Grads who are interested in making extra cash can find plenty of opportunities online. Some of the opportunities provide enough income to leave the daily grind behind, while others offer just enough pocket change to pay off extra debt or cover the cost of a few nights’ entertainment. It all depends on the job and the amount of time you are willing to invest. If you are looking for a few new opportunities to try, here are 10 places where you can legitimately make money online.
Demand Studios – Writers, copyeditors, and filmmakers can find thousands of freelance jobs at Demand Studios. You pick when you work, which assignments you take, and collect your pay twice per week.
Suite101 – Suite101 pays writers to write on a variety of different topics. Writers can choose when to write and receive lifelong royalties generated by their articles.
Associated Content – Associated Content (AC) contributors can claim writing assignments or submit an article on any topic. Upfront payment ranges between $2 and $20 per article. Writers also receive additional pay based on page views.
Guru – After signing up for an account on Guru, writers, editors, translators, graphic designers, photographers, web experts, business professionals, and other freelancers can bid on a variety of projects from paying employers.
CafePress – Artists and anyone else with basic knowledge of Photoshop can create and sell a wide range of products through free online CafePress shops. Product options include clothing, posters, bumper stickers, mugs, messenger bags, and more.
Imagekind – Imagekind is an art community for artists who want to promote and sell their work online. Artists set the price, keep rights to their artwork, and even make a commission when somebody buys an accompanying frame from the site.
TeachStreet – TeachStreet is a good place for teachers, instructors, and educators to make money online via classes, workshops, and events. Students can sign up for a class and send payment through the site.
ChaCha – ChaCha Guides can get paid to answer questions on topics they are knowledgeable about. For each question they answer, guides receive points which can then be converted into cash at the end of every month.
Ether – Accountants, consultants, bloggers, computer whizzes, and anyone else who is an expert on a specific topic can earn money by sharing knowledge through emails or phone calls. Experts can set their hourly price and determine when they will be available to help Ether users.
ClickBank – ClickBank affiliates get paid up to 75% commission by promoting products through their website or blog. Tens of thousands of different products are available for promotion.
Have you had any luck with these services? PTY author Stephanie has made a bit of money with eHow, a division of Demand Studios. Share your stories in the comments!
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28 responses to “10 Places to Make Money Online” 
Have you personally used any of the freelance writing sites you mentioned? What if you have no professional writing experience? I enjoy writing and have been told I’m decent at it, but I’d have to start small. Very small.
Thanks for this list! Will definitely try some out.
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Great list. With the exception of clickbank, many of these solutions are essentially selling a service, such as writing, or selling a product.
I also think there are alot of opportunities online through being a webmaster with your own sites. These include affiliate marketing where you get a commision on selling other peoples products to your traffic (e.g. clickbank as mentioned, but also other networks such as cj.com, ebay partner program and amazon, …) or pay per click programs such as Google AdSence.
Probably the best way to look at trying to make money here is through a combination of getting your feet wet getting websites out and getting traffic to them as well as studing relevent webmaster forums ant what not.
Cheers.
I’ve also had good luck over the past year with http://www.Etsy.com to sell homemade items and http://www.Half.com to sell old books and CD’s.
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Thanks for the list. I’ve been experimenting with a few online ideas, but unfortunatly have had little success. I am very curious about some of the suggetions you made above. I like the idea that you can pick and choose in terms of when and how much you work. I think it’s the freedom that most people value. Cheers.
Out of the list, I’m a huge fan of making money with Clickbank.
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Good list.
But I think your readers need to be a little cautious. Many online money making sources offer little money for a lot of work.
Affiliate marketing takes six months to establish, and that is if you are good at it. Professional affiliates earn a lot, but that takes a massive amount of work.
iFreelance is a good and still reputable site for writing jobs, and you can create a portfolio there, which will solve the problem of not having writing experience.
Like most things on the net, you can make it with hard work. Writing is a good way in, because you are selling a service, rather than something you have little control over.
Hi Guys
I see that lot of readers here are not sure if they can make money with the above sites.
I have personally used clickbank and Associated Content and yes I am still making money with both of them. Infact I have gone full time thanks to these 2 sites
I’ve had a little luck with http://www.squidoo.com as well. Good list, some of these I haven’t tried yet.
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Of all the money-making sites you have mentioned, only ClickBank attracted me. I recently using ClickBank in my affiliate marketing venture with the help of Ewen Chia’s super affiliate marketing course.
Have you seen SBI! 2.0? I’ve built my site through them. It costs a bit up front ($299) but the support and guidance is fantastic. My site has been up for a little more than 5 months, it is getting around 100 uniques a day from search engines and traffic is growing steadily.
I implemented adsense yesterday on a handful of my pages and have already got some clicks. The only reason I held off implementing it was because I wanted to do it at the same time as I updated my look-and-feel.
The big differences between SBI! and most of the above are:
* you get taught, step by step, how to build a sucessful business
* you own your own business at the end (as opposed to eg squidoo owning your pages)
* you can earn passive income – with an established site you can go away for a month and adsense income still comes in
* it is not get-rich-quick : building a business takes lots of time and effort, but at the end you build something with lasting value
* the emphasis shifts from “do some work to earn money” to run a business to earn money. I intend to outsource some of the work, such as link building, which is how business leaverage their position over individual work.
My current take home pay from my real job is £2000 per month (after taxes etc…) and I have clear business aims with this site – £100 per month in the next 6 months, £500 per month in the next 12 months.
So, my advice – avoid the above as they are really just distractions. You might make a few quid short term, but nothing longer term. If you have time and energy look at SBI! and build a web business instead.
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I have to say the best i have found has to be clickbank, it is a lot easier to sell an ebook than it is to sell a physical product.
Just my opinion.
Graham.
Very helpful, I’ll surely try some of this stuff and hopefully it could provide an extra income. Thanks.
ChaCha is currently accepting applications to become guides. I am in the training phase right now.
I had completely forgotten about this site until I saw your post today.
I had problems with Guru. There was a lot of competition for freelance work.
An alternative to CafePress is a company called Zazzle. You can setup a store front free and get commission on your sales. It also has a good referral system.
I have done Associated Content and Cafepress (although I also have had more success on Zazzle).
Ever try GPT sites? I have made some nice money from Cashcrate.
The digital products are easier to manage than a physical one especially if your starting out.
Great list!
The only one I knew about was click bank, never thought there was that many possibilities to find online jobs!
Thanks for the info!!
Matt
I tried Associated Content but I guess I can leave the first 1,50 dollars I will earn to my granddaughter. You have to be a really catchy writer, to be able to write every day about the newest hot topics and to persevere. If I had so many articles, I would create my own blog and I think I would earn more. But I will give a try to the rest of the sites you mentioned; it is a valuable list, thank you!
Always looking for good ideas to make money ,nice site thanks..
Thanks for the information. You provide a great deal of clear information. As the man says we all want to make money.
Many thanks
This list was one of the best I’ve seen in a while. I saw some new sites that I’ve never even heard about. I’m into the “make money online” field too so I love when I can read and learn from others. Thanks for the great ideas, I’m hoping to recreate a new list that I’ll soon post on my own blog and hopefully I can include some of the ways you’ve mentioned here.
That is a longer list than I usually see. I have a friend who is considering writing for pay, and it is a good base for us to start searching from. Thanks for the heads up!
Wow you really hit the majority of websites out there which do actually pay and do NOT charge. Very good job pointing out these valuable resources. Personally my two favorite that I have had the most luck with is associated content and click bank.
I notice you mentioned Suite101 – a couple of similar directories are also helium.com and bukisa.com.
I take a detailed look at these in my last blog post, which looks at the top 10 article directories. While suite101/helium/bukisa are not so suitable for affiliate marketers, they offer a great option for anyone wanting to get paid to write.