5 Ways to Start Making Money Online With No Previous Experience
Making money online can be daunting at first. How are you supposed to do it? Where do you start? Is the money even worth it?
These questions all have varying answers depending on different factors:; such as skills, experience, and demographics.
As a rule of thumb, you usually will get paid more for the more experience that you have in a certain field. Although some (See Focus Groups below) would prefer that you don’t have any experience and will pay the same as if you did.
Below is a list of 5 different ways you can make money online with no experience.
User Testing
- User Testing is by far my favorite way to make money online as someone starting out and with no experience. The basic concept is that you “test” a client’s website by either performing set tasks or just browsing through the website. You then explain what you are doing, as you are doing so your screen is being recorded as well as audio. This is then used to help the client figure out what users like about their website are what and where to improve on. No experience is usually necessary other than the application video. You are usually paid per video (around $10) and each video averages at around 15-20 minutes. Longer videos and face to face ones can offer the chance to earn more. I think that user-testing is one of the best paying online jobs as well as a fun one at that. Testing a bunch of different websites can be super fun because you never know what the next one will be.
- If you are interested in User Testing you can check out my post “Top UX Testing Sites to Earn $$$ Online”, there I go through my favorite sites that I have used to make money online by User Testing.
Surveys/Tasks
- One of the most popular ways to make money online is by doing surveys or random tasks on survey websites. This is what I did before finding out about User Testing and I do think that there is value in these sites. Although it is true that a lot of them do not pay that well or are scams, there are a few that I have found beneficial in my journey to making money online, as well as a couple that still provide quick ways to earn side cash.
- If you are interested in any survey or task-based websites, then you can check out my post “Top Survey/Task Sites to Earn Extra Money Online”.
Transcription
- Transcribing is another way that you can make money online without any experience. Most transcription websites will require you to do an application test before paid work, but no experience is needed. I never got too into transcription, because 1. I am not the fastest typist and 2. I think that there are quicker ways to make money online. However, if you are interested you can find websites to work for by searching Google, many do reward you as you gain experience as well.
Writing
- Writing is another one that you can get into without any experience. Just like transcription sites, freelance writing sites will have you take an application test and write a sample piece. A tip for this one would be to write a piece on something you enjoy or are very knowledgeable about. You can find websites to write for by searching for freelance writing jobs on Google.
Focus Groups
- Focus groups are another really fun one to me. This is when a client will get a group of people together and ask them questions on specific topic or to try a product. A lot of focus groups are now done online and this offers an opportunity to make good money for just offering your opinion. If you are interested in focus groups and definitely recommend signing up with sites to find local tests in your area.
- Check out my post “TOP 5 FOCUS GROUP WEBSITES TO EARN EXTRA MONEY REMOTELY” if you’re interested in learning more about focus groups.
Those are just 5 of the many different ways that you can make money online, there are many other ways so feel free to search around and test to see what works for you.
I hope that this has helped you get some idea of the ways you can make money online and motivates you to try some.
Thanks for reading!