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1.Start your own blog It’s remarkably easy to start your own blog. I show you
how to do it here in under 30 minutes.
I use Bluehost to host my websites and thoroughly
recommend them for people starting out. Hosting with
Bluehost starts from as little as a $2.95 a month (the price
of a coffee!)
Once you’ve started your blog about something you’re
passionate about, there are some excellent free resources
that show you how to grow a reputable blog and monetise
it. Sites with accessible, cracking content include:
www.blogtyrant.comwww.problogger.net
www.amylynnandrews.com
2.Earn with matched betting (UK ONLY) Want to make thousands of pounds risk free cash? If you
live in the UK, matched betting offers the potential to do
just that.
If you’re hearing alarm bells, don’t worry - matched
betting isn’t gambling. Done right, it’s 100% risk free.
It simply takes advantage of free bets and incentives
offered by the bookmakers and absolutely anyone can do
it. So if you need a short or long term cash injection,
matched betting can be a great little earner.
I learnt matched betting with Profit Accumulator and made
profit from day 1.
You can signup for the Profit Accumulator’s FREE TRIAL or
check out my Profit Accumulator review for more details.
3.Get paid for website feedback There are a ton of websites out there who will pay you for
doing surveys, but many take up a lot of time for little
return. UserTesting, however, pay around $10/£7 for a 20
minute website review.
Sign up at www.usertesting.com, complete a simple test
review and you’ll start receiving sites to review within a
few days.
You’ll need a microphone built into your computer (or an
external mic that can be plugged in), plus you need to take
the reviews seriously. People have paid for genuine
feedback to their websites, so think about the tests from
the perspective of a real user or customer.
If you just skim through the tests simply to get paid, you
risk getting a poor review yourself, which will impact on the
amount of surveys you get.
4.Start an affiliate marketing business Affiliate marketing is where you sell someone else’s
products and get a commission in return. Amazon run one
of the most famous affiliate programmes.
The most common way to succeed at affiliate marketing
is to set up your own affiliate website. This is what I did
and I now earn passive income every month. Everything I
learned in the early stages I owe to Wealthy Affiliate, an
online training community for affiliate marketeers.
The amazing thing about Wealthy Affiliate is their FREE
Starter Account (no CC required), where they give you 2
free websites and top notch beginner training, simply for
opening an account. It’s a brilliant way to see if affiliate
marketing is for you and personally, I’m indebted to
Wealthy Affiliate for showing me the ropes in the early
stages. I thoroughly recommend them for beginners to
affiliate marketing.
5.Earn cash or vouchers with Swagbucks If you have a bit of spare time on your hands, enjoy
surfing the web, watching videos or filling out the odd
survey, Swagbacks is a nifty way to earn online vouchers
for stores like Amazon.
Whilst you can earn cash with Swagbucks, it does take a
bit of time to earn anything worthwhile. I earned a £5
Amazon gift voucher in only a few days, so it’s worth
joining up if you’re online a lot.
You can signup for Swagbacks here.
6.Sell your old clothes on Ebay Ebay is an excellent way to clean out your closet and make
some cash at the same time.
If people can make money selling empty toilet roll holders
on Ebay (they do!), it’s pretty likely your old Levi jeans or
baby clothes will sell there too.
Ebay offer a good guide to selling clothes here.
7.Build an Amazon FBA business FBA means ‘Fulfilled by Amazon’ and it basically means
you send Amazon new products you want to sell and they’ll
dispatch them for you.
Many people do this by buying up low cost items in bulk
and re-selling them on the FBA program. You can get
scanning apps that tell you how much a product is likely to
sell for an Amazon and once you know the ropes, selling on
the FBA program is not difficult to do. The main challenge
is finding the products to sell, but many people make a FT
income selling everyday products on Amazon.
To find out more, check out the FBA’s Quick Start Guide for
beginners.
8.See your own products on Etsy Are you a ninja on a sewing machine? Can you make your
own organic natural health care products? (I make my own
deodorant and toothpaste.)
If so, it may be you could sell what you make on Etsy.
This is exactly what Crunchy Betty did with her natural
health and skincare products and she was pushing a
whopping 30,000 orders when I last looked.
So if you have a good product Etsy really works.
You can open an Etsy shop here.
9.Earn cashback when you shop online If you shop online a lot, cashback sites will pay you when
you click through to a retailer, (via the cashback site) and
then go on to spend or sign up for a product.
It’s possible to earn a few hundred pounds or dollars (or
more) a year from making purchases via a cashback site.
Ebates is the most popular cashback site in the US.
If you’re in the UK, TopCashBack is cited by
MoneyMakingExpert as one of the most lucrative to join.
Just be mindful of getting sucked into buying things you
wouldn’t otherwise have bought just to get the cashback.
10.Earn money as a virtual assistant Becoming a virtual assistant (often called a VA) is all the
rage these days and offers a great option for working from
home.
Becoming a VA essentially means hiring out skills you
already have. These skills can be anything from
copywriting, graphic design or social media management,
to book-keeping, translation or data entry.
Using a dedicated service that will match your VA skills
with appropriate clients is a good place to start. Belay
Solutions, Priority VA and Fancy Hands are popular ones to
try.
If being a VA appeals, you might also want to try The
Bootstrap VA - a guide to becoming a virtual assistant that
gets consistently rave reviews on Amazon.
11.Become a proof reader online It’s possible to earn a full time income from online proof
reading, but you need to love reading, be able to ‘spelll’,
be great with grammar and have eagle eyes like The Bionic
Man.
If this sounds like you, proof reading can be a great way
to earn money from home.
proofredanywhere.com offer a Free 7 Day Intro Course
where you can find out if proof reading might be for you.
12.Search the web and get paid for it If you spend a lot of time online, why not sign up to Qmee?
It takes seconds to join and once you’ve loaded a small
app into your browser Qmee works in the background to
send you offers and opportunities to earn a few pence or
cents. These opportunities appear randomly on the left of
your browser when something is available.
Don’t spend ages surfing in an attempt to get Qmee to
popup - this doesn't work and you’ll just be wasting time.
Like Swagbucks, it takes a long time to earn anything
significant, but if you’re online a lot, even small amounts
add up eventually and combined with sites like Qmee and
cashback sites like Ebates, money can accumulate over
time.
You can signup to Qmee here.
13.Write and publish an ebook Do you love writing? Maybe you have a skill or passion you
could teach others?
In the age of Amazon and Kindles anyone can write and
publish an ebook. And it’s much easier than you might
think.
Below are 2 free guides to writing an ebook, both from
people who have successfully made money from publishing
their own digital books:
www.viperchill.com
amylynnandrews.com
14.Sell your old mobile phone Got an old iPhone kicking around?
Selling your old phone can bring in some quick cash, as
well as help recycle phones that may otherwise end up in
landfill.
In the UK, a good resource is www.mobilecashmate.co.uk.
If the US, www.ecoatm.com offer a kiosk based service
where you can exchange your phone for cash.
15.Make money selling ‘Gigs’ on Fiverr Are you a whiz at knocking up killer infographics? Do you
know a thing or two about writing engaging sales copy?
Perhaps you’re a pro at translation.
Whatever your skill it’s likely someone will pay you for it on
Fiverr.
To sell your skills, simply signup to Fiverr, create your first
‘gig’ and hey presto, you’re good to go.
16.Sell your photos on iStockphoto Are you the next Annie Liebovitz?
Ok, that might be pushing it a bit, but if you can still take a
mean photo, try uploading them to stock photography sites
like istockphoto or Fotilia. You’ll get a royalty fee every
time someone downloads ones of your shots.
Fuzzy, dodgy lighting or bad composition just won’t cut it,
so you need to know what you’re doing, plus you’ll need a
proper high resolution camera. But if you’re an amateur (or
pro) with an armoury of awesome shots, this iStock guide
to selling stock photos tells you what you need to know.
17. Invest in the stock market If stocks and shares appeal to you, the web has cracked
this area wide open.
What was once, primarily, the domain of Wall Street type
brokers is now something you can do yourself, with the
help of online market trading platforms.
eToro is one of the most popular trading platforms, with
over 45 million worldwide users.
If you’re new to online market trading, bear in mind there
will likely be a steep learning curve - however Save The
Student offer a good guide to investing in the stock market
with eToro if you think you’re up for the challenge.
Disclaimer: Investing in the stock market can be volatile
and it is possible to lose money, as well as make it. Please
ensure investing or trading in the stock market is suitable
for you and that you understand the risks involved.
18. Review music for money Whilst you won’t end up on Billboard’s Money Makers’ List,
if you love music, you can review unsigned bands and
artists online for cash with Slicethepie.
You’ll only get paid a small amount for each review (around
5-20 cents), but this can add up over time. Cash is a bonus
for many people, as they simply love the idea of being an
online music scout.
To get value out of Slicethepie you need to submit
detailed, varied and constructive reviews. ‘Your track sucks’
or ‘I liked it’ isn’t very helpful, so try and listen out for and
comment on elements such as lyrics, intro and rhythm etc.
Here’s a good guide to writing a Slicethepie review, plus
you can signup To Slicethepie here.
19.Buy and sell domain names It’s totally possible to buy a domain name (i.e. a website
address such as www.onemumandalittlelady.com) and sell
it for a profit on sites such as sedo.com.
The trick is to find domain names that are available to buy
and have some commercial value. Hotels.com was bought
for a whopping $11 million in 2001 and whilst it’s unlikely
you’ll replicate success like this, it’s still common place to
sell catchy domain names for a profit.
I use and love Namecheap for buying domain names and
found this handy guide from GoDaddy on buying and
selling domain names helpful.
Warning: Avoid buying domain names of well known
brands, companies or people with the sole intention of
making a profit - this is cybersquatting. This is not playing
cricket (as they say in the UK) and it can be illegal.
20.Sell your old CDs, DVDs and games I made around £500 from selling books, DVDS, CDS and
Box Sets on Amazon. It’s really easy to do and can quickly
bring in a tidy profit, with the added bonus of clearing up
some space around the house.
It’s even easier on Music Magpie, as you simply enter the
barcode of your CDs, DVDs or games and they’ll offer you
a price.
Music Magpie is the more hassle free option if you want a
quick sale, but, whilst Amazon takes a bit more effort, you
do have control over the price an item sells for. Although
bear in mind Amazon charge a seller fee.
21.Make a video & upload it to YouTube YouTube now reaches more US adults aged 18-34 than any
cable network. That’s a HUGE captive audience.
And creating a video and uploading it to YouTube is easier
than you might think. One option is to use free screen
capture software to create an online tutorial.
For example, if you’re great at drawing, you could design a
simple ‘how to draw a person’s face’ video and link it to
Google Adsense. If your video gets a lot of views, (this one
has over 3 million) you have the potential to earn some
serious cash from people clicking on the ads that are
displayed each time your video is played.
Alternatively, join an affiliate network such as ClickBank,
Commission Junction or ShareASale, pick an affiliate
product you would recommend to others, then create a
video review around it - either with a smartphone or the
free screen capture software mentioned above.
Pop the affiliate link in your video description and each
time someone signs up for the product or service via your
video review, you’ll earn a commission.
Keep in mind, most people can smell ‘clickbait’ - (a blatant
attempt to get people to sign up for an affiliate product via
a review, without really offering any real value) a mile off.
So the trick here is to create a video from the heart - i.e.
on something you honestly care about or would seriously
recommend to others.
22.Sell professional services on Upwork Do you have great writing, design or bookkeeping skills?
Perhaps you’re a whiz at Flash design, data entry or setting
up Wordpress blogs. Whatever your professional skill, it’s
easy to set yourself up as a freelancer on Upwork.
Simply signup, submit a killer freelancer profile to
showcase your skills (kind of like a resume), then start
submitting compelling proposals to potential clients.
Once you’ve secured a few jobs and a positive rating,
Upwork can be a lucrative way to work from home.
You can check out the list of freelance categories here to
see if any match your own skills and get an overview of
how to freelance here.
23.Create your own online course Online courses are all the rage. So if you have a skill, or
something you’re naturally really good at, you could try
teaching others how to do it, by creating your own online
course.
You don’t need a Masters in Neuroscience, just something
you’re knowledgeable about - anything from how to create
a killer Youtube video to the basics of sewing or beginner
guitar.
You’ll need to offer something of value to succeed here, but
if you fancy your chances as an online tutor, Udemy can
guide you through setting up and selling your own online
course. Teachable is another popular option.
Courses are free to setup on Udemy - they simply take a
small percentage cut of the course price when you make a
sale, whereas Teachable work on a tiered monthly plan
basis.
24.Become a transcriptionist Do you have a good ear? Then becoming a transcriptionist
could be for you.
Transcribing is essentially where audio or video is
converted into a textual document. It’s not hard to do and
a site such as transcribeme.com can be a great place to
start, as you don’t need any prior transcription experience
- just a computer and an Internet connection (headphones
are also recommended).
Transcribe Me is also free to join and once you’ve passed
their English exam and been accepted you as a transcriber,
you’ll be good to go.
You can register for a Transcribe Me account here.
25.Be a freelance writer Can you spin words like a pro?
If so, you might want to consider becoming a freelance
writer.
The beauty of the web is that you no longer have to spend
hours marketing yourself directly to magazines,
newspapers and publishers. You can simply sign up to a
site like Content Mart, which connects quality copywriters
with relevant clients.
Whilst you’re building up a profile for yourself, as a trusted
writer, it can be worth signing up to a few freelance writing
sites, so you are not reliant on work all coming from one
place.
Freelancer is another popular option that offers content
and writing jobs.
26. Enter competitions Did you know ‘comping’ is a recognised term?
‘Comping’ is essentially entering lots of competitions in
the hope of winning cash and other prizes of value, such as
household items, cars or holidays.
Some people make a business out of ‘comping’, as
statistically speaking, if you enter enough competitions,
you’re highly likely to win at some point.
If you fancy yourself as a bit of a ‘comper’, Money Making
Expert offer 43 Comping Tips here. It’s aimed at the UK,
but the ideas and tips can be applied globally.
Entering ‘#competition’ into Twitter can also be a quick
way to source online competitions online in seconds.
Never pay to register with a competition site and keep in
mind that brands run competitions largely to get hold of
consumer email addresses. This makes it a really good idea
to set up a dedicated email account, which you use just for
competition entries. Otherwise you risk getting a lot of
junk into your main inbox.
27. Answer questions for money Do you have professional or expert knowledge in a
particular area?
If so, you could get paid for answering questions on
justanswer.com or justanswer.co.uk.
Just Answer works by connecting people who have a
specific question, in a given field, with an expert who can
provide the answer. From lawyers, doctors and vets to car
and home improvement and computer experts,
professionals answer consumer questions on a range of
subjects and get paid for it.
Keep in mind, you need proven professional, expert
knowledge to sign up with Just Answer - you can’t just
join up and offer half baked answers you got off Wikipedia!
Depending on your area of expertise, however, there is the
potential to earn real money here.
To offer some examples, Just Answer estimate that
answering 5 hours of legal questions, a week, could earn
you up to $532, 5 hours of expert car knowledge up to
$370 or 5 hours of home improvement expertise, up to
$193.
Signup to Just Answer US or Just Answer UK.
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Good luck!
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