8 Proven Ways to Earn Money Online

Right now, more and more people are looking for credible ways to earn money online to increase their financial inflows by way of secondary income streams. Restrictions occasioned by covid-19 pandemic are really piling up the pressure to explore some more convenient ways to earn money online. Many people are now facing the challenges of trying to earn money online right from the confines of their homes. The internet really comes quite handy for such people. By relying on the internet, many legitimate and credible ways are available to earn money online if you know how. However, you should not expect to earn huge amounts quickly when using online avenues to earn money. It takes a gradual process and it builds up with time if you manage to avoid the many fake and get-rich-quick schemes prevalent out there online.

Here are some eight tried and tested ways anyone can use to earn money online.

1. Launching Your Own Website

Your website is your business window out there in cyber world. If you have the know-how, you can design and launch a website yourself. If not, professional webmasters can do it for you and help you to arrange the hosting. You have absolute discretion to choose a domain name, templates, layout and the overall design for your website. Once launched, the next step will be how to attract traffic to the website. Putting out fresh and regular good content on the site attracts readers. That means traffic! Webmasters can help you with SEO techniques to make the site visible and better ranked on Search Engines. That is what helps it to attract organic traffic. The more traffic your website gets, the better its earnings potentials. These earnings come about if you take steps to monetize the website. This you do by signing up for Google Adsense to send ads to the site. When visitors view these ads or click on them, you earn money from Google as a publisher.

2. Selling Your Products/Services Online

Remember your business window to the cyber world is your website. From it, you can display, advertise and sell your products/services. Even if you do not have a website to sell out of, you can sell out of popular and reputable affiliate platforms and such other platforms like Amazon. The essence is to ensure you have increased visibility for what you are selling and these reputable and popular platforms help with that visibility. The more visible your products are online, the more sales you make.

3. Skills Freelancing

If you have marketable skills, freelancing is one very popular way to earn money online. The Internet offers several options and websites for freelancing skills tasks. If you any of such marketable skills, all you need to do is to create an account with websites like Outfiverr.com, Upwork.com, or freelancer.com, browse through the listings, and apply for the task that suits you and your skills. Some of these websites may even require you to create a personal listing with the details of your skillset. Doing so allows interested clients to make contact with you directly. What you are paid and how you get paid are subject to the available options open to you to make your choices.
 
4. Virtual Assistantship

A Virtual Assistant is exactly what it sounds like. They are skilled, home-based professionals that offer their services to very busy Executives to help handle routine administrative duties. Such duties include but not limited to making/taking phone calls, email correspondence, Internet research, data entry, scheduling appointments, editing, writing, bookkeeping, marketing, blog management, proofreading, project management, graphic design, tech support, customer service, event planning, and social media management. As a Virtual Assistant, you can choose to work as an employee or you can set up your own Virtual Assistant business in form of consultancy services. You get paid depending on the volume and nature of services you are rendering.

 
5. Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is some kind of symbolic partnership. What you do is to help producers market their products and you get paid agreed commissions for your efforts. If you own your own website, you can insert web links on the site from companies/businesses having products to sell. When visitors to your website buy products/services through a click on such links, you earn commissions from such sales.

6. Language Translating

For people who have language-translating skills, this is a very good opportunity to earn money online. If you have a working knowledge of and you are fluent in some major languages of the world, this is a plus for language translators. Doing it skillfully can help you to earn some extra cash. Online, many websites such as Freelancer.in, Fiverr.com, Worknhire.com or Upwork.com do offer translation projects that require translating a document from one language into another. This may include Russian, Spanish, Chinese, French, Arabic, German, or any other language to or from English. Just sign up on these sites and get to work on any offers you are comfortable with. You get paid for your work.

7. Paid-To-Click, PTC Sites

You get paid on some PTC sites such as ClixSense.com, BuxP, NeoBux and others just to click on ads. Once you sign-up with such sites, the project begins with a bit of variances here and there depending on the sites you are signed-up with. You can also earn commissions through referrals.

8. Tutoring Online

Tutoring online requires some proven knowledge and expertise that you can impart to others skillfully. Thus, once you are knowledgeable as an expert in any particular subject on demand, you can earn by teaching it to people online. You may have some expert knowledge of some sporting activities, music, dancing, hunting, skiing, mountain climbing, swimming, language skills and so on. You may choose to sign up on websites like Vedantu.com, MyPrivateTutor.com, BharatTutors.com, as an online tutor. First is to create a profile, then list the subjects or classes you want to teach, how much experience you have, what your qualifications are and so on to enable the sites properly rate your expertise. If you get selected, documentation and profile-creation will be done next. Some training and an induction webinar as an intro will follow. Once you go through the intro from the webinar, you may thereafter get a listing as a tutor and be assigned your online sessions to conduct. Your earnings begin from there depending on how well you discharge your responsibilities.