Making Money Online Beginners Tips and Ideas

Making Money Online Beginners Tips and Ideas

The following list of tips is meant to provide new comers with basic Internet Marketing advice to help improve their initial online marketing activities. It can also serve as an introduction to online marketing. Note that these tips are not necessary related to my strategy but rather constitute general internet marketing advice. If you are an experienced online marketer you may want to skip this chapter and go directly to the next one where I start explaining my simple, yet highly effective, strategy of making lots of money online.

Now here are the tips:

1. One great way to make money online is to use a site like Etsy or eBay to sell things you make yourself. If you have any talents, from sewing to knitting to carpentry, you can make a killing through online markets. People want items that are handmade, so join in! 

2. Take paid surveys online if you want to make some extra cash on the side. Market research companies will want to get as much consumer feedback as possible, and these surveys are a great way to do this. Surveys may range anywhere from five cents to 20 dollars depending on the type you do.

3. If you'd like to make money online, try thinking outside the box. While you want to stick with something you know and are capable of doing, you will greatly expand your opportunities by branching out. Look for work within your preferred genre or industry, but don't discount something simply because you've never done it before.

4. You can make money online by playing games. Farm Gold is a great site that you can log in to and play fun games during the course of the day in your spare time. There are many games that you can choose from to make this a profitable and fun experience.

5. Put your down time to good use. There are many ways to earn money online that require little focus. This is true of tiny tasks on a crowdsourcing site like Mturk.com, known as Mechanical Turk. You can work on these tasks as you watch some TV. Don't expect to break the bank with this technique, but you can make some of your time online pay off instead of being time completely wasted.

6. Begin a podcast talking about some of the things that you have interest in. If you get a high following, you may get picked up by a company who will pay you to do a certain amount of sessions per week. This can be something fun and very profitable if you are good at speaking.

7. Don't quit your day job until the online money making opportunity you're looking into starts paying off. While it could prove to be a jackpot, you don't want to risk being up the creek if it's not what you were hoping for. Always have enough money in the bank for a few month's of bills, just to be on the safe side.

8. If you love to write, consider selling your fiction or non-fiction work through an electronic book on the Internet. This is a great way to tell everyone that you know thingsabout something and make money in the process. Beginning with a collection of recipes is an excellent way to begin with E-books.

9. Use affiliates on your personal website. Do you have a blog or some other sort of presence online? Do you get a lot of traffic? Try affiliate marketing. It requires very little effort on your part. By registering your site with sites like Google Adsense, you could make a considerable amount in passive income.

10. Working online is likely not to make you a millionaire overnight. Even Perez Hilton or Ariana Huffington had to work hard to get their sites to be popular. The same goes for you, whether you are writing SEO articles or designing websites. Don't let frustration cause you to quit if you don't strike it rich quickly.

11. Selling items on eBay is a great way to make some money online. You may have things that are just collecting dust in your home and taking up space. On eBay, you can sell these items. All you have to do is create a profile and put your items up for sale.

12. Don't buy into anything that tells you that you can make a whole bunch of money if you pay into a system. A lot of these things that promise you a fortune were put together by someone to get your money and not help you at all. Use common sense and you should do fine if this comes up.

13. If you have a lot to say and you think others will like reading it, you should think about starting a blog. Having ads placed on your blog can earn you a decent amount of residual income each month. The best way to maximize your earnings would be to place ads that are relevant to your content.

14. If you plan on making serious money online, make sure you've got the right equipment for the job. There's nothing more frustrating than trying to complete a job and your Internet times out, or is so slow that you miss a bid or other opportunity. Have the necessary equipment and make sure you're software is up to date too.

15. Photography is a growing business. If you like taking pictures, and you are good at it, you could make money selling those pictures online. Look into companies like Shutterstock and Fotolia, which are stock photo agencies. They make it easy for people to earn a little extra money by taking pictures.

16. Start making money online doing microgigs. Register at Fiverr and offer small tasks that you can do for others for five bucks. If you can't think of anything you can do that people might pay for, browse over what is already offered. You will be surprised at the kinds of tasks that are available.

17. Take paid surveys online if you want to make some extra cash on the side. Market research companies will want to get as much consumer feedback as possible, and these surveys are a great way to do this. Surveys may range anywhere from five cents to 20 dollars depending on the type you do.

18. If you enjoy writing, take a look at revenue sharing sites. Both of these sites let you write on your favorite topics, and you get a split of the incoming revenue. Additionally, you can also use Amazon's affiliate program to increase your earning potential.

19. If you love to draw, you can sell some of the photography that you create on the web. Initially, you may want to post your goods on Craigslist or a smaller site to get the word out and see if people will bite. If there is a high following, you can move to a more prominent site.

20. When looking for opportunities to make money online, try the big name companies first. Amazon and eBay for example, are trusted and have proven to work for millions of people. While it can be safe and lucrative to go with unknowns, the big companies have track records, tools and other ways of ensuring your success from the get-go.