Earning money passively over the internet doesn’t actually mean earning for doing nothing but it requires an investment of time. It means earning without an initial investment of a huge sum of capital and perhaps, a lot of time. It means investing less and earning more.

You can use it as a side gig, alongside your daily job but some people have obtained their source of livelihood from the web. With the increased popularity of Internet in the 21st century, it has come along with a variety of advantages, ranging from social media to online business transactions.

If you have a spare time along your day’s busy schedule, you can try out some gigs where you get to earn some cash without hustling a lot.

You maybe wondering about what to do amidst this pandemic-lockdown era but you can get over it if you invest 2-3 hours per day and you earn real cash.

Ways to earn cash online.

You can earn cash online but taking part in some of these tasks:

1. Creating an e-commerce store.
2. Through cash back rewards.
3. Affiliate marketing business.
4. Sell photos online.
5. Become an Instagram influencer.
6. Creating a print-on-demand store.
7. Sell handmade goods.
8. Selling digital products.
9. Carrying out online courses.
10. Become a blogger.
11. Carrying out paid surveys.

“A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.”

1. Creating an e-commerce store.

This is also called Dropshipping and involves creating an online store where you get to order for goods from a supplier, advertise them and then pay him when customers buy. The advantage of this is that it reduces the underlying risks because you only pay the supplier when the product is bought; and another thing is that you don’t have to set up a physical store. Dropshipping isn’t a get rich quick scheme but it takes a lot of time to build the community of customers who have to buy. But some can earn up to $100,000 depending on what they are dealing in and those buying.

2. Through cash back rewards.

You can get reward points when you do online shopping with companies like cash bucks, Rakuten, MyPoint and several others. The more you shop, the more points you get. So, after registering an account with these companies, just shop your favorite stuff and earn points that are transferred into cash.

3. Affiliate marketing business.

Affiliate marketing is just recommending a product or service to the audience on behalf of a certain company. You can serve as a marketeer for a certain company that gets to pay you a certain commission when a customer buys a product through your link. You can become a marketeer for a company like Amazon and you’re in position to obtain your commission.

4. Sell photos online.

If you have a camera at hand, you can take a stock of photos and sell them over internet. Some sites such as Pexels and Shutter stock buy these photos to add them in their gallery and will pay you for that. Just keep it cool, take your photos and earn.

5. Become an Instagram influencer.

Most of the popular people from Instagram earn through uploading photos, they get a lot of views and likes and earn. People like Dwayne Johnson “The Rock” get above $1million when they upload photos on Instagram. All you have to do is to grow the community of your followers and the ball is already rolling. Other people take part in paid ads for popular companies on Instagram.

6. Creating a print-on-demand store.

For designers and artists out there who wish to become entrepreneurs, this is your chance. You can design several products such as posters, flyers, t-shirts, back packs and much more and then sell them to your customers. All you have to invest in is your great quality of skill and time and you start earning. The advantage is that you print as customers buy which minimizes losses. You can also design for another supplier and you get paid when customers pay.

7. Sell handmade goods.

You can also sell goods you have made yourself for example clothes, and other accessories. There’s an anticipation that during the post pandemic era, these will be some of the goods that will be on demand;

• Clothes
• Shoes accessories
• Online classes

So, you can even use online selling sites such as Handshake, Amazon, eBay, Ruby to market and sell your stock online.

8. Selling digital products.

You can sell digital products such as music, videos, files and ebooks online. You can either sell them at a specified price or make them free and only earn when customers download. The good thing about it is that when you upload files, they’ll be stored there and people can download at a later date as you upload more. So, the profit margin is somewhat high.

9. Carrying out online courses.

If you are a teacher or any other person and you are well informed about a certain subject, you can conduct online tutorials with either large audience or limited classes. You can control your class size to either make them large or small depending on what you like personally. You can either charge a certain fee as tuition or make your lectures absolutely free. You can engage your class in discussions, give them assignments, allow them to ask questions and you give feedback or even put up some reading materials; either downloadable materials where learner’s get to learn at their own pace or video tutorials when you engage in teacher-student interaction. That way you can earn cash that is worth it.

10. Become a blogger.

Do you have your coding skills well set? If yes, then you’re on the right track. You can earn lots of money either monthly or yearly by creating blogs, drive traffic to your blog site and start earning. You can monetize your blog by sharing on social media, affiliate marketing, where you will add either an image link or text link directing people to buy products of a certain company through your link which gets to pay you a certain commission; for example Amazon. You can add Google AdSense, which is advertising for Google within your blog, offer paid subscription and invest in paid ads. That way you will earn lots of income.

For those who don’t know how to code, you can use website builder like WordPress,Wix or Tumblr to create a site with no programming skills.

11. Carrying out paid surveys.

You can also take part in legit paid surveys and earn cash rewards if you complete them. Sites such as my survey, i-say, pannel opinion, swag bucks, zap surveys, survey junkie, toluna and many more pay you cash for completing their surveys.

Earning online cash may be daunting at first but with time, it gets pretty much enjoyable and rewarding. So, all you have to do is to take your time and focus on what you are doing and things will turn out the best.