Making money online is easy… well not as easy as the pic suggests :)
Think you’ve got to be a web genius to make money on the Internet?
Think again. There are tons of ways to make money on the Internet and
here are just a few to chew on. The “MMO” possibilities are infinite on
the world wide web. Pick one and make it happen.
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Ecommerce: sell your product on eBay or your very own website
2.
Affiliate Marketing: sign up free with networks like Commission Junction, LinkShare and Shareasale
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Graphic Design: learn the basics and charge for service
4.
Writing: charge webmasters for your content (use
Elance or oDesk)
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PayPal: ask friends or site visitors to donate to your account
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Blogging: monetize by putting up ads that are relevant to your content
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Create a Membership Site: charge for your content or services
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Email List Marketing: sell your product to the contacts you buy
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Create AdSense Sites: any website can bring in nominal ad revenue
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Sell Domains: buy domains that will accrue value over time, sell at a premium later
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Self-publish a Book: sell it on Amazon or to an eReader publisher
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Create a Recurring Podcast: put it for sale on iTunes
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YouTube: become a
partner
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SEO: use your personal or professional experience to charge for consulting
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Online Consulting: start a company and recruit clients
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Create a Web Tool: like a plugin or WordPress theme
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Crafting: sell your homemade goods online at sites like Etsy
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Photography: sell stock photos online at
istockphoto.com
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Journalism: write for a respected news magazine or paper online
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Fiverr.com: sell any service for $5
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Transcription: transcribe audio files for cash
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Create a Viral Video: promote it on
TubeMogul.com
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Tutoring: teach others another language or skill online for a cost
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Build Niche Websites: sell them on
Sitepoint Marketplace
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Promotion: help build local business online for a fee
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Software Installation: offer help online for a small price
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Interviewing: know any interesting professionals? Conduct interviews and sell them
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Get Creative: create and sell Twitter and MySpace backgrounds and ebook covers
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Are You Musical?: record a song then sell downloads online
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Use Amazon’s Mechanical Turk: Get paid for doing HITs – Human Intelligence Tasks
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Life Coaching: it’s a great service to sell online
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Virtual Assistant: web workers need people to do their grunt work
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Be a Reviewer: sites will pay for
reviews with cash or goods
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Build a Twitter Network: then sell your tweets to marketers
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Mystery Shopping: sign up, review, and get paid online
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Craigslist: great place to offer a service for a fee (think driving, painting, etc.)
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Logo Design: create some logos and sell them at places like
digitalpoint forums
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Surveys: online survey houses pay in gift cards and cash for your time and input
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Get Design Savvy: sell your talent to t-shirt and promotional companies
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Good at Games?: build up a MMORPG account and sell or trade it
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Reward Programs: you can earn cash by shopping like usual
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Love Social Networking?: sell your expertise to small companies
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Directory Sites: set up a local business directory online
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Photo Editing: get good at Photoshop and sell your editing services to brides and photographers
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Forums: charge to host or moderate online forums
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Focus Groups: researchers are always looking for participants and usually pay
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Become an Expert: be the best in some online field then charge for appearances or instructional lessons
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Data Entry: work from the keyboard at home and earn cash
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Develop Software: if you find it useful, someone else will, too (and they’ll pay!)
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Translate: if you speak another language, translate documents online
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Become a Tester: review things like games, websites and software
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Blog Commenting: be a paid contributor
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PLR Articles: write Private Label Rights articles and resell them
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Be a Promoter: sell your social networking abilities for a fee
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Jury Duty: become an online juror
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Create Videos: offer to create videos for weddings, retirements and corporate functions
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Take Good Lecture Notes: then sell them online to fellow students
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Be an Editor: sell proofreading or editing services on the web
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eMagazine: start a monthly web publication and eventually charge for membership
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Apps: create and monetize a mobile phone app
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Admin: perform network administration services remotely
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Become a Critic: review a local field on a personal blog and trade the advertising for things like free meals or movie tickets
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Provide Research: do the legwork and fact-checking for people
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Email Handling: find someone to pay you to sort and respond to emails
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Create a Design Template: sell it at
sitepoint.com or
digitalpoint.com
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Illustrate: sell your designs online or to production houses
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AV Expertise: sell your audio/visual production services
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Voiceovers: offer your voice online for the blind
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PowerPoints: create professional PowerPoints for business and students
70.
Site Audit: offer to perform a content and SEO audit of a website in need of updating
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Create Link Bait: design Infographics or Top 10 Lists then offer them to relevant businesses
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Customer Support: perform job duties online from home
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Tech Support: know a lot about computers? Offer 24/7 tech support for a fee
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Order Processing: businesses will pay you to perform these tasks
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Move Websites: Offer to migrate website files or databases like websitemovers.com
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Blog for Fun: blog daily about something you love to build a valuable audience
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Multi-Level Marketing: build and SEO a site to garner MLM interest and signups
78.
Install CMS: help people install things like WordPress
79.
Join Pay To Surf Programs: Yes, some companies pay you for this
80.
Telemarketing: all you need is a phone and an Internet connection
81.
The Big Idea: sell a service through your niche website and take a percentage like SendUsOff.com
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Sell Keyword Research: learn Google Analytics and crunch some numbers
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Recipes: love to cook? Sell your recipes to food websites
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Online Newsletter: offer to create, update and run a company’s monthly newsletter
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Get Online: if you’ve got a brick-and-mortar company, it’s time to get rolling on an online component
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Invest: research and trade stocks online day to day for quick returns
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Personal Shopper: online shop for people for a fee
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Job Counseling: help searchers find jobs in a specific field
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Be the Middleman: if you’ve got the inroads, connect buyers to sellers (think linkedin.com)
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Sweepstakes: the law of averages says if you enter tons of online contents, you’ll eventually win
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Wake-up Call: offer to email or call in reminders to people like a personal secretary
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Build a Database: fill it with useful info and sell it at
odditysoftware.com
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How-To Videos: educate people (think: dog training, baking, make-up application) through videos you lace with paid ads
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Swap: use networking or classified sites to barter and trade goods
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Shop for Cash: utilize online promotions to score gift cards and cash discounts when you shop
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Link Broker: become a link dealer for SEO and webhosting companies to use
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Sell Domains: offer to help manage the resale of unused websites for a commission
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Map Sites: Update map information regularly in exchange for credits that can be used as cash
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Summarize: read books and watch movies then summarize for sites like SparkNotes.com
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Travel: offer to be a paid online travel reviewer for sites like Frommer’s or Lonely Planet
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Media Monitoring: have companies pay you to monitor their online media mentions
