How to earn money by testing any website

How to earn money by testing any website

How to earn money by testing any website

 do you know there is a company out there who will pay up to $30 an hour just to test a website and when I say test a website I literally mean just going to this website looking around and giving feedback that they're asking for now well that sounds good do you stick with us we're goanna dive right in so when I first heard about this it sounded a little bit too good to be true so I got my senior editor Lauren to go through the entire process I had to record a screen cast of this entire process and how it works and so you can basically look over her shoulder as she's going through this and we'll have a link down below if you want to try them out but let's just dive in hey everyone its Lauren the senior editor over at Seedtime and I am going to talk about user testing on this video and show you how to get signed up and how it works and how you can make a little bit of extra money each month if this is something that interests you so the website is usertesting.com and they are essentially a place where you can go as a tester you can go and just review websites from large companies that are just looking to get some feedback from some of their customers and people who visit their website just to learn about the usability and things like that so you take a test they take anywhere I've taken I haven't I've only done a couple tests but one of them was a quick five-minute one another one was like 15 to 20 minutes so they vary I would say from 5 minutes to 30 minutes and you get paid $10 a test I think the five minute one ended up it was odd situation so I got paid three dollars for doing that one but they tell you all that upfront so to sign up we are just going to put our email address in here and clicks read the Terms of Use and click sign me up and they are going to send us an email so I am going to go over to my email address and pull that email out okay so I came over to my email and you'll see this user testing support email so they are just asking that we confirm our email address and then we can start our sample test you'll have to download some software that will walk you through the test and record your sessions and upload it to their servers so you'll walk through this process to download the screen recorder and go ahead and continue okay so we have the screen recorder downloaded so I'm just gonna hit continue and now they say that you're ready to record your first sample video so I'm not gonna walk through all of these steps in terms of watching a sample video you can do all that when you are like if you go through this process to become a tester yourself but I just want to show you what the process will be like when you actually receive an email and actually take a test this is essentially what the email will look like it's going to come from user testing and support it'll say new website test from user testing and it'll just give you a little bit of information if they know the scenario requirements things like that so I typically just click here and log in and look to see what test is available so this is what this is where you'll be brought taken every time you come in so you have a dashboard and it shows you tests that are available completed tests a little bit about your profile message center and a success center so on the available tests they all tell you what device you need some of them you can just do on your iPhone which is nice when they were posted the test number a little bit about them and then a lot of times you have to do a screener test to maybe answer a few questions before you qualify to take the test so we're just gonna walk through one of these and you'll see how the process works so we have passed the screener test so we got to this success page so we're going to click to view the test and to start that process so it gives you a scenario a mindset that they want you to get into for the test and you want to read this just make sure you get this in your head an idea of what mindset you're going to be in for the next 15 or 20 minutes then you hit accept test and this is where it gives you all the steps for making sure you're recording you want to make sure your microphone is plugged in you're goanna start the screen recorder get through all those prompts and then this will pop up and you need to read this make sure your microphone is there selected for whatever output you are using and then I'm goanna say I'm ready to think out loud yes and then it's goanna bring me in to the test so you all of your tasks are goanna be brought up this way so it's goanna be a pop-up that comes up and it's goanna tell you exactly what to do so I'm just gonna walk through this test this is the biggest thing that they are looking for when you are taking these tests are that you keep talking they want to hear all of your thoughts out loud versus you thinking about things and not verbalizing them because that is the most helpful for the company the client who has paid user testing to get feedback on whatever they're looking for feedback on so that is in the feedback that I've gotten from the couple of tests that I've taken that's the biggest thing you have to take your time you don't want to seem like you're rushed through anything and you want to keep talking the entire time so they know all of your thoughts so now you are just gonna see me walk through this test so you hit the start button and it gives you a countdown for your screen recording - for one that's gonna start and then it's just gonna give you all of your steps in the upper right hand corner so you'll see that this test it had actually 14 steps with it it went very quickly I was able to get it done in about I think 15 minutes or so so I'm literally just reading the steps and taking the action so they're asking me to register using an access code they gave me the access code to put in so I'm following the directions word-for-word and the entire time I'm talking out loud so I'm reading the question out loud I am talking through my thought process with you know can I find where I input the access code can I find my email where I and put my email address anything to let them see how the user experiences what they're asked asking you to do so I'm just following through all of these steps and setting up an account which is the first task that they are asking me to do so now you can see I'm on this Kontest and they are just asking what my impressions are of the page so I'm just giving them my feedback on what I think about the page what is confusing to me and what I like what I don't like things like that I'm just answering that question and then I will go on to the next question and I do this for all of the steps all the way through and a couple of the steps end up being just text answers so it's just a question that they ask and I just type in some feedback and again thoroughness is what they're looking for they want someone who is going to give them more than a one-word answer give them a little bit of meat so they can take the feedback and implement it into their site okay so I'm on the final question now so they're just asking me you know if there's anything final that I want to say and then telling me to sign out on the website so I am walking through that process signing out of the website doing the last task and speaking my thoughts the entire time so they know exactly what I'm thinking what issues I am running into what's confusing what's not when I click the done button I Will ‘be finished it and it'll stop recording and then it's just gonna ask me some questions so I am just goanna give my feedback here and tell them what worked for me what didn’t't work answer all their questions as thoroughly as possible and then that's the end of the test okay so this is the page that you'll get when you're done so I as you saw through it you know they clearly give you the tasks that they want you to complete you know they ask you the questions that they want you to answer and you walk through you answer a couple questions at the end of it and then it uploads for you this upload process does take a couple minutes because it goes to their server so you just wait until that is uploaded and then it'll be safe to close the window and then that is the end of the actual testing taking the actual test so I think that took me probably 15 minutes from start to finish which isn't bad at all okay so then the window will change to it's now safe to close this window so I'm just going to close it I'm also gonna close all these other things that I opened before that and you can just come over to your completed tests and you will see that the tests that you've taken and the payment status pending so I think it takes I don't know maybe a week or so for the payment to come through and they give you a rating and then they give you feedback so you'll notice this first one was technically the second test the first paid test that I took and I did not get paid based on feedback that they gave me which was you know I rushed through it I didn't answer all the questions things like that so that definitely gave me a glimpse into what exactly they're looking for and how seriously they take it you know they have companies that are paying them to make sure they get good feedback on the exact questions that they're looking for so that is user testing in a nutshell hopefully this helps you and you are able to make a little bit of extra money with him all right I hope you found this helpful and if you did I would love it if you could give us a thumbs up down below and on this channel we provide practical tips and strategies to help you put more money in your pocket and then we also discussed timeless biblical principles on how to actually manage that money.