How to Make Money Online

To make your own living from your comfort, a resourceful way to spend time on learning and yet working online from the comfort and ease of your own home. That will enhance your soft skills and at the same point, a good source of income it will be.

Here’s a quick introduction and basic guide about how to make money online.

1. Blogging

Blogging is another way you can earn money online. The best thing about blogging is that you will work on and write about topics and subjects that you’re passionate and knowledgeable about. You will earn through ads, blogging itself will not earn you anything- it is the ads you feature on the website that will be a source of income.

Ad network services like Google AdSense, Infolinks, Chitika and Adversal provide revenue sharing opportunities by placing ads on your website and the more you have traffic more revenue you will generate. You earn via ad views (revenue per impression) or ad clicks (cost per click), these arrangements will set by the ad providers.

Qualifying for Ad networks requires your blog or website to have a high amount of traffic and rich, original content among other things so you will definitely have to put in a lot of quality effort and time into managing and updating your blog or website time to time. With this platform, you also have to be consistent and Patience is another key factor in it, you usually have to wait a good four to six months building your website before you can qualify for Ad Programs and make money online.

Moreover, filling your blog with plagiarized material or clicking on your own ads will get you banned from the Ad program, that you have qualified for. Google AdSense is known for its very strict monitoring of compliance with its Terms of Use and many inexperienced bloggers face frequent account suspensions and bans for plagiarized work.

2. Freelancing

As Freelancing is becoming a great platform through which, many freelancers are making money online. Firstly, you need to know the opportunities available online that you can do. There are many popular online jobs around, like content writing, also known as freelance writing. Content writers are basically flexible writers who can provide websites with pertinent and current content keeping the website’s target audience in mind.

Upwork,  Fiverr, Freelancer, 99 designs and Guru are the most widely used and trusted portals dedicated to freelancers with a greater amount of traffic.

However, there is many other freelance work you can do. If you’ve got special skills like command over Adobe Illustrator, app designing skills etc, then you can also work on these and make money online through freelancing. All you have to do is create a profile and discuss the services you can offer. Jobs in different categories can be applied for and competitive rates are offered depending on the quality of work that you will provide.

3. Selling Online

As the Internet is available everywhere and trend in online shopping is increasing day by day. Chances are there are many of things from days long gone that you’ve forgotten about but might hold some financial value with someone looking for them. Look through your collection and see which things are still in good shape that you are comfortable parting with. This process of determining what has value and will actually fetch a good price will require good and honest judgment on your part.

It won’t hurt to post ads on websites where you can sell, to attract potential buyers. Be honest in your description of the product and realistic in the price you quote. However, do remember that online selling can be a hit and miss thing and that you shouldn’t feel too disappointed if you get too few replies or none at all. It also requires patience, but online shopping is trending and it will become a great platform as others.

It goes without saying that working online requires the same amount of discipline and professionalism as other forms of work. Be ready to invest time and energy to make the most of the opportunities available online.