This is probably the most common question that most of the teenagers and college students ask in their life. Since then Money has become an online currency, earning money online has got several media which offer a good pay for your work. Definitely I am not going to suggest you to play online games like rummy and all, but a simple freelance or a simple activity can make you earn enough money.
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Being a student and assuming that you want to earn just as an experience for your early life, I am suggesting few ways to earn enough via online markets.
1. Blogging
This is what I am doing right now.
Blogging and article writing is totally different. Blogging may be for personal means or for professional freelancing. Have your own ideas and your own content, present it with a perfect and incorrect language which sounds good to read as well as seems easy to understand.
As you can see I am holding the soulful rights of Lifewine which is powered by Blogger.com.
You can buy a domain of similar website and start blogging.
after a good time period, you will get google itself for advertising offers as well as you can start affiliated marketing as well.
How much am I earning? well, it's a start ;)
2. Vlogging
"Vlogging is for popular people only.
We won't get viewers for vlogs because we don't do anything special to vlog.
I am shy to show my face in videos then how can I vlog?"
If you are having these and such questions then I suggest to go through some videos on Youtube.
These three vlogs are perfect examples of your doubts. You don't need to be pre-popular to start vlogging, Sourabh Jain is now getting millions of views on his vlogs which have a very simple content but yet people get interest while watching.
You don't need to show your face with compulsion because you can see Love, Nika vlogs her study schedule without showing face but yet has a good view number.
3. Freelancing
Interested in freelancing? well there are many online platforms for this.
What is freelancing? To explain you in simple words I can say, you do the work of someone which he thinks is difficult for him or which he cannot do due to some reasons, You can literally freelance everything, let it be home works, speech writings, Logo making, or coding, web developing, teaching, SEO or SEM, etc.
The customer will have to pay you what amount you have decided on the app for your work.
Don't forget to complete the assignment in time with the decided budget because if you don't do so, then your star rating will go low with not so fair reviews.
4. Mentorship
Become a mentor for the junior of your field.
Take an example, if I am studying for NEET exam( an exam in India for admissions in MBBS, BAMS, BHMS, etc. colleges). I need a senior to make my study more effective and easy going. What I did is I searched some teaching groups on telegram, youtube, etc. I got a person who has cracked NEET with great score. I asked him to be my mentor for the exam for which he will take an overall view of my study, my test results, notes, assignments, etc.
In the beginning I paid him 30% of decided amount and 30% after few months and remining 40% in the end.
This is what mentorship is. You can be a guide or a mentor for the juniors of your field.
You just need a good mentorship skill and supporting behavior for this.
5. Notes and Tricks
Start a youtube or a telegram channel. Make some really good notes for any exam. Start promoting the notes on different channels, show some 3-4 pages of your notes as a preview to the students. Make a wise price for the notes. If you want to sell the notes in hardcopy manner, sell with more price than that of PDF copies.
6. Youtube
This is the most famous way of online earning but also the most difficult way. Know yourself, know your interests, know your skills. Practice them till you achieve perfection and then show it to the world.
7. T-shirts
Well this seems odd to hear but yes, t-shirt printing is a very popular business in some colleges.
you can watch this video to get to know how it's done. T-shirts with a very unique print limited only for your college or field or work areas are most likely to get popularized early.
8. Book Writing
Start reading popular and successful books. Get the soul ideas of books to know why they are so popular and others are not. Start creating your own story. Observe the characters in your surrounding and add them in your storyline, hire a good artist or a good art student to draw some cartoons or character images for your story book and publish your own book online as an e-book on different platforms like amazon, bookganga, etc. for a wise price.
9. Investments
Students being the beginners in investing, even a small investment, if made properly can reap huge profits in the future and can act as a source of regular income.
10. Yoga
There is a high level of enthusiasm for health related aids and heathy lifestyles. A person with high energy, a good way of communication can learn doing yoga to take it as a means of earning. Start researching about yoga techniques, details about yogasanas, information about each asan, perfect method of doing each asan, etc. Get attached to a nutritionist of your knowledge and start taking Yoga classes online on zoom, teams, google meet, etc. as you like. You can do certificate course in yoga too.