Introduction
Do you have access to internet and a laptop or a smart phone? Then it’s
your turn to earn lakhs of rupees by sitting at your home.
How does the thought of making money online sound to you? It's a
worthwhile idea, for sure. But how much money can you actually make? How does
it work? What kind of opportunities exists? These questions and more will be
answered throughout this section.
Making money online is a relatively new concept, but it is catching on
as more and more people realize the potential of it. There are many online
money making opportunities. Anyone with a computer and internet access can make
money online. And also, the process can seem difficult and confusing at first,
so patience, ambition, and perseverance is a must. If you are determined,
focused, and apply the right methods, you can definitely make it happen.
1.
Starting own website
There is a lot of scope for making good money online by creating a
website. Though it takes considerable period of time for earning, it will
definitely be a good source for passive income. One can choose it in addition
to his primary source of income or he can choose this as a career also. There
are a few simple and easy steps to create a website as below
- Choose a domain name
based on availability and purchase it
- Sign up web hosting
with web hoster
- Customize your website
design and structure
- Write articles on some
topic (Based on your passion)
- Post the article in
your website for public visibility
- Sign up for google
adsence account and finally you will be receiving revenue based on adds
placed in your website
2.
Website reviewing
It’s all about testing the performance of the given website based on
some specified parameters. Now a days companies are paying considerably good
amount for website reviewing. Generally it ranges from $10 -$25. Of course your
experience will matter a lot while deciding the pay. Generally website
reviewing will include the following things
- Making ease
- Simplicity and clarity
of the data provided
- Overall appearance of
the website
- Optimising the site
for Google search engine
- Making the site more
mobile friendly
- Reviewing frequency
and age
3.
Affiliate marketing
Its all about promoting a product or service of others with whom you
have been registered as an affiliator. For example, If you have a you tube
channel which makes videos about Technology then it is advisable to sign up as
an affiliator with the vendors of those technology related products. They will
provide you a unique URL and the payment depends on the number of customers
approached the vendor through that URL. In short it involves the following
steps.
- First select the
product that you want to promote
- Build a platform like
You tube, Website, Blogger, Facebook, insta etc.
- Register as an
affiliator with the vendor of that product.
- Promote the product
and get paid for the same
4.
Dealing in Domain names
Dealing or trading in domain names has become more popular now a days.
It primarily involves purchasing a domain name which are under priced today and
selling the same for a much higher price when some one needs the same.
Generally the profit margin will be very high in this industry and if you have
the right domain name then the other party won’t hesitate to pay even a much
more price compared to your purchase price. The advantage is that there is very
less competition in this area. One can visit Domain.com, Go daddy, Host gator,
Blue host etc. for purchase and sale of domain names.
5.
Publishing Kindle E-book
Its a boon to many people who wish to see themselves as writers but can
not afford a full time publication. Amazon allows to publish our E- Books on
kindle store with out any investment. It is very simple process and with in a
period of 24-48 hours of publishing from our end it will appear in amazon
kindle store world wide. We can make good amount of money if readers likes our
writings. For this we should choose interesting titles in order to attract the
readers. The royalty from selling books on Amazon kindle store may go upto 70%
of price. One has to fulfil the Amazon’s marketing terms and conditions for
being eligible for royalty.
6.
Participating in Online Competitions and Quizzes
These days it has become an interesting area to participate in online
quizzes and competitions to make money on one hand and to enhance our knowledge
and skills on the other. Basically these can be categorized into two. One is
available for all the participants without any specific criteria where anyone
can participate to prove their competency where as the second category is
available only for a specific category of participants based on education
qualifications, age factor etc. Further, some of the competitions allow free
entry where as the participant needs to pay some application fees in other
competitions.
7.
Freelancing
Freelancers are the self employed persons who work for companies and
organizations by entering into specific contracts. They are not committed to
work for a specific entity or organization. We can classify the freelancers
into two types. The first one is professional and experienced freelancers whose
primary and fulltime source of revenue will be from freelancing. Generally they
start their own website and offer their services through their websites. The
second category freelancers choose freelancing as their secondary or part time
source of income where they do not own a website for offering their service but
approaches the websites that provide freelancing assignments. So based on your
experience and other factors you can choose either part time or full time
freelancing.
8.
Blogging
Another good source of income now a days is blogging. It’s a platform
maintained by the individual to share his knowledge, commentary, reviews,
Photography, Travelling etc. In initial days it takes quite good time and
efforts for recognition. However once it is established it will give us good
amount of passive income. You may be surprised to know that there are bloggers
in India who are earning around 30-40 laks per month as per the statistics.
However reaching to that level involves a lot of hardwork and patience.
Further, the investment in blogging is almost nil.
9.
You Tube Videos
Everyone is familiar with you tube revenue. The investment in you tube
videos is nil. After fulfilling the criteria given under you tube monetization
policy one can apply for monetization of their channel. Once it is approved
then you tube will start playing ads in your videos and based on views, ads
played, time spent it will generate revenue. Without any major equipment one
can shoot the video even with his smart phone.
10. Typing Jobs
There are lot of work from home based typing jobs available that pay you
up to Rs.15000 per month depending on the time you spend. These include copy
paste jobs, Captcha entry jobs, ads posting jobs etc. They do not require any
skill and some of them do not even have any targets. We should have a laptop or
desktop for these kind of jobs. Now a days some of them are available even in
smart phones also. One need to be very careful while selecting these kind of
jobs. Because there are a lot of complaints registered stating that they were
asked to pay some entry fees etc and later were cheated. So it is advisable not
to join if they ask you to pay any entry fees unless you have a strong evidence
that they are genuine.
