7 Ways To Earn An Extra Income Online

Have you ever thought of earning an extra income because your present salary isn’t just enough to take care of all the daily expenses? If that’s you then this article is definitely for you.

The internet has created A lot of ways through which people can earn money from it. Before we get started, ask yourself this question, What do I use the internet for? Is it for pleasure? Most people often use the internet because of the pleasure they get from it, but instead of wasting so much time on the net , you could actually earn money from it.

These are seven different ways you can earn money online.

1. Affiliate marketing

2. Online Survey

3. Creating a YouTube channel

4. Creating a Facebook page

5. Becoming a Freelancer

6. Publishing Your Books online

7. Online Betting

1. Affiliate Marketing

This might seem new to you or maybe it’s not your first time hearing it. Affiliate marketing simply has to do with you ( as an affiliate) participating in the transaction process of a particular company.

It is a situation whereby you assist a company that either sells products or deliver services, to get a customer or client and for every good or service that client buys or purchase, you get a commission for getting that customer to buy from them (the company) .

It is as simple as that. Many people are making hundreds and even thousands of dollars from performing that simple task and you can be among the crew too.

I know you might be interested in becoming an Affiliate, all you have to do is open your browser and search for companies that have an affiliate program and then register for free and after registering, you will be given a link (affiliate link).

When any customer clicks on your link and

purchases a good or service, you will be given a commission for contributing to the sales process.

Examples of companies that have affiliate programs are; Amazon, Jumia, Sproutgigs etc.

Please note that registration is completely free and you do not have to pay any money for that.

2. Online Survey

This is actually a very interesting way to earn money online. In this case, you get paid for answering questions online. This questions are most times used to conduct research by people or individuals.

You can get paid up to $1 per survey that you participate in, but note that this survey job does not come every time.

3. Creating a YouTube channel

YouTube is one of the most popular video search engine in the world. It does not upload videos by itself but consist of several channels that are own by people who post different types of videos such as comedies, pranks, action movies, educational videos and even videos for kids. It has been observed that over 70% of adults in the US watch YouTube videos every week, so YouTube is indeed a very popular video search engine even in the US. There are also other kinds of videos that are been uploaded on this platform by different channels. YouTube pays all these channels for uploading videos on its platform through ads revenue.

What is ads revenue?

Since YouTube is a very popular site, companies and organisations see it as a very good place to advertise their business or products. So, they place adverts on YouTube and in return they pay for it. This payment is known as ‘ads revenue’. YouTube then put these adverts on different channels that are already monetised through their videos.

It might interest you to know that people make a lot of money from their channel(s) on YouTube for just uploading videos.

But before you get started, please note that there are some criteria you should meet before you think of earning money on YouTube .

* Get up to 1000 subscribers

* Get up to 4000 watch time hours

* Post enough videos that will be reviewed before you gain access to monetisation

* Avoid posting videos that goes against YouTube community standards

If you’ve realised that YouTube is just the best platform that suit you when it comes to making money online, then all you simply have to do is unlock your phone and open the YouTube app. Create a channel using your email address. Start uploading videos consistently and avoid going against any of YouTube’s community guidelines.

If you do all these perfectly well, there is a 99% chance that you are going to earn money on YouTube.

4. Creating a Facebook Page

Facebook is one of the world’s most popular social media platform, it is also referred to as the ‘Social Media Giant’ because of the number of people that uses the app around the world. It has been recorded that Facebook has over a billion users around the world.So, there are many people on Facebook which makes it very easy to make a lot of money from it.

A Facebook page is a part of the app, where you can get to become a content creator and get paid. Facebook actually pays content creators (who post mostly videos)for uploading contents when they get to a stage where their pages are due for monetisation.

* The first step you have to take in order to be able to earn money from Facebook is to create an account and set your profile

* The second step to choose a niche that you want to focus on during the course of uploading contents

* The third step is to create a Facebook page through your Facebook account

* Start uploading contents until you get to a stage where you are eligible for monetisation

Note

In order to be eligible for monetisation, you should at least have up to 10,000 Follower on your Facebook page. This is quite easy to get because a lot of people use the app.

5. Becoming a Freelancer

This is also a way through which you can also earn money. This is actually suitable for people who render services. It involves rendering services online and getting paid for it.

A Freelancer is a person who renders freelance services online. This freelance services include; Translating services, Coding and internet services etc. Just note that if there is any skill you have that does not require physical contact between you and your client you can definitely become a freelancer.

Being a Freelancer is really cool because you get to work from home and earn a lot of money since you are rendering services through the internet. You do not have to pay in order to become a freelancer online. It’s completely free, just register, set your profile and you begin to get customers that need your services.

Examples of Freelance websites include; Fiverr, Sproutgigs etc.

6. Publishing Your Books Online

In this case, if you are a good writer and have written many interesting, educative, inspiring or informative books or stories in the past, but you just kept them somewhere in your bedroom. It may interest you to know that you can actually upload those books online for people to read and in return, you get paid.

There are numerous websites that pays just for writing books and uploading books on their website. Some even pay for re-uploading

books. All you have to do is, make sure the books are grammatically correct and also make sure that the books suit the type of audience in that particular website in terms of language, beliefs, etc.

7. Online Betting

This might seem bad in some religion. Some people believe that betting is a terrible act that must not be practiced and so they don’t involve themselves in it.

Betting is a very old act that was practiced even in the olden days. It involves two or more people coming together to predict the outcome of a particular event or game. They actually use money and other valuables and in the end, the winner of the bet get to take all the money or valuables.

These days people around the world prefer sport betting to other kinds of bets. Bets are mostly placed on football than any other game, because of the love people especially the male folk have for Football.

You can actually make money by placing bets online especially on sports. But please note that you have to bet with money and sometimes you might lose and not get your money back. But sometimes you might win also, and win a lot of money for yourself.

Hope you had a nice time reading this article and I also hope you where able to realise how you can earn money online without having to pay a dime to anyone, except in the case of betting. I am really confident that if you apply all these guides, you will for sure be able to make money online.