500+ Ways To
Make Money Online
Dave Schneider
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For the last two years I have been earning my money entirely
online. Yes, making money online has a bit of a scammy sound to it but for many
people it is a reality, and I am not exaggerating when I say there are regular
people earning 5+ figure a month salaries completely through their online
endeavors.
However, for every one of those there are probably hundreds
of people who are not earning a dime online despite trying to. And yet there is
something very sweet about earning that first dime online.
It’s motivation to pursue it further. I remember the first
few dollars Vicky and I earned through her food blog by putting up a few
adsense ads.
It wasn’t much, but it was the start of us earning a few
hundred dollars, then a few thousand, and now over ten thousand dollars every
month. In this post we are going to explore the many ways that people are
earning money online.
I have scoured the web looking
for the best posts about making money online as well as doing my own research
to find individual websites/companies, so that I could compile what is no doubt
the most comprehensive list to date of ways to make money online. Please enjoy
this list and PLEASE SHARE so that
others may benefit from this research.
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PROLOGUE: DISCLAIMER
I have not tried all of these websites. In fact I have not
even tried the majority of them.
That would be lunacy. I cannot defend each individual
company.
Many of them offer the same thing. What I can say is that
they have been listed in reputable sources and that I have visited each website
individually to verify that at the time of writing it was working and appeared
legitimate.
You may not find everything to be an option for you. Some
things are selective in that they require you to have an established website
with a certain amount of traffic, or to live in a certain part of the world.In
some cases I have used affiliate links.
This means if you sign up I receive a commission. This does
not affect you in any way (neither negatively nor positively), but I would
appreciate it if you consider using my affiliate links as a means of supporting
this blog and the way that I earn my income online.
The vast majority of these links (98%+) are not affiliate.
Lastly, please do not expect to turn this list into a 5 figure a month income,
at least right off the bat.
Though it is true that many people are using the below
websites to do just that, it is often the result of a lot of hard work and time
spent building websites, an audience, etc. This is not a get rich quick scheme.
It took me nearly a year before I was earning a few thousand
dollars a month online, and I actually consider that rather quick. Before
diving into anything I highly recommend that you do a quick search along the
lines of “review of company X” to see the results of people who have tried
these strategies in depth.
Also check the sources at the end as they may provide more
in depth reports on specific websites. Don’t confuse an attractive website with
legitimacy.
Moreover, be suspicious of any site that requires you to pay to join.
CHAPTER 1: WRITING
In this section we highlight ways you can make money from
writing. In my experience, if there is one skill that trumps all others in
effectively earning money online it is the ability to write.
No other skill has the versatility that writing has. Good
writers are sorely underrepresented. If you can write, you can earn money
online (with or without a blog) – guaranteed!
1.1 Blogging
The act of
blogging in and of itself is often free, but that doesn’t mean that blogging
can’t serve as a useful platform from which you can earn money online. Many
people are earning over 5 figures a month “just blogging”, by combining it with
things like affiliate sales, ad networks, and paid reviews.
Go to the last chapter of this post to see all of the
blogger income reports I have collected. There are thousands of blogs started
everyday and most of them die off over the course of a few months/years.
From personal experience I think it is best to start a blog
with a purpose/passion – aside from making money. This will help you to be
successful in the long run, as it is normal to spend many months blogging
without earning anything. Here are some of the best blogging sites you can use
to get started:
How To Start A
Blog - a post I wrote that will get you up and
blogging in a matter of minutes.
Blog.com - Creates a free blog and hosts it for you for free. Your domain
will look like yourdomain.blog.com.
Blogger.com - Free weblog publishing tool from
Google, for sharing text, photos and video. Quick and easy to setup and links
with your Gmail account.
Livejournal - A service for journals and blogs,
that also offers privacy controls, photo storage, publishing tools, style
templates, and online communities for many interests.
Tumblr - Post anything (from anywhere!), customize everything, and find
and follow what you love.
WordPress.com - Free blogs managed by the developers
of the WordPress software. Includes custom design templates, integrated
statistics, automatic spam protection . You domain will look like
yourdomain.wordpress.com It’s different from Word Press.org.
WordPress.org - A web software you can use to create
a beautiful website or blog, with your own domain name.
1.2 Blog/Website Monetization
If you have a blog or a website with content and a
following, I’m going to discuss a few ways you can monetize it through
advertising and information products. Concerning the latter, you certainly
don’t need a blog to pull it off.
Anyone can sell an ebook, for example. But it is just so
typical for bloggers to do these things, because they tend to be more
successful when you have an audience, that I decided to include them in this
section.
Still, if you don’t have a blog, you just need to think of
another way to reach your target audience (like a forum, or a simple landing
page).
1.2.1 Contextual Links and Sponsored Posts
If you have a blog there are many ways you can monetize the
writing portion of it, such as reviews, sponsored posts, and more. This is
actually how I started earning serious money online.
Often, companies will pay you to link to them on your blog
because they want the increased exposure as well as the “link juice” that they
get from an inbound link to their website. Be careful with this one because in
some instances it can violate Google’s TOS, which, in the most extreme
circumstances, can result in your website being removed from the search
engines.
Blogitive
– Get paid weekly via PayPal for posting stories that interest you.
Blogsvertise
– Make money from advertising and generate ad income from your blog.
BlogToProfit
– Make $250 dollars or more by writing new posts on your blog.
Creative
Weblogging – Write 7 to 10 posts per week for their network and
they will pay you $225 per month.
Digital Journal - A digital media news network with
thousands of Digital Journalists in 200 countries around the world.
Expo TV - Consumer generated video, social media and peer to peer
recommendations enable influential consumers to share their authentic reviews
and opinions.
LinkLift - An international online marketing
service provider based in Berlin. I have personally used Linklift
and profited hundreds of dollars from doing so.
LinkVehicle
– Easy system to sell blog posts.
LinkWorth- Easy text link
ads for advertisers and webmasters to boost link popularity.
LoudLaunch – Blog about the
advertiser’s campaign releases that meet your interests. They pay once a month.
Social Spark - A
blog marketing site that connects advertisers with bloggers for sponsored blog
posts.
Pay Per Post- Get paid as
much as $500 or more a month, writing articles and reviews of their sponsors on
your blog.
PostJoint - PostJoint enables content marketers
and publishers to swiftly arrange deals on their own terms. Marketers can
quickly distribute their content and publishers can easily grow and monetize
their sites.
Review Me
- After your blog has been accepted in their network, they will pay you $20 to
$200 per post that you write to review products/advertisers.
Smorty – Smorty is a
community site that helps bloggers generate a better income, and it could be
defined as a network devoted to blog advertising. The site is split into two
main sections. Earn $6 to $100 dollars per post you write on your blog,
depending on the overall popularity and page rank of your blog.
SponsoredReviews - A blog post service that connects
advertisers with bloggers willing to write paid posts about their services and
products. They charge a 35% transaction fee for their services.
Secure-eBook fully
automated purchase process.
1.2.3 Podcasting
Podcasting
is all the rage lately and it is becoming the new, preferred form over content
to connect with your audience. In addition, it can also be a lucrative form of
income if you draw in enough of an audience.
Consider Entrepreneur On Fire, a podcasting series/blog,
which makes over $40k per month on direct advertising through their podcasting.
Here are some popular business podcasts:
1.2.4 Online Courses
I ran my first online course last year and made over $2500
doing so. I also made a bunch of contacts from talented individuals who took
the class.
Again it requires a lot of upfront work but the ongoing work
can be significantly less by comparison. There are many platforms that are built
for you to specifically offer courses.
Or you can simply create your own on your website through a
series of emails.
All of these are essentially free platforms for creating
online courses:
1.2.5 Membership Site
Although this has been around forever I’ve particularly
started noticing it quite recently and I LOVE
IT. At least as a business model.
The idea is basically to create a community of like-minded
individuals and give them access to each other as well as instruction to help
them achieve their mutal goals.
The math on these is quite astounding, as you generally see
people charge between $20-$100/month. That means for each sign up they are
getting a monthly recurring income of $20-$100. So, if you can get a few
hundred sign ups leveraging your audience, well, do the math.
A few of the ones I am aware of (though there are many,
that’s for sure) are:
Entrepreneur On
Fire’s Podcasting Paradise – A community for podcasters from
John Dumas.
Sean Ogle’s Enter China - Creating a community for people who
want to do business in China.
Tom Ewer
Freelance Writing – Community for Freelance Writers (coming soon).
Tropical MBA’s
Dynamite Circle – An invite only community for entrepreneurs. I
currently belong to this one.
Tung Tran Cloud
Living Membership -
Community For niche website builders.
1.2.6 PPC (Pay Per Click) Marketing
Most people have heard of adsense, which is Google’s
advertising network. In reality, this is only one of over a hundred different
ad networks.
These ads work off a variety of models whereby your pay is
relative to the exposure the ad gets. What is actually required (a view, a
click, a sign up) varies.
Ads come in a variety of forms, such as banners (of all
different sizes), links, videos, and more. Pay per click marketing means that
you get paid every time the ad gets clicked.
It is one of the most common forms of ad networks because,
unlike a view, the advertiser has greater confidence that the user has
purposefully interacted with the ad in some way.
Chitika - Develops real-time, scalable, on-demand contextual targeting
services to help online businesses leverage their two biggest assets: content
and online. Similar to AdSense.
Clicksor - Clicksor offers webmasters the opportunity to earn additional
income by using a selection of clickable text or targeted contextual banners on
their websites or blogs. Payouts are made by PayPal with a minimum payout of
$20.
CrispAds – Access to over
six thousand advertisers in their pay-per-click program. Decide which
advertisers suit you best.
Feedburner
– FeedBurner is a web feed management provider launched in 2004. You can
implement AdSense earnings to your feeds also through Feedburner/Google.
Google AdSense – Google
AdSense provides a free, flexible way to earn money from your websites, mobile
sites, and site search results with relevant and engaging ads. It is the leading advertising network
in the internet to make money and usually offers the highest rates to their
publishers through PPC (pay per click), CPM (cost per impression). Payment is
done by check or direct deposit with a minimum payout of $100.
Infolinks – Infolinks leads
the online advertising industry by driving new revenue opportunities for
publishers while overcoming banner blindness for advertisers. Payment method
PayPal, or check, minimum payouts are $50.
Media.net - Bing Network Contextual Ads program
enables web publishers to easily and effectively earn advertising revenue.
Speedy Ads
– Pay Per Click advertising
1.2.7 PPV (Pay-Per-View) Advertising
Pay per view advertising is similar to pay per click, except
you can replace click with view. Your pay is largely based on the traffic you
bring to the ad.
In general, ppv rates are lower than ppc because less is
required of the user. For example, while 1000 people might see an ad, it is
possible that only 5 (or less) will click it.
AdBrite – Approve or reject
any ads purchased for your sites. You can also sell ads direct with “Your Ad
Here” links.
AdKnowledge – Adknowledge is
a digital advertising marketplace that efficiently gets results for your
message wherever your audience happens to be: desktop, laptop, tablet or.
AdOn Network - Pay Per Click Advertising management
from AdOn Network. Pop under ads and Pay Per Click advertising text ads.
Adsella – Buy and sell ad
space.
Advertiise - The advertising marketplace for buying
and selling online and offline media. Buy or Sell print, online, outdoor,
ambient, event and many more advertising.
Bidvertiser
– Online advertising directly on sites of your choice, internet marketing
solution for online advertisers. Webmasters make money online by displaying
text ads on your site and advertisers bid for placement.
BlogAds - Blogads is an online ad network that provides advertising
services to both bloggers and advertisers. Average blogger makes anywhere from
$50 to $5000 dollars a month selling blog ads.
Blog Her - PPV advertising network that you can apply to if you have a
blog.
BuySellAds - BuySellAds.com is an online
advertising network in which you can earn money by selling your ad space with
your own rates. I have used this before to get monthly ads for our food blog AvocadoPesto.com.
Direct CPV- Give your online
marketing campaign the jolt it needs with DirectCPV’s pay per view advertising
solution.
DoubleClick - DoubleClick is the ad technology foundation
to create, transact, and manage digital advertising for the world’s buyers,
creators and sellers.
IndustryBrains
– Provides unique advertising and monetization services, for both advertisers
and publishers by placing relevant contextual text listings and graphical ads
on your site.
Lead Impact – Online ad network.
Media Traffic - PPV Contextual Advertising .
MediaFed -Connects
advertisers with hard to reach communities of affluent, informed and
influential consumers.
PeakClick -Pay-Per-Click
search engine, connecting advertisers with quality traffic that translates into
sales. It provides automatic insertion of site targeted ads.
Pheedo – Providing online newsfeed and RSS
marketing services.
Qumana – Desktop blog
publishing tool. Embeds ads directly into your posts.
RevenuePilot – Pay-per-click
search network.
ROIRocket – Online Marketing
Fueled by Research
Traffic Vance- Contextual
Textlink and Display Advertising Platform that delivers high quality traffic to
advertisers through high performing ad units, granular targeting, competitive
pricing, and multiple optimization capabilities.
Tribal Fusion: Plan and
execute campaigns based on your online audiences. Approval requires minimum 2000 unique visitors/day and
targeted designs are needed to qualify.
ValueClick
media -Displaying ads through banners, pop-unders and rich
media.
Vibrant Media – In-text
contextual based advertisements.
Yes Advertising – Run ads
from their sponsors as well as a referral program that pays 20% of the referred
webmasters earnings.
1.2.8 Private Blog Networks
Again, debatable as to whether or not this belongs in
blogging but it is bloggers from whom I am seeing these services and therefore
included it in this section. I have also started to see this now more than
ever, and it is individuals renting out their private blog networks for links.
Some SEOs are saying that one of the best ways to achieve
rankings in the SERPS is through private blog networks, as they are very
powerful and direct.
Here are a few private blog network services:
Authority
Website Income - Private Blog Network service by Jon.
CloudIncome’s Rank Source –
Private Blog Network run by Lewis Ogden.
God of SEO’s
PBN - Private Blog
Network run by Charles Floate.
ScrewThe9To5
PBN - Private Blog
Network run by Josh and Jill.
1.3 Revenue Sharing
If you don’t have a blog of your own, there are plenty of
other platforms that you can write for. Many websites operate as large, content
networks that allow people to write for them.
In exchange, they will put ads in your writing and give you
a revenue share of what your articles make. The benefit here is that they
receive a lot of traffic, so receiving 75% commission on the ad revenue that
these sites produce might be better than 100% on your own blog if it doesn’t
receive much traffic.
The downside is that you are building up another person’s
website instead of building something for yourself.
451 Press -
Write about various subject. Receive forty percent of all generated revenue.
About.com - A valuable resource for content that
helps people to solve the large and small needs of everyday life. Become a paid
guide writing articles for About.com.
Best Reviewer – A collection of reviews in the style of
TOP X. 100% AdSense revenue share.
Bukisa - Share your knowledge via how to guides, tips & instructions.
60% revenue share via Adsense or Chitika.
Cracked: A funny website
filled with funny videos, pics, articles, and a whole bunch of other funny
stuff. Receive up to $100+ per article.
DemandStudios
– Create content in your area of expertise.
Flixya – Flixya is a social
network that allows you to share your videos, photos, and blogs. 100% AdSense
revenue share.
Helium – Helium offerings
include Helium
Network—a resource for writers, publishing portal, and workflow
management tool; Helium
Publishing—an online publisher offering a range of topic-related,
information-based publishing platforms, and Helium
Content Source, a full-service custom content provider for
businesses and publishers.
HubPages - Online space to share your advice,
reviews, useful tips, opinions and insights with hundreds of other authors. HubPages
is completely free and offers an AdSense share of 60%
InfoBarrel - InfoBarrel is a social writing
platform where writers from around the world come together to create media
content. Currently, the revenue share model is based upon three programs;
Google AdSense, Chitika and Amazon Associates. 75% of the time the publishers
affiliate codes will be displayed and the other 25% the InfoBarrel codes are
displayed. AdSense revenue share
ranges from 75% to 90%.
Postloop: Make money by
sharing informative articles and forum posts.
Rate It All – RateItAll is a
consumer-review website that also incorporates social networking. Consumers
review products and services, share information, and get paid for their
reviews. 50% AdSense revenue share.
Seekyt - Make money writing original, reader-friendly articles. 70%
revenue share via AdSense and Amazon.
SheToldMe - Social bookmarking site with a 100%
AdSense Revenue Sharing program.
Snipsly - Publish articles and earn money. Snipsly enables you to post
nearly any kind of content you want. Create a Google AdSense Account and keep
80% of your article’s earnings.
Squidoo - Free site
for creating single webpages on your interests and recommendations. The better
the pages do the more money you earn.
SquidStop - Squidstop is a new bookmarking
website. People who join this website can earn some cash with 100% revenue share via AdSense.
TipDrop - TipDrop is a place where people come to give and receive tips on
just about anything. 75% revenue share via AdSense.
Weblogs, Inc. -
Weblogs, Inc. is a blog network of about 90 blogs, covering a variety of
subjects. You are paid per post that you write.
WordFirm - Managed Editing provides editorial services—mainly copyediting
and proofreading—for nonprofits, government agencies, publishers, and others.
Xomba - Writing community provides details of activities including
featured articles and resources, joining and contact details. 50% AdSense
revenue share.
Yahoo!
Contributor Network: Yahoo Contributor Network is a platform
that enables everyone to publish their content in any format (text, video,
audio, images) on any topic and then distributes.
1.4 Freelance Writing
Say you
don’t have a blog, and don’t want to join in an ad revenue sharing agreement,
you can get paid a flat rate to write articles. Personally I have hired nearly
a dozen writers to write articles for me and paid thousands of dollars to
freelance writers.
There is definitely a huge demand for it although there is a
lot of competition. I will not go into details on how best to become a
freelance writer, as there are more experienced people to tell you that,
however I do believe at least one aspect of it is building up a reputation.
Some of these sites can help you get start.
Associated
Content – Submit your content and get paid relative to the views
it gets.
Break Studios - Freelancing writing work.
Constant
Content – Commission freelance content writers to create
original content for your website. Find seo content writing and writers. Trade
your blog posts and articles for cash.
Demand Media - Application based freelance writing
site that reportedly pays up to $15 per article.
Fool – Write financial
stories and get paid to do so.
London Brokers – You don’t
have to be a professional writer but a native English speaker.
Mashable - Mashable hires freelancers for a variety of categories.
Need An Article - An Article
Writing Service that provides, SEO writing, business writing, technical
articles, creative writing and more.
Seeking Alpha – Write
articles for them and get paid to do so.
Text Brokers – Submit blog
posts and articles in exchange for cash. I have personally bought articles from
Textbrokers and the quality is good. On average they pay $4 per 400 word
article (potentially more for better quality).
Writers Domain – Looking for
highly skilled and qualified writers to compose blogs on various topics.
CHAPTER 2: SELLING
If you have a product, there is probably a platform through
which you can sell it. If you don’t have a product, there are many products
that other people have that you can sell for a commission (known as affiliate
marketing). Either way, don’t discount your assets as a viable means to make a
sale.
2.1 Affiliate Marketing
While the concept of selling a product that is not yours
might seem strange at first it is actually quite common. Many companies will
allow this because it allows them to reach an audience that they otherwise
would not.
It is like hiring a bunch of sales representatives on
commission. Here are some affiliate marketing programs that combine lots of
different affiliate offers.
In addition, if
you have a product or website in mind you can simply search “website affiliate
program” and if it has one chances are it will come up.
AdPlosion – Earn revenue by selling leads,
clicks and products from their advertisers. Also runs an incentive points
program in addition to your commissions.
Affiliate
Future – Affiliat Future are performance-based marketing
specialists, providing sales solutions and marketing services to advertisers,
publishers and agencies. Pays you for generating leads, sales and clicks.
Amazon
Affiliate Program - One of the most popular affiliate networks
due to the breadth of products you can market. Pays generally between 4-6%,
higher payout for more sales. Best part is you get paid for whatever someone
ends up buying after they click on your link, even if it’s not the product that
you advertised.
Avangate – Leading cloud
commerce provider for online software businesses and cloud companies looking to
grow their digital revenues. Sell popular computer software titles.
Clickbank
– ClickBank is a privately held online marketplace for digital information
products. It aims to serve as a connection between digital content creators and
affiliate marketers, who then promote them to consumers. It is extremely
popular.
Clickbooth - CPA Affiliate network
ClixGalore – An affiliate marketing network that allows you
to easily build and start your own ‘sale – CPA’, ‘lead – CPL’, or ‘click – CPC’
based affiliate program.
Commission
Junction – An online advertising and internet
marketing company that specializes in affiliate, media and tracking services.
There more than 1000 companies available to choose from.
CPA Lead - CPA Affiliate network
CX Digital - CX Digital Media Affiliate Network
is the leader in performance based online marketing, featuring CPA advertising
(Cost Per Action).
DigiResults – Similar to
Clickbank.
DirectLeads – CPA Affiliate network
EBay Partner Network Earn money with the eBay
Partner Network by driving traffic to eBay or one of their partners.
Epic Direct/Azoogle – Affiliate network
E-Junkie – E-junkie provides shopping cart and buy now buttons to let you
sell downloads and tangible goods on your website, eBay, MySpace, Google Base,
CraigsList etc.
Forex-Affiliate – Forex
Affiliate is one of the longest running and most successful financial affiliate
programs worldwide.
GetAds - CPA Affiliate network
Google
Affiliate Network -
Similar to Commission Junction.
IncentAclick – Leader in
performance based online marketing, featuring CPA advertising (Cost Per
Action).
LeadPile – Affiliate network
that allows you to generate and sell trade leads to the highest bidder.
LinkConnector – Affiliate
marketing network.
LinkShare – Pays commissions
for every product you lead and promote.
Market Leverage - Market Leverage is an internet
affiliate marketing network.
MaxBounty -A unique CPA
network providing weekly payments, as well as a $1000 performance bonus to new
affiliates.
Neverblue.com Specializes
in lead generation, client acquisition and mobile advertising, and provides
tools like banner rotators and api to promote products.
Offer Vault - Find affiliate programs, affiliate
networks and affiliate marketing resources.
Offerweb - Affiliate network
RocketProfit – Offers custom
tools to website owners for affiliate marketing. Pays via check after your
commissions reach $25 dollars.
ShareASale
– ShareASale
is an affiliate marketing network similar to clickbank and commission junction.
ThinkAction - Affiliate network
2.2 Selling Your Own Products
It should come as no surprise that if you own a product, you
can sell it. What might be a surprise is just how many things you can sell.
For example, a few years back my mother started making
seaglass jewelry. She started trying to sell her pieces on Ebay and Etsy and
was experiencing success.
A few years later and she is consistently making over a
grand a month on average. It is definitely possible to transition a hobby into
a business, you just have to find the right marketplace.
2.2.1 Large Marketplaces
There are many large marketplaces from which you can sell a
wide range of products.
Amazon – Online retailer of
books, movies, music and games along with electronics, toys, apparel, sports,
tools, groceries and general home and garden items. In addition you can sell
back or trade in items you own to Amazon and receive Amazon gift card credit.
Backpage – Free classified
ads with photos. Find houses and apts for rent, personals, jobs, cats and dogs
for sale. Like Craigslist but smaller.
Craigslist – Craigslist is a classified
advertisements website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for
sale, items wanted, services, community, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums.
eBay – Buy and sell electronics, cars, fashion apparel, collectibles,
sporting goods, digital cameras, baby items, coupons, and everything else on
eBay.
2.2.2 Arts and Crafts
While Etsy takes the cake as the premier marketplace for
arts and crafts, there are many other websites that are similar. See below
resources for a link to 125 such websites.
Aftcra - a new marketplace where you can buy and sell American handmade
goods.
ArtFire - The ArtFire marketplace is home to artisan goods of all kinds.
From handmade jewelry and crafts, to vintage clothing and supplies.
Big Cartel - Simple shopping cart for clothing
and tee designers, bands, record labels, jewelry makers, crafters, and other
artists.
Bonanza – Vibrant collection of fashion, collectibles, decor, and more.
Dawanda – Marketplace for gifts and handmade products. Perfect for unusual
gift ideas, unique products and handmade things.
Etsy -
Buy and sell handmade or vintage items, art and supplies.
Folsky – Buy and sell b autiful handmade
gifts and crafts supplies. iCraft – Crafts
online and more.
Lilyshop – New online marketplace for handmade creations created by women
for women.
Luulla - Luulla is a marketplace to find and sell various creative
objects.
Made It Myself – Buy and sell homemade products like
crafts, jewelry, quilts, soaps, greeting cards & other handmade stuff
online.
Not On The High
Street – Hundreds of
unique shops.
Silkfair - Simple and affordable online store builder.
Storenavy - Allows you to open your own store
for free.
Super Market HQ
– A curated marketplace of products, apparel, art, and accessories.
Uncommon Goods
– Great for cool and unusual gifts for any occasion.
Yakaboo - Create your own unique store and start selling in a few easy
steps.
Zibbet – Buy and sell
handmade goods, fine art, vintage items and crafting supplies on Zibbet.
2.2.3 Music
Did you know that you can sell your music? Don’t get too
caught up on physical products – you’re working online now and you can sell
just about anything of value.
Band Camp - Sell your music! Bandcamp takes a 15%
cut of sales made from their website.
CD Baby – CD Baby has over 3
million tracks for you to browse, listen, and buy.
fetchapp - Sell digital
goods such as music, videos, photos, e-books, PDF’s
Indaba Music – Web-based
company that provides a music collaboration environment for musicians: “a place
to build a profile, promote their tunes and collaborate with other musicians”
as well as enter opportunities like remixing and songwriting contests with
popular artists.
sellfy - Sell digital
downloads – ebooks, music, videos or anything else you create. No setup fees,
no storage & bandwidth limits. Sell with PayPal, Stripe & Paymill.
Slice The Pie – Helps undiscovered artists, as well
as helping music fans find some great.
Song Cast Music – SongCast
offers a streamlined and affordable music distribution service where artists
and labels can release music into major digital stores.
The Orchard – technology-platform,
which allows you to connect to fans
Tune Core – Sell your own
music on iTunes, Spotify, eMusic, AmazonMP3, Google Play etc. Keep all your
rights and get 100% of the royalties.
2.2.4 Videos
Similarly to music, if you can create great videos you can
sell them.
AssociatedContent - Earn money by uploading your videos,
text, audio and images to their site.
ClipCanvas – Stock video marketplace offering a searchable collection of HD
stock footage in all categories.
Cruxy – Video, music, photo
Art portal. Specializes in social video, but serves as a venue to sell your
digital media.
iStockphoto – Royalty free stock photos, vector
art illustrations, stock footage and audio for print and use on websites and
presentations.
MetaCafe - One of the world’s largest video sites, serving the best videos,
funniest movies and clips. Upload your videos and earn money based on the
number of views you receive.
Minibites – Diverse content from song lyrics and
WAV files to personal pages and relationship issues.
Pond5 – Open marketplace for buyers and sellers of royalty-free clips in
all categories.
Revostock – Stock video footage, after effects
projects, stock music and sound effects.
Shutterstock - Sell photos, vectors, illustrations or
videos.
UpBlogger – Social network
site that pays you based on the amount of visits you receive to your uploaded
content.
Viidya – Viidya is a marketplace for videos. Instead of giving away their
videos for free on YouTube, content creators can charge directly for their
classes
Vimeo – Community for storing and distributing video content. Includes
advanced privacy options, interaction for members with common interests, group
projects, and more.
2.2.5 Stock Photography
Like videos and music this is a highly competitive market
but if you are skilled there are a number of venues on which you can sell your
photography.
123RoyaltyFree - Search and download from millions of
HD stock photos, royalty free images, cliparts, vectors and illustrations. You
get 50% of each image sold and you also can earn 15% of your referral’s
subscription or purchase plus 10% of every image sold by a photographer you
refer.
BigStockPhoto - Find millions of quality images,
illustrations, vectors and stock photography. Usually $0.30 to $3 for every
image of yours sold.
Crestock - Crestock offers high quality royalty-free stock photos,
illustrations and vector images at low prices. 20% commission on pictures with
prices between $5 to $15. Your commission goes up to 30% after your first 100
sales.
DreamsTime - The largest collection of FREE and
commercial stock photos and images anywhere.
You can get 50 to 80% from each image sold.
Fotolia - More than 20 million cheap royalty free images, vectors, videos.
50% for each picture downloaded.
iStockPhoto - Royalty free stock photos, vector
art illustrations, stock footage and audio for print and use on websites and
presentations. You get 20% of the
total price for images between $1 to $20, and 40% if you sell your images only
on their site.
PhotoStockPlus
– Sell photos and keep 85% of the profit.
ShutterPoint – Stock photo
site that gives you 85% of the total sale.
ShutterStock - Sell photos, vectors, illustrations
or videos. You are paid 25 cents for
every image of yours downloaded. Refer other photographers and earn 3 cents per
photo sold by them.
StockXpert - Place to buy and sell stock images!
You can earn $50 if you offer your image with an extended license. Otherwise,
you arn 50% of each sale.
2.2.6 Fully, Established Websites
If you own a website that is up and running, you can sell it
on one of these market places. Really, a website is just like online real
estate.
You own a plot of land in the World Wide Web. What you do
with it can increase or decrease its asset value.
The more money it makes, the more valuable it is. I have
seen websites sell for 6 figures many times. The beautiful part of it is that
people generally pay between 10 and 20 times the monthly profit, so if you have
a website that is bringing in a bit of cash you can potentially sell it for a
pretty penny.
Here are some market places for buying and selling websites.
Buy Sell Website – Search hundreds of websites for
sale.Buy or sell websites and domain names.
Deal Site - DealASite.com is free for both buyers
and sellers to buy and sell websites.
EmpireFlippers - Empire Flippers has websites for sale,
letting you buy websites and offer sites for sale online.
Flippa – Buy & sell websites, domains, and apps. I have personally
bought on Flippa over a dozen times and in many cases it has been successful.
2.2.7 Domain Names
Yes, even if you just own a domain name you can sell it. In
fact, some domain names have sold for tens of thousands of dollars due to their
high demand/relevancy (think like websites.com).
Some people even make a business (albeit it an annoying one)
out of “squatting”; buying up domains and trying to sell them later to
interested parties. I heard once that someone, anticipating the growth of
Starbucks, went and bought up starbucks.com in other countries (i.e
starbucks.ru) and probably made a pretty penny doing so.
AfterMarket - Buy domain names, purchase
registered domains, list domains for sale in a number of different ways, and
sell domains safely and securely. Takes a 10% commission.
Afternic – Afternic is a one-stop site to buy domains, sell domains, and
park domains. Takes 10% – 20% commission.
Bido
– Domain sales. You will be notified when they respond. If an agreement is
reached, you’ll be instructed to make your payment. Bido
will assist with the transaction and transfer. Takes an 8% commission.
GoDaddy Premium Listings –
Sell your domain name in the Premium Domain Names section of the domain search
page. Takes a 30% commission.
Pool.com - Leading provider of premium, dropped and backordered domains.
Takes a 10% commission.
Sedo – Buy and sell domains and websites with Sedo.com. Takes a 10%
commission.
SnapNames - Buy Domains even if they are already
registered or sell domains names. Takes a 20% commission.
2.2.8 Collectibles
In this example we will explore baseball cards but you can
replace this with any collectible and there is likely a specialty marketplace
for it outside of ebay/craigslist. Remember, anything you own can be an asset
if it has value to someone else!
707 Sportscards - One of the largest buyers and sellers
of old baseball cards, PSA Graded Cards, and Allstate Display Cases.
Baseball Card
Exchange – Baseball
Card Exchange.
BaseballCardBuyer.com – Baseball card buyer with 30 years’
experience is now buying vintage (pre-1970) sports cards at top prices.
BaseballInTheAttic.com – Paying top dollar for pre-1975
baseball cards, football cards and sports memorabilia
Kit Young -Buying: All sports, modern and
vintage.
Kurtz Kards – Full time baseball card dealer since
1996.
McAvoySportcards
– Selling 30,000 vintage baseball cards, basketball cards, food cards and
boxing sports cards and memorabilia for collectors and investors.
Portland Sports
Card Co. – Buys and sells vintage baseball cards, football
cards, basketball cards, hockey cards, sports collectibles, graded sports
cards, and more.
Tim’s Baseball
Card Shop – Buying
and selling baseball cards, basketball cards, football cards, baseball card
sets, football card sets, hockey card sets, and baseball cards.
2.2.9 Recycling Old Gadgets
If you have an old iphone, laptop, or any other hardware
there are lots of sites where you can sell your old gadgets to. In many cases
large retail stores like Best Buy and Sam’s Club have exchange programs.
It’s great exploring these options because you can see how
much an asset is worth even if it is used. In this sense you can look at
everything you purchase as coming at somewhat of a discount.
For example, if you buy a phone for $100 but are savvy
enough to know that you can trade it in for $20 a few years later, it is like
getting it for only $80.
ASOS
Marketplace - List
items from your wardrobe. Takes a 5% commission when items sell.
Best Buy – Well
known retailer who also buys second hand.
Buy My Tronics – Sell
electronics like used cell phones, iPods, digital cameras and game consoles.
Costo – The online store for
the national retailer of brand name products, from computers and clothing to
gardening and gourmet food.
Gazelle
– Get cash for used cell phones and electronics. Sell your iPhone, Samsung
Galaxy, iPad, Apple computers and more. They even pay the shipping cost for you
to ship the product to them.
My Bone Yard – Helps
people recycle their gadgets
O2 Recycle – Recycle
your gadget for cash.
Preloved – Turn clutter into
cash by selling on Preloved.
Sams Club – Exceptional
wholesale club values on TVs, mattresses, business and office supplies etc.
2.2.10 Souls
OK, this is more of a lesson in getting creative. You have
to think outside of the box.
What do you have rights to that someone might value enough
to pay for? This might be extreme but I think it shows you the limits of just
what you can sell online.
Demonical - Sell your soul for $5 or auction it
off to the highest bidder.
2.2.11 Your Designs
There are platforms out there that allow you to design a
product (think t-shirts, mugs, books, etc) and sell it through their website.
This allows you to bypass the upfront cost of having to create and store the
product as well as leverage the existing audience the website has.
It is great especially if you want to test an idea and
establish whether or not there exists a market.
Blurb – Create and publish bookstore-quality
books with free software for PC or Mac. Then sell your book in the Blurb
bookstore.
Cafe Press – Design products like t-shirts, etc.
and sell them through the Cafe Press virtual store.
Create Space – CreateSpace
provides free tools to help you self-publish and distribute your books, DVDs,
CDs, video downloads and MP3s on-demand on Amazon.com
E-Shirt – Like Cafe Press
but cheaper and focuses mostly on t-shirts.
ImageKind – Buy prints, posters canvas and
framed wall art from various artists.
LuLu - Provides the tools for you to publish your work for personal use
or for sale and distribution to others
PikiStore - Pikistore lets
you create your own tshirt store and will print the shirts.
Ponoko – Laser cutting & 3D printing made easy. Buy, sell &
create custom products.
PrintFection - Manage the printing and fulfillment
of your t-shirts, stickers, and other merchandise using Printfection. Free
online store so you can sell products with your design on them.
ShapeWays – 3D printing
marketplace and community.
Shirt City – Create a personalized t-shirt online
with your custom slogan or design.
Skreend - Print your own custom designed t-shirts with Skreened.
SpoonFlower – Design, print and sell custom
fabric, wallpaper, gift wrap & decals on-demand.
Spreadshirt – Create custom
t-shirts, personalized shirts and other customized apparel at Spreadshirt.
Print your own shirt with custom text, designs or photos. Like E-Shirt but you can also sell other designer’s stuff.
Taste Book – Upload your
favorite recipes from 2013 and create a custom cookbook today.
The Game
Crafter – The Game Crafter offers game designers an easy-to-use
system to make a board game, card game, or custom playing cards. Free
templates, instructions, and videos.
Zazzle
– Similar to CafePress. You can also become an Associate
and make money by referring people to Zazzle.
2.2.12 Apps
Apps are all the rage. If you have any sort of programming
ability coding up an app and selling it can be a source of income.
If you don’t have coding experience, it does not mean that
you cannot hire a developer and work with him or her to create your app. Apps
often sell for very cheap, only a few dollars, but they appeal to a wide
audience of millions of smart phone users.
appbackr - App developers around the world use their predictive analytical
ranking system to get their appscore. Higher scoring apps have more
opportunities.
appsplit - Appsplit is the Crowdsourcing Platform for Apps. Allows you to
raise funds for your apps.
apptopia – Allows you to buy
and sell apps.
binpress- A marketplace for Open-Source code, scripts, components, SDKs and
libraries for iOS, Android, PHP, Javascript and more.
bluecloudsolutions – USA based internet
marketing company specializing in iPhone apps, creative business models, and
explosive marketing strategies. sellmyapp - Sell your iphone apps.
sellmyappz – Sell, Buy & License iOS
iPhone 5, iPod, iPad, OS X Mac and Android app source code with full
applications, components & games. sellmyapplication – Marketplace for
buying, selling, or licensing source code for mobile apps.
2.2.13 Paintings artlondon.com
– Buy, sell, or browse contemporary fine art online.
artmajeur.com – Buy and sell
art online.
artnet.com
– Browse all original artworks for sale by style, medium, price, and era live
on artnet Auctions. Use the advanced search options to buy or sell art.
artweb.com – Sell your art
online. Allows you to sell your paintings, jewelry, prints and artwork simply
cheaply and easily.
arts-mart.com – Sell you art online. art-exchange.com – Sell your art online. discoveroriginalart.com - Buy
or Sell original art online from Emerging and Established artists.
fineartamerica.com
– Sell art online through Fine Art America. Set your own prices and keep 100%
of your profits mybestcanvas.com – MBC is an
online art gallery from where you can sell or buy original paintings for sale.
originalartonline.com – Original art
online gallery. Buy art, sell art; find original artwork including paintings,
sculpture, photography, drawings, prints and more redraggallery.co.uk
– Sell your art and paintings online.
saatchiart.com – Sell Art
Online.
shopify.com – Shopify makes
it easy to start a business and sell paintings online. It takes only minutes to
open an online store and start selling art paintings to customers ugallery.com – Find original paintings and
photographs by new and established artists zatista.com
– Online art gallery. zazzle.com
– Sell your art online.
CHAPTER 3: RENTING
Many people want things temporarily nd therefore are not in
the market to buy, but to rent. If you own space for example, you can rent it.
Many people rent out spare rooms, apartments, etc. I even know
people who rent out their only apartment (and crash at their girlfriend’s place
if someone rents it).
9Flats
– On 9flats.com you can find
vacation rentals, apartments and guest houses, owned by friendly locals across
the world.
Airbnb - Find both short and long term apartment or room rentals.
Camp In My Garden – Online garden camping community. As a member of this community
you can advertise your own garden as a campsite and/or book accommodation in
other community members’ gardens.
Easy Room Mate – Flatshare site.
Park At My
House – Find cheap
car parking or rent out your parking space, garage or driveway near a stadium,
tube station or airport. Make money by renting out your private spaces
Rent My Items – Rent out those unused household
items… and earn some money.
Rentalo – Global directory of vacation rentals, hotels, bed and
Breakfasts, vacation homes, condos, villas, cabins, chalets, lodgings,
furnished accommodations.
Roomoramma – Roomorama is a booking site that
provides a platform for individuals and property managers to rent unoccupied
living spaces and other short-term lodging to guests.
Storemates - Find the cheapest storage space in
your community with Storemates. Earn money through renting out your extra space
at Storemates.
Wimbdu – Wimdu is a web-based platform, based on the peer-to-peer
property rental model, that advertises properties on the internet for short
term lettings.
CHAPTER 4: SOCIAL MEDIA
Social media is becoming more and more attractive to
advertisers. If you have a large social following then there are people who are
willing to pay you for a moment of your audience’s time, and it’s not JUST
Facebook anymore.
There’s stuff for all different kinds of social media
platforms.
4.1 Paid Twitter
AdFly - Earn money for each visitor to your shortened links with adf.ly!
Use a URL shortener service that pays.
MyLikes - Create a custom
website, share viral content and get paid for the traffic.
PaidPerTweet.com - You can set your price to Tweet
website links, press releases, products promos, services, and companies to help
companies gain exposure.
Revtwt – Twitter marketing platform.
SponsoredTweets – Sponsored Tweets is a marketplace that provides twitter
advertising through twitter based sponsored conversations.
TwitPub – A marketplace made for Twitter so users can buy and sell.
Twivert – Earn money for tweeting.
4.2 Facebook Paid To Like
Get paid for
likes – Earn money by
liking Facebook Pages.
4.3 Pinterest
Pinbooster - Pinbooster is the influencer
advertising platform for Pinterest, offering agencies and advertisers an
organic approach to generating traffic.
CHAPTER 5: FINANCE
Of course a lot of finance is conducted primarily online,
however, one should approach this with an added degree of caution, since this is
one of the few parts of this post where you can actually lose money by
attempting it (the other being gambling to be discussed later).
5.1 Peer-to-Peer Lending
This is a relatively new concept where people fund loans for
other people, essentially cutting out the bank. I’ve experimented with this a
bit myself without much success, though I have seen reports from other
trustworthy people who are showcasing 5%+ returns on their loans.
Community Lend – Similar to
Lending Club, but for Canada residents.
Lending Club – (U.S.
Residents Only) Peer to peer lending, which starts in increments $25. I have
used lending club myself and frankly have not seen exciting returns (currently
around 2%) on account of a few defaults on several loans.
I also feel that in order to properly diversify (spread out
over a bunch of different loans) it takes a fair amount of time to research the
loans and find the right ones for your strategy.
Prosper – Operates slightly differently from Lending Club in that I
believe you bid on loans.
5.2 Stock Trading
If you want to throw your hat into the ring and try day
trading, there are many brokers out there.
Charles Schwab – I have a bank account with them that
doubles as an investment account because they have no international fees for
ATM withdrawals.
E*TRADE – Online discount stock brokerage service for self-directed
investors.
Fidelity – Another broker I use.
Interactive
Brokers – One of my
personal brokers, only $1 commissions on trades.
Scottrade – Offers a wide range of brokerage and
banking services.
Sharebuilder – Buy stocks, mutual funds and ETFs with low commissions and no
minimum required.
TD Ameritrade - Broker for online sto k trading,
long-term investing, and retirement planning.
Trade King - TradeKing is an online broker
providing tools and research for online trading of stocks, options, bonds and
more.
5.3 Switch Your Bank Account
Banks are always trying to offer incentives to get you to
switch over to them. If you are willing to go through the hassle (which,
nowadays is not so much of a hassle), you can be nicely rewarded. Check out this article on how you can earn
between 100-200 pounds simply by switching banks.
5.4 Sign Up For A Credit Card
Similarly many credit cards have sign up bonuses that can be
worth hundreds of dollars. Do read the fine print though as some of these
require specific actions (like spending $X in Y months).
Others have annual fees. Still
I have easily received over $1k in value simply by signing up at the right time
and following through. Here are a few of the best ones right now.
worth mentioning.
In addition to poker there is also bingo, sports betting,
casino games and more. Many sites will give additional monetary bonuses to first
deposits allowing you to leverage your cash.
888 Poker - Play online poker at 888poker, voted
best online poker room and most trusted poker site 2011-2012 William Hill - Online betting and gambling.
Titan Poker - Online poker site.
Party Poker - Online poker. Get your first deposit
up to $50 matched.
Bet Online - The world’s leading name in online betting and real money
gaming. Exciting live sports betting odds, online poker, games and casino.
CHAPTER 7: FREELANCING/ PAY-PER-PROJECT
Earlier I talked about Freelance Writing. In reality,
writing is only one of the many skills that people can freelance.
For example, I have hired programmers, graphic designers,
SEO consultants, writers and many more different kinds of freelancers off some
of the sites mentioned here.
7.1 Gigs Websites
What
would you do for $5? On these websites you can offer a wide range of services
as long as you only charge the specified amount. It does often allow you to try
for an upsell.
Dollar3 - Dollar3.com has been acquired by
GigsBull. A gig site with price point in multiples of $3, starting at $3.
Fittytown - The town where everything is $50. If
you thought there was a marketplace for $5 (Fiverr.com) there is a marketplace
for $50.
Fiverr - The place for people to share things they’re willing to do for
$5.
GigMe5 - Similar to Fiverr.com
Jobs for 10 - Gigs site $10 price point.
Just a Five - Gigs site $5 price point.
TenBux - Gigs site with $5 or $10 price point.
UpHype – Gigs site variable price points.
7.2 Large Freelancing Communities
There are just so many communities where freelancers can
showcase their skills – this barely scratches the service. My personal
favorites are eLance and oDesk.
Amazon Mechanical Turk – The
online market place for work. Businesses and developers have access to an
ondemand scalable workforce. Workers can work at home and complete simple tasks.
ClickChores - Here, you can find an army of
workers for all your site’s SEO, e-marketing, and social media needs.
Elance – Access
over 2 million skilled freelancers from around the world. Find rated web
developers, mobile programmers, designers, writers, translators, marketing
pros.
I have used this myself a number of times (on the hiring
end) and have been really impressed with the quality of proposals I receive.
Guru - Find 400000+ freelance programmers,
web developers, graphic designers, writers and more for hire. Outsource your
projects today. iFreelance - Find freelance jobs.
Microworkers - Crowdsource your Micro Jobs to more than 500,000 workers
worldwide.
oDesk - Find freelancers and freel nc jobs
on oDesk – the world’s largest online workplace where savvy businesses and
professional freelancers go to work. I have used oDesk and find it similar to
eLance.
PeoplePerHour – Standard freelancing site.
CHAPTER 8: NEWSLETTER MARKETING
Don’t confuse this with getting paid to send emails. This is
more marketing through your email list.
This is a very popular way for bloggers/websites with large
followings to engage, and frankly, make money off permission marketing. Here
are some services to help you build and manage a list.
Aweber – With the best
delivery in the business, AWeber
gets your email newsletter where it needs to go. I use this for my
personal newsletter.
Free Follow Up - 100% free autoresponders
Getresponse - Send email newsletters, campaigns,
online surveys and auto responders.
iContact - An international online service provider of email marketing and
social media marketing to small, mid-sized, and premier businesses.
Inuvo
– Inuvo Inc. is an internet marketing and technology company that delivers
targeted advertisements into websites and applications reaching desktop and mobile
devices.
MailChimp – Send 12,000
e-mails per month to up to 2,000 subscribers for free.
Send Free - SendFree lets you grow, maintain and
deliver email campaigns to big email lists.
Stream Send – Email marketing service.
Supersponders - Free and paid automatic
autoresponder service.
Topica – Email marketing service.
CHAPTER 9: GIVING ADVICE
If you have any sort of expertise you can potentially use
that skill to help others…and they just might pay you for it.
9.1 Reading Or Responding To Emails
This is exactly what it sounds like – get paid to read
emails.
InboxDollars - Get paid for receiving and responding to email advertisements.
Plus, check out web sites and signup for offers to receive points that can be
exchanged for cash.
InboxPays - Get paid to read emails, play games,
complete surveys and more.
SendEarnings – Similar to InboxDollars.
9.2 Participating In Forums/Discussion Boards
CraZoo - Earn money for starting new threads and posting in online
forums.
ForumBoosting.com - Make money posting in forums across
the internet.
Fun Advice - Forum offering humorous advice on
life and relationships. Earn points for answering questions, which get
converted to dollars.
myLot - An enormous discussion board, blogging community, questions and
answers hub, social network and online hangout all wrapped up into one. Pays
you for posting, commenting and using their social network.
9.3 Giving Advice Online Or Via Telephone/SMS
Ammas - Sell your knowledge and earn real money
BitWine - Get paid to give advice and answer questions for people, on
subjects of your interests and choice.
ChaCha - Answer questions via text messages.
Ether - Ether enables anyone with something valuable to say to sell
their services. You get a free Ether phone number (forwarded to an actual
phone), you set your rate, and you can schedule times that you’re willing to
accept calls.
Google Helpouts
- Connects people who
need help with people who can give help over live video. Get help across
multiple topics right from your PC or mobile device
JustAnswer - Name your price and get customized
answers from experts. 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.
Jyve - Pays you to provide answers, advice and peer support to people
in need of help.
Keen – Earn money being a Psychic.
kgb - Get paid for answering questions that people send by text
message.
KnowBrainers - Get involved with the community and
answer questions or answer questions through the RSS feeds on your own blog.
Tutor.com - Provides on demand homework help and
tutoring services that connect students to a professional tutor online in math,
science, social studies or English.
Web Answers – Google AdSense allows you to earn
money on advertisements displayed on WebAnswers. Answer questions and earn a
share of AdSense revenue.
WerLive - Earn money by providing tips and tutorials through their in
house video chat system.
CHAPTER 10: CONSUMER RESEARCH
There are tons of companies that e interested in getting the opinion of customers for their
business, product, website or service. Some of these may require you to appear
in person.
In most cases though they are going to want you to test out
their product and then provide feedback on it. In some instances you might even
get to keep the product.
10.1 Product Testing
We all like things, but what we like even more are things we
don’t have to pay for. How about testing products and getting paid to do so?
Bzz Agent – Sample products, spread word of
mouth and have fun.
Expo panel – Your honest opinion will help unlock some of the newest products
before they’re even sold in stores
Influenster - An exclusive community for
trendsetters to share news,products, and reviews with the opportunity to be
rewarded by brands.
House Party - Fun products to try at a house party
Mom’s Meet - Empowering moms to come together in
an informal setting and talk about the latest on raising healthy families and
living green.
Smiley 360 – Be the first to try exclusive new
products, experiences and offers. Share your thoughts to earn status, smiles,
rewards and more!
Swaggable - a platform for users to try new
products that they are interested in!
10.2 Listen To Music
If you like to listen to music there are companies out there
who are interested in hearing your opinions. Basically another form of consumer
research.
Music Research – Music Research is recognized as the
first full-service marketing research organization devoted exclusively to the
study of popular music and consumers.
MusicXRay – Listen, rate, and get paid.
Slicethepie - Get paid to review new music
10.3 Play Games
Every boy’s dream – getting paid to play video games.
gamesville.com – Play games,
compete to win prizes, and chat live with other players from around the world.
gamesradar.com – Making money by playing video games game-testers.net – Make money playing new
games. Earn from $50 to $150 per hour.
paidgameplayer.com
– Play games online now.
slingo.com
– Win cash and prizes at Slingo.com. Play games and earn coins for your chance
to win real cash and prizes.
Team Liquid - Team Liquid is a community site focused on StarCraft 2 and Dota
2. They have a live streaming
area where people can play game while others watch. I have
seen peopl with very large foll wings show ads and make money.
virgingaming.com – EA SPORTS™ Arena is powered by the Virgin Gaming platform, where
you can play your favourite EA SPORTS™ titles for cash & prizes. worldwinner.com – Play free online games
or compete for cash.
10.4 Online Focus Groups
2020Panel - Get invited to an online focus
group. They also conduct normal online surveys.
Focus Pointe Global - Participate in paid focus groups,
paid interviews, and paid online surveys. Earn extra money for sharing your
opinion on consumer products
Google User
Research - Participate
in user research studies.
Jebbit - Get paid answering simple questions about your favorite brands.
Microsoft
Research Panel - Get
paid from Microsoft for providing feedback on their products.
10.5 Surveys
Perhaps not the most interesting way to make money BUT everyone
with a brain and an opinion can do it!
Important note: Do
not pay to sign up for a site that offers to pay you for surveys.
Cashcrate – Get paid for taking surveys and
performing other tasks.
Clear Voice
Surveys - Get paid to
take real surveys from market research companies.
CreationRewards - Earn points when taking surveys,
completing offers, shopping online, watching videos
Dollar Surveys - Find paid online surveys.
Gifthulk - Be rewarded with real-world prizes for your daily online
activities at GiftHulk. Watch videos, complete surveys, search, play games and
much more.
GlobalTestMarket - Get paid for taking surveys. Sends
lots of survey invites, although you only qualify for 20-30% of them. You can
cash out once you have accumulated $50.
Hot Spex – Get paid for taking surveys
Inbox Pounds - Get £1 instantly just for signing up
MemoLink - Earn rewards for taking surveys, shopping, playing games,
reading email, trying new things, and more
My Survey - Get paid for taking surveys. You get paid via PayPal once you
reach $25
MyView – MyView
is a global community of expert individuals who express their open, honest, and
valid opinions on a wide range of topics.
Opinion Outpost - Paid online survey community.
Permission
Research - Internet
market research company.
Pinecone
Research - Internet
market research company.
QuickRewards Rewards you for taking
surveys, shopping online, and reading emails.
Survey Spot - Tell researchers wh you think of their products and servic s
or give your opini ns on the issues o the day. Offers prizes and rewards for
participation.
SurveySavvy - Get paid for taking surveys.
Swagbucks - Get $5 (£3) instantly just for
signing up (open to UK customers)
Synovate – Market research firm
Test Spin - Register with TestSpin to test new
products, music, and you’ll be eligible to earn up to $600 in free gift cards
from Amazon.com by taking paid surveys.
Toluna - Earn cash and rewards from Expedia, B&Q, Odeon, Cineworld,
Sainsburys and more
Viewsbank – Earn cash and
rewards for doing online surveys, polls and mystery shopping jobs (some mystery
shopping jobs pay up to £100 a time).
Vindale Research - Great paid online surveys available
to qualified panelists. Review products and services and get paid to take
surveys
ZoomPanel – Earn rewards for participating.
10.6 Mystery Shopping
Many businesses are interested in being “mystery shopped”
which essentially means you are pretending to be a legitimate customer. I’ve
done this before and it works great in the hospitality field such as by writing
restaurant reviews.
Often you have to go to the site and perform some tasks (for
example sit down and order a meal). Later when you return you fill out a survey
(did the waiter say hello, that sort of thing) as well as a quick write up.
Payment often includes the cost of the meal AND a set wage
per project (varies but could easily be $25-$50 and potentially more). It’s
great if it is a place you are already interested in going to, like a
restaurant, since the budgets for meals can be pretty high.
The only catch is that with many of the companies you have
to be at least 24.
BARE
International - Global
leader in Mystery Customer research.
Grass Roots
Measures – Mystery
shopping and customer satisfaction surveys
HS Brands - Mystery shopping services
ICCDS – Mystery shopping
company.
Intelli Shop - IntelliShop is a mystery shopping
company.
Market
Viewpoint – Mystery shopping company offering
legitimate mystery shopping, customer service audits and evaluations, and
marketing
Mystery
Shoppers, Inc -Evaluates
customer service and quality control.
Second To None - Empowers brands to deliver optimal
customer experiences.
Service
Performance Group - Mystery
shopping company
Shoppers, Inc - Mystery shopping, customer surveys
and customer service training.
Spies in Disguise - Mystery shopping company.
Rentrak Mystery Shopping - Our mystery shoppers visit a large
cross-s United States and Canada to conduct transactions of varying types.
Restaurant Cops - Mystery shopping services for restaurants
ction of
retail locati ns across the
Ritter
Associates - Offers
mystery shopping services including, compliance audits, customer intercept
surveys, point of purchase installations and more.
10.7 User Test A Website
So many websites could benefit from this – how do users view
a website?
Analysia - Test your website usability by real
users and test the performance of your site.
E4S – Apply to be a user tester
Userfeel - Become a user tester
Userlytics - Sign as a participant and start
earning money.
UserTesting – Usability testing has never been
easier. UserTesting’s online usability testing is the fastest, cheapest way to
find out why visitors leave your website.
Whatusersdo – Get paid to give feedback on
clients’ websites.
Youeye - Participate in online usability studies.
CHAPTER 11 Transcription, Translation, Tech/Customer Support
If you have ears, a voice, or can speak another language –
there are people interested in your skills.
11.1 Transcribe Audio To Text
Audio Books
Auditions - This website is for voice over talent and voice
artists to audition, work and
co-publish for established and successful audio
book publishers.
Get Transcribed - Audio to text transcription and
video captioning service for business, academic and personal needs.
Quicktate - Create audio notes by dictating into
your favorite Evernote app or by calling (888) 222-NOTE and Quicktate will
accurately convert your audio. They pay 1/4 to 1/2 cent per word depending on
the audio type (General or Medical).
Scribie - Fast growing online audio
transcription service. Pays $1 per 6 minutes of audio transcription.
SpeechInk - SpeechInk offers you the opportunity to earn money doing audio
transcription jobs in your spare time. Transcription is done through Amazon’s
Mechanical Turk. 11.2 Translating
Lingosaur - Get an instant quote for your
translation job, order in seconds. Translate to/from Finnish, English, Swedish
and Russian among many other languages.
ProZ.com - Get paid for translations.
TRADUguide -Translation buyers can quickly ask
for price quotes from translation service.
Translatorsbase - The leading source of online
translation jobs for freelance translators. Outsourcers can post a project and
obtain free quotes for translations.
TranslatorsCafe - Free database of over 1300
translation agencies and freelance translators.
Translators
Town - Directory of
translators and translation jobs. Covering over 130 languages.
Translator | Gengo - Become a Gengo translator and gain
access to translation jobs giving you flexible income and the opportunity to
improve your skills. Sign up for free.
11.3 Tech Support
Arise – Provide customer service (phone, web and
email support and sales for 40+ companies in their network) and get paid!
WorkingSOL - Get paid to handle tech support for
a large corporation.
CHAPTER 12: SHOPPING, PHONE APPS, AND EXPLORING
If you like shopping there are
many websites and apps that can be used to get cash back on a variety of goods.
This is sort of the evolution of coupons.
It can be fantastic if you are already
in the market to buy something – just don’t go overboard and buy lots of junk
you don’t need.
12.1 Phone Apps
There are a ton of apps that you
can use in combination with your shopping, or simply walking around town, which
can help you make money.
Apptrailers – Watch videos and download
apps. You can change it to gift cards or convert into cash and deposit into
PayPal. It works for both iPhone and Android.
Checkpoints - Scanning items, checking in at different stores, playing games,
or completing offers. Points can be redeemed for discounts, gift cards, or
products.
EasyShift – App for iPhone users. Earn cash
exploring their city and taking pictures.
Field Agent – App for iphone users. Scan barcodes,
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.
Gigwalk - Find & fix problems at retail. Uncover common compliance
issues like out-of-stocks, low inventory, missing shelf tags, and more.
Shopkick - The first mobile app that gives you rewards and offers simply
for walking into stores. You can collect kicks and bonuses at nearly all places
that could be redeemable for gift cards or store discounts.
The app
works on both iPhone and Android.
12.2 Shopping
Bing Rewards - Bing Rewards members can earn gift
cards, donations and much more just by searching with Bing.
eBates
– You get cash back at any of 1,700 stores any time you start your shopping
trip at Ebates.com. There are no points to redeem, no
forms to mail in, and no fees.
Over 2,000 stores to choose from including Walmart, Sears,
Target, and many others.
Jingit – Earn cash while you
shop. With Jingit, you can check in at your favorite stores and earn cash
instantly. You’ll also receive cash back offers.
Mr. Rebates – Sign up to be
a member of Mr. Rebates (similar to ebates).
You’ll start with a $5.00 registration bonus.
MyPoints - Every time you make a purchase through MyPoints,
you earn rewards Points. These can be used towards hundreds of incentives from
their reward catalogue.
Quidco – UK’s cashback and voucher site.
Topcashback - Get cashback from a larger number of
shops and online retailers.
CHAPTER 13: CROWDFUNDING
Raising money might not be the
same as making money, but in a sense money is coming your way to fund an idea
and in that sense it should be included. Just about any idea you have can
function as a crowdfunding option if you find the right site. AngelList – Focuses on tech start ups appbackr - Crowdfunding for mobile apps
Crowdfunder - The crowdfunding platform for businesses.
Crowdrise – Donation-based
funding for Causes and Charity.
Indiegogo - Like Kickstarter but more lenient on
who is approved.
Invested.in – Software
provider, giving you the tools to get started and grow your own.
Kickstarter - Donation-based funding for new
creative products.
Quirky - A place to
collaborate and crowdfund for donation-based funding. Also includes community
support to bring the idea into fruition.
Rockethub – Donation-based
funding for a wide variety of creative projects. In addition they have programs
to help you market you project.
Somolend – Lending for small
businesses in the US, providing debt-based investment funding to qualified
businesses with existing operations and revenue.
CHAPTER 14: MISCELLANEOUS
Of course there is a
miscellaneous category for a few things that just didn’t fit in anywhere.
Concert Window Open - A friend of mine actually runs this site – you can hold a live
webshow from your living room and get paid (selling tickets, donations, etc)
eJury - Mock
Jurors (you) are used to help render verdicts so attorney’s can practice before
trial. Get paid $5-$10 per verdict!
SlashMySearch – Search
the internet and get paid
Opuzz Voice – Hire voice
over talents here.
Traindelays.co.uk. – Get money back every time your train is delayed or cancelled.
The site is free to use – just register the details of your journey online, and
they’ll do the leg work of completing the claim form for you.
All you need to do is print it out and send it off to the
train company and wait for your compensation money to arrive.
Warrior Forum
Special Offer (WSO’s) – This is a form of product marketing
whereby you can leverage the audience of a forum (in this case Warrior Forum)
and offer special products/services. In many ways it shares some similarities
with what I mentioned before with blogging and the various ways you can monetize
it.
CHAPTER 15: RESOURCES
15.1 MMO Books
These are some of the top books
for making money online.
15.2 MMO Forums
There are many
helpful forums online that you can go to to get real advice from established
internet marketers and gurus. Be careful though, because as these places tend
to be a gathering for newbies, many people come to prey on them by offering
bogus “Make $10k a day” type product packages.
Black Hat World: BlackHatWorld is a fully moderated SEO Forum dedicated to
dispersing Internet Marketing techniques.
Digital Point: Discussion related to search engines,
including optimization, marketing, tools and other technical aspects.
Warrior Forum: Very popular internet marketing
forum. A lot of special offers for warrior only members (see miscellaneous).
15.3 Income Reports
Many bloggers are open enough to share their income with the
world. We have bloggers making a few hundred a month and others making over $100k
a month.
If you really want to make money online, take a look at each
of these people. Think about what they are doing and consider your own strategy
and niche for making money online.
Everyone has a unique approach –
there is no one way to go about it, but if it works for them maybe it can work
for you too.
Entrepreneur On Fire Income Report January
2014 – $158,931.00 Smart Passive
Income Income Report January 2014 – $58,651.74
My 4 Hr Work
Week Income Report January 2014 – $348.54 Do SEO Yourself
Income Report January 2014 – $250.80 Balancing
Everything Income Report January 2014 – $220.8
15.4
Sources
This post was possible thanks to the collaborative effort of
other bloggers who wrote similar posts before me. Here are some references from
which you can get more details on some of the above by going directly to the
sources.
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