4 Fun Ways to Make Money Online

With so many different ways to make money online, we thought we’d look at 4 fun ways to do so.

1. Design websites and graphics
If you are good with graphics and very creative with designs, this is for you! One of the best places to find work online if you are a computer programmer or designer is Elance.com. Companies will post the job they need to be done and the freelance will bid on it. The company makes their decision based on bid price and portfolio. Elance takes 4% to 6% commission.

2. Tutor kids
If you have your college degree you could consider tutoring kids in math, English, social studies or science. The most popular tutoring gig nowadays is home-based ESL. Some companies even accept college students for this gig. Work as an independent contractor and earn $10 to $15 per hour depending on hours worked and subject. Active tutors easily earn from $800 to $1600 a month. Tutor.com is a good site to explore if this kind of work interests you. For ESL job, try searching "English Tutors" on Google or Bing and you'll discover a number of legit Work from Home companies looking for native English speakers to teach kids online.

3. Provide customer service
Many retailers are now outsourcing their customer service operations to companies like Alpine Access and Working Solutions who then contract to home-based workers. If you think customer service can’t be fun, it’s probably not right for you. The best customer service reps love to help their customers and find it fun and rewarding. These reps usually work 20 to 40 hours per week. The hourly rate is $9 but agents earn as much as $13 with incentives and special projects can pay as much as $30/hour.

LiveOps runs a similar kind of company, but its service reps are all independent contractors and they generally invoice for $10 to $15 an hour depending on the call type. With LiveOps you decide how many hours to work.

4. Sell your crafts
Do you make jewelry? Paint? Knit? If so, there are all kinds of great ways for you to sell your handmade goods. Etsy is one of the most well-known sites. You have your own online store where you can showcase the items you have created. It costs nothing to become a seller on Etsy, but it will cost you 20 cents to list an item for 4 months. When it sells you pay 3.5% commission to Etsy. It is a reasonable listing fee so vendors can afford to list their items. There are other sites like Jewelry Wonder and ArtFire that are worth looking at.

These 4 ways to make money online can have you doing it with fun and that’s an added bonus!

3 Different Ways to Make Money Online

The ways to make money online are constantly changing and evolving as more opportunities become available. Let’s look at 3 ways to make money online that you might not have normally thought of.

You don’t have to put out a single penny and you can begin to make some money. These three opportunities are smaller gigs that can generate a steady stream of cash, which can really add up.

1. Provide Answers and Add Value
This is the perfect gig for anyone who loves information. There are a few different ways you can make money. You can get on as an expert in one of the sites like JustAnswers where customers ask questions and you get paid for answering it or you can make money writeing great posts through your own blogs and sign up with Google Adsense.

2. Affiliate Marketing. 
Pitching products of others online is a great paying gig. One way to do this is as an affiliate at one of the huge sites like Amazon.com where you can earn commissions that are a high as 25%. When someone buys a product that you are pitching you will earn a commission. You can choose from the millions of products on the site and that includes computers and gift cards.

Join Shareasale. I've been with them since 2010. They have lots of merchants to choose from and they pay well. I've been paid by them multiple times already.

ClickBank is another site where you can make decent money. Their commission is as high as 75% and there are over 50,000 products you can choose from. There is no cost to signup. However, ClickBank products are of a poorer quality caliber than those offered on Amazon, so just be aware of this. Their prices can often be much cheaper too, and so that can make it easier to pitch and sell than others. If you are concerned, you can always buy the product yourself and determine if you feel you want to market it.

3. Perform a Microgig
You can provide services online at task marketplaces like Fiverr.com where workers complete tasks starting as little as $5 per job. You can also head to MTurk.com where there are more than 200,000 tasks listed to make money online with various work requirements and pay. Once you complete a task, your pay goes into your Amazon payment account. Your skills can be used for almost anything. You will be competing against those in developing nations, so you have to be willing to work for pennies. There is still money to be made as long as you carefully assess the task before taking it.

The Best Way to Earn a Passive Income

There are many ways to generate income online and a passive income is one of those ways. Being able to generate a passive income takes a special skill. Your audience can be fickle. If they feel you are more concerned about the money than them, you will fail. Your intent needs to be about helping others.

Initially, you are going to need to put in a lot of time. It’s hard work to get a passive income flow going and to build that success. It doesn’t come overnight, although many would like you to believe this. Just because you have your product it doesn’t mean you can sit back and relax. There really isn’t a 100% passive income, because you always have to be managing what you are doing. You need to build automation, but to do that you first have to create trust with your followers or audience. That’s where initially you have a lot of time invested, which will decrease, but you will always be involved.

You will need to find a market that works for you. You will need to find a niche market that you can help based on your experience and passion. How well you serve your audience will dictate what your earnings are. Don’t just pick a niche because it’s currently ‘hot.’ You are going to need to continue to build, write articles, and market that product and new products that fit under that initial niche for years to come, so make sure it’s a niche you can handle, otherwise, you will not enjoy success. Instead, try to fill a gap in the market in the niche that interests you.



You will need to build a platform so that you can start to share your product. This could be YouTube, it could be a blog or whatever other market interests you. You don’t have to reach everyone. That’s a waste of effort. Instead, focus on reaching the audience that would be interested in what you have to offer.

Determine which products are going to serve you best and then offer your audience value. In fact, offering them something of value for free helps to establish trust and interest so that they are far more likely to buy whatever else it is you have to offer. They now know you have expertise in your niche and something that’s worth listening to so they are ready to pay.

As your passive income builds and you become comfortable in your business, make sure that the profit never becomes your main motivation, because when it does you set you up for failure.