Easy Ways to Make Money Quickly
The secret to filling your pockets with money is not working in a place where you get paid a lot, but finding creative solutions to people’s problems, and you don’t need a fancy degree or bachelor’s degree for that.
If you need the inspiration to get your creative side flowing, check out these 40 common ways to increase your income. Also, here are some financial tips and ideas to earn more money.
1: Earn Extra Doing Surveys
There is the possibility of earning money by periodically doing paid surveys online on platforms such as Swagbucks, MyPoints, YouGo, MySurvey, and others.
2: Create a Paid Online Course
By designing an online course in a specialized platform for this, you will be able to receive money according to the students who enroll and repeat several editions.
Find a topic in which you are an expert and related to your area of knowledge or professional practice. Some of the ones you can use are bubble.io, zapmata, and Google Open Online Education.
3: Insert Ads on Your YouTube Channel
If you have a YouTube channel, you can obtain advertising income that will allow you to obtain extra money in line with your success and the number of views your videos obtain.
4: Use Affiliate Links
If you have a blog or website, you can be part of an affiliate program. When you review a product, do a tutorial or recommend a brand, you can add the code to the URL and get a percentage if someone buys the item through it.
5: Put Your Apartment on Airbnb or Alternatives
Online hosting platforms allow you to earn money thanks to the phenomenon of home-sharing. If you are not at home on weekends or on holidays or have a spare room, become a host. Wimdu and Airbnb are good options.
6: Take Care of Pets or Children
On the Internet, you can offer yourself as a pet or child sitter thanks to applications such as Show Around, Dog Buddy, Yoopies, Babysits, or Gudog. Some people don’t have time to walk their pets, and it can be a good opportunity to earn extra.
7: Sell Products on Second-Hand Platforms
What better way to support the circular economy than by getting rid of what you no longer use? Sell clothes on Vinted, put your second-hand books on sale on platforms such as AbeBooks or Amazon, advertise your objects on Vibbo, Wallapop, or Milanuncios or put a price on old, vintage or discontinued pieces at Todocoleccion.
8: Earn Money with Acorns
At the moment it is available only in Australia and the United States and allows you to connect your accounts and cards. If you make a purchase, the app rounds the amount up and automatically reverses the rounded amount.
Acorns ensure that each dollar invested diversifies between 7.000 shares and bonds to help maximize the return on investment and reduce risk.
9: Get Cash with Ebates
This platform allows you to make your purchases online with the program extension installed in your browser that will inform you when cash or coupons are available. It has more than 2000 affiliated stores and allows you to get a cash refund for buying through its platform.
10: Sell Your Voice
You don’t have to be a professional broadcaster to get some money from using your voice. Platforms like Voice Bunny or Voice123 can be of great help to you. You will have to upload a sample of your work, and through these websites, companies will be able to contact you to make orders, most of the time it will be in the form of an advertising voice.
11: Sell Your Music Online
You can take advantage of your creative abilities to earn some money the easy way. CD Baby and Tunecore are some of the platforms that allow composers to upload their music. These websites are responsible for distributing your songs on Spotify and Apple Music, so you will receive the benefits that correspond to you for copyright.
12: Write Texts on Demand
Content writing is a task that is becoming fashionable thanks to the internet. If you’ve always had a passion and ease for writing, now you have opportunities to earn money easily.
There are online platforms such as Textbroker, Publisuites, or Lowpost in which you register and start receiving texts on request, either from companies or individuals.
13: Go to a Television Show as an Audience
Some television shows pay a certain amount of money to those who attend as audiences. To do this, you must sign up with an advertising agency, which is the one that manages this type of procedure. One of these agencies is Penelope, which manages the entrance of the public on Antena 3 and Telecinco.
14: Put an Ad on Your Car
There are platforms specialized in putting advertising brands in contact with drivers. This way, you can put advertising on your vehicle and earn money simply while driving. Of course, some brands pay you based on how many kilometers you have traveled.
15: Earn Money with Your Selfies
There are users who are taking advantage of this idea to get an extra every month. You have to register on the Stylinity fashion platform, upload a photo and tag the clothes you are wearing at the time. If people like it and also decide to buy it, you will earn money thanks to rewarding points that can be exchanged for products or cash.
16: Sell Crafts
You can bet on selling your own creations on third-party platforms, such as eBay or Esty, paying commissions for each sale made.
17: Get Paid for SlideJoy
With this app, you can earn money just by showing an ad on your lock screen, without even having to access the link. They pay between 5 and 15 dollars a month and at the end of each day, they will notify you of your income. It is only available for Android.
18: Create an App
For this, you can use free online tools like The App Maker. Once developed, you can monetize it by selling it if the app is paid, through online ads if the application is free, or by opting for a freemium model.
19: Sponsored Posts
If you have a certain level of traffic on your blog, you have the option of various brands offering you money in exchange for content that promotes them and their products, indicating in the article itself that it is sponsored content or a commercial.
19: Do Market Research
Companies want your opinion and are willing to pay for it. There are a wide variety of ways you can participate in this type of research:
- UserTesting.com: You offer feedback on apps and websites for up to $10 for each test.
- It can be a mystery shopper: you get paid to visit stores and report your experience. Find options at Market Force, Best Mark, Sinclair Customer Metrics.
- Join a study group or focus group: companies can pay you to sit down and answer questions as a consumer.
- Take digital surveys: Register your information to answer surveys and you will be contacted when there is one that fits your demographics.
20: Become a Food Delivery Man
If you decide to become a food delivery person, you will need a bicycle or a car, depending on the service you want to join.
21: Take Care of Pets
If you decide to earn extra money weighing dogs, you have several options: you can subscribe to a service, or advertise yourself in the areas of greatest demand by leaving advertisements in pet stores.
In the United States, there is a boom in platforms that connect dog walkers with owners, such as Rover, Wag, and Bark. They all operate in a similar way. You, as a dog walker, create your profile and wait for customers to contact you. Or you can apply for jobs you see on the platform (make sure you have a good reputation online with great reviews so more people will hire you).
And on that same idea, you can take care of cats. You can register as a cat or general pet sitter in Facebook groups or by advertising your services at local stores or veterinarians.
22: Work for a Catering Company
You can join a caterer by helping as a waiter or serving. It is a flexible position and you can usually determine your hours. (It’s the reason so many aspiring actors do this, leaving their schedules free for auditions.)
23: Donate Sperm or Eggs
To donate sperm and eggs you must be young, usually between 18 and 35 years old, and you can do it directly at a bank or at a fertility clinic.
24: Offers Maintenance Services
If you know how to do basic home repairs (installations, repairs, painting, and lighting) you could earn some money maintaining homes in your city.
To get clients you can do it in the same way, by leaving flyers and earning a reputation by word of mouth, or by advertising your services on social networks.
25: Invest in The Stock Market
Buy and sell shares in different markets using Trading. Become a Broker. For this, you must know a lot about finances and investments since if you do not have advanced knowledge you will lose money. You can use platforms like InteractiveBrokers, Degiro, or Revolut. Beware of trading apps that use Forex, leveraged CFDs, or binary options and don’t actually buy the shares.
26: Sell T-Shirts or Designs Online
Create your own designs for t-shirts, logos, cards, posters and sell them online. You can also sell your crafts on websites like Etsy and create your designs at 99designs, Designcrowd, or Zazzle.
27: Work in Fast Food Restaurants
You can work in pizzerias like Telepizza, hamburgers like Burger King or McDonald’s, and other fast-food restaurants where you don’t need experience and the hiring is very fast.
28: Create Challenges With WhatsApp or Telegram
Thanks to messaging apps and RRSS we can create challenges with which to teach something and then sell a product or service both from us and from other people and thus generate income. I counted my failure of the Telegram challenge long ago.
29: Teach Languages Online
You can teach English, Spanish, Italian, Chines, and earn money with Verbling or Italki. It is advisable to have the appropriate qualification. If you do not want to create your own website, you do not have a community, you do not want to invest in advertising campaigns with Facebook Ads or Google Ads, nor do you want to learn Digital Marketing and the technological part is a nuisance for you. These types of options are very interesting, especially for start without investment to generate your first income. Remember to differentiate yourself by specializing and looking for a specific audience. For example, English for business or English with a British accent. Check the rest of the teachers and identify why some charge more than others.
30: Personal Trainer
Offer your personal trainer, nutritionist, or physiotherapist service online. Thanks to this GOOGLE you can find clients more quickly. You must have the appropriate degree and this, of course, requires time, effort and money but on the Internet, you can offer online services with which to earn much more money thanks to your knowledge.
31: Earn or Buy Cryptocurrencies
Although today there is a lot of volatility with Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies, it can be a good investment and a way to earn quick money. In addition, from Coin base, you can earn cryptocurrencies simply by watching videos and they pay about $2 in cryptocurrencies per 2-minute video.
32: Stop Smoking
Many smokers spend huge amounts of money buying tobacco. Leave it now and in addition to earning enough money immediately, you will be able to live longer and better.
33: Become a Translator
If you know languages or are bilingual, there are websites like Onehourtranslation.com, Gengo.com that pay you for translations.
34: Give Classes on Skype
Did you know that you can easily teach remotely using Zoom or Skype or whatever video conferencing application so fashionable lately? And you don’t even have to know how to speak another language. You can teach English, Italian, Spanish, and many others. Of course, being a good teacher is not improvised, so you will have to work hard to prepare for the courses. It is also a task that requires a lot of patience.
35: Sell Small Services Online
Do you have any kind of service that can be sold online? I talk about many things, from design to programming through any type of service for individuals and companies. For that, you can use platforms like Fiverr. Originally, it was created for small services billed for $5. But today it is more of a platform for freelancers, where you can sell your know-how.
36: Sell Your Clothes
Surely you have many clothes in your closet that you no longer wear, but you never know what to do with them. Here are 2 platforms where you can sell your clothes:
- Vinted
- Micolet
37: Recycling of Mobile Phones
You can get good money and help the environment by recycling mobile phones with certain companies listed in the comparison tool. But keep in mind: you will not always get the money quoted as it depends on ‘condition’. We recommend Mobile Cash Mate for the fairest and highest payments in most cases.
38: Concerts on Fiverr
Fiverr is now the largest market in the world for people to make money selling small services (known as ‘concerts’).
What you offer could be absolutely anything from writing and translating, posting on social media, playing pranks, and teaching how to create music, voice-overs, and short video clips for people all over the world!
The default price is $5, but you can add extra services to gigs for more money. Although it might not sound like much, you can quickly add in and there are tons of examples of people making a really good living from the site. The key is to get a system in place that minimizes the time spent at each concert.
But there is another way to get even more out of Fiverr for potentially a lot less work. How? Just reselling gigs elsewhere. For example, find a decent logo designer then respond to jobs at Upwork or even local classifieds. A $5 spend can easily turn into $50 +, and it’s repeatable.
39: Mysterious Shop
Mysterious shop nowadays becoming a mystery shopper is easier than you think and can be rewarded handsomely. We recently found a very fun smartphone app called Roamler that pays you cash for completing various tasks in your local area. So definitely check that first!
More traditionally, there are a lot of agencies that pay you to visit all kinds of stores for feedback on how they are doing.
40: Sell All Your Old CDs, Games and Movies
If you are looking to make a really quick buck, then selling your old bits and bobs that are jamming your room is a good idea.
The best thing about it is that you can rip all the songs and movies on your laptop or external hard drive before selling them. This means that you are only selling plastic and artwork.
You can earn anything from 10$ to £ 20$ per item, and the earnings can really add up if you have a large collection. While you’re at it, see if your parents have any “messes” that you’d be happy to see the back of.
You can also sell just about anything for free on Amazon Marketplace or Preloved, and sites like MusicMagpie will instantly pay you to send unwanted items.
