Online Business That Makes The Most Money Today,
Types of online businesses
Today many people are making money online and there are so many ways to make money online, such ways include; Freelancing, Blogging, Affiliate marketing, Author, Social media consultant, Social media marketing, Graphics Designing, Web designing, Business coaching, Virtual assistant, Tutor, Writer, Youtubing, and many more these may be just some from my list.
We will discuss only a few from the list above based on my experience and knowledge, and which can make you earn a passive income of $200+ per month.
1. Freelancing
It means the way of working as an individual without being employed by a company or anyone. And on our case here we are talking about the online business we will therefore say Freelancing is the way of selling or offering your skills as services online i.e. writing, graphic designing, and many more.
How to start freelancing is very easy and by the way, the easiest and simple way to make money online. You just need to learn certain skills and you don't need to be a professional and that's a fact.
You can start with simple skills like;
Graphic designing; where you don't need to be an adobe photoshop or adobe illustrator expert you can work as a pro graphic designer using canva, which allows you to create beautiful designs like flyers, posters and also allows you to remove background from images. It has a free and paid version and you get much access with the paid version. But still, you can signup on canva and start with the free version and start making around $30 or more per day.
WordPress web designing; where you will build websites for clients using WordPress a free website builder which is a drag and drop tool easy to use and free to learn WordPress. You can learn WordPress for free on YouTube, go and search " how to design a website on WordPress" and you will get hundreds of videos to empower you with skills in WordPress Web designing.
Social media consultant(Social media manager); You can start freelancing by becoming a social media manager, where you will be operating and supervising a client's business page like a Facebook business page, Twitter and Instagram business page your work will be posting, and commenting on the page depending on your agreement with the client.
Those are just some but you can freelance with more skills like logo designing, writing, and many more.
Now you might be asking yourself you have the skills where can you work as a freelancer? There are so many freelance websites, but the best of all time for beginners is Fiverr, Upwork, People Per Hour, Freelancer.com
Start your journey today as a freelancer make your dream come true on an online business by starting signing up on Fiverr, People Per Hour, and Upwork which are the best for a beginner but you can signup on to other websites like freelancer.com, Guru, and others.
2. Blogging
It simply means the process of writing a blog or an online journal in which you share your thoughts about a particular subject with readers. An example of blogging is when you write about, a particular type of food, a particular type of clothes, about cooking and etc.
Blogging is one of if not the best ways in making money online, in fact, you can make around $500 per month in the first year of blogging, and it can increase when you will be generating more traffic and subscribers into your blog.
Let's see how to start a blog and how to make money on it.
How to Start Blogging
Before starting a blog you need to find a niche to write about, depending on your interests, passion, skills, and knowledge. Examples of niches one can choose to write about are;
Gaming where you can write about certain games depending on your knowledge
Lifestyle Here you can talk about a certain way of life, habit and more,
Business Here you can talk about a particular business talk about how to do it and its pros and cons.
Marketing Here you can talk about digital marketing, online business, affiliate marketing, and more.
Health Here you can talk about general health, healthy food, physical fitness and more.
Those are just some but there are thousands of topics you can talk about and by the way, you're not bound to write about one topic only you can write on different topics but it's advised to start with one topic if you are a beginner.
Now you have got the topic to write about, then it's about time to start your blog; Starting a professional blog will need you to have a small number of investments like $5 per month.
But still, that should not worry you, you can start a free blog with free hosting and free domain from websites like blogger.com, tumblr.com, medium.com in these websites you can start building your blog and start making money to invest in the professional blog.
Apart from making a blog on those free websites, you can start building a professional blog on Bluehost starting from $2.95 per month using the world's best website builder WordPress which is a drag and drop tool, and you can build your blog for less than an hour.
In case you don't know Bluehost is the best web hosting company in the world with over 2 million users around the world. One of the good things about Bluehost is that1-year it gives you a 1-year free domain, with a free SSL certificate and free support 24/7.
You can signup today on Bluehost and start building a blog or even a website of your dream starting with only $2.95 per month.
Now you have finished setting up your blog, How do you make money through it?
You can make money through your blog by posting affiliate links in your articles and also you can make money through Google AdSense. But before running Google AdSense into your blog you will first need to generate traffic into your blog. Traffic is simply the people or visitors who visit your blog posts, and it should not worry you generating traffic is free and easy though you can go with paid traffic it's a choice.
You can learn how to generate traffic into your blog or website through YouTube videos in a couple of hours and then you are good to go. JUST REMEMBER EVERY STEP TO SUCCESS REQUIRES SACRIFICE AND HARD WORK.
3. Affiliate Marketing
In simple words, affiliate marketing is the way of selling a company or an individual's product or service through an affiliate link and you will earn when somebody buys the product through your link or even when someone signs up through your affiliate link or when he/she clicks your link.
This is also one of the best ways into making a passive income online.
How to Start Affiliate Marketing
You need to signup for affiliate networks as an affiliate and start promoting your affiliate link. There are so many affiliate networks in the world some are worldwide some are not.
Some examples of affiliate networks are listed below;
- Warrior Plus
- Click Funnels
- CJ Affiliate
- Impact
- SEMrush
- Udemy
- Shopify
- Lead pages
- Convert kit
- HubSpot
- Canva
- Wix
- Bluehost
- Digital Ocean
- I pay Africa
- Coursera
- Share A Sale
- Jumia
- Kilimall
- Click bank
- Get Response
If you have a running blog or website you can signup for the big affiliate networks like CJ Affiliate, Impact & Warrior Plus where you can choose products or services to promote.
But if you are a beginner you can create a free blog on blogger.com, Tumblr, or medium.com and I advise you to create an account as an affiliate on Bluehost, Digital Ocean & Get Response which has direct affiliate programs worldwide and does not require approval.
How to promote affiliate links
After signing up as an affiliate you will get your referral link which you will need to promote to get conversions through your link.
One of the best ways of promoting your referral link is by creating content or a tutorial about the product or service you are promoting and publishing it online. Now maybe you are asking yourself how do you publish them online? You create your content as a blog post and put your affiliate links inside your article but do not overdo it just two or three links inside one article is enough. NOTE; DO NOT SPAM BE REAL AND CONSISTENCY
Also, you can promote your affiliate links by creating landing pages which may cost you around $3 for hosting.
After creating your content in your blog or landing page you will need to generate traffic into your blog or landing page to get conversions and clicks. You can get traffic inside Quora a Q&A website where you can go and answer questions relating to your niche and refer them to your blog or landing page. Also note this, DO NOT PUT YOUR AFFILIATE LINKS INSIDE QUORA YOU MAY BE BANNED FOR THAT, Put your blog or landing page URL in your answers inside Quora so as you direct them to read into your blog or landing page.
Let me stop at this point for today hope you have learned something from this.
Thank you for reading.
All the best in your making money career online.