03-25-2019, 12:18 AM
Warning: This article will give you too many ideas. 🙂
Wondering how to make money online? Or perhaps you’ve already tried, but haven’t had any success?
Well, you’ve come to the right place.
To my knowledge, this is the world’s most complete list of ways to make money online.
It’s also one of the most regularly-updated, as I only want to share current methods that work in 2019.
Including all the research, writing, formatting, etc., I’ve easily spent hundreds of hours putting this list together.
Since I’ve tried to include every legitimate online earning method, there’s a huge range in income potential – some methods can make you a millionaire (if you put in the work), while others are only good for pocket change.
Whether you’re looking to make a full-time income working from home or simply want to find a good side hustle, I’m sure you’ll have tons of ideas by the end.
As you’ll see, I’ve included the income potential for most of the items on this list, which is on a scale of 1-5 [1 being the lowest income potential, 5 being the highest (millions +)].
In many cases the income potential is virtually impossible to give (such as in the case of online investing), so don’t take these potentials too seriously. They only serve as a general guideline.
As a disclosure, this article contains affiliate links. This doesn’t affect you in any way, it just means I may earn a commission if you click one of the links and purchase something.
Without further ado, here’s the list!
How to Make Money Online
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More likely than not, it’s from affiliate marketing.
Affiliate marketing is so lucrative that even major media sites like the New York Times are adding affiliate sites to their portfolios.
The age of banner ads is waning, while affiliate marketing has only grown over the years.
But what exactly IS affiliate marketing?
It works like this:
You can promote any product with a special “affiliate linkâ€. When someone clicks that link and purchases a product, you get paid a portion of the sale price (at no expense to the buyer).
In other words, you can sell anything online without even owning it!
Although you’ll only get a small percentage of the sale, it adds up fast and many affiliate marketers make tens, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars per month.
Granted, it does take a lot of time to reach that level…anywhere from a year to several years, depending on how much work you put into it.
But the end results speak for themselves.
Though it will definitely take some work, affiliate marketing is actually very easy. You don’t need any inventory, it’s not a hassle like drop-shipping, and it can be done using only a computer and a Wi-Fi connection.
For these reasons, affiliate marketing is my number one recommendation for making money online.
For those of you who are interested, I know of some awesome training which covers every aspect of affiliate marketing, and makes it very easy for beginners to understand and get started.
In fact, it’s the exact training that got me started!
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Income potential: 5/5
I know, that’s probably a silly question…. But what if you could get paid to fill out surveys? Would you enjoy it then?
Well, there’s some good news:
Many websites PAY you to take surveys. The earnings aren’t all that great, as most surveys sites only pay a dollar or two per hour. Still, some people make thousands of dollars every year using this method.
Surveys can be frustrating, however, since they take a long time to complete and the pay is well below minimum wage in the US. But if you do it mindlessly while watching TV, you’ll turn wasteful hours into cash!
Perhaps the most famous survey site is Swagbucks. There are many surveys available on Swagbucks at any given moment, and the pay is about as good as it gets.
If you don’t like Swagbucks, there are plenty of other options. Here’s a few to get you started:
There are several apps you can download on your phone which will track your phone use. In exchange for this…well, intrusion, you’ll get paid!
If you don’t mind a research company tracking everything you do on your phone, then by all means download these apps!
It doesn’t take any work on your part, but you can make a little extra spending money every month.
Here are some reputable ones:
Although the money is easy to earn, it takes a lot of time and is far below minimum wage.
Nonetheless, it is still a good way to add a few dollars to your wallet each month.
I have a lot of experience wasting time on GPT sites, so if you want a little more information on the subject, read this post.
Here’s a list of the top GPT sites out there:
A lot of people sell traditional services, or “gigsâ€, such as ghostwriting, editing, graphic design, and web development.
Others sell more…unique…services. Such as singing happy birthday to anyone you desire, or making prank phone calls.
The possibilities are literally endless.
The standard rate for a Fiverr gig is $5, but you can charge much more if you offer a valuable service.
Sound like fun?
Join Fiverr here!
Income potential: 3/5
As long as you know your field inside and out, why not create an online course to share your knowledge?
Depending on the topic, this can be an extremely lucrative way to make money online. Some people make over $1 million per year!
Creating a good online course takes a lot of time and hard work. It’s not uncommon to work on a course for several months before launching it. But it’s well worth the effort.
Speaking of launching it, there are several websites where you can sell your course. My favorite, and one that many people have had huge success with, is Teachable.
That said, here are some other options worth looking into: Income potential: 5/5
For virtually no work at all, you could be earning an extra $36.50 per year!
S’more is an app that pays you 10 cents a day to show an ad on your lockscreen, even if you never click any ads.
When you sign up, use this code to earn $0.25 instantly: CJFNO9
You can’t redeem your earnings until you reach $1.50, so 25 cents will speed up the process by 2 days .
You can also earn money for referrals, and for taking surveys.
Read my full S’more review here.
Bonus: you can download other lock screen cash apps to earn even more from your phone! Check out these:
Here are a couple of the best ones:
You can also set up your own website where you offer English lessons – this could potentially be more profitable, but it would also take a lot longer to get any clients.
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In order to teach ESL online, you will need a video calling software. Skype and Google Hangouts are the most popular options. For slow connections, I have found that Gruveo works well.
Another requirement is a quality, noise-canceling headset.
Income potential: 3/5
If you monetize your videos with ads, you can expect to earn roughly $2,000 per million views.
Affiliate marketing is another way you can monetize your videos. For example, if you do product reviews, include an affiliate link to that product in your video description.
Income potential: 5/5
===> Recommended: Here’s why affiliate marketing is still my favorite way to make money online
You find a generic product on Amazon, add your own branding to it, and then resell it at a markup.
If your product is in the top 100 bestsellers for your category, you can make thousands of dollars per day! However, a more typical income is in the $1,000-2,000/month range.
The most successful Amazon sellers pick very in-demand products and do extensive marketing. It can be very time-consuming, but if it makes you a millionaire, who cares?
Check out this post to get started.
Income potential: 5/5
And believe it or not, you don’t even have to know how to code to build an app.
With Appypie, you can build apps without coding knowledge, and without paying a dime!
If you are serious about making apps and earning money from them, you will want to hire a developer though.
Income potential: 5/5
You may want to switch to a new app….
Peeks is an ecommerce-enabled livestream app that allows people viewing your livestream to easily send you tips.
If you become popular and build up a large following, you could make a killing every time you go live!
Watch this video to learn more:
Income potential: 2/5
If you are any good at graphic design, chances are you could land a paying job, and likely multiple paying jobs.
Online businesses need to have good visuals and an appealing overall design if they are interested in truly succeeding.
Most online businesses turn to the tried and true methods of acquiring design talent by hiring designers off of platforms such as the following: Therefore, as a graphic designer, these are the sites you’ll want to focus on – especially in the beginning.
In order to get the highest-paying jobs, you’ll have to make yourself stand out from the crowd. This isn’t easy, but it’s very necessary – it’s what weeds out the great designers from the mediocre ones.
Income potential: 4/5
When you have the Qmee browser extension installed, ads will show up on the side of your screen every so often. Each time you click one of these ads, you will earn a few cents.
I’ve earned more than $68 so far on Qmee:
One of the great things about Qmee is that you aren’t required to have a certain amount of earnings before you can cash out. That means you can install Qmee today, click just one ad, and immediately cash out your earnings!
You can also make money with referrals and surveys on Qmee.
For more information, check out my detailed review.
Income potential: 2/5
Believe it or not, there are many sites that pay you to do just that!
The pay is pretty terrible at just a couple cents per video, but there’s a neat hack you can use to make the most in the shortest amount of time.
Here’s what to do:
If you have any unused, outdated electronics sitting around, why not put them to work earning you money!?
Just set them up to auto-play the videos, and watch the pennies roll in!
Some people have reported earning $200+ per month with this method.
Both Swagbucks and EarnHoney work with this method.
Income potential: 2/5
When you shop through them at a merchant like Amazon or Walmart, you’ll earn a small percentage back for everything you buy!
Depending on the site, the percentage can range from 1-70+%, so as you can see it’s really all over the place.
Here are the best cash back websites:
Sites like UserTesting connect webmasters looking for an opinion on their sites to people who want to earn money for testing websites.
Just film yourself critiquing a website for a certain length of time, send it in when you’re done, and get paid!
Freelance website testing can earn you well above minimum wage. But tests are not always available, and when they are people snatch them up pretty quickly. So if you want to make a living doing this, be sure to accept the offers right away.
Here are a few more website testing websites (lol): Income potential: 3/5
Achievement is an app that actually pays you for staying healthy. It connects to more than 30 health, fitness, and lifestyle apps and rewards you points based on activities like walking, meditating, and logging food, and even…sleeping!
Once you reach 10,000 points, you can redeem them for $10!
Apparently, points can take a long time to earn, so don’t expect to download the app and cash in your earnings by tomorrow.
Here are a few more apps and websites to check out if you want to get paid to stay healthy: Income potential: 2/5
Well, you’re in luck because writing for the web is a very in-demand job these days, and it’s just becoming more so in 2019.
If you’re a native English speaker from the United States, all the better.
Most writing jobs pay peanuts (like $10 for 1,000 words), but if you have a powerful portfolio and a knack for producing engaging, high-quality content, you can expect a lot more.
True wordsmiths can make hundreds of dollars per article.
How do you get started? You have a couple options:
Go out on your own and search for clients on Facebook (there are writer’s groups specifically for this) and other social media, or join a website like Upwork and bid on available writing jobs.
Income potential: 4/5
There’s a wide range of angles you could take, including fixing WordPress errors, developing websites and apps, and – believe it or not – converting files from one type to another.
For larger, more involved tasks (like building an app), go with Upwork. When people post jobs, you can give them a bid and show them some examples of your work.
For quick tasks however, check out Fiverr. You can charge people $5 for a simple service, and offer extra upgrades for an additional cost.
Income potential: 4/5
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Virtual Assistants (or VAs) help out with a variety of tasks, ranging from technical to creative. Obviously one VA can’t do everything, so if you specify your strengths you’ll be more likely to get hired.
In order to reach the largest number of potential employers, your best bet would be to join Upwork, Indeed, or Remote.co.
Income potential: 3/5
As a virtual tutor, you’ll be helping students with their school work. For a fee, that is.
Here’s a list of great tutoring websites, many of which pay up to $20+/hour! If you’re the teacher-type, you may also enjoy creating an online course (plus, this can be far more profitable).
Income potential: 3/5
Online focus groups are typically used for consumer research, business-to-business research and political research.
It may sound boring, but you can make anything from $50-200+ for participating. You should be aware that some focus groups can last several hours.
Here are a few companies to try: Income potential: 2/5
In fact, I once made $1 for just one web search!
Getting paid to search is one of my favorite ways to make money online, because it’s literally passive income. I’m getting paid for something I already do!
Check out this post for more information and a list of paid-to-search websites.
Income potential: 1/5
The pay is poor, but the faster you can type the better.
Accuracy is key though, so if you make a lot of mistakes you’ll have to practice until you can consistently type like a perfectionist.
Income potential: 2/5
While Amazon Mechanical Turk may not provide the most exciting jobs (data entry, matching stuff, etc.), it can be a great way to earn a little extra spending money.
Active users have reported making more than $10,000 per year!
Income potential: 3/5
No, I’m not kidding.
Swagbucks, along with several other websites, pay you a couple pennies every time you play one of their simple games.
This probably won’t make you rich, but by the end of the day, you might be able to afford a candy bar. 🙂
Income potential: 1/5
This work is more serious and professional than, say, taking surveys, and some companies will require that you have a degree.
The pay isn’t stellar, but if you have an interest in search engines, this might be a great job for you.
Here are a couple companies that hire search engine evaluators: Income potential: 3/5
With eJury, you can work from your laptop and participate in mock juries and focus groups via the internet.
According to ejury.com, eJurors can make $5-$10 depending on the length of the case.
You certainly won’t get rich, but even one case a week could probably pay for your internet access.
Here are some related sites that pay: Income potential: 2/5
If so, you may want to look into becoming an online transcriptionist.
The faster you can type, the less time it will take. The less time it takes, the higher your profits!
So, if you’ve got good ears and fast fingers, transcription would be a great part-time job.
There are a number of websites you can join to find transcription work.
Here’s a good start:
Even smartphone photography can sell well! Just make sure your photos are of high quality.
Here are a few sites where you can sell your photography:
Income potential: 2/5
There are a number of investment apps out there, but the two that really stand out to me are Robinhood and Acorns.
Robinhood offers 100% free stock trades, and is the only app that does so.
Plus, there is no minimum balance required to get started.
Robinhood makes its money through Robinhood Gold, which allows users to buy and sell after hours.
Acorns is a little different: it invests your “spare changeâ€.
So let’s say you bought a coffee for $3.60. Acorns will round this up to $4, and invest the remaining $0.40 automatically.
Acorns charges a $1 monthly fee (for accounts with less than $5,000), unless you are a student with a .edu email address – in which case, it’s 100% free for four years!
Income potential: 5/5
===> Recommended: Affiliate marketing is my favorite way to make money online. Here’s why.
So why not get paid for this?
FusionCash pays you 3 cents every half hour just for listening to the radio. You do have to enter a Captcha code every half hour, but it only takes a second. If you exceed $0.15 in a day, you’ll get a $0.01 bonus!
Income potential: 1/5
Even the most elite publications oftentimes have typographical and grammatical errors. Nobody’s perfect.
According to the Editorial Freelancers Association, proofreaders can expect to earn roughly $30-35/hour.
Here’s a list of sites looking to hire proofreaders (some of them require extensive experience and a college degree): Income potential: 4/5
You can also purchase domains for sale on Flippa or other domain marketplaces, and try to resell them at a markup.
Desirable domain names can sell for thousands of dollars. Some for hundreds of thousands!
For more information, check out this step-by-step guide on domain flipping.
Income potential: 5/5
And you don’t even need to be a grandmaster, or master, for that matter!
As long as you understand chess very well and are better at it than your student(s), you’ll be fine.
There are several ways to get started:
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Income potential: 3/5
Companies will come to you and offer you money in exchange for promoting a product of theirs.
The larger a following and the bigger an influence you have, the more you can earn!
Income potential: 4/5
When startups just can’t come up with a good name themselves, oftentimes they’ll turn to the internet for suggestions.
If you join a naming contest and win, you can earn a hefty prize. Some contests award more than $500!
Check out NamingForce and Squadhelp to get started.
Income potential: 3/5
Write about a topic you’re very knowledgeable about, and then sell it as an eBook for a couple dollars (or more).
You can sell your eBook on a variety of platforms, such as Amazon or through your own website.
If you write about popular topics, you can easily make a recurring full-time income.
Income potential: 5/5
Believe it or not, you can!
Inbox Dollars pays you a few cents for each email you read.
To get paid, all you have to do is click the link in the email. No need to take any further action after that.
Here’s my full Inbox Dollars review.
Income potential: 1/5
Once you sign up, just place the ad code wherever you want, and get paid whenever visitors click an ad!
Google AdSense, and for that matter, any kind of advertising, works best on a site with lots of traffic.
Only a tiny percentage of visitors click an ad, and since one click is usually worth around a dollar and oftentimes less, you’ll need many thousands of people visiting your site every day in order to generate a healthy income.
Coupled with affiliate marketing, Google AdSense can be a great way to turn your website or blog into a lucrative business.
Income potential: 5/5
Sometimes the payment will be the product itself, sometimes real cash.
Before you can expect companies to come knocking on your door, er – email, you’ll need to have an established website with lots of loyal visitors.
Income potential: 3/5
This means you’ll build your own website and sell your products on it.
You will also be responsible for sending traffic to your site – unlike Amazon, for example, buyers won’t find your products unless you promote your site.
There are many ways to get people to your site. Here are some great ones to try:
Income potential: 5/5
Email marketing has a huge return on investment, and is an excellent way to drive traffic to your website or your affiliate links.
Before you start, you will want to have a website up and running and a good reason for people to want to join your email list.
Some incentives are as simple as “subscribe to get notified about new blog postsâ€; some are entire eBooks.
The power with having a list is that you own it; you don’t have to rely on social media or a platform someone else owns.
If you want to learn more and get started, check out this guide.
Income potential: 5/5
Patreon could be the answer.
Especially popular among YouTubers, Patreon is a great way to accept donations from your fans.
Income potential: 4/5
Some companies are willing to pay hundreds of dollars for this!
Finding contests is not difficult.
Just Google “slogan contest†and you’ll see lots of good results.
To get you started, here are the current slogan contests on SquadHelp.
Another place to check is SloganSlingers.
Income potential: 3/5
Your content needs to be unique and meet each website’s specific guest-posting guidelines in order to get accepted.
There are tons of sites that pay for guest posts if you do some digging.Â
Listverse currently pays $100 for each accepted submission. You may also want to check out these: If that’s not enough, check out this massive list of sites that pay you to write.
Income potential: 4/5
You can sell your designs online!
Cafepress and Zazzle are two examples of websites that print your designs on merchandise. Whenever a product with your design sells, you get a cut!
You should be aware that unless your designs take off and go viral, you probably won’t be able to replace your day job with this.
But hey, anything can happen, right?
Here are some more options (other than Cafepress or Zazzle) to check out:
You can make a lot of money from webinars whether they’re free to attend, or not!
Free webinars are far more likely to attract a lot of viewers, so this is what I’d suggest you do.
You can earn money by directing your viewers to a product you sell, or give them your affiliate link to a product you’re promoting. Either way, webinars tend to convert quite well.
Paid webinars probably won’t attract as many viewers, but they can still earn you money. Perhaps not as much though.
Here’s a great guide on starting your first webinar.
Income potential: 4/5
Honey claims it works on thousands of sites.
When you’re on the checkout page, click the honey button in your browser extensions and Honey will automatically apply any available coupon codes to your shopping cart.
“Income†potential: 2/5
Since backlinks are one of Google’s top three ranking factors, lots of website owners are more than willing to pay someone to build links to their site.
Yes, you can offer black-hat (spammy) link-building services on Fiverr for $5…but I would not recommend it. At all.
Instead, if you offer a white-hat link-building service, not only is it ethical, but you can make way more money.
This is because genuine white-hat links can be very difficult and time-consuming to build. Therefore, webmasters are willing to shell out a lot of money to outsource the work.
Income potential: 4/5
The most common type of email outreach is for link-building purposes.
You don’t necessarily have to be an SEO or backlink expert to do email outreach though.
As long as you’re an effective communicator, you can easily do this.
Still, here’s a detailed guide which will walk you through everything you need to know about email outreach.
Income potential: 4/5
In order for it to work, it needs read and write access to your email address, so that it can scan your receipts and compare them with the current price of the product.
The trouble is, many people only get a few dollars back even after hundreds of purchases (not necessarily Paribus’ fault though).
Check out my in-depth review to learn more about the app.
“Income†potential: 2/5
You may not realize it, but you’re sitting on a goldmine.
Unlimited data plans are selling for $1,000 on eBay right now.
Here’s why:
Current unlimited data plans do throttle you down eventually if you use data all the time. But the old unlimited plans, circa 2008-9, are literally unlimited.
So, while this may be a bit risky, there is definitely a black market for these unlimited data plans, with people willing to buy them for around one thousand dollars.
Caution:
Ready-made niche sites are very hot these days, and as long as they have several (probably at least 10) pages of unique longform content, they can sell for over a thousand dollars.
For maximum profit, the sites should be aged for at least 6 months, and should have:
You can either try to sell these websites yourself, or list them on a site like Flippa.
Income potential: 5/5
Logo designers make about $5 per logo on Fiverr, and some even make two logos for that price….
You may also want to check out 48 Hours Logo, a site that holds logo design contests with cash prizes.
This won’t make you rich, but it’s a good side-gig especially if it only takes you a few minutes to come up with a great design.
Income potential: 3/5
Fantasy sports may be for you – or not. Read on.
You’ve likely heard about DraftKings and FanDuel, fantasy sports websites through which regular people are supposedly making thousands of dollars.
But the truth is, playing fantasy sports is essentially gambling.
You build a fantasy team of real players, enter contests, and depending on how well the real players perform, you can make some money or lose it all.
You see, in order to enter a contest, you have to shell out real cash. And your chances of winning it back are very, very low.
Pro players use expensive software to analyze player stats, so they’re not likely to lose to somebody who manually analyzes stats or goes by their gut.
So, you’re actually paying for the low potential to make money. I cannot recommend this and would never try it myself…but if you’re willing to take the risk, go for it!
Income potential: 4/5
Did you know that you can create and sell Chrome extensions? There are several ways to monetize them.
In fact, Google even has a handy guide for this!
Income potential: 4/5
Here’s how:
Wondering how to make money online? Or perhaps you’ve already tried, but haven’t had any success?
Well, you’ve come to the right place.
To my knowledge, this is the world’s most complete list of ways to make money online.
It’s also one of the most regularly-updated, as I only want to share current methods that work in 2019.
Including all the research, writing, formatting, etc., I’ve easily spent hundreds of hours putting this list together.
Since I’ve tried to include every legitimate online earning method, there’s a huge range in income potential – some methods can make you a millionaire (if you put in the work), while others are only good for pocket change.
Whether you’re looking to make a full-time income working from home or simply want to find a good side hustle, I’m sure you’ll have tons of ideas by the end.
As you’ll see, I’ve included the income potential for most of the items on this list, which is on a scale of 1-5 [1 being the lowest income potential, 5 being the highest (millions +)].
In many cases the income potential is virtually impossible to give (such as in the case of online investing), so don’t take these potentials too seriously. They only serve as a general guideline.
As a disclosure, this article contains affiliate links. This doesn’t affect you in any way, it just means I may earn a commission if you click one of the links and purchase something.
Without further ado, here’s the list!
How to Make Money Online
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- Affiliate Marketing
More likely than not, it’s from affiliate marketing.
Affiliate marketing is so lucrative that even major media sites like the New York Times are adding affiliate sites to their portfolios.
The age of banner ads is waning, while affiliate marketing has only grown over the years.
But what exactly IS affiliate marketing?
It works like this:
You can promote any product with a special “affiliate linkâ€. When someone clicks that link and purchases a product, you get paid a portion of the sale price (at no expense to the buyer).
In other words, you can sell anything online without even owning it!
Although you’ll only get a small percentage of the sale, it adds up fast and many affiliate marketers make tens, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars per month.
Granted, it does take a lot of time to reach that level…anywhere from a year to several years, depending on how much work you put into it.
But the end results speak for themselves.
Though it will definitely take some work, affiliate marketing is actually very easy. You don’t need any inventory, it’s not a hassle like drop-shipping, and it can be done using only a computer and a Wi-Fi connection.
For these reasons, affiliate marketing is my number one recommendation for making money online.
For those of you who are interested, I know of some awesome training which covers every aspect of affiliate marketing, and makes it very easy for beginners to understand and get started.
In fact, it’s the exact training that got me started!
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Income potential: 5/5
- Get Paid to Take Surveys
I know, that’s probably a silly question…. But what if you could get paid to fill out surveys? Would you enjoy it then?
Well, there’s some good news:
Many websites PAY you to take surveys. The earnings aren’t all that great, as most surveys sites only pay a dollar or two per hour. Still, some people make thousands of dollars every year using this method.
Surveys can be frustrating, however, since they take a long time to complete and the pay is well below minimum wage in the US. But if you do it mindlessly while watching TV, you’ll turn wasteful hours into cash!
Perhaps the most famous survey site is Swagbucks. There are many surveys available on Swagbucks at any given moment, and the pay is about as good as it gets.
If you don’t like Swagbucks, there are plenty of other options. Here’s a few to get you started:
- SurveyJunkie
- Harris Poll Online
- Global Test Market
- E-Poll Surveys
- PineCone Research
- YouGov
- OneOpinion
- Fusion Cash
- Vindale Research
- VIPVoice
- PaidViewPoint
- Install These Apps on Your Phone
There are several apps you can download on your phone which will track your phone use. In exchange for this…well, intrusion, you’ll get paid!
If you don’t mind a research company tracking everything you do on your phone, then by all means download these apps!
It doesn’t take any work on your part, but you can make a little extra spending money every month.
Here are some reputable ones:
- MobileXpression– Free $5 gift card after one week *(keep app installed for 30 days)
- ShopTracker – Free $3 gift card for signing up
- Nielson Mobile Panel
- Get Paid to Complete Easy Tasks
Although the money is easy to earn, it takes a lot of time and is far below minimum wage.
Nonetheless, it is still a good way to add a few dollars to your wallet each month.
I have a lot of experience wasting time on GPT sites, so if you want a little more information on the subject, read this post.
Here’s a list of the top GPT sites out there:
- Swagbucks
- InboxDollars
- Earnhoney
- Fusion Cash
- InstaGC
- CashCrate
- Irazoo (enter the code XAHJGH to earn bonus points when you join!)
- PrizeRebel
- Points2Shop
- Earnably
- GrabPoints
- TreasureTrooper
- QuickRewards
- EarningStation
- SuperPay.me
- GrindaBuck
- KeepRewarding
- RewardingWays
- GiftHunterClub
- OfferNation
- Sell a Simple Service for $5 on Fiverr
A lot of people sell traditional services, or “gigsâ€, such as ghostwriting, editing, graphic design, and web development.
Others sell more…unique…services. Such as singing happy birthday to anyone you desire, or making prank phone calls.
The possibilities are literally endless.
The standard rate for a Fiverr gig is $5, but you can charge much more if you offer a valuable service.
Sound like fun?
Join Fiverr here!
Income potential: 3/5
- Create and Sell Your Own Online Course
As long as you know your field inside and out, why not create an online course to share your knowledge?
Depending on the topic, this can be an extremely lucrative way to make money online. Some people make over $1 million per year!
Creating a good online course takes a lot of time and hard work. It’s not uncommon to work on a course for several months before launching it. But it’s well worth the effort.
Speaking of launching it, there are several websites where you can sell your course. My favorite, and one that many people have had huge success with, is Teachable.
That said, here are some other options worth looking into: Income potential: 5/5
- Earn $0.10/Day to View Lockscreen Ads
For virtually no work at all, you could be earning an extra $36.50 per year!
S’more is an app that pays you 10 cents a day to show an ad on your lockscreen, even if you never click any ads.
When you sign up, use this code to earn $0.25 instantly: CJFNO9
You can’t redeem your earnings until you reach $1.50, so 25 cents will speed up the process by 2 days .
You can also earn money for referrals, and for taking surveys.
Read my full S’more review here.
Bonus: you can download other lock screen cash apps to earn even more from your phone! Check out these:
- Slidejoy – Lock Screen Cash
- Fronto Lock Screen
- Adme Rewards Locker
- LifeSlide – Lock Screen, Unlock Money
- Paid Unlock
- Unlock & Win! by Perk
- Teach ESL to Foreign Students Online
Here are a couple of the best ones:
- VipKid – teach ESL to Chinese students (here’s my VipKid review)
- DadaABC – teach ESL to Chinese students
- iTalki – teach any language online
You can also set up your own website where you offer English lessons – this could potentially be more profitable, but it would also take a lot longer to get any clients.
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In order to teach ESL online, you will need a video calling software. Skype and Google Hangouts are the most popular options. For slow connections, I have found that Gruveo works well.
Another requirement is a quality, noise-canceling headset.
Income potential: 3/5
- Create YouTube Videos and Monetize them with Ads
If you monetize your videos with ads, you can expect to earn roughly $2,000 per million views.
Affiliate marketing is another way you can monetize your videos. For example, if you do product reviews, include an affiliate link to that product in your video description.
Income potential: 5/5
===> Recommended: Here’s why affiliate marketing is still my favorite way to make money online
- Start an Amazon FBA Business Selling Private Label Products
You find a generic product on Amazon, add your own branding to it, and then resell it at a markup.
If your product is in the top 100 bestsellers for your category, you can make thousands of dollars per day! However, a more typical income is in the $1,000-2,000/month range.
The most successful Amazon sellers pick very in-demand products and do extensive marketing. It can be very time-consuming, but if it makes you a millionaire, who cares?
Check out this post to get started.
Income potential: 5/5
- Build Smartphone Apps for Free, or Hire Someone Else to
And believe it or not, you don’t even have to know how to code to build an app.
With Appypie, you can build apps without coding knowledge, and without paying a dime!
If you are serious about making apps and earning money from them, you will want to hire a developer though.
Income potential: 5/5
- Make Money from Your Livestreams with the Peeks App
You may want to switch to a new app….
Peeks is an ecommerce-enabled livestream app that allows people viewing your livestream to easily send you tips.
If you become popular and build up a large following, you could make a killing every time you go live!
Watch this video to learn more:
Income potential: 2/5
- Do Graphic Design
If you are any good at graphic design, chances are you could land a paying job, and likely multiple paying jobs.
Online businesses need to have good visuals and an appealing overall design if they are interested in truly succeeding.
Most online businesses turn to the tried and true methods of acquiring design talent by hiring designers off of platforms such as the following: Therefore, as a graphic designer, these are the sites you’ll want to focus on – especially in the beginning.
In order to get the highest-paying jobs, you’ll have to make yourself stand out from the crowd. This isn’t easy, but it’s very necessary – it’s what weeds out the great designers from the mediocre ones.
Income potential: 4/5
- Get Paid to Search on Google and other Large Websites
When you have the Qmee browser extension installed, ads will show up on the side of your screen every so often. Each time you click one of these ads, you will earn a few cents.
I’ve earned more than $68 so far on Qmee:
One of the great things about Qmee is that you aren’t required to have a certain amount of earnings before you can cash out. That means you can install Qmee today, click just one ad, and immediately cash out your earnings!
You can also make money with referrals and surveys on Qmee.
For more information, check out my detailed review.
Income potential: 2/5
- Make $200+ a Month Watching Videos
Believe it or not, there are many sites that pay you to do just that!
The pay is pretty terrible at just a couple cents per video, but there’s a neat hack you can use to make the most in the shortest amount of time.
Here’s what to do:
If you have any unused, outdated electronics sitting around, why not put them to work earning you money!?
Just set them up to auto-play the videos, and watch the pennies roll in!
Some people have reported earning $200+ per month with this method.
Both Swagbucks and EarnHoney work with this method.
Income potential: 2/5
- Get Cash Back on Your Online Purchases
When you shop through them at a merchant like Amazon or Walmart, you’ll earn a small percentage back for everything you buy!
Depending on the site, the percentage can range from 1-70+%, so as you can see it’s really all over the place.
Here are the best cash back websites:
- Ebates (get $10 for free when you sign up) (read my review)
- MyPoints
- Shop at home
- BeFrugal
- MrRebates
- Extrabux
- Ibotta (app) (read my review)
- Dosh (app) (read my review)
- Earn $30/Hour Testing Websites
Sites like UserTesting connect webmasters looking for an opinion on their sites to people who want to earn money for testing websites.
Just film yourself critiquing a website for a certain length of time, send it in when you’re done, and get paid!
Freelance website testing can earn you well above minimum wage. But tests are not always available, and when they are people snatch them up pretty quickly. So if you want to make a living doing this, be sure to accept the offers right away.
Here are a few more website testing websites (lol): Income potential: 3/5
- Get Rewarded for Staying Healthy
Achievement is an app that actually pays you for staying healthy. It connects to more than 30 health, fitness, and lifestyle apps and rewards you points based on activities like walking, meditating, and logging food, and even…sleeping!
Once you reach 10,000 points, you can redeem them for $10!
Apparently, points can take a long time to earn, so don’t expect to download the app and cash in your earnings by tomorrow.
Here are a few more apps and websites to check out if you want to get paid to stay healthy: Income potential: 2/5
- Become a Freelance Writer
Well, you’re in luck because writing for the web is a very in-demand job these days, and it’s just becoming more so in 2019.
If you’re a native English speaker from the United States, all the better.
Most writing jobs pay peanuts (like $10 for 1,000 words), but if you have a powerful portfolio and a knack for producing engaging, high-quality content, you can expect a lot more.
True wordsmiths can make hundreds of dollars per article.
How do you get started? You have a couple options:
Go out on your own and search for clients on Facebook (there are writer’s groups specifically for this) and other social media, or join a website like Upwork and bid on available writing jobs.
Income potential: 4/5
- Do Technical Freelancing
There’s a wide range of angles you could take, including fixing WordPress errors, developing websites and apps, and – believe it or not – converting files from one type to another.
For larger, more involved tasks (like building an app), go with Upwork. When people post jobs, you can give them a bid and show them some examples of your work.
For quick tasks however, check out Fiverr. You can charge people $5 for a simple service, and offer extra upgrades for an additional cost.
Income potential: 4/5
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- Help People Get Things Done as a Virtual Assistant
Virtual Assistants (or VAs) help out with a variety of tasks, ranging from technical to creative. Obviously one VA can’t do everything, so if you specify your strengths you’ll be more likely to get hired.
In order to reach the largest number of potential employers, your best bet would be to join Upwork, Indeed, or Remote.co.
Income potential: 3/5
- Earn $20+/Hour to Tutor Students Online
As a virtual tutor, you’ll be helping students with their school work. For a fee, that is.
Here’s a list of great tutoring websites, many of which pay up to $20+/hour! If you’re the teacher-type, you may also enjoy creating an online course (plus, this can be far more profitable).
Income potential: 3/5
- Join a Focus Group and Earn $50-$200+
Online focus groups are typically used for consumer research, business-to-business research and political research.
It may sound boring, but you can make anything from $50-200+ for participating. You should be aware that some focus groups can last several hours.
Here are a few companies to try: Income potential: 2/5
- Use a Different Search Engine (Earn Up to $1 per Search)
In fact, I once made $1 for just one web search!
Getting paid to search is one of my favorite ways to make money online, because it’s literally passive income. I’m getting paid for something I already do!
Check out this post for more information and a list of paid-to-search websites.
Income potential: 1/5
- Get Paid for Your Typing Skills with Data Entry
The pay is poor, but the faster you can type the better.
Accuracy is key though, so if you make a lot of mistakes you’ll have to practice until you can consistently type like a perfectionist.
Income potential: 2/5
- Do Simple Jobs for Amazon with MTurk
While Amazon Mechanical Turk may not provide the most exciting jobs (data entry, matching stuff, etc.), it can be a great way to earn a little extra spending money.
Active users have reported making more than $10,000 per year!
Income potential: 3/5
- Play Online Games. Seriously!
No, I’m not kidding.
Swagbucks, along with several other websites, pay you a couple pennies every time you play one of their simple games.
This probably won’t make you rich, but by the end of the day, you might be able to afford a candy bar. 🙂
Income potential: 1/5
- Get Paid to Examine Search Engines
This work is more serious and professional than, say, taking surveys, and some companies will require that you have a degree.
The pay isn’t stellar, but if you have an interest in search engines, this might be a great job for you.
Here are a couple companies that hire search engine evaluators: Income potential: 3/5
- Become an Online Juror
With eJury, you can work from your laptop and participate in mock juries and focus groups via the internet.
According to ejury.com, eJurors can make $5-$10 depending on the length of the case.
You certainly won’t get rich, but even one case a week could probably pay for your internet access.
Here are some related sites that pay: Income potential: 2/5
- Use Your Ears – Become a Freelance Transcriptionist
If so, you may want to look into becoming an online transcriptionist.
The faster you can type, the less time it will take. The less time it takes, the higher your profits!
So, if you’ve got good ears and fast fingers, transcription would be a great part-time job.
There are a number of websites you can join to find transcription work.
Here’s a good start:
- Rev
- Scribie
- TranscribeMe
- 3 Play Media
- QuickTate
- TigerFish
- BabbleType
- CastingWords Workshop
- CrowdSurf
- GoTranscript
- SpeechPad
- Transcribe.com
- ubiQus
- SpeakWrite
- Sell Your Photos!
Even smartphone photography can sell well! Just make sure your photos are of high quality.
Here are a few sites where you can sell your photography:
- 500px
- Shutterstock
- iStockphoto
- Adobe Stock
- CanStockPhoto
- BigStock
- Getty Images
- Alamy
- Dreamstime
- DepositPhotos
- 123RF
Income potential: 2/5
- Start Investing with These Apps
There are a number of investment apps out there, but the two that really stand out to me are Robinhood and Acorns.
Robinhood offers 100% free stock trades, and is the only app that does so.
Plus, there is no minimum balance required to get started.
Robinhood makes its money through Robinhood Gold, which allows users to buy and sell after hours.
Acorns is a little different: it invests your “spare changeâ€.
So let’s say you bought a coffee for $3.60. Acorns will round this up to $4, and invest the remaining $0.40 automatically.
Acorns charges a $1 monthly fee (for accounts with less than $5,000), unless you are a student with a .edu email address – in which case, it’s 100% free for four years!
Income potential: 5/5
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- Earn Money for Listening to the Radio
So why not get paid for this?
FusionCash pays you 3 cents every half hour just for listening to the radio. You do have to enter a Captcha code every half hour, but it only takes a second. If you exceed $0.15 in a day, you’ll get a $0.01 bonus!
Income potential: 1/5
- Make Use of Your Eagle Eyes – Become a Freelance Proofreader!
Even the most elite publications oftentimes have typographical and grammatical errors. Nobody’s perfect.
According to the Editorial Freelancers Association, proofreaders can expect to earn roughly $30-35/hour.
Here’s a list of sites looking to hire proofreaders (some of them require extensive experience and a college degree): Income potential: 4/5
- Become a Domain Name Flipper
You can also purchase domains for sale on Flippa or other domain marketplaces, and try to resell them at a markup.
Desirable domain names can sell for thousands of dollars. Some for hundreds of thousands!
For more information, check out this step-by-step guide on domain flipping.
Income potential: 5/5
- Teach People How to Play Chess
And you don’t even need to be a grandmaster, or master, for that matter!
As long as you understand chess very well and are better at it than your student(s), you’ll be fine.
There are several ways to get started:
- Advertise your tutoring service on online chess forums (read the rules first!)
- Offer your service on a website like SuperProf or Care.
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Income potential: 3/5
- Make Money from Your Tweets
Companies will come to you and offer you money in exchange for promoting a product of theirs.
The larger a following and the bigger an influence you have, the more you can earn!
Income potential: 4/5
- Enter Naming Contests and Unleash Your Creativity
When startups just can’t come up with a good name themselves, oftentimes they’ll turn to the internet for suggestions.
If you join a naming contest and win, you can earn a hefty prize. Some contests award more than $500!
Check out NamingForce and Squadhelp to get started.
Income potential: 3/5
- Write and Sell Your Very Own eBook
Write about a topic you’re very knowledgeable about, and then sell it as an eBook for a couple dollars (or more).
You can sell your eBook on a variety of platforms, such as Amazon or through your own website.
If you write about popular topics, you can easily make a recurring full-time income.
Income potential: 5/5
- Get Paid to Read Emails (No Joke!)
Believe it or not, you can!
Inbox Dollars pays you a few cents for each email you read.
To get paid, all you have to do is click the link in the email. No need to take any further action after that.
Here’s my full Inbox Dollars review.
Income potential: 1/5
- Add Google AdSense to Your Website
Once you sign up, just place the ad code wherever you want, and get paid whenever visitors click an ad!
Google AdSense, and for that matter, any kind of advertising, works best on a site with lots of traffic.
Only a tiny percentage of visitors click an ad, and since one click is usually worth around a dollar and oftentimes less, you’ll need many thousands of people visiting your site every day in order to generate a healthy income.
Coupled with affiliate marketing, Google AdSense can be a great way to turn your website or blog into a lucrative business.
Income potential: 5/5
- Get Paid to Write Product Reviews on Your Website
Sometimes the payment will be the product itself, sometimes real cash.
Before you can expect companies to come knocking on your door, er – email, you’ll need to have an established website with lots of loyal visitors.
Income potential: 3/5
- Start Selling Your Products Online with Shopify
This means you’ll build your own website and sell your products on it.
You will also be responsible for sending traffic to your site – unlike Amazon, for example, buyers won’t find your products unless you promote your site.
There are many ways to get people to your site. Here are some great ones to try:
- SEO
- Social media
- Relevant forums
- Word of mouth
Income potential: 5/5
- Make Big Bucks with Email Marketing
Email marketing has a huge return on investment, and is an excellent way to drive traffic to your website or your affiliate links.
Before you start, you will want to have a website up and running and a good reason for people to want to join your email list.
Some incentives are as simple as “subscribe to get notified about new blog postsâ€; some are entire eBooks.
The power with having a list is that you own it; you don’t have to rely on social media or a platform someone else owns.
If you want to learn more and get started, check out this guide.
Income potential: 5/5
- Start Your Own Patreon Account
Patreon could be the answer.
Especially popular among YouTubers, Patreon is a great way to accept donations from your fans.
Income potential: 4/5
- Enter and Win Online Slogan Contests
Some companies are willing to pay hundreds of dollars for this!
Finding contests is not difficult.
Just Google “slogan contest†and you’ll see lots of good results.
To get you started, here are the current slogan contests on SquadHelp.
Another place to check is SloganSlingers.
Income potential: 3/5
- Write Articles for Popular Blogs
Your content needs to be unique and meet each website’s specific guest-posting guidelines in order to get accepted.
There are tons of sites that pay for guest posts if you do some digging.Â
Listverse currently pays $100 for each accepted submission. You may also want to check out these: If that’s not enough, check out this massive list of sites that pay you to write.
Income potential: 4/5
- Easily Design Your Own T-shirts, Coffee Mugs, and More!
You can sell your designs online!
Cafepress and Zazzle are two examples of websites that print your designs on merchandise. Whenever a product with your design sells, you get a cut!
You should be aware that unless your designs take off and go viral, you probably won’t be able to replace your day job with this.
But hey, anything can happen, right?
Here are some more options (other than Cafepress or Zazzle) to check out:
- RedBubble
- Teespring
- society6
- Design by Humans
- Threadless
- SpreadShirt
- Pixapp (phone app)
- Host a Webinar and Share Your Knowledge with the World
You can make a lot of money from webinars whether they’re free to attend, or not!
Free webinars are far more likely to attract a lot of viewers, so this is what I’d suggest you do.
You can earn money by directing your viewers to a product you sell, or give them your affiliate link to a product you’re promoting. Either way, webinars tend to convert quite well.
Paid webinars probably won’t attract as many viewers, but they can still earn you money. Perhaps not as much though.
Here’s a great guide on starting your first webinar.
Income potential: 4/5
- Automatically Save Money with this Free Chrome Extension
Honey claims it works on thousands of sites.
When you’re on the checkout page, click the honey button in your browser extensions and Honey will automatically apply any available coupon codes to your shopping cart.
“Income†potential: 2/5
- Offer a White Hat Link Building Service
Since backlinks are one of Google’s top three ranking factors, lots of website owners are more than willing to pay someone to build links to their site.
Yes, you can offer black-hat (spammy) link-building services on Fiverr for $5…but I would not recommend it. At all.
Instead, if you offer a white-hat link-building service, not only is it ethical, but you can make way more money.
This is because genuine white-hat links can be very difficult and time-consuming to build. Therefore, webmasters are willing to shell out a lot of money to outsource the work.
Income potential: 4/5
- Get Paid to do Email Outreach
The most common type of email outreach is for link-building purposes.
You don’t necessarily have to be an SEO or backlink expert to do email outreach though.
As long as you’re an effective communicator, you can easily do this.
Still, here’s a detailed guide which will walk you through everything you need to know about email outreach.
Income potential: 4/5
- Join Paribus and Get Refunded for Products that Went Down in Price
In order for it to work, it needs read and write access to your email address, so that it can scan your receipts and compare them with the current price of the product.
The trouble is, many people only get a few dollars back even after hundreds of purchases (not necessarily Paribus’ fault though).
Check out my in-depth review to learn more about the app.
“Income†potential: 2/5
- Sell Your Old Unlimited Data Plan for $1,000
You may not realize it, but you’re sitting on a goldmine.
Unlimited data plans are selling for $1,000 on eBay right now.
Here’s why:
Current unlimited data plans do throttle you down eventually if you use data all the time. But the old unlimited plans, circa 2008-9, are literally unlimited.
So, while this may be a bit risky, there is definitely a black market for these unlimited data plans, with people willing to buy them for around one thousand dollars.
- Build and Sell Ready-Made Niche Websites
Caution:
- This is very advanced
- This is not something you can learn in a day
- There’s a lot of work involved
Ready-made niche sites are very hot these days, and as long as they have several (probably at least 10) pages of unique longform content, they can sell for over a thousand dollars.
For maximum profit, the sites should be aged for at least 6 months, and should have:
- At least 10 pages of longform (1,000+ words) content, and a couple longer pillar articles
- An email optin form with a unique lead magnet (like an eBook)
- A premium theme
- Proper SEO
- The necessary plugins (SEO, security, etc.)
- A logo and branding
- Social media accounts
You can either try to sell these websites yourself, or list them on a site like Flippa.
Income potential: 5/5
- Design Logos
Logo designers make about $5 per logo on Fiverr, and some even make two logos for that price….
You may also want to check out 48 Hours Logo, a site that holds logo design contests with cash prizes.
This won’t make you rich, but it’s a good side-gig especially if it only takes you a few minutes to come up with a great design.
Income potential: 3/5
- Make Real Money Playing Fantasy Sports
Fantasy sports may be for you – or not. Read on.
You’ve likely heard about DraftKings and FanDuel, fantasy sports websites through which regular people are supposedly making thousands of dollars.
But the truth is, playing fantasy sports is essentially gambling.
You build a fantasy team of real players, enter contests, and depending on how well the real players perform, you can make some money or lose it all.
You see, in order to enter a contest, you have to shell out real cash. And your chances of winning it back are very, very low.
Pro players use expensive software to analyze player stats, so they’re not likely to lose to somebody who manually analyzes stats or goes by their gut.
So, you’re actually paying for the low potential to make money. I cannot recommend this and would never try it myself…but if you’re willing to take the risk, go for it!
Income potential: 4/5
- Create and Sell Your Own Google Chrome Extensions
Did you know that you can create and sell Chrome extensions? There are several ways to monetize them.
In fact, Google even has a handy guide for this!
Income potential: 4/5
- Make Money When People Click Your Shortened URLs
Here’s how:
- Shorten a URL with one of the sites linked to below
- Share your new shortened URL on your website, social media, or wherever people will click.
- When someone clicks your URL, they will be shown a short ad before being redirected to the article you shared.
- For every 1,000 views, you’ll get paid! Some pay only a few dollars, but others (like Shorte.st) pay up to $15!