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43 Ways to Start Making Money Right Now

I know there are a lot of things one can do, especially with basic computer skills, so I sat down and wrote a list of activities I could do to make some money right now.

I often hear people saying that they’d like to start making some extra money to complement their full time job, but they don’t know what to do.

Many of these tips will certainly not make you rich, while other have some great potential. The goal of this list is to inspire you to act and do something right now. It’s better to start with something small than to not start at all. I hope you enjoy.

1. Sell used stuff on eBay. Chances are that you have lot of stuff you no longer use in your home. Why not making a list of all the stuff you have in excess and then selling it on eBay?

2. Compile online surveys. Online surveys are a quick way to make some money.  Keep in mind that most websites only works for US residents.

3. Put adsense on your website. Adsense is the fastest way to make money from your website. And if you don’t have a website, you can always start one.

4. Post your resume. Wherever you are a writer, blogger, designer, programmer, etc, there are many websites like elance.com where you can find some part time work. Give it a try and post your resume.

5. Write for ehow.com. Ehow is a how to articles directory. You can write as many articles as you want and receive money when someone visits your articles and clicks the ads.

6. Teach English via skype. If you are a native speaker, you may find someone who’s willing to pay you for simply having some conversation over skype. Just do a quick search on google to get an idea.

7. Post your photos on istockphoto. Stock photo websites like istockphoto can bring you a lot of money. Some people are even making a high 6 figures income from it.

8. Search for free adwords/yahoo/msn coupons and use them to make money through affiliate marketing. I recently received an adwords coupon from google, so the first thing I did was to run a campaign and link to an affiliate website with my referral id. Quick money, zero risk.

9. Coach or teach others. Do a list of your top skills (hint: you have many) and teach them to other people. If you are good at something, there’s always someone else that wants to learn it, so take the opportunity to make some money and to learn something new at the same time.

10. Submit your design to sites like 99designs.com or zooppa.com. If you are a good designer or video maker, the ways you can make money online are infinite. Using websites like 99designs or zooppa you can submit your work and earn some real money.

11. Sell your own product. You can follow the step by step process described in the four hour work week and start your online business in no time.

12. Do babysitting. If hanging around with a baby is no problem for you, consider doing babysitting.

13. Offer to do some errands for your neighborhoods. Everyone’s busy, but you are can alleviate their days by doing some errands for them like going to the groceries store in the afternoon.

14. If you know a foreign language, offer to do translations. There are many companies who would benefit from a native speaker for doing some translations. Often you can get a serious work from this, so do some research to see what’s available.

15. Make money with clickbank.com. Create an account at clickbank.com and find a genuine product to promote through your website, or build a dedicated website if you are good with SEO (you can always learn).

16. Petsitting. Offer to take care of your neighborhood pets when they go on vacation, or take their dogs for a walk while they are at work.

17. Offer computer assistance. You may be surprised by how many people don’t know how to do basic stuff like setting up an email account or uploading a video on youtube. Offer them your help for a small fee.

18. Build websites for small companies. You don’t have to be a programmer to make websites. There are excellent content managers and templates you can buy for making small websites. You can also outsource the complete process of course.

19. Write a book. This is huge, but it may be worth it. Write about something you really care about, and then knock every door until you find some publisher who’s willing to publish your work.

20. Start a blog. If you have something to say, start a blog. It might take a while before you start to see some serious money, but they’ll eventually come if you do things right.

21. Sell a blog. Of course you can also sell a blog. Blogs are sold every day and many people make and sell blogs as a part of their day job.

22. Work in a bar. If you like clubs, bar and night life, consider working in one of it in the weekend.

23. Sell your gold. Maybe you have an old bracelet that you really have never used. That could be a quick way to make some bucks.

24. Gardening. If you are not afraid of doing manual work, you could take care of someone else’s garden.

25. Clean house. If you don’t like gardening, you can always clean homes.

26. Sell your old books and DVDs. Are you really going to real all those books again? If not, consider selling them on ebay or craig list.

27. Cook for others. Your job would be to buy, cook and freeze food for others to enjoy. Only do this if you are a good cook.

28. Direct selling. Many companies will be more than happy to give you part of their revenues if you refer to them new clients. You could give presentations of a product to your friends or go door to door.

29. Personal shopper. If you have good taste and you love shopping, there’s nothing better than being a personal shopper.

30. Deliver pizza. This is an old school way of making money. Be sure you are not afraid of driving fast if you want to do it.

31. Waiter. Try to get a part time job as a waiter and you’ll likely get nice tips from customers if you are working in a nice place.

32. Rewrite ads. If your grammar is good, take a look at ebay ads and if you notice one that sucks, offer its owner a rewrite for a 1% or 2% fee. Only target big items of course.

33. Rent your car. If you don’t use your car every day, you could rent it to some friend.

34. Drive people to the airport or station. Same as before, there’s always someone who needs a drive to the airport.

35. Take a look at craiglist for job ideas. There’s always some odd job you could do on craiglist. Take a look at your city’s listings every once in a while and catch every opportunity you can.

36. Have a garage sale. If you are moving to a new house, do a garage sale to get rid of your old stuff.

37. Sell umbrellas on rainy days. Be the right man in the right place at the right moment ;)

38. Buy and sell tickets. If your country laws permit it, you can buy tickets in advance and then resell them on ebay once they are sold out.

39. Forex trading. I’m not a forex expert but you may want to take a look at it if you want to make some extra dollars per month trading currencies.

40. Tutoring. If you are good at math, english or something else, you can tutor kids during weekends or summers.

41. Market research. Many market research agencies are paying people for conducting market research. This is also a great way to brainstorm new business ideas.

42. Do a part time job. A part time job is often the easiest way for making some extra money.

43. Ask for them. If what you really want is more money, perhaps you could simply ask for a raise?

10 Powerful motivators - Paul Hanna

1. Keep Your Car Immaculate

Forget what you may have heard. When it comes to cars, we all judge a book by its cover.

Try arriving at a five-star hotel in a clapped-out piece of automation and watch how you get treated. But try arriving in a parking car and see the difference.

It's not right or wrong - it's just how we are all built. Remember that saying: 'An ounce of image is worth a ton of performance'. Whatever your car, be it a BMW or a Berlina, a Falcon or a Ferrari - when it's dirty, it tells everyone outside what is going on inside... your head!

2. Never, Ever Take No For An Answer

How long do you keep persisting when you get a 'No'?

If you lift your self-esteem you will start to see your resilience improve. Remember, the size of a person is determined by what it takes to upset them, so the higher your self-esteem the less likely you are to give in quickly.

3. Mental Ownership

The great American sales trainer, Tom Hopkins, once said, 'People love to buy after they own'.

Imagine a guy who is thinking about buying a new car and takes it home to show his loved ones. When he and his family see it in the garage, looking like it belongs there, they all decide they just have to have it.

Get people emotionally involved in your product, and they'll move heaven and earth to buy it from you.

4. Persistence

As every car salesperson will tell you. It's persistence that ends up beating resistance.

5. Dress For Success

People do judge a book by its cover.

Dress like the person you want to become.

6. Negativity In Others

Every salesperson knows that an objection is just a request for more information. When a salesperson gives a customer the answers to their objections, he or she gets the sale.

Negative people - people who are always 'objecting' - are really just wanting to be convinced that they matter, that they are okay.

Assist then in this quest and watch the turnaround in their attitude.

7. Deadlines Bring Your Goals Into Focus

If one of your goals is not happening as fast as you want it to, you can speed things up by putting a deadline on it.

As soon as a realistic deadline is in place, you will start to see how to achieve it.

8. People Buy You, Not Your Product

Every salesperson will tell you all about 'call reluctance'. It's not wanting to be rejected by prospective clients.

If you're having trouble seeing more clients because you're worried about being rejected, start depositing more points into your Self-esteem Bank Account. When you lift your self-esteem, you will see objection as not as an assault on your character, but simply as what they are: a request for more information.

When you give the information in a professional and enthusiastic way, the client will share your beliefs and, in all probability, buy. Act defensively and your client will say, 'Let me think it over' or 'Leave it with me.'

People buy people, not products.

9. The Secret Of Success

Successful people know they are just like everyone else. They have unlimited potential, just like we all do.

But successful people don't sit around wishing and hoping for things to happen. They know that their strength lies in focusing on clear goals.

10. Plan Your Day The Night Before

Each night, before you go to sleep, write down in your diary a list of what you would like to accomplish the following day. (Make a list of no more than 6 things. Too many things on your list can trigger self defeat before you even get started.) Give each item an A, B or C according to how high a priority they are.

The next day, watch how you start to improve your focus. As you tick off the things on your list, you'll feel great. Your Self-esteem Bank Account will start to benefit because you'll be providing lots of opportunities to tell yourself that you're a winner.

Mini motivators applied to your life create MAXI results.

Getting Attention in Order to Make Money Online

Have you ever wondered how so many Internet millionaires seem to have an easy bout with turning their websites into million dollar platforms? Some of the more wealthy entrepreneurs online don’t even have an ecommerce platform, they simply write a blog or have a website where they give out free information.

Ever wonder how you could do it? Well, you could start a blog and copy the same formula they have, but you will soon run into a wall. You see, blogs are started on a daily basis and no one cares about them. Getting people on your side requires targeted traffic, and to do so, you’ll have to cycle through a few tips and tricks. Getting attention is the key to making money online from home or wherever you find wifi service. Consider the following guide that will keep you moving forward.

The first tip you need to look into is social networking. Social networking holds a captive audience of millions of people. That’s right, millions are sitting on profiles right now, and they are sitting ducks for affiliate marketing. Figuring out how to get them to visit your site might seem tricky, but it’s a matter of building pages speaks to them. For instance, you could set up a page that is a big fan of scary movies.

From there, you can link people with posts, information, and even affiliate marketing links about all things scary. When a user clicks through to your information and finds it useful, they will tell their friends and a snowball effect occurs. Over time, you will have millions of people to communicate your ideas to, and they will listen, and furthermore, go and purchase items from your links, making you a passive income in the process.

The second thing to remember is networking in the traditional sense. No matter what kind of business you’re trying to run online, you will need to have friends in the industry. With that in mind, you will need to get links from their sites to yours and link exchanges could be a major factor in how successful you are. If you can get hundreds of links that point to your site with high reputation, you will find that your targeted traffic will flow like a river and a six figure income won’t be so difficult after all.

The final tip you can utilize is physical marketing. This might seem extreme, and out dated to some, but you’d be surprised how many people are interested in what you are doing, especially if you’re making money online. To take advantage of this, you’ll need flyers. Get flyers designed, and pass them out to areas that allow you to post up posters, business cards and more. You’ll end up with a great opportunity to communicate with others, when you’re not necessarily in front of them.

If you receive calls, emails, or even visitors to your site based on those flyers, you can then make more money when they follow through links and ads that you display on your site. Does physical marketing work? Look around you; if you see bus ads, bench ads, and billboards, you’ll have your answer.

The Best Way to Make Money Blogging

“Want to learn the quickest way to make money blogging?” Regardless of whether you are a blogger, entrepreneur, or using a blog to market and grow a business online, the process for driving traffic and generating an income from blogging is the same.

To make money blogging you need to be able to create great content on a particular topic. That’s pretty much it. So why do so many businesses and entrepreneurs struggle?

The problem is that blogging takes skill and practice, with a good understanding of the target audience and SEO (Search Engine Optimization). In other words, a blogger needs to be a good writer, a good marketer, and a good SEO.

This article will provide you with all the resources you need to learn how to blog effectively, select a niche topic that you are passionate about and that will bring in money, and give a step-by-step guide to making decent money in the shortest possible time.

Are you up to the challenge?

Important blogging skills

Before you can start making decent money from blogging, you will need to learn a few things. By learning, practicing and honing your skills now, you will save plenty of time and effort going forward.

Blogging is a competitive industry and no-one can afford to waste precious man-hours creating content that isn’t highly relevant, highly engaging, and primed to dominate Google search.

After reading this article you should be able to structure a blog post perfectly to maximize your chances of ranking highly in search. You should know how to craft content to boost organic search traffic – SEO. You should know a couple of neat blog marketing techniques, and understand how social media can help to drive traffic.

How to start a blog

Starting a blog can be divided into two separate categories:

    Choosing a niche

    Getting online

Choosing a niche

There’s as much science to starting a blog as there is creativity. Never choose a blog topic because you feel will make more money, if it is not a subject you are personally interested in.

Blogging is time consuming, and you simply won’t stick to it for long enough, if the subject matter is of no interest to you.

With that said, not all blog topics are equal, and some have greater potential to make money. Read the following articles that talk about how to choose the perfect money making niche for you or your business:

    Which blog topics make the most money?

    How to come up with ideas for a home based business startup

    “Google insights for Search” as the best free SEO tool for small business SEO

Getting a blog online

In order to get your blog up and running you will need:

    A domain name

    Blog software or platform

    Hosting

There are plenty of great options available to you, and the following articles will help you make the right choice:

    How to build a website

    How to start a blog with WordPress

    Top 10 things you need to start a blog and make money

    Top 10 priorities for starting a blog or small business website

How to make money blogging

In the online world, it is far more important to dominate a single niche (even if it is a small one) than it is to be “pretty good” over a broader niches, or a range of niches.

The reason is because focusing on a specific niche makes your content very relevant to people searching for that information. The more relevant, engaging and useful your content is, the more likely you are to build trust, authority, reach and social influence.

Once you have captured one niche, it is then easier to go for the next one. In this way, you can build up your traffic one niche at a time.

The benefit of capturing one niche at a time is that you will be able to make money as you go. If you don’t dominate any niche, traffic will be less relevant and less likely to convert.

Step by step guide to making money blogging

If all goes to plan, you should find that you start earning a bit of money within a few months. This revenue should grow in proportion to the amount of traffic your blog generates.

As time goes by, more content and social influence will lead to more and more traffic and at some point, you will be able to earn a full-time living from your blog.

Here’s how:

1.      Pick a focused niche (use Google AdWords Keyword Tool to help choose the perfect niche phrases)

2.      Choose a good blog platform – one that has excellent SEO features and proven reliability

3.      Follow other successful bloggers via social media and learn from them

4.      Become skilled at SEO

5.      Promote and market yourself and your blog via social networks and guest posts

6.      Contribute to other discussions, groups and forums in your niche

7.      Network and make meaningful connections

8.      4Write at least four to five high quality articles per week

9.      Learn how to use Google AdSense and other advertising networks to make money (learn about affiliate marketing)

10.  Explore affiliate advertising (learn about affiliate marketing)

11.  Sell direct advertising once you have sufficient traffic

12.  Learn how to use Google analytics to help refine and improve your SEO, marketing and blogging (learn about analytics)

13.  Be consistent

14.  Be persistent

It might sound like a lot, but remember that you have plenty of time to master the skills you need. So long as you are always prepared to learn and adapt, you will be able to make money blogging.

12 Things Students Should Never Do on Social Media

The last thing young people want is another set of rules. But these days, social media comes with great responsibility, whether you’re just starting high school or finishing up college.

The fact is, irresponsible social media conduct could potentially ruin your education and negatively impact your career, not to mention hurt others in the process. (And we’re not just talking kids, either.) But most of those consequences are preventable, often with just a little foresight.

We’ve pinpointed 12 social media mistakes that students should avoid at all costs, because after all, it’s never as simple as “be responsible.” And it’s never as finite as “don’t friend your teacher on Facebook.” Social media circumstances are nuanced and vary by situation, school and user.

Please head to the comments below to add your own contributions and advice for young adults on social media.

1. Post Illegal Activities

Granted, high school and college students experiment with many activities and substances. But the second you post a video of last weekend’s bong hit or trash-can tipping adventure, you become vulnerable not only for school expulsion but also for criminal prosecution; in other words, consequences that affect the rest of your life. Even if your profile is set to private, a friend can always download and save incriminating photos that he or the authorities can use against you in the future.

Once or twice per year, perform a thorough review of the information and content accessible on your social media profiles. That way, you’ll be able to locate and remove that photo of your underage keg stand before you apply for your next job.

2. Bullying

Bullying is one of the most serious problems in schools today. Vicious treatment and hateful words between students often lead to violence, suicide, depression and discrimination among the student body.

When a student turns to social media, blogs or virtually any online space as a forum for hurtful speech, the risks are unmeasurable. Not only does that student face expulsion, but also serious criminal prosecution.

Check your school’s policy on bullying. One California high school’s student handbook reads, “Harassment on the basis of any protected characteristic is strictly prohibited. This includes any verbal, written (including any posted material on any computer network) or physical conduct that denigrates or shows hostility or aversion toward any individual or his/her relatives, friends or associates because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, marital status, veteran status, citizenship or disability…”

3. Trash Your Teachers

Bullying doesn’t just apply to student-to-student interactions. Students who speak poorly of their teachers (or post embarrassing photos of them) run a huge risk, too. After all, your instructors have a right to privacy and respect.

“Posting a negative comment about any teacher at your school is like getting on a microphone to announce that you will be burning down a bridge,” says Heather Starr Fiedler, associate professor of multimedia at Point Park University. “You never know which one of your professors will hold the keys to the next great internship or job announcement.”

You should even be wary of school or teacher-related posts you think are harmless — you never know whose feelings you’ve accidentally hurt. Dan Farkas, instructor of strategic communication at Ohio University, describes a scenario gone wrong. “I had several students tweet with excitement when I cancelled a class, ready to have a slightly easier Monday,” he says. “What they didn’t know was that I cancelled class to take my wife to the emergency room. It still makes my blood boil.”

The same goes for institutions or persons of authority in general, not just teachers. High school seniors should be careful not to negatively post about specific colleges or geographical areas — these days, admissions officers thoroughly investigate the social media activity and personalities of applicants. One negative tweet could seal the fate of your college acceptance.

4. Post Objectionable Content From School Computers or Networks

Many schools prohibit all computer activity on campus not directly related to coursework. That almost always includes social media use, especially that which is objectionable (e.g. profanity, harassment, etc.). And don’t assume you can get away with a tweet here and a status update there — many schools have implemented systems that track logins and IP addresses. In other words, you’re on the clock.

5. Post Confidential Information

This piece of advice goes for every social media user, not just students. But young people are especially vulnerable to online predators and identity thieves.

Let this experience, from communications representative Jennifer Newman Galluzzo, be a warning: “This weekend my niece, who is going into her junior year of high school, posted her class schedule on Facebook. Took a picture of it and threw it right up there because she was so excited to share the info with her friends — complete with her social security number, student ID, address, full name, birthday and all the other personal information. I called her mom and informed her right away and her response was ‘Well, all the kids do that!’ I almost fainted.”

Think about how easy it is to share content on Facebook; if a single person shared that photo to his public profile, that sensitive information would be accessible by anyone, no hacking required. Identity stolen — just like that.

6. Overly Specific Location Check-Ins

Similar to protecting your identity, try not to get too specific with your social check-ins. Although your parents may appreciate the heads-up, posts like these make it easy for predators to locate you. And especially don’t check in on social media when you’re by yourself and/or in a remote location.

Social media analyst Brad Hines advises, “It is usually wise to do little sharing of where you are if you are by yourself, or have left your home by itself.”

7. Lie/Cheat/Plagiarize

Picture this: You convinced your professor to give you an extension on your term paper so you can visit your “sick” grandmother. Only instead, you blow off the paper to attend a Foo Fighters concert — and you post a status update to Facebook, check in on Foursquare and upload a photo of the performance to Instagram. Don’t be surprised when you return to a big fat F and an academic investigation.

The same goes for lying about professional/academic achievements when applying to a college or an internship. People will investigate. Just as they will investigate your social media for charges of plagiarism or cheating.

8. Threaten Violence

Threatening a person or group of people in any situation is unbelievably serious. Even posting an anonymous, empty threat to an obscure online forum full of strangers will raise red flags. And as soon as authorities have located a threat, they have the right to investigate — and they will.

A student named Alexander Song posted his intentions to Reddit: to “kill enough people to make it to national news.” Police located the young man and arrested him at school, despite the fact that he carried no weapons.

In other words, social media is not the place to vent your frustrations and violent thoughts. Talk to a school counselor about your concerns.

9. Ignore School-Specific Policies

School policies vary widely, according to religious affiliation, type of school (public vs. private), geographical location, district, gender (co-ed vs. single-gender), etc. Therefore, technology and social media policies are different for nearly every school. Behavior that may fly at one school is reason for expulsion at another.

For example, one Catholic high school’s student handbook reads, “When a student is using online social media (of any variety), she must always bear in mind that the material she posts reflects upon the school, our Diocese and the Roman Catholic Church as a whole.” That means, posting your opinions about sensitive subjects like abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, divorce or birth control, for example, could jeopardize your standing as a student.

While many types of content posted to social media are protected by free speech, your school may nonetheless find reason to use such opinions toward disciplinary action.

10. Unprofessional Public Profiles

Whether you’re a high school student applying to flip burgers at a local diner or a recent college grad looking to land a career, your social media presence needs to reflect responsibility.

“While searching for a job, I made sure to take down any questionable photos from my college days,” says recent James Madison University graduate, Christine Borkowski. “I took every red cup I could spot off my Facebook. It may seem a little extreme, but Facebook offers the ‘Download’ option of each photo.” That way, she could save any photo she removed from the social network.

Whether it’s a Google search or a social media examination, chances are a company is looking into your history. And sometimes, even a completely private social media profile sets off red flags for employers. In today’s age of transparency, a professional (albeit public) profile is the ideal.

“Whenever I evaluate a potential employee, I always take a look at what is publicly visible on their Facebook profile,” says Ryan Cohn, vice president of social/digital operations at What’s Next Marketing. “On two separate occasions, I have rejected entry level prospects (finishing their senior year of college) for featuring firearms in their profile picture. Both were qualified in terms of experience and otherwise would have been worthy of an interview.”

11. Never Rely on Privacy Settings 100%

Although most major social networks update you with privacy improvements, the changes are often too frequent to follow and can get complicated. However diligently you may protect your social media identity, it’s best to assume anything you post is fair game — potentially seen by your school, by your parents and by strangers.

“Students should never rely on privacy settings over good judgment,” says Andrew Moravick, social media specialist at SnapApp. “If you don’t want something to be seen, don’t post it on the Internet.”

12. Post Emotionally

We’ve all said and done things we regret. It’s human nature to react without thinking through the consequences. However, whenever possible, take a moment to imagine how your social media posts affect the feelings, safety and well-being of those around you — even your worst enemies. Posting an angry tweet in the heat of the moment may feel cathartic, but the momentary pleasure you get from writing it isn’t worth the potential harm it could create. Take a moment to breathe, think and reboot.