There are many ways to earn money online in general and a lot of the tools you need to do them are provided at Earner.net.  So instead of looking at the features of Earner, in this blog post we are going to look at the “Top 10 Ways to Earn Money Online” regardless of where you earn from.

Apologies to advanced users – yes, these are the fundamentals.  But here we go…

#1 Affiliate Marketing

This currently has got to go at the top of the list, the trend for affiliate marketing these days is totally massive and is getting bigger every day.  If you have the skills and the patience and your attracted to the industry, what better way to earn money online than with affiliate marketing. The name of the game is to direct or refer people to purchase products “or do something” so that you get paid a commission.  No after sales service, no product to stock or ship, no customer complaints, easy stuff.. or is it?

Affiliate marketing takes a good amount of skill in generating and controlling traffic, usually in multiple niche areas. The general aim is to create multiple campaigns you can promote using various methods.. for instance:

Some examples of controlling traffic are:

• Building an email list and market to that list
• Writing a Blog about affiliate enabled products
• Adding affiliate widgets or adverts to your website
• Purchasing advertising and using affiliate links in the adverts
• Develop a Twitter and FB following in order to build a contact list
• Design attractive Landing Pages for your products and offers

The key element with earning money via affiliate marketing is that you have a source of customers (traffic) interested in a specific genre or niche, the aim is to build a list of customers you can keep updated at any time.  However, the art of affiliate marketing is to keep your customers interested enough to purchase your recommendations.

#2 Provide an online Service

This works the same online as it does offline.  Offline services are provided in the shape of restaurants, hairdressers, bars, accountants etc.  To earn money online via a service it takes a different shape.  Online services take the shape of SEO consultant, Backlink builder, Web hosting company, advertising agency, programmer etc.

Offline services are useful offline, Online services are useful online. (but there is no reason you cant advertise offline for an online service or vise versa.)

#3 Sell an online Product

Everything that is online is digital.  There are no hamburgers online.  So if you are going to earn money online by selling a product then the product is going to be digital.

• Photos can be digital products
• eBooks can be digital products
• Software can be digital products
• Unique articles can be digital products
• Video animations can be digital products
• Music can be a digital product.

What you sell is up to you, but it must interest the viewer enough to want to pay your asking price for it.  The advantage of these types of digital products is that they can be created once then sold many times.  So you don’t need to have any interaction between you and the customer when you are selling them.  The customers clicks the order button, pays the money, gets the product. (So while your sleeping, you earn money online.)

#4 Build a Website and Sell Advertising.

The first thing is to have a website built.  Then get the traffic to your website.  Then get increase the user base.  Then send them away through advertising links.  Wow that sounds dumb.

Why would you go to the effort of building the website, and getting traffic to it only to send them away again…. Well, because the servers cost money, the programmer costs money, the designer costs money and the site isn’t generating any of it.  So a common solution is to slap adverts up everywhere in the hopes that all the people who came to see your content will go away again via one of your advertising links.

It can work though.  If the adverts that you put on your site are targeted and USEFUL to the visitors of your site, they will click on the links and thank you for putting them there.

This method to earn money online is one for the long-route.  It will take time to build your site, but once its built it has the advantage of being able to be found by the search engines in their Natural Search Results.  Which means FREE TRAFFIC! (when it happens.)

#5 Learn to program and bid on freelance work

There are a ton of things that people want done and ideas that people want created.  If your technical minded and like looking at code, like logical structure then pick a programming language and start earning money.

The key here is to focus your talents.  At least in the beginning.  Focus on one area and get really good at it.  Because there is a ton of competition and you need to stand out.  Don’t focus on being a “webmaster”, but instead focus on being a specific thing.  There are a mountain of CMS systems that are vastly complex.  Instead of trying to generally understand that all of them do work. Focus on a single one that you like that has people needing work done.

Drupal is a good example of a CMS system.  Jamroom is a good example of a CMS system.

Focus on being a module builder for either of these.  Or for Joomla, or Magento, or any other system that already has customers looking for programmers.

#6 Put your Design Skills to work.

Want to earn money online…. Design something.  Design and programming are completely opposite each other, but both are necessary in order to get a great project up and running on the web.

Designers are the people that make the impact in a website.  Because its the designers work that the end customer is looking at.  When the buttons don’t work, its the programmer who has to fix it, but the buttons need to look good first in order for the customer to want to click on them.

There are many programmers who are earning money online by writing the code and bidding on freelance projects, but most programmers are not designers.  If you have the design skills you can either team up with a programmer to offer a complete website building service. Or bid on projects available for freelance work that are open to designers.

Designers have the advantage of not being limited to a specific platform.  The designs they create can be used on any CMS system.  Or as logos for companies.

Designers have a very large and spread out base to work from to earn money online.

#7 Freelance Article Writing.

The search engines demand that new content be constantly provided in order for a sites rankings to remain at the top of Natural Search ranking lists.  To sustain this there is a huge demand for quality fresh content.  So even if you are not a programmer or a designer, but you can read and write, there could be a demand for your services.

#8 Transcribe Audio Files.

Just like dictation.  If you don’t have the skills to think and write, then how about just writing.  Take the mp3 file that someone has dumped all their ideas onto and wants it turned into a document.  Listen to it and write what the project owner is saying.

#9 Install stuff for a fee.

There are a lot of tasks that need to be done that are not super technical but take time. Such as:

• Install wordpress,
• Move a website from one host to another
• Do things that people could do themselves, but having you do it saves them time.
• Purchase software like seNuke X or xrumer (that charge a monthly fee), then use it for people.

#10 Combine What works for you

Try out a few things and combine them.  The more unique and specialized you make yourself the more likely it is that you are going to be the perfect person for someone.

You don’t need to be right for everybody, you probably only need to find a few people in the world that value what you do in order to have enough business to keep you earning money online.  It then comes down to how far you want to take it.

Resources on Earner.net to help you Earn Money online

#1 Affiliate Marketing.

• the promote button for Services
• the promote button for Files
• the widgets tool

#2 Provide an online Service

• Create your Service
• Bid on open Projects

#3 Sell an online Product

• List your files in the marketplace. Create
• Design your landing page for your product

#4 Build a Website and Sell Advertising.

• Create a project and have freelance workers bid on it.
• Invite workers who you think can do the Job

#5 Learn to program and bid on freelance work

• List of all Projects on earner.net

#6 Put your Design Skills to work.

• Showcase your design skills by displaying a Portfolio

#7 Freelance Article Writing.

• Write for others as a worker on Projects
• Sell your own work as a Service
• Sell your documents as Files

#8 Transcribe Audio Files.

• Work for others as a worker on Projects
• Sell your own work as a Service

#9 Install stuff for a fee.

• Work for others as a worker on Projects
• Sell your own work as a Service

#10 Combine What works for you

• Display all your Files and Services in your Store
• Display all your talents in your Profile

Surely with all these features available there must be some way for you to earn money online.  If its not enough, use the feedback and demand more.  We’re willing to listen.

Here’s to your success!