How Do You Make Money Online?

The more and more I talk to people, I notice the many ways there are to make money online. It's usually not a huge paycheck, but it's something easy and on your own time, and if you do similar things, you can make good money.

Why not share? I "know" you people, so I'd trust your review, as opposed to fake reviews from the family of the people who own a company.

I found one site a while back, called Bubbles something. You got paid for basically what we do on MOFO, but when I hit the $25 threshold, they never sent me a check, so that's one place NOT to use.

I posted this elsewhere earlier, and a few people said... "If they don't pay with paypal, don't even bother" (mentioned trustworthiness and the paypal guarantees)... My cousin said he makes money using BraveBrowser (clicking on advertisements) and said he gets checks for $200. I haven't checked it out.

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Yes, it is true that you can make money on the Internet in different ways. But for me it is like an additional income, which helps to develop my not a big business, which is located in oklahoma. It was quite a problem to start an oklahoma llc because of not knowing many things, but even in those situations you can go to experts to help you sort out your problems and give you the information you need to grow your business.

The way I see it, five small streams of income is probably enough, and you are on your own time, hopefully doing something you don't mind doing.

There’s any number of people on YouTube who make a very good living from their vlogs. (I subscribe to a handful of these people.) The way they make money is by monetizing their vlog with ads. The more subscribers they have, the more companies will place their ads with them.

And I’m not talking about “influencers”. I’m talking about regular people. One woman I follow is a 30 year old black lady from Florida who posts cleaning vlogs, but included in these vlogs are all kinds of side stories about her life as a single mother. She makes a very nice living on YouTube.

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Yeah, if you can set up a good streaming topic for YouTube that would interest a wide variety of people, I had read that for one-million subscriptions you're making a pretty good yearly salary. But that requires self-promotion, an interesting topic that you can serialize, and a bit of production value depending on your target audience I guess.

In the past, some friends have tried to monetize online services like web hosting with virtual server space basically as a web space resaler. You'd need to be tech familiar enough to troubleshoot, I would assume, and be responsive for support. As cheap as everything is now, I'm not sure how viable this is anymore.

My ex was enamored with this one YT streamer that posted videos of travels her and her husband took. Any one vacation could create multiple video segments, each highlighting any tourist destination and her commentary over each. That was mostly selfie-stick or mini-tripod use from a mobile on a dining table. She spread topics around her channel though to offer variety. For instance, she (the host) would offer reviews and opinions on beautiful products, diet, and light exercise routines. I only watched a few, but she tried to offer something of a personal anecdote for each review rather than the typical technical description of a product. One that I caught was on cystic acne and the triggers she had discovered that caused them for her. She described her experience with doctors and a dermatologist until deciding to cut back to a very simple diet of food for weeks, then slowly adding one normal food at a time to see if anything triggered a reaction. In the end, she found that it was pizza creating a weird allergic reaction of sorts, causing the flare up. Then she made suggestions of different ointments and cleaning agents that seemed to help her during such an outbreak.

Bla bla bla. She provides several topics so that if one person doesn't find travel interesting, then perhaps one of her other 5 topics might be, widening her net of potential subscribers. If you have the charisma and/or motivation, that could be an option for anything that you find interesting to share.

Some cook and share recipes. Whatever your thing is, I guess.

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It's very hard to make anything approaching a living, but it's easier than ever to make some significant amount of money. This seems to hold true across many activities: writing, videos/content creation, whatever.

MoFo, for the record, doesn't make any money because I don't put any ads on it, but it used to have some and made a modest amount. Never more than a fraction of a salary, mind you. But I do have some other sites that make enough to pay for this server with some extra left over. It's a bit of a crapshoot, though. The only way to reliably make lots of money online, I think, is to literally sell things. The developers I know who've made a real career from their sites are usually the ones selling things.

You can work in a troll farm, you can sell fake reviews, or you can publish "how to make money online" ebooks.

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I’m not sure this is true. The young black lady I mentioned? She has half a million plus subscribers and, judging from her spending habits, financially she does very well. (She has no other income.) She has been online now for 4 years. Primarily cleaning vlogs, as I said, but she shares everything about her family. Useless baby daddies, her autistic son, her 2 daughters, etc., etc. When she goes out for shopping, manicures, spa days, etc., she takes us with her.

I do think she puts a lot of work into her vlogs too. She has good equipment too that she’s invested in. Interesting to me how a single mom without any college has done well by herself. She told us she saw similar vlogs & decided to see what she actually would look like on camera & she liked what she saw & took it from there.

I'm not sure which part you're saying isn't true. Obviously people with a half a million subscribers can make a living, but i very few people relative to the total get anywhere near there, of course.

It kinda reminds me of Hollywood: for every semi-regular on Law and Order there's 5,000 actors that you'll never even hear of.

Matt should consider having his own YouTube channel, seriously with all of the interesting thoughts and topics he comes up with he's bound to have some followers and thus make some money. I've never made a YouTube video so I don't anything about it, but I've seen channels with lots of followers and that equals money.

Seriously Matt I think you have the time and the interest to bring some interesting topics to a YouTube channel, you have originality and that counts for a lot. You can thank me later when you're rich

I didn’t say it isn’t true. I said I’m not sure it’s true.

In any event, this part: It's very hard to make anything approaching a living, but it's easier than ever to make some significant amount of money.

Yeah, sorry, to be clear, I wasn't trying to impute more skepticism on your part than you intended, it was just shorthand. The rest of my response would have been the same.

Anyway, I'm not sure where the actual crux of any disagreement (if there is one) lies. A half million subscribers is certainly sufficient to make a good living, but it's very hard to get that many.

From all the articles I see smeared across the web making money off the internet is far more stressful and difficult than just working a 9-5 job. The hours that most of these “creators” put into building their community is more than when I used to pull double shifts. And you can rarely, if ever, take a day off. You always have to be “creating” if you’re going to make any real money because the moment you take a break you’re going to get buried and lose your revenue sources.

Personally, I value my health far too much to try and make money online. It’s all just scams and hams these days.

That's a good point re: stress.

Obviously, it's the nature of the end product that it needs to look breezy and easy, which is true of many performances. But it can be very hard work. I saw a great talk from a content creator, who was specifically talking to a bunch of young children because young children disproportionately think of being a YouTuber (or Twitch streamer) as a viable career path. He showed them a board game review he did where he's got a funny costume on and he seems happy and goofy, and he tells them that when he made it he was actually very sad. But he had to be upbeat anyway.

I know a few people myself who make their living this way, and it's not unusual for them (and other content creators), if you follow their social media, to often have little flare-ups and dramas and quasi-apologies for not uploading recently because they're "burned out" or something similar. It's a tough life.

I make about $200 (more like $140 net) a year selling lesson plans online. At this point it is very passive income. My big seller is a series of learning progressions I created like four years ago. I could probably make more by adding more items to my "store". These days I only add like one or two things a year to it. I am just busy with other professional things. And to make sure that I'm not violating my contract with my county, I have to create products that are out of my "scope". So I have to create products for grades I do not teach. While I'm more than capable of that, making things I can't actually use is a very low priority.

But if you are able to create something one time and then people pay to download it, that can be nice. I took probably three or four hours to create a thing, and I've earned $389 from it. The way I look at it, for very little effort one month of groceries is paid for me each year.

True. The young black lady I keep mentioning (sorry) has taken 4 years to accumulate hers, but that’s not too bad.

True. But you went to college & you have a job. The young lady I keep mentioning (sorry again) has 3 young kids, one autistic, and non-paying baby daddies. She has no college credits. As she describes it she was at a loss as to how to support herself & give her kids a good life. She came across all the mommy vlogs on YT & gave it a try. Kudos to her, say I, as it is obviously a lot of work. Filming is easy, but it’s the editing that takes so much work.

True again. I frequently see this. The lady I keep mentioning doesn’t vlog on a set schedule. She may have done so at the beginning, but now she only does it when she has time. And it’s still fairly often & everyone is glad to see her return.

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I've made thousands of dollars on that site

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LOL. Is there a dotted line to sign?

That means nothing. There are people who didn’t go to college that are flipping burgers/working retail/slinging packages/cranking wrenches that make more in a year than I do. I would have been better off going to trade school.

College just means I’m more in debt.