Simple Ideas to Make Extra Money Online

Although the global market has not yet reached “Jetson” caliber with people flying to the office in compact spaceships, it has evolved to allow workers to never have leave the comfort of their own computer. Below you’ll find a variety of ways to make money online as well as general advice for anyone who wants to succeed in the online world.

1. Website Building

If the internet is a country, then websites are like real estates. I’m hoping by now you have a general understanding that real estates are valuable in the physical world – digital real estates work the same way. By building a website, you’re creating your own plot of online “land.”

You can fill this land with whatever you want, but you have to promote it through social media (and anywhere else you can think of) for this to be successful. When you build traffic to your land, you can sell people whatever you have to offer. In order to build a website, you need a host (i.e GoDaddy), a template (i.e WordPress), and content.

The first two parts are easy to find, and content is only as difficult as you make it. You can post blogs, items for sale, pictures, videos, or whatever you want. Opening up your own website gives you the potential to make money from the avenues I’m going to mention.

2.  Do online surveys

Online surveys won’t earn you much apiece, but they don’t eat up much time either and can add up when you need cash in a pinch. Read How to Make Money with Free Online Surveys for more advice.

3. Affiliate Marketing

This method of making money online involves promoting a specific services or products and earning commissions whenever the customers make a purchase through your referral link. If done correctly, affiliate marketing is the most powerful way to make money online. Amazon, ClickBank and Commission Junction are the three biggest affiliate marketplaces.

4. Google Adsense

To make money from Google Adsense, you need to apply for an account at Adsense.com. After having an Adsense account you can put ads on your websites or blogs. Whenever someone clicks on your ads, you will be credited the amount. The more your adsense ads get clicked the more you will earn. Many webmasters are making huge money online each month through this program.

5. Enter contests.

Since you won’t get paid unless your entry wins, search for a wide range of free contests in a field where you’re already have a lot of possible entries (ex. photos, logo-making, background design) and submit your work to as many places as will have you. It might take a day to get through all of them, but even a few small successes (or, preferably, a great big one) will make up for it. The experience might even steer you in a new creative direction.