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CROWD FUNDING

Raising money might not be the same as making money, but in a sense money is coming your way to fund an idea and in that sense it should be included. Just about any idea you have can function as a crowdfunding option if you find the right site. AngelList - Focuses on tech start ups appbackr - Crowdfunding for mobile apps Crowdfunder - The crowdfunding platform for businesses. Crowdrise - Donation-based funding for Causes and Charity. Hyperstarter - A crowdfunding marketing and analytics tool that helps you promote your project. Indiegogo - Like Kickstarter but more lenient on who is approved. Invested.in - Software provider, giving you the tools to get started and grow your own. Kickstarter - Donation-based funding for new creative products. Quirky - A place to collaborate and crowdfund for donation-based funding. Also includes community support to bring the idea into fruition. Rockethub - Donation-based funding for a wide variety of creative projects. In addition they

Shopping

Bing Rewards - Bing Rewards members can earn gift cards, donations and much more just by searching with Bing. eBates - You get cash back at any of 1,700 stores any time you start your shopping trip at Ebates.com. There are no points to redeem, no forms to mail in, and no fees . Over 2,000 stores to choose from including Walmart, Sears, Target, and many others. Jingit - Earn cash while you shop. With Jingit, you can check in at your favorite stores and earn cash instantly. You'll also receive cash back offers. Mr. Rebates - Sign up to be a member of Mr. Rebates (similar to ebates). You'll start with a $5.00 registration bonus. MyPoints - Every time you make a purchase through MyPoints, you earn rewards Points. These can be used towards hundreds of incentives from their reward catalogue. Quidco – UK's cashback and voucher site. Topcashback - Get cashback from a larger number of shops and online retailers.

SHOPPING, PHONE APPS, AND EXPLORING

It can be fantastic if you are already in the market to buy something - just don't go overboard and buy lots of junk you don't need.  Phone Apps There are a ton of apps that you can use in combination with your shopping, or simply walking around town, which can help you make money. Apptrailers - Watch videos and download apps. You can change it to gift cards or convert into cash and deposit into PayPal. It works for both iPhone and Android. Checkpoints - Scanning items, checking in at different stores, playing games, or completing offers. Points can be redeemed for discounts, gift cards, or products. EasyShift – App for iPhone users. Earn cash exploring their city and taking pictures. Field Agent – App for iphone users. Scan barcodes, mystery shop, check prices, take polls, explore neighborhoods, and more. Work done can be exchanged for between $3 and $12 as wage for each task. Gigwalk - Find & fix problems at retail. Uncover common compliance issues like

Transcription, Translation, Tech/Customer Support

Transcribe Audio To Text Get Transcribed - Audio to text transcription and video captioning service for business, academic and personal needs. Quicktate - Create audio notes by dictating into your favorite Evernote app or by calling (888) 222-NOTE and Quicktate will accurately convert your audio. They pay 1/4 to 1/2 cent per word depending on the audio type (General or Medical). Scribie - Fast growing online audio transcription service. Pays $1 per 6 minutes of audio transcription. SpeechInk - SpeechInk offers you the opportunity to earn money doing audio transcription jobs in your spare time. Transcription is done through Amazon's Mechanical Turk.   Translating Lingosaur - Get an instant quote for your translation job, order in seconds. Translate to/from Finnish, English, Swedish and Russian among many other languages. ProZ.com - Get paid for translations. TRADUguide - Translation buyers can quickly ask for price quotes from translation service. Translato

User Test A Website

So many websites could benefit from this - how do users view a website? Analysia - Test your website usability by real users and test the performance of your site. E4S - Apply to be a user tester Userfeel - Become a user tester Userlytics - Sign as a participant and start earning money. UserTesting - Usability testing has never been easier. UserTesting's online usability testing is the fastest, cheapest way to find out why visitors leave your website. Whatusersdo - Get paid to give feedback on clients' websites. Youeye - Participate in online usability studies.

Mystery Shopping

Often you have to go to the site and perform some tasks (for example sit down and order a meal). Later when you return you fill out a survey (did the waiter say hello, that sort of thing) as well as a quick write up. Payment often includes the cost of the meal AND a set wage per project (varies but could easily be $25-$50 and potentially more). It’s great if it is a place you are already interested in going to, like a restaurant, since the budgets for meals can be pretty high. The only catch is that with many of the companies you have to be at least 24. Grass Roots Measures – Mystery shopping and customer satisfaction surveys HS Brands - Mystery shopping services ICCDS – Mystery shopping company. Intelli Shop - IntelliShop is a mystery shopping company. Market Viewpoint - Mystery shopping company offering legitimate mystery shopping, customer service audits and evaluations, and marketing Mystery Shoppers, Inc - Evaluates customer service and quality control. Second To

Surveys

Important note: Do not pay to sign up for a site that offers to pay you for surveys. Cashcrate – Get paid for taking surveys and performing other tasks. Clear Voice Surveys - Get paid to take real surveys from market research companies. CreationRewards - Earn points when taking surveys, completing offers, shopping online, watching videos Gifthulk - Be rewarded with real-world prizes for your daily online activities at GiftHulk. Watch videos, complete surveys, search, play games and much more. GlobalTestMarket -  Get paid for taking surveys. Sends lots of survey invites, although you only qualify for 20-30% of them. You can cash out once you have accumulated $50. Hot Spex – Get paid for taking surveys Inbox Pounds - Get £1 instantly just for signing up My Survey - Get paid for taking surveys .  You get paid via PayPal once you reach $25 Opinion Outpost - Paid online survey community. Permission Research - Internet market research company. Pinecone Research -

Online Focus Groups

2020Panel - Get invited to an online focus group. They also conduct normal online surveys. Focus Pointe Global - Participate in paid focus groups, paid interviews, and paid online surveys. Earn extra money for sharing your opinion on consumer products Google User Research -  Participate in user research studies. Microsoft Research Panel - Get paid from Microsoft for providing feedback on their products.

Play Games

Every boy’s dream – getting paid to play video games. gamesville.com - Play games, compete to win prizes, and chat live with other players from around the world. gamesradar.com - Making money by playing video games game-testers.net - Make money playing new games. Earn from $50 to $150 per hour. paidgameplayer.com – Play games online now. slingo.com - Win cash and prizes at Slingo.com. Play games and earn coins for your chance to win real cash and prizes. Team Liquid - Team Liquid is a community site focused on StarCraft 2 and Dota 2. They have a live streaming area where people can play games while others watch. I have seen people with very large followings show ads and make money. worldwinner.com - Play free online games or compete for cash.

Listen To Music

you like to listen to music there are companies out there who are interested in hearing your opinions. Basically another form of consumer research. Music Research - Music Research is recognized as the first full-service marketing research organization devoted exclusively to the study of popular music and consumers. MusicXRay – Listen, rate, and get paid. Slicethepie - Get paid to review new music 

Product Testing

all like things, but what we like even more are things we don’t have to pay for. How about testing products and getting paid to do so? Bzz Agent - Sample products, spread word of mouth and have fun. Expo panel - Your honest opinion will help unlock some of the newest products before they're even sold in stores. Influenster - An exclusive community for trendsetters to share news,products, and reviews with the opportunity to be rewarded by brands. House Party - Fun products to try at a house party Mom’s Meet - Empowering moms to come together in an informal setting and talk about the latest on raising healthy families and living green. Smiley 360 - Be the first to try exclusive new products, experiences and offers. Share your thoughts to earn status, smiles, rewards and more! Swaggable - a platform for users to try new products that they are interested in!

MAKE MONEY DOING CONSUMER RESEARCH

here are tons of companies that are interested in getting the opinion of customers for their business, product, website or service. Some of these may require you to appear in person. In most cases though they are going to want you to test out their product and then provide feedback on it. In some instances you might even get to keep the product. 

Advice Online Or Via Telephone/SMS

BitWine - Get paid to give advice and answer questions for people, on subjects of your interests and choice. ChaCha - Answer questions via text messages. Ether - Ether enables anyone with something valuable to say to sell their services. You get a free Ether phone number (forwarded to an actual phone), you set your rate, and you can schedule times that you’re willing to accept calls. Google Helpouts - Connects people who need help with people who can give help over live video. Get help across multiple topics right from your PC or mobile device JustAnswer - Name your price and get customized answers from experts. Questions are priced anywhere form from $5 up to $25 or more. If your answer is accepted, the money is credited to your account, where you can cash out via PayPal once you reach $20. Jyve - Pays you to provide answers, advice and peer support to people in need of help. Keen – Earn money being a Psychic. kgb - Get paid for answering questions that people se

Participating In Forums/Discussion Boards

CraZoo - Earn money for starting new threads and posting in online forums. ForumBoosting.com - Make money posting in forums across the internet. Fun Advice - Forum offering humorous advice on life and relationships. Earn points for answering questions, which get converted to dollars. myLot - An enormous discussion board, blogging community, questions and answers hub, social network and online hangout all wrapped up into one. Pays you for posting, commenting and using their social network.

MAKE MONEY BY GIVING ADVICE ONLINE

you have any sort of expertise you can potentially use that skill to help others...and they just might pay you for it. 8.1 Reading Or Responding To Emails This is exactly what it sounds like – get paid to read emails. InboxPays - Get paid to read emails, play games, complete surveys and more. SendEarnings – Similar to InboxDollars.

NEWSLETTER MARKETING

This is a very popular way for bloggers/websites with large followings to engage, and frankly, make money off permission marketing. Here are some services to help you build and manage a list. Aweber - With the best delivery in the business, AWeber gets your email newsletter where it needs to go. I use this for my personal newsletter. Free Follow Up - 100% free autoresponders Getresponse - Send email newsletters, campaigns, online surveys and auto responders. iContact - An international online service provider of email marketing and social media marketing to small, mid-sized, and premier businesses. Inuvo - Inuvo Inc. is an internet marketing and technology company that delivers targeted advertisements into websites and applications reaching desktop and mobile devices. MailChimp - Send 12,000 e-mails per month to up to 2,000 subscribers for free. Send Free - SendFree lets you grow, maintain and deliver email campaigns to big email lists. Stream Send – Email marketing s

Freelancing Communities

 just so many communities where freelancers can showcase their skills - this barely scratches the service. My personal favorites are eLance and oDesk. Amazon Mechanical Turk - The online market place for work. Businesses and developers have access to an on-demand scalable workforce. Workers can work at home and complete simple tasks. ClickChores - Here, you can find an army of workers for all your site's SEO, e-marketing, and social media needs. Guru - Find 400000+ freelance programmers, web developers, graphic designers, writers and more for hire. Outsource your projects today. iFreelance - Find freelance jobs. Microworkers - Crowdsource your Micro Jobs to more than 500,000 workers worldwide. Upwork  - Find freelancers and freelance jobs on oDesk - the world's largest online workplace where savvy businesses and professional freelancers go to work. I have used oDesk and find it similar to eLance. PeoplePerHour – Standard freelancing site.

Gigs Websites

It does often allow you to try for an upsell. Dollar3 - Dollar3.com has been acquired by GigsBull. A gig site with price point in multiples of $3, starting at $3. Fittytown - The town where everything is $50. If you thought there was a marketplace for $5 (Fiverr.com) there is a marketplace for $50. Fiverr - The place for people to share things they're willing to do for $5. Jobs for 10 - Gigs site $10 price point . TenBux - Gigs site with $5 or $10 price point.

EARN MONEY ONLINE FREELANCING

I talked about Freelance Writing. In reality, writing is only one of the many skills that people can freelance.

Sign Up For A Credit Card

Similarly many credit cards have sign up bonuses that can be worth hundreds of dollars. Do read the fine print though as some of these require specific actions (like spending $X in Y months). Others have annual fees. Still I have easily received over $1k in value simply by signing up at the right time and following through. Here are a few of the best ones right now. Best Rewards Credit Cards Best Airline Credit Cards Best Travel Credit Cards Best Credit Card Sign Bonuses

switch Your Bank Account

Banks are always trying to offer incentives to get you to switch over to them. If you are willing to go through the hassle (which, nowadays is not so much of a hassle), you can be nicely rewarded. Check out this article on how you can earn between 100-200 pounds simply by switching banks.

Stock Trading

you want to throw your hat into the ring and try day trading, there are many brokers out there. E*TRADE – Online discount stock brokerage service for self-directed investors. Fidelity – Another broker I use. Interactive Brokers – One of my personal brokers, only $1 commissions on trades. Scottrade - Offers a wide range of brokerage and banking services. Sharebuilder - Buy stocks, mutual funds and ETFs with low commissions and no minimum required. TD Ameritrade - Broker for online stock trading, long-term investing, and retirement planning. Trade King - TradeKing is an online broker providing tools and research for online trading of stocks, options, bonds and more.

Peer-to-Peer Lending

I've experimented with this a bit myself without much success, though I have seen reports from other trustworthy people who are showcasing 5%+ returns on their loans. Lending Club - (U.S. Residents Only) Peer to peer lending, which starts in increments $25. I have used lending club myself and frankly have not seen exciting returns (currently around 2%) on account of a few defaults on several loans. I also feel that in order to properly diversify (spread out over a bunch of different loans) it takes a fair amount of time to research the loans and find the right ones for your strategy. I started with $2k and it now shows $2016 after 6+ months. But if you consider payments past due as future bad loans, I've actually lost money. Prosper – Operates slightly differently from Lending Club in that I believe you bid on loans

Paid To Like

Get paid for likes - Earn money by liking Facebook Pages.

Paid Twitter

AdFly - Earn money for each visitor to your shortened links with adf.ly! Use a URL shortener service that pays. MyLikes  - Create a custom website, share viral content and get paid for the traffic. PaidPerTweet.com - You can set your price to Tweet website links, press releases, products promos, services, and companies to help companies gain exposure. Revtwt - Twitter marketing platform. Twivert - Earn money for tweeting.

MONEY ONLINE USING SOCIAL MEDIA

you have a large social following then there are people who are willing to pay you for a moment of your audience’s time, and it’s not JUST Facebook anymore. There’s stuff for all different kinds of social media platforms.

MAKE MONEY BY RENTING

Many people rent out spare rooms, apartments, etc. I even know people who rent out their only apartment (and crash at their girlfriend’s place if someone rents it). 9Flats - On 9flats .com you can find vacation rentals, apartments and guest houses, owned by friendly locals across the world. Airbnb -  Find both short and long term apartment or room rentals. Camp In My Garden - O nline garden camping community. As a member of this community you can advertise your own garden as a campsite and/or book accommodation in other community members' gardens. Easy Room Mate - Flatshare site. Rent My Items - Rent out those unused household items... and earn some money. Rentalo - Global directory of vacation rentals, hotels, bed and Breakfasts, vacation homes, condos, villas, cabins, chalets, lodgings, furnished accommodations. Roomoramma - Roomorama is a booking site that provides a platform for individuals and property managers to rent unoccupied living spaces and other short-term l

Paintings

artlondon.com - Buy, sell, or browse contemporary fine art online. artmajeur.com - Buy and sell art online. artnet.com - Browse all original artworks for sale by style, medium, price, and era live on artnet Auctions. Use the advanced search options to buy or sell art. artweb.com - Sell your art online. Allows you to sell your paintings, jewelry, prints and artwork simply cheaply and easily. arts-mart.com - Sell you art online. art-exchange.com - Sell your art online. fineartamerica.com - Sell art online through Fine Art America. Set your own prices and keep 100% of your profits mybestcanvas.com - MBC is an online art gallery from where you can sell or buy original paintings for sale. originalartonline.com - Original art online gallery. Buy art, sell art; find original artwork including paintings, sculpture, photography, drawings, prints and more redraggallery.co.uk - Sell your art and paintings online. saatchiart.com – Sell Art Online. shopify.com - Shopify make

Make Money Selling Apps

it does not mean that you cannot hire a developer and work with him or her to create your app. Apps often sell for very cheap, only a few dollars, but they appeal to a wide audience of millions of smart phone users. app backr - App developers around the world use their predictive analytical ranking system to get their appscore. Higher scoring apps have more opportunities. apps plit - Appsplit is the Crowdsourcing Platform for Apps. Allows you to raise funds for your apps. app topia - Allows you to buy and sell apps. binpress - A marketplace for Open-Source code, scripts, components, SDKs and libraries for iOS, Android, PHP, Javascript and more. bluecloudsolutions - USA based internet marketing company specializing in iPhone apps, creative business models, and explosive marketing strategies. sellmyapp - Sell your iphone apps. sellmyappz - Sell, Buy & License iOS iPhone 5, iPod, iPad, OS X Mac and Android app source code with full applications, components & games.

our Designs

This allows you to bypass the upfront cost of having to create and store the product as well as leverage the existing audience the website has. It is great especially if you want to test an idea and establish whether or not there exists a market. Blurb - Create and publish bookstore-quality books with free software for PC or Mac. Then sell your book in the Blurb bookstore. Cafe Press – Design products like t-shirts, etc. and sell them through the Cafe Press virtual store. Create Space - CreateSpace provides free tools to help you self-publish and distribute your books, DVDs, CDs, video downloads and MP3s on-demand on Amazon.com E-Shirt – Like Cafe Press but cheaper and focuses mostly on t-shirts. ImageKind - Buy prints, posters canvas and framed wall art from various artists. LuLu -  Provides the tools for you to publish your work for personal use or for sale and distribution to others PikiStore - Pikistore lets you create your own tshirt store and will print the shirts.

Recycling Old Gadgets

It’s great exploring these options because you can see how much an asset is worth even if it is used. In this sense you can look at everything you purchase as coming at somewhat of a discount. For example, if you buy a phone for $100 but are savvy enough to know that you can trade it in for $20 a few years later, it is like getting it for only $80. Best Buy - Well known retailer who also buys second hand. Costo - The online store for the national retailer of brand name products, from computers and clothing to gardening and gourmet food. Gazelle - Get cash for used cell phones and electronics. Sell your iPhone, Samsung Galaxy, iPad, Apple computers and more. They even pay the shipping cost for you to ship the product to them. Itemcycle - Get cash for your iPhone, iPad, MacBook, and more. They pay for shipping and give you the option to donate your money to a charity of your choice. O2 Recycle - Recycle your gadget for cash. Preloved - Turn clutter into cash by selling on Pre

Make Money Online Selling Collectibles

In this example we will explore baseball cards but you can replace this with any collectible and there is likely a specialty marketplace for it outside of ebay/craigslist. Remember, anything you own can be an asset if it has value to someone else! 707 Sportscards - One of the largest buyers and sellers of old baseball cards, PSA Graded Cards, and Allstate Display Cases. Baseball Card Exchange - Baseball Card Exchange. BaseballCardBuyer.com - Baseball card buyer with 30 years' experience is now buying vintage (pre-1970) sports cards at top prices . Kit Young - Buying: All sports, modern and vintage. Kurtz Kards - Full time baseball card dealer since 1996. Portland Sports Card Co. - Buys and sells vintage baseball cards, football cards, basketball cards, hockey cards, sports collectibles, graded sports cards, and more. Tim's Baseball Card Shop - Buying and selling baseball cards, basketball cards, football cards, baseball card sets, football card sets, hock

Money Dealing Domain Names

Some people even make a business (albeit it an annoying one) out of “squatting”; buying up domains and trying to sell them later to interested parties. I heard once that someone, anticipating the growth of Starbucks, went and bought up starbucks.com in other countries (i.e starbucks.ru) and probably made a pretty penny doing so. AfterMarket - Buy domain names, purchase registered domains, list domains for sale in a number of different ways, and sell domains safely and securely. Takes a 10% commission. Afternic - Afternic is a one-stop site to buy domains, sell domains, and park domains.   Takes 10% - 20% commission. Bido - Domain sales. You will be notified when they respond. If an agreement is reached, you'll be instructed to make your payment. Bido will assist with the transaction and transfer. Takes an 8% commission. GoDaddy Premium Listings - Sell your domain name in the Premium Domain Names section of the domain search page.  Takes a 30% commission . Pool.com - Lead

Money Selling Fully, Established Websites

you own a website that is up and running, you can sell it on one of these market places. Really, a website is just like online real estate. You own a plot of land in the World Wide Web. What you do with it can increase or decrease its asset value. The more money it makes, the more valuable it is. I have seen websites sell for 6 figures many times. The beautiful part of it is that people generally pay between 10 and 20 times the monthly profit, so if you have a website that is bringing in a bit of cash you can potentially sell it for a pretty penny. Here are some market places for buying and selling websites. Buy Sell Website - Search hundreds of websites for sale.Buy or sell websites and domain names. Deal Site - DealASite.com is free for both buyers and sellers to buy and sell websites. EmpireFlippers - Empire Flippers has websites for sale, letting you buy websites and offer sites for sale online. Flippa – Buy & sell websites, domains, and apps. I have perso

Make Money Doing Stock Photography

Like videos and music this is a highly competitive market but if you are skilled there are a number of venues on which you can sell your photography. 123RoyaltyFree - Search and download from millions of HD stock photos, royalty free images, cliparts, vectors and illustrations. You get 50% of each image sold and you also can earn 15% of your referral’s subscription or purchase plus 10% of every image sold by a photographer you refer. BigStockPhoto - Find millions of quality images, illustrations, vectors and stock photography. Usually $0.30 to $3 for every image of yours sold. Crestock - Crestock offers high quality royalty-free stock photos, illustrations and vector images at low prices. 20% commission on pictures with prices between $5 to $15. Your commission goes up to 30% after your first 100 sales. DreamsTime - The largest collection of FREE and commercial stock photos and images anywhere.  You can get 50 to 80% from each image sold. Fotolia - More than 20 million cheap

Videos

Similarly to music, if you can create great videos you can sell them. ClipCanvas - Stock video marketplace offering a searchable collection of HD stock footage in all categories. Cruxy - Video, music, photo Art portal. Specializes in social video, but serves as a venue to sell your digital media. iStockphoto - Royalty free stock photos, vector art illustrations, stock footage and audio for print and use on websites and presentations. MetaCafe - One of the world's largest video sites, serving the best videos, funniest movies and clips. Upload your videos and earn money based on the number of views you receive. Minibites - Diverse content from song lyrics and WAV files to personal pages and relationship issues. Pond5 - Open marketplace for buyers and sellers of royalty-free clips in all categories. Revostock - Stock video footage, after effects projects, stock music and sound effects. Shutterstock -  Sell photos, vectors, illustrations or videos. UpBlogger - Social net

Music

ou’re working online now and you can sell just about anything of value. Band Camp - Sell your music! Bandcamp takes a 15% cut of sales made from their website. CD Baby - CD Baby has over 3 million tracks for you to browse, listen, and buy. fetchapp  - Sell digital goods such as music, videos, photos, e-books, PDF's Indaba Music -   Web-based company that provides a music collaboration environment for musicians: “a place to build a profile, promote their tunes and collaborate with other musicians” as well as enter opportunities like remixing and songwriting contests with popular artists. sellfy  - Sell digital downloads - ebooks, music, videos or anything else you create. No setup fees, no storage & bandwidth limits. Sell with PayPal, Stripe & Paymill. Slice The Pie - Helps undiscovered artists, as well as helping music fans find some great. Song Cast Music - SongCast offers a streamlined and affordable music distribution service where artists and labels can release

Arts and Crafts

marketplace for arts and crafts, there are many other websites that are similar. See below resources for a link to 125 such websites. Aftcra - a new marketplace where you can buy and sell American handmade goods. ArtFire - The ArtFire marketplace is home to artisan goods of all kinds. From handmade jewelry and crafts, to vintage clothing and supplies. Big Cartel - Simple shopping cart for clothing and tee designers, bands, record labels, jewelry makers, crafters, and other artists. Bonanza - Vibrant collection of fashion, collectibles, decor, and more. Dawanda - Marketplace for gifts and handmade products. Perfect for unusual gift ideas, unique products and handmade things. Etsy - Buy and sell handmade or vintage items, art and supplies. Folsky - Buy and sell beautiful handmade gifts and crafts supplies. iCraft - Crafts online and more. Lilyshop - New online marketplace for handmade creations created by women for women. Luulla - Luulla is a marketplace to find

Marketplaces

marketplaces from which you can sell a wide range of products. Amazon – Online retailer of books, movies, music and games along with electronics, toys, apparel, sports, tools, groceries and general home and garden items. In addition you can sell back or trade in items you own to Amazon and receive Amazon gift card credit. Backpage - Free classified ads with photos. Find houses and apts for rent, personals, jobs, cats and dogs for sale. Like Craigslist but smaller. Craigslist - Craigslist is a classified advertisements website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, items wanted, services, community, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums. eBay - Buy and sell electronics, cars, fashion apparel, collectibles, sporting goods, digital cameras, baby items, coupons, and everything else on eBay. BigCommerce -  makes it easy to create a beautiful online store and sell your products to eager customers. If you're thinking of trying this out, check out thi

Make Money Selling Your Own Products

It should come as no surprise that if you own a product, you can sell it. What might be a surprise is just how many things you can sell. For example, a few years back my mother started making seaglass jewelry. She started trying to sell her pieces on Ebay and Etsy and was experiencing success. A few years later and she is consistently making over a grand a month on average. It is definitely possible to transition a hobby into a business, you just have to find the right marketplace.

Affiliate Marketing

While the concept of selling a product that is not yours might seem strange at first it is actually quite common. Many companies will allow this because it allows them to reach an audience that they otherwise would not. It is like hiring a bunch of sales representatives on commission. Here are some affiliate marketing programs that combine lots of different affiliate offers. In addition, if you have a product or website in mind you can simply search “website affiliate program” and if it has one chances are it will come up. AdPlosion - Earn revenue by selling leads, clicks and products from their advertisers. Also runs an incentive points program in addition to your commissions. Amazon Affiliate Program - One of the most popular affiliate networks due to the breadth of products you can market. Pays generally between 4-6%, higher payout for more sales. Best part is you get paid for whatever someone ends up buying after they click on your link, even if it’s not the product that you

MONEY BY SELLING ONLINE

here are many products that other people have that you can sell for a commission (known as affiliate marketing). Either way, don't discount your assets as a viable means to make a sale.

Freelance Writing

there is a lot of competition. I will not go into details on how best to become a freelance writer, as there are more experienced people to tell you that, however I do believe at least one aspect of it is building up a reputation. Some of these sites can help you get start. Associated Content - Submit your content and get paid relative to the views it gets. Demand Media - Application based freelance writing site that reportedly pays up to $15 per article. Fool - Write financial stories and get paid to do so. London Brokers - You don’t have to be a professional writer but a native English speaker. Mashable - Mashable hires freelancers for a variety of categories. Need An Article - An Article Writing Service that provides, SEO writing, business writing, technical articles, creative writing and more. Seeking Alpha - Write articles for them and get paid to do so. Writers Domain - Looking for highly skilled and qualified writers to compose blogs on various topics

Revenue Sharing

Many websites operate as large, content networks that allow people to write for them. In exchange, they will put ads in your writing and give you a revenue share of what your articles make. The benefit here is that they receive a lot of traffic, so receiving 75% commission on the ad revenue that these sites produce might be better than 100% on your own blog if it doesn’t receive much traffic. The downside is that you are building up another person’s website instead of building something for yourself. 451 Press - Write about various subject. Receive forty percent of all generated revenue. About.com - A valuable resource for content that helps people to solve the large and small needs of everyday life. Become a paid guide writing articles for About.com . Best Reviewer – A collection of reviews in the style of TOP X. 100% AdSense revenue share. Bukisa - Share your knowledge via how to guides, tips & instructions. 60% revenue share via Adsense or Chitika. Cracked : A funn

Private Blog Networks

these services and therefore included it in this section. I have also started to see this now more than ever, and it is individuals renting out their private blog networks for links. Some SEOs are saying that one of the best ways to achieve rankings in the SERPS is through private blog networks, as they are very powerful and direct. Here are a few private blog network services: Authority Website Income  - Private Blog Network service by Jon. CloudIncome's Rank Source - Private Blog Network run by Lewis Ogden. God of SEO's PBN  - Private Blog Network run by Charles Floate.

PPV (Pay-Per-View) Advertising

Pay per view advertising is similar to pay per click, except you can replace click with view. Your pay is largely based on the traffic you bring to the ad. In general, PPV rates are lower than PPC because less is required of the user. For example, while 1000 people might see an ad, it is possible that only 5 (or less) will click it. AdBrite  - Approve or reject any ads purchased for your sites. You can also sell ads direct with "Your Ad Here" links. AdKnowledge  - Adknowledge is a digital advertising marketplace that efficiently gets results for your message wherever your audience happens to be: desktop, laptop, tablet or. Adsella  - Buy and sell ad space. Advertiise -  The advertising marketplace for buying and selling online and offline media. Buy or Sell print, online, outdoor, ambient, event and many more advertising. Bidvertiser  - Online advertising directly on sites of your choice, internet marketing solution for online advertisers. Webmasters make money

PPC (Pay Per Click) Marketing

These ads work off a variety of models whereby your pay is relative to the exposure the ad gets. What is actually required (a view, a click, a sign up) varies? Ads come in a variety of forms, such as banners (of all different sizes), links, videos, and more. Pay per click marketing means that you get paid every time the ad gets clicked. It is one of the most common forms of ad networks because, unlike a view, the advertiser has greater confidence that the user has purposefully interacted with the ad in some way. Chitika   -  Develops real-time, scalable, on-demand contextual targeting services to help online businesses leverage their two biggest assets: content and online. Similar to AdSense. Clicksor   -  Clicksor offers webmasters the opportunity to earn additional income by using a selection of clickable text or targeted contextual banners on their websites or blogs. Payouts are made by PayPal with a minimum payout of $20. CrispAds  - Access to over six thousand advertis

Membership Site

The idea is basically to create a community of like-minded individuals and give them access to each other as well as instruction to help them achieve their mutal goals. The math on these is quite astounding, as you generally see people charge between $20-$100/month. That means for each sign up they are getting a monthly recurring income of $20-$100. So, if you can get a few hundred sign ups leveraging your audience, well, do the math. A few of the ones I am aware of (though there are many, that's for sure) are: Entrepreneur On Fire's Podcasting Paradise  - A community for podcasters from John Dumas.

Online Courses

 it requires a lot of upfront work but the ongoing work can be significantly less by comparison. There are many platforms that are built for you to specifically offer courses. Or you can simply create your own on your website through a series of emails. All of these are essentially free platforms for creating online courses: Claroline Coursecraft Coursesites Learnotopia Moodle Rcampus Udemy

Podcasting

it is becoming the new, preferred form over content to connect with your audience. In addition, it can also be a lucrative form of income if you draw in enough of an audience. Consider Entrepreneur On Fire, a podcasting series/blog, which makes over $40k per month on direct advertising through their podcasting. Here are some popular business podcasts:

eBooks

if you want to write a book and self publish, go ahead! It can be a "passive" income stream for life (though that should not be confused with the fact that it can be a lot of upfront work). bookbaby.com  -  Sell more eBooks with a professionally designed cover. The industry's best  place  for valuable tips on how to promote and sell your book. flickrocket.com  - Set up your ebook own shop. kindle .amazon.com  - The Amazon Kindle is a series of e-book readers designed and marketed by  Amazon . com . Amazon Kindle devices enable users to shop for, download and sell. payhip.com  - Upload  e-books  and sell directly on Twitter, Facebook or your website.  Sell  your  ebooks  to your fans and followers and get paid instantly via PayPal. secure - ebook . com  - A website with an integrated Blog engine that will help you sell more  eBooks ; The renowned Secure- eBook  fully automated purchase process.

Contextual Links and Sponsored Posts

companies will pay you to link to them on your blog because they want the increased exposure as well as the “link juice” that they get from an inbound link to their website. Be careful with this one because in some instances it can violate Google’s TOS, which, in the most extreme circumstances, can result in your website being removed from the search engines. Blogitive  - Get paid weekly via PayPal for posting stories that interest you. Blogsvertise  - Make money from advertising and generate ad income from your blog. BlogToProfit  - Make $250 dollars or more by writing new posts on your blog. Digital Journal   -  A  digital media news network with thousands of Digital Journalists in 200 countries around the world. Expo TV   - Consumer generated video, social media and peer to peer recommendations enable influential consumers to share their authentic reviews and opinions. LinkWorth - Easy text link ads for advertisers and webmasters to boost link popularity.After your blog

Blogging

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blogging can’t serve as a useful platform from which you can earn money online. Many people are earning over 5 figures a month “just blogging”, by combining it with things like affiliate sales, ad networks, and paid reviews. Go to the last chapter of this post to see all of the blogger income reports I have collected. There are thousands of blogs started every day and most of them die off over the course of a few months/years. From personal experience, I think it is best to start a blog with a purpose/passion – aside from making money. This will help you to be successful in the long run, as it is normal to spend many months blogging without earning anything. Here are some of the best blogging sites you can use to get started. How To Start A Blog   - a post I wrote that will get you up and be blogging in a matter of minutes. Livejournal  -   A service for journals and blogs, that also offers privacy controls, photo storage, publishing tools, style templates, and online communi

different ways to make money online

a lot many  people fails at earning a dime is not necessarily because earning money online is hard or it is a scammy business. In fact the very opposite is true.  To be successful you just need to try in areas which you are passionate about or have some previous experience. Yes, making money online is very much real, for many people it is a reality, and I am not exaggerating when I say there are regular people earning 5+ figure a month salaries completely through their online endeavors. It’s motivation to pursue it further. I remember the first few dollars Vicky and I earned through her food blog by putting up a few ad-sense ads. It wasn’t much, but it was the start of us earning a few hundred dollars, then a few thousand, and later over ten thousand dollars every month. In this post we are going to explore the many ways that people are earning money online.  the web looking for the best posts about making money online as well as doing my own research to find individual websites/c