13 Online and 13 Offline Extra Income Ideas

Clickbank.com

Clickbank.com is maybe the largest online affiliate money-making company right now.  A large group of people right now are making an incredible income through clickbank and they don’t even have their own product.  That’s right!  Clickbank allow you to sell or promote other people’s digital products. 

Clickbank take care of all the payment processing for you and ail checks twice per month.  They are very loyal in paying their clients.  Visit their website at www.clickbank.com and you can sign up for free and start promoting some digital products today.  A way find out what products are top sellers on their site is to visit www.cbtrends.com, www.cb-analytics.com or www.cbengine.com . This way before you start promoting anything you have an idea of what are some of the hot selling products right now. 

 

Commission Junction

Commission Junction (www.cj.com) is another great online company with whom you could sign up for free and promote hundreds of top selling and name brand products for some of the biggest and most known companies around today.  You can promote anything from insurance to electronics.  You can also choose to promote items for advertisers who pay you commission on the sale of an item or those advertisers who pay you per lead you bring them.  You can visit www.cj.com and sign up free today to start promoting a number of top selling items. 

 

Ebook

Let me ask you:  What are you good at?  What area do you have expert knowledge in?  Do you think you have some information about something, anything weather it be on relationships or finance that could help someone?  I believe there is something that you are good at or some knowledge that you possess that can help many people.  Many people will pay you for this knowledge.  This is where Ebooks come in.  Ebooks are just like regular books but in a digital downloadable format.  Thousands of people right now are making a substantial income from simply writing and selling Ebooks.

Many traditional published books today are also now providing an Ebook format to customers online.  Ebooks are a big money maker whether one is writing about their hobby or giving some kind of advice on something one is very good at like finance.  Ebooks are how many online millionaires today make their millions.  Ebooks are very inexpensive to create.  Once you write your material simply do a search engine search through Google or any other major search engines for an “Ebook Creator” software.  You can find a very inexpensive one or maybe a free one and use it to properly put your writing in an Ebook format.  After this you need a way to accept payments online for your Ebook.  You can create a free account with www.paypal.com one of the biggest and safest online payment companies online.  Clickbank (www.clickbank.com) also provide this service for a one-time account creation fee for about $49.  When you are done simply write up a website page that you can get for free from many places online today and start promoting your New Ebook.  

 

Get paid for completing Online Surveys:

Another online extra income source could be filling our online surveys for a number of companies.  Companies are always doing research marketing.  So if you are a person with some time on your hands, this could be an extra income source for you.  You can easily find a number of these sites at any major search engine.  Now you will see some online sites charging a fee to get the information but search for those that has no fees unless you don’t mind paying a small fee.  Make sure that you do your research making sure that any site that you sign up with are legitimate. 

Google Adsense:

Many people are using Google Adsense to make extra money on the internet today.  This is a free system offered by Google.  How this works is if you have a website, you can to www.google.com and click on Advertising Programs.  Simply apply for an account with them.  After they approve your account, based on the type of website that you have and the contents of your website, small text ads for other websites will run on your site.  When visitors click on these ads from your website you make money from Google.

 

Drop Shipping:

Drop shipping is a big moneymaker on the internet today.  You would be amazed of how many companies online are engages in drop shipping.  Drop shipping is signing up with the manufacturer of a product and selling and promoting that product.  When you get a sale for the product, you simply pay the manufacturer their portion and keep the rest for your profit.  That means you will markup the price of the product to make a profit.  The supplier will then ship the product to the customer using the shipping address that you would provide them.  That’s it; you have nothing else to do.  You don’t need to store any product at your home or keep anything in stock.  You don’t need to store any product at your home or keep anything in supplier. 

You will need a website which you could get for free or one for a small fee and an online payment processing system which you can get if you don’t already have one.    You create an account with Paypal at www.paypal.com .  To find drop shippers, you can do a Google search.  You may find some websites that is charging a fee for access to a data base of drop shippers.  However, you can search to locate some drop shippers for free if you do not have the money to spend.  One company that seems to be big in providing drop shipping sources but they charge a fee is www.doba.com .

 

Freelance:

There are a lot of people online that are offering their skills or expertise for a fee do some kind of freelance work.  What are you good at?  It may be writing, editing, typing or website design.  You would do freelance work for people online who need this kind of service.  Simply do a search engine search for freelance sites and start offering your service for a fee.  Now you would need a way to receive payments.  You could use a www.paypal.com account to receive payment.  Another way to advertise your services could be by way of posting free ads on www.craigslist.org . 

 

Free Classified Ads:

How about selling products through Free Classified Ads?  Do you have some items that you do not need anymore?  You could simply list these items in some free classified ads over the internet.  The www.craigslist.org is one free classified ad website and you could also check out www.usfreeads.com .  There are a great number of classified ad websites today that you can easily post your ads on for free.  If you do not have any product you could buy discounted products and list them for sale on free classified ad websites. 

 

Ebay:

One of the biggest online market place that is bringing extra income and also full-time income to many people today is www.ebay.com .  I have personally sold something on Ebay before also.  Ebay is a very easy and quick way to make some extra money.  Infact, many people earn a full-time income from Ebay.  Ebay is an internet auction website where millions of people are everyday bidding and purchasing any item or product that you can think of.

You could sell anything from dolls to antique.  Do you have some things laying around in your home that you would like to get rid of?  You could sell them on Ebay.  You could also buy discounted products and sell them at a profit on Ebay.

It is very easy and free to create an account with Ebay.  Upon sale of your product, Ebay charges a small fee.  In starting off with an Ebay account you could go to their website and look at some of the products that are hot sellers.  This could give you some idea of what products are going fast.  However, you can sell almost anything on Ebay.  This is a great way to start making some extra income that comes with a very little start-up cost. 

 Amazon

www.amazon.com is another major online market place where you can create an account with www.amazon.com and sell products through their website.  A whole lot of money is being made through amazon.com.  You can create your own www.amazon.com store so to speak and promote products through their website.  For example, Amazon.com sells a lot of books online and even books in downloadable format which seems to be sweeping the internet today.

 

Blogs

Do you enjoy writing?  Something that has taken the internet like a hurricane is called blogging.  Blogging is simply people writing on various subjects or simply writing about something they love.  Are you strong in a certain area?  You could blog about that.  Do you have a lot of information about a certain thing?  You could blog about that.  It may be sports or business.  You could start a free blogging website today.  You could get a great blog website for free at www.wordpress.com or any other free blogging websites out there. 

Well, you may be wondering how you would make money through blogging.  If you blog well and starts to attract many readers to your blog website (which is called internet traffic), you could start promoting products from your blog website to your readers (traffic) or you could charge other website owners a fee to place an ad of their sites or products on your blog website.  Another idea is placing Google Adsense ads on your blog website and making money when your readers click on these ads.  Imagine the potential extra income that could be made?  You could start blogging in the next few minutes and it will cost nothing to get started. 

Web Hosting Reseller

There are millions of people using the internet like you are right now and there are still millions more who will be getting on.  Many of these internet users are registering domain names for websites.  Many are using their domain names example, www.mycompany.com, for their internet business, blogs or whatever else they do.  When they register a domain name they have to pay a monthly fee for that company or any company to host that domain name and website for them. 

How about you being able to offer this service to a great potential number of people who would purchase through you?  Now you can.  The company www.hostgator.com provides this service and now they have what they call a reseller program where you purchase a reseller package from them for about $25 and offer this same service to people.  The reseller service www.hostgator.com will run you about $25 per month depending on what package you sign up for. 

Think about you being able to sell domains and provide internet hosting while being paid for it each month?  Now, this can be a bit technical and may not be ideal for they who are absolutely new to the internet.  I do recommend you go to their website at www.hostgator.com and get fully informed and educated. They also have training videos available to help get you trained. 

 

Joint Ventures

Joint Ventures can be a very interesting way of making some extra money online.  Joint Venture online is when one person has a product and one has a website that is having a lot of visitors to that site.  The person with the product would contact the website owner by way of phone or email and make a proposal regarding the website owner promoting the product on their website and sharing in the profit of the product.  Both persons would walk away with a fair share of income from the sale of the products.  If you have a product and can find a website owner who would promote that product on their website or even through their email marketing or newsletter subscribers, this could be proven to be very profitable.  The key factors involved here would be having a good product, finding a website that is having a lot of visitors and finally find a website owner who would be willing to join with you in this venture. 

 

13 Offline extra income ideas

 

Yard Sale

One of the easiest ways to make you some extra money at your home without the internet or offline is having a yard sale.  Now you can make money from those things that you have just laying around the house that you are no longer using.  Anything from your child’s clothes that they have outgrown to that old bicycle laying around the garage.  This is something easy to do.  Running a yard sale would cost you nothing or the most a few bucks to get some signs for directing traffic to your house.  Simply decide how many days of the week you would have your yard sale.  Set up your signs, lay out your items and enjoy the experience while making some extra money. 

Babysitting

Do you have any family members or friends with kids who may need someone to sit-in with their kids on evenings or on weekends because of their hectic schedules?  This could be another quick and expense free way of making some extra income.  You could make a list of those you know that falls in this category and make some calls.  I personally have made some extra money by picking up a cousin of mine two boys for him from school. 

 Grocery Errands

How many family members, friends, or neighbors do you know that are simply to busy to do their own grocery shopping?  Here is another idea that could be explored in making some extra cash.  You may find some folks too busy to do their weekend grocery shopping and may be willing to compensate someone to do it for them.  They could make a grocery list and have you pick up the items.  The only tricky part may be the paying for the grocery.  One could try maybe one of two things.  Firstly, you could pay for the items if you have enough funds to cover the bill and then get reimburse by showing the receipts.  Secondly, they could give you the cash to pay and have you return their change and receipts.

 Dry Cleaning Errands

There are so many folks who take their clothes to the cleaners each weekend.  With the hectic schedules of many, they can hardly fit this in their busy schedule.  Here is another opportunity to make some extra money.  How about you running the errand for them and are compensated?  If you are able to work this around your schedule it could be something one could look into doing.

Fleet Markets/Swop Shops

A lot of money can be made at the Flee Market or Swop Shop whichever term you choose to use.  There are thousands of shoppers at these venues each week purchasing various kinds of items and products.  There are many sellers at the Flee Markets that go only on the weekends to make some extra money.  Now depending on where you live the cost to rent a space for selling your products may vary.  You could sell stuff you have just laying around your home at these events or purchase discounted products or wholesale products and resell them at a profit.  Now you would not want to mark up your prices too high as shoppers are coming to look for the best deals and prices that they can find and they do have a lot of sellers to choose from. 

This is also a fairly nice getting out on the weekend while making some money at the same time. 

Tutoring

Listen, if you are good at any academic course or subject, how about doing some tutoring for a small fee.  There are many students who are struggling in certain courses, especially high school or college students.  Tutoring has a duel benefit effect.  Firstly, you would be helping these students who are having a hard time with certain courses.  Secondly, you would be making yourself some extra money.  A brother of mine did this and had done very well. 

Distribute Flyers for Companies

There are many companies and local stores in your area that would love to get the word out about their businesses.  This idea is finding out from a few of them if they would pay you a fee to and out their printed flyers or business cards for them.  This could be done in our spare time or on the weekends.  This is a win-win situation.  Firstly, you would be making some extra income and secondly, the companies or local stores would be getting their names out there without paying some elaborate advertising fees.

Car Magnet Advertising for Companies

Here is another idea that is similar to the previous only that is bit easier.  There are many companies today who utilize this form of advertising.  If you look around you will see many vehicles with either a painted ad or magnet flyers attached to them. 

You could approach a local store in your area and ask them if they would be willing to pay you a fee for you to carry a pair of magnet flyers on your vehicle advertising their company or store.  Of course, to do this you would first need to have some form of transportation.  The company could print the magnet flyers and have you affixed them to your vehicle.  Now you could agree with the company if they would pay you weekly or monthly.  As you drive around wherever you go their ad would been seen. 

Consignment Store Venture

This can be an interesting idea if you are willing to explore it.  There are many consignment stores around.  These stores are basically stores that will allow you to place your item or product in their stores for sale and upon sale of the product they will charge you a fee or percentage of the item sold.  The fee or percentage would be decided on before the sale of the product. 

If this is an idea one is willing to explore there are a few things to consider first.  Firstly, you would have to locate a consignment store in your local area.  You could search online or use the yellow pages to assisting you in your search.  You would need to find out if they take any product or do they specialize in only a selected product line.  Then you would need to agree upon the fee or percentage that the store would be receiving upon sale of the product.  Most likely this agreement would be something you and the store owner would sign and agree on.  This venture could be a great avenue in getting some extra cash coming to your family. 

 

 Dog Walk for Busy Dog Owners

A dog is such a common pet today.  More and more people are getting themselves a dog pet.  There are many busy people who love to have dogs but find themselves too busy to go walking with their dogs.  This could be another extra income opportunity as long as you are okay with dogs, not allergic to them and so on. 

A person interested in this could approach some dog owners who you know are too busy to take their dog walking and offer to do it for them for a small fee.  You could even find busy pet owners by posting a free classified ad on sites such as www.craigslist.org.

 

Pet Check-ups for Busy Pet Owners

Another similar idea is taking pets for check-ups at the vet for those busy pet owners.  Many people love to love to have pets but because of their work schedule do not have the time to have them get even a check-up at the vet.  Here is another possibly opportunity for anyone interested to perform this task for a small fee.  The pets are being cared for, you are making some extra income and the pet owners are happy.  Again a way to find these pet owners could be by posting free classified ads on websites such as www.craigslist.org or other free classified sites out there.  Always remember when posting ads that you checkout and verify that they who respond are legitimate.

 

Garden & Pet Care for Out-of-Towners

Another similar but a little different is taking care of flower gardens or pets for folks who are always going out of town.  These could be your neighbors, families or friends.  There are many people whose job has them traveling extensively and as a result they have little or no time to take care of their flower gardens or pets.  Now again, you have to know what pets you would be okay with taking care of.  This could be another source of extra income if it is something that works for you.  There are people we call snowbirds who travel as the seasons change.  These could be a group of potential prospects if you know any such people. 

 Rental of Extra Room

For those with an extra room and are comfortable with renting it to someone whether family, friends or coworker this could be an additional source of income.  It doesn’t have to be a permanent thing but a temporary situation.  Of course with an undertaking like this one would have to certainly make known what is accepted and outline your terms to the renter.

Another area of consideration could be renting a room temporarily to out-of-towners coming to attend a sports event or some kind of convention.  In oppose to them having to pay for expensive hotel fee they could pay you a lesser amount of that cost hereby you making some extra money with your extra room. Of course, to take on such an undertaking one has to be very careful about who you are allowing in your home.  You would be undertaking this at your own risk if you choose to do it.  If you know any family members or friends coming from out of town or out of state to attend an event and had planned on renting an hotel room, then you could make the offer to them and get a portion of that would have been hotel fee instead. 

 

 

 

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