Everybody loves having money…but not everybody realizes how many options they have for earning extra cash. In this post I’m going to give you the ultimate list of ways to make money online.
I’m not going to go in depth for each money making idea. Instead I’ll just post a short blurb here and then follow each of them up with a full post in the future…
Creative Ways To Make Money Online
1. Start your own affiliate marketing blog or website. You can make money promoting other people’s products.
2. Build a readership and sell ad space on your blog.
3. Join a paid blogging network and get paid for blogging about certain topics.
4. Sell text links in your blog’s content.
5. Put Google AdSense or other contextual advertising on your website or blog.
6. Write and sell an ebook.
7. Give away free reports with affiliate links in them.
8. Buy Resellers rights for digital products and sell them.
9. Turn PLR content into products to sell.
10. Start a paid membership site.
11. Start an online directory and charge for inclusion.
12. PPC arbitrage.
13. Become a virtual assistant and work from home.
14. Be a ghost writer.
15. Good at writing sales copy? There’s a huge market for copywriters who can write effective ads and sales pages.
16. Write articles for bloggers looking for content. Check out Elance and Rentacoder for freelancing opportunities.
17. If you speak a second language you can make extra money translating documents.
18. Transcribe documents from paper to digital format.
19. Data entry jobs can pay well…but beware of the many scammers trying to fleece you!
20. Got a nice camera? Sell your photos online at sites like iStockPhoto.
21. Be a day trader buying and selling stocks.
22. Forex.
23. Start an ezine and sell solo ads. You’ll need a large readership to make any money.
24. Be a link broker. Lots of people are looking to sell links and others are looking to buy. Be the middleman.
25. Start an eBay store.
26. Sell stuff around your house on ebay.
27. Buy stuff wholesale to sell on ebay.
28. Dropshipping.
29. Sell stuff on Craigslist.
30. Design logos for websites and blogs.
31. Design and sell blog themes/templates.
32. Build custom websites or blogs from scratch.
33. Create MySpace layouts.
34. Create Wordpress plugins.
35. Create and sell useful scripts.
36. Design clipart/icons.
37. Create simple software programs.
38. Design an impressive “seal of approval” and sell it to websites looking to make themselves look more authentic.
39. Get paid for taking online surveys.
40. Get paid for web surfing.
41. Get paid for reading emails.
42. Get paid for digging, stumbling, etc. Be prepared to be crucified by users of those sites.
43. Good at gaming? You may be able to win some cash prizes.
44. Invest in virtual real estate on sites like Second Life.
45. Make money on World of Warcraft.
46. Take advantage of reward sites such as myPoints.
47. Start your own niche search engine. A highly targeted SE could find a loyal following.
48. Flip websites.
49. Buy and park domains that get type-in traffic. Make money by placing advertising on them.
50. Do the same with expired domains that still get traffic.
51. Buy domains, develop them, and sell them at a profit.
52. Online gambling sites….be prepared to lose your shirt.
53. Create simple online games to sell.
54. Record music to sell online.
55. Use the internet to promote your offline business.
56. Write resumes and help people find jobs.
57. Become an SEO consultant.
58. Become a link-building consultant.
59. If you’re into arts and crafts, sell them online.
60. New forums need help getting comments. The owners will often pay you to post in them.
61. Get paid to post comments on blogs.
62. Get paid to manually submit websites to directories.
63. Create a helpful eCourse and distribute it with an autoresponder like Aweber. Mix in some affiliate links to make some money.
64. Can you draw? Draw little cartoons or artwork for websites.
65. Create and sell instructional videos and tutorials.
66. Get paid to search at sites like Winzy.
67. Get paid for reviewing software at SoftwareJudge.
68. Install scripts/troubleshoot for the technically challenged.
69. Sell pixel ads on your site. It worked for MillionDollarHomepage!
70. Become a hosting reseller.
71. Get paid for coming up with unique domain names at PickyDomains.com
72. Sell your unused CPU cycles at CPUShare.
73. Start a paid article directory.
74. Build some Squidoo lenses and share in the revenue they generate.
75. Write and sell articles to AssociatedContent.
76. Design t-shirts, bumper stickers, etc and sell them at CafePress.
77. Ask for it. Years ago a woman named Karyn started a simple website that asked people the send her small donations so she could get out of debt. They did! She’s not in debt anymore.
Why not try something similar?
Well that’s about all I can think of? Did I forget any? If you have more creative ways to make money online please leave a comment below and let me know.
