How to earn money online?

The Internet makes many changes in everyone’s real life. The Internet makes the world smaller and better communication. Because of this, there are many job opportunities available online. More people are looking for ways to earn money online to increase their financial inflows.

However, there are many ways available to earn money online but be careful while choosing the platform to make money online. Because some of these could end up being scams. Also, do not expect to earn a huge amount quickly when using online methods to earn money.

Here are the few online platforms, websites, and resources that can help you earn money online.

1. Start your own Blog

It starts with a hobby, interest, and passion and soon blogging becomes a career option for many bloggers. There are a number of full-time bloggers are available now. There are two ways to start a blog: you can either create a blog through WordPress or Tumblr, which requires no investment or go for a self-hosted blog.

In the case of the latter, you will have to spend money on domain name and server hosting space that can cost per year. Self-hosted blogs have an added advantage that it allows you to customize the elements and functionality of your website. In the case of the former, you need to make peace with the tools and plug-ins made available by the service provider.

You may monetize the blogs through ads, product reviews, and so on. But remember, earning through blogging may also take a lot of time and effort. For some, it may take as long as a year to actually earn through blogging.

2. Start your own website

There are a lot of materials and tutorials available online to help create your own website. This includes choosing the domain, templates, and the design for your website. Once ready to service the visitors with the relevant content, sign up for Google Adsense, which when appear on your website and clicked by visitors helps you make money. The more the traffic you get on your website, the more will be the potential for higher earnings.

3. Create your own YouTube Channel

If you are interested in creating videos. Make use of your camera to create a video presentation. Create your YouTube channel, upload videos and start monetizing them. Choose a category or subject that you want to make videos on and get started, but make sure it’s a topic that will interest a lot of people. Everything from cooking shows to political debates can find many takers on YouTube. You have to create a YouTube channel, which works on a similar model as a blog. As you make your channel popular and the number of subscribers grows, so will your earning potential. You can advertise the product or service on your channel.

4. Affiliate marketing

Once your website is up and running, opt for affiliate marketing by allowing companies to insert web links on to your site. When visitors to your site buy products or services by clicking on such links, you earn out from it. You can do affiliate marketing in social media, blog, youtube channel, running the campaign in google AdSense etc.,

5. Social media

In addition to interacting with friends and strangers, social networking platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat can be used to make money. Companies and popular brands pay social media strategists to further boost the popularity of their products. With lots of competition around and the constantly shortening of attention time of online viewers, creativity is essential to create posts, videos, etc that can go viral quickly and enhance the brand value. Remember, social media needs dedicated time and energy to stay relevant. Hence, you need to share posts regularly and interact with your followers on a regular basis.

6. Content writing

Online platforms can be a good starting point. Depending on the quality of the articles, one gets paid. One may be asked to work upon articles with specific guidelines as well. Develop a niche in your area of expertise and build strength in that domain to increase the revenue stream.

7. Freelancing

Freelancing has always been a popular way to earn money online. Freelancing helps to get skill-based work. There are several websites offering freelance tasks for people with varying skills. Just create an account on any freelancer website, browse through the listings, and apply for the task that suits you. Some websites may even require you to create a personal listing with the details of your skillset, so that interested clients can contact you directly.

Here are some freelance websites

etc., are some websites that provide freelance jobs. You can earn anywhere any time and earnings depend upon how much time you spend at work.

But remember, you will only be paid once you complete your task and it has been approved by your client. This may even mean revising the work several times unless the requirements of your clients are not met. Some sites may ask you to set up a PayPal account, as most clients prefer to make payments through it.

8. Translating

Knowing a language other than English may even help you earn some extra bucks. There are several websites that offer translation projects that require translating a document from one language into another. This may include Spanish, French, Arab, German, or any other language to or from English.

For many, this can make the task rather time-consuming and therefore they hire translators available online from anywhere across the globe. Several websites such as Freelancer.in, Fiverr.com, worknhire.com or Upwork.com offers you a platform to be a professional translator. Those who do not have the knowledge or do not have the time to complete their projects on their own put up their work on these platforms where you can register and start bidding on translation jobs and get paid per word.

9. Online tutoring

If you are an expert in a particular subject, you can earn by tutoring people online. Online tutoring provides a means to connect online with students of all ages, across the country to provide homework help and tutoring in the subjects for which you have demonstrated expertise.

One may sign up on websites like Vedantu.com, MyPrivateTutor.com, BharatTutors.com, tutorindia.net as an online tutor by creating a profile, and listing the subjects or classes you want to teach, how much experience you have, what your qualifications are, etc. Some of the platforms may offer flexible and convenient time to work as an online tutor.

Most platforms follow the process that will ask you to apply by filling in a simple form, and then a teaching demo will have to give their experts. Once selected, documentation and profile creation will be done, followed by training and induction webinar. Once you attend the webinar, you will be listed as a teacher and will get your online sessions to conduct.

10. Web designing

Not all business owners are tech savvy but the need of the hour is to have a website of their own. Those who have a knack for all- things- tech, especially related to websites, can help small businesses set up their own websites and earn from it. Coding and web designing are essential ingredients in setting up websites. Further, websites need maintenance and may require frequent updates, which may add to one’s revenue. Depending on the client and job, a single project can fetch you anywhere.

11. Kindle eBook

If writing books interests you, an option you have is to self-publish eBooks and paperbacks with Kindle Direct Publishing and reach millions of readers on Amazon. Publishing takes less than 5 minutes and your book appears on Kindle stores worldwide within 24-48 hours. One can earn up to 70 percent royalty on sales to customers in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, India, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, and so on. One can keep control of one’s rights and set their own list prices and also make changes to one’s books at any time. BooksFundr and Pblishing.com are two other places to get your book published and earn money.

12. Selling your products online

If you want to sell products online, you may can it by creating your own website. As there’s a lot of competition and several existing websites in place already catering to this market, an attempt to create a niche in terms of products may be considered. Or, you can use the platform such as Amazon, Flipkart to sell. One can increase reach and visibility through affiliate marketing.

13. Data entry

Although this line of work is seriously threatened by automation, there are still plenty of data entry jobs available in India. It is one of the simplest jobs you can do online and requires no special skills. You just have to have a computer, Internet connection, fast typing skills, and the ability to pay attention to details. Most freelancing websites list these jobs, and you can sign up on any of them to start earning per hour.