In a world such as today’s, where inflation is on the rise while salaries remain the same, every extra penny can be a blessing. Self-dependence is considered as the ideal situation to be in, especially among the younger generation. Because of the ever rising cost of living commodities and luxuries, more and more people are finding themselves working over-time for some extra salary, looking for better jobs, working part-time to cover their expenses, and so on. Hence, people want to look for alternate or parallel sources of income. And as they say, “where there’s a will, there’s a way“. Indeed, there is not one, but many ways you can earn a few extra bucks. Many of these involve working online, meaning you can increase your income while working in the comfort of your living room!
Most of
my blogger friends would know how they can earn money online through their
blogs via monetizing them. But not everyone has a blog, even though creating a
blog is as easy as creating a Facebook profile. Maintaining a blog, however, is
not as easy. Hence, for such people, there are various other ways through which
they could earn an income.
I hope
you most of you know what freelancing is. It is basically working for someone
else online and getting paid for it. By far, this has proven to be the most
popular and most paying alternative to a regular office job. And in many ways,
freelancing is better than regular jobs. Firstly, you get to do the work that you choose, so that you have some interest in it.
Secondly, there’s a wide range of stuff you can do. You can write articles,
translate papers, do programming assignments for somebody, or take up large
corporate projects as a team. The upside to this is that, you earn good bucks.
The downside is, you have to abide by deadlines.
Freelancing
is great. It’s your own way of saying out to the world; hey! I
am independent! I don’t need a job! I have a life too! Although
technically, you do have a
job. But at this job, you can take a nap at anytime and do whatever you want,
so long as you do your work. If you want to look into this, you can
try 5 Ways To Win A Job As A Freelancer For Beginner. Or take a look at
the Top 10 Freelancing Tips
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Read: How to Make Money with Amazon.com?
2.Online Surveys
There are many websites out there that are looking for people who would help
them in their research and fill out surveys for them. Their aim is to get
feedback and do market research on a product. There are websites that are
dedicated to finding out surveys available for you. One good example is Survey
Scout.
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Read: How to Make Money With Facebook.com?
3.Write Articles
Freelance writing is another great way of earning online. If you like writing,
or if you are good at it, then you should consider this. Writing quality
articles can earn you thousands of dollars per month. All you need to have is
the right focus and, of course, a good publishing platform where you can submit
your articles.
As far
as publishing is concerned, you can either self-publish, or submit your article
to an article directory. You can either create a blog for self-publishing, or
use Squid or Hub pages. Click to learn more about earning money through
Squid. If you don’t want to self-publish, you can submit your articles to
the top sites that will pay you for them. This is one of the best ways of
earning online. Be sure never to plagiarize, however. Unique content is
appreciated, while plagiarism might result in a ban on you.
So be original, and you will be fine.
Data Entry is
another popular money earning technique used by many people. But I must admit,
it is a boring and time-intensive work. There are a lot of companies that want
you to do their laborious tasks for them, without hiring a professional for the
job. Usually, these tasks are simple. Entering one form of data into a form,
organizing data, removing mistakes and errors, and so on.
5.Surfing and searching
Did you know that you can get paid to search on the internet? No kidding! Since
the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing etc are monopolizing the
industry, other smaller engines are left out. So to keep themselves going, they
invite net searchers to use their engines, and offer rewards in return. One
such company is Swagbucks, that gives you the chance to earn up to $5
per search! It’s a neat little trick and I know some people who have
started doing this to earn money. Another is InteradMedia, that pays
$0.001 per minute of active search. The money isn’t very substantial, but
what’s the harm in getting a few extra bucks every now and then?There’s another
alternative way! Some website pay you to surf them! SurfBounty is a
good one. All you need to do is stay on that site for a few seconds to register
a “surf”. Sit back as the dollars add up! Sounds great huh?
6.Earn Through Skype
About a month
ago, I wrote a post in length about earning money through Skype. You can follow
it here: Earn Money through skype. But the bottom-line is, with Skype, you
can provide services such as tuitions to other people, and charge
them for the call through Skype Prime.
7.Q&A Websites
Some Q&A
websites will pay you to answer questions! Q&A websites are all about
question that people ask. People ask all sorts of questions on such websites.
So the websites hire people to answer those questions. So if you have a good
general knowledge, why not give it a shot?
8.Play Games to earn money
Every app
developer needs beta testers, who have nothing to do with the development of
the apps. This helps them remove bugs and errors. With games, this is even
harder.It requires a lot of man hours to test a game. So there are many
companies that pay people to play their games, and provide feedback. That way,
they can know if the project would be a fail or a success.
9.Ebay
Ebay is an advertising website where people put up
classifieds for for things they want to sell, and then buyers contact the
seller to purchase that item. If you are good at bargaining, you can take a
shot at this. Buy products at a reasonable price, and then sell them again for
a profit! This is how real estate works, except in that case, they are dealing
with lands and houses and large property.
10.Youtube
At present,
there are lots of ways to earn money from online. Freelancing Jobs, Google
AdSense are some common ways of making money from online. You can earn money
from YouTube too. Shortly, we can say that you can earn money by
displaying ads on your videos. You can earn according to the click on those
ads. You’ll get percentages from this. The earning system is similar to google
AdSense. You can make a handsome earning from YouTube. This earning can be $2
to $10 based on the number of views of your ads.
Take a look at –How to Make Money with YouTube?
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