How to make money online

Yes you can make money online. A lot of money. This is because there is no limit to the number of hours you can put in an online job. If you get paid hourly then you know with a good hourly rate you will be able to earn a decent income. If you are smart enough to own a web store where your products get bought all the time, then you can make money 24/7/365. That is why you hear of phrases like ‘make money sleeping’. It is real and happens to many of us.

Starting out nowadays is easy. You don’t even need web design skills. Web 2.0 technologies like Wordpress and blogger are making it very simple for you to get your name or your business out there. There is even Facebook and twitter, two popular social media sites where you can build a faithful following. When you are blogging or tweeting or even a social update, ensure that quality is observed. People like, retweet, click links and buy because they believe that what you offer is quality. A satisfied community, buyer etc., can act as a referee to your services or products pushing your sales and brand even further.

 Whether you are thinking about freelancing, affiliate marketing, selling your own products or even any other web business, you need to get your name or brand out there. Blogging, social media marketing, advertising, word of mouth etc. are some of the ways to get your skills, services or products and known. Remember if nobody knows you or your products, they won’t care about you. Business does not change just because you are using a modern technology.

Google Adsense

It is a very easy way of monetizing your content online. They have lots of options that allow you to even choose the kind of advertisements that appear on your site. Letting Adsense display ads by default is a better option and allows you to concentrate more on building your content rather than worrying about advertisers. The biggest challenge newbies face is making money for a start. You can’t help but notice how long it takes for someone to make a click. Worse, a click is a measly $0.01. Welcome to Google Adsense. You need traffic, lots of traffic if you want $5 clicks. Believe me people get higher than that. Build good content, high user engagement, social media marketing, advertising etc. and your online audience will grow. So will your Adsense earnings.  More on Google Adsense here.

Offer a service

You can do more with a blog than just wait for your Adsense earnings. For example, you can use the content you have posted there to negotiate a freelancing contract. Potential employers always ask for proof of skills. This is why I always encourage you to produce quality content always. Take your time if you have to. If you wrote 100 posts that don’t rank compared to 1 quality post that goes viral that would be better for your business, image, and pocket. Just add quality content to the web. 

When you offer quality, you get hired and paid good for your services. I know many people who don’t even run ads on their blogs. They just offer a service to their readers. You can offer to write quality blog posts, write poems, make and deliver cakes, cards, and any business, service or product you can think of. Your blog helps you get people who are interested in your skills so you can sell them either as service, product or knowledge.

Offer Information

People love information. People want to know how things work even if they won’t or can’t do them by their own. If you have a cake blog or website, you can share videos or articles about making cakes. You engage your social following with information, tips, jokes and pictures on cakes. You then sell the cakes to your audience. Posting quality content markets you through shares, word of mouth, likes, retweets, bookmarking, social bookmarking and more. Sharing information sometimes works better than advertising. 

Sell products

If you sell digital products, selling them is as easy as putting up a website and a shopping cart. If you sell physical products say clothing, cars etc. you need to find a way of shipping your products. If you don’t want the hassle of handling all that, you can sell your products on Amazon. I will be writing an article about that and I will share it with you. The reason I won’t explain it here is because I want to make it more detailed. The good thing about selling your own products is that you determine your pricing so you get your money back, and some good profit maybe.

Be an affiliate marketer

If you don’t have products to sell, don’t worry. You can make money promoting and selling other merchant products. You get a percentage of the sale which is known as a commission. You sell lots of products, you get lots of commissions. Many people easily make money doing affiliate marketing because it is easy. Just promote the product, make a sale and you make money. You don’t have to worry about shopping carts or shipping. The merchant mostly handles this.

There is never a limit to the number of ways you can make money online. Other ways include photography, trading in money, advertising etc. Find your niche and put lots of work into it. For an online business, just like elsewhere, the only shortcut to success is hard work. Hard work pays. Hard work pays more online because you can reach out to more people than you will with a business that only concentrates on offline customers. 

Making money online can help you earn money even when you don’t have the time to spend on your business. Say you are a student. You can still expand your cake business for example without having to compromise on your studies. This is because sales will be determined by how many people you can reach through your blog or website or social media. This means you can stay in class and still make sales. You just have to arrange for deliveries. Online business can be very convenient.

Diversify your Earning Online to Create a Full Income on the Internet

It's no secret that earning online is easy, especially when said than when done. You are probably tired of reading blogs that promise to show you how to make a fortune online, only to realize that they were really hoping you would click some ad since just like you, they are still not making anything. It's hard to hustle on the internet where things change everyday and what was in yesterday is old news today.

For many people making money online is never easy, more so from blogging. So how do bloggers manage to make a living year in year out without complaining? Are guys seriously depending on good old Google Adsense? Do most bloggers get enough traffic to make more money than the likes of Copyblogger, Problogger among others?

The truth about making money online is about finding opportunities and grabbing them before anyone does. Just because I spoke against freelancing in my last post doesn't mean you quit altogether. I meant that you shouldn't make it your only source of income. Learn to diversify.

For example, while earning money from Google adsense, you can still add a 'programmer for hire', or 'writer for hire' etc page on your site and make an extra income from events or work your readers give you. Believe you me that most people are more likely to hire someone they know or trust. Your readers are used to communicating with you(assuming you have a busy site) and will have some level of trust in you and your ability to deliver.

There are also other ways to make money online. You can create websites, promote them for a year or two then sell them for a profit. Barely three years after Instagram was launched, they sold to Facebook for a cool billion. You might have to be very creative to create websites that sell for such staggering amounts like that, but you can make a good fortune selling websites.

The thing is not about being a 'Jack of all trades and master of none' but mastering what you do and juggling to make an extra coin. It's easy online because you can easily get paying clients and marketing is easy. People juggle between jobs in the real world and it is usually harder. For the internet entrepreneur who is willing to work hard, some extra money for entertainment is always forthcoming.

Don't stick with one thing if it's not paying enough. Not unless you are sure of what you are doing and have clear goals. Try something extra if you can. Money is good, extra money is always good, always welcome.

Beyond Freelancing: Make a Dependable Earning Online.

Freelancing is arguably the  easiest way to make quick money online. You just need an account and a skill. What you make translates to how fast, accurate and hardworking you are. The opportunities are endless, so long as you can stretch your muscle.

The list of freelancing sites is endless, but come to think of it, their investors have a head count, and they are not so many. The problem with freelancing is that it provides you with your daily bread, so long as you can work. You could say that you are always ready to work, but think about it, you want to rest too and let your work work for you and your money to bring you more cash. It's always welcome,old notes, crisp notes, virtual, plastic, money is always good. You want to invest your work so that it can bring more money tomorrow.

When you are freelancing, you never have any rights to your works. As soon as you sell them to the guy hiring you, they cease to be yours. Say you write an article and sell it for a $1 or $5 if you get a good deal , even if your article went viral and earned they guy who bought it a fortune, you would never claim it, even the credits.

It's always a good thing to create a business, however small for your products. There are so many ways you can sell your work so it brings you money everyday. For example you can create a website for your product(say software) and sell it to many customers by charging for downloads. Last time I checked, the mama mboga was selling his Sukuma wiki online, high end market.

By taking time to develop on your works and sell them for what they are really worth, you will never make enough to live off online. Freelancing is for college, build a small business after that. It's a way to grow out dependency. In Robert Kiyosaki's cash-flow Quadrant, the idea is to be on the side where either people work for you or money is working for you. Take some time to look at the image below.

Take some time to invest a future for yourself, so you can get more time to play and share laughs. Trust me, they are the most important things about life.

I have nothing against freelancing, it's an easy way to make a quick shilling, however if you want to make big bucks,  like they say it, you have to grow past that.

Make Money With Freelancer

What are you good at? Can you write, rewrite articles, proof read, do webdesign, translation, link-building, Photoshop, Facebook... the list is endless. So long as you can do anything, you can find someone willing to pay you for it. The other day I came across a project on Freelancer.com where a Chinese teacher wanted people to write her  rap songs to help her pupils learn English. Sounds crazy? Not really. Guys made money doing stuff they like doing.

You could be making money too. All you have to do is register with freelancer and start bidding. Once you get your bid approved you get down to work and start making money. As easy as A-B-C. Whether you are looking for enough money to defray your college costs or you want just a few coins for that coffee date, then freelancing will work for you.

The best part is that you don't have to pay anything to start earning. You only pay after you earn. Sounds fair enough. Many people including me have been freelancing and are finding it as a good way to make ends meet.

So can you. What are you waiting for? Register with Freelancer today and start making money.It's time you got paid for what you are good at. You have no reason to remain broke when you could be making enough money doing something you love.