If you’re looking to make money online, there’s good news and bad news – the options are literally endless and you’re not the only one! This surge of appeal in making money from the comfort of your home has generated several unscrupulous and illegitimate propositions, but the 50 ways listed below will definitely help you get started in the right direction.
1. Become an eBay seller
eBay has been a powerful marketplace ever since its inception in 1995, and one of its most notable features is that no matter what country you live in, you can explore its full potential with little or no startup and marketing costs. All you need is a computer, an internet connection and a digital camera to get started, and eBay brings the customers to you. The trick is to getting your foot in the door is to gauge what sell and what doesn’t, and you can do this by selling some of your own stuff such as old computers and other electronic items.
2. Have you heard of Amazon’s Native Mechanical Turk?
Amazon’s Mechanic Turk is the company’s offering of a freelance website, and is a great route to explore if you’re looking to make an extra few bucks a day. Although most of the jobs on Mechanical Turk don’t pay very much, however it is a great way to dive into the world of freelancing and be your own boss. Most tasks on this website take no more than a few minutes to complete such as surveys and gathering data, so if you’re looking for some spending money, this could be your best bet.
3. Get Creative – Become a Freelance Writer
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There’s tons of freelance writing jobs on the internet, but the only pitfall is that the pay may not be appealing in the initial stages or until you get noticed. The best way to go about this is to join freelance websites such as Odesk, Elance and Fiverr and simultaneously build your reputation by posting on article directories such as Ezine and Go articles. The key to making more money as a freelance writer is to build your reputation, and eventually open your own copywriting business.
4. Are you still posting Pictures on Facebook for Free?
If photography is your forte, then why not earn some extra cash by selling your creativity on stock photo websites such as iStockPhoto.com. Just like eBay, you will have to find out what photos sell and your target audient, but it’s definitely worth your efforts.
5. Become a Feature Writer for Magazines and other Publications
This is yet another way to get pronounced as a freelance writer. Writing for magazines and publications may take time to get started, considering they only want to feature the best writers, but once you’re in the door, the pay out for your creativity is only what you see fit.
6. Become a Transcriptionist
If freelance writing or photography doesn’t appeal to you, there’s always a career to explore. The primary job of an audio transcription is to simply listen to audio files and transcribe what you hear into a word document. As easy as this may sound, a career of a transcriptionist does require a keen eye for detail, an excellent command of the English language, and may get challenging if time stamps are needed. The best way to get started as a transcriptionist is to join freelancing websites (Upwork) and eventually open your own transcription company.
You can also join sites like TranscribeMe and Transcript Diva
7. Write and Submit Articles to eHow.com
If you know the basics of keyword research and can write error free informational articles, eHow.com is a route to explore. Although your earnings from eHow.com may not be something to boast about, you can easily bring in an extra $200 per month, and that’s just for 30 articles.
8. Offer your Services as a Virtual Assistant
With busy schedules online and offline, people especially bloggers are looking to ease their workload with the help of virtual assistants. Again this job may not pay very well, but this depends on your employer and the number of hours you work per day. Going full time as a virtual assistant could fetch you an upwards of a $1000, the tasks include email management, travel bookings and scheduling appointments.
9. Grab a Slice of the Lucrative World of Affiliate Marketing
This is probably the hardest way of all to make money online, but once you reach success, the income is endless and everlasting. You can either create your own product and market of promote other successful products such as eBooks available through websites such as Clickbank and ShareaSale. Again building your reputation as an internet marketer does take time so if patience is not your best characteristic, then this path should be duly avoided.
10. Get in the Dropshipping Business
Who doesn’t like things delivered to their doorstep, and you can be that arm with no investment whatsoever. Forget about stocking up on products to later have them gather dust and eventually lose their value. Dropshipping allows you to ship products from a virtual warehouse as and when orders are received. There are a number of dropshipping services available, but it is important to choose a reputable provider that pays handsome commissions and on time. ChinaVasion is a great place to start off.
11. Write an eBook
There are virtually thousands of eBooks available at any given time in any niche, so the chances of you being successful complete depends quality and your marketing approaches. The key is to find a topic that offers a solution in some way to people who desperately need it. Niches such as financial, medical and legal are top seller, but also need some level of expertise to produce coherent copy. Amazon KDP is a great place to start off with self-publishing.
12. Start Blogging
When you hear the word blogging, the first thing that probably comes to mind is Impossible. Sadly, this way of thinking is the primary reason for failure for most enthusiastic bloggers. While there are a millions of blogs out there it is still possible to make money through blogging.
With any of the ways to make money online in this list, the key to success is patience, and that unfortunately is not conceived overnight. To start a blog all you need is web hosting and a domain name. Bluehost offer affordable hosting and are giving a free domain name along with their hosting packages. They offer excellent support and the servers are very quick. We use Bluehost to host Get Money Saving. They also offer one click install for WordPress.
13. Get in the SEO Game
Every business seeks a distinct online presence and an entry into the first pages of Google, and you can make this happen by providing SEO services. There’s a lot involved in running your own SEO Company, and most of it requires patient and expertise.
14. Learn Web Design
Considering that most websites and blogs today are built with no hardcore programming knowledge such as HTML, being a web designer is not only a great opportunity to help others while earning an enviable income, but a great way to gain expertise that you can use in your own blogging ventures. With website being a considerably large domain, it is recommended that you focus on a specific platform such as WordPress, Joomla or Drupal.
A good place to learn is getting courses. You can go to Udemy or Skilshare for some step by step courses which are very affordable.
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15. Become a Software Geek
Although most software available today is easy to install, there are still many people who just can’t get it right. Installing their software probably won’t buy you a house, but will definitely help with the bills every month. Once you’ve gained expertise installing software, you can offer your services to business owners that require help with most complex software, and this is where your trusted expertise pays off.
16. Selling Interviews
People are always looking for inspiration and interviews of experts are one of the most viable sources. Interviewing experts such as bloggers and doctors or industry experts will not only boost your online visibility, but you can also sell them post them on your website or blog. To succeed at selling interviews, you need to have excellent copywriting skills and know how and where to advertise.
I would recommend learning about copywriting. Skillshare have some excellent courses on copywriting and they’re giving a 2 month free trial.
17. Participate in Logo Designing Contests
Boast your creativity by creating logos and selling them on online marketplaces such as 99designs.com. If you’re really good at it, you can even open up your own logo shop, but you will need an extensive portfolio to make it worth your efforts.
18. Create Facebook and Twitter Cover and Fan Pages
If you like social media hangout, then helping people and businesses spruce up their company or personal profile is an excellent choice. Although you may not gain a ton monetarily, it will definitely bring in an extra couple hundred or every month.
You can start getting clients through Fiverr and Upwork and then get those clients to come directly to you to your website.
19. Get into the Audiobook Business
The first thing consumers look for in a product is convenience, and it doesn’t get better than listening to your perfect novel while going about your daily routine. Depending on the clients, the pay for an Audiobook voice can range from anywhere between $5 per hour to $500 per hour. For obvious reasons, you will need to possess an appealing voice and excellent command of the specific language.
Some good websites to get started are Fiverr, Voicebunny and Voquent. At the start you can make do with a basic microphone and equipment but as you start getting more established you may want to invest into better equipment to make your audio quality better.
20. Become an Editor
For those who have a keen eye for detail and prolific grammatical skills, an editor is a great option to explore. At times, editors are paid more than the actual writers of the publication, and it’s just a matter of looking in the right places.
21. Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is basically when you advertise a companies product on your website and if a user clicks and purchases the product, you receive commission. Its a very great way of making money and it can be quite lucrative if done properly. A good way of using affiliate marketing is to write product reviews and offer an affiliate link for your users to purchase the product.
Here are a list of companies that offer affiliate marketing programs:
22. PPC Advertising Networks
Pay per Click advertising is when third party companies advertise on your site. You have to paste a tiny HTML code onto your website and you will start earning money from advertising. This is by far one of the most popular methods to make money online. Google Adsense is one of most popular PPC advertising networks but there are many other advertising networks you could use to monetize your website.
Here are some of the companies that offer PPC advertising programs:
23. Write Books
You do not need a publisher anymore to publish your own book. Anyone can write and self publish their own book Find a good topic to write about and research it well and compile a great book. A good technique is to outsource the work to someone else and still profit. Some good websites to outsources your work are: www.elance.com and www.odesk.com. It is a great way to make money online because once you submit and upload your book if successful you can make tons of money. You can also sell both e-books and physical books from your website thus generating more sales.
Once you have created your ebook there are many different websites you can upload your ebook to. Some companies you can sell your book to are:
Don’t know where to start? Check out these links on how to write, sell and market your ebook:
- 7 Tips on how to sell books on Kindle
- How to sell one million books on Kindle
- How you can make a million writing your own ebook
24. Micro-Job Websites and Freelancing Projects
This isn’t really a way of making money on your website/blog but it is a great way to create an extra second income or an actual full time job. Many people quit their day job and pursue their jobs on these freelancing websites. Success stories range from a 16 year old making over $60,000 in a 6 month period and the countless amount of people who have made over $100,000 from one website. You earn money from doing tasks such as writing, translating, programing, there is a range of categories that you can earn money from.
As well as earning money from it you can use it to improve your business/website and increase your productivity. You can outsource many of your work that you do not have the knowledge or do not have the time to do. Outsourcing is when you give a task to an external company or individual to do. For example: You can outsource someone to write articles for you. Some popular websites for freelancing and outsourcing are:
25. Start your own Clothing brand
Did you think the rich and famous could create their own clothing brand? Think again. Thanks to technology you can create your own t-shirts, caps, mugs, trousers with whatever custom message you want on them. You can then sell the products as your own and the company will only take out a small commission out of each sale. The good thing about it is that there is no up front cost neither do you have to store any products. The company will do it all for you. Some websites that offer this service are:
26. Twitter
Twitter is an enormously popular social network site. Its were users can post their own messages of up to 140 characters for the world to see. Users can also follow you if they like the different kind of tweets that you post. If you have a popular Twitter account with a good following, companies will pay you to tweet a message for them. They pay you on a pay per tweet basis and the more followers your Twitter account has the better.
Some celebrities and famous people use this method really successfully and benefit from it. Celebrities such as Kim Kardashian (woman famous for leaked porn tape) reportedly earns $10,000 per tweet. Obviously one of the reasons is because she has millions of followers, but if you have a good amount of followers, you should try this method out. Some of the popular Pay-Per-Tweet programs are:
27. Banner Advertising
Instead of using Google AdSense or some other PPC advertising network, you can sell your own advertising space. This way it allows you to cut out the middleman and stop giving unnecessary commission while you can also decide your own rates.
However you will need a big audience and a lot of page views for people to be interested in advertising your website and your rates would have to be competitive. Here are some links to help you out with finding advertisers for your website:
- Find advertisers for your website/blog
- 4 Easy ways to find advertisers for your site
- How to find advertisers for your website
28. Paid Reviews
Sponsored reviews are pretty much self explanatory. The company pays you for putting reviews on any company, product or service. So you have to write while they are paying you. Simples.
There are many different companies out there that offer sponsored reviews and while it is a very profitable method to make money, many site owners do not like using this method as they would be writing a biased review and it would affect the reputation of the site. However the sites that use sponsored reviews to their advantage are benefiting by tenfold. If your site has a big following you could offer paid reviews directly. Some websites that offer Sponsored reviews and blogging opportunities are:
29. Article Writing
Are you good at writing? Do you have a passion for writing? If you do then article writing may be for you. There are many different article writing websites out there and some of them actually pay well. Article writing isn’t the most profitable option but you can still make money from it. Although article writing is one of the best and easiest ways to make money online. Some people do make a lot of money from articles. It is a good way to test the shores of making money online and the good thing is it doesn’t cost anything to start. Zero Startup!
Here are some websites that offer Article writing:
30. Widgets
Widgets are the new and latest trend in making money online with your website. Widgets normally work on a Pay Per Click pay-out system. There are many successful websites out there that offer this service. The most popular website that offer paying widgets are :
31. Make your content Premium
This is a genius idea! Your website or blog would have to have a good following and be popular for you to charge for premium content. A good strategy would be to have free content and then the content you would charge for. If you do it with success then the sky is the limit. Some websites can charge up to $100 a month for their content. If you just get 1000 people signed up you will be making a whooping $100,000 a month. That’s recurring payment. Its amazing isn’t it?
Examples of websites that have used this successfully are:
Want to launch your own subscription based website. You might want to check these articles out then:
- How do I launch a subscription based website?
- How to create a membership based website
- Make your own membership website
32. Sell Physical Products and Books
Turn your site into a full e-commerce website and reap the rewards from it. Sell physical products from your website, source cheap wholesale products and sell on for profit. A great idea. Success stories include ASOS and Play.
Want to start your own fully running e-commerce store? You will want to click on these link:
Finding and sourcing your own products to sell can be a big hassle and sometimes very time consuming, Click on these links below and find out more:
As well as selling e-books, you can sell your own physical hardcover books. You do not need to be a world class author now to write your own book now. There are many companies who take care of designing the front cover, publishing the whole book and providing you with a full professional book. If you have a good fan base on your website, you can market the book on your website and make good money. People who have done this successfully include Pat Flynn and Seth Godin.
Want help in publishing your own book? Check these links out:
33. Email List and Newsletters
Email lists and newsletters are one of the most popular tools an internet marketer can use. A lot of people use email lists and newsletters to their advantage by advertising their own products to their customers, use affiliate marketing effectively and share free content with users. An email list is a great way to retain customers.
If you have a website with a large enough audience then you can profit of this technique. Visit these website for more info:
34. Ride Sharing and Delivery Driver
While this isn’t a completely online way to earn money it is a great way to earn money if you are willing to put in the hours. You can become a driver for ride sharing apps like Uber and Lyft.
Due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic delivery apps like Uber Eats, Deliveroo and Just Eat have had a surge in demand. So many people wanted their food delivered and these apps do pay well.
35. YouTube
The premise is simple. Make videos on YouTube and get paid for the ads that are shown on your videos. You can make videos about anything but some popular niches on YouTube are food, technology, gaming, business and product reviews.
The best thing to do is find popular videos on YouTube and remake them in your own style. Don’t copy them but put your own twist on it and try making it better.
Also you should use keywords to better rank your videos and make sure your the thumbnail and titles of your video are optimized.
Bare in mind that you will have to have over 4,000 watch hours and 1,000 subscribers to qualify to monetise your YouTube channel.
36. CPA Marketing
Cost Per Action Marketing is a form of affiliate marketing but the difference is it rewards you for each action your user makes. For instance, a company may compensate you for people you direct who complete a form and fill out their details.
However while it can be lucrative it is not as easy as it sounds. The best thing to do is choose an offer you think would do well with a specific audience and find people with an audience in that niche. You can then pay them to advertise your offer. You can use Instagram or Twitter for this.
If you would like to apply for CPA Marketing then I recommend using Max Bounty. There is an application process and someone from Max Bounty will phone you to verify you as a person but it’s a straight forward process.
37. Print on Demand
With Print on demand you upload your design and the POD company will do the rest. You can select whether you want your design on hoodies, t-shirts or posters and then set the price of it. Once it sells the POD company will print it and fulfil the order for you, without you having to do anything.
You can then sell your products on your own website or marketplaces like Etsy, Ebay or Amazon.
All you have to worry about is the marketing of your products. Two POD sites I recommend are:
38. Surveys and other tasks
This is probably one of the easiest ways to make money online and is definitely one of the easiest on this list. All you have to do is share your opinion and you get paid.
Some surveys only take a few minutes of your time and you can earn up to $5. Keep in mind for some you would have to qualify for them.
Some great sites to earn money on are:
- Swagbucks
- Yougov
- Lifepoints
- Survey Junkie
- Opinion Outpost
39. Test Websites
Websites need people to test they actually work and the site is user friendly. They’ll even pay you to test if the site functions properly and how users would use their site.
To get paid for testing websites all you have to do is have a computer with a good microphone. You would just record your screen while using the specific site and saying your thoughts out loud about what you think about the website.
Some of these websites pay up to $30 for 10 minutes recording.
Some websites to use to get started are:
40. Invest in Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency is digital currency like Bitcoin and Ethereum. In fact there are over 4,000 cryptocurrencies. It is a relatively new industry hence why it is so volatile. A lot of people have already become millionaires by investing in crypto like Bitcoin.
Before going out and putting all your life savings into these cryptocurrencies it is good to research them. You can read articles or watch YouTube videos to learn more about these.
If you still want to invest the two most popular crypto marketplaces are Coinbase and Binance.
41. Invest in the Stock Market
Legendary investors like Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger have made billions of the stock market. When investing in the stock market you are basically investing into a company listed and in return you get equity or shares.
If the company does well your money goes up. If the company does bad however you are at risk of losing your capital. Like with cryptocurrency we recommend you research and educate yourself on this before investing. Your capital is at risk and if you don’t know what you are doing you could lose a lot of money.
A good place to start learning about the stock market is Motley Fool and Investopedia
If you want to get started with investing we recommend using Trading212 or Robinhood as both these offer commission free trading.
42. Social Media Marketing Agency
There’s so many businesses out there that still are not utilizing social media. Some businesses don’t understand it, some don’t have time or some just don’t care for it. That’s where you come in. As the expert it’s your job to convince them that social media can do wonders for their business if used correctly.
If you are not quite a expert at social media marketing yet, that’s not a problem. Take a course on Skillshare and improve your skills. You’ll be an expert in no time!
43. Online Courses
If you’ve got expert knowledge in something then why not package it as a course that others can benefit from and sell it. It may take a little while putting everything together such as the course curriculum, videos, ebooks, and other materials. But once you’ve done everything you it’s pretty much passive income after that.
There are people making thousands of dollars a month from selling courses. However with that being said it isn’t something you can set and forget. You would have to market your course properly. This could be done through Facebook Ads, social media, or your email list.
Some good places to list your course are Gumroad, Udemy and Skillshare.
44. Email List
An email list is probably one of the most valuable things an online marketer has. It is the one thing that you can fully control to a certain extent. With social media, the companies can limit your reach but with email list they can’t do that.
To get people on your email list you want the offer them something valuable in exchange of their email address. This could be in the form of an ebook, white paper, presentation or video. Once they are on your email list you can start making money from them.
There are so many ways you can make money with an email list. You can cross sell them, upsell, offer affiliate products, offer them your own products or even a service.
45. Sell Your Own Product
Selling your own product has never been easier with Shopify. Shopify make it so easy to sell online, they take care of all the technical aspects of your e-commerce website. All you have to do is focus on making on your business. Shopify are also giving a 14 day free trial.
You can either make your own product completely from scratch or find a manufacturer who will make a private label product. A private label product is an already existing product that the manufacturer will put your logo and branding on and may alter it slightly.
You can find good suppliers on Alibaba. Use YouTube videos and articles to learn more about the process of building and marketing your own product.
The skys the limit with how much you can make from making your own product. Look at Angie Chacon who’s making $500,000 per month from her business. Obviously this doesn’t happen overnight and takes a lot of hard work.
46. Create your own app/mobile game
Making Android and iOS apps and games can be highly profitable. You just need to know how to develop and design the apps and games. You can always learn this through Skillshare or Udemy.
However if you don’t want to learn or just don’t have the time then you can hire developers from Freelancer or Upwork. Be sure you interview them properly and see their portfolio or past work.
Apps in the top 200 of the app stores can earn up to $82,500 per day from ad revenue.
47. Create your own podcast
Podcasts are audio recordings that can be played on any tablet, smartphone or computer. Right now they’re very popular as it is a great way to consume information or entertainment.
You can start your own podcast with just a good quality microphone and some recording software like Audacity. You can then have you upload your podcast to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts and Stitcher. Once you have an audience you can start to get sponsorships for your show, sell products and much more.
Comedian Joe Rogan started recording his podcast in 2009 from his home. In 2020 Spotify signed his show for a deal believed to be worth $100 million.
48. Instagram Pages
Instagram is one of the most popular social media platforms out there with nearly 1 billion active users. This mammoth social media platform which is owned by Facebook is showing no signs of slowing down.
A great way to make money through Instagram is by creating your own page. You can do this through to ways either by creating a personal page or a niche page. A personal page is something that represents yourself and your personal brand. You are the main attraction for your page and most of your content will be featuring you. An example could be like Kim Kardashian. The main way to make money for this is through influencer posts, sponsorships and brand deals.
A niche page is something that is centred about a certain topic or niche. You are not the reason people follow rather they follow because of the content. For example I could have a niche page about CrossFit or Dogs. You can then promote paid shout outs, products and other services.
49. Get Paid To Browse
This one isn’t much work at all. All you have to do is install a plugin on your browser called Qmee. Once it’s installed it will bring up sponsored results next to the normal results when you are looking for something on a search engine.
It’s very easy to do, requires hardly any work and there is no minimum pay out amount. You earn a cash reward every time you click on the sponsored results by Qmee. Normally they pay around 10p per result.
50. Phone Flipping
Buy new, used and broken mobile phones and sell them for profit. People always want to get rid of their old handsets and some people don’t care how much they go for. You can look at Facebook Marketplace and eBay for deals on phones.
Just buy a few phones, fix them up and sell them on. You can make quite a tidy profit doing this.
Conclusion
This list could be overwhelming as there is 50 ways to make money online. But you shouldn’t do all of them as that will just get too much for one person, instead pick 1 or 2 and start on them. It’s better to put all your focus on 1 or two rather than scatter your focus between 10.
I hope this list inspired you to start your own journey to make money online. If you found it helpful please consider sharing it.