9 Best Ways To Make Fast Money Online

There are a huge number of ways to make fast money online when you get into the details – as many different ways as there are people doing it. The trick is to pick one that you think you can handle, and get it making money for you before you try to add more.

Most people make the mistake of flitting from one to another or starting too many at once.So here’s my top 9, with the easiest IMO first.

The first four do not require a website and will bring you money faster than the others, but they will not go on earning for you after you stop working (except perhaps #3).

The quickest is #3 which can have money in your PayPal account within minutes. You should start getting paid for all of the rest except #5 – #7 within a week. With #5 – #7 you should be earning very quickly but will have to wait longer for payment to arrive.

So here are the methods:

#1 – Scour the house for stuff you don’t need and sell it on eBay
A great way to start with online money making, if only because it will force you to open a PayPal account. It’s kind of cheating though because it’s not really profit, and most people already did it. So if you already did it, move on to #2. If not:

Tip 1: find out how much packaging and shipping will cost before you list an item.
Tip 2: start your eBay auctions at the lowest possible price – more bidders will get involved earlier and the result is more money for you.
Tip 3: having auctions end around 12 noon Monday through Thursday works best for me.

#2 – Write articles for Associated Content
You must be over 18 and a legal US resident. You get upfront payments for most articles plus a performance payment based on page views. Look at the ‘calls for content’ to see what they want, you are more likely to be paid upfront for those. Check out the FAQ on the site. Non-US residents only get the performance payment and it’s not much. Bum marketing (#4) will pay you better if you are not American.

#3 – Promote $7 Script Ebooks
Very simple. Requires a PayPal account but no website. Go to $7 Offers and look for something that you think will sell well. It should address an urgent need or desire that people are willing to spend money for (e.g. make money, cure annoying health problem, lose weight, etc.). It will be easier to promote if you know something about the subject.

Click on the ebook that you found to get its home page address. The site owner’s contact details should be at the foot of the page. Email them to ask for your affiliate link. Then promote in forums and free advertising sites.
You will get 100% of the sale price direct into your PayPal account. The site owner makes money from the upsell (selling the buyers other things afterward). See On Demand Profits for details of this method.

#4 – Sell your services on Elance or Rentacoder
Your services could be article writing, graphic design, website coding, or grunt work such as submitting sites to directories. Check out what people are looking to hire for, and put in your bids. If you live in a country with a high cost of living (North America, Europe, Australia etc) be prepared to face competition from people who can afford to work for much less.

 #5 – ‘Bum marketing’
Requires good English and a basic website or blog but no PayPal account. First, sign up as an affiliate with Clickbank and search their marketplace for an ebook with the same criteria as in #3.

Look for ebooks that are selling well on Clickbank with low refund rates and have well-written sales letters that make you want to buy. Write a review of it on your website or blog. Then write articles related to the subject and submit them to Ezinearticles.com and other article directories with a link in the resource box to your site. You can find out more about this technique for free here: Bum

Marketing Method
Clickbank pay weekly by US$ check or bank transfer depending on your earnings and will pay to most countries. Check their site for terms and restrictions.

#6 – Build a list and sell recommended products
As for #5 but you have an opt-in form on your website so you get more chances to sell to your visitors. Requires an autoresponder e.g. AWeber.

Write a newsletter i.e. 6 – 10 emails with useful information that you feed into your autoresponder account. It’s best to promote at least 2 ebooks in your niche (not both in the same email) e.g. if your subject is dogs, then one on dog training and one on health for dogs.

To increase opt-ins you can also offer a short free report to entice people to sign up to the list. Put links to the ebooks in the free report too.

Next promote your one-page website. Use the same promotion tactics as in #3 and #5. Look for information online about other affiliate marketing promotion methods including Web 2.0.

 #7 – Buy a turnkey website with Adsense and affiliate feeds
A lot of people waste money buying sites that never see a single visitor but you can make money if you go about this right. The important things are (1) pick a good niche that addresses a specific urgent need or wish as in #3, (2) start with only one site and (3) understand that you must make the site unique and spend time promoting it.

It is best if the seller has done some keyword research and set it up with plenty of keyword-optimized articles plus good Adsense placement and affiliate products (e.g. Clickbank/Amazon/eBay feeds). You can also target your site to sell affiliate products from Commission Junction, Linkshare, etc. You will need to know basic html or be willing to learn but your English is not so important as for the other methods.

Look for turnkey sites for sale on Sitepoint, Digital Point or join something like Niches-In-A-Box. When you have your site, unless the content is unique, change the titles of all of the articles (without messing with the keyword), rewrite the first sentence and change a few words in the rest of each article. Then go ahead and promote using all the methods you can find on this blog and more. If you buy through Niches-In-A-Box they will teach you a lot of promotion methods. Use them all. Then add more pages to the site.

#8 – Sell your own ebooks
You don’t have to write these from scratch, you can either buy PLR ebooks and rewrite them (see Cash Avalanche for details of this method) or outsource. You can also sell resale rights products. Again pick a good subject and then look for/write the ebook, not vice versa. You will need a website to sell from.  

Promote.
You will make more money if you can get affiliates selling for you by putting your product into Clickbank, Pay Dot Com or $7 Offers (you need the $7 Script for the last one and also, of course, an upsell, because affiliates get 100% of the upfront sale). Approach people who have websites in your niche and ask them to promote it (these are called JV partners – like affiliates, but it sounds better).

#9 – Sell turnkey websites
Easier than you think because you don’t have to design them. You can use templates and content from PLR sites like Easy Market Profits – check the terms, some sites will not let you resell, you should email the site owner to ask. Again choose good niches. Buy a relevant domain, set the site up on reseller hosting and offer it for sale on Sitepoint or Digital Point with an option of continuing hosting with you at $5 a month per site by PayPal subscription.

You can charge more if you make all of the articles unique before selling. People will check so the articles need to be completely rewritten – you are not just doing it for Google this time. You can also, of course, charge a lot more if you promote the site and have it earning good revenue – but then you might not want to sell it!

There are some even better ways which can make you more money in the longer term but don’t fit the heading of ways to make fast money online. These include network marketing (MLM) as a form of affiliate marketing and building your own sites for Adsense and affiliate commissions instead of buying turnkey sites.