Develop Mobile Apps

Suitable For -

People who like to develop mobile apps.

Skills Required -

Today many online app maker tools are available which allows you to create mobile apps

even if you don't have any knowledge of Android or iOS programming.

To find online app maker tools, Google search "android app maker" or "ios app maker".

But if you have the knowledge of Android or iOS app programming it will be an advantage,

but not necessary.

You must understand how mobile app stores work and how to market your app on them.

Time Required For Creating A Mobile App -

Depends on the expertise of the app developer and scope of the app.

How To Monetize -

1. Upload a free app on Android’s Play store and Apple’s App store. Monetize it with AdMob,

Google’s mobile advertising network.

2. Upload a paid app, set some initial price for downloading the app.

3. More people will download your app more money you will make.

4. You can also promote affiliate products through your app and earn extra commissions.

Start a Youtube channel

Starting a Youtube channel is the simplest way of making money online and needs no investment.

YouTube gets almost 5 billion video views per day which proves its power on the internet. Felix Kjellberg, the owner of PewDiePie (a YouTube account), has earned 12 million dollars in 2015 by running a single YouTube channel. You too can see such success if you capitalize on the opportunity that YouTube provides us currently.

Suitable For -

People who love to create videos, like to talk in front of a camera, shoot documentaries or short films.

Skills Required -

Ability to create a video using software tools or record a video using your mobile phone or camcorder.

Time Required For Starting A YouTube Channel - Virtually you can start within minutes. You'll have to visit YouTube.com, create a channel and upload videos.

Tips -

1. Create a YouTube channel around a specific theme such as Humor, Tutorial, Recipe, etc. Don’t just go out create any random unrelated videos channel.

For e.g. If you love gadgets you can create a gadget reviews channel where you can post review videos of the latest gadgets and help people to decide whether it's a right choice for them.

2. Select a theme in which you're really interested. Analyze other videos related to your topic, see how many views those videos get.

It will help you to get an overview of how many people are interested in your theme.

3. Generally more the views more beneficial the theme is. As more people are searching for it.

4. Check out if there’s any missing concept in the currently existing videos related to your theme.

You can cover these concepts in your videos to fetch more views.

5. Give your best to engage with your audience. Study comments people leave on your videos, learn the hidden expectations that your audience has from you.

6. Try to find out what they like about your videos and what they don't. Study which videos get the highest retention rate and find the reasons behind them.

7. Spy on your competitors and try to model the things that are working for them. But never try to copy them, always maintain your uniqueness.

8. Always try to improvise each new video from the last one.

So when you look at your first videos after few years, you should think aww how bad I was earlier. That's a good sign; it shows that you've improved.

9. Experiment, experiment and experiment. Never fear to try something new and see how it works. Experiments are the only way where you can find new and exciting stuff which can catapult you way ahead of your competitors.

10. Finally, try to collaborate with other YouTuber's who are doing similar work.

Learn their strategies and mindset. Working together can do wonders for your channel.

Resell Items On eBay

What is eBay.com?

eBay is the most popular website to buy and sell goods on the internet.

It’s a place where individuals and businesses can buy or sell new or second-hand items, from books and clothes to cars to almost anything.

Here's how eBay works:

A seller lists an item on eBay, almost anything from antiques to mobile phones, books to sporting goods.

The seller chooses whether to sell the item at a fixed price or accept only bids (auction-type listing).

In an auction-type listing, the bidding opens at a price the seller specifies and remains on eBay for a certain number of days.

Buyers then place bids on the item. When the listing ends, the buyer with the highest bid wins.

In a fixed price listing, the first buyer willing to pay the seller's price gets the item.

Suitable For –

People who are self-motivated and know how to spread the word – to friends, family

members, acquaintances and strangers using online or offline mediums.

Skills Required –

Some experience of selling goods online or offline is welcome, along with a business savvy mind.

Time Required To Start Selling On eBay –

To start selling you first need an eBay account and a PayPal account.

After that, you need to enlist your product for which you’ll need upload some product pictures and write an appealing description.

Even if you are a beginner you can do all the above tasks within a day or two.

Tips –

1. If you are completely new to eBay and your account does not have any feedback, then getting some feedback before starting to sell anything is a good practice.

People are very wary of buying anything online nowadays, so if your account has 0 feedback then no one’s is going to buy anything from you.

It’s recommended that you should get at least 10-15 feedbacks before selling anything.

The simplest way to get feedbacks is to buy 10-15 $0.99 items with free shipping.

Many sellers leave positive feedback to you straight way when you’ll make payment.

2. Start small - Most of the eBay resellers buy a bulk wholesale stock of any particular

product then sell it on eBay at a retail price.

If you don’t have money to buy a wholesale stock then find out unwanted items present in your house which are in good condition and make a list of them.

3. Research - Now as you have a list of few ready to sell items you must ensure that there is a market for them.

Take 10 minutes to Google your item and uncover its true market value on eBay and another bunch of e-commerce sites.

This will help you to sell right items more competitively because you’ll have the knowledge of your item’s market and its pricing strategies.

Also, dig out relevant targeted keywords which will help people to find your items via Google search engine.

4. Craft the title - Title is the single most important factor for grabbing the attention of your potential buyer.

Make sure your title is appealing, complete and you’ve included targeted keywords.

You don’t have to be a tech wizard for this. Just ask yourself, what would a potential buyer for this item type into the search box?

5. Write item’s description - Fill out all the fields in your listing, and make sure your textual description is providing all the information that your potential buyer might look for.

Most of the lazy sellers ignore this and fail badly at selling anything on eBay.

6. Upload item’s pictures - Upload only high-quality pictures. Ensure that item’s pictures are new, clear (not blurry) and cover the product from all angles.

Also, don’t restrict yourselves to 2-3 pictures upload at least 6 pictures.

7. Timing - Most of the expert sellers use 10 day listing starting on Thursday, you should use it too, it will give you two full weekends of eyeballs. You’ll usually receive the highest traffic

on weekends.”

How To Monetize -

Monetization is very simple. More people place orders with you more money you make.

Your item quality and delivery influence your user feedback which directly affects your order placement.

So make sure you are delivering items with good quality.

eBay handles all your transactions securely, so you don’t need to worry about any paymentprocessing issues.

Once you are in a profit making stage, buy your most selling products in bulk on a wholesale price and the sell them on retail price to increase your profits.

Rinse and repeat.

Sell A Video Course On Udemy

What is Udemy.com?

Udemy is an online learning marketplace.

It has a huge collection of courses in everything from programming to yoga to photography and much more.

You can create a course in text, audio and video formats. Every course is available on demand and students can learn at their own pace, on their own time and on any device.

Suitable For -

People who like to teach, explain and solve problems.

Skills Required -

1. In-depth knowledge of any domain of your choice.

2. Ability to express knowledge in easily understood form.

3. Ability to create and record high-quality videos.

Time Required For Creating A Video Course -

Depends on the scope of the course, number of modules included and time required for preparation.

Tips -

1. Pick a topic in which you are specialized in.

2. Study the courses relevant to your topic and see how many people are interested and have actually enrolled in the courses.

This will give you a rough understanding of the people who are interested in your topic and willing to invest in your course.

3. Study the other available courses and find out the things which you can offer that will make your course much better, different than other available courses.

4. Identify your audience level and then create the course content.

For e.g. You need to first decide whether your course is for a beginner level or an expert level audience.

Then accordingly you need to create your course content which appeals to the right audience.

5. Make sure your course title and description is optimized for appealing your target

audience. Try to answer the frequent questions that your audience asks in your course description.

6. Deliver at least 80% of your course in video format as it is the most engaging way of interaction.

Also keep the length of each video lesson between 2-10 minutes.

7. Build a rapport with the audience, and engage. You can always do a quiz ups between lectures to make it engrossing and interactive.

How To Monetize -

1. Udemy gets a lot of daily visitors so there is a good chance that your course will get noticed and people will enroll in and you will start earning money.

2. You can even start a small blog on your course-related topics and promote your course.

3. More people sign up for your course more money you make.

Sell Websites On Flippa

What is Flippa.com?

Flippa.com is an online marketplace for selling and buying websites.

Suitable For –

People who like to develop websites.

Skills Required –

In-depth knowledge of Wordpress platform and website creation.

Time Required For Creating A Website –

Depends on the expertise of the developer in website creation.

Tips –

1. Choose a topic you are passionate about. You need to be passionate about the subject your website focuses on.

If you launch a website about something that you don’t care about, you will lose interest very quickly and inevitably stop working on it.

2. Think about your long-term business model.

To make your website successful you should do a lot of research beforehand.

Try to find the answers to the following questions:

Who are your direct competitors?

How do your competitors make money?

How will your website make money?

How can you make your website stand out from others?

How long will it take to monetize your website?

3. Choose a domain name that is relevant to your topic and appeal to your target audience. A good domain name is an essential part of branding your blog. Choose .COM as your domain extension because it looks more professional.

4. Choose a reliable paid host like Hostgator, Bluehost or anyone that might suit your needs.

5. You need make your website's design and layout look very professional.

Believe it or not but first-time visitors will make a judgement about your website within first

10 seconds of loading, so you need to make sure that your website’s design appeals to them and they like it.

How To Monetize -

1. Register your website on flippa.com. Flippa works on bidding model, the highest bidder gets the ownership of the website.

2. Set the bid price of your website 15 times greater than the current monthly income of your site.

For e.g. If your site is earning $500 per month then you can set the basic selling bid price of your site to at least $7500.

3. Start the auction and wait for bids. People will start bidding for purchasing your site.

Once you receive the bid that satisfies your target selling price, then finalize the deal with the bidder.

4. Flippa.com will manage all the payment and other technical stuff for you and you'll receive your commissions via your selected payment method.

Create A Membership Site

What is a Membership Site?

A membership site is a private website, with exclusive content available only to the signed up members.

It usually provides members with the ability to interact with each other. They pay a monthly fee for being a member of the website.

Suitable For –

People who like to interact with, guide and lead a community.

Skills Required –

1. In-depth knowledge of any particular domain.

2. Ability to research new things and constantly generate new and helpful content.

Time Required For Creating A Membership Site –

Depends on the domain expertise of the creator.

Do Google search for Matthew Woodward's tutorial on how to create a membership site for free.

Tips –

1. In the beginning keep the fee for joining the membership site ridiculously low.

Aim to create a minimum viable product instead of creating a perfect product. You can always improve your site in later stages.

2. If you’ve never been a part of any membership site till now, consider joining a few related to your domain. Study those sites.

3. Find what’s working well for you and other members of that site? What’s makes it worth the monthly fee and how could you replicate this?

4. Interact and engage with members. Your membership site shouldn’t be the one that only drip feeds the content, with little or no input from the owner.

You must provide insider access for your members who want to communicate with you. Even if you’re busy, you must spend at least half an hour a day to get involved with your membership site.

You can do this by many ways, such as you can interact with the members answer their questions or even lead an interaction inside the forum.

5. Run group events and challenges to increase members’ engagement with your site. Organize regular events, challenges, or similar.

Make it easy for members to participate. Offer prizes, display leaderboards or similar such things creates a great incentive for members to participate and get involved.

6. Periodically review what’s working and what isn’t. Try to adapt the site based on the member's’ needs.

For e.g. If you offer most of your content in text format but your members are engaging more with the video content then shift from text-based to video content.

7. Try to introduce new initiatives and see how your audience is responding to it. Such as live Q&A calls or similar.

But be careful, don’t overwhelm members with several different initiatives at once. Introduce one thing at a time.

How To Monetize –

Monetization is very simple. More members sign up to your website more income you generate from the monthly fees that members pay.

Create Niche Websites

What is Niche Website?

Niche Website is a small website focused on one particular topic which shares all the

information relevant to the topic that is both useful and interesting for the target audience.

A niche website can be of few pages or even of hundreds of pages depending upon the size of the niche.

Suitable For –

1. People who have an interest in a very specific topic within a large domain.

For e.g. In large a domain like Yoga, you can choose specific sub-domain such as ‘Yoga to lose weight.’

2. People who love to talk, write, explain and have the ability to persuade.

Skills Required –

1. Ability to create Niche website based on specific sub-domain using Wordpress, Blogger or other available software and tools.

2. Ability to promote niche website using social media, ads etc.

Time Required For Starting A Niche Website –

You can start a Niche Website within a day. But creating a good content for the website might take time.

Tips –

1. Write out as many niche site ideas as you can, using the sub-domain that interests you the most.

2. Narrow down your niche idea based on finding the answers to the following questions:

What is the audience size of your niche?

Is your audience known for spending money for purchasing the niche related products?

Are there multiple products available which you review on your site?

Are there affiliate programs that provide more than 50% commissions?

What is your investment budget?

3. Create at least 10 articles of rich content containing 1000 words, those articles will provide great value to your niche targeted audience.

4. Sign up for at least 2 affiliate programs that offer products related to your niche with more

than 50% commissions.

5. Do keyword research and find at least 15-20 niche relevant search terms and try to rank your site for them.

6. Try to network with the owners of the authority blogs in your niche and find guest blogging opportunities.

                                                        

                                                      Start a Blog

It's very simple.

Being a blogger is one of the easiest ways to earn money from home.

Unlike any other job, if you are blogging from home. You don¡’t need to work 9-5.

You can work at any time of the day with ease. But beware blogging takes time before it starts making money for you. So I suggest you jump into this field slowly.

If you have a day job, don’t quit it. Start part-time with your blog.

Once it is on the stage where it is earning you more than your comfortable limits then it¡’s the best time to turn into full-time blogging mode.

Suitable For -

People who love to write and would like to share their knowledge and expertise with the world.

Skills Required –

Ability to express knowledge in writing with simpler yet effective way.

Time Required For Starting A Blog - The time required depends upon your level of expertise if you are an expert you can easily start a blog within few hours.

For a complete beginner, a day or two would be sufficient to be ready with the basic setup.

Tips -

1. Start a blog about something in which you are really good at.

For e.g. If you love travelling and you have travelled a lot of places then start a travel blog.

2. Always try to limit your blog to a particular domain. Don’t put content about multiple domains in one blog.

For e.g. Writing about recipe tips on a fashion blog.

Keep your blog specific to one domain only.

3. Using your experience and expertise, try to create a very unique and phenomenal content.

4. Try to give a lot of value to your readers. Write about something that will make a

difference in your reader's’ life.

5. Listen to the readers of your blog. Try to solve the problems they are facing. Always reply to their comments. Make them feel better.

6. Be committed to your blog. A blog is like a relationship. Give it some love and it will flourish. Ignore it and it will die a death. There’s no point in being half-hearted in your blogging efforts - if you don’t care about it, why should anyone else?

7. Think about content, style, tone of voice, audience, etc.

Look at the people who already do what you’re planning to do. Ask yourself the following questions:

How will I stand out from the crowd?

What can I say that hasn’t already been said?

What’s my unique selling point?

Why do I want to do this?

8. Be professional in the way you handle and grow your blog.

Don’t criticize other brands, bloggers or people. Remember what goes around comes around. You don’t want something you’ve said to come back and bite you one day.

9. Be open minded and willing to collaborate with other creatives. You’ll meet some

fantastic and awe-inspiring people.

How To Monetize -

You can monetize your blog by recommending products or services related to your blog’s topic either by writing an informative article or placing banner ads on your blog’s relevant pages.

You can earn handsome commissions when a person buys a product recommended by you. Another way is you can place Google Adsense ads on your blog. More people click on your ads more money you will make.