This is one of my favorite topic “Earn Money Online”, and who would not love it.
Everyone wants to earn money.
Okay, look.
Let me give you a disclaimer, I am not going to share my income and earning. I am not here to make you feel “HOPEFUL” for 3 mins and get you lost in the sea of bombarded content.
Now, if you are thinking.
Why you should be reading this?
What are you going to get out of it?
So, let me tell you this.
Here, you are going to know about 9 things that you can do to earn money online.
So lets see them one by one.
=> Content Writing
This always remains my favorite, I have been writing something or the else for the last 8 years. Majorly;
- Business plan.
- Sales plan.
- Marketing Plan.
- Blog.
- Articles.
- Newsletters.
- Stories.
And, if you are someone with knowledge in any specific topic or area, I would recommend you to start writing and publishing it.
You can publish your write ups in the form of
- Blog post.
- Article.
- Case study.
- Research paper.
- Journals.
And publish it on;
- Quora.
- Medium.
- Blog.
- Websites.
How to make money out of it?
Do this;
- Write a sample content on any topic (Maximum of 300 words).
- Send it to 10 people on linkedin. Thee people should be a digital marketer and/or content marketer, working with some company who may need your work.
- You can charge as less as 10 paise/word to any amount.
In the beginning, I would suggest you to write some free stuff and get the feedback. People will give you job based on quality of content and your pricing. But hey, do not under price yourself.
=> Quora
There are 2 ways you can make money from Quora.
- Quora Partner Program: This is a program by quora, where all you need to do is have a quora account and ask questions. Quora pays you money for the engagements that you bring to quora through your questions. Quora now have also started paying money to spaces owners as well. This is one of the easiest way to make money.
- Lead generation: Quora is turning to to be a gold mine for companies. Quora has more than 300 Million plus monthly active users. You can be a seller for both B2B and B2C. I am generating leads for content writing, social media marketing and website development services. Quora has a very rich organic reach and it helps you in reaching to the wider audience. Quora has a far more mature audience as against other platforms.
=> Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is all about selling/promoting others product and earn commission from the sales.
This can be done both for the individuals and for the companies.
This is how you do it;
- Choose a product. (Focus on digital products)
- Build a landing page.
- If you do not want to invest money, you can use different internet platform and promote it.
- If you have a blog, you can use it to promote these products.
I am promoting SAAS (Software as a service), and earning a commission of 20% to 40%
You can choose affiliate products from;
- Clickbank
- VCommission
- Shareasale
- Solvid affiliates
- Amazon Associates
- Shopify Affiliate Programs.
- Instamojo
- Jot Form affiliate program
These are one of the leading affiliate programs. Choose products very wisely.
=> Design Work
Creative/design professionals are very much in demand, they are being highly paid and are appreciated. You can learn graphic designing in 3 to 6 months and start earning money.
Here are a few of the high paying graphic designing work;
- User experience (UX) designer
- Front-end web developer
- Interactive art director
- Art director
- Mobile design designer
- Banner designers
- Website designers
- Social Media Posts Designer
In the age of digital boom, you can leverage this art and make money.
Just go to Instagram and search people with the keyword “Designer” and look for people. You will find some amazing designers having thousands of followers and working on them. Learn from them and start attracting leads.
=> Website Development
Website development is one of the best way to make quick money online.
Generally a 5 pages website takes 3 to 5 days to complete, depending upon the type of client you have.
This is what I would suggest you to do to make money through this.
I am a non technical guy, with ZERO knowledge on coding. I create websites using Word press, and it some thing which anyone can do.
I would recommend you to use, any free theme. I mostly use
- Generate press
- Newspaper
These 2 themes are pretty much enough to create any blog/website.
Moving ahead, to earn money all that you need to do is;
- Buy one domain name and webs hosting.
- Set up a Wordpress blog.
- Mentions all website development related services.
- Start writing blogs that helps them grow.
- Put a offer, which is very well structured and satisfies the need.
If you have any issue in setting up websites, start making blogging sites.
Blogging sites are really easy to set up.
A blogging site can be set up in maximum of 3 hours, all you need is;
- A free theme.
- A contact form. (This will help you in setting up news letter subscription)
- A pop-up form.
- A social media share.
You have a lot of free plugins to use and Create an amazing blog site.
=> Blogging
Blogging is one of the bet way to make money online and build a personal brand. You can start writing about any topic that you like, their is no fixed template for blogging.
This is what you need to set up a blog for yourself.
- Find 1 or maximum of 3 niches.
- Buy a package of web hosting + domain name + SSL + email id (You get it under $20 for 1 year)
- Set up a blog site using free theme. (I would suggest you to use “GENERATE PRESS”)
- Write 5 blogs and publish them.
- Use YOAST plugin (This helps you in doing ON page SEO).
- Put monster insight plugin, this will help you in tracking day to day traffic of your blog site.
- Create atleast 20 quality backlink every month.
- Do proper off page SEO, this brings in traffic to your website.
Now, once you start doing this, you need to find ways to monetise your blog.
Do this;
- Tie up with companies who put advertisement on your blog and pay you money for that. Google Adsense, is one such initiative.
- Promote other companies products.
- Do affiliate sales.
- Drop shipping can be done.
- Generate leads for the products/services that you are selling.
Blogging, takes time, but you can start expecting results in 3 to 6 months time.
=> Online Training/Coaching
Online training has always been getting bigger since 2015, in came 2020 March. Pandemic. The entire world went in lockdown.
Online training/Coaching industry has seen a huge surge in demand.
If you have expertise in any course, you can start taking up online training. All that you need to do is;
- Set up a Facebook business page.
- Start posting about course you want to train people in.
- Make posts in the form of Pics | Slides and Videos.
- If you have trained any one in past you can use testimonials.
- You can use Zoom/google meet for live one to one training.
You can also use Facebook paid marketing platform to increase your reach and attract more audience.
If you do not hold any expertise, and still want to start online training, do this;
- Find whats trending, focus on the courses that is famous among working professionals.
- Professionals look for the courses that can help them in up-skilling and get a better career opportunity.
- Create a pool of 5 such courses and make an online training portal, you can build a simple 10 pages website.
- Price the courses in between $100 to $200. (This is the most affordable price range)
- Find trainers through Facebook/linkedin.
- Schedule a batch, Morning 6 am to 9 am and in the night 8pm to 10pm works good for the professionals.
- Now use google paid ads and Facebook paid ads, these are enough to help you bring the leads.
Here is 1 of the most popular online training portal of India.
You can anytime earn more than what you invest in this industry.
=> Social media marketing
Social Media Marketing Services/Agency is in a huge boom. With the rise in usage of social media, and the way companies have started to use social media is amazing.
Social media is;
- Helping brands reach to a wider audience.
- Helping in launching a product/services to any corner of the globe.
- Helping in re-marketing the products.
- Influencing sales.
A few social media platforms that is generating huge traffic is;
- Twitter (For micro messaging)
- Linkedin (For professionals)
- Pintrest (For sharing photos)
Here is what you can do;
- Set up a Facebook business page/Instagram handle on your name, and make it look like you are running a social media marketing agency.
- Learn Facebook marketing.
- Start implementing your learning on the Facebook page.
- Create a landing page, where you promote your services.
- Start running ads using Facebook.
- Target startups/personal brands who needs your services.
- You can start charging as less as Rs. 5000/ social media platform.
Skills that you need to start a Social Media Marketing Agency;
- Marketing mind.
- Sales and Negotiation Skills.
- Designing skills (You can use canva)
Now, if you do not any of these, than start learning them. It will take 1 to 3 months for you to start making money.
=> Paid Ads
Paid ads, on internet are on huge demand, they are being done to;
- Create brand awareness: You can help business owners create awareness about their company, products, services or any recent business milestone achievement. This helps them in branding.
- Generate leads.
- Make sales.
- Launch/relaunch a new product.
Most of the companies are running paid ads using
- Google (Search/Video)
- Quora
You do not need to learn all of them and start pitching clients fro these things.
Learn any one and start marketing your services.
You can charge anything in between Rs. 5000 to Rs.10000 per month.
Here is the quick recap of all 9 points;
- Content Writing
- Quora
- Affiliate Marketing
- Design Work
- Website Development
- Blogging
- Online Training/Coaching
- Social media marketing
- Paid Ads
Thats all for now.
If you have any question, do connect through comment.
All the very best.