Now, more than ever, there are opportunities to make money working at home by offering your expertise over the web.
I want this to be the most comprehensive list of experts sites on the web ;-).It took me a while to gather these links. If I miss any site - please tell me.
If you have any experience with these web sites - please leave a comment!
How does this all relate to working from home?
- Get paid for sharing your expertise - In the $ fee based expert sites you earn money by answering question in your field of expertise.
- Promote yourself as an expert in free communities - In the free expert communities you can build your recognition as an expert, which can of course attract income opportunities.
Get paid for sharing your expertise:Bitwine Get paid using
Skype for the conversation and
paypal for the payment.
chacha Get paid for helping people search.
experts If your expertise can help the legal and insurance industry as a witness, you may want to consider listing yourself in this directory
expertbee Get paid for answering. Based on bidding.
Guruza Get paid to answer question using various communication channels.
Asker sets the reward in advance.
justanswer Get paid to answer questions. Only "accepted answers" are getting paid for.
Kasamba A very large collection of advisers. Fee based.
mechanical turk a fee based service formed by amazon, based on experts from various fields.
nownow Fee based answering service for mobile /
pda users. Based on a partnership with mechanical
turk for the professional service.
uclue experts provide a fast, professional, and inexpensive research service.
xooxleanswers A team of
researchers who provide a professional research service mainly in the fields of "business, law, health and academic research"
Promote yourself as an expert in free communities:able2know Free knowledge exchange, a large collection of forums
answerbag Free. 140k members.
answerway Free. ~12k users. ~4k experts.
askmehelpdesk Free, 60 k members
askeet A relatively small database
allexperts A veteran experts site. Owned by about.com
askbar A relatively small, and unsearchable data. You can become a "bartender" and potentially earn cash. Not sure how...
Askville Amazon's experts community. Read their
blogask an expert Kid-friendly expert site. Free, hundreds of experts.
crowdrules Free, video based experts community.
expert-answers Experts networks, as a small wiki alternative.
experts-exchange A large community of experts. Free for basic membership. Fee based for premium membership. If you become a recognized expert you can earn a free premium membership.
koonji An interactive "guiding community" for online activities.
linkedin answers Build your recognition as part of the growing professional network of
linkedin.
live qna Mircorosfts Q&A network, part of the windows live initiative. Free.
metafilter An interesting concept of "hive community", including answers section.
oyogi Relatively small and new. Nice interface. Free.
pointask Free. Includes a categorized
knowledgebase.
what should i say Free. Geared toward personal advice. Nice user interface.
say-so Looks more like a fun project for Q&A
simply explained Free, including forums and categories.
theanswerbank A UK representative. Good quality. A European flavor of the content.
yahoo answers Nothing to say. The largest and most comprehensive experts site.
yedda Interesting and large community of experts. Free.