What Type of Micro-Task Work Do You Want?
There are lots of different types of Micro-Task work you can complete. For example, you could complete Micro-Tasks designed to help with Artificial Intelligence building, or Marketing, or Error Checking – the possibilities are endless.
In this blog post we will look at some of the common types of Micro-Task work you could complete working online.
Categorizing Information
Micro-Tasks categorizing information can help companies determine what pictures, videos or text belongs in which category.
For example, if you imagine a passport office might have 20,000 new applications a day. If they want to categorize the applications in to different groups a Micro-Task might be used to do this. Different groups might be men / women / children / adults / pensioners etc.
Taking every application and putting a category on it based on different criteria can be a simple Micro-Task that takes a few seconds per Micro-Task.
In terms of what you could earn for completing these sort of Micro-Tasks you might be paid a tiny amount (such as $0.01c) for every image you categorize, or an hourly rate for categorizing 1000 images an hour.
Transcribing Audio
Another type of Micro-Task might be transcribing audio.
In this example imagine that the entire audio is recorded from an interview. It would be your job to complete a Micro-Task where you would listen to the audio and type out what has been said.
Typically you might be paid for every 1000 words you type, or for every entire recording you transcribe.
Website Testing
Micro-Tasks testing website are critical to businesses who want to ensure their websites work across different devices (such as PC’s / Apple Macs / Tablets / Phones / TV’s etc) and on different browsers (such as Google Chrome / Mozilla Firefox / Apple Safari etc).
You could be asked to produce reports showing how websites look on the different devices and on different web browsers. Or you could be asked to report any errors you find within the text of the website.
Tagging people, places or objects in images
Micro-Tasks that involve tagging people, places of objects in images are very common and often help with Artificial Intelligence (such as Google Captcha when you’re asked to select all the bikes / boats in an image)
It can also be used to help with companies marketing, for example, a company may want to be “tagged” every time one of their restaurants (such as a McDonalds) appears in an image.
Tagging images in images is an incredibly easy Micro-Task and unfortunately the poor pay rates reflect this!
Advertising / Digital Marketing
Micro-Tasks involving Digital Marketing or Advertising methods can take on many forms such as posting adverts, creating promotional videos, liking a companies content on Social Media or commenting on different Social Media posts.
Ultimately every advertising Micro-Task will have the goal to grow the business and expand the potential customer reach.
Ultimately, the goal of Digital Marketing is to use all of the individual marketing techniques available to generate a Return on Investment.
Many Micro-Tasks associated with advertising can help build a larger marketing campaign.
