5 WAYS TO MAKE MONEY ONLINE - PART 2

6. Transcribe audio files.

An easy job; doesn’t pay well, but also a quick way to make some money. Sign up on eLance or oDesk to start, and/or advertise your services in entrepreneur forums. Requires good hearing and a good command of the English language. You may also want to invest in a foot pedal if you plan to transcribe often. Make sure you know how to transcribe interviews before you start your first job.
7. Become a virtual assistant (VA).

There are entire books written on how to become a virtual assistant, so this job is definitely worthy of more research. My advice: Focus on one niche (I just hired Lisa Morosky of VA for Bloggers, for instance.) Also, reach out to potential customers directly and let them know what you can do for them instead of hitting up freelance web sites. Finally, you may want to consider resources such as AssistU, which provides training for up-and-coming virtual assistants.
8. Write articles on eHow.com.

If you understand the basics of keyword research, you can make a good monthly income from eHow. eHow pays you a percentage of the ad revenue they make from each “How to” article you create. You can crank out a few articles a day with relative ease. Try this for a month; assuming your article titles match up with what people are searching for in Google, you can make a significant income. The great news is that you write your articles once and get paid month after month. I’ve seen figures of $100-$150/month for 30 articles. Make money writing for eHow.com.
9. Do some videos to promote affiliate products.

Enjoy making silly videos? Even short, silly videos can sell products online. Find an product worth promoting that has an affiliate program, then target your video toward potential customers of that product. In your video summary on YouTube, place your affiliate link for the product, and after the video, do a 30-second still frame showing a short URL where people can buy the product. If your video is funny, informative, or useful, you may sell some products. Big tip: Try to promote a product that makes you a fair amount of money for each sale, but doesn’t cost a whole lot for the potential customer. You can find products on Commission Junction, for one.
10. Write an ebook targeted to people who need help.

Alexis Dawes created a product called “Desperate Buyers Only”. I interview her for an upcoming case study on Inspiring Innovators, where she mentions that she is able to make up to $97 from ebooks as small as 12 pages. The key? Finding people who are incredibly desperate for the information you provide and then doing good research to find a real solution to their problems. The result? Happy customers whose problem is solved, and money for you — a win-win situation! Caveat: It may be tough to find a real desperate buyer niche (Alexis reveals some in her case study). Here are some hints: When were you last in a situation where information would have either saved you a lot of money or a lot of pain? Has someone else close to you been in a situation where they could have used information to avert pain? Think legal, medical, and financial niches.

5 ways to make money online - Part 1

1. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.

Mechanical Turk is a great way to make some extra cash. You probably won’t make much more than a few dollars an hour, but it’s also dead simple to complete many of the tasks. Most tasks take less than a minute to complete and pay a few pennies. If you do a lot of MTurk, it could add up to at least some fun spending money. Sign up for free, then complete qualifications to earn access to higher-paying tasks.

2. Sell stock photos.

iStockPhoto is just one site that allows you to sell stock photos; there are others. Before you decide to go crazy and upload your whole album, take note of what’s selling well and try your hand at doing something similar. iStockPhoto also works for those who know how to render images; some of their most popular images were created on a computer! Have three killer stock photos ready for iStockPhoto’s inspection; they will want them when you sign up.

3. Sell stuff on eBay.

Start by selling your own extra stuff. Then, once you get a feel for selling your extra stuff, go door-to-door in nicer neighborhoods in your town. Develop an eye for what will sell and what won’t (old laptops, for instance, could be a gold mine–if you know how to format them to get rid of the previous owner’s personal data.) Sign a contract where you take 25-30% (or more) of the gross sale. Your customers will be happy to get cash for their old junk, and you’ll make some good money selling other people’s stuff. eBay

4. Become a freelance article writer.

It may not pay well, but there is a growing demand for this. Write 200-300 word articles and submit them to article directories. Potential clients include bloggers, marketers, and small businesses. You can write articles in a niche in batches and sell them as a package to one or more clients, or you can offer your services for hire per word or article and let your client give you direction. A foundation of keyword research is important to succeed at this job (unless you’re just taking direction from a client), but keyword research is learnable.

5. Write articles for magazines or other publications.

If you have a background in journalism, or just a passion for it, you can try your hand at submitting articles to publications. Don’t just randomly fire off articles, however; have a plan and, preferably, a contact at the publication you wish to submit to. The good news is that there are publications in pretty much any niche you can think of. To see some publications that are hiring, visit Online Writing Jobs, PoeWar Freelance Jobs, and Writing.com.

ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU

    It has been a popular saying over the years to “ask not what your country can do for you”. If we come to think of it, what really can Nigeria do for you? Provide you with electricity, good roads, pipe-borne water, and maximally, a good job with adequate security. The golden question is, I sour own Nigeria doing these for us? Maybe the nation’s failure to provide all of these for her citizens is owed to bad leadership, over-population or what have you, I really will not get into. Whatever the reason, it is happening and that is what matters.
    The truth that I owe you, is that our nation is fast going under the control of capitalists. The golden question here is, who are capitalists? The quickest response is, capitalists are people who have much of their money and interests tied to business concerns. People like Dangote, Otedola, Adenuga, Ovia, Elumelu etc. They now control the economy from communication to oil and gas to banking and recently to power. Somebody will say it is unfair to have all the nation’s wealth being controlled by a few business people, what I say is, these people never asked what their country can do for them. Instead, they asked, how can my country serve me?
    Every morning you wake up, ask yourself, how can I make my country serve me? When you have a regular job, you are called a ‘civil servant’ meaning you serve government. If you are employed in a private firm, your entire life’s service is spent in enriching the owner of the company, so you are some sort of servant too. But, to be really free, to be really a leader, to be really successful, you must find a way of making the nation serve you. Today, there is no disputing the fact that Nigeria is serving Dangote and his likes because they control virtually everything that holds the base of the Nigerian economy.
    Somebody will ask, can every Nigerian be this free? Can the nation serve all of us? The quickest and most appropriate answer is NO. Just like a billboard inscription in my home town once read, “Only the deep can call to the deep”. Only those who can find it in their hearts to forge a path for themselves can truly make the nation serve them. My expectations thus are that only a few people reading this text will locate that inward desire in them to be a leader of people and make the nation, our nation serve them.
    Zig Ziglar once said, “Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have”.If most employees will be sincere, the jobs they are at does not afford them the full utilization of their abilities. In a government job, you are either being over-paid and under-utilized or under-paid and over-utilized. In either way, the joy of satisfaction that comes from fully expressing one’s abilities is absent. This is not the definition of success, this is the definition of a cage.
JOB SECURITY Vs. FINANCIAL FREEDOM
    What most job seekers really look for is job security. In this case, a paycheck is guaranteed at the end of the month. What capitalists, people whose aim is to have the nation serve them, look for is financial freedom. In this case, the opportunity to expand and contract their financial power at will, I mean their ability to use money as they wish without salary constraints. They can afford to vary what they do with money based on the income they are able to bring in by the effective and maximum utilization of their abilities. Their worth is not restricted to how much the employer pays them, it is boundless because they determine how much comes in by themselves.
    It is why Otedola can afford to buy a yacht and his top employees can not, the same reason why Dangote can afford to ride the best of cars running to millions of dollars and the highest paid of bank executives dare not do whatever is beyond their salary except they go into debt. It is the same reason why all these capitalists can afford to dabble into politics and sponsor a candidate. It is because they control their income, their success is a factor of their utilization of their abilities backed by God’s support and not dependence on what their nation can do for them.
    My message is simple and straight-to-the-point. Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do with your abilities that will make you a force to reckon with and make your nation serve you. Get away from the cage of seeking job security and seek financial freedom, invest, do business, sell, just make sure you are about to make the nation serve you.
BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
1. Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill    2. Think Big - Ben Carson