10 legit ways to make money online

Did you know you can actually make money online? Yeah, that’s right. And all you need is a computer or a phone with internet access. So, in this article, I am going to show you 10 websites where you can actually start making some side cash or if you are really serious some good money! Isn’t that amazing?

On some of these websites, you can actually make as much as 100$ a day or even more; and the best part is that you do not have to quit your job; you can make this money working in your free time.

Ways of making money on the internet

On the internet, there are 2 distinct ways of making money.

• Active income

  It is like your normal 9:00-5:00 job. You only get paid for the work you do. If you don’t work you don’t make money. Simple as that!

• Passive income

  This is my favourite method because with passive income all you do is put in the work once and the money, in theory, should keep rolling in. Without you having to do any more work other than maybe promoting what you have made or in some cases what other people have made.

1. Upwork

There are tonnes of jobs and services being outsourced on Upwork. The beauty of all this is that it has a low barrier for entry. You just have to be good at something.

If there is something you are good at like graphic design, coding, writing or just about any skill, head on over to Upwork and start making some money.

Here is a tip if you are considering working on Upwork. Have a robust profile that looks good. This will drastically increase your likelihood of receiving job offers from potential clients. Displaying your best work or highlighting specific experiences can and will help you stand out.

2. YouTube

Not a lot of people know this but you can actually make money with youtube. If you are considering getting into YouTube to make money make sure you understand one thing clearly; thanks to the new rules, if you are planning on starting a brand new channel from scratch you first have to reach the YouTube minimum threshold to get monetized.

Which means you will need 4,000 watch hours and 1000 subscribers in the last 12 months. Once you have reached that you can get monetized.

How much can you make on YouTube?

Honestly, as much as you want. As long as you keep uploading good content that people are willing to watch you are golden! And the longer the videos, the more money you can expect to make.

You can make anywhere from one to thousands of dollars or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. The more views you are getting the more money you can expect to make and also you get more subscribers.

With YouTube what you are earning is passive income. Make a few videos and they should keep on making you money consistently. You can also make money with YouTube through paid sponsorships.

But with paid sponsorships you will need a large audience usually a minimum of 10,000 subscribers to do that. You can also make money through affiliates but we’ll get to that later.

3. Amazon

Although, Jeff Besos did start off the company selling books, Amazon now sells almost anything you can think of. It’s not just a site for buying your favourite toys though; you can actually make money with Amazon.

3 ways to make money on Amazon

1. Amazon Mechanical Turk

Mechanical turk is kind of like upwork. It’s a place where businesses outsource work that is too difficult for a computer program to do such as audio editing and transcribing, translating video and audio from different languages, testing web pages, writing reviews and a whole lot of other services.

You can make as much as 20-30$ an hour by working on a few different tasks. This is a legit way of making money and they do pay. This is active income though.

2. Amazon Kindle Publishing

Turn your ideas into an ebook and make money today. Every time you buy an ebook from Amazon, Amazon and the publisher make money and you can too.

The thing with Kindle Publishing is that you first need a book to sell. You can either write this book yourself or you can hire someone to write it for you. You don’t have to be an established author or find a publishing company to do this; you can actually do this from the comfort of your home and start earning some passive income. Sounds awesome, right?

And the best part is, that it’s absolutely free. So, sign up and start making some money. Amazon takes care of the money handling shenanigans and you can sit back, relax on your couch while making some good old passive income.

If you are really interested in Kindle Publishing I highly recommend you do more research on this topic. You could find free videos and tutorials on Youtube that will teach you the basics.

If you want expert advice, you might have to pay for a course. Some people make over 100,000$ publishing kindle ebooks on Amazon. It’s definitely a market to look into.

3. Amazon Associates Program

This is a very popular and easy way of earning passive income. All you do is sign up to the Amazon Associates Program which is free then you can pick from thousands of o things on Amazon to sell on your website and start promoting.

Amazon will give you a special link and every time someone buys through your link Amazon will give you a commission anywhere from 5-10% of the sale.

Amazon will pay you 60 days after a purchase. You can choose to be paid either through Amazon gift cards or wire transfer to a bank account although this is currently available only to the unites states but if you live outside America, you can be paid via checks or you can have your money transferred to your Amazon account and start buying stuff with it.

4. Clickbank

Clickbank only sells digital products but the beauty of Clickbank is a commission pay-out is so much higher than Amazon.

Some affiliates pay you as much as 75% for selling their services while others sell as low as 5%, so keep that in mind. With that said, you can make some really good money on Clickbank 100s or even 1000s of dollars. Just head over to Clickbank, pick something to sell and start making money!

5. Flippa

It attracts a huge audience and it offers great tools to increase visibility.

It’s an auction site, pretty much like eBay for those buying and selling digital assets such as websites, apps, domains, Shopify stores and amazon mba accounts.

If you are good at making apps or even websites, you can actually sell it online and make money or better yet if you have some money lying around and you are interested in buying websites, apps or e-commerce stores that are already making money, you can do so with Flippa.

What happens is, you place a bid, much like eBay and if your bid is the highest, then congratulations because you just bought yourself an online business. You can also make money by selling online businesses. So, that’s Flippa for you.

6. Shutterstock

So, if you are particularly good at photography; taking amazing pictures and videos or really good at making sick beats; you can monetize your talent on Shutterstock.

The way you make money with Shutterstock is, every time someone purchases one of your pictures, you get paid a commission, usually a couple of cents to a few dollars if you are lucky.

The trick to making money with Shutterstock is to consistently keep uploading high-quality images.

7. Rover

Do you like pets? Dogs in particular? If so, then you should check out Rover.

So, if you live in either of those two countries then you can register as a dog sitter and get paid for baby-sitting dogs. You could make anywhere between 80-100$ a night just by watching someone’s dog.

You can literally make hundreds of dollars a week just by babysitting someone’s pet. How about that for a deal? Huh.

8. TakeLessons

Everyone has a skill that they can teach whether that might be teaching someone a language, how to cook, how to play a musical instrument, how to solve complex math equations, just to mention a few

Anything you think that someone else might not know you can teach people on TakeLessons and start making money.

9. Fiverr

You have probably heard Fiverr mentioned a lot of times because it’s an easy and simple site to start making money but if you haven’t basically, it’s a freelance website where you can literally outsource anything; and I mean anything! As long as it’s legal, for as little as 5$.

There are so many different ways to make money on Fiverr; just to name a few you can do animation, logo design, packaging design, web and mobile design, social media design, Photoshop editing, architecture and floor planning, 3D models and product designs, T-shirts and merchandising, SEO and so much more.

If there is anything that can be outsourced, you can most likely find it on Fiverr. Head on over and check out Fiverr, it’s a legit way of making money!

10. Dropshipping

So, basically, you are acting as a broker or middleman. You can do this by opening up a Shopify store and then linking it up with Oberlo.

Oberlo is an app that integrates with Shopify and it’s what a lot of people use to source for stuff that they would like to sell on their stores. The basic principle of drop shipping is

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