Easy Ways to Make Extra Money From Home


Mangesh Supe

by Mangesh Supe· Updated June 01 2023

Easy Ways to Make Extra Money From Home

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Whether you're a busy mom, a stay-at-home dad, or a college student in school, some extra work can help you make money from home.

A simple internet search can reveal many work from home scams that charge you an upfront fee and entice you to work with them, when in reality, they're just grimacing and milking you for every penny of your hard-earned money!

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You definitely want to find a legitimate home-based job that doesn't (like a micro-business) require paying a large membership fee, purchasing a bunch of meaningless goods, and reselling them to a nebulous group of potential customers. Therefore, we searched through hundreds of work-from-home options and came up with some of the most effective ways to make money.

Some people can only earn a few dollars a month, while others can earn 5 to 6 figures, depending largely on the time and effort you invest.

Make money at home

Don't have any amazing talents? Don't worry, such you can also get extra income through the methods described below.

I am only passionately curious.

I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious.

Albert Einstein

There was a time when my wife and I used to go to the countryside to purchase eggs and take them to town to sell. If you don't want to raise chickens or sell eggs, read on for some better, less stressful, and more profitable ways to make money from home.

  1. start a blog or online business

For the last few years, online business (Top Ten Reviews) has been my way of making a living and what helped me retire early, and this blog brings me a significant amount of profit every month. You can create your own blog with a simple 15-minute step-by-step tutorial and use it for affiliate marketing. Consider topics such as.

  1. Travel
  2. Cooking
  3. Health
  4. Technology
  5. Personal Finance
  6. Other areas of interest to you...
  7. How to build a personal blog site
  8. Take online surveys and earn an extra $250+ per month

Make money from home by simply answering online surveys or product tests. You can easily earn $250 a month in extra money while watching TV.

Take a look at some of the paid survey sites listed below, where in addition to cash, you can also be rewarded with gift certificates, sweepstakes prizes, free products and more. All of these sites are free to sign up and use. Please note: If any survey site asks you to pay, it may be a scam.

  1. Swagbucks
  2. Survey Junkie
  3. Inbox Dollars
  4. Product Report Card
  5. Survey Club
  6. Pinecone Research
  7. Opinion Outpost
  8. My Soap Box
  9. Toluna Influencers
  10. Get a free $10 Amazon Gift Card

Sign up for a MyPoints account and get a free Amazon Gift Card worth $10, it's easy to get started.

  1. Join MyPoints here and get $10 instantly.
  2. Shop through MyPoints at over 1,900 top online retailers (including Amazon, Walmart and Target) and earn extra points.
  3. Redeem points for gift cards, travel miles and more from over 75 top retail, restaurant and travel partners.
  4. Watch YouTube, movie trailers and other videos and give them likes

Like to watch videos in your spare time? Now you can get paid to watch videos, including news, movie trailers, celebrity videos, and all other genres.

Sites like Swagbucks require you to watch certain videos and like them, but each video needs to be watched for a certain length of time (which is communicated in advance). By doing this, you can earn over $200 per month and also earn Swagbucks points (which can be redeemed for gift cards or PayPal balances).

Just sign up and get $10 instantly!

  1. Refund the difference in price for what has been purchased

Do you like to get a refund for the difference in price? How cool is it to get a price difference back for something you already purchased?

Paribus is an online service that allows you to find out if price reductions have occurred on your online purchases. After registering for free, Paribus connects to your email account and checks your purchase receipts, and if they find that the retailer has lowered the price, then a refund request is made for you for the difference.

They work with a large number of merchants that you may shop with regularly, including Walmart, Costco, Target, Best Buy, Apple, Kohl's, and more.

  1. shopping rebates

When you sign up for a Rakuten account, you'll instantly get a $10 gift card and your first cash back, which is useful for frequent online shoppers, and Rakuten is totally free!

Getting a shopping rebate is as simple as visiting the Rakuten website, clicking on the store you want to shop at, and picking a product to place your order. When you go to other shopping platforms through Rakuten and place an order, they get a commission and then give a portion of that back to you, which is an easy way to save money. Many people have saved tens of thousands of dollars through Rakuten.

  1. Get rebates with Rakuten
  2. Download and install the application

Many companies (including Google) pay you a fee when you install an app. In addition, if you keep these apps on your phone, they can also generate passive income for you every month. Such apps include.

  1. Nielsen Mobile Panel: For users who participate in Nielsen TV ratings, Nielsen Mobile AppiOSAndroidAmazon will reward you with access to your mobile device, earning up to $50 per year.
  2. MobileXpression: Install this App for iOSAndroid and you'll be eligible to win weekly prizes, plus experience instant bonus games by participating in market research.
  3. test the website and earn $30 per hour

Ever visited a website and thought the browsing experience was awful? Now, you can share your thoughts and get paid accordingly.

Just open a website, click anywhere, and the website owner will pay you for your tests. For example, with UserTesting, you can earn almost $30 per hour and it works as follows.

  1. For every 20 minutes of video watched, then $10 earned through PayPal.
  2. With UserTesting, you can visit a website or application, complete a series of tasks, record your thoughts, and then most importantly - get paid.
  3. Notably, your computer screen and voice are recorded whenever the site is visited. Paid customers include Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, and other Fortune 500 companies.
  4. earn money through health app

The health app AchieveMintiOSAndroid gives you health advice and also tracks daily activities such as walking, diet, health checks and more. You can earn points, which can then be redeemed for cash or Amazon gift cards. Every 10,000 points can be redeemed for $10 and there is no cap on earnings.

AchieveMint can connect to the fitness apps you already use, including.

  1. FitbitiOSAndroid
  2. RunKeeperiOSAndroid
  3. MyFitnessPaliOSAndroid
  4. Healthkit
  5. You can earn 10 points just by registering an account and connecting to the application.
  6. Become a freelance author

Becoming a freelancer can greatly increase your income. Are you a full-time mom with English skills or a meticulous person who can identify writing errors?

Freelancing platforms like Fiverr and Upwork have thousands of employers looking to hire senior editors and professional writers. Start with a lower offer, get paid on a per-assignment basis, build a good reputation, and then expand into full-time work and a larger business.

  1. The best freelance platform recommendations
  2. Technical freelancing

Freelancing is not only related to writing, you can do everything from design, drawing, translation, trade, marketing, web programming, etc. from the following sites.

  1. Upwork
  2. PeoplePerHour
  3. Freelancer
  4. Leaf Group
  5. Payment is then obtained on a per-project basis.
  6. Become a virtual assistant

Work for someone from home. Virtual assistants can perform almost any task, such as checking email, making travel plans, handling Internet research, completing small business tasks, and more, and are paid $50 to $100 per hour for high-end earners.

The most famous sites in this area are Zirtual and Upwork.

  1. How to become a virtual assistant
  2. sharing opinions

Share your honest opinions about everyday services and products with focus group companies, organizations that can improve their offerings based on your feedback and earn you $50, $100 or more. Check out the Panel.

I have a friend who shops at the local mall and can make some extra money by attending focus groups, but occasionally pays for an entire evening.

  1. change the default search engine

Do you use Google or Yahoo to search for content online? For now, ditch them for a while and make Bing your first choice.

Perform a regular search on Bing to make it your default search engine, then you can earn points to redeem for gift cards, earning up to $5~$10 per month. warm tip: stay logged in when performing a search.

Another great option is Nielsen Digital Voice, part of Nielsen (a global information and market measurement company), where you can start making money just by browsing the web.

  1. Data entry

Use accurate and fast typing skills to enter information, search carefully on Fiverr, Upwork, Craigslist, and find data entry and administrative tasks that you excel at, tasks that can be easily accomplished through telecommuting.

  1. working for Amazon

Choose micro-tasking on Amazon Mechanical Turk and you can stay home, enjoy flexible hours and get paid by one of the world's largest retailers.

The following are some examples of tasks that have been completed by staff.

  1. Choose the correct spelling for the search phrase
  2. Is this site suitable for a general audience?
  3. Find the product number in this picture
  4. Evaluate the quality of these search results
  5. Are these two products the same?
  6. Select the right category for these products
  7. Classification according to the tone of this article
  8. Translate this passage from English to French
  9. Amazon Mechanical Turk Details
  10. Online travel agency

Do you enjoy browsing travel sites like Expedia in your spare time? Then, collect commissions by offering your services instead of a travel agent. Start here to get tips for getting started.

  1. course sales plan

Have good attainment in an academic field? Sell your lesson plans to new teachers or third-party platforms like Udemy. Pay for knowledge is a marketplace for educators where you can sell and share teaching resources.

  1. experience online games

Are you an arcade game or a poker champion? Play some of your favorite puzzle or card games on InboxDollars. It's fun, and not only do you not have to pay, you get extra rewards.

  1. Maintain fan page

Pages on Twitter or Facebook require netizens/celebrities to stay engaged with their fans, log into Fiverr, and then find jobs related to maintaining social pages.

  1. fix search engine errors

Google, Yahoo, Bing and other sites will pay you to fix their search results, you just need to improve the errors in the search results page and make the information in the page more relevant, useful and of better quality with the query keywords. This work earns about $12/hour.

  1. LionBridge
  2. Appen
  3. Online Jurors

Interested in law and order? Ever wanted to defend some innocent citizen in court?

eJury offers attorneys the opportunity to voir dire your case before the actual jury in court. You simply review the facts and answer the relevant questions and click the Submit Verdict button when you're done. For each verdict, you get paid $5 to $10 depending on the length of the case. As an eJury, this certainly won't make you rich, but it can bring in a nice extra income.

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