Internet is so important nowadays that it becomes a
part of your daily routine. You can read the newspaper, check your email,
update your Facebook status, shop online for Christmas gifts, Skype with
friends, search on Google and so on. You can almost do anything through the
internet. But did you know you can also
making money online? If you didn’t, then congratulations! This is a
great opportunity for you. Some may say it’ll be too complicated or may require
many professional skills to make money online. Because you probably heard of
many ways to make money online like building a website, writing blogs, getting
an online freelance job, making apps etc., it may all become discouraging.
Unless you’re an expert in one of these areas, then you’ll most likely have no
clue how to make any money from it.
Requirements To Start This Business
None
of all those difficult computer skill is required to start this online business
I am talking about and if you don't have a computer, you can perfectly run the
business using your browsing mobile phone or from a cyber cafe. And the good
thing about this business is that, it has no age restrictions, it doesn't
matter if you are 15yrs or 80yrs, you can full participate in it and earn big.
Let me tell you something, If you don't become 'stinkingly' rich before this
year runs out, you have yourself to blame because you have stumbled on the key
to your success. Requirements to start :
·
You
need a device to browse with, this could be a computer, or good browsing phone
or you can work from a cyber cafe. You will also need to have a bank account
because all the money you will earn will be paid there. Definitely you need to
have an email address, and some of the companies might ask for a passport
photograph.
Ways to make money online
1. No-risk matched betting
Hands down the quickest way to make a lot of money (well, without breaking the law). Lots of students have genuinely made £100s from this technique. It’s completely legal, risk free, tax free, and anyone can do it. It works by taking advantage of free bets regularly offered by betting sites (such as PaddyPower.com) through ‘matching’ them at a betting exchange. Matched betting eliminates the risk (you are betting both for and against a certain outcome).
This leaves you being able to
squeeze out the free bet, which can be as much as £200! Multiply this by how
many betting sites there are and you can quite easily come away with a profit
of a few hundred pounds.
2. Online surveys
An increasingly popular way for
students to make money is to fill out online surveys in their spare time.
Research companies are always recruiting new members to answer surveys and test
new products.
For a few minutes of form filling,
you can make a couple of quid which is paid as cash or in rewards. You can make
up to £3 for some surveys!
3. Paid for searching the web
Interested in earning cash for doing
what you already do online? This has to be one of the easiest methods of making
money online without really any effort or change in your behavior.
This innovative idea by Qmee.com rewards you for searching in
Google, Bing or Yahoo. You just install a simple add-on to your browser and
when you conduct a search there may be a few sponsored results alongside your
normal search.Each Qmee result has a cash reward attached – if you are
interested in it simply click on it and collect your reward. The best thing is
there is no minimum to cash with an option to donate it to charity.
4. Social Investment Networks
The historically hard-to-break world
of investing in stock markets and currencies has been cracked wide open. Today
there is no need to be a fat cat or fund the yachts of Wolf of Wall Street
style stock brokers. You can do it all yourself with the help of free online
market trading platforms.
5. ‘Get Paid To’ sites
Similar to making money from online
surveys, GPT sites reward you in cash and vouchers for completing various
offers or activities online.
6. Start your own website
If you’ve ever seen the film “The
Social Network” then you’ve most likely had your brain spinning as to what
website you can start-up to make you billions.
And of course there are lots of
stories out there about successful students who have started a site while at
university, or even bought a domain name and later sold it for 1000s. In fact, Save
the Student is one such example of a website started at university by Owen Burek in his first year,
which has since grown into a full-time and successful enterprise.
7. Write and publish a Kindle eBook
If students are good at anything,
it’s researching and writing. With the Amazon Kindle store, anyone can publish an
eBook and make money.
And the Kindle app is now available
on almost any device (laptops, iPads, smartphones and yes, Kindles) so your
global market is huge!
List your book for £1.49 – £6.99 and
you earn 70% of the sale. Considering Amazon is the ultimate selling machine
(and remember people are looking to spend), that is a fantastic deal. The key
to success with eBooks is to create value, and write non-fiction. Simply
bundling information you have researched and complied on a common problem (eg.
‘secrets’ to finding a job) and then presenting it in an easy to digest format
(an eBook) justifies someone spending a few quid on it.
Another big tip is to have a great
cover designed so it stands out, and once your book is live on the Kindle store
(approval takes less than 48 hours) it’s really important to get some reviews
so it shows up higher in results. Encourage readers to leave an honest review
at the end of your book.
The best thing about this lucrative
idea is that once you’ve invested the time (say 20 hours), you’ll earn a
passive income for years to come! “.
8. Affiliate marketing
If you’ve got a good presence on
social media or perhaps you even have a blog or website, you can start bringing in money
immediately by promoting all sorts of companies, products, services and offers
online. Sign up to an affiliate network such as Affiliate Window, check their offers blog or browse the
merchant listings to find something you think your friends would be interested
in, grab your affiliate link and share it. If someone buys (can be within up to
90 days) using your link you’ll make a nice commission.
9. Gigs on Fiverr
Fiverr is now the world’s largest
marketplace for people to make money selling small services (known as ‘gigs’).
What you offer could be absolutely
anything, from writing and translating, social media posting, playing pranks
and teaching to creating music, voiceovers and short video clips for people all
around the world!
The default price is $5 (hence
Fiverr..), but you can attach extra services to gigs for more money. Whilst it
might not seem like much, it can quickly add up and there are plenty of
examples of people making a really good living from the site. The key is to get
a system in place which minimises the time spent on each gig.
But there is another way to profit even more from
Fiverr for potentially far less work. How? By simply reselling gigs elsewhere.
10. Become an Amazon ‘Mechanical Turk’
Don’t ask us what this means, all we
know is that it’s an easy way to make fast cash from your sofa. The concept is
based on ‘internet crowd-sourcing’ where businesses advertise specific,
scalable tasks they need completing quickly. There are a variety of tasks
(known as HITS), but most commonly they involve mindless data entry or form
filling. You are rewarded in cash (though $USD) for the work you do, and you
can choose for what and when you work.
11. Buy and sell domain names
A domain name is just a website
address (eg. ‘savethestudent.org’ or ‘mysite.co.uk’) and there are lots of
extensions (.com, .net, .co.uk etc).
They cost as little as £1.99 to
register with 123-reg.co.uk or GoDaddy.com yet premium domain names can fetch
£1,000s if not millions when sold on. In 2007 VacationRentals.com went for a
cool $35m!
Now you’re probably not going to
come across anything like that, but you can still turn a quick profit with a
bit of searching. The trick is to find available domain names which have some
commercial value, snap them up and then list them for sale on a site like
DomainLore.
12. Sell your photos
If you think you’ve got a good shot
and a little creativity, try uploading your photographs for free to stock
websites. A good starting point is Fotolia or istockphoto.
Make more money selling photo
subjects that people are demanding. It might be a good idea to test them out in
print first yourself .
13. Freelance work
Perhaps you enjoy writing, managing
Facebook pages or doing a little bit of graphic design in your spare time.
There are so many freelance jobs out there that require simple skills or just
time that someone else might not have.
And the best things about
freelancing is that you can work for clients in the UK and around the world
with just an internet connection from home, to your own hours whilst developing
valuable skills.
14. Busking
If you can sing or dance then this
is your time to shine baby! Did you know that Justin Bieber started off
busking? That’s right, with a little work you can be as annoying as him.
There are really no tips for this
except choose a good spot with high footfall, make sure you are good and play
your heart out. Some buskers in the past have been known to make upwards of £20
hour.
15. Sell clothes on eBay
Everyone’s best friend when it comes
to getting rid of junk is eBay. Online auctions are a sure-fire way to turn
that sleeveless jacket (which came in and out of fashion in a week) into hard
cash. Some eBay sellers look at trends and try to predict what will be big
ahead of the market. If you are good and don’t mind taking a risk then you can
buy early in bulk and sell on when the craze hits.
16. Sell your stories and videos
If you have an interesting story
then you could try selling it to the papers. It could be anything from sleeping
with a professional footballer to getting caught in a clothes horse! One of the
Save the Student team was unfortunate enough to have a pigeon fly
through and smash their window at university and sold the story to The Sun
for a tidy £50. You could also film your mates at all times and send it into You’ve
Been Framed to net yourself £250 and a few seconds of fame.
17. YouTube videos
According to recent stats we now
watch more videos on YouTube than searches on Google. And with the recently
introduced YouTube Partner Program you can now profit from making and uploading
videos. You will receive a percentage of the advertising revenue collected per
1,000 views.
Depending on how successful you are
(virality, subscriber base and topic) you can make a lot of money, and there
are plenty of stories every week of more and more YouTubers making it their
career.
18. Network marketing
Also known as Multi-Level Marketing
(MLM), this is a business model that allows you to generate ongoing income in
two ways: by making a commission selling products and by recruiting other
members who go on to sell. The later allows you to make money from the sales
made by those you have recruited.
Importantly, this is not a pyramid
scheme (they are illegal) because there is an end goal which involves a
customer buying a product or service of value.
It’s also not a ‘get rich quick’
scheme. You will have to work I’m afraid! However with the growth of social
media, network marketing is becoming easier and lots of people are now making a
decent living from it.
19. Source property for wealthy investors
We all know how much money there is
in property, but on the surface (with house prices as high as they are) you
might be thinking this market is off-limits.
Truth is, lots of people make a
great deal of cash simply sourcing suitable properties for wealthy investors
who simply have no time.
The trick is to find properties
below market value (BMV) by avoiding estate agents and instead fleering your area
with your contact details offering to buy houses. Then approach investors with
a no-brainer offer to pass on the details of cut-price property in exchange for
a % of the sale value.
Most cities will have monthly
networking events for landlords and property investors. Track these down, sign
up, put on your best suit and go along with lots of business cards. Or you
could start on LinkedIn or even Twitter to build some initial contacts.
As you might imagine, this isn’t
necessarily a quick way to make money but once you’ve got a few investors in
your phone book it can prove to be very lucrative in the long run.
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