6 Easy Ways To Make Money Online

 One of the most pervading dreams to be able to make easy money on the internet.

Sadly, as any failed blogger or internet marketer will tell you, making money online is nowhere near as easy as the gurus with their shiny courses and expensive software will try to convince you.

Making a sizable income online takes years of learning, trial-and-error and quite possibly a fair amount of luck too. Not that it’s impossible; just that if we’re being realistic then earning a living online will probably take far more effort than most people realize.

However if you want to make a little extra money each month – to cover a car payment, pay off a little debt or start putting into your savings – then there are a number of strategies that work. You’re unlikely to get rich from them but there are some easy ways to make money online if you know where to look.

Easy Ways To Make Money Online

Over the years I’ve tried all sorts of different schemes for earning money online. Not surprisingly most of them have fallen flat on their face – often after a considerable investment of time or money from me. So let’s cut straight to the chase and reveal the best easy ways to make money online that really have worked for me…

Surveys

One of the oldest yet easiest ways to make money online is by filling in consumer surveys. You tell the survey company about your shopping habits, or your opinions on a new advert or suchlike, and you earn a little bit of money in exchange.
Generally these surveys are pretty quick and mindless to fill in – so they can easily be done while you’re watching TV or suchlike – and the sums you earn can add up pretty quickly if you’re willing to put some time into it.

However there is a problem with making money online by filling in surveys; there are a lot of unscrupulous companies out there who either pay peanuts or who have very few surveys you can actually complete.

So while it is possible to make easy money by filling in surveys the most critical element is signing up with the right survey companies in the first place.

Based on my own experiences if you like the idea of filling in surveys the best survey sites to sign up with are:

Product Reviews

Product reviews are big business online. So many consumers look for product reviews before actually purchasing a product that the site with the best reviews will likely make a lot of money.

Equally, not only are independent reviews far more valuable than those written by a specific company but of course a single company could never hope to review the millions of products currently on offer.

Thankfully there are a couple of sites then who recruit average consumers like you and me to write reviews for them. And in exchange they’ll pay you for your opinions.

And while they may not pay a lot, it’s a quick and easy way to earn some extra money online simply by telling someone what you think of a specific film, book or whatever. To get you started, why not sign up with DooYoo and Software Judge.

User Experience Testing

Big internet companies spend huge sums of money on building and marketing their websites so they want to know that they can turn as many visitors into customers as possible. And one tool they use is user experience (UX) testing.

In essence these companies want to see how normal people interact with their website. So, you’ll be asked to visit a certain website and, for example, download a discount coupon they’re offering.
They’ll record your computer screen so they can watch you moving around their site. They’ll analyze how easy people find it to complete the necessary action and they’ll take on board any experiences you have along the way to try and make their website as user-friendly as possible.

Surely when it comes to easy ways to make money online, simply visiting a specific website and letting them record your thoughts is about as simple as it gets?

If this sounds of interest to you then you can sign up as a tester at the following companies:

Microjobs

A “microjob” is a task that takes a matter of minutes to complete. An example might be sharing something on Facebook, drawing a cartoon sheep or uploading a photo to a specific website.
As each microjob is so simple and so small, they don’t pay very much individually. However its possible to complete dozens of them each week in your spare time and you’ll earn extra cash with no real experience or skills required.

To find out more about microjobs and to set up a free account try visiting:

Freelancing

Seeing as this article focuses on “easy” ways to earn money online I did struggle as to whether to include freelancing here. After all, many professional fulltime freelancers would certainly balk at the idea that it’s “easy money”.

But these are the people earning full-time incomes (or more) from it. If you just want to earn a little pocket money on the side then freelancing is a perfectly viable solution.
Probably the easiest freelance jobs of all are writing gigs – producing articles for people to post on their blogs and websites. Having said that, if you have any special skills or interests you’ll be able to find freelance graphic design jobs, computer programming, web design and more. The more “technical” a job is the more it pays.

Every freelancers has their own preferred site for finding freelance jobs but my personal preference is for Elance. I’ve had an account there for years and have done some really interesting work. I also managed to land a $1,200 writing gig there within a week of getting started so there’s certainly a lot of potential for the right people.

Selling On Amazon

The last of these easy ways to earn money online that I’d like to recommend is selling your unwanted goods on Amazon. After sorting through tons of old books I owned a few years ago, I was trying to decide what to do with all of the titles I didn’t want any more.

Garage sale? Give them to charity of my local library? Or try to sell them online? As an experiment I signed up for an Amazon sellers account and listed them online. And I did surprisingly well with orders coming through regularly for my unwanted books.

It can be a bit of a pain going down to the post office all the time to send them off, but it’s an easy way to not only cluttered your home but also make some easy money along the way.