"Nobody becomes a Millionaire overnight. It takes effort and smart work."
-No. This Blog Won't Give You Ways To Become A Millionaire Scam BS, But Instead It Will Help You Earn Extra Money In Your Time Of Despair.
All the authentic websites that allow you to make money legitimately are all this blog is about.
-Every person should be able to have a reliable source of income at their times of despair and almost nobody really has the time to sit and search online all day long to look for legitimate websites to earn from.
So I've listed down the best ways to earn money online in 2016.
GET PAID FOR WRITING ARTICLES
Are you good at writing? Whether English is your first language or not, if you're good at grammar and the English language in general, you're good to go. Because these sites listed below usually ask for pitches, so that the editors can then help you create your articles around the pitch. Some also do accept full articles and if your article is good enough, you get paid.
Sounds simple?
Here they are:
1. CollegeHumor
CollegeHumor is one of the biggest comedy sites on the internet. It generates millions of pageviews per day. All you have to do is send an email to Articles@collegehumor.com with your pitch, and the editors will help you create your article.
They also pay for pictures! Just send an email to Galleries@collegehumor.com with your gallery idea and some examples of what you would include, and the editors of the site will help you create the perfect gallery.
Payment:
For Articles:
- Single page article: $35
- Multi-page article: $50
For Pictures:
- For a 15(ish) item gallery: $25
- For a 25(ish) item gallery: $35
Homepage link: Click here
2. Cracked
Similar to CollegeHumor, Cracked.com is famous too and receives millions of views per day. If you are a funny/smart/creative person, you can create content for cracked.com aswell. They need articles, photoshops, infographics and videos. So thats a wide variety to choose from. We all browse funny websites every now and then when we are bored or sitting at the subway waiting for the train right? Imagine you could be creating those funny contents and millions of people around the world would be enjoying and laughing at the funny contents you've now created!
- Payment:
However payment amount is not mentioned on the site but it does say you will get paid. And since it's such a reputable site, there is no doubt as to they will pay you or not, so don't worry!
- Homepage link: Click here
3. Dorkly
Dorkly is another site similar to Cracked.com and CollegeHumor, that gets millions of views and is a site for funny content. Also pays you both for articles and pictures. All you have to do is send an email to Articles@dorkly.com with your pitch, and the editors will work with you to help you create the perfect article. For a single page article, we’ll pay you $35. For a larger multi-page article, we’ll pay you $75.
Payment:
For Articles:
- Single page article: $35
- Multi-page article: $75
For Pictures:
- For a 15(ish) item gallery: $25
- For a 25(ish) item gallery: $35
4. ListVerse
Now this site is a little different. This one works a bit on the serious side. No funny business here. You submit a list of the top 10 things about anything as long as it's interesting and will catch people's attention, they will accept it. But don't make a list of 10 typical things people already know about or have an idea about. Instead create a list of 10 things that people actually didn't know, or create plot-twists of things that people already knew or believed in since before but now you're disproving their beliefs with newer facts that they thought otherwise. Basically, surprise the shizz out of people with fun new facts on basically any topic that will make heads turn. That's all, and you're good to go!
- Payment:
Per Article: $100 (yes, that's right!)
- Homepage link: Click here
5. AlistApart
AlistApart "explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices" - This is what their website is about. If you’ve got an idea that will challenge their readers and move their industry forward then write for them.
Writing about explorations of current and cutting-edge topics in the web industry will give you the best slingshot to get the attention of the editors and eventually get your article accepted.
Payment:
- Features (1,500–2,500 words) : $50
- Articles (600–1,500 words) : $100
- Mini-articles (500–600 words) : $200
WritersWeekly seek articles on how to make more money by writing. They are also interested in other forms of home-based businesses and self-employment that may result from writing, such as self-publishing, corporate writing, ghostwriting, etc. All ideas that help writers support themselves performing the work they love.
Other topics of interest: Corporate writing, writing for markets of a specific genre (with links to those markets’ guidelines, and information on how much they pay), unique book marketing ideas, and anything that isn’t already done-to-death in the industry.
Payments:
FEATURE ARTICLES (Length: ~600 words) : $60 ($40 for reprints)
FREELANCE SUCCESS STORIES (Length: ~400 words) : $40 ($20 for reprints)
Homepage link: Click here
This website gives tips and tools for serious writers to advance their careers. They want articles about your success, thought and/or advice about some aspect of how you earned funds through writing. Making it applicable to others. Especially writing about how-to be successful stories. If you're willing to write for them, your articles should fall between 500 and 600 words and should be short and sweet and to the point.
Some tips on what topics they are looking for:
- ideas on breaking into a particular market
- pointers on winning contests
- unique ways to develop an income with words
- success stories with ideas for others
- profitable business practices related to writing
- seasonal material affiliated with particular markets
- grant success stories
- nonprofit partnerships
- unique markets
- unusual writing income ideas
- anything to help a writer make a dollar penning words
- a dash of humor, if possible; a positive note and a happy ending
$50 for unpublished original articles ($15 for reprints).
$45 for unpublished original articles ($10 for reprints).
Homepage link: Click here
eCommerceInsiders writers are ecommerce subject matter experts. As providers to the online retail industry or retailers themselves, their perspective is shaped by direct experience.
Apply only if you have specific ecommerce experience, or experience in a field that is directly relevant to ecommerce (ie, fulfillment, ecommerce software, inbound marketing). Content should either be educational with “how to” tips and tactics, or commentary on industry news or trends.
- $75 for every article from 400-600 words
- $125 for every article >600 words
- $150 for every article 600+ words
9. TheDollarStretcher is a group of publications dedicated to "Living Better...for Less". The goal is to provide readers with ways to help them save time and money. Occasionally they will also include material on ways to make money at home.
They're looking for specific ways to help people save time and money. So you need to write in depth articles with practical ideas that people can employ to help them make more money.
Kind of Articles They're Looking For:
- How to articles
- Time and space saving techniques
- Creative ways to save on food, housing, auto and clothing
- Stage-of-life material for babies, children, teens, college students, singles, couples,
- The divorced, single parents, empty nesters and retirees.
- Material on dealing with non-frugal partner, children or significant others
$0.10 per published word
Homepage link: Click here
GET PAID FOR FREELANCING
Are you a freelancer? or somebody that needs to work from home whatsoever the reason is? Then these are the websites you should look at. No matter what your skills are, these websites have freelance jobs for everybody.
10. Fiverr
This site has something called the "Gigs". Gigs are basically jobs. People like you and me on the site post gigs with titles such as "i will design a logo for you for $5", etc. Pay for or receive a service starting from just worth $5. And then you can provide extra services within that same gig and charge more, but it still only increases by 5x each. They have basically A-Z every single kind of services that you can think of, including SEO optimizations, website designing, app designing, etc, provided by people just like you and me.
- Payment:
Starts at $5 (you provide the service so you decide how much you want to receive for your services).
Homepage link: Click here
11. eLance
eLance is another site similar to Fiverr for freelancers but over here there is no such Gigs or $5 hype. Instead you provide or receive the service and put your own price tag. This market might be competitive but if you're good at what you do then you can surely be able to earn alot from this site.
- Payment:
Depends on how much you want to charge your clients.
Homepage link: Click here
12. UpWork
Hence another freelance website to earn from like, eLance. Why i'm providing these similar types of websites is because these are the very popular one's and the ones that will actually earn you money, rather than some of the other sites which might cost you more and services won't be equally as good.
- Payment:
Once again, up to you how much you want to charge. If you're good at what you do, go right ahead and charge a bunch.
Homepage link: Click here
13. Freelancer
Another worthy of mention website that has been around for quite a long while and is probably if not one of the most popular sites after UpWork(which was called oDesk before FYI). Same scenario here aswell. Get paid for freelancing to cut it short. But the site is topnotch and so is it's services.
- Payment:
You know it already!
Homepage link: Click here
GET PAID FOR FREELANCE GRAPHIC DESIGNINGAre you a graphic designer and always wanted to design amazing stuff? Well here's your chance to do that let it be for freelancing purposes or as a hobby.
A very popular freelance site that is mainly for graphic designing. You name it. It has it. Starting from Logo Designs to Banner, Website, Brochure, Menu's, Product Packaging, Business card designs to basically any kind of designing that you can think of. If designing is your passion, this is where you NEED to work. You do compete with other designers aswell. Whoever comes up with the best design according to the client's demands before the deadline, wins the money. As simple as that. Think you got the skills to beat other designers with your designing skills and earn? If that is a "YES" that i'm hearing, then go right ahead and try out this website.
Homepage link: Click here
15. Threadless
This right here is my favorite website! Why? I've been designing T-shirts on here for awhile, even though i'm not the best at coming up with crazy designs, i've surely enjoyed designing for them nontheless. The user experience is pretty good.
Basically what you can do on this site is, you can open your own online store on this site and sell your designs on products(the site takes care of printing your designs on products(i.e t-shirts, etc.) and shipping them to the customers and everything to do with their payments aswell, so you don't have to do a single thing! Or spend a single penny! Just design and upload and let threadless do the selling for you! BUT you do have to market your designs by yourself and get people to come buy the t-shirts/hoodies/tank tops or whatever it is that you're selling with your design on it from this site). Also since it's your own online store, you get to decide your prices for your products that will be printed with your design on them for your customers!
And then there are also design competitions where you can design a t-shirt artwork according to the design contest topic. Winners get paid handsomely!(about $1000 in cash and $500 threadless gift card! AND you get $7 per sales!).
ALSO they have open weekly contests where you can design ANYTHING you like and submit and if Threadless likes it, they will print it and market it on their site! You get $7 per sales of it! AND a $250 threadless gift card!
Last but not least, the designs you submit do go through a credic scoring session. Your design will be up for 10 days of scoring on the site and during the process other designers all over the world on threadless like yourself score your design from a scale of 1-5. But that doesn't necessarily predict your win. If Threadless likes it, they will print it!
All these seem alot of fun right? Why not take what you love to do and turn it into money? win-win, am i right?
- Payment:
Contest with specific topic: $1000 - $500 threadless gift card - $7 per sales
Open weekly contests: $250 threadless gift card - $7 per sales
Open your own online store on this site - Earn according to what price you set on your products;
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Homepage link: Click here
16. DesignsByHumans
Another website with basically the same layout and walkthrough as Threadless.com and offers almost completely the same services and everything. Just that their website seems more organized and has more to offer, and user-friendly wise it's better too. Also it has way more and different varieties of design contests than Threadless.com.
Payment:
- Apparel
- T-Shirts: $3.00
- Tank Tops: $3.00
- Crew Sweatshirts: $4.50
- Zip Hoodies: $4.50
- Pullover Hoodies: $4.50
- Phone Cases
- Barely There: $3.50
- Tough: $4.00
- Art Prints
- 8 x 10: $2.50
- 12 x 8: $3.00
- 16 x 20: $3.75
- 20 x 24: $5.00
- 24 x 36: $6.50
- Framed Art Prints
- 8 X 10: $3.00
- 12 X 18: $3.50
- 16 X 20: $4.25
- 20 X 24: $5.75
- 24 X 36: $ 8.00
17. Hubpages
This is relatively a bit of a different kind of website as compared to the other blogging websites. You do blog on this site aswell but the catch here is, this site is powered by Google Adsense and the only way you earn is if people view your post, comment/like. You get paid by Google Adsense per unique view/like/comment. First of all your content needs to be original, no marketing your products or businesses whatsoever and it is powered by Google Adsense, so basically Adsense ranks your page on Google rankings and as many views as you get for the post, Adsense pays you accordingly. No upfront payments for blogs.
- Payment:
Since you get paid by Google Adsense, to get a more accurate answer as to how much Adsense pays you or what Adsense does, check this link: Click here
Homepage link: Click here
This is an Amazon.com based service from which you can benefit from. You do jobs known as Turks from the list and earn money. But at first your registration needs to be accepted, in my case my registration didn't get accepted. But i've read alot about Mechanical Turk and people do get paid an hefty amount depending on how much they work on it.
- Payment:
Hard to be specific as different hits pay a different amount.
Homepage link: Click here
19. AdFly
AdFly pays you to shorten URL links. Basically you can shorten any URL links that you can find and paste it anywhere you like(i.e: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Blog forums or other different websites, etc) and when people click it, you get paid! This the easiest and the most simplest way to explain this website.
- Payment:
Per 1000 clicks, you get around $5-10 depending on which country the clicks are coming from.
Homepage link: Click here
20. Shortest
Shortest does exactly the same thing as Adfly does but some sources claim that this site pays more than Adfly per 1000 views.
- Payment:
Per 1000 clicks, you get around $8-11 depending on which country the clicks are coming from.
Homepage link: Click here
21. Humanatic
This is an exciting website and a pretty fun website to work in. You're basically a virtual call center assistant BUT not really. You don't do the traditional receiving phone calls from customers and all that. Instead you only just have to answer multiple-choice questions about what the call was about. You choose the correct answer from the multiple-choice and then click next. That's it! But you do need to be careful and give correct answers, orelse instead of receiving money, you will lose money.
They have category lists. Each category pays a different amount. The more you work and go up the ranking, you unlock higher payout categories. Low Category rates start from 0.07 cents to higher rate Categories that pay 8 cents per completed task. The pay doesn't seem like much but that's where you are wrong. Why? Because, reviewing one call takes about less than half a minute. Now if you were getting 8 cents per call, do the math. How much would you be getting in an hour of call reviewing? Yes, that's how much! So all it takes is patience and accuracy, that's all.
- Payment:
0.07 cents per low paying category calls - 8 cents per higher paying category calls
Homepage link: Click here
MAKE MONEY DOING SURVEYS
Surveys are a great way to make easy money as companies rely on customer feedback and general population surveys to improve their products and services. There are plenty of survey sites that pay you to take their surveys, some of which have surveys everyday and some that have surveys once in a while. All of which are still worth it as depending on the length of the Surveys the amount they pay gets higher.
Let's say for a survey that takes approx 20 mins to finish, the pay will be around 5-10$. And so other short surveys in comparison would pay around $1-5 per completed Survey.
Here are some of the good Survey sites to earn from :
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- Toluna: Pays roughly around $1.50 per Survey completed.
- MySurveys : Pays around $0.5 to $1.25 per Survey completed.
- Ipsosi-say : Pays around $1 to $2 per Survey completed.
- ValuedOpinions : Pays around £1 – £5 per Survey completed.
- Global Test Market : Pays around £1.20 per Survey completed.
- OpinionOutpost : Pays around 50 pence per Survey completed.
- PineconeResearch : Pays around $3 per Survey completed.
- SurveySavvy : Pays around $1 to $2 per Survey completed.
Websites That Pay For Doing Surveys, Writing Articles, Question and Answers, Daily Poll, Downloading apps, Playing games, Watching Videos, Surfing the internet, etc
Wouldn't you like getting paid for things that you already do on a daily basis on your laptop or your phone?
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LOVE PHOTOGRAPHY? WHY NOT EARN FROM THE AMAZING PHOTOGRAPHS THAT YOU TOOK/TAKE?
These websites pay you royalty per photographs of yours that they sell. You can earn more if you give exclusive rights to a website on this list to sell your photographs.
Here’s an example of how the pricing structure generally works on these sites. Let's say want to sell a photograph of yours for $10 and the default price for the photograph is $1 on the particular site. The markup is $9. Now the website keeps a percentage from that sales and pays you the rest. Let's say for instance the website says they will pay you 90% from the sales of your photograph and keep the other 10%, then you get to keep $8 from the $10 sales.
- SmugMug : Let's you keep 85%
- iStockphoto: Let's you keep 15% - If Exclusive, then 45%
- 500px : Let's you keep 70%
- Etsy : The site keeps 3.5% of the sales and 20 cents from each sale.
BONUS SITE
This is another one of my favorite sites. This site basically pays you for testing out websites and apps(not downloading apps) for other companies. You get paid $10 per website or app you test. But you do have to go through an evaluation process where they make you go to a certain website and make you record your screen and you have to speak out loud about what you think about the website. If you pass the evaluation process you can start testing websites and apps and get paid.
- Payment:
$10 per website or app reviewed.
- Homepage link: Click here
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