, post the following:
  • A description of your labor
  • A picture of proof that the labor was done over the internet
  • A picture of proof it made you at least $50 (you can smudge the personal info, as long as it is identifiable as yours)
  • COMMENTS:
     
    steward
    Posts: 21553
    Location: Pacific Northwest
    12040
    11
    hugelkultur kids cat duck forest garden foraging fiber arts sheep wood heat homestead
    • Likes 3
    • Mark post as helpful
    • send pies
      Number of slices to send:
      Optional 'thank-you' note:
    • Quote
    • Report post to moderator
    Approved submission
    I shared links for Paul's Rocket Oven Kickstarter. He paid me a kickback percentage of the amount those people had pledged.

    Here's an email during the kickstarter showing my progress, and then a screenshot of the amount I was paid.
    kickback.png
    kickback
    kickback
    kickback2.png
    kickback2
    kickback2
    Staff note (Shawn Klassen-Koop) :

    I certify this BB as complete!

     
    gardener
    Posts: 1331
    Location: Miami, 11a, Am, apartment dweller
    886
    8
    hugelkultur kids forest garden trees books wofati cooking bike rocket stoves
    • Likes 2
    • Mark post as helpful
    • send pies
      Number of slices to send:
      Optional 'thank-you' note:
    • Quote
    • Report post to moderator
    Approved submission
    Hello there!


    I do wordpress work, over the internet for a few clients I've been very picky about choosing. (I also do project management, training, and project management training).

    Here's a picture of some work I did for this client:


    Here's a picture of one of the invoices:


    Here's a picture of the payment for that particular invoice:


    Mods, if you need extra details, PM me and I will gladly send/post them!
    Staff note (Nicole Alderman) :

    I hereby certify that this Badge Bit is complete!

     
    steward
    Posts: 15505
    Location: Northern WI (zone 4)
    4846
    7
    hunting trees books food preservation solar woodworking
    • Mark post as helpful
    • send pies
      Number of slices to send:
      Optional 'thank-you' note:
    • Quote
    • Report post to moderator
    Would writing a magazine article count for this?  All contacts, contracts and communications with the editor are and would be by email.
     
    Posts: 40
    Location: Virginia
    34
    forest garden building homestead
    • Likes 5
    • Mark post as helpful
    • send pies
      Number of slices to send:
      Optional 'thank-you' note:
    • Quote
    • Report post to moderator
    Approved submission
    For those casting about ways to do this there are a lot of options.  Too many to cover in a single post.

    For small dollar commerce you can get paid to take surveys.  I used Prolific, which is for academic researchers to gather data for their studies, but it is not available everywhere.  You will usually get less than a dollar per survey, but they are short.  A quick google search will reveal any number of small dollar options that companies are willing to pay to rent your eyeballs and attention span.  Attachment below.

    For mid dollar commerce, if you have a bachelor's degree you can sign up to help students by answering homework questions.  I did this for Study.com for a few months, they pay $5/answer but it was college level stuff and worked out to about $8/hr once I got good at it because the answers need to be detailed.  It does have the added benefit of helping you brush up on your old academic skills if you feel like you need it.

    Finally, for full-time commerce, if you have a bachelor's degree and are a native or near native English speaker, you can get an English as a Second Language certificate and do online tutoring.  This can pay anywhere from $15-50/hr depending on your qualifications, experience, and any sort of niche that you can fill (IELTS, STEM, Business, etc).  I've heard rumor that it can get higher than that but this seems to be the market consensus rate.  I haven't done this personally but I have known people who did it full-time and made decent money.
    Prolific.JPG
    Account page - amount earned in the upper right. 80 GBP = 103 USD
    Account page - amount earned in the upper right. 80 GBP = 103 USD
    Staff note (Mike Haasl) :

    I certify this BB complete along with your first air badge!

     
    Mike Haasl
    steward
    Posts: 15505
    Location: Northern WI (zone 4)
    4846
    7
    hunting trees books food preservation solar woodworking
    • Likes 3
    • Mark post as helpful
    • send pies
      Number of slices to send:
      Optional 'thank-you' note:
    • Quote
    • Report post to moderator
    Approved submission
    I think I completed this one.  I wrote an article for Mother Earth News magazine about starting a homesteading club and they paid me $250 for it.  

    They contacted me by email and we communicated back and forth that way.  Contracts were signed, scanned and emailed.  Article and photos were emailed.  So I hope that counts as "labor over the internet".

    Cut-and-Paste-of-some-of-the-email-communications.png
    Cut and Paste of some of the email communications
    Cut and Paste of some of the email communications
    Moolah.jpg
    Moolah
    Moolah
    Staff note (Mike Barkley) :

    Looks good Mike. Certified!

     
    pollinator
    Posts: 258
    Location: Pacific Northwest
    111
    8
    forest garden fungi wofati cooking solar homestead
    • Mark post as helpful
    • send pies
      Number of slices to send:
      Optional 'thank-you' note:
    • Quote
    • Report post to moderator
    I sell physical copies of my music online.  Sometimes I sell t-shirts and miscellaneous merchandise as well, but they sell better in person when I play live than online.  Here are the receipts for the last couple months.
    vinyl.png
    [Thumbnail for vinyl.png]
     
    Mike Haasl
    steward
    Posts: 15505
    Location: Northern WI (zone 4)
    4846
    7
    hunting trees books food preservation solar woodworking
    • Mark post as helpful
    • send pies
      Number of slices to send:
      Optional 'thank-you' note:
    • Quote
    • Report post to moderator
    Hi Kyle, could you elaborate more upon how the CDs are burned, where they're shipped from and how involved you are in getting the CD from point A to point B?  If you're doing all that, then it's a fit for this BB (per my understanding of Paul's brain).  If a service does all that and you just see the money roll in, then it isn't a fit for this BB.
     
    I like you because you always keep good, crunchy cereal in your pantry. This tiny ad agrees:
    Back the BEL - Invest in the Permaculture Bootcamp
    https://permies.com/w/bel-fundraiser
    reply
      Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
    • New Topic