I. Participate in Online Surveys
There are millions of companies around the world selling their products or providing services. These companies need to know their customers' views to enhance their products or services. Market research companies help these multinational companies to conduct surveys and get customers' opinions. Market research companies get our opinions using their websites or emails and pay us a reasonable amount for our opinions. Using these websites, you can not only earn money by taking surveys but also by reviewing websites, playing games, sending emails and referring friends.
Take part in Surveys
1. Register with the marketing research company.
2. Explore the website and learn the different ways of earning money.
3. Take surveys, send emails, and refer friends.
4. Receive checks every 20 days or 1 month.
II. Transcribe Audio
What is Transcription?
To say in simple words, "Transcription is converting speech to text". The sources for transcription includes but not limited to podcasts, videos, and webinars. You need to listen to the audio and convert the speech into text.
How to Transcribe?
You can either convert manually or by using tools.
Manual Conversion: You need to open the audio or video file, listen to the audio a sentence at a time and type the text in a word document or any text file. The issue in doing the transcription manually is that the audio runs faster than your typing speed. If you are an amateur, you need to rewind and hear three to five times to type one big sentence.
Using Tools: You can also use tools to convert audio to text. Very few tools are available in the market to do this job, of which only a few with 50 - 60 % perfection. You need to review the document again to correct all the mistakes. Sometimes, this will be a time-saving process and most of the time it will consume more time than required. Here's a list of tools that you can use for this purpose. They either convert audio files to text or listen to the audio through mic and convert them to text.
1. Wav to Text
2. Google Voice
3. MacSpeech Dictate
4. Dragon Naturally Speaking
How much do they pay?
The amount that these companies pay varies slightly. But, at the least they pay you around $1 for transcribing a 6 minute audio file. That is, you get $10 if you transcribe a 1 hr audio file.
III. Earn Money by Uploading Photos
One of the best ways to earn money online is by selling your quality photos. There are a lot of businesses that need photos for their projects. For example, e-learning companies develop thousands of e-learning courses. These courses require images for their animations to explain different concepts. The e-learning companies instead of recruiting a photographer and take the photos themselves buy the photos from a stock photo website. The stock photo websites get millions of images from photographers like you and you get a commission when somebody downloads your photo.
Sell Photos
The process of selling the photos is almost the same with all the stock photo websites.
1) Register with a stock photo company giving your personal details.
2) Provide your payment details. They may ask your bank details or your paypal details to deposit your money. Some companies pay you by checks.
3) After registering, upload your photos. Your photos may be approved or rejected based on their quality.
4) When a customer downloads your photo, your account is deposited with some amount. The amount varies from company to company.
IV. Utilize Established Websites' Traffic
The more traffic your website has, the more money you make using the traffic. But the reality is, it takes months and even years to get high traffic for your websites. You need to really work hard to pull the traffic to your website. So, let's do a smart work instead of hard work. What I mean is let us use someone else's website traffic to earn money. No need to create website, buy a hosing space and a domain name, and there is no necessity to learn and implement the SEO techniques. Just utilize established websites' traffic.
There are well established websites' that invite us to write content and publish in their web pages. If you get more visitors for the web pages that have your content, you get paid for it. In addition to that you also get a share of their advertisement revenue from those pages. Sounds lucrative?
Make use of popular websites' traffic
1. Register with websites that pay money for your articles.
2. Write an article on your favorite topic and publish in their websites.
3. Receive the checks for your smart work.
V. Create a Blog
You get a lot of ideas every day while performing your day-to-day activities. You have hundreds of opinions on some happenings around you. You have thousands of hidden talents within yourself. Everything goes wasted unless you jot them down on a paper, notepad, or a blog because you forget the ideas the next minute. So, my advise to you is to note them down so that it will be of use in future. Noting all your ideas and views on a paper helps you to read them in future, whereas noting them in a blog helps you not only to share your thoughts but also to earn money. So, don't waste your ideas - make money out of it.
What is a Blog?
A blog is a website created by an individual or a group of people to convey their views in the form of an article on a particular topic of interest. The task of posting, updating, and maintaining articles in a blog is termed as Blogging. A Blogger is one who creates and maintains a blog. Some bloggers write about their personal experiences in their blog whereas others write about anything that interests them. For example, a blog can be on an individual's experience on a vacation to a favorite place or it can be about the latest gadget that has come to the market. A blog can contain any number of posts and they are arranged in chronological order displaying the latest blog on the top and the oldest at the bottom of the page.
Create Blogs
Better late than never. Follow these steps to create a blog.
1) Select the topic of interest. You need to first decide on what you are going to create a blog. The topic you choose should be on which you are more passionate about and on which you have a wealth of knowledge.
2) Decide on how to host your blog. Secondly, you need to decide on how to host your blog. You can either host the blog yourself or get the help from one of the blogging services available for no cost. My advise would be to make use of one of these hosting companies if you are a beginner. Once you become an experienced blogger, you can host a blog yourself.
3) Decide the domain name. Thirdly, you need to decide on the domain name based on the content that you are going to post in your blog. You should also make sure that the domain name you choose does not exist already on the web.
4) Find a web host. Finally, you need to find a web host company to host your blog. There are a lot of hosting companies available to host your blog free of cost. You don't need any prerequisite knowledge to host a blog.
Earn money using blogs
1) Register with a blogging website.
2) Post your content on the blog.
3) Register with Google AdSense and Affiliate networks.
4) Place their advertisements in your blog.
5) Bring traffic to your blog using social networking sites, Google AdWords, and SEO techniques.
6) Receive Commissions for the products sold through your blog advertisements.
VI. Upload Documents
You can earn money just by uploading documents. Create a document on any topic that interests you - about management, internet, recipes, sports, education, business, etc. and upload them to websites. There are people to download your documents and make use of them. If more number of people download your documents, you earn more money. It is as simple as that. You can add text and graphics to support your content and use your writing skills to create a quality document. Then upload your document and earn passive money.
Perseverance is success. Do not give up because all your efforts never go wasted. Even if you are not getting immediate results, you will be doubly rewarded at a later time when you are in real need.
Earn money by uploading documents
1. Register with the websites that pay you for uploading documents.
2. Create a quality document in your niche and upload the document.
3. Monitor how many people download your document.
4. Receive checks for amounts based on the number of downloads.
VII. Join Affiliate Marketing
The marketing teams in big companies were able to reach out only a minimum number of customers. The usage of internet expanded the marketing teams after the introduction of affiliate marketing. This enabled to reach customers world-wide. In affiliate marketing, we, the affiliates, market a company's product or service using our web sites, blogs, and through emails. The Affiliate Networking companies act as the middle men in all the transactions involved.
The process is very simple. Companies register with Affiliate Marketing websites to promote their products or services. We, the affiliates, register with Affiliate Marketing companies to promote the companies' products and services. After registering with these Marketing companies, you can copy the Ad links and/or banners and place them in your websites/blogs. When a user visiting your blog clicks the ad link and purchases a product, you will get a commission credited to your account. Some companies even pay based on the number of times the link is clicked by the users.
Earn money through Affiliate Marketing
1. Register with the Affiliate networking companies.
2. Copy the code of the Advertiser's links or banners.
3. Use the code in your website or blog to display their advertisements.
4. When a visitor of your site clicks the advertisement and purchases a product, your account will be credited with a commission for selling the product, which you can transfer later to your bank account or to your PayPal account. It is wise to open a PayPal account before you start.
5. If you don't possess a website or blog, it is advisable to start a blog or create a website.
6. If you don't want to use a blog or website, send email to your friends and relatives with the referral link or use social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to market your product.
VIII. Create an Online Store
There are thousands of ways to earn money; one easy way is to create an online store. Creating an online store is as cumbersome as literally building a shop. This has become a myth because you are going to find an easy way to create an online store and earn commission when a product sells.
Creating an online store involves buying a domain name, creating a website and hosting it with the help of an ISP, marketing, selling, and delivering the products. What if all these tasks are taken care for free by somebody, giving us the website and the potential to earn money? Yes, you can just design T-Shirts by placing texts and graphics online and add them to your online shop. Selling and delivering the products are taken care by the online design company. They allow us to design T-Shirts, Bags, and other items and publish them on to our online store. You design, publish them on to your online store, and earn commissions when they are sold through your online store. Sounds easy, isn't it?
Your graphic designing ideas or skills in developing interesting wordings would enable you to earn money by creating online stores for free. I have provided a list of online shops, which allow you to create your own online shop and take care of all the transactions. Still what are you waiting for? Generate ideas, create designs or write some interesting texts on t-shirts virtually and post them on your online store. You get commissions if somebody buys them through your online store.
Some online stores get the design from you and try to sell those through their websites. If the t-shirt with your design sells, you get a commission.
Earn money from online stores
1. Register with an online design company.
2. Design your products using their tools and create your online store.
3. Market your designs providing your online store's website link to the world using email and social networking websites.
4. Receive commissions for the products sold through your online store.
IX. Do Online Trading
Using the other methods may or may not earn you money. But, you will not lose any money whether you perform well or not. However, trading online enables you to earn big money or even lose a huge sum of money. So, unless you have enough experience, you are not advised to invest a large amount of money on equity or forex trading. Initially, you can either learn about trading joining classes or practise trading with little amount of money and then invest huge money once you get the hold of it.
None of your efforts go wasted. You get the credit for the efforts put in for a good cause, whereas you need to pay for the efforts put in with a bad motive.
Earn by trading online
1. Register with an online trading company.
2. Attend a Forex trading or Equity trading class.
3. Practice trading with a little amount of money.
4. If the results are positive try investing more money. But be careful as people who failed to make money trading are more than people who made more money.
X. Create and Sell Online Tutorials
You need some technical skills (programming & design) and writing skills to earn money using this method. There are websites that pay good amount for your tutorials. If you feel that you have the required skills or have already written some tutorials go ahead and submit your tutorials to earn some money. But, make sure that your tutorials are of excellent quality because these websites review your tutorials before publishing them on their websites. Keep one thing always in your mind. None of your efforts go wasted.
Submit tutorials
1. Register with a website that pay you for conducting classes.
2. Explore the website and read the dos and don'ts before starting to write the tutorials.
3. Submit your tutorials.
4. Receive checks or see your hard-earned money credited into your account.
XI. Publish eBooks
Until the last decade publishing books was a cumbersome process. You need to write, print the content, bind them in the form of a book and find a publisher to publish your book. Publishing books have become simple with ebooks - You can write content in word format, publish as PDF and then register with ebook publishing websites to publish and earn money from your ebook. Some companies like Amazon help you to create and publish even audio books and print books in addition to ebooks.
Make money by publishing ebooks
1) Write good quality content.
2) Analyze and rate your content.
3) Create a cover page with attractive title.
4) Register with websites and publish your content.
The only talent you need to possess to publish and sell ebooks is writing skills. Don't worry if you don't possess the writing skills. Take the first step by following the points that I have given below to author a decent book.
1) Write good quality content.
Here, I provide some basics in creating a good content for novice writers.
a) Define the objectives.
Writing quality content starts with defining the learning objectives. Defining the objectives upfront gives you an idea on the contents that need to be covered in the book. Listing the objectives enables the readers to get an idea of what is in it for them in the book. Listing the objectives is pivotal for a book because the buyers will not have the time to read the content of the book before they buy. Instead, they go through the objectives and decide whether to buy or not.
b) Create a Table of Contents (TOC) page.
Apart from looking the objectives, the readers will also glance through the Table of Contents to decide on buying the book. So, it is important to provide the TOC and format it as a table for the readers to glance through easily.
c) Write quality content.
This is the place where you can prove the worthiness of the book. Quality content is one that enables the readers to comprehend easily. The sentences must be concise and not too wordy. At the same time, you should also take enough care of the content coverage - make sure that the required content is covered sufficiently on the topic or subtopics you are dealing with. Add headings and subheadings wherever required and format them to differentiate the paragraph and headings. This improves the readability of the content.
d) Add graphics and captions.
It is advisable to add graphics and captions to support the text content. In addition to improving the look and feel of the document, they also act as a catalyst for readers' understanding.
e) Add glossary and index pages.
These parameters enable the readers to easily locate and access the content they are looking for and also read and understand the definitions of certain important terms.
2) Analyze and rate your content.
The quality parameter plays an important role in selling your books. To determine the quality of your content, rate your book based on the parameters mentioned below:
Ask these questions to yourself before deciding to publish your ebook:
a) How useful the content will be to the readers of that particular niche?
b) How much of information have you presented?
c) How do you rate the quality of content?
d) How good is the presentation of the content?
e) Is the book presented with examples, analogies, graphics, and data to support the content?
f) Last but not the least - Will you buy this book if you are a buyer?
Give a rating for your answers of the above questions.
Poor - 1
Average - 2
Good - 3
Excellent - 4
If you get 3 or above in all these parameters, you can go ahead and publish your work. Otherwise, try to identify the gap and fill it. This improves the quality of your content and the opportunity to sell the ebook as well.
3) Create a cover page with an attracting title.
The readers or buyers get attracted by the cover page. You can attract them by adding beautiful graphics that are relevant to the subject of the book and persuade them by providing relevant title for the book.
4) Register with websites and publish your content.
You should have your content in word or PDF format to publish as an ebook. The rest of the tasks till publishing and selling your ebooks is taken care by the ebook publishing websites.
XII. Flip Domain Names
Domain name flipping is just buying a domain for a less cost and selling it at a higher price. You can gain profit by flipping domain in either of the two stages.
a) Selling the domain name immediately after buying it.
b) Selling the domain after developing a website and gaining some traffic.
Flipping a domain name can earn you a little money, whereas flipping a website earns you significant amount of money. You need to do a research before buying a domain name. The domain names with.com extension has more demand. Shorter the domain names with single or double syllable, higher the demand. The domain names that can be easily spelled and pronounced have higher chance to sell. After identifying a list of domain names, log in to one of the domain name sellers' websites and check if the domain name is available. Pricing the domain names also plays an important role in selling them. Fixing a higher price for a normal domain name makes it difficult to sell. Some websites allow you to sell your domains on auctions.
Make money flipping domain names
Steps to flip web pages and earn money:
1) Identify a domain name that has the potential to earn you more money.
2) Check if the domain name is available using one of the domain name sellers' websites.
3) Analyze the demand for the domain name and fix a price for the domain name.
4) Sell through secure domain transfer and escrow service so that you don't get deceived by the buyer.
5) Receive the payment.
XIII. Create a Website
It is important to create a website if you want to earn consistently. This also gives you the opportunity to earn passive income. However, you cannot earn any money just by creating a website. You need to generate a lot of traffic to your website. That means, you should have at least 1000 visitors visiting your website every day. Sounds difficult? Actually it is not difficult if you know the techniques to generate the traffic. I will give you different ideas to generate the traffic later on this page. Now, what are the different ways to earn money using the website traffic?
1) Earn through affiliate marketing
Yes, affiliate marketing is marketing others' products or services using different techniques like sending emails, using social media, websites, and blogs. You, the affiliate, and the advertisers register with Affiliate Marketing Networks. Affiliate marketing networks like CJ (Commission Junction) act as the middleman. You get the banner and/or text link advertisements from the Affiliate networks and place them on your website by just copying and pasting a simple code. The advertisement displays on your web page. If a user clicks the advertisement, he/she will be taken to the advertiser's products page where the user can buy the product or service. You will get a commission for referring the user to their product from the advertiser through the middleman. If you have good website traffic, the probability of earning money is more.
2) Earn through direct advertising
Instead of going through the affiliate marketing companies, you can directly have a dealing with the advertisers, which enables you to earn more money than affiliate marketing. To achieve this, you should have thousands of visitors visiting your website. You can allocate a separate placeholder for advertisements on your webpage stating that the area is for advertising. You can also directly contact the advertisers if you are aware of any advertisers looking for placing ads on web pages. Sometimes, the advertisers may contact you if you really have a huge traffic to your website.
3) Publish an ebook and place a link on your website
You can also write an ebook and publish it on websites like Amazon Kindle. Then place a link to the ebook on your website that has high traffic. Attract your website visitors to follow the link and purchase the ebook. You sell the book for just $1. If you are able to convert at least 1000 visitors to buyers a month, you earn $1000/month. Keep publishing interesting and useful books and earn money on a regular basis.
4) Resell your website
As your website gets popular, the cost and demand of your website grows high. At some point you can even sell your website for huge money based on your website's traffic. You can register with a lot of resellers available in the market to sell your website and make a huge profit. To know more about reselling your website or domain name, visit my page on Flipping Domain Names.
Tips to Generate Website Traffic
There are different ways to generate traffic to your website. I have mentioned a few here.
1) While creating a website make sure that you implement all the SEO techniques in your website.
a) Add relevant keywords to all your pages.
b) Add a description for each of your web pages.
c) Create as many quality backlinks as possible. By saying quality backlinks, I mean that many high ranking websites should have links pointing to your web pages.
d) Create webpages with unique and useful content to visitors.
2) You can sign with Google AdWords to get the traffic initially. Registering with Google AdWords paying a few dollars, Google displays ads for your site on various websites. People visiting those websites may be routed to your website clicking those links.
3) You can use social media like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to attract them to your website. I generated a good traffic from LinkedIn. Here, I reveal the technique I adapted to generate traffic from LinkedIn. I placed ads on a specific product on my web page. I became a member of the LinkedIn group that uses this product and placed a comment on that product. Immediately, the next day, I found a lot of visitors to my website. A good percentage of visitors also clicked the advertisement and bought the products, which increased my earnings tremendously. But, you should make sure that you become a member of the group that has millions of members.
4) Placing comments on websites and blogs that have a good traffic is also a good idea to generate traffic to your website. I place comments on big websites that have content related to my web pages and place my websites' link along with the comment. Most of their visitors read my comment and click the link to become my visitors.
5) Another way to generate traffic is that you can write and publish articles in many popular websites like Squidoo and ezine. But, make sure to add your website's link in those articles. As those websites have millions of visitors already, a percentage of them may read your articles, click the link that you provided and get directed to your website.
How to create a website?
To create a website, you need two main things: one is a domain name and the other is a web hosting space. Please follow these steps to create a website.
1) Identify a domain name relevant to your content and buy it from one of the Domain name providers.
2) Buy a domain hosting space to host your website.
3) Create a website implementing all the SEO techniques and upload the pages on your hosting space.
4) Add affiliate links and banners to your website and start earning money.
XIV. Earn Through Referral Marketing
You might have heard about referral marketing offline. For example, in your company, the HR announces that a commission will be given in the form of money or gift when you refer a friend for a posting in your company. If you refer a friend who joins the company and stays for certain months, you get a commission. The same way, if you refer a friend to register with a company that sells a product or service, you get a commission from that company. Here everything happens online.
You can refer not only your friends and relatives here, but also anyone in the world who is interested. There are different ideas you can try to do referral marketing.
1) When you register with a website, they provide you a referral link. Place the link in your blog/website, so that visitors to your website may register with those companies through your referral link.
2) Send mails to your friends and relatives to register with the company through your referral link. You need to attach your referral links in your mails.
3) Use social media websites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to spread the word and make people register with these websites.
How to make money through referral marketing?
Follow these steps to earn money through referral marketing:
1. Register with the websites.
2. Use the techniques mentioned in the above paragraph to earn more referrals using your referral link.
3. Receive commissions for referring more people to their websites.
