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45 Ways To Make Money
45 Ways To Make Money
If you can pull in an audience, YouTube advertising can help pay your bills.
Whether it’s humor, pets or toy reviews, you can probably monetize your favorite
hobby.
It may take time to build that audience that turns views into dollars. The average
revenue per 1,000 YouTube views is just over $6. But with enough videos for
fans to scroll through, those views can add up over time.
20. 20. Write Letters to Legislators
If you’re a good writer or editor, you can make $12 to $15 an hour writing
letters to members of Congress. You’ll be able to learn more about the issues
available before committing to writing a letter, so if you want to stick with your
own political views, it’s easy to pick and choose.
Before you apply, make sure you have the required computer
equipment. For example, I can’t do this job because the software the companies
use doesn’t work on Macs.
Are you a good listener — and a good typist? You can make $15 to $25 an hour
as a transcriptionist.
You’ll need experience in the medical or legal fields to get those transcription
assignments, but plenty of researchers, reporters and Average Joes are willing to
pay for someone to type up their recordings.
You get paid per audio hour, so this is another task that’s perfect for people with
great focus. If an hour-long recording takes you four hours to transcribe, you still
only get paid for one hour. Listen closely!
Here’s a free 7-day course to get you started.
Do friends always ask you to knit them a hat or hand-letter their invitations?
Take your crafty side to Etsy and sell your services or finished
products. Etsy takes a 3.5% cut of every sale, but the platform is super easy to
use.
You’ll need a digital camera or a recent smartphone to photograph your wares.
Great photos and plenty of detail shots are crucial for convincing shoppers to put
down their hard-earned cash for a carefully made craft.
Upload your smartphone photos to Foap and let people buy a license to use
them.
You get $5 every time one of your photos sells. Your photo can even sell more
than once, so that $5 for a beautiful landscape shot could turn into $20, $50, or
$100 if enough people want to buy it.
Unfortunately, your Instagram feed is ineligible. So snap a picture before you
upload it to Instagram, and send the unedited and uncropped version to Foap.
Think you know which games and shows are going to sell out?
Buy a few tickets, and flip them once the box office is out. On sites like
StubHub, you’re not a scalper — you’re a reseller! StubHub guarantees ticket
authenticity for the buyer, which weeds out a lot of the seedy guys selling fakes.
StubHub takes a 15% commission on every sale, so price your tickets
accordingly.