Ways to make money online

 Make money on YouTube (create videos)

Working as an Affiliate Marketer

Make money online from blogging

Build a website and monetize it.

Make money online as an Online Advertiser/ Media Buyer

Work as a Photographer

Make money from Dropshipping

Earn money as a Creator (sell your art online)

Work as an online teacher

Create specialized websites and sell them

Work as a social media influencer

Selling on Amazon

Writing and publishing e-books on Amazon Kindle

Review products on YouTube

Copywriter, editor or translator

Make money online as a Proofreader

Make money from home as Social Media Manager

Get some money as a Data entry specialist

Work online as a virtual assistant

Work as a Graphic designer

Make money from home as a Language teacher

Work in performing the Voices

Many companies are looking for male or female voices to narrate their marketing or explanatory videos.

Furthermore, audiobooks, podcast intros, TV/radio commercials, tutorials, and even voicemail all require a professional audio editor.

Make money online as a customer Support agent

Work as a Counselor, mentor or coach

Work online as an accountant

Working online in email marketing

Make money online as a website developer

Become an online transcription work

Make money from home as a SEO expert

Work as an online moderator

Make money online from writing resumes

Start an online business in Animation

Make money online doing small tasks

You may not have any skills, but there’s still a big chance to make money online doing small tasks like watching video, writing comments, sharing a post, downloading an application, signing up on a certain platform, etc… Although you get paid a few cents for each of these tasks, you can still make 10$ per day by doing a lot of them. 

There are a lot of platforms offering such services like Microworker, Picoworker, Rapidworker, etc… 

Find work online on freelancing platforms

Making money online finishing sureys

Try print on demand

Create an online course

Publish an ebook

Start a blog

Create an app

If you're not a developer, you're probably looking at this money-making idea and feeling a bit stuck. Fortunately, you can hire someone with programming skills to build an app for you. Sites like Toptal will connect you with plenty of app developers who are open to working with entrepreneurs to turn their vision into reality.

All you have to do is come up with a unique app idea, identify the audience you want to target, and create a brand image for your product. The programmer you hire will take care of things on the development front.

Become a writer

Do side gigs

Do translation work

Sell your stuff

Become a Twitch streamer

While Twitch started as a gaming platform, it's quickly evolving to include other types of content. Nowadays, Twitch streaming is an increasingly popular way to make money online.

You'll need to find a popular game or channel that isn't overly competitive so people can easily find your content. In order to get people to notice your streams, you'll need to have a consistent style for your channel: Is it going to be funny, educational, or entertaining? Choose your path and stick to it.

There are five ways to monetize your Twitch channel:

Sell products

Offer brand sponsorships

Accept fan donations

Offer subscriptions

Run Twitch ads

Invest in stocks

Sell photography

Sell clothes online

Become an extreme couponer

If you're looking to save and make a bit of money, couponing can be a viable option. Coupon Chief's Pays-2-Share program, for example, lets you share coupons and earn a 2% to 3% commission on sales. The key is to share coupons that haven't been used before.

This method resembles affiliate marketing, where you earn commissions through referral links. Many coupon companies pay their affiliates consistently, making this a legitimate way to earn online. For instance, Coupon Chief has paid more than $1.3 million in commissions to date.

Buy and sell domain names

Sell your designs online

Graphic design is an amazing skill that you can monetize in several ways. You can go the print-on-demand route and sell your designs on your own custom products. Alternatively, you can pitch your designs on a crowdsource platform like 99designs.

There's also the option to create your own graphics and templates to sell on marketplaces like Envato or Creative Market. Or how about picking up some clients and working as a freelance graphic designer? According to PayScale, this role will net you $29.90 per hour, on average

Test websites

Create and publish newsletters

Get a part-time job

Become a TikTok consultant

Sell greeting cards online

If you have a knack for picking out the perfect greeting card for different occasions, this might be an easy way to make money online. However, it's not recommended that you market your services to everyone and anyone—it's not a smart way to do business. Instead, design or source greeting cards that appeal to a certain segment of the population.

For example, you can make greeting cards that cater to C-level executives wanting to thank their senior vice presidents for making profitable decisions last year. Or you can target health care professionals who want to thank their patients for choosing their clinic. For designing the cards, you can use an online graphic tool like Photoshop or Canva.

Become a reseller

Reselling products is a way to make money without creating items. You can buy vintage or collectible items and then sell them. If you want to focus on specific products, you can become a certified distributor of a brand in your area.

Start by finding brands to resell on wholesale directories and platforms like AliExpress. Then, set up an online platform to sell your chosen products. Remember, you will need to manage inventory. This takes effort, but it doesn't require making products.

Sell advertising space

Narrate audiobooks

Do micro jobs

Looking to earn extra money? Consider micro jobs—small online tasks like transcribing audio or organizing data. Websites like TaskRabbit for various odd jobs, Upwork for freelance work, and PeoplePerHour for creative and technical tasks offer plenty of opportunities.

Just ensure you have a stable internet connection and a functional computer. For design or tech roles, showcasing your previous work could help you secure the job.

How can I make money online fast?

Build a Shopify store and dropship products online.

Sell used stuff on eBay, Amazon, or Facebook Marketplace.

Find and share coupons on websites like Coupon Chief.

Buy and sell domain names.

Rent your spare room on Airbnb.

Provide TikTok consultancy to startups and businesses.

Sell information products.

Tutor people online in high-demand subjects.

Create online courses.

Review apps and websites.

How can I make $100 a day on the web?

Complete surveys.

Sell products on Amazon.

Teach English online.

Watch videos for money.

Get cash back on your shopping.

Proofread for websites.

Review music online.

How can I make money online in 2025?

Launch a print-on-demand store.

Sell your clothes online.

Create handmade goods.

Offer freelance services.

Curate subscription boxes.

Build online courses.

Launch a podcast.

Create digital products.

Become an influencer.

Start a blog.

Online focus groups

Cashback apps

Watching videos

Depending on the app or platform you choose, you’ll be given different types of videos to watch. For example, InboxDollars serves up long videos that you just play in the background while you do other stuff.

Now, watching videos for money won't make you rich, but it is an easy way to earn a little extra cash.

Getting paid as a clipper

Clipping is one of the newest ways to make money with content — and you don't even need to create the content yourself.

"With Whop Content Rewards, you don’t need to create original content. You can start making money from day one—even with zero followers."

— Clipper on Whop

As a clipper you take existing long-form content (like visual podcasts and vlogs) and clip the best parts into short, viral videos.

Clipping is a hot market right now — creators want more eyes on their content, and clippers are happy to make money online creating viral reels.

How to start

Pick a niche, find long-form content, use tools like Capcut, Canva, Opus, and Descript to create clips with hooks and captions, optimize for platforms, and publish consistently.

Best for: Anyone with a smartphone who can edit and make clips go viral.

Effort needed: Medium – once you figure out what works, it's rinse and repeat.

Setup time: Under an hour to sign up and find content to clip.

How fast you'll get paid: Within 24 hours if your content complies.

Play-to-earn gaming

Online sweepstakes

Chatting online

Answering questions

People often search the internet seeking answers to certain questions, and there are a lot of ways in which these questions get answered — videos, blog posts, entire websites, forums, and platforms like Quora and JustAnswer.

Microtasks

Selling data

We’re not talking about selling your own personal data, or acquiring other people’s data and selling that (that's illegal, just saying).

We’re talking about internet data, or bandwidth.

You pay your internet provider for a set amount of data at a certain speed. But chances are, you’re not using all of it. That’s where this clever money-making method comes in: sell your unused bandwidth to someone who needs it.

In places like the U.S. and Europe, where demand for bandwidth is high, some platforms will pay you up to $50 per month just for letting them tap into your excess data.

Online mystery shopping

Referral programs

Mobile app testing

How creators can make money online

Want to grow beyond quick wins? Content creation offers the biggest long-term potential.

With just your phone, a niche, and some creativity, you can turn it into a powerful (and profitable) side hustle.

18. UGC content

Potential earnings: $300-$3,000+ monthly

You might think content creation is reserved for big names like Marques Brownlee or Dude Perfect.

But with user-generated content (UGC), you can start earning from your very first post.

This Gen X dad (featured in the video below) never planned to become a UGC creator — and that’s exactly why he stands out.

He’s not the typical TikTok personality, and that difference helped him turn content creation into an unexpected income stream.

UGC creators focus on authentic, everyday content — short videos, reviews, photos, or even tweets — that brands can use in their marketing.

It doesn’t need to be fancy. In fact, brands prefer lo-fi content that feels real. If you’ve got a smartphone, you’ve got everything you need.

Blogging

Create and sell YouTube thumbnails

TikTok

Potential earnings: Creators with 1M+ monthly views earn $500-$2000 monthly from the program alone

TikTok dominates the short-form world. With over 1 billion monthly active users globally, it offers huge opportunities for turning quick, engaging videos into real income.

TikTok’s monetization methods have expanded – fast. The main method is the TikTok Creativity Program, which replaced the old Creator Fund.

To qualify, you’ll need 10,000 followers and 100,000 video views in the past 30 days. Once you’re in, you can start earning based on performance.

Streaming

Design and sell streamer overlays

Monetize a community

Potential earnings: $1000-$250,000 monthly

You can create an online community for anything.

Case and point: Jasen Hunt is a professional CAD instructor and runs a very successful, very niche land survey drafting community.

"The people inside of the communities are the ones that are cheerleading for you the most."

— Jasen Hunt, founder of the world's only land survey drafting community

Moderate a community

Email newsletters

Self-publish ebooks

Create faceless content

To make money with faceless content you need to post regularly, not being discouraged when you're starting off, show up, and using auto captions.

A fair amount of people scroll with sound off, and if you don't have captions, they're gonna scroll right past."

— Zap, Whop

To make money with faceless content, join programs like Whop's Content Rewards, TikTok's Creator Rewards Program, monetize through YouTube, and do affiliate marketing.

Selling digital templates

Digital templates are plug-and-play tools that save people time and effort. Think Canva or Photoshop templates for social posts, Excel and Google Sheets templates for budgeting, or Notion templates for productivity.

The best part of selling digital templates is that they cost almost nothing to make.

Once you’ve designed a template, you can sell it over and over without extra work, making it one of the easiest digital products to scale.

Online coaching

Online consulting

Create stock photos & videos

Virtual assistant

Voice acting

Voice acting isn’t new, but it’s hotter than ever. Games like Baldur’s Gate 3 proved how much a great performance can shape a project — and even turn voice actors into stars in their own right.

Resume writing

Online courses and webinars

SaaS (Software as a Service) is a business model where software is delivered through the cloud — no downloads or installs, just log in and start using it.

You don’t need to be a developer to get started – most SaaS apps started with someone spotting a common problem that didn’t have a simple solution.

Take GenPPT, the SaaS app built by Siya. While still in school, Sia needed a faster way to create pitch decks, so he built the first version of GenPPT in just four hours.

Brands also need voices for ads, YouTubers need narrators, audiobooks are exploding, and dubbing is a huge market worldwide.

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Creating a whop

Whop as a great choice to host an online store, community, coaching, virtual assistant business, consulting business, course, and more.

But seriously – if you’re looking to make money online, you’ve got an entrepreneur mindset, and Whop was designed for you.

Developing a SaaS product? List it on Whop. Want to design and sell courses and webinars? Provide online coaching or sell trading signals? Educate traders? Sell your SaaS solution?

Whatever the offer, Whop is the answer.

Teach ESL online

English is the most global of languages, and while schools in most countries are doing a good job teaching it today, the previous generation(s) haven’t had it quite as good.

As a result, there’s still a huge demand for English as a second language among tertiary students and professionals looking to advance their residential and career opportunities.

Once you have a good feel of what students need from you as an ESL teacher, you might even expand your business and create online English courses!

How to start

Join an ESL platform to gain experience (like Preply), then consider freelancing for more freedom and higher rates.

Online fitness

Fitness is one of those industries that translates perfectly to the online world — you don’t need a gym to teach people how to get in shape.

"Online fitness is a great business to scale up and work with a lot of different people, and you can create a lot of different revenue streams based on what those clients need — face to face, online, and purely fitness programming."

— Danni, personal trainer at Jetts Australia

Whether you’re sharing the workout routines and tips that helped you transform your own body, or building a step-by-step program for others to follow, you can package and sell your fitness coaching entirely online.

How to start

Use your expertise to launch a personalized coaching offer and bundle it with a course and/or community to create multiple income streams. Market yourself on Instagram and TikTok to bring in more clients.

Best for: Fitness enthusiasts, but especially personal trainers.

Effort needed: Depends. Easy to create written routines and sell passively, but more effort (and profit) for hosting virtual classes and coaching.

Setup time: Depends on your offer, but you can join platforms like Whop and list digital files and coaching offers in under an hour.

How fast you'll get paid: Directly from clients within a few hours to a day, days to a week from third-party platforms.

Teach cooking online

Sell recipe books, cooking courses, and host live cooking lessons in your whop

Launch an online travel agency

Selling no-code websites

 Digital business reports

Businesses and creators are relying on professional reports to guide their decisions more and more each day. These reports include sustainability reports, market research, and more.

While creating these kinds of reports requires a strong understanding of the field, it's a great way to make money online.

Your clients can range from individual creators to large-scale businesses looking to get your professional opinion on the report they're looking for. One of the best ways to succeed is to focus on niche specializations like sustainability reports or consumer behavior.

AI content tagging

Content tagging is what helps organize and label online content like blogs, product listings, videos – you get the idea.

It's key for SEO, ecom, and improving how content performs online, but a lot of businesses don't have the time to do it internally.

By offering fast (and accurate) tagging services – which you can do easily with the help of AI – you can help people save time and improve results for pretty decent cash.

Tip: You can do this by using tools like ChatGPT's image recognition models.

How to start

Check out platforms like DataAnnotation to find paid AI content tagging jobs. Use AI tools to speed up content tagging, then offer added services like alt text and metadata creation. Always review at the end with a sharp eye.

Sell prompt packs on Whop

Social media caption writing

We all see cringe business posts on social. Look, not everyone is a gifted caption writer — but if you have a way with words, you can do it for them.

Caption writing for Instagram, LinkedIn, or TikTok is a niche service that’s quick to deliver and always in demand.

Find work on platforms like Fiverr and Upwork, or pitch directly to small brands that need help staying relevant on social media.

Tweet/X management

Posting regular, relevant X posts is crucial for brands, but it requires time and effort.

This is why most creators and businesses hire people to handle their X (formerly Twitter) accounts.

The great thing about X ghostwriting and account management is that you don't need any niche skills. You only need to be good with people (and sure, your own X account's engagement probably helps, too).

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Trading

Flipping domain names

Online real estate investing

Real estate flipping

Trading card reselling

NFTs and digital collectibles

Ecommerce and selling products online

Start an online store

Online thrift flipping

Thrift flipping is all about finding underpriced clothes, books, or collectibles at thrift stores, garage sales, or flea markets — and reselling them on platforms like eBay, Depop, or Poshmark.

The key is spotting items with hidden resale value — designer clothes, out-of-print books, deadstock sneakers, or trending vintage pieces.

With practice, you can flip items for 2–10x their purchase price.

Affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing is a great strategy if you want minimal involvement in a business but are confident in your ability to market it.

It’s a performance-based model that’s all about the promotion of products or services, and as an affiliate marketer, you can earn a commission for each sale, lead, or even action that your efforts result in.

Companies offer different types of affiliate programs, but typically, all you need to do to get started is sign up.

Once you’re accepted, you pick out which products or services you think you can market, and grab your tracking links.

PLR digital products

PLR, a.k.a private label rights, is a concept you’ve likely seen before — like when popular products are manufactured to be sold under a store's home brand label.

That's basically how PLR works for digital products, and it's an easy way to make money online, especially if you're new to selling digital offers.

With PLR, you can buy the rights to use, modify, and sell products like ebooks, templates, courses, graphics, and software.

Or, you could create and sell PLR products yourself. If you’re skilled in design, content creation, or development, package your digital work and sell licenses to others who want to rebrand and resell it.

Whether you’re reselling existing PLR products or creating your own, this model is a low-effort, high-scale way to earn online.

Start a print-on-demand business

How to create multiple streams of income

Once you’ve started making money, the next move is diversifying your income. That means not relying on just one source of income.

As Volky from Digital Nomad Community says:

Anyone who is making money, the next logical step is to teach people how to do what you do and create an additional source of income for yourself.

The goal is simple: monetize your expertise and content in as many ways as possible.

Let's imagine that you make money as a travel blogger. Sure, you could just try to get sponsorships for your travel blog, or you could create multiple income streams.

First, grow your audience

Growing your audience with:

Travel blog posts

YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram videos

A travel-focused podcast

Then, monetize it

Then monetizing that audience with a whop by:

Running an affiliate marketing program

Offering a premium paid travel newsletter

Selling downloadable itineraries, packing lists, and journals

Charging for premium versions of free content (supercuts, behind-the-scenes)

Creating a course on becoming a travel blogger

Selling an ebook about your travel journey

Launching a paid travel community

Creating a travel blog

Uploading videos to YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram

Creating a travel podcast

While this may look overwhelming it is made incredibly simple with Whop.

The key point here is that you don't have to choose one income stream. Ebooks may bring you some money, and affiliate marketing may bring you a little more, but multiple streams will seriously upgrade your earning potential.

Can you really make money online with no upfront cost?

Yes, many online income methods require little to no investment. Options like paid surveys, user-generated content (UGC), clipping content, and affiliate marketing are free to start and can generate income using just your phone or computer.

What is the fastest way to make money online in 2025?

The fastest ways include sign-up bonuses, cashback apps, microtask platforms, and UGC gigs that don’t require a following. Some methods can pay out within hours or days, depending on the platform.

How can beginners start making money online?

Beginners should start with low-barrier options like surveys, clipping content, video watching apps, or selling simple digital products. These require no special skills and let you build experience while earning.

What is the most profitable way to make money online long-term?

Selling digital products, building a paid community, or creating online courses are some of the most profitable long-term methods. They scale well, require minimal ongoing costs, and can generate passive income.

Are online side hustles legit?

Yes, but always research platforms before signing up. Stick to well-known options like Whop, Upwork, Amazon, or Survey Junkie. Avoid any “opportunity” that asks for upfront fees without clear value.

Do I need a large social media following to make money online?

Not at all. Many platforms — especially those offering UGC, clipping, or freelance work — pay based on the quality of your output, not your follower count. You can earn without ever going viral.

Avoid online money-making scams

Before diving in, protect yourself from scams.

Red flags include: upfront fees, get-rich-quick promises, vague job descriptions, pressure tactics, and requests for personal information.

Stay safe by: researching companies, starting small, using established platforms (Whop, YouTube, Upwork, etc.), and trusting your instincts. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

The methods in this guide focus on legitimate, established platforms with real earning potential.

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