This short piece contains practical and easy ways to make passive income. It shows how the Internet can be used as a source of income without having to leave the comfort of your home.
3. Passive income means generating an automatic income instead of trading your time for money doing regular jobs. In
this document I am going to show you how to make money from the internet and at your ease. The following are
some practical ways to make passive income:
1. Youtube Videos
With thousands of views on youtube your video can be monetized with ads, selling courses, affiliate
products, etc. FYI there are youtube millionaires, People who make millions of dollars on youtube videos.
2. Affiliate Marketing
Selling someone else’s products and getting a commission from the sale. For example on Amazon and
clickbank. Find something you are passionate about and promote it on social media, blogs, videos,
slideshare presentations, etc. Promote it through any platform where you can get traffic. The ultimate goal
here is to sell and be paid a commission.
4. Closely related to Affiliate Marketing is Network Marketing where you can also recruit people to get
commissions from them. You can go to websites like Avon, Advocare International, Herbalife International,
Mary Kay Cosmetics, Pampered Chef, etc
3. Selling your own products
You can sell your products on ebay or create your own shopping store on shoppify. The best products are
digital products like audiobooks, ebooks, graphic desings. Etsy is a good site for digital products. By selling
online you don’t encure manufacturing and shipping costs.
5. 4. Selling photos
You can submit your photos to stock photo websites like istockphoto, shutterstock and get a commission
from each sale. Etsy store also provides similar services. It is more or less a digital art store where you can
sell various works of art.
5. Music
You can license your music and sell it online on itunes and soundcloud, generate income from videos on
youtube. Another great website is premiumbeat.com where you can sell your music for royalties. They have
royalty free music and music which you have to pay to listen or watch.
6. 6. Sell a service or a course
If you are an expert at something: meditation, design, fitness, cooking, hairdressing, makeup, fashion, you
can create and sell an online course. You basically sell information by teaching people how to do stuff
through your videos. These are prerecorded videos that you upload and sell.
Write some information about yourself on the course and offer a preview of the first chapter for free.
You can sell your online course on udemy and teachable.
7. Social Media star
Having a popular profile on social media is a gold mind. You can make a lot of money from popularity on
social media sites like facebook, instagram, twitter and linkedIn. Companies would want to pay you to
promote their brands.
7. 8. Amazon Mechanical Turk
You can make some money by just working on small interesting tasks like Human Intelligence Tasks on
amazon. Here you simply have to perform tasks and get paid.
9. Writing
You can do freelance writing. Good for blog writers, content writers, copy writers, etc
Earn money by writing articles and selling them online. You can write interesting articles, ads, course sales,
ebook sales, graphic designs, etc. You can go to Fiverr and Make a living writing.com. The latter gives you
access to 92 websites that pay writers and Probloggers.
8. 10. Transcriptions
This means transforming audio and video into text. Good for people who can type fast, who are good at
listening and making out words. You can do transcripting on Upwork, fiverr and amazon mechanical turk.
However Tanscribeme is more specialized and recommended.
11. Testing and User Feedbacks
Do testing for new websites, apps, new prototypes of products, etc before they become available to the
public. These may require you to make voice feedbacks. There are many websites that offer these services
but I recommend User testing.com.
9. 12. Graphic Design
If you have a good eye on what is appealing to a customer, what would look good together and you can
draw, then do graphic designing. You can work in a domain that you feel comfortable with; marketing,
technology, and entertainment. In the US, graphic designers make up to $ 42000 per year (close to XAF
24.000.000). You can sell stuff like logos, book covers, infographics, animations, etc on sites like etsy, ebay,
fever, Upwork and 99 designs for high end graphic designing.
13. Mock Juror
Help lawyers in their cases. This is a good opportunity for people with a legal background to make money
online. Go to sites like eJury, jury talk, online verdict, etc
10. 14. Search Engine Evaluation
This allows you to help search engines. You thereby help make search results better
Go to sites like Leapforce and Lionbridge.
15. Virtual Assistant
You can help with accounting, billing, tax preparation, writing and editing for people who need things to be
done but don’t have the time to do it themselves. Go to Virtualassistant.com and task bullet.
11. 16. Sell books and textbooks online
Sell old books online. The books should be in digital copies – ebooks, epubs, and cbr for comics. Of course
there are much more formats but those are the popular ones. On Kindle Publishing. Go to
KDP.amazon.com and sign up. After creating your account you can then upload your books. It doesn’t
matter whether the book is fiction, based on a true story, self-development, motivational, meditation, health
or any other classification. It just has to be interesting. Just find your niche, write and post on amazon. You
don’t have to be a best-selling publisher and the books don’t have to be long. By posting on amazon you
get the most amount of traffic and most amount of possible buyers all on one platform. You can get up to
70% of royalties not only in your country but in countless other countries.
12. 17. Computer software engineer
Commonly trained in different technologies, computer software engineers are really well paid. As they work
from home they report back to a team or management structure. If you can code and create packaged
software and customized applications. You may have to take CISCO and Microsoft certifications programs.
You can use shopify to sell your software.
13. 18. Podcast
A podcast for those who don’t know is basically a sound file distributed by a podcasting server. Multimedia
files are distributed over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer. Here you
produce something like a small radio show, an episode in which ad links, affiliate links, blog links, products,
and anything to promote a business are added. This serves as a good form of marketing. When you develop
a popular podcast people would use your podcast to advertise their products/services in exchange for
money. To see more go to MLM.com
19. Task Rabbit
Involves performing several tasks in your neighborhood. Plans are on the way to creating a local network for
Cameroon.
14. The following would require you to advertise your services. You can do that on social media through a
Facebook page, whatsapp, LinkedIn and twitter or through a personal blog or a website.
20. Social Media Management for small businesses
You can get paid to tweet, share, follow or make a Facebook page relevant. If you understand the
functioning of social media and marketing this can be good for you. Visit small businesses around and pitch
your services. You can teach them how to use social media to promote their business or do it for them.
21. Customer Service Rep
Help companies sell image and products from home
22. Online language tutor/conversation partner
Teach people new languages and do translations online.
23. Online tutor or Post-Secondary teachers
You have a degree in any field and you are good at it, you are a professional in any field and you are good
at it start online tutoring where you can teach 3 to 20 people online at any particular time. There are also
online tutoring certifications that you can take online, for those with a wider scope
24. Tax Preparer
You have a degree in accounting, business law; banking and management help businesses prepare their
taxes from the comfort of your home. Most business owners don’t know anything about taxes, be their tax
consultant and help them save money.
25. Public Relations Specialists
Same as a social media manager, you need to know how to use social media such as Facebook, twitter,
LinkedIn and other platforms because they work close to bloggers, journalists and media. You have to
prepare material such as story pitches, online interviews or press releases.
26. Market and Survey Researcher
Companies are always trying to figure out which products sell the best or appeal most to the public. This job
requires you to analyze and study market conditions for companies in order to improve the effectiveness of
their marketing and business strategies.
15. 27. Registered nurse
Nurses don’t necessarily need to work long hours in a hospital, they can also work in a medical call center
doing telephone triage or help coordinating care plans and providing care assessment. Also as a registered
nurse you can be on call from home to assist and provide first aid to people in need.
28. Financial Manager
You have a degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration or accounting you can be a financial
manager. This entails overseeing the finances of companies or agencies and provide financial reports.
29. Silent Partner
Find a business-make research on the company’s chance for success.
30. Brand Licencing
Entails using the name of a popular figure to sell products or services.
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