How to Start Making Money Online
When I first learned that I really could make money online, I was super excited to say the least and extremely motivated to do so. That is also where things got pretty confusing for me. I didn’t really know where to start and how to go about doing everything, or anything really. I knew that it was possible to make money online and people were doing it, but I found it hard to find any information on what steps to take.
These are the basic steps I have found are necessary to start making money online and once you know different ways of how to go about it, then you will be able to find what works best for you.
- 1. Gather all materials / Build your workspace
The first step would be to gather all the necessary materials to start working online. Those would be a device to do the work on; such as a laptop, tablet, or smart phone. As well as a reliable internet connection. Both of those are necessary to start working and making money online.
There are other things that you can get to further improve your work environment, but those two are absolutely necessary to begin the process of working online.
If you are interested in further improvement to your home office then you can check out my post “Building Your Remote Office”.
- 2. Choosing Your Niche – What field? Product or Service?
The next step would be to figure out what niche you want to work in and what service or job you want to provide, or if you are selling a product, then what product are you selling and where will it be sold?
When thinking about choosing a niche, think about what excites you or motivates you, that will help in choosing something that is of value to you, which in the long run will make your product/service better and your job more enjoyable.
- There are many different types of niches to make money in the online world;
- Website Testing
- “Turking” – Tasks
- Surveys
- Transcription
- Writing
- Blogging/Vlogging
- Graphic Design
The list goes on and on.
You can learn more about the different ways you can make money online from my posts;
- 3. Freelancing – Working for yourself or someone else?
For the most part, when working online you will be freelancing. The question to ask is, do you want to freelance for someone else’s business (I would recommend doing so for a month or two as you are learning about working online) or do you want to start your own business up? If you want to do the latter, then you will need to figure out where you want to sell your service/product.
If selling a service, then the most popular freelancing sites will be Fiverr, Upwork, and Guru.
If selling a product, then you can look at services such as Fulfillment by Amazon or selling your products on online marketplaces such as Etsy or eBay.
- Other people’s business
- Own Product –
Once you have started making money online or figured out your product/service and have joined a platform for customers to purchase it, then you can start creating a presence on social media as well as creating bigger things such as a website.
Those are the necessary steps I believe need to be taken to start earning money online.
As a re-cap;
- Gather Materials – Get a device to work on as well as a stable a reliable internet connection.
- Device – Such as a laptop, tablet, or smartphone
- Stable and reliable internet connection
- Choose Niche – Choose the Niche or field you want to be working in. Then either join company to work with and earn $$ or Create own product/service.
- Join Company
- Do work – Earn $$
- Join Company
- Create Product/Service
- Join platform to sell Product or service
- Create Social Media presence and website to get word out about Product/Service.
- Sell Product/Service – Earn $$
- Create Social Media presence and website to get word out about Product/Service.
- Join platform to sell Product or service
I hope that these steps helped in your own journey to working and making money online.
Thanks for reading!