Top legitimate ways to make money online

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If you search term how to earn money online in India or outside, then you will get millions of sites writing about this because everyone wants to earn online.

But if you are thinking online earning is an effortless task, and you can easily make like magic, then you are in the wrong place, boss. Its not so easy.

If it was easy, then why all the topper of your class also doing the job? May be in good company !! but they are doing somewhere..correct?

But no worry its not too tough as well. You can earn money but need to invest your time. The internet does not give you money instantly.

If you are doing 9 to 5 jobs (actually not nine not to fix if you are in the Software industry ), then you need to give at least 1-2 hours daily and 3-4 hours on the weekend to start work. Once all set up and you start earning a sufficient amount, then you can leave the job and continue online work at home.

I am also damn sure you would know at least a person who has been earning handsome money by just sitting in front of the computer at home.

So Before move ahead, I want to get confirmation, “Have you ever tried sometime to earning money online instead of working under a boss?”

I am sure most people never tried anything on the internet to get some money, and even if some of them tried but they could trap in scams or false earning trick.

So today I am going to share with you some real and authenticate ways of how to earn money online in India without SCAM and Investment.

Please read all ways of earning money and choose what suits you most. We have also write detail about each type of online work so you can explore them and start your work.

Our top picks – work from home jobs without investment

Freelancing jobs – Make money online by freelance work

1. Freelancing sites – Join freelance sites and earn money

If you are a good programmer, designer, content writer, or digital marketer, then you can find a lot of work online that even gives you more than what you are earning in office.

If you are not good at any skill, then you can give 20-30 days and learn any skill, then join the freelance platform. This 20-30 days can provide you with a chance to become your boss 🙂

A Freelancer can make $500 to $5000+ per month, but everything depends on the skill you have. But not in initial days, it takes a few days to reach till this amount.

Here you will find a list of a few best freelancing platforms.

Fiverr
Upwork
Toptal
Guru
Peopleperhour
99designs

Note: – You can choose anyone, but make sure to be there for some time to get your first project. The initial phase is typical in freelance work, and then it goes smoothly.

2. Become online Tester -Test online and earn

Many companies want to give their website, App, or software to test before launching in the market. They want to get their testing done from people who are familiar with the type of product. So testing done as a real user.

You just need to surf the website and provide your legitimate feedback to the website owner so they can make the change as per your feedback.

So if you are good at testing, then you can make money in this way as well.

This test may include a design test, usability test, content test, any other requirement test. You can find here Online freelancing testing jobs, so just join one site and start earning online.

Here list of few best testing freelancing site

Usertesting
whatusersdo
Crowdsourcedtesting
analysia

Note:- You must give better feedback, so the more chance of getting work in the later time.

3. Translator job – Power of multilingual

If you know at least two languages well, then the translator is one of the best ways to make money online, and if you know more than 2, then this job is best for you.

Generally, People need the translation of the document, bilingual call centers, interpretation, localization, online teaching from one language to another like from French to English.

You can find this work on every freelancing portal where the user needs translation, and in return, they pay the right amount of money.

Here list of Sites for online translator job

translatorscafe
proz
gengo
translatorsbase

4. Become a Virtual Assistant

A virtual assistant is one of the most beautiful jobs for making money online. You just need to assist the client on administrative, technical services, creative or any everyday task.

VA is like working online for someone without physically present. Some time companies use customer care call to welcome mail through virtual assistance.

You could be getting paid based on hourly, monthly, project completion or any target matched.

Here list of Sites for virtual assistance job

zirtual
virtualgalfriday
worldwide101
Fancyhands

Note: – You must have excellent communication and writing skill to work as virtual assistance if you have, then you can earn $10-$60 per hour.

Earn Online Money from YouTube

Do you know people are making millions from YouTube?

Its not that much tough as well. You just need to record video and upload on YouTube.

If you are in the education field, then just record what you know and share on YouTube. If you are good at entertainment, then record your voice and upload.

Note: Initially it may not work fast, but once you get a good number of subscriber then you can easily make good money by YouTube.

YouTube Editor
Magisto
Wevideo
Freemake Video Converter
Filmora Video Editor
Pinnacle Studio 21.5
Corel VideoStudio

If you want to money from Youtube and struggling for ideas on which you can create videos, then check out our details post where we have shared more than 100 different YouTube video ideas for you.

Make Money from Facebook, Instagram

You can earn an unlimited amount from Facebook and Instagram as well. You might be thinking what a joke, we didn’t receive a single penny yet.

But boss, many people are charging thousands of rupees for one Facebook post or tweet. If you don’t trust me, then read this news on Hindustan times, how Virendra Sehwag is earning Rs 30 lakh through his tweets.

But you are not a celebrity then how will you earn?

No worries, Just create entertainment, jokes or any educational page and start sharing useful content. Once you get a good number of a follower, then brands or blogger will approach you to post related to them.

That’s one of the way of earning many more ways you can make from Facebook. As per research, many people looking for different ways of how to earn money from Facebook but most legitimate ways do affiliate marketing from Facebook or share any product on your Fan page. (Here)

Earn money online by helping student

1. Online tutoring – Teach what you know and earn money

One of my favorite and trusted way of earning online. Online tutoring is one of the best example of work from home jobs without investment.

So many people whom I know making huge money by online tutoring and if you belongs to Asian countries like India, Pakistan, Srilanka, Bangladesh then this work like The Hen That Lays Golden Egg’s.

However, it’s depending on your experience and knowledge on the subject but you can earn anywhere between $10 to $100/ per hour and it is more than sufficient if you are living in above countries or any developing countries.

This opportunity also gives you chance to expand your tutoring career to the whole online world and get chance to search student from whole world.

Here few best sites for online tutoring job.

chegg (It’s tough to get approve here so try other sites)
Tutor
etutor
Tutorvista

Note:-Choose those subject on which you are expert so with time demand for your teaching increase.

We have written a details post on online tutoring jobs, so you can check out and get all information related to this way of earning.

2. Help in Homework or assignment

If you are good in writing skill then this skill is best for you to earn some extra money, as in race for students to submit the assignments on time but due to lack of writing skill and busy timing schedule they could not complete task on time.

So hire someone who can complete their assignment or homework instead of writing themselves.

Many websites also work to help student against few dollar and hire people to complete the assignment. You can earn $10-$50 per assignment but need to write in their specific format.

Here few sites to get assignment help job

Schoolsolver
Gethomeworkonline
Helpwithassignment
Tutor

Note:- You should have good knowledge of searching on Google and command on writing the language.

Make money online as blogger

1. Blogging- Express what’s in your mind and make money

If you ask me about my top choice for earning money online then definitely I will recommend you to choose blog as compared to any other ways.

Blogging gives you chance to earn good amount of money by just writing on your favorite niche but you always need patience in blogging as it takes time to make money.

Your earning is totally depends on your writing skills and command on language (like English). Now a days you can start in your local language as well..many Hindi sites earning good money now a days.

2. Affiliated Marketing- Promote others item & make money

Affiliate marketing is nothing but sell someone item and they pay you commission. In our real life we see real estate broker, they just sell home or rent home and get 2-5% commission.

It’s not compulsory to have a website in order to earn by affiliate, You can use social media platform as well to share product and earn from there.

With increase trend of online shopping, scope of affiliated marketing also increase and there are thousands of merchant in every field where you can register and become marketing partner.

In return of each product sale through your website you can earn 4% to 20% commission.

Here few platform that you can join for affiliate marketing

Amazon Associates
ClickBank
JVZoo
eBay Affiliate Program
ShareASale

Note: – You should affiliate only those item which is related to your site niche.

3. Adsense and other ad network earning

If you have blog or website then earning from Adsense is very easy. You just need to sign up google adsense program and google will start showing ads on your site.

Earning from Adsense depend on a number of visitor on your site, niche, keywords and geography of the user.

Note: – choose a niche which attracts more and more people.

Earn money by selling items

1. Selling photos – Capture moment & make money

So guys, do you have the good camera or high mega pixel mobile phone?

If yes then you can earn a decent income with small creativity by submitting photos on online websites.

Depend on sites policy; you can earn 20% to 80% of royalty from each sale. If you are passionate photographer, creative designer or good Photoshop editor then selling photo is the best way to earn extra money.

Even if you are traveling and click some random photo that can make good money for you.

It’s depending on quality and what moments you have taken photo, that give you some extra bucks.

Here few best sites for selling photos

pixabay
unsplash
freepik
pexels

Note: – Only creativity, quality and larger portfolio can give you the good amount.

2. Selling of art craft and other handmade stuff

Online selling becomes popular now a day and many websites available where you can even sell your own designed product.

You can sale any decorative or useful object which is made completely by hand or by the creative way. You can make any thing with paper, plant, textile material, soil and sell out on online portals.

There are many famous sites which serving to sell the product like craft and handmade stuff. A mother earns £100,000 a year selling “bits and bobs” then you can also earn.

Here list of sites for selling crafts

Etsy
Bonanza
Dawanda
Craftsvilla

You can start selling with any one website and once getting start enough sale then you can move to another site to sell your handcraft items.

Note:- It is having much competition but here uniqueness and less price make you the winner.

3. Selling your old/new stuff online

If you have any product which you have bought at the very low price or want to sell your own unique product then many websites give you the platform to become a seller. Through online portal, you can reach out to the massive audience of customers.

It may help you to create your own brand without setup your own site or retail store.

There are also many classified websites which help you to sell your old stuff online and can earn few bucks.

If you are from India and Pakistan then you can also earn by selling old things on olx.

Here few more sites for selling product

Amazon Service
Ebay
Craigslist
Bonanza

Note: –There is tremendous competition in the online space so your product must be unique then only you can earn good money.

4. Buy/Sell Domain

Just like investing in share market, currency market or any other market you can also invest in domain market where you just need to choose best domain name and Sale that domain on online marketplace for domain buy/sell.

You can earn many fold of your domain price but everything depends on the keyword which matches your domain and your luck.

Here list of domain buying sites

Godaddy
Bluehost
DreamHost
HostGator

You can also make money by just follow up the expired domain name. Firstly buy domain if you get any popular name and get expired then sell on higher price.

Here list of expired domain buying sites

domaincoasters
dynadot
domcop
moonsy

Note: – It is also risky same as share market and loose value with time.

5. Flipping websites

Like domain trading, website flipping also becomes the popular way of earning money here instead of domain name people deal directly of the website.

Many sites available where you can just list your site for auction and set your base price. You can earn many fold of your monthly income.

Here list of sites for selling website

Flippa.com
ebay.com
Namepros.com
Digitalpoint.com

Note: – Create a website and run for few month then you can sale your website.

Make money online by micro jobs

1. Online survey – Fill surveys and get paid

It is the rewarding program through incentive and gives you small cash on each survey you fill or you refer. I think it is one of the simplest ways of making money online.

You just need to write your feedback or opinion on any service, product or company. It requires mainly answer in selection format where you have to choose the best option you feel and used by the researcher to get some information for further improvement in their future product or service.

Compensation varies company by company, You can earn from $50 to $100 in a month by just investing few minutes daily.

Even some time company pay you from $1 to $20 dollar per survey but the amount is depend on length of survey and the country you belongs.

Here few sites to earn by survey job

Toluna
Mysurvey
Myview
Tellwut

Note:-This is best ways to make money online and no need any special kill but be accurate and honest while filling out the survey. Here Honest means fill same information everywhere whether correct or not.

3. Land your voice (Voice over)

You must have heard the voice in animated movies and television shows but do you know who is behind that voice?

It’s none other than the voice artist who give their voice to make story lively. If you also have a unique voice then voice over is the best way of making money online, and right career for you too.

your voice may be land for phone recording, video creation, story narration, dubbing, marketing coordinator, radio channel, television production, presentation & anchoring.

you need to just read given script in voice which they are expecting from you…if they like to make money.

Here few sites for voice over job

Voice
Thevoicerealm
Voice123
Bodalgo

Note:- If you good in mimicry then many jobs are waiting for you.

4. Micro-working

Micro task means something which you can end within few hours or days. If you want to earn money by doing some simple work then you should go with this task.

Here you can do the variety of task like visiting some sites, rating on any product, comment on any site or forum, finding some contact details or doing small research work.

By micro task you can earn up to $20-$30 a day and actually I should say every thing depends on your expertise .

Here few sites for online micro jobs

ClickWorker
Amazon Mechanical Turk
Gigwalk
Microlancer

Note: Become the expert in any one of task and work on the same task for different clients.

5.Earn using Mobile app

Making money online is now possible from Android mobile apps also. You just need to download app and follow their instruction. You will get work like watch advertisement, download other apps, click on ads, watch videos and much more.

The best thing about this way of earning is that you can also earn while traveling or doing any thing but you can not earn good money by this way.

Here sites for earning by mobile app

Survey on the go
Google Opinion Rewards
Checkpoint-Rewards App
Swagbucks

Get money by your writing skills

1. Paid Writing

Many people have interest in writing on topics which they love. So why not change this love into love+money and enjoy.

Yes many website and blogger provide good amount of money for each article you submit to them, you can earn up to $100 per article but your content should be unique.

Write ups can be advertising statement, drama/film reviews, technical topic and much more.

Here few top paying sites for writer

Note:- you need to trust on the right site and start writing for them.

2. Paid reviews – Express your view & make money

If you have good words to appraise any one then don’t waste this opportunity and use this expertise in making money online. You just need to write review about any product, books, movies or any services.

Writing product reviews is a very rewarding venture. It is one of interesting job I ever find to write about things. Please sometime take it a bit serious also as it is going to affects purchasing number also.

You can earn $5-$50 dollars per review and some time free books too if you are writing review for any books.

Here sites that pay for writing reviews

Vindale Research
Review Stream
Software Judge
Shared Reviews

3. Online Author

Do you have a depth knowledge and understand about any topic. may be topic from love to emotions to any subject and any thing?

If yes then you should write a book and publish. Many websites offer you service to use their customer base to sell book on their online portal, in return of this they provide you some royalty percentage.

You just need to choose your topic of writing and write fiction or nonfiction through scripts, novels, and biographies.

Here you can sell your book

Half price books
Bookscouter
Amazon
Powell’s books

Note:– your earning depends on topic which you have selected and how many reader attractive you write can fetch you good amount.

Online coder & designer jobs – Make money online by typing code

1. Create themes

If you are good at design and have creative ideas then this work is best suit for you and it’s depending on which type of design you have made, you can earn money.

If you have creativity in theme design then there may be chance your theme sell out more than 100 time.

You can see newspaper theme on theme forest, it sold more than 93k time and one theme price is approx 59$ so approximately they earn 5.4 Million by selling single theme.

Best sites where you can sell theme online

Theme Forest
Templamatic
BuyStockDesign
Mojo Marketplace

Note:- Creative with web designer people can earn unexpected income from this work.

2. Online coding job

With increasing demand of digitization, these jobs become most popular in online market. If you are expert in writing code on any computer language, know secret of code and write bug free code then this work can give you huge amount of money.

If you are working in any IT firm then initially you can take out 1-2 hours and start as a online part time jobs.Once you getting good bucks then you can continue on freelancing.

Since every one cannot code, so this job is very demanding and fetch good amount of money.

Here sites for online coding job

Toptal
99designs
Topcoder

Note: – To gain trust and good money from time you need to follow time compliance.

3. Graphics designer

If you are good in graphics designing and creative then many online works available like logos, icons, banner, illustrations, advertisement by which you can make your pocket heavy.

You can direct sell your creativity, icons or you can work for particular client to complete their requirement.

Sites to sell your graphics designs

99designs
Envato Studio
Dribbble
Behance Job

For each design like logo you can earn between $5 to $50.

Note: – Only creativity in designing can give you good amount of money and future work.

No Recommend job
Data entry job – Please don’t trap in online typing jobs, Many people ask for registration fees to start work. So don’t go for such scam.

Hope you like this blog post and start making money online by any of the ways…Thank you so much for reading.

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