You'd be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't want to earn more money. However, securing a raise or launching a side business isn't always realistic. After all, there are only so many hours in a day.
Luckily, there are ways to earn more without working around the clock — or leaving the house at all. The internet offers numerous opportunities for enterprising individuals to boost their income, often from the comfort of their own couches. From taking surveys to teaching your peers, here are 30 ways you can earn money online.
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1. Get Paid to Take Surveys
If you love sharing your opinions, consider getting paid for the privilege. Some companies will pay individuals to take surveys so they can gather valuable consumer and user data. You can find websites like Cashback Research that offer, you guessed it, cash for your opinions.
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2. Create a Winning Blog
If you're skilled with a pen, you might be able to generate cash by blogging. Some companies pay you to place affiliate links or ads on your blog, while others offer cash for writing about their products or services. Your blogging success will depend on your writing talent, whether your blog covers a popular subject and the popularity of the links you include.
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3. Sell Your Stuff on eBay
The internet is rife with online marketplaces where sellers can list items they no longer desire. Whether you want to sell your unwanted designer clothing or develop a high-volume online store, you can make extra money on sites such as Amazon, Etsy and eBay while unloading your wares.
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4. Sign Up for Amazon Mechanical Turk
You probably won't get rich completing typical tasks on Amazon Mechanical Turk. However, you can make extra income if you're willing to perform simple tasks for clients. Common jobs include writing reviews of restaurants, researching hotels to assess whether they're good for kids and translating text to another language.
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5. Sell Older Electronics
If you have a computer, laptop or cellphone you no longer use, you might be able to sell it for cash. These and other tech items, while built with former generation features, often have value to others. Put the money toward an upgraded item or use it to pay off debt.
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6. List Household Items on Craigslist
Free to join and devoid of listing or selling fees, Craigslist lets users find both local and national buyers for their items. From kitchenware to baby furniture, you can list almost anything for sale on this massive site.
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7. Self-Publish Kindle Digital Books
If you love to write and believe you can craft an entertaining fiction or non-fiction book, consider authoring and publishing a digital book through the Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing platform.
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8. Create Niche Websites Featuring Google AdSense Ads
Niche sites exist to attract visitors seeking specialized information on various subjects. If you have a talent for website building, consider creating a site and adding Google AdSense advertising links to monetize it.
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9. Upload YouTube Videos and Get Paid for Ad Views
You don't need to invest in expensive video equipment; simply learn how to use your smartphone's video recorder and upload entertaining or informative videos to the internet. You can then opt to have ads play before your videos to get cash for each view. In 2015 alone, gamer PewDiePie took in $15 million in YouTube revenue, according to Forbes.
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10. Design Useful Apps for Mobile Devices
If you design a wildly popular app, you might be able to generate significant income. The iTunes and Android app stores give your creations wide exposure to prospective buyers. And income can be generated by charging for the app, displaying in-app ads or charging for in-app features and upgrades.
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11. Sell Your Time and Talents
The website Fiverr promotes members' talents in multiple disciplines and connects them to people looking to pay for those skills. For example, if you're a digital photo editing guru, you could find freelance projects to complete for compensation.
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12. Sell the Use of Your Photos, Videos and Other Media
Sites like Picture Stock allow you to sell your prized photos and earn royalties every time the images are used. That means longer-term residual income.
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13. Sell Your Original Instagram Photos
While you can share your social media photos on Instagram, you can also sell prints of your photos for a profit on Instaprints and similar sites.
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14. Share Your Knowledge
If you have in-depth expertise about a specific subject, you could create a website for selling your skills to others. For example, you could offer music lessons over Skype for a fee or charge for video lessons on gardening.
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15. Become an Amazon Associate
This program allows you to earn money by including affiliate links to different products offered by Amazon. When a visitor views your blogs or social media pages and clicks the Amazon links on your site, you will earn commissions from Amazon on qualifying products bought during that session.
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16. Become an Internet Life Coach
Life coaches help their clients achieve goals and improve overall quality of life. While you typically need to take courses to become a technical or executive coach, you can become a successful life coach if you possess common sense and a commitment to enjoy life every day and help others do the same.
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17. Promote Organizations on Social Media
Many major retailers will compensate you for promoting their businesses on your website and social media pages. They might pay you in cash or gift cards. For example, some restaurants will give you a gift card if you check in on Facebook or Yelp.
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18. Promote Businesses and Products via Affiliate Programs
If you have a website or blog, you can make money through affiliations with other businesses and sites, which will pay you a percentage of the sales you generate for them.
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19. Sell Handmade Items and Crafts
If you have an artistic side, consider selling hand-crafted items on Etsy or another site to make money off your hobby. For best results, review a range of websites to find the best fit for your products.
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20. Become a Virtual Assistant
Freelance sites, such as the popular Upwork, often have jobs available for virtual assistants. Like with traditional assistant positions, virtual assistants get paid for helping executives with a wide array of tasks.
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21. Become a Freelance Writer
If you have a passion for writing, you might be able to make money writing content for blogs, web articles or websites. Many companies offer assignments to aspiring and experienced writers alike.
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22. Sell Customized Shirts Online
Selling graphic t-shirts is big business. Customized shirts with clever sayings or graphics are ideal for online sales, and sites like Teespring allow you to design and sell these shirts for a profit. Because the sales model involves lining up buyers before printing, you can get started with a smaller initial investment, though you'll likely make a smaller profit on each shirt sold.
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23. Become a Third-Party Seller on Amazon
If you're a regular Amazon customer, you've likely seen products sold by third parties marked "ships from Amazon." These products come from sellers who send their wares to Amazon fulfillment facilities. Amazon then lists the item and ships it when a buyer is found.
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24. Buy Local and Resell Online
Another way to make money is to find things in your area that are free or cheap and then sell them online for a profit. Many people hunt through local thrift stores for rare collectibles, vintage styles or cheap books or media to mark up and resell online.
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25. Design Websites
If you have an interest in web development, take advantage of the demand for designers to build winning sites for businesses or organizations. Sites like Upwork are a good place to start for finding clients and building your portfolio.
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26. Promote Products on Your Website
Sites like SocialSpark offer bloggers cash for authoring and posting original copy about products or services to their sites. Just make sure to pay attention to FCC disclosure requirements when you're getting paid to promote.
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27. Buy Domain Names for Resale
Some people have made big bucks by owning desired domains and selling them to hungry buyers. For the minimal investment of buying domain names you feel will become popular (typically $10 to $20), you might make a big profit down the line.
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28. Rent Out Your Driveway or Parking Spot
Parking is at a premium in most thriving cities, and renting an unused space in your driveway or deeded parking space can generate additional income. Apps like JustPark allow you to rent out your space when it's not in use.
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29. Provide Online Tutoring
Sites like Tutor and TutorVista will connect you with people looking to learn a subject, and you might be in particularly high demand if you're knowledgeable in math, science or a foreign language. You have to go through an application process, but once you're approved, you can start getting paid.
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30. Teach an Online Course
Sites like Udemy help aspiring teachers find paying students in their chosen disciplines. According to its website, about 15 million students use the service, and the average instructor earnings total $8,000.
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