20 Creative Ways to Earn Money

Perhaps your regular job is not earning you enough money, or you have just lost your job. If you are looking for new and creative ways of making money, then look no further!

1. Take online surveys.

People these days make as much as 500 dollars a month filling online surveys. Some online survey sites are Toluna, Vivatic, MySurvey,YouGov, SurveyBods, Valued Opinions, The Opinion Panel, iPoll, Global Test Market, Hiving, PanelBase, Harris Poll, Opinion Outpost, Yourword, Pinecone, IPSOS, New Vista. You can make as much as 5 dollars filling out some surveys.

2. Sell your knowledge in book-form.

If you have some knowledge on a particular topic and you love to write, you could write a book. You can publish to the Amazon Kindle store and keep 70% of your earnings.

3. Join a direct-selling company.

Some people earn as much as a six-figure salary selling products of brands they love. However, some brands require resellers to pay money up front to get started with these programs.

4. Sell your photos.

The photos you take can be sold to photo agencies like IStock or Shutterstock. Each time someone downloads your photos you get 25 cents.

5. Start your website/blog.

You could earn a six-figure salary annually from your blog or website. Through affiliate marketing, Google adsense and subscribers, you could rake in some cash.

6. Become a freelancer.

You could make money by selling your unique set of skills as services. You could try doing web design, content writing, and programming for many clients. Many people who do this earn between $40k to $100k a year.

7. Be a secret shopper.

Being a secret shopper means visiting shops to provide feedback to agencies on how their products are doing. The smartphone app Streetspotr could be helpful in the direction of getting mystery shopping job.

8. Sell your junk.

By selling junk on popular site like eBay could earn you as much as $2,000–$3,000 a month. You can sell what you no longer use, or you could buy other used items and sell those.

9. Do small tasks for businesses.

Small businesses need translators and transcribers, while others need people to write product reviews. You can earn a pretty decent amount from doing this.

10. Rent out your room.

You could take in a boarder to rent out an extra room. This could put more cash in your pocket if someone moves into your room or even onto your couch

11. Start a small or part-time business.

You could have an expertise or hobby which you could turn into a small part time business. Part time jobs like teaching guitar lessons and picking up trash for neighbors have been become profitable for their creators.

12. Be a coin collector.

You could buy coins from banks in large stock and find the ones that are worth something. Perhaps you’ll find a silver coin or gold coin, or a rare item. According to a CNN article, “presidential dollar errors can be worth $50 to $5,000 each; uncirculated state quarters can sell from $10 to $50 per roll; and rare error coins can value up to $35,000″.

13. Be a music reviewer.

If you are a music lover, you can make money reviewing artists online for cash with Slicethepie. Some users of the site claim to earn as much 60 dollars a month on the site.

14. Buy and sell domain names.

A domain name is a website address. You can buy a domain name for as cheap as $3, but you can resell such an address as a premium domain to someone who needs it for as much as $2,000.

15. Walk dogs.

If you love walking and exercising, you could rake in cash by walking dogs for people who are busy or at work. All you need to do is reach out to dog owners and market yourself.

16. Be a ghost writer.

The publishing business is experiencing a big boom with online publishing. You could advertise your skill to persons who will be interested in allowing you to ghostwrite their work.

17. Sell your services on Fiver/Craiglist.

You could make money selling small services on Fiverr and craigslist. The default price on Fiverr is $5, but you can quickly make this amount add up depending on how many gigs you take on.

18. Sell old water at busy and hot vacation spots.

Busy vacation spots could be ideal for selling cold water or lemonade. The demand is high and also the profit margins in certain locations like Las Vegas.

19. Become a tutor.

You could become a tutor to high school or A-level students and local GCSE students. You could also do this online and earn as much as 10 dollars per hour.

20. Sell old CDs, games and movies.

You could sell old CDs, games, and movies for free on Amazon Trade-In orMusicMagpie. You can earn anything from 20 cents to 30 dollars per item.

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