Three Interesting Ways to Make Money Online
Posting on paid-to-post forums, doing surveys, and working on micro job sites are some of the fastest ways to make money online, however, these methods do not make you a lot of money. For example, you will have to create a lot of content to earn a few cents on a paid-to-post site, or you will have to do dozens of tasks to make just 1 buck. Likewise, surveys are not available globally. Surveys are most available for higher-tier countries. If you happen to be in Africa or Asia, it is quite impossible to earn through surveys. Therefore, don't look for quick methods, look for high-paying methods. Here are some methods you can try
How to Make Money By Using Google Maps
Google map is a free-to-use service that you can utilize to make money. With the right approach, you can easily make $50-$100 per day through this technique. So, how do you do it?
Look for service providers in your area, for instance, you can search for plumbers in your areas, electricians, house painters, etc. Click more businesses on the search listing page. Check the businesses until you come across a listing that asks “own this business.” You can then contact the business owner and offer to verify their listing for them. For any unverified listing, anyone can claim it. Therefore, the businesses will agree on you to help them verify their listing. You can charge a small fee for your work.
Once you gained their confidence, you can offer them to improve their search ranks by optimizing their listing. If the business does not have a website yet, you can even offer to create a website for them. If you don’t know how to do SEO or build a website, you can simply drop service. Drop service is a method of making money where you become a medium between the service provider and client for delivering the work and you earn a commission.
How to Use Fine Art America to Make Money
Fine Art America is a digital marketplace for arts and photographs. If you are a photographer or an artist, you can upload your photographs and digital art on Fine Art American and make money when your items sell. Fine Art America was created in 2007 and since then it has helped hundreds of thousands of people to sell photographs and art online.
Fine Art America is an interesting concept, you can not only sell your photographs and art as canvas print, postcards, posters, and wall print but also as a print on a tote bag, phone cover, pillow case, cushion cover, etc. People may not be interested in buying your art on canvas but they might like it on a tote bag or a cushion cover. Therefore, the selling potential is huge.
If you don’t upload more than 30 items, Fine Art America is free. If you want to put more than 30 items for sale, you will have to pay a $30 yearly fee. Once you pay this amount, there is no limit to how many items you can sell. When your product sells, you will pay a 5 percent sales commission. That’s all. Payment is via PayPal and there are no minimum payment criteria. If you are into digital art and photography, this is the platform to make money.
How to Make Money Through Canva
Canva is a drag-and-drop graphic designing tool. The basic version is free but the pro version costs $9 per month.
What can you design on Canva?
There s nothing that cannot be designed on canvas, logo, banner, meme, infographics, social media posts, social media cover, ebook covers, ebooks, workbooks, video clips, you name it.
How to make money through Canva?
Making money on Canva has two steps, one, you design using canva, and two, you sell these products through various eCommerce and digital marketplaces. There are a lot of ways to do that.
Method one
You list a gig on Fiverr “I will design a logo for $5”
When you get an order, you go to Canva, design the logo and send it to the buyer. The buyer releases the payment, you get paid.
You can also bid on logo designing jobs on Upwork and design logos on Canva.
Method two
You create digital products on canva and sell these products through Etsy, Redbubble, etc.
Let’s say you created an ebook on Canva, you then list the ebook on Etsy.
Let’s say you designed a T-shirt. You upload the design on redbubble and sell your design through various products.
Or, you create digital designs that you list on Creative Fabrica and sell your designs.
Three Best Platforms to Make Money Online
When it comes to making money online, you need to remember a couple of things such as the platforms to make money, skills, and knowledge you have to make money, persistence to make money based on your skill and platform you are using, money-making potential of the skills and knowledge you have, etc. Out of all of these requirements, the most important is the platform you are using. That’s because how much money you can make and how easy or difficult it is to make money entirely depends on the platform you are using. Let me exemplify. You can make money on Freelancing Platforms as well as Microjob platforms. However, you can make more money on Freelancing Platforms compared to Microjob sites. However, it is comparatively easy to make money on Micro job sites compared to Freelancing Platforms.
Here are the three best platforms you can use to make money online.
Amazon
If you are serious about making money online and if you want to generate full-time income online, look no further than Amazon. Amazon allows you to make a lot of money and offers multiple methods to make money. Interestingly most of these methods are completely passive income methods, which means you can earn without any ongoing work.
You can make money on Amazon through FBA, KDP, Amazon Merch, Amazon Associate, and mTurk.
FBA or Fulfilled By Amazon is a program that allows you to sell your physical products through Amazon. There are some fees associated with this method and you also need to ship your products to the Amazon warehouse so that you can start selling.
KDP or Kindle Direct Publishing is a free ebook and paperback publishing program that allows you to publish your ebooks and print books through Amazon and sell them worldwide via Amazon.
Amazon Merch is a Print on Demand Program from Amazon. This is free to use the program and you have to pay a flat rate of 99 cents for each sale. In order to use this program, you will have to upload your design and when the product is ordered, Amazon will create the product and ship it to the buyer.
Amazon Associate is an affiliate program that allows you to make money just by referring buyers to Amazon stores.
mTurk is a micro job program from Amazon.
What skills do you need in order to make money from these programs?
The kind of skills you need depends on the methods you are using. For example, if you want to use KDP, you need writing skills, however, for Amazon Merch, you need graphic designing skills. However, all of these methods require you to have SEO and digital marketing skills.
Facebook is not only the largest social media platform in terms of user base but also one of the top three sites in terms of traffic. Over the years, Facebook is also evolving as one of the best platforms to make money online. There are numerous ways to make money on Facebook and some of the common methods are Facebook Marketplace, Facebook Shop, Facebook Page and Group Monetization, Video Monetization, Instant Article, Reels, Events Monetization, Selling Subscriptions, Marketing, Sponsorship, etc. Some of these methods will let you earn directly from Facebook, for example, Reels, Instant Articles, etc., whereas some methods require you to use third-party help to make money, for example, sponsorship, marketing, etc.
What are the requirements to make money from Facebook?
Some methods do not have any requirements. For example, you can start using the Facebook marketplace immediately. However, some methods require you to meet a certain requirement. For example, if you want to use Instant Article, you need at least 1000 followers. If you want to sell subscriptions through Facebook you need a page with at least 10k followers, 180k video views, and 50k engagements in the last 60 days. If you want to monetize your on-demand videos or live videos, you need 10k followers, at least 5 videos, and 600k total minutes watched.
Sounds too complicated to meet monetization? Well, there are methods that are comparatively easy.
What skills do you need in order to make money on Facebook?
You need to be a video content creator in order to earn from video and Reels monetization. You need to be a blogger or website owner in order to make money from Instant Article. You need to be a marketer to build followers and promote your products.
Etsy
While Amazon and Facebook are free platforms, Etsy requires you to make some investments. You not only incur selling fees and payment processing fees but also listing fees. You will have to pay to list your product. However, the listing fee is so small that I don’t think this will be a problem for anyone. You might also have to spend money to generate sales, especially if you are just starting out. Due to the competition, a new seller hardly gets noticed, therefore, you will have to run ads to generate sales.
You can use Etsy to sell physical items, digital items, and printable. In other words, you can sell a handbag as well as an ebook, or a wall art that requires to be printed by the buyer.
One of the best ways to make money on Etsy is through Print-On-Demand. This method requires you to connect your Etsy account with a print provider. You do not have to manufacture the product and you also do not have to fulfill the order. This method requires you to have graphic designing skills (so that you can create digital designs for the product). If you are selling digital products like ebooks, you need writing and designing skills.
SEO and Digital Marketing are a must in order to generate sales on Etsy.
Youtube
The basic way to earn from youtube is through content monetization. If you have managed to pass the monetization threshold on youtube and if your videos generate views, you will start earning. However, you should not be satisfied with what you are doing.
Here are three methods to add revenue to your youtube videos.
Sellin Online Courses and Webinars
You can use youtube to sell your online courses and webinars. Actually, if you are selling courses and webinars you are in fact building your own authority and resources.
Become an affiliate of a brand
Well, you can do affiliate marketing and make money from youtube but a better way to do is by becoming an affiliate for a brand.
Sell subscriptions
You can sell subscriptions for your premium content. Let’s say you published a video on making money as a graphic designer. You can create a detailed tutorial on the subject and sell subscriptions to those who want to learn more.
Conclusion
I have listed these three money-making platforms based on the money-making potential, ease of use, and the skills you require. If you do not have the required skills, you can start learning now.