There are dozens of ways to make online. This page
includes a list of legitimate and effective services available online
that can help you make money either for a supplemental income or as a
full time job. We have tried to make this list as complete as possible
with services that can be used by all types of people regardless of how
good they are with computers.
Tip: Setting up a Paypal
account can help to expedite the process of receiving payment for your
goods or services sold through the services listed on this page. Some of
these services may even require you to have a Paypal account.
Note: Some of these online
services may not be available in every country around the world for
various reasons, including legal restrictions and payment option
restrictions.
Fraud and Scam AlertWhen trying to make money online, be cautious of scammers and other fraudulent services. Keep the below warnings in mind:
- Do not pay any significant initial or upfront fee, deposit, or down payment. For example, a company or individual claiming special computer hardware or marketing material is needed.
- Avoid services asking to cash checks or money orders into your bank account.
- If the company is not on this list, look them up on the BBB.
- Be cautious when asked for personal information such as e-mail, phone numbers, social security, etc.
- Realize everything you do is going to require some work. There is no such thing as easy ways to make money without some effort.
- Always keep the motto "If it sounds to be good to be true, it probably is" in the back of your mind.
- Full list of ways to stay safe online.
Arts and crafts
Etsy
is a fantastic place for an artist or anyone who enjoys making unique
handmade goods and is a great place to sell vintage goods. This vibrant
community has over 15 million buyers that visit every day and anyone can
create their own online shop and make it available to these visitors.
ArtFire
is another great site to set up your own virtual store and sell to
millions of people on the Internet. Also, if you are an Etsy member, it
is easy to import your Etsy data into ArtFire to sell your goods on both
sites.
Fiverr
Fiverr
is another site that allows anyone to create pages
listing services they are willing to provide for $5.00. Services could
be anything from doing a voice over, creating an animation, giving a
review, offering advice, or really anything that others may find useful.
Although five dollars may not sound like a lot, for tasks that may be
easy for you to complete and if several of them can be completed in an
hour, it can be a good source of extra income.
Another similar site is peopleperhour, which allows anyone to do jobs that take one or a few hours to complete for any price they set.
Kickstarter and Patreon
Kickstarter
is a fantastic page for anyone with an idea or project who do not have
the capital to fund the project. The site allows anyone to create a page
explaining their idea and how much they need to fund their project.
Patreon
is a great website for Internet users to support artists financially.
Patrons can contribute on a recurring basis, or make a one-time
contribution for a single piece of work. Artists supported on Patreon
include YouTube content creators, musicians, cartoonists, educators,
scientists, comedians, dancers, and photographers.
Freelancing projects
There are dozens of online services that allow anyone
from around the world to work at home and complete work for other
individuals and companies. Jobs can be anything from writing reviews,
designing logos, programming, proofreading, data entry, accounting,
payroll, translating, and much more. All of these services allow you to
list your qualifications and set your pay rate or browse through
available job listings and make a request for hire. Below is a list of
some of the more popular contractor and freelancing related services.
There are dozens of resource hubs on the Internet that will pay
skilled writers to compose content about various subjects. These sites
will then pay royalties to the writers based on how frequently their
pages are visited. Some good examples of these resource hubs include: Helium, HubPages, Squidoo, and Yahoo! Voices.
eBooks and other virtual goods
eBooks and virtual goods are a popular way to make money
online.
eBooks often take a few hours, weeks, or months to make and then can be
sold in unlimited quantity without requiring any inventory or
infrastructure. A great online service for any aspiring author is Lulu.
This service allows anyone to write a book or guide about any topic and
publish it in electronic format. The author can also publish a hard
copy, which can be used for book reviewers and other publishers. Other
sites that help sell and distribute eBooks and other virtual goods
include ClickBank, Createspace, E-Junkie, and Sellfy.
Photography and audio
If you enjoy taking pictures, creating illustrations,
producing video, or producing audio, there are sites that will pay you
for the rights to sell your work to its visitors. One of the biggest
online services is iStockphoto, which gives you up to a 45% royalty rate for every picture or work of art they sell. Other sites included Depositphotos, Dreamstime, Fotolia, and Shutterstock.
If music is more your scene, audiojungle
is a site that allows you to upload loops, music, and sound effects to
their sites and make royalties from how much music you sell.
Online Auctions
Online auction sites, such as Amazon seller, eBay, uBid, and Craigslist,
are another great way to make income on the Internet. Finding and
selling things around your house or visiting your local pawn shops and
buying small items to resell on auction sites can be a way to make
money. If you are not sure what to sell or what is in demand, do a
search on eBay or other auction sites and sort by highest selling item.
It can be surprising what people are selling and how much people are
willing to pay for those items.
Website, Blog, or online store
Making your own website or blog can be a great way to
make money on the Internet and if it is a successful site, it can even
become a full-time job. However, creating a successful site or blog
takes lots of work, learning, and is not something that will start
making money immediately. Before any site or blog can start making
serious money, it needs to be getting lots of visitors.
If
designing your own site or blog sounds like too much, but you have
products you are interested in selling, using a service to create your
own online store may be your best option. Again, once a store has been
created, you need lots of visitors or a unique product to attract
buyers. JumpSeller, Freewebstore, and Shopify are just a few of the hundreds of online services that allow you to create your own online store.
Design and sell T-shirts
Designing your own t-shirt designs can be a fun and
rewarding way to make some money on the Internet. Below are a few of the
services that allow you to design and make your own t-shirts that can
be sold to anyone on the Internet. For each t-shirt sold with your
designs, you make a percentage of the income. The sites Spreadshirt and Cafepress are two good examples of these sites.
Amazon Mechanical Turk
The Amazon.com Mechanical Turk
is a service that allows you to complete easy Human Intelligence Tasks
(HITs)
and get paid for the work. Often these tasks are so simple that anybody
could complete, such as identifying colors in an image, finding keywords
in a sentence, comparing text, or completing a survey. Because of the
difficulty level, many of these tasks do not pay a lot but can be easily
completed and can be a source of supplemental income.
Review and post on websites
Websites and companies need users of all types to review
their websites and determine what is or is not working on their sites.
Sites like Whatusersdo and Analysia will pay people to help them review customer websites and give their review of the website.
There
are also many websites and forums on the Internet that need the
appearance of a stronger and more active community. There are services
online that will pay you for your participation in these sites. Some
examples include Postloop.
