First the online opportunities. Some of these are bidding type jobs, where you might not be paid for your efforts unless you’re accepted. Others require simple work, and you’re only asked to do it if someone is already willing to pay.
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1. Pleio Remind People to Take Their Medication
Pleio is a website that provides a reminder service to people to take their medications.
They often have vacancies for people to work remotely, calling in the reminders and helping out with basic questions about prescriptions.
2. Rev Do Transcription
Rev is another online service, this time offering transcription services to the public.
If you can type proficiently, and would like to work independently transcribing audios, then you should check out their current job vacancies.
3. Needle Be an Advocate of Your Favorite Brands
Or perhaps you prefer to help people out via chat windows, and would like to become a customer support person.
Needle. com employs people called Advocates who are always available for an online real-time conversation with shoppers.
4. Hairsellon Sell Your Hair
Not exactly a website from which you could make a regular income, but if you have long hair and fancy a change in style, you might consider selling your hair online. It can be worth quite a bit.
5. Doba Do Drop Shipping
Perhaps the largest online selling opportunity, provided you are prepared to work at it, is to sell items that are drop shipped from a manufacturer or supplier.
You advertise these items on your own storefront or website, and when you make a sale you send the details through to the manufacturer who takes care of all the details.
Unlike selling your own products, the manufacturer has to take care of any warranty issues.
But normally finding suppliers and going through the hassle of locating worthy products is very time consuming and frankly scary for beginners. But using a site like Doba it all becomes very easy and painless.
6. Zazzle Design Customized Stuff
Another website for the designer in you, you can use this site to sell items you have made, upload designs and be paid royalties, or promote others' products to earn money.
It’s called an Artisan website, so take a look and see what type of goods are selling.
7. Fiverr Do…whatever!
Another online site where you offer your services, the novelty with the Fiverr site is that the basic job costs $5. After fees, you’ll probably earn about $4.
Before you decide that this is not enough, have a look at the site and see what people are offering. Some things are very quick and easy to do for the basic price, and others are offering extensions to the $5 job, and being paid more.
Some people are reputed to make a good living simply from working on this site.
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8. SurveySavvy Take Online Surveys
Even if you don’t feel you have any particular talents, you can probably make money by filling out online surveys.
Of course, this is one of the areas of the Internet where there have been a lot of scams, so you should watch out and never pay to be registered.
9. Inbox Dollars Watch Videos
On a similar theme, you could register for Inbox Dollars, where you earn money for doing things that you are most likely doing already. The things are usually simple tasks, such as filling out surveys, printing out coupons, and doing Internet searches.
This won’t make you a ton of money, but every little helps.
10. SwagBucks Get Paid to Search
And again, for little more income you could register with SwagBucks. The website will pay you in SwagBucks if you will take part in their surveys, search using their search engine, watch promotional videos, and other minor stuff.
SwagBucks are simply points which add up when you do these things regularly for a few minutes each day. When you earn enough points, you can redeem them for an Amazon gift card, cash into your PayPal account, or a prepaid Visa card.
11. Upwork Freelance
Upwork is a more traditional type of “talent for hire” site.
If you’ve heard of Elance, it’s the same idea, and in fact Elance has merged with them. You can find jobs designing websites, programming, and writing, and you simply bid on the job description, and the client who advertised the job decides who they want, based both on price and your background.
12. User Testing Test Websites
You can make use of your Internet time and earn a little money by registering with Usertesting and other user testing sites that pay you. These websites give you opportunities to get paid for trying out different apps or programs, and by visiting websites and providing feedback. Though fairly simple, this is important to companies to know that their online image is acceptable.
13. Kindle Publishing Publish Your Own eBook
With a little more effort, you too could write a book!
No, seriously, many people have already done that and published the e-book on the Amazon Kindle platform. Sure you may not have the success that Amanda Hocking, the 26-year-old romance writer from Minnesota had (who by the way became a millionaire thanks to her kindle books ), but you could earn a little passive income.
If you look, many of the books are not very long, perhaps solving one or two particular problems for people, so it is realistic that you too could do it. Once you are on Amazon, the world can see what you have to offer.
If you do it all yourself (and it’s not too difficult), then it costs you nothing to see your book there in the Amazon store. If you want to make sure that your book appears professional, you could consider paying for an editor and for a cover design, but depending on your talents, that’s not a necessary expenditure.
To get started, read this awesome guide by CopyBlogger which covers everything you need to know/do to publish your first eBook on Amazon's Kindle platform.
14. Udemy Teach Anything
If you want to take it one step further, you might want make a video highlighting your expertise, and teaching it to others.
Udemy is an easy to use Internet platform where you can load up your videos, and sell your online course.
They have strict standards that you have to meet to be accepted, as they want to keep the quality high. But in return, once you are listed on Udemy they do a lot to help promote your course to their list of subscribers.
15. Fotolia Sell stock Photos
Perhaps your forte is not in writing or in making videos, but you’re good at taking pictures. Then you should look at the stock picture sites, where you can offer your photos for sale. These are sites that everyone comes to when they need a photograph, whether it is to illustrate a book cover or to provide other content.
Start off by looking at Fotolia, Shutterstock, iStockphoto, or Bigstockphoto.
The great thing about this opportunity is that your photos can be sold over and over, giving you continuing residual income.
16. Blogging
For a freelance opportunity have you considered creating a blog? Everybody’s doing it, which means there’s lots of competition, but if you’re passionate about the subject then it will come through, and people will start following you.
You might ask how you earn money from writing a blog – after all, people don’t pay to read your words, they are freely available on the Internet. The answer is through affiliate marketing.
If you recommend a product, or even have an advertisement for a related product on your website, you can set it up with a special link that sends people to a site where they can purchase the product. The link is coded, so that the seller knows it comes from you, and can pay you commission.
17. Online Coaching
Another freelancing opportunity is to offer your services as an online coach. You might be able to help people pass a class, or show them how to create a website.
Doing it on your own, you would set up a website including your pricing and terms, and hope that the world beats a path to your door – or perhaps advertise a little!
It’s easiest to set up a system with PayPal so that you can accept payments online, and people trust PayPal with their credit cards. You can use Skype for your coaching sessions, as it is free.
18. Company Assistance
More generally, many companies are turning to the Internet to outsource their customer assistance. With high-speed Internet, you can work from home and be available through the company’s 800 number, or perform other services for the company.
You can either search online for “virtual assistant” or “freelance assistant”, or use a website such as freelancer. com to find current opportunities.
19. eBay
One of the old standbys, you already know you can sell stuff on eBay.
Sometimes people start by simply looking around the home, and identifying things they no longer want. For a sustainable income, in time you will need to find a source of cheap goods that you can sell for more online.
eBay even allow you to create an online store, which you can stock with your inventory.
20. Amazon Sell Stuff Using FBA
Take away the auction, and Amazon does much the same as eBay, allowing you to sell goods and charging you a fee for the privilege.
You can either sell items and ship them yourself, or use their Fulfillment By Amazon program (FBA) where they will store your inventory for you, and send it out. If you buy wholesale goods, you can even get them delivered direct to Amazon, so you don’t need to touch them.
Or if you prefer to work for the company directly, you can become an Amazon customer service associate and work from home.
21. Etsy Sell Handmade Stuff
Another online selling site, and one of my favorites. It has all sorts of crafts and other things, and is easy to browse around.
Take a look at it, to see the sorts of things that sell on Etsy – it may even inspire you to think of things that you can make. It is easy to open up your own storefront and list your goods for sale.
22. Craigslist
There are many ways to make money with Craigslist. Everyone knows about Craigslist for selling items, and as it is published in local areas, you can sell larger items that would be impractical to ship longer distances, if you were to sell them on a national website.
But did you know you can also offer services on Craigslist, giving you another great earning opportunity if you have some practical skills?
23. 99 Designs Design Logos
If you are creative, you could consider signing up for 99 Designs. It’s a website for people who want to have company logos, T-shirts, and promotional items designed for them. You will be competing for jobs with other designers, so you have to put in some marketing effort.
