The era of Internet has become quite an active and indispensable part of man’s life. Be it socializing with friends, family, or a random persona, gathering every macro or micro bit of information, taking online tutorials, or entertainment, downloading movies, songs, videos, pictures, shop online, check mails; and for this seemingly endless list, we look forward to this tool for our deliverance and each time it proves to be a faithful partner, a best friend. Besides being a good Samaritan, this tool also aids us in making money. Sounds a bit unrealistic or impractical, “How can I even dream of earning, just by sitting within the four walled boundary of my comfortable villa and get my pant’s pocket heavy with notes and coins?” If you are harbouring any of such doubts in your mind that earning is only when you get outside your home and hunt for a billet or a part time to meet your teenage expenses, then it’s the perfect time for you to change your mind set and filter all such demurral. Because internet has made earning very easy. But this does not subdue the fact that, even then you need to be professional and dedicated to whatever work you do online. There are some sites that will compel you to dream of becoming a millionaire overnight, making you sign up for certain events, seminars or course curriculum, for their own profitability, but here in this article let us talk about some of the legitimate ways of making money online. These won’t make you dream to become Ambani overnight but will definitely suffice your pocket money.
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Freelance Writing
Well, if you have deciphered a real writer within yourself and wish to articulate your ideas and thoughts and circulate them amongst the crowd, there can be no other job as popular and alluring as that of a freelance writer. It is more akin to writings that you get paid for without being hired on a full time basis by different companies. The person might write an article and then seek a publication to house it, the tenure being a short-term commitment. The articles written may be creative or technical. Some of the freelance writing gigs are newspaper articles, website blog, book review, film review, interviews published in magazines, program proposal, grant writing for an NGO etc. Some successful free lancers are paid from some 50 cents to a dollar for a single word. But a web presence is desired before reaching to the freelance writing companies. Even a profile in LinkedIn is sufficient to get started with. Now some of the websites that actually pay you for this purpose are:
Listverse
Listverse is a website that pays you around $100 for each post that it has accepted. It calls for a creative approach, a listing of at least 10 different things and a minimum word limit of 1500 words.
Fundsforwriters
Now this company pays you around $50 for each post. Articles they generally accept are between 500-600 words.
Some other companies areTopTenz , Uxbooth, iWriter etc.
Affiliate Marketing
Now if you are truly dreaming of earning a really good gravy and think that you can toil hard, then affiliate marketing can emerge out as a good option for you. Referred to as one of the oldest forms of marketing, it is a platform where you can recommend people, you are connected to online, of online products that are sold by various sites and when that person buys the product based on your recommendation, you receive commission. Through internet advertising, online firms associate themselves with website owners using affiliate programs. For this purpose, all you need to do is to create a simple website, wherein you can assist customers to choose the right product. Generally, you receive a brevet ranging from 4% to 20% depending on the product and the company. FlipKart, Amazon, eBay, Clickbank, CJ and hundreds of other companies offer you to sign up and promote their products.
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Youtube Channel
Have you ever heard tales about regular people earning handsome sum from YouTube? Well, this might induce a thought, ”Even I can do this” and yes, this is yet again a good money making process. YouTube itself provides you multiple arena to display your skills and earn. According to a survey YouTube gets more than a billion unique users per month. Therefore, it can serve as one of the best platforms to direct traffic to your websites and blogs. If you think that you can teach, then boost up your confidence and create videos of your lectures and upload them on YouTube. Your tutorials may stand out helpful to someone. Besides tutorials, you can even upload a random entertaining video if you have a hand at photography. You can even monetize your videos with YouTube partner program. You can simply sign up and become a YouTube partner. For each view, like or share of your video, you will get paid. You can earn a huge amount if your video gets viral.
Paid Surveys
One of the easiest, simplest and the least time-consuming way to earn money is to take some online surveys. What can be simpler than just answering a few questions and giving your valuable feedback to the companies, yes your valuable feedback. Companies conduct these surveys to get an idea of customer opinion with regard to their products and services the company provides and look forward towards any improvement that can help them increase their sales or ameliorate their services. So these companies design some survey forms and pay you just to fill them up. This does not demand for a special set of inherent skills and can be taken anytime and anywhere via a laptop, mobile or a tablet. All you need to do is just to spend a few minutes of your diurnal routine. Some of the renowned sites which pay you for your surveys are ”My survey”, ”iPoll”, ”INBOX DOLLARS”, ”TOLUNA” etc.
Get cash back when shopping
Well this is for all those shopaholics around who love spending their time, surfing through various e-markets and buying all dresses, electronic stuffs and cosmetics to their heart’s delight. Getting cash backs is more analogous to saving money than making it but in a way is very useful, especially for students because for every purchase, you get a cash back of 0.5% to 20%, which if looked at differently is an indirect way of earning. There are some companies which pay you commissions for this purpose. You can sign up with companies like swagbacks, Top Cashback and Quido.com as they offer you the best deals.
Having read these, you might have got some sort of ideas as how to start earning. It’s time for you to try and catch hold of your skill set, which when identified, will make you follow the road to meet your extravagances. Good Luck!!
