12 ways to earn income online
Today let me share you with some ways to earn online feel free to go through these twelve ways
Sell
Old Books
If you are a bookworm like me, you
probably have a few hundred (if not thousand) books gathering dust in your
basement. There is an easy way to turn those old books into cash.any book you
want to sell.
Online
Rewards Sites
Just like many big credit card
companies reward you with cash back and points, there are websites that also do
that.
They are known as GPT (Get Paid To)
sites. But unlike with the credit card reward programs, you earn points in more
ways than just shopping – Taking surveys, answering polls and quizzes, playing
games, signing up for newsletters, visiting websites, etc -.
Of course, scammers have infiltrated
this area too. They set up fake GPT sites, get you to do all kinds of
activities, they get paid from their advertisers from your activities, but when
it comes to paying you, they don’t! So, you have to do some research before
joining any online rewards site.
Cashcrate: With CashCrate, the reward starts the moment you
start going shopping online, taking surveys, and completing offers.
Get
Paid to Read Emails
Ok, I know it sounds very fishy. I
mean, who would pay you to read emails, right?…
Well, here is how it works…
advertisers pay sites like InboxDollars to send traffic to their site. In order
to get you to to visit the advertiser’s website, InboxDollars shares some of
the money they get from the advertiser, with you.
Now, they send traffic to the
advertiser’s website in a variety of ways, but one way they do it is through
“Paid emails”.
They send you an email that is
basically an ad promoting a particular product or service (sometimes even with
a coupon or discount code for you), you click on the link in the email, your
account gets credited a few cents, regardless of whether or not you actually
bought something from the advertiser’s website.
You are paid just for clicking the
link in the email.
I know you’ve probably read or seen
ads online promising $3000 paychecks from reading emails, but that’s all BS.
The truth is you won’t be making much. Most paid emails pay just a few cents.
I use InboxDollars myself and their
paid emails are worth $0.5 each. You usually get 2-3 paid emails a day.
But that’s not it with these kinds
of sites. They also have many other ways for you to earn money, like shopping,
playing games, taking surveys, etc. So, they are a kind of online reward site,
but they also pay you to read emails.
InboxDollars: One of the most well-known paid to read emails site that I
have been a member of for over 6 years. You can cash out once you have $30 in
your account.
SendEarnings: It’s the sister site to InboxDollars.
Cash4Offers: This is very popular with stay at home moms. Lots of ways
to earn points that can be converted into cash or exchanged for git cards from
hundreds of stores.
InboxPays: A newer site, but that has already proven to be legit and
paying.
Mixed
Bag
Let me start with a few ways to earn
extra money that wouldn’t fit into a category of their own.
RewardTV:
A site that pays you to watch TV! Yes, watch your favorite TV shows as you
would normally, then login everyday and answer trivia questions about the
shows. You earn points that can be redeemed for cash and prizes. It’s a fun
site.
Start
a Free Blog
A free blog is easy to set up and
you can do so with many websites nowadays. Once it is ready to go, you can
either monetize it with Google Adsense, affiliate links, or use services like
Pay-per-post, Sponsored Reviews, Linkworth, SocialSpark.
Now, setting up a free blog may be
easy and quick, but let’s be clear, there is nothing easy and quick about
making money with a blog, whether a free blog or one you pay for.
It takes a lot of hard work and
dedication to drive enough traffic to your blog to make any decent money. But,
if you can manage to build a popular blog, you can easily hit few thousand
dollars a month.
My first blog, BlogStash.com, started
on Blogger as satrapmakesmoney.blogspot.com. I worked day and night on that
blog while keeping two full-time offline jobs.
Finally, my hard work paid off.
After almost a year of satrapmakesmoney.blogspot.com being live, the traffic I
was receiving was making me enough money that it persuade me to get my own
domain and hosting, so I could be in full control.
So, I bought a domain,
BlogStash.com, and in 2009 moved the blog there. The traffic kept growing. At
the highest point, I was making over $7,000 a month from BlogStash.
It’s been a few years now, the
traffic has gone down a bit, plus I am busy with this and a few other sites, so
it doesn’t earn as much as it used to, but BlogStash still continues to make me
money month after month.
I haven’t counted the exact number,
but from my PayPal and bank account statements, I can say till date, I have
made over $100,000 with BlogStash.
Yes, 100K in about 3 years, all
while keeping my two day time jobs!
You know the best part?…
It’s almost entirely passive income
now, since I really don’t have to do much anymore, except for publishing a post
every week or so.
I am not telling you this to brag, I
am just trying to show you that it is possible. But it wasn’t always easy
though. In the first two years especially, I really did work hard, and I mean I
spent every spare minuet I had after getting off work, working on this site,
writing content, promoting it, driving traffic and so on.
But it paid off, and it still is
paying off!
I guess what I am trying to say is
that, despite what you may hear online, making money with a blog is not as easy
as setting up a blog and posting to it everyday. It takes hard work, dedication,
and most importantly, patience.
Also, if you use free blog sites to
build a blog, as soon a you can afford it, get your own domain and hosting and
move it there. You don’t want your blog being deleted and not be able to do
anything about it.
I have heard countless stories from
people who worked for years on a blogspot blogs, only to have it deleted by
Google (who owns blogspot) in an instant.
So, if you can afford it, I
recommend you get your own domain name and a hosting account, so you can have
full control over your business.
Build Your Site, Get it Online in
Minutes with Drag & Drop Builder Site
If you don’t know how to build a
site, what hosting is and all the other technical stuff, you can use a site
builder company like WebsiteBuilder.com. They have an easy drag and drop builder that lets you
build a professional looking sites in less than 5 minutes for free.
You can also upgrade and pay $5.99 a
month which is already cheap compared to other services. But the best part is
that they also give you a free domain name and host your website for you. It
really can’t get any easier and cheaper than this.
Free Platforms
Now, if you can’t afford that, or
want to use one of the popular free blogging platforms, here are some of the
best free blogging sites that you can use to get started:
Blogger.com
(Also known as BlogSpot): Owned by Google, offers an easy and quick way to set
up a blog in just a few minutes.
WordPress.com:
It’s different from WordPress.org (that one is installed on your server to run
your own blog), but it offers the same ease of use.
Livejournal:
This is not just a free blogging site, it also is a social networking site in
its own right.
Blog.com:
As the name suggests, it gives you a free blog and will hosted for you for
free.
Tumblr:
One of the most successful blogging sites ever. Although mostly used by
personal bloggers, it is becoming more popular amongst serious bloggers.
Phone
Apps
App popularity has exploded in the
last few years. And while there are thousands apps out there that will make it
easy for you to shop and spend your money, there are a few that can actually
help you make money.
Gigwalk:
Gigwalk is a huge mobile work marketplace. You can use your Apple or Android
powered smartphones to perform simple field work required, these could include
mystery shopping, delivering items, testing mobile apps, taking photos, and
more.
Field Agent:
This is another site that operates similarly to Gigwalk. Here users of iPhone
can become their source of mobile workers who scan bar codes, mystery shop,
check prices, take polls, explore neighborhoods, and more. Work done can be
exchanged for between $3 and $12 as wage for each task.
Shopkick:
This app pays for your shopping trip regardless you buy or not. You will be
paid in “kicks” that could be redeemable for gift cards or store discounts. The
app works on both iPhone and Android.
CheckPoints:
The company rewards you with points and rewards for scanning items, checking in
at different stores, playing games, or completing offers. Points can be
redeemed for discounts, gift cards, or products.
EasyShift:
This app works similarly to Gigwalk. The jobs here are taking a picture,
recording a price, etc. You get paid $2 to $20 for every shift. It is currently
available on iPhone only.
Apptrailers:
Earn points as you watch videos and download apps. It works for both iPhone and
Android. You can change it to gift cards or convert into cash and deposit into
PayPal.
Get
Paid to Answer Questions & Give Advice
“Knowledge is power”!
We’ve all heard that. But knowledge can
also earn you money.
If you are an expert on jut about
anything, you can put it to good use by earning money by sharing your knowledge
and expertise with others through the following sites:
SmallBiz Advice:
Get paid via PayPal or by Check for giving advice and answering member
questions which are all small business related.
Keen:
If you always wanted to make money with your psychic abilities, this is the
site where you can get started.
WerLive:
This sites allows you to earn money by providing tips and tutorials through
their in house video chat system.
Ammas:
Another site where you can sell your knowledge on almost any topic.
ChaCha:
This site pays you to answer questions via text messages.
JustAnswer:
Questions are priced anywhere form from $5 up to $25 or more. If your answer is
accepted, the money is credited to your account, where you can cash out via
PayPal once you reach $20.
Freelance
Gigs
One of the best ways to earn an
income working from home and online is through freelancing. Perhaps the best
part about becoming a paid freelancer is that you don’t need to invest any
money to get started.
All you need is a specific skill or
a specific set of skills, your computer, and your willingness to work and
deliver.
If that interests you, here are some
of the best trusted freelancing sites you can sign up with in order to get
started:
eLance:
A mixed bag of opportunities for freelancers. The work here could cover
marketing, translation, writing, design, mobile programming, Web development,
etc.
oDesk:
An equally large scale freelance marketplace. Job ranges from writing to
translation, sales and marketing, designing, and lots more.
Freelancer:
I use this site myself to both earn extra money when I have some spare time,
and to find freelancers to do things for me, like creating a logo for a site,
designing a new theme, etc.
PeoplePerHour:
Very similar to Freelancer and eLance. Register for free, set up your profile,
brows and apply for available jobs, deliver, and get paid.
99Designs:
A great place for designers to find projects.
Guru:
Another freelancing site that is growing rapidly.
Write
Articles
Writing articles is a great way to
put some cash in your pocket. Internet of is made of websites and websites are
made of content, which means, there will always be a demand for writers who can
produce content.
Constant Content: Trade your blog posts and articles for cash. These can be
of any subject so long the content is original.
Text Brokers:
Similar to above, you submit blog posts and articles in exchange for cash.
Cracked:
If you have a funny bone or tend to have interesting perspectives on things,
Cracked.com could be for you. For every unique presentation that you could pen,
your reward is $100 up per article. Over here, you will be assured of vast
audience due to the tremendous popularity of Crack.com.
Seeking Alpha:
If you are financially savvy and able to write sensible articles on the
financial market, they are happy to pay you here.
Fool:
Similar to Alpha, you will get rewarded with cash if you can write great
financial stories, or have interesting perspectives on stocks, mutual funds,
ETF’s, etc.
Postloop:
You make money here by dispensing informative blog and forum posts.
DemandStudios:
This is the company behind the giant how-to site, eHow.
Paid
to Click
I am not personally a big fan of
this because I have been scammed and rubbed of my earnings many times years
ago, and because there are way more scam sites here than there are legit ones.
Basically you are paid to click on
their advertisers ads.
Some ads may get you a few cents,
but usually its less than a cent.
They say the only way to really make
anything decent with paid to click (or PTC) sites is to refer hundreds of
people since you earn a percentage of your referral’s earnings.
Affiliate
Marketing
Another free way to earn money on
the web is through affiliate marketing. Having a website or blog of your own is
a plus here, but even if you don’t have a website, you can still publish
articles on
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