More ways to earn money while working at home

Here are more means to how you can earn money also online. No.1 As you might imagine, being a writer is a dream job for many people. The internet provides a lot of opportunities to be a paid writer, and a portion of those people are able to rise to prominence and make a solid living from the profession. But even if not, you can almost definitely make good side-money for being a writer. This is related to blogging, but not strictly limited to it. Writers can get paid for any type of writing, but sites like WritersDomain will often offer you a topic and a price and ask you to write an article with a certain word limit. Sites like that are a good way to get started, but if you’re looking to get more serious about writing, you should pursue a more long-term situation by finding clients through a site like oDesk or eLance. It is recommended for anyone looking to be a full-time writer to manage multiple types of writing, like writing for clients, writing for a blog, and potentially using their writing skills to pursue affiliate marketing. No.2 This one is nice and simple. People who are starting new forums online often need a way to build the notoriety of their website, and one way of doing this is to hire people to make quality posts on their forums to draw attention to them. A good hub for this type of work is the aptly-named paidforumposting.com, who employ a select number of writers who are contracted out to websites to do the posting. It is definitely a sort of side-income, but multiple types of side-income add up to primary income, so it’s still worth looking into. Sites to use: PaidForumPosting.com No.3 Well, this one is more of a method of mitigating loss than of making money, but it makes sense to take advantage of, as you’ll see. There are such things as GPT (get paid to) sites that will offer you money in return for taking advantage of opportunities that their sponsors offer. Surely, there are some GPT tasks that don’t require any purchase, you might be asked to subscribe to a newsletter or provide your traffic to a website. But you also might be asked to do something like try a trial of a service or purchase a month of something, and in that case, you’ll need to put money towards the task. The GPT site will reimburse you in whatever form they compensate through. This is a good method for something like getting a Netflix account. If you’re going to get one, and don’t have one, you might as well find a GPT site that gives you cash back for it, and recoup a little bit of the cost by taking advantage of it. Sites to use: CashCrate InboxDollars SendEarnings QuickRewards No.4 Fiverr is a service where you offer your skill for a flat rate of $5. Something like, “I’ll do a 30-second recording in an Australian accent.” The person contacts you, you do the work, and you get paid ($4 per job, actually, because the site keeps $1.) This is a good option, but only if you have a skill that you are capable of doing in mass. You might want to consider doing this if you’re trying to build a portfolio for something so that you can move up eventually and charge more for your services. For those in western countries, the income from Fiverr might not be quite enough. But if you live somewhere with a lower cost of living, and you can do a high volume of business, then the money from this site can add up to something pretty significant. Sites to use: Fiverr SEOClerks GigBucks Fourerr No.5 There are websites looking for people to give feedback on products, usually before they are finalized. A site like SoftwareJudge will pay you to test software and then respond with a survey or written feedback about what you experienced. If you’re looking for something more in the way of beta testing, you can check out Erli Bird for beta testing jobs. Erli Bird is a website that asks you to record your session with software and then submit a written request. These beta tests can be for video games, apps, software, and other kinds of products. These things will usually offer something like $10 per opportunity, which isn’t bad considering it’s only 30 minutes or an hour of work. Sites to use: SoftwareJudge Erli Bird Utest Yes, it works but you must be ready to spend few hours online to get paid. Here are few tips from me to you. No.6 Taking surveys for money is bay far the best way for most people to make a little side income in their free time. It doesn’t require any experience or investment. It’s totally free to join any legit survey site. These sites conduct online surveys on behalf of companies and manufacturers who use the feedback you provide to improve or develop new products. In return for your time and input, you are rewarded with cash, gift cards, and other prizes. It’s not unheard of to make a few hundred dollars a month with surveys. The way to do that is by joining a few dozen legit panels so you can have access to a lot of paid survey opportunities. If you only want cash, there are survey sites that pay cash (via PayPal.) Sites to use: OpinionOutpost SurveySavvy SurveySpot Valued Opinions No. 7 User testing is a real thing! In order to test the functionality and user-friendliness of their website, many businesses pay people to simply visit their site and test the various functionalities of it. Of course finding clients on your own is almost impossible, which is why sites like Usertesting are there. You can sign up for free, then whenever they have a new site to be tested, you will be notified. You visit the said site, then report back with your experience. The pay differs from site to site, but Usertesting pays $10 flat for every site review you complete. Sites to use: Usertesting.com StartUpLift TryMYUI No.8 Just like me,For those of you who don’t know, blogging is when you write for your own website, usually posting articles, recipes, reviews, or commentary (with the website itself being the “blog.”) Think of it like writing articles for a newspaper that you’re the sole proprietor of. Believe it or not, blogging is actually a very strong opportunity for making money, as we mentioned up above regarding the top bloggers. In the past, the primary obstacle for hosting a blog would have been obtaining a domain to host the blog, but now there are platforms dedicated solely to blogging, like WordPress, which make it easier than ever to get into the game and start a money-making blog in no time. Blogging is a great investment in terms of time and money because an article you wrote for 4 hours will be up and available for viewing for as long as your site lives. Furthermore, it requires essentially no money to keep going but has the potential to make you plenty of money. There is too much to say about blogging to fit into this article, but if you like the sound of it, definitely do some searches and read up on it. Even if you’re not comfortable with the idea of running a blog, you can still get paid to write for someone else’s. Sites to use: WordPress.com Blogger.com Tumblr Note: These are free blagging platforms that allow you to build a site quickly and for free. Start with these, get a feel for how this whole blogging thing works, then you can move on and buy your own domain name and hosting. At that point, I would suggest you build your blog using WordPress (this is the .org version of it which is for self-hosted sites). No.9 Despite the fancy name, telecommuting is as simple as it comes. A telecommuter is simply someone who does what would be done in a normal office job, but they do it from home. It can be in a variety of industries, advertising or administration or anything else. What jobs can be done via telecommuting are more about what companies are offering telecommuting jobs than about what can be done at a distance. In the internet age, virtually every job can be done from home. Whether you’re coding software, coming up with advertising, if you’re an artist or a writer or a manager, it can likely be done from home. Even board meetings can be done via communications software like Skype. Do a quick Google search for Telecommuting jobs and you’re sure to find some websites that will help you get going. Sites to use: FlexJobs VirtualVocations Forbes list of 100 companies offering telecommuting jobs No.10 Working as a virtual assistant, explained simply, is like being a secretary from your house. A variety of people will be wanting assistance for whatever they do, whether they write research articles or run an online business, and that’s where you come in as a virtual assistant. You should expect to be doing administrative work as a virtual assistant, so be prepared to employ skills like email response, data entry, examination of facts and organization of information. It’s as simple as being, well, of assistance to your employer, but you’ll almost definitely need some customer service skills. Keep that in mind if you’d prefer a more “back of the house” position. Sites to use: Zirtual VirtualAssistantJobs.com VirtualAssistants.com