5 Real Ways To Make Money Online in 2021
In 2010, Robert Nay, who was just 14 years old, launched Bubble Ball, a simple puzzle game (app) with 156 levels, ranging from very simple to really challenging.
Expectations were low, but in two weeks, the game did better than anyone would have expected. It generated 2 million downloads from the app store in such a short period, which is phenomenal.
That was just the beginning, soon it generated millions more and replaced angry birds as the number one game on the app store, making Robert nay a millionaire.
But not Everyone gets such an opportunity to become so wealthy at a young age. However, that does not mean you can’t make a lot of money as well.
In the age of the Internet, opportunities are unlimited, and here in this video, we are going to take a look at 5 real ways you can make money online.
You don’t need anything except a smartphone that you probably have since you are watching this video and a computer.
1. Shoot Pictures for Instagram
The Internet is filled with different ways to make money on Instagram, and unfortunately, a lot of them are scams. But here is a simple and legit way to make money on Instagram right now. Spend a couple of days to learn how to take good pictures with your smartphone.
And use your skills to take some good shots of your friends and upload them on your Instagram page. And update your bio: I live in this city. If you want such amazing pictures, DM me.
Nowadays, everyone wants cool pictures, but no matter how good the camera on your phone is, most people just don’t know how to take a proper picture. And hiring a photographer is expensive.
But what if somebody can help me take decent shots for a very reasonable amount, maybe for half or even a third of what a professional photographer would charge.
I am sure that that there are plenty of people who would pay you for that. You can start messaging the people you know, maybe your neighbors, friends, classmates, and as you get more clients, people would start recommending you. Of course, if you are good at what you do.
In fact, if you are good enough, you will have the same clients coming back to you over and over because everyone wants to take good shots for their Instagram page every now and then.
2. Stock Photography
Here is a second way to profit from the exact same pictures. And This is probably the easiest way to make even a living online, and it doesn’t matter in what corner of the world you are living. Here is how it works. A lot of channels here on YouTube including this channel use stock footages to create content.
And where do they get the footage: Shutterstock, Freepik, Storyblocks and many more. You can shoot pictures or videos of yourself and upload them on these websites.
Every time someone downloads your picture, you get a royalty, a dollar or two, depending on the site. Let’s say you upload 300 pictures within the next few months, and you get on average 50 downloads a day. That is at least 50 bucks a day or 1500 dollars of pure passive income every month.
Of course, if you have a professional camera, that would be better, but if you don’t, a smartphone is fine.
If you don’t know what kind of pictures to shoot, check out any of these sites, and see what’s popular. And create similar alternative images.It might take you a month before you start earning, but you can quickly turn it into passive income.
3. Trade
Trade is But the core of every business is sales. It Doesn’t matter what business you are in, you are trading a certain service or a product.
But the beauty of this job is that, you don’t have to build a Muti national corporation to start, you can start with as little as a hundred bucks.
start with little things that you can sell to your friends, neighbors, or colleagues or classmates. Search on eBay or amazon what’s popular, what is currently in demand.
If you are completely broke. Find something in your house that you don’t need and try to sell it. I am sure there are plenty of them.
We all have unnecessarily clothes lying around or some tech we have purchased but don’t know what to do with it. First of all its fun, secondly it’s going to make you money and thirdly it’s will teach you how business works.
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4. Edit videos
It might be slightly difficult but nevertheless possible. All you need is a computer, pretty much every laptop can handle adobe premier, which is the leading software to edit videos.
It might not be easy to learn the software at the beginning, but after watching a few tutorials here on youtube, you will get it quick. When I started doing YouTube videos.
I literally knew nothing about video editing, and to make my first video, I had to watch a few videos here on YouTube to learn to edit videos.
So if I could do it, why can’t you? Videos are getting more and more popular. The demand for video editors has skyrocketed.
You don’t need a college degree to edit videos, all that matters in this industry is the end result. Most people hate editing videos because its time consuming, you have to sit for hours in front of a computer.
Which makes it a perfect opportunity to make some extra money or even a living out of it, especially if you end up enjoying it.
5. Photoshop
And finally, Presets This is probably the easiest method out of this list. All you need to do is to learn a little bit of photoshop. You don’t have to buy any course for hundreds or thousands of dollars, there are plenty of free materials here on YouTube. But you have to purchase a couple of presets.
A present is basically a bunch of settings, designed to achieve a certain look or style of your photo. Something like a filter, but it is not.
You probably have seen that some famous people on Instagram have one consistent style of pictures. They do not edit every detail every time but save these settings and just apply them every time they want to edit a picture. It just makes the whole process much easier and faster.
You can buy a couple of these presets that you really find impressive and start editing pictures for a small fee.
A preset cost 20 or 30 dollars. That might not be much, but most people do not upload that often on Instagram, so it doesn’t make sense for them to buy these presets.
Or they are not aware of these presets or aren’t ready to pay 30 bucks to edit one picture. And that’s where you come into the picture.
Open a Fiverr account and start editing photos with these presets for 5 bucks a picture. One image might take you 5, 10, or 15 minutes, which means in just a Few hours you can earn more than 50 bucks a day.
Your clients will probably get back to you over and over, so the longer you keep doing this, the more you will probably earn.
