6 Ways to Make Money Online in Your Spare Time

So you want to make a little extra money on the side through the internet? Well, you came to the right place.

While billions of dollars are generated online daily, the funny thing is that the “average” internet user really has no idea why or how this is happening, or that they could be making money online as well.

In this article we will provide you with six ways that you can start making money online today!

Let’s get started.

Write Articles

One of the easiest and fastest ways to start making money online is by writing articles through freelance writing sites. The concept is simple: Websites and brands need new site content all the time and they are willing to pay outside writers to get the work done. To make this process easier, sites like textbroker allow anyone to join their site and sign up as a writer or a client. Writers can log in, write articles and get paid for their time, while clients can continually add new projects. Hundreds of dollars are earned daily from writers on this site alone!

Complete Simple $5 Jobs

Micro-job site Fiverr is a marketplace for anyone to create unique, fun and useful jobs that can be completed for $5 and up. You really need to check out the site to see how it works and the different services being offered. You can find everything from writing, designing, web services and even people who dress up in costumes and record themselves singing happy birthday to friends and family.

Sell Stuff on eBay / Amazon

You’ve always heard of people getting rich off selling items on eBay and Amazon, but you don’t need to have a business degree to figure it out. Anyone can start selling items they aren’t using anymore on eBay in just a matter of minutes. Once you sell your first item, you can quickly find yourself addicted and start making a few hundred dollars per month selling your old and unwanted items. Amazon also offers similar services through their “sell on Amazon” services for anyone who might have their own products or bulk supply.

Start a Blog

There are over 300 million blogs on the internet today, and while most of them are just for fun or die out over time, some of them actually make money. Through the use of programs like Google AdSense and affiliate marketing, website and blog owners can make money off visitors to their sites through on-site advertising and recommending products. Best of all, the blogger or site owner only needs to focus on their content creation and growing their audience – the monetization factor and serving ads through Google AdSense is automated and handled by Google’s own directory of advertisers.

Complete Online Surveys

As mentioned earlier, online brands and websites need content to stay up to date. Just like businesses and brands need content, they also need individual opinions to improve their products, services and customer experiences. There are many services out there, such as MySurvey, that pays users to take their services. These survey companies actually work with much larger brands and agencies to fulfill their data requests, and they pass off some of the earnings to the survey-taker. Anyone can start earning a few dollars a day or even shopping rewards by completing surveys across a wide range of survey resource sites.

Become a YouTube Star

Everyone wants to be a YouTube celebrity and video star, but did you know thousands of YouTube users are getting paid for the viewers that see their videos online? Yes, it’s true and some are even millionaires from it! YouTube is powered by Google, which serves billions of ad impressions on the video site every day. To reward users for creating amazing video content and growing their audience, the YouTube Partners Program was created. Best of all, you don’t need millions of viewers to get started, you just simply need to product quality content that YouTube users find value in and benefit from.

Exploring the Many Different Ways to Make Money Online

As you can see, you don’t need to be an online entrepreneur or even an investor in Silicon Valley to make money online. Everyday people are discovering new ways to make money online all the time. Best of all, you can get started with just a few dollars per day.

Here’s some motivation to get you started. If you made only $3 per day online, that’s an extra $1,095 per year in your pocket!

Zac Johnson is an entrepreneur with 20 years of internet marketing experience and blogs at ZacJohnson.com.