subject: How Can I Make Money On the Internet for Free? [print this page] How Can I Make Money On the Internet for Free?
In order to make money online, you need to provide value to someone who has it. Plain and simple. So the first thing you need to do when you want to make money online is ask yourself, "What do I possess that would cause someone to fork over their hard-earned dough?" This could be a product or a service. We'll start with products.
Providing Products for Money
You don't have to invent some new device that revolutionizes how we tie our shoes or anything, you only need to provide a product that someone will use or that someone thinks is neat enough to pay for. If you are an artist or a painter, sell your art online. You can sell it on Ebay or Craig's List and you can make money online doing what you love, and it's free (well, unless you count art supplies).
Another way is to raid your closet or to ask your relatives to 'donate' items they no longer want to your cause. Then, sell that stuff on Ebay. If you're new to Ebay, you may have to wait to receive your funds while they test your trustworthiness. But if you've bought and sold on Ebay before, you're one old iPod away from a hundred dollars or more.
Providing Services
Can you write? Create graphics? What about videos, can you make those? People will pay hundreds of dollars for an e-book written on a particular subject. And business owners will pay hundreds for web design. And that's not even getting into the thousands you can make by selling your videos to internet marketers and other business owners. Dig deep down inside of yourself and find out what abilities you have and what services you can offer using those abilities.
You don't have to be Hemingway to sell your writing, nor do you have to be Picasso to sell your art. You only need to be professional, consistent and you have to believe in yourself.
But who do you sell your services to? There are quite a few online job boards for freelance writers and web designers and any other freelance profession you can think of. Sending out emails to the individuals and businesses that post these ads is completely free of charge and can yield hundreds or thousands of dollars in potential work.
You can make money online and you can do it quickly, but you must think outside of the box. What do you possess that will cause others to pay you money? That answer is up to you, but it's likely that there are a dozen answers right around you. You only have to look around and see those opportunities for what they truly are.
