How to Make Extra Money Online to Supplement Your Salary
How to Make Extra Money Online to Supplement Your Salary
With the current state of the economy in most countries, many people are losing their jobs and others are having their hours reduced. Even people with full time employment are struggling to pay their bills. Now, more than ever, is a good time to know how to make extra money online to supplement your salary.
What are your options?
Well, expecting to win the lottery or hoping you could rob a bank and get away with it are certainly not viable options. There are solutions to the problem of how to earn extra income from home. Here are some options, based on what you think you might be able to offer as a service:
There are sites knows as “gig” sites, where you can offer to perform a service for a fixed price. Examples of a service being offered might be to write blog posts, articles, web content, editing, creating graphics or logos, etc. Some of these gig sites include:
Other options might include:
On this type of site, businesses look to outsource projects rather than have them done in-house to save money. You can get paid by the hour or by the project.
If you are particularly proficient in one area of expertise, you could offer online coaching opportunities. Perhaps you have skills that could work as a virtual assistant. You’d simply need to post ads online on local classified sites or places like Craigslist.
Stay at Home Moms Online Business Opportunities
Stay at home moms can set up a free blog at places like Blogger.com or WordPress.com. If they have the money to purchase a domain name and get hosting for their domain, they can go for a blog with more features from WordPress.org.
Blogging can be a great source of income. You need to select a lucrative niche and have some writing skills to keep your blog updated regularly. On the niche blog(s), you can have Google Adsense ads incorporated nicely into your posts and you will be paid whenever someone clicks on the ads. Conversely, you can become an affiliate of a company like Amazon and place ads on your site that are relevant to your particular niche. If a viewer/visitor to your blog purchases one of the Amazon products, you’ll earn a commission
There are also many opportunities to earn supplementary income for teachers and retirees. Teachers can have a website or blog for helping students with their homework and offer tutoring or lessons for a fee. Retirees have been in the workforce for years and have a wealth of knowledge relevant to their past professions. Perhaps they worked in HR and can write very good resumes for a fee or they worked as an architect and can do construction estimates or design for money. The possibilities are endless and only as limited as their experience and imagination.