Do you need to make money this week? Or even today? There are tons of great side hustles around but many of them take a while to get going.
If you are asking yourself “How can I make money right now?” then read on for some ideas to make money fast.
For example, making money online is an attractive idea. Who hasn’t dreamt of having a website that makes hundreds of dollars a day?
While starting a website or blog that makes you an income is great, it takes time to set it up and start making money right away.
It took me 3 months to see income from my websites and about 9 months before I made my first thousand dollars.
Many times, you need something faster, like a way to bring in some income right now.
To make money online fast, you have to know where to look and what types of services to offer.
You can start putting money in your bank account today if you really try.
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If you’re looking to find some extra money quickly, try a few of the options below.
Some of them don’t pay a lot, but sometimes flexibility is the most important thing. If you need to make $100 today then you will really have to hustle.
Spending a little time working while you’re watching TV each evening can make a positive difference in your income.
There are also options to start making a lot of money quickly, like providing web services to local companies. This is the kind of thing that could easily and quickly be turned into a full-time income.
Making an income online requires work, but if you put your work in the right place you can earn money very quickly and possibly very significantly.
Get set up with PayPal and Venmo so you can accept payments online to make it as easy as possible for people to pay you.
Remember that it’s much more financially secure to have multiple streams of income, especially in a bad economy.
If you ever lose your primary source of income, it’s nice to have other sources that you can depend upon.
How To Make Money This Week
Take Surveys
The quickest way to make money this week is with some quick and easy online survey sites. You can answer questions, watch videos, play games and sign up for newsletters in exchange for cash and gift cards.
I use Swagbucks and regularly make a $100 or so a month pretty passively.
Chat Online
One way to make money fast is by chatting to people online. There are a lot of companies who are hiring right now and you can begin to make cash today.
If talking to people online for money is something you are interested in, check out this list of sites that will pay you to chat online.
Sell photos online
Sites like iStockPhoto will let you upload your original photos, and you earn royalties every time someone buys the right to use your photos.
Here are 15 more stock photo sites to sell images you take with your phone or camera.
You can save a lot of time by studying what’s currently selling well and getting your own related pictures on the website as soon as possible.
You’re not likely to make a ton with this endeavour, but you have the opportunity to earn money while you sleep, which is never a bad thing.
Write articles for websites
Websites are always struggling to find good content. Consider what you know a lot about and write about that. Freelance writing can be a great way to make money fast and even establish a regular income stream.
Speed can be important; most websites pay small amounts for their content articles, but the money can be pretty good if you can write 5 or 10 articles each day.
If you can sell your work to larger, mainstream websites, the money can be great, but the work isn’t as easy to get.
Expect to earn between $50-300 per article depending on the length and quality (how much research is needed etc).
Another option for writing is to sell to write and sell PLR Content although this might take longer than a week to get going.
The good thing with PLR is that you can sell the same piece of content hundreds of times and get paid for years to come.
Mechanical Turk at Amazon.com
You can’t make a lot of money with Mechanical Turk, but you can start earning within minutes.
Most of the tasks only take 30 seconds to finish and only pay a few cents, but if you have a free minute here and there, you can use those minutes to bring in some extra funds.
You might be able to pay for a couple tanks of gas each month.
- Check it out at Mechanical Turk. This can be a good way to use downtime while you’re watching TV or eating lunch at your desk.
Become a virtual assistant
This is something you can do part time or full-time.
Typical tasks might include making phone calls, doing web research, website maintenance, general e-mail maintenance, audio / video editing, and anything else your ‘boss’ can think of.
Websites like Upwork and Fiverr provide a marketplace where you can both list your services and look over the thousands of freelance projects offered by website owners.
You could also contact potential clients directly and let them know what you can do for them.
If you are good at graphic design, you can take it a step further and a Pinterest virtual assistant, specializing in creating pins for businesses and bloggers.
Sell Stuff Your stuff
eBay is a great place to sell things. Typically, you’ll get more money for your item there than you will anywhere else.
You can clean out your attic and garage, but that won’t last forever.
Look for deals at garage sales, auctions, craigslist, and more to buy cheaply and sell for a profit.
You’ll never make more money per unit of time than you will by negotiating, so don’t be afraid to offer less than the asking price.
Even paying $3 less is significant when you consider it only took 5 seconds. That’s over $2,100 an hour!
Here are some other places to sell your junk for cash:
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Where To Sell Used Clothes For Cash
Where To Sell Used Baby Clothes For Cash
Sell affiliate products with videos
Most affiliate marketers try to make money with websites and articles.
Both can take a long time to get indexed by the search engines and start drawing targeted visitors. But videos on YouTube can get indexed quickly and have you earning in no time.
Tips for getting started with affiliate marketing
- Find an affiliate product at a site like ShareaSale or Clickbank.com and then make a short video promoting that product and include your affiliate link. Anytime someone buys something, you get paid a commission.
- This is another way to create a passive income stream where you can do the work once and get paid for an extended period of time.
- Plus, your work adds up. If you make 5 short videos each week, for example, in a month you could have videos up promoting 20 products and in a year you would have over 250. Let YouTube and other video sharing sites work for you 24/7.
If you want to become an expert at affiliate marketing, I recommend Affiliate Marketing For Bloggers By Carly Campbell
Become a WordPress expert
WordPress is by far the most popular blogging and content management software and is quite easy to use.
With a little research and work, you could quickly become an expert compared to the average user.
- Sell your services; these could include simple things like WordPress and theme installations and transferring installations to a new website. Offer to troubleshoot problems for an hourly rate.
- Go offline to find clients. Many of your local businesses don’t know the first thing about creating and managing on online presence. See if any of your local businesses need a website or online marketing assistance. A simple WordPress website can easily be sold for $500. Find 2 businesses a week and you’re making a decent living.
- Offer to do their website maintenance and marketing. Consider that those big yellow page ads can cost several thousands of dollars each month, and that’s the type of marketing costs these business owners are used to. It’s possible to find clients that pay you $1,000 a month to handle their online marketing and website maintenance tasks.
By selling a couple of websites each week and gaining a few $1,000/ month clients, you’re looking at some real money.
Start Doing Some “gigs ” on Fiverr
Fiverr allows you to post services (‘gigs’) and charge $5. It’s one of the easiest ways to really make money this week.
If you can find something that people want and doesn’t take long to complete, there is the opportunity to make some extra money quickly.
Here are 9 Easy Ways To Make Money On Fiverr
Many of the people posting gigs are really looking to find clients that will hire them directly for more substantial work later.
Maybe $5 doesn’t make sense for the simple service you’re providing, but that client might hire you for several hundred dollars at a later date.
Facebook Marketing
Businesses are beginning to see the potential marketing benefits that having a Facebook page can provide, yet many business owners don’t have the time or desire to do this work themselves.
You can also advertise to maintain and post to Facebook and Instagram pages for businesses that don’t have the means to hire their own social media team.
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