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How can I earn money on the Internet?
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Dave Parrack
July 3, 2012There have been lots of articles written on MakeUseOf about the different ways to earn money online.
Start with – http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-more-somewhat-interesting-ways-to-earn-money-online/ and http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/easy-money-for-teens-online/
Or you can download the guide to making money blogging – http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/download-monetization-manual-your-no-nonsense-guide-to-making-money-blogging/
Reuben Walker
July 3, 2012There are a variety of ways to do it. For example, you can do surveys. The number one rule with surveys is that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. No one is going to pay you $50 an hour for you opinion. Also, you should never pay money to earn money. Doing surveys isn’t a good way to earn money though, as it pays very slowly. I’ve been doing it for 5 years and have probably made about $350.
There are probably a whole heap of other options, but nothing beats having a real job in the real world.
Chris Hoffman
July 3, 2012We’ve written about this and given some suggestions before. Check out this post for some ideas:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-top-4-internet-jobs-with-online-companies-you-can-do-exclusively-on-the-web/
If you decide to go the blog route, we’ve also written about making money from blogs:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-ways-blog-pay-real-money/
We’ve also got a full guide to monetizing a blog:
http://www.makeuseof.com/pages/monetization-manual-your-no-nonsense-guide-to-making-money-blogging
Shakirah Faleh Lai
July 3, 2012Sell something online.
Sk Nepal
July 4, 2012Check out here for ways to make money online for beginners : http://www.thelacunablog.com/2012/06/10-sites-beginners-money-online/
muotechguy
July 4, 2012The very fact that you asked this question means you probably can’t. Start by asking yourself, “which of my skills could I exploit online?”, “what expert information could I offer in a blog that would attract readers?”, or “what valuable service could I create?”.
Ignore anything about surveys, unless you want to be 5 cents for half hour of your time. 99% of everything on the internet is a scam. You make money online by providing something of value, by being popular, or by providing your hard to obtain services to someone else. It’s called “working”, just like in real life.
Ben
July 4, 2012Download this http://www.makeuseof.com/pages/monetization-manual-your-no-nonsense-guide-to-making-money-blogging. It should give you some ideas
musicphann
July 5, 2012I haven’t used it but many people have brought up Amazon Mechanical Turk.
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
It only pay some money .
July 6, 2012Paul Pruitt
July 5, 2012Youness, the easiest legitimate way to make money online is to sell your non-used books, gifts and other things via eBay, Amazon Marketplace etc. However this can get tedious after awhile.
To spice things up I used the site listia.com to auction my unwanted things for points which I then won jewelry auctions on the site with. I concentrated on gold items on the site and then sold my gold to a gold merchant at are local mall and made like $500. It was a lot of work to get to that. However I didn’t mind because I learned all sorts of things about a new fields for me, jewelry, precious metals and stones.
The other answers are to start a blog and/or niche website. Like for me my subject is free advice and freeware data recovery software. When users come to my pages and look for free software to get back their data and they try the links I give and they don’t work, they click on my ads and I make money
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A word of warning however. I’m passionate about my subject and helping people, but I only make $400 a month. I have been at this now for 9 years! I have some computer training and programming skills and am making my own data recovery software now too. I have spent many, many hours at this and my income is slowly creeping up. You usually can’t make money quick especially if like me you do this on your own and not as a member of a group.
It’s much easier to concentrate on a regular day job if you can find it rather than try to lift a heavier than air business off the ground. You need an independent subsidy or day job to your income for many years I think to make it work. This is probably true of most businesses, they start of small and as money losing ventures. 90% fail anyway.
However again if you are committed like I am, and have a subsidiary income or a regular day job that gives you some free time, than go for it. Find a niche subject that you are passionate about and are an expert and make a website, put Google adsense and affiliate ads on it, program programs and make a blog. To have an ever increasing amount of income, you really have to do it out of the love of the subject and helping people rather than making money per se.
Note I have extensive website where I list ways to make money like the ideas about taking surveys or serving on mock juries. It shows you how lazy I am or distasteful or inefficient these methods are in that I don’t follow my own advice and really don’t make that much money online yet, 9 years later…
http://digital-earn.com/
John Penland
July 6, 2012If you can write articles, and have at least decent English writing skills then http://www.textbroker.com might be worth a look.
Wendyworks
July 6, 2012Being a virtual assistant means you can assist fellow entrepreneurs who need a little help around the office, but don’t need the hassles of hiring and supervising employees. You work over the internet and rarely meet each other face to face.
cypherinfo
July 6, 2012Hello, one promising activity is related to microcredit: online (micro)lending http://uk.zopa.com/ and http://www.kiva.org/start are two wekll known examples of that. Two places where borrowers and peoples who want to give a loan mett each other on platforms where both sides are guaranteed and where it is easy to get a loan even if you are poor!
Thank you.
Another great way to make money on line is to sell your digital photos. The stock web site do not accept them easily but here you may find a great explanation on how to acquire the skill level needed to see your photos accepted: http://lebanmax.blogspot.it/
Try to use the translation feature of Google; the blogger is willing to answer in English too.
July 7, 2012ashok_goral
July 13, 2012Build an IOS or android app. Make it popular n earn money by hosting ADs…
Goku Gohan
September 2, 2012can a teen also make money online
Principally, yes. I guess it depends whether you can legally earn money in your country and what kind of work you would want to do online. We have had teens write for MakeUseOf in the past. I am sure you could find work with a website, if you have a skill they need. You just have to figure out what you’re good at!
September 17, 2012James
October 29, 2012Or you could join http://www.ebookmall.com/americasnextauthor writing contest 2012. If you win you can get $5000 – or if you end up second or third, $500. You only have to write a great short fiction story and get some followers. There are many other writing contest online. You should definitely try this if you can write stories or articles!