I first discovered Amazon Mechanical Turk, called MTurk, about a year ago. I was very active on the site for about half a year (and by very active, I mean 'spent almost every minute of my free time working on MTurk'), and became quite successful. Some days I made over $100 from home, which is better than my 'day job' pays.
One day, I started to wonder about where everything I wrote went. Is it online? Is it someone's catalog? Clearly, someone planned to ultimately make more than they paid me to write articles. That is when I stopped working so much at MTurk and began trying to do my own thing on the Internet. As a result, I spend just as much time online, but make about 1/10 as much money.
If you want to make a reasonable amount of money, and are curious how to become successful on Amazon's Mechanical Turk, check out my HubPages Hub about the topic here. I share what I did, as well as how much money I made. If you follow my steps, I'm confident you can make decent money on MTurk, too.
Success takes both planning and dedication, but the payoff is worth it. If you do not have any freelance writing experience, or have no desire to jump into the world of SEO, social media, etc., writing for MTurk is a great way to get a feel for Internet writing without the hassle and stress of managing everything yourself.