If you’re new to the online workspace, here are 6 ways you can make money online, even if you’re a beginner.

Want to make your first dollar online? Then you’ve come to the right place.

Whether you’re an expert or a beginner, here's a list of ways you can make money online that anyone can do. In this article, you’ll read about:

1. Online Freelancing

2. eCommerce

3. Taking Surveys

4. Blogging

5. Becoming an Influencer

6. Affiliate Marketing

1. Online Freelancing

If you have a radio voice, graphic design, or programming skills, you can monetize them on freelance platforms such as Upwork and Fiverr by providing vocal or programming services. 

The online freelancing community is growing and many people are making a living online offering their knowledge and services. Some freelancers get so popular that they have to turn down gigs because they’re fully booked! Some even started their own companies by hiring other talents to help out. 

With online freelancing, you can creatively scale your business however you want and safely, because costs aren’t that high in the digital space.

2. eCommerce

There are multiple ways eCommerce is done. Garage sale/auction-style, dropshipping, print on demand, and private label. 

Garage auction style is using marketplace platforms such as eBay, Mercari, or even Craigslist to sell your items individually. If you don’t have any Pokemon cards or mint condition shoes to sell, a popular start to selling products on marketplaces is retail arbitrage. Retail Arbitrage is when you buy retail products that are on sale and resell them online for retail or higher prices. Just don’t be one of those scalpers... Nobody likes a bad scalper...

Dropshipping is when you sell items directly from suppliers to your customer. You are essentially the middle person and hold no inventory! You’ll have to find dropshipping compliant suppliers to have everything more streamlined and simpler. Dropshipping can be done with Shopify, Squarespace, Wix, or any site-building platform that has a payment platform and extensions.

Like dropshipping, Print On Demand is also a great way to sell products online, especially if you have awesome design skills or your own brand. Print On Demand is merchandise made to order, so you don’t need to hold inventory. The supplier will print and ship it to your customer. Additionally, if you’re a photographer or an artist, you can sell your works with Print On Demand too!

If you have a brand and want to sell a product under your brand, you can do private labeling. Amazon has created billion-dollar companies such as Anker, Yi Security Cameras, and TicWatch.

The scalability is high with eCommerce. Think of all the products people buy on Amazon and eBay. If selling products is your passion, eCommerce is the way to go because the act of buying things online is growing and will not stop.

3. Taking Surveys

Companies need information, and they’re willing to pay for it. A fair warning is that you won’t earn much from taking surveys, so don’t quit your day job for it. Swagbucks, Lifepoints, and Survey Junkie are examples of companies that buy information in form of surveys. They often reward you with points where you can redeem gift cards. These can be fun to do on your daily commute to work. This isn’t a recommended route if you’re looking to scale your income, but a way to earn a side income in addition to your day job.

4. Blogging

Anyone with a computer or even a phone has the ability to blog. Blogging brings out the creativity in how you can share your thoughts and knowledge. 

The upside is that it’s free with unlimited potential. The downside is…  it’ll take a long time if you make any money if you don’t have a chosen niche, and you’ll need a budget for advertisements to reach any audience. If you’d like to learn more about what type of traffic is available, you can check them out here: 5 Types Of Traffic Networks

In order to be successful in the blogging space, you’ll need to offer tons of value before expecting an opportunity for payment. This is also true for the next type of making money online.

5. Becoming an Influencer (Vlogging)

It’s no doubt that in this day and age, the majority of people want to become social media influencers. It’s one of the harder things to do for the average joe and jane, but not entirely impossible. As vloggers, the possibilities are endless with becoming an influencer. You can get sponsorships, build loyal followers, and even start your own business in your field of expertise. 

Are you a chef that has recipes you’d like to show your audience? Video services like YouTube, and Instagram can help you gather your loyal foodies together.

Are you a mechanic that wants to teach people how to change their own car oil filter? Grab a phone and record yourself in the action and upload it onto YouTube! 

Honestly, YouTube is still the best source of quality traffic for any niche. The reason is people actively look to video tutorials for answers, and a real person behind the camera giving advice. 

6. Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is growing and it’s becoming the lifeblood of many businesses, small and big alike. Affiliate marketing is when you are marketing someone else’s product to an audience and making commissions per sale. Affiliate marketing can be done with many different techniques and strategies. If you can implement a blog, (which you should, I teach it on my site) and YouTube, you can have a very successful passive income generator in the long run. You can learn a lot more about affiliate marketing here. I go very deep into the different steps required to start building a profitable business with the power of affiliate marketing.

This is something you cannot do overnight and be profitable. If you want to make money online as a beginner, you must first absorb all the information you can get your hands on from different people. Learn from people’s mistakes and successes. Gather information and consolidate it in a notebook. Study other people’s websites and YouTube channels and really learn the material you want to make your career in. 

Making money online isn’t for everyone but anyone can try it out to see if it’s really for them. It takes discipline, knowledge, and drive to make money online because, in the end, you’ll have to manage your own business and make sure you’re making money.

I hope this helped pave your way to the next step to making money online. The main takeaway from this article is to get the ball rolling and start your journey. Even if you’re a beginner, you will learn along the way.

Keep your eyes on the prize, and focus on the task at hand. Have a clear schedule and complete everything on the list! 

As Jay Shetty (A Phenomenal Speaker) once said:

“The formula of Success=Hard work x Positive Attitude + Courage + Patience + Resilience - Ego + Great People”

I’ll see you on the other side,
Sam

*Learn about what affiliate marketing is here

*Learn about the 5 types of traffic networks here