Paid to Help

There are quite a number of companies these days that will pay you for various help you give to them, their clients or their website visitors.

Operating online, companies publish problems online and pay cash to homeworkers who can suggest good solutions. This is more of a fun way to earn some extra cash, more than a guaranteed way to earn money from home. But for some people, these are interesting, fun, lucrative or even plain addictive! If you’ve got great ideas, if you think of yourself as a problem solver, then what a great way to spend your spare time. So, come on all you business heads and little professors!

Innocentive pay you to solve problems. Every month companies will publish dozens of challenges. They offer big money for people who come up with the best solutions. Every problem published is a genuine problem a real business is trying to solve - and they’ll pay big money if your solution is the best!

Idea Connection. With this one, once you’ve registered, they send you an email with each problem that needs solving. They pay cash if you can solve the problem. Indeed, you can earn $2,000 to $50,000 USD per accepted solution! They also want technology writers and pay good money for this too. If you’re an inventor or investor, or if you’re looking to buy an invention or invest in one, this site needs to be on your bookmarks! There’s some great stuff going on with Idea Connection

Barrick. Individual companies are also jumping on the online bandwagon for problems to solve. And this one has a bounty of US$10million/£5million. Barrick are a silver mining company, are looking for proceedable solutions on how to boost their production. They extract silver from ore in Argentina.

Get Paid to Find Building Sites

There are a few companies that do this!

Travelodge offers up to £150,000 if you can find it a site for a new hotel (they pay £500 per bedroom, up to a limit of £150,000). As they’re committed to opening new hotels with a total of 4,000 bedrooms, this could be a substantial little bonus!

Lidl are on the hunt for building land too. If you spot a site that’d be an ideal Lidl location, they’ll pay you! Check out the details.