1 Make Money Online with Swagbucks
Basically this is a free site that offers you a bunch of ways to earn cash, gift cards, or other rewards.
You can earn money by a variety of methods including:
- Answering polls
- Using their search engine
- Doing simple tasks (like giving feedback about a website)
- Getting cash back for shopping online
- Taking surveys
- Playing games on their site.
I have tried it out and have received multiple payments from them, so I can attest that it is legit.
Oh and they also have an A+ rating with the BBB.
While you won’t get rich doing this, to me it seems like a great way
for internet-lovers to make some money. Find out more in our
Swagbucks review or get started
here.
I just recently
made $2145 in one month selling stuff from around the house on Ebay and Craigslist.
You can even sell stuff for friends or family members and split the profits with them.
A couple years ago I did an
interview with a guy who made $28,000 in one year doing this part time. It is work and requires organization skills to do it well, but it is legit.
I tried my hand at it using
Project Payday and their training materials to see that it was legit.
Basically companies are willing to pay you to do trial offers for
their products. They know that many people who do the trial offer will
like their product and continue to be customers, so they are willing to
pay people to sign up for trial offers.
So one of the main ways of making money freebie trading is signing up
for offers like a Free Netflix trial, emusic.com, applying for a
Discover Card, etc. The key to success seems to be having a calendar
where you can keep track of when the trial periods end and make sure to
cancel before they end.
If you are interested in learning more I definitely recommend
Project Payday
as they have a ton of training guides (free if you complete a couple
offers) that will greatly simplify the process. Oh and they have a A+
rating with the BBB as well.
4 Take online surveys
I am not particularly fond of the whole online survey thing since I had a bad experience using
CashCrate.
But there are lots of online survey sites and people who do it
successfully. Here are a few if you want to investigate it further:
I recommend proceeding with caution and definitely not paying anything to join.
5 Raise Money Online
If you are
raising money for a community service project or missions, you might want to check out a site like
GoFundMe.com.
They make it easy for teens to raise money for any type of project.
People have used it to raise the money for everything from mission trips
to medical bills, weddings and honeymoons, business ventures, and even
college tuition.
6 Build Websites For Others
I can’t tell you how many people have asked me to
build them a website
since I started this one a couple years ago. I am not seeking the work
and people are requesting it, so if you do a little legwork and pursue
small business owners, there is a lot of work available. Teens might be
great for this, because they would be able to work for less than some
higher end website developers, which would put them in the price range
that it seems many small businesses are looking to spend. Here is a
great course to help you get started.
7 Start a business doing what you love
If you have ever wanted to start a business,
here is a truly great course
to help you get started. It isn’t free, but I went through it and
could not believe how thorough of a step-by-step the course is. It is
packed with very detailed tips, tricks, and suggestions on exactly what
you need to do to start a business and start making money.
They are so confident in the success of their students that they
guarantee you will make $1,000 from you business in 60 days or they will
refund all your money.
It truly is a great course, and I highly recommend if you are wanting to start a business of any kind.
Read more about it here.
8 Freelance Write
As they say on the web “content is king” and everyone wants it. Places like
Elance or
Odesk have
thousands of different job openings available for freelance writers. If
you are not in a rush for receiving compensation and know how to do
keyword research, there is money to be made writing at
Hubpages. For more on this method, check out
How to make money with Hubpages.
9 Sell your closet (without Ebay or a Garage Sale)
If you are anything like my wife, you have a closet full of old clothes that you don’t wear any more.
You can easily sell them on a site like ThredUp,
which will pay anywhere from $2-$25 for items from Gap, Banana
Republic, J.Crew, etc. You can click here and then scroll down to the
bottom to see what items may sell for.
What I love about them is that all you have to do is pack up your
clothes in a box and then just ship it to them – you don’t even have to
pay for shipping!
The image below is from their site explaining how it works:
Find out more about them here!
10Sell Plasma or do Medical studies
Not sure how old you have to be, nor how painful it is, but if you
are into that sort of thing, it can be a way to make some quick money.
You can find plasma donation centers
here or if you want to do medical studies, you can just google “medical studies” + your city to find some options.
I have a couple friends who have almost done this exclusively as a
job. They were basically human guinea pigs, but they made some decent
cash at it. Sometimes they would have be at the medical facility for up
to 48 hours, so your schedule may need to be flexible.
11 Work as a virtual call center agent
One of our writers worked as a virtual call center agent and this is what she had to say about
LiveOps.com
“Live Ops is a company that hires virtual call center agents. You are
responsible for paying for your own criminal background check prior to
starting work (this costs around $30). You also must have your own
dedicated phone line and a quiet workspace.
Once you are all set up, Live Ops has an excellent online training
program that teaches you how to handle calls from customers. You will be
taking calls for many different companies. When you start working, your
phone will ring and a script will pop up on your screen. You simply
read the script word for word and input customer information as you go
along. If customers have questions, there is a section on your screen
with FAQ’s and you are also logged into a virtual chat room should you
need to ask for support from a supervisor.
The pay is .25 per minute of talk time. Agents typically make
anywhere from $7-$14 per hour. As for the hours, they are totally
flexible. You can choose which shifts you want to work each week and the
shifts are broken down into half hour increments giving you optimal
flexibility. You can even log in and work if you are not scheduled for
some impromptu cash.”
12 Testing websites
Website owners are occasionally looking for feedback about their websites.
Usertesting.com allows you to get paid to test and give feedback about websites.
Their current payouts are $10-$15 per test. The tests normally take about 20 minutes.
13Gigwalk
Gigwalk is a fairly new iPhone app that offers payment for completing simple tasks based on your location.
For example users earn by taking pictures of a restaurant’s menu, verifying roadblocks and signage, and other simple tasks.
If you are in a big city (which typically has more opportunities) there is some decent potential with this one.
14 Get paid to Tweet
Did you know that advertisers will pay you to send out tweets about their products?
As you could imagine the bigger your audience the more you will get paid, but you can find out more here –
SponsoredTweets.com.
15 Use Bookscouter to sell books from Thrift stores
Ok here is a simple business idea for you.
Start by downloading the BookScouter app on your phone.
Go visit garage sales or thrift shops and scan the used book sections to find books that you can sell for higher prices.
Many thrift stores sell all their books for 50 cents or less and some of those books are worth a whole lot more.
As you can see in the image to the right, you just scan the barcode
with your phone (or enter the ISBN #) and then the app provides the
prices that a bunch of book buyback sites are willing to pay for that
particular book.
In this case, we can make $3.60 selling this Dave Ramsey book. If I
can buy it for 50 cents, then that sounds like a nice profit.
16 Tutor or give lessons
Are you great at guitar, math, or kicking a field goal?
Why not advertise your skills to those a few years younger than you?
Many parents are willing to pay a teenager to tutor their child in an area that needs development.
Post an ad to Craigslist for free and see what happens!
17 Create Facebook Graphics or Pages
or Twitter backgrounds for that matter.
Lots of small business owners are needing help making their online
presence not so lame. If you have even the smallest amount of graphic
design skill you can help some of them!
Just set up a simple site to sell your work, get a paypal “buy it now link” and you are off and running.
Jobs for adults or uniquely mature teenagers
18 Get paid $35/hr with Lyft
Not sure if you’ve heard, but Lyft is an app that basically
eliminates the need to ever call a taxi. Instead of calling a cab, you
just click “request driver” and then a Lyft driver gets a notification
and comes and picks you up. The service is way faster than calling a
cab and is about half the price. I say all that to say that as a driver
for Lyft, you use your own car, drive only when you want to, and
(according to the website) get paid $35/hr. Not too shabby.
19 Buy and Sell cars for profit
If
you love cars and aren’t afraid to haggle, you could start a car
flipping biz. We have a friend of the family who has done this for
years. He scours the classified listings for deals, lands a good deal
and then drives the car while trying to sell it for a couple grand more.
Sometimes he sells them quickly, sometimes it takes a little longer,
but he gets to drives lots of cars (which he loves) and makes a nice
side income as well. Here is
an online course to help you get started.
20 Rent out your car for $10+ an hour
I just heard about
RelayRides.com
which allows you to either rent or lend your car to others – and get
paid in the process. If you live in a big city, this could be pretty
profitable!
21 Blogging
Two years ago I wasn’t sure if there was money to be made blogging,
but I have since found it to work out nicely. It isn’t something that
will provide much income quickly, but if you stick at it, it can. Since I
have been a full-time blogger for many years now, I wrote extensively
about
how to make money from a blog for those who are interested in this type of thing.
22 Rent out your home on AirBNB
AirBNB
is a site that allows you to rent out your home to other people who may
just want to visit where you live. You can rent it out as little or as
much as you want and can list it to rent by the night, week, or month.
They offer a $1,000,000 guarantee to protect you from any kind of
property damage that was caused by renters. They also have a renter
rating system, so you can choose whether or not you want to rent it out
to a particular renter. Check out the video below for more:
If you are interested,
find out more at their site.
23 Social Marketing Consultant
Many companies are looking for qualified candidates who know the ins
and outs of Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter to help them with their
social marketing efforts. Head over to a
job site and search for “social media marketing”.
24 Sell articles
Following in that same vein, you can sell articles you write at places like
Constant-Content.com,
ArticleSale.com,
Helium.com.
25 Start an eBay business
Last year I experimented with
starting an eBay business
to see if there was money to be made. While profit margins can be thin
selling on eBay, there are over a million eBay businesses, so it is a
viable option.
26 Sell Digital Photos
Making money as a photographer has become easier over the last
decade. There are now lots of sites looking to buy digital photos:
As with most things, the better you are, the more money you will make, but it can be a nice passive income if you work at it!
Some of these might be landscaping work, or similar odd-jobs, but it might be great summer-time work!
28 Sell widgets on Etsy.com
If you create any kind of arts or crafts or widgets of any sort, you should definitely be selling it on
Etsy.com. Read our
step-by-step tutorial of how to set up your Etsy shop.
29 Design Web Logos
If you have a flair for design, it may be worth trying to
make some money designing logos for small business or
blogs.
30 Make Money by Viewing Ads On Your Android Lock Screen
I’ve been trying out this android app called
Locket
that puts ads on your lock screen and pays you for each time you unlock
your phone. I’ve been trying it out for a few days and have made about 3
bucks thus far, so it isn’t huge, but at the same time, I didn’t really
have to do any work to earn the money. Anyway, if you are interested in
checking it out, I have a quick video review that you can watch here…
This is the dream job isn’t it? You get to shop and get paid! The
added bonus is that you secretly have recourse when you are treated
poorly in the store.
32 Offer to do jobs on Zaarly.com
Zaarly is a
website that connects those offering random services (like walking a
dog, being a personal assistant for a day, giving guitar lessons, etc)
with buyers who are looking for those services. I would suggest checking
out some of the ideas listed on the site and sign up and offer those
services.
33 Get paid from your iPhone (smartphone)
There seem to be some apps popping up that pay you to do simple stuff
like take a picture of a menu, or of yourself drinking a starbucks, or
verifying that a road is closed – you get the picture. Here are a
few that I found:
34Teach English (or other Language) Classes Online
Did you know that English speakers are in high demand in Asia? As a
result many are turning to freelance English teachers using websites
like
Italki.com. The site is basically a
virtual online classroom for freelance teachers and students. Anyone
can offer lessons (and set their own price) and anyone can take lessons.
From a quick scan, it looks like making $15-20/hour is a fair
expectation.
35Get paid to Pin on Pinterest?
We are looking for a little help in the Pinterest department If you have a following of at least 5,000 we’d like to hear from you.
Submit your application here.
