How to get paid to answer emails from home

Do you want to get paid to answer emails while working remotely? This is the subject of our blog post today!

Before I share how you can get paid to answer emails from home, you should know that there are a lot of work at home scams that claim you can do it for a lot of money.

Many people are interested in answering emails from home, working from home, because it seems like an easy task. And so scammers like to take advantage of people who are looking for email-answering jobs.

To be safe, remember that if someone offers you a lot of money for what they claim is easy, foolproof work, it’s probably a scam!

Additionally, be very wary of anyone trying to pay you for their work, and don’t trust “recruiters” who try to hire you via WhatsApp, Google Hangouts, or any other instant messaging system.

Below are the best, non-scammy ways I’ve brought you actually Get paid to answer emails from your home.

How you can get paid to answer emails from home

Customer Service – Email Support

There are many, many jobs at home customer service positions that require responding to emails.

More often than not, I see companies wanting you to not just answer their emails, but Also Receive phone calls and respond to chat. It’s kind of hard to find a customer service job only Email support for some reason! Haven’t seen anyone for a long time.

Below, I’ve listed some companies that routinely hire people to work from home for customer service that requires responding to emails, chats and/or phone calls.

• Athena Club – Hiring customer experience associates to work from home, answering customer inquiries via email and social media. This is a 40 hour a week job that requires a BA or BS degree.
• Teachstone – Hiring customer service representatives to work from home, responding to customer inquiries via email, phone and chat. 1-2 years of past customer service experience required.
• Next level sports – Hiring customer service associates to work from home answering customer inquiries via email, phone, live chat and social media. 1-3 years past customer support work required.

Virtual assistance

As a virtual assistant at home, you can specialize in email management and offer this service to your clients.

There are many, many business owners who receive more emails a day than they can handle. So, it makes sense that they might want to outsource their answering work.

You can work for yourself as a virtual assistant, or you can work for a company that hires virtual assistants.

As a self-employed virtual assistant, you have more control over what services to offer your clients, which means you can be sure that answering emails is part of your service.

If you work for someone else as a virtual assistant, there’s a good chance, but not a guarantee, that you’ll spend your time answering emails for your clients. Each client will have their own specific needs, and each company will ask you to do different things.

The following companies regularly hire home virtual assistants:

my e-book, Your quick guide to working at home as a virtual assistantHere’s a list of 50 companies that hire virtual assistants and more information on working for yourself as a virtual assistant if you choose to go that route.

Post your email management services on freelancer job boards

If you don’t really think you want to work as a virtual assistant, you can always take advantage of freelancer platforms and advertise your email management services.

You can usually set your own rates on freelancer sites, but it can be difficult to get the word out about your services when others are offering the same service.

The idea is that, over time, you’ll get good ratings from clients you’ve helped, and these ratings and reviews will appear on your profile — which leads to more clients and, of course, more money.

Consider the following job boards to post your email management services publicly:

Extra Cash Ideas – Get Paid to Read Emails

I’ve posted a lot in the past about reward sites that pay you for various tasks. Most of these sites are best known for getting you paid to answer surveys, shop online, do small tasks, and the like.

What you may not know until you use these types of sites is that some of them will pay you to read emails.

This is very, very little money and I would only recommend bothering with it if you are someone who likes to use these types of sites for fun. If you do, you might want to sign up for services that pay you to open and read emails.

If you have a separate email from your main email for signing up, I’d recommend doing that and using it only for sites like this — just in case you get tired of all the emails and you can’t open and read them anymore. Interested in earning a few cents.

The following reward sites are known to pay people small amounts of money for opening and reading emails:

I hope this post has given you some ideas on how you can work from home and answer emails! Good luck if you follow anything listed above!

Anna Thurman is a home blogger and mother of two. He has been researching and reviewing remote jobs for over 13 years. His results are published weekly here at Real Ways to Earn.