#1 Affiliate Programs: Affiliate programs are usually described as when a company or individual pays for traffic that you send to their website that promote sales. For example, if I sent you over to FluxService, which is a webhosting company, and you signed up for hosting, or one of their other services, like programming or web design, then I would get a cut of the price of whatever you bought from them.
#2 Google Adsense And Selling Adspace: Selling space for ads is when other people make an ad and submit it to Google, or any of multi
le adprogram sites out there, and then you sign up on the other end, and put their ads on your site or blog. If people visiting your site click on the links, you get paid anywhere from a couple of cents to a few dollars. It's one of the most well-known ways to get paid for your blogging.
#3 Freelance Writing, Graphic Design, and Technical Knowledge: On websites such as Elance and
FreeLanceDesigners , you can sign up to bid for designing, programming, or writing contracts. If people like your work, you will get placed high in the list of "experts." From the Elance website, "Elance is a global solution that enables entrepreneurs and businesses to launch, build and grow their business from anywhere in the world. The Elance platform allows businesses to easily find, hire, manage and pay highly qualified professionals - for exactly what they need, when they need it.
#4 Trademark, or Patents: If you have some amazing idea for a program, or web design interface, or anything, you can patent it and/or sell it. Ashley Qualls, of WhateverLife.com, is a self-made millionaire at the age of 17. She had this idea for Myspace designs, for people to put on their pages, and started a small website, to show her friends her ideas. Some other people stumbled onto it, and although she didn't spend anything on advertising, it traveled by word of mouth, and it was even mentioned on by a radio station. A small idea, for myspace designs, and now she's a millionaire. Do you have an idea that nobody else does yet? Sell it!
#5 Program support, for both software and websites : There are a lot of people that set up websites for people who don't know how to do so for themselves. The thing is, most of them don't advertise their services, or they do it in the wrong places. Even if you aren't the best out there, advertising and marketing will make you the most wanted for your skill and expertise. The people that don't advertise are leaving money on the table, by working for only word-of-mouth customers. (another article on marketing and advertising vs. word of mouth is coming soon)
#6 Virtual Assistance : As described by Entrepreneur.com "As a virtual assistant, you take on the nitty-gritty work for independent professionals and small businesses that don't need a full-time secretary or office manager. Your tasks may include secretarial work, meeting and travel planning, project managing, and logistics coordinating." I couldn't have described it better myself.
#7 Reviewing products : If you Google for "paid reviews" or "paid surveys," it will return hundreds of hits. Basically, you do a survey, or review a product, and then if that company uses your review for something, they will pay you for it. Some programs pay more than others, but their rules are more strict. It's just a matter of deciding what your capable of doing. If you have very good technical english and grammer, you will probably get ahead in this area.
#8 Blogging : This can be a very successful business, just ask John Chow. His personal blog, for random thoughts and notes, turned into a big (in the starting blogger's eyes) business. However, one thing to remember is, there are thousands if not millions of people out there trying to make money by blogging. You will really have to stand out, by making enough interesting content to actually make people want to come back and hear what you have to say. This one, out of all these tips, is probably one of the hardest for most people, because they just want instant pay-out. With blogging, you have to stick with it, and keep writing interesting content almost everyday for a while if you want to get noticed. The other ways, you can work when you feel like it, and then you get paid for the work you've done.
#9 Creating Website : I bet you didn't know that there are hundreds of people and companies that want a business presence on the internet. The thing is, they don't know how to find one, much less set it up or put their products on it. Do you hear an opportunity banging on your head, screaming at you to pay attention to it? Websites really aren't as hard to adapt and use as people think they are. One program that drastically simplifies web-page building, is Nvu. I highly recommend it for all beginning web-developers.
#10 Online Retail : eBay is the most used search engine on the internet, and there are over 49 million registered users. There are 103.6 million listings online at any given time, and around 1.3 million sellers use eBay to make their primary or secondary income. Think about that. It obviously means that enough people buy to make it worth the effort.
