Thursday, October 17, 2019

18 ways to make online money at home

1. Make Money with Online Surveys

Here you can make money by completing small surveys which takes 5 minutes to 20 minutes depending on the requirement of a particular company.
You need to write your feedback & opinion in a survey. You just have to select your choice from the question & there is no need to write anything.
You can make $1 to $20 depending on the length of the survey, your profile & the country you are living in. You can find more about paid surveys and join 20 best survey sites.

2. Earn Money with Blogging

I have been making money with blogging from the last 7-8 years. I have made more than 1 million dollar (almost Rs. 7 Crore+) with blogging. I was so confused when I started blogging.
I had absolutely no idea about blogging when I started in 2010. I worked very hard but made no money with blogging for almost 1 year.
But I never gave up! I was doing my research on topics like, ‘how to create a blog', ‘how to write on your blog' and ‘how to promote your blog'.
And things started in my favor after 1 year. I made my first $100 from blogging in 2011. Then there was no looking back. Today I am earning $25,000 (Rs 15 Lacs+) per month from blogging.
You can know more about my blogging journey, my income proofs and a complete guide on how to start a blog for FREE.

3. Become a Captcha Solver

If you have more free time (2 hours a day) then you can add further income in your pocket by working as a captcha solver.
This is one of the easiest way to earn money online. As a captcha solver, you need to read the captcha images & type the exact characters.
You need to be very fast in order to earn better income. You can get paid up to $2 for every 1000 captchas you solve.
If you are interested in this then you can check this list of 10 best Captcha work sites.

4. Earn with Affiliate Marketing

If you are serious about earning money online & you are a hard working guy who wants to make big income then affiliate marketing is for you.
There is more scope for affiliate marketing than before because of the high growth of online shopping.
There are hundreds of online merchants like Amazon, Flipkart, eBayClickbankCJ etc. where you can signup & promote their products.
In affiliate marketing, you are simply helping customers to buy the right product by creating a simple website & in return you can earn 4% to 20% commission.
You can signup for Free Training so that we can send you one of the best guide on affiliate marketing that can help you to earn great income.

5. Become a freelancer

Freelancing is another popular way to make money after blogging & affiliate marketing. As a freelancer, you can work with small or big companies on a temporary basis & provide them your services.
Freelancers can make $500 to $2000+ per month depending on the type of freelance jobs you will do for your client.
You can work as a content writer, web designer, graphics designer or provide services like SEO, data entry, video testimonials, digital marketing etc.
There are dozens of popular websites like UpWorkFreelancer.inWorkNHire, and many more freelance sites that can give you the ready platform with ready clients.

6. Virtual Assistant

A virtual assistant is like a personal assistant who can earn money by working online for someone without being physically present.
He can do variety of tasks like taking care of websites, counseling, writing & proofreading, publishing content, marketing, coding, website & app development, research etc.
There are dozens of companies like HireMyMomMyTaskerZirtualuAssistMe123Employee where you can signup for virtual assistant work.

7. Writing Job

Writing is another better way to earn money on internet through writing different types of content.
You can write for blogs, companies, institutions, individual people etc. Different types of writers get paid differently.
Normally people get paid $5 to $20+ for writing 500 words content.
If you don’t have writing skills then you can read this post and become a freelance writer.
You can go to the sites like UpWork, iWriter, WriterBay, FreelanceWritingTextBroker, ExpressWriters.com, FreelanceWritingGigs.com to find the content writing jobs.

8. Micro-working

There are more ways that can help you to make extra income by working in part time. You can easily make $200-$300 per month by doing simple tasks on different sites.
Here you can work on variety of different tasks like identifying an object, rating & commenting on different sites, visiting some websites, finding contact details, doing small research, writing small articles etc.
There are many websites like mTurkMicroWorkerSEOClerkClickWorkerGigWalk where you can work as a micro worker & earn extra income. After signup, we will show you how to work as Micro-worker and make money.

9. Become a YouTuber

YouTube is one of the hottest trend in earning money online. You can start your YouTube channel, upload some quality videos and then become a YouTube partner to make money online on YouTube.
You can create different kind of videos like prank videos, comedy videos, kitchen recipes, how-to-do videos, travel tips, or anything you think, is useful for people.
Once you get the videos views and subscribers for your channel then you can apply for YouTube partner program.
Once you get the approval, people will see the ads along with ads in your videos. You will make money for each views your video receive.
You can shoot videos from your smartphone or any DSLR camera.

10. Become an online seller

Online selling is not like traditional selling. You don’t have much scope of selling your items outside your local market but in online selling, you can sell your product all over the country.
There are 2 ways to sell anything online.
Either, you can create your own website and sell your products from your website OR become a seller on any famous shopping portal like Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, Snapdeal etc.
Second option is much better you will get existing customers of these popular portals.
Now you must be thinking that what can I sell when I don’t have any product?
I have seen many Amazon and Flipkart sellers who don’t have any product but still they are selling number of products on these sites.
What you can do is, roam around your city & check for the best products you can sell on these sites. You can find the wholesalers and distributors who can sell you these products at a highly discounted rates.
You can list these products on Amazon, eBay etc. and make money by selling at a higher price.
You need to try the best products that you can sell at lower than market price. Trust me, its easier than your thought. Only thing you need to do is take action.

11. Domain Trader

Domain trading is another high profit business you can do online. But here you need some investment for buying the domain.’
You must be an expert OR you should get detailed knowledge before you start this business.
You can buy domains from GoDaddy or other domain registrar for less than $10 & sell in future to the needy person for hundreds of dollars. Your skill here is to identify great domains that are not booked yet & companies in future can try to buy that domain.
When companies don’t find the domain of their choice, they contact the domain owner for the deal & it’s in your control to fix the price. You can even put your domains on auction so that people can buy directly at your desired price.

12. Website flipping

Like domain trading, website flipping is also a hot business to earn money online. Here you don’t deal with domains but websites.
You have to create a website, work on it for 3-6 months or more so that you can start making money from the websites.
After earning for 2-3 months, you can put that site on auction on Flippa , EmpireFlippers etc. You can easily get 15-20 times price of your monthly earning from that website.
It’s much easier to grow an old sites than creating a new site and the grow this new site.
Many experienced people buy websites from Flippa, work for 3-4 months on these sites and make double or triple income.

13. Provide training & consultancy

There is a big scope of earning money online if you have some good skills that people need. Like you can provide training on spoken English, computer courses, any technical course, Feng shui, medical treatment and any other things.
You can promote your business through a website or a Facebook business page.
You need to promote your website or Facebook page in order to get the potential leads.
You can get many customers through a good follow ups.

14. Stock & Forex Trading

Stock trading & forex trading is a very lucrative way to make money for those who has good idea of the market.
There are number of free or paid courses available on internet that can train you for online trading.
You can even read newspaper like Economic times or watch TV channels like CNBC to become more expert in the field. Its risky to enter into this market without sufficient knowledge.

15. Earn money from your smartphone

There are various smartphone apps that can pay you some extra income by completing some simple tasks on your Smartphone.
There are at least 20 money making apps that if you install in your smartphone, can give an extra income of $200-$300.
You have to take simple surveys, complete offers by signup on other websites, play games, watch videos etc.
You don’t need to take any extra time to earn from this as you can make money on the go.

16. Sell photos online

This is another use of your smartphone. You can take high quality images of nature, places, people, things, dishes, homes etc. & sell them online.
There are number of big sites like ShutterStockFotolia, , iStockPhotoPhotobucket where you can submit your photos. Whenever some customer wants to purchase your photos, you will get paid as per the price you fix.
You can get paid multiple time for the same photos. Read this MoneyConnexion post for more details.

17. Sell old stuff on OLX or Quikr

I am sure there may be number of things in your home that are lying unused for months & if you take little efforts, you can earn some good money.
You just need to do 2 things, i.e. find out all the items that you are no longer using, take high quality photos of these items from different angles & list these items on OLX & Quikr for sale.
Not only this, you can also ask your friends & relatives for selling their old stuff. You can help them selling these items & make some commission.
So these 18 ways can provide a perfect answer for your query ‘how to earn money online” & yes, you can shoot an email to us in case of assistance.

10 ways of making money online

#1. Start your own website/ Blog

If you need to earn money online, first step is to start your own blog (website to deliver contents). If you are a student or if you are out of the school one of the best things you can do is to start a blog and put your resume on it. If you are applying for a Job, having a blog is impressive and it really makes you stand out from the crowd.  
Follow these steps to start a Blog:
Step 1: Decide what to blog about. If you’re part of a business, company or organization, this step will be easy to determine.
Step 2: Choose a blogging platform. WordPress is the most common blogging platforms today. You can download WordPress free and host your own blog. https://wordpress.org/
Step 3: Find a host. Or you can host at wordpress.org or blogger.com by Google for free.
Step 4: Pick a domain name. Or you can start with a mysite.wordpress.com or mysite.blogspot.com free domain name.
Step 5: Install WordPress.
Step 6: Design & use your blog!
Check here to read more on how to start a blog https://amylynnandrews.com/how-to-start-a-blog/ 

#2. Blogging with Pay per click Advertising

With a blog, you can earn money by placing pay per click advertising such as Google Adsense. It will take some time to begin making money. First, you need to have interesting content on your blog. Then, you have to build your audience.  You need to attract traffic by search engine optimizing your blog. To do this, use keywords that get a lot of hits from search engines, mainly Google to your blog.
Once you begin to attract traffic, you can place ads (from adsense, Text Link Ads, Yahoo Advertising or other Ad Netwroks) on your blog and begin to make money from those ads.
Google Adsense is the most effective method to make money from your blog (monetize your website). All you need to do is add a script from Google to your website and start displaying ads. Google handles displaying relevant ads on your web pages and taking money from the people that are advertising. You will get paid for every time a user clicks on the ad. These are called CPC  or cost per click ads.
But still Google still does not display ads on Sinhala medium sites, if you need to run Adsense in your blog all articles should be in English only.
Blogger has the Google adsense program, which enables bloggers to earn money from ads placed on their blogs.

#3. Become a freelancer and sell your skills

If you have a skill, you can earn money by freelancing. You can do freelance writing, graphic design, web design/ development, writing software programs, accounting, social media marketing, data entry or a variety of other things.
One option is you can create websites for people and companies and charge money. There are so many businesses, such as hotels, doctors, tuition teachers, small companies, furniture shops, electronics shops, gyms in Sri Lanka that do not have websites. You’d be surprised at how much people are willing to pay for you to set up a simple WordPress site.
Popular freelance sites are fiverr, freelancer and elance..

#4. Online Surveys

Find survey sites by searching for “paid survey sites” on google. Register with an email address, and check your email often so you can respond quickly to survey offers. Most surveys pay from $1 to $3, and the surveys generally take up to 45 minutes to complete.  
You can also earn money by Testing Websites (participate in remote usability testing). You are getting paid to navigate a website for the first time and giving feedback to the website owner. Most tests take approximately 15 minutes, and you can get paid up to $10 for each test.

#5. Invest in Colombo Stock Exchange

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Investing in Stock Market is a great way to earn extra cash. You can do stock market trade as a self employment, or, if you are a student, then you can do this while studying for higher education to save for future or to cover your education expenses.
Read our post on Guide to Investing in Colombo Stock Exchange CSE, where we explain how to select a company to invest, how to select a Brokerage company and start investing.

#6. Affiliate Marketing

In this method you place ads from different companies (eg Amazon.com) on your blog or website, and get paid every time someone buys a product from that ad.
You can apply to these programs, and if you’re accepted, they supply you with a special link. That link is able to be tracked, so whenever anyone clicks that link, the company knows that it was you that supplied the link that the person clicked. If the person purchases, then you are credited with that purchase, and that’s how you’re paid.

#7. Forex Trading

The foreign exchange market (Forex, FX, or currency market) is a global market for the trading of currencies. This includes all aspects of buying, selling and exchanging currencies at current or determined prices.
However this may be risky, hence please read all the aspects of Forex trading before your start. You can get more details on Forex trading here.
Forex Tutorial: What is Forex Trading?
www.investopedia.com/forexmarket/
Forex Sri Lanka site explains this trade in Sinhala – www.forexsrilanka.com/
To start trading you need to start an account with a Forex Broker Companies. We cannot recommend any companies here, but visit pages above to check a good company.

#8. Sell your Photos or Art

If you love photography and a good photographer, then you can sell your exclusive photos online. Designers need photos for their projects and one of your pictures can be sold to many authors.
Shutterstock to sell images, footage and illustrations. submit.shutterstock.com/

#9. Selling Your Stuff Online

You can open sellers account and sell items on eBay, Alibaba, ikman.lk or facebook selling group. First research selling prices of items similar to yours. Look up completed sales or current listings of items similar to yours and decide on items you can sell and the prices you can set.
Books, CD’s and DVD’s, Collectibles, clothing and small electronics, mobile-phones can be sold this way. 

#10. Teach students online – Start an online course

You can start online course and earn money by publishing your course in a platform where they charge a commission per student. Following are common platforms that offer free course creation and hosting tools to empower you to teach online. 

Wednesday, October 16, 2019