How to Make Money Online and Offline in 2019

In this article, you’ll find all the best ways to make money online in your spare time while you are in school or at home. This article will be regularly updated each time new Money Making Ideas come in. To stay updated, ensure that you bookmarked this page before leaving. And don’t forget to share and chip in your ideas using the comment box!

Top ways to make money online and Offline in 2019

1. No-risk matched betting

No-risk matched betting also known as Zero Risk Matched Betting is one of the quickest ways to make money online anywhere in the world. Many students and bet fans have made much money using this technique. It is easy, risk-free and anyone can do it. No-risk matched betting works this way; it works by taking advantage of free bets offered by betting sites through ‘matching‘ them at a betting exchange site. In Matched betting, you are betting both for and against a certain outcome thereby eliminating any chances of losing

Some websites offer free bets to customers, the free bet could be as high as £300! You just have to find any of such sites, place or book your bet there and look for another site offering free bet and use their bonus to back the game you have played. This way, whichever side that wins, you make a profit.

2. Online surveys

This is another popular way of making money online. It works by filling out online surveys in your spare time. Research companies are always looking for new members worldwide to answer surveys and test new products.

For a few minutes of form filling, you can make over 10 dollars per day. You can bag up to £3 ($5) for some surveys! Although it may be difficult finding a reliable Survey website, it pays if you find one.

3. Paid for searching the web

This is one of the simplest ways to make money online. It involves searching Google, Bing or Yahoo. One of the reliable websites that pay for this is Qmee.com.

To get started, simply search and install Qmee add-on on your browser and when you conduct a search there may be a few sponsored results alongside your normal search.

Each Qmee result has a cash reward attached – if you are interested in it simply click on it and collect your reward.

The amazing thing is there is no minimum amount to cash out. According to Save The Student, their first 72p was wired to their Paypal account. You can also donate it to charity if you don’t need the money. To sign up, visit Qmee.com

4. Online market trading

This involves investing in stock markets and currencies online through an online market trading platform.

There are so many online market trading platforms but it is good to invest in a reliable one. According to Save the Students, they have experimented with the biggest platform, eToro.com and confirmed it to be reliable.

5. Start your own website

Although this one may take some time to mature, owning a website is a good way to generate steady passive income. Thank goodness for content management systems such as WordPress, Blogger, Weebly etc. With these platforms, you can start your own blog in a matter of minutes.

Starting a website with WordPress takes less than 20 minutes, costs hardly anything. With WordPress and Blogger, you can start a blog without spending any money. However, to make a sizable amount of money with your blog, you will need a premium web host and domain name.

A domain name can be registered on GoDaddy, Bluehost, Inmotion Hosting etc. Most of these domain registrars also offer affordable web hosting account and the good thing is that some of them offer free domain if you buy web hosting account with them.

Once you have bought a domain and registered a web hosting account, it takes a bit of step to set up your site.

6. The ‘Disney Vault’ secret

Disney Studios keeps demand high by restricting the supply of some home release classics. They are locked for years (8-10years) in the ‘vault’ before being released to the market again.

As a result, by the time they release the product, the price would have skyrocketed and you would make huge profits. An example is an item bought for just £24.99 and then in a couple of years, it was on Amazon for a staggering £74.99!

Note that not all Disney releases are subject to the vault and only the true classics will maintain such demand.

7. ‘Get Paid To’ sites

GPT sites are sites that reward members in cash and vouchers for completing various offers or activities online. In some ways, it is similar to the Online Paid Survey.

In case you want to join this, the most popular sites today are Toluna, Swagbucks and InboxPounds.

8. Become a delivery rider or driver

Do you have a bicycle, motorbike, car or Smartphone? If you have any of the aforementioned, you are good to go.

You make some extra money and cash by transporting food or people to their destinations.

You could create a website or Whatsapp group where people can easily contact you for the business.

You can also sign up to delivery specialist companies like Deliveroo, Uba Transport, Oma etc. These already established firms will pay for delivering people or goods to their destination. An advantage of this is total flexibility to work when you want, hence giving you the opportunity to decide when you want to work and when you don’t.

To increase your opportunities, you can directly contact local takeaways and bigger chains like Uba Transport to see if they have any delivery jobs going.

9. Write and publish a Kindle eBook

If you can put your thoughts together on paper, this is a good way to make money online. All you need to do is to write the eBook and publish on Amazon Kindle store. Once any person buys the book you make money.

To make this business easier, the Kindle app is now available on almost any device (laptops, iPads, smartphones and yes, Kindles) as a result there is a big global market for you.

In order to make a good amount of money from your eBooks, you should endeavour to create value, and write non-fiction. Typical examples of hot selling eBooks are those talking about common problems (eg. ‘secrets’ to finding a job) and then presenting an enticing expert on it.

You should also create a great cover design for the eBook, if you can’t design, you can hire a graphic designer to do it for you. Good graphic designers are usually spotted on Fiverr.

Don’t forget to always ask readers to leave an honest review at the end of your book. Use their review to work on your next eBook.

One amazing advantage of this is that it requires little time and generates a lasting a passive income.

10. Affiliate marketing

Affiliate Marketing remains one of the quickest ways to make money online. If you’ve got a lot of friends on social media, you can easily make money by recommending a product you have tested your friends.

Many E-Commerce websites run affiliate programs for interested members. All you have to do is to join the website and share your referral link on your social media accounts. You get paid each time somebody buys through your referral link. Popular affiliate websites are Earboard.com, Amazon, Jumia etc.

Sign up to any of those websites and start making money right away.

11. Mobile phone recycling

Mobile Phone Recycling has been a good way to put some money into your pocket. Mobile Phone Recycling involves recycling mobile phones with certain companies. According to Save The Students, Mobile Cash Mate is the fairest company that offers high payouts,

12. Become a ‘Clickworker’

What is ClickWorker? What ClickWorker does is to list different businesses. As a ClickWorker Member, you get paid for performing some actions requested by the listed business. Their concept is based on ‘internet crowd-sourcing’ where you are paid for completing some business tasks. It is a good way to make money online.

Common tasks you can do on the site include mindless data entry, web research or form filling. Their payment method is through Paypal.

13. Get cashback when shopping

Cashback websites pay you some discounts each time you purchase something and also each time the person you referred buys something from their store. This is one of the best ways to save money as a student and also as a family man or woman. This is not only a way to make money but also to save money as a student. Some of the CashBack websites offer as high as 5% – 30% cashback on every purchase.

Some of the popular CashBack websites are Top Cashback, Quidco.com and Swagbucks, You can sign up to any of those websites.

14. Part-time job

A part-time job is a job you can do in your spare time and still get paid. It is sometimes hard to find a reliable part-time job, but I will spare you the hassle of looking for a good part-time job. Earboard.com is legit, paying website you can join and start making money instantly.

15. Gigs on Fiverr

Do you have a skill or any creative art you want to sell? If yes, Fiverr will certainly put a few cash to your pocket. Fiverr is regarded as the world’s largest marketplace for people to make money selling small services, also known as ‘gigs’.

There are a number of things you could offer to make money on Fiverr. You could offer to do translating jobs, social media posting, playing pranks and teaching to creating music, voiceovers, short video clips, graphics designing, online presentation, Website designing etc.! The good thing about Fiverr is that it is global and any person in any part of the world who is interested in your services can contact you. Each gig costs 5 dollars.

16. Review music for money

If you are the type that loves music, you can make money by offering to review music. Earboard.com pays you for reviewing music. In as much as your review is original, you get paid some amount of money ranging from $0.1 t0 $10 per review published.

You can click here to join

17. Sell your notes

You can make money by selling your notes online. Some sites where you can sell your note are Stuvia, Notesale and Jiji.ng for Nigerians

You will need to type the note and convert it to pdf otherwise you may not make much money from your note.

18. Sell second-hand course books

Another way to make money is to buy and sell second-hand course books and notes. You will only need to buy other students’ textbooks at the end of the year, and then sell the books to freshers. The costs of textbooks in some country are very high and a student would prefer cheaper second-book to brand new one.

You can list them on Amazon or Jiji for Nigerians.

19. Competitions

Competition is a good way to make money. There are many paid competitions both online and offline and you can make a lot of money if you enroll and win.

In the UK, you can make regular money with ‘compers‘. Some have been reported to be making over $50,000 with compers.

20. Buy and sell domain names

Domain name is the address through which a website can be reached with. The domain name of this site is WWW.EARBOARD.COM. You can make some good amount of money by flipping domains.

To make money with domain flipping, you need to find a good domain registrar and buy any domain you deemed valuable.

When you have bought the domain, you can list it out for sale on site like Sedo.com.

Another way to make money by flipping domains is to look for a promising company that has the potential of reaching global demand, then buying the country level domain of such sites. For example, let’s say there is a promising company with the domain name Example.com. If the company reaches a global demand, it is very likely that the company will begin to purchase the country level domain of its website. Hence they will begin to buy domain such as Example.com.uk, Example.com.us. To retain the same domain name for such a country, the company will have to buy the correct domain. Hence if you have bought the domain before them, you can actually sell at a very higher price.

21. Mystery shopping

What is mystery shopping? A mystery shopper simply goes to a shop like normal visitors but however returns with some important feedback that could help the company improve on their customer service. In the UK and the US, there are a lot of companies looking for mystery shoppers.

You can also earn rewards by completing some local task using Tasking apps.

22. Be an Extra

If you are good at acting, you can make some money by applying as an extra in TV or film.

Some of the firms pay as high as £60-80 a day on average. So many casting agencies are always looking for willing extras that they will pay to work for them. They make their own money by taking some money out of the money meant for the extra though they don’t deduct much from it.

23. Sell all your old CDs, games and movies

Old CDs, games and movies are usually seen around us doing nothing. Whereas they may appear outdated for us, some are looking for them and even willing to pay a good amount of money for them. You can make money by selling those CDs, games and movies.

This way, you will make something out of it instead of allowing it to damage more.

You can make anything from 10p to £20 per item, and the earnings can really add up if you have a large collection. Remember you can also sell almost anything for free on Amazon Marketplace or Preloved and sites like MusicMagpie will pay you instantly for sending in unwanted items.

24. Sell on your education!

Have you got any good knowledge in any field such as Mathematics, Science, Arts etc? You can make a good amount of money by offering to teach other students how to do that.

With the emergence of online tutorials, you can take your tutorial from local face-to-face session to online tutorial. One good thing about the online tutorial is that you can teach as many as 1000 students at once

You can create online courses (on literally anything!) and get paid forever after as users take it up on Udemy.

25. Sell your photos

Fotolia or Istockphoto pays you to upload your pictures on their sites. If you have lots of pictures, you can make a good amount of money by selling them on Fotolia or Istock.

26. Rent out your car parking space

If you have any space at a strategic place, you can rent it out for car parking. So many car owners usually find it difficult to get a good place where they can park their cars especial in the market.

By renting out some space for them, you will actually ease them the hassle of getting a good place to park their car.

To make sure that people know about the parking space, you should run both online and offline advertisements for space. You can advertise the space using Google Adwords or through a printed billboard.

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27. Babysitting

Babysitting is a good way to make money in this modern day. Few women are accepting the role of housewives nowadays as such there are high demands for babysitters.

Getting a babysitting job is very easy, all you have to do is tell your family and friends about your intention to work as a babysitter. They will be in a better position to find you the job as people will trust you more when you are being recommended by somebody.

You can also run an advertisement on Google and Facebook.

28. Dog walking & sitting

Although this may not be popular in some countries, if you live in places like the Us, The Uk, you can make a good amount of money doing dog walking and dog sittings.

29. Become your own bank

Do you know that banks make most of their money by lending money to people? Moneylender is a good way to make money and you can be your own bank using this strategy.

You can start the business in the comfort of your home, but if you want to take it higher you can create an online presence for the business.

30. Work as a charity collector

You can make money by offering to work as a charity collector. This type of job takes a certain kind of person because you’ll have to take a lot of rejection and be persistent.

31. Rent out your house for filming

Directors for TV and film are always in search for houses where they will film in. You can make some good amount of money if you can rent your house out for filming.

One advantage of this is that it will not stop you from living in your house because once they are done they leave the house for you.

While you can make some money with this, it is also amazing watching your house on Television.

32. Freelance work

If you have a passion for writing, managing Facebook pages or doing a little bit of graphic design in your spare time, you can make a good amount of money working as a freelancer.

Freelancers are in hot demand nowadays. There are so many freelancing jobs out there and you can make money if you have any creative skills such as designing, writing etc.

And the good thing about freelancing is that you can work anywhere in the world while sitting at the comfort of your home.

All you will need are a computer and an internet connection. With that, you are good to go. You can work for somebody in the UK, China etc

One of the great places to get freelancing job is Fiverr.com or Upwork.com

33. Sell clothes on eBay of Jiji.ng

eBay is a good place to get rid of your old and unused clothes. For people living in Nigeria, Jiji.ng is your best friend when it comes to selling out your old stuff. Jiji.ng offers free listing.

Since most people use eBay to sell their old clothes, you can take advantage of the opportunity, buying the clothes at a very cheap price and reselling at a higher price.