Earn money from home in 2023 without investing [16 methods]

If you are looking for some earning ideas, read on because we are going to delve into 16 ways to earn money online in 2023 from the comfort of your home.

These are all activities that I have personally done and consequently I speak knowledgeably about them.

Unlike many other articles you will find, where the list will consist of dozens and dozens of modes, this one is narrow and includes everything that really can make you money.

At the end of the article you will also find a bonus method for rounding up that you will really enjoy!

If you’re ready to make money right away, go find out the best way to make money in 2023, if instead you want to get a general education about what the market offers, happy reading!

16 modi per guadagnare online nel 2023

Starting to make money online is essential if we want to round out our earnings and increase our income.

The problem is that issues are often dealt with without having the real knowledge of how much can really be cashed in.

I, on the other hand, as anticipated, have tried many of them and in this article I report only the main ones and, most importantly, that make money.

Here are 16 methods to make money online in 2023

• Matched betting
• Open a YouTube channel
• Platform bonuses
• Affiliations
• Arbitrage
• Become a ghostwriter
• Sell services on Fiverr
• Use Cashback
• Create online courses
• Write and sell eBook
• Selling photographs
• Open an online shop
• Monetizing a site or blog
• Print on demand
• Dropshipping
• With social network
• Other-methods

Matched betting

Doing matched betting means betting for and against a sporting event to have a 100 percent chance of success, to make money thanks to the bonuses offered by bookmakers.

Difficulty	Average
Skills	Money, connection
Time	Few hours a month
Earning	About 100$ per month

In years past, this activity was very profitable and those who started doing it with perseverance and dedication saw their capital grow exponentially.

Now the party is ending, but the gains remain and are always interesting.

If we only want to do it with our identity, after we run out of welcome bonuses, we will only be left with recurring bonuses that are significantly lower.

In any case, we are talking about amounts of money that can make a difference at the end of the month, like a few hundred euros.

If we want to make it our primary entry, we will have to involve many other people who will have to provide us with their documents and identity.

In addition, we will have to load a lot of capital on the various platforms in order to cope with all the betting needed to get to profit.

I stopped doing it as it never excited me particularly and due to the fact that it requires many different people’s identities to be scaled.

In addition, precautions will need to be taken to prevent companies from realizing that all those people are logging in from one place, which would trigger an immediate account freeze.

It happened to me after 10 minutes that I had registered my wife, so these checks are quick, accurate and ruthless.

As a direct testimony, a contact of mine who works in this industry spends 4 hours a day in front of the computer making bets and managing all identities for a earnings of about $ 2,000 a month.

Pros

It certainly may seem like an easy and fun activity to do. After all, betting always attracts people. And through this method we can beat the system and get to have certain and already taxed earnings.

So we won’t have to worry about accountants or withholding.

In summary, the gains from matched betting are:

• The gains are mathematical
• Earnings are already taxed
• Accurate and always up-to-date guides

Cons

We cannot get carried away by emotion or the fact that we are “only” betting. We have to follow a specific strategy and we cannot mistake amounts, outcome or time.

The cons of this method are:

• Bookmakers are limiting it more and more
• Need for high capital
• Need for many identities for big gains

Open a YouTube channel

Earning with YouTube means creating video content that we are going to monetize with advertising that will appear while a user watches the content.

Difficulty	High
Skills	Editing video
Time	Very much
Earning	Very high

It might seem impossible to get to the point of having interesting entrances from this method. Instead, I can guarantee you that with the right strategy the results will not be long in coming.

As you can see from the image below, they were always on the rise until October, when I reached the maximum gain of 28.78 $.

In November they started to decline simply because I no longer posted any videos. It’s not that I was a regular poster before, but two or three videos every month I would put them out.

Although the channel has been abandoned for almost two months, I have every intention of returning to it to start releasing good quality videos on an ongoing basis and I am confident of achieving interesting results, that is, getting to about $ 150-200 per month.

The real difficulty lies in getting started and getting involved. Once we have done that, and accepted that the first few videos will be objectively unwatchable, we must aim to grow and get better and better by analyzing what others are doing and taking the right cues.

The quintessential Youtuber to learn from is MrBeast, who has an incredible ability to keep the viewer glued to the video until the end.

I dare you to go to his channel and not start watching any of his content!

In terms of tools to use, I either a iPhone 12 mini and a Gorillapod 3k. Those are more than enough and the results are what you see on my YouTube.

I edit everything with iMovie on the Mac, which is a free program.

Alternative methods

There are innovative strategies for starting a business on YouTube without even putting your face on it. One of the most popular trends is the Cash Cow Channel (aka YouTube Automation).

You will go treating mass topics in an interesting way with the sole purpose of making views and consequently increasing advertising earnings.

Titles such as “The 10 Best Crypto” or “The 5 Unexplained Events That Happened” serve to do just that. They are a series of stock images or videos with a narrative voice.

If you want to take this method to the extreme, there is a course for you where you will learn everything you need to make money with YouTube and faceless channels.

We could also delegate it to someone else so that we don’t have to deal with any of the activities. But here we start to go a little too far.

Pros

In contrast to a blog like this one, which has to talk about finance and its surroundings in order not to be downgraded by Google, on YouTube we can cover any topic we want without any particular problem.

If the content is good, the platform will reward us by submitting us as a recommended video to many users.

In addition, there are services that guarantee to receive 1000 subscribers in a few days (at a cost of about $100).

• excellent earnings
• ease in reaching 1,000 members
• funny
• very diverse

Cons

The biggest problem is the need to reach 1000 subscribers and 4000 viewing hours to the channel before I can monetize it. I, when I started to see some interest, decided to speed it up by purchasing them.

• at least 1000 members
• make the set list before recording
• knowing how to stand in front of the camera
• not giving a damn about the judgment of others
• video editing skills

Platform bonuses

Earning from platform bonuses means taking advantage of the various bonuses that sites offer when a user registers.

Difficulty	Low
Skills	Be up-to-date on bonuses
TIme	Little
Earning	Average

The effort we have to have to get this income is really low, in fact we only have to register at the site in question and follow all the necessary steps.

Below you see an example of a person who earned $ 40 simply by opening a free account and shopping.

If this gain is not enough for us, we can go further and use our personal code to have other people open this account.

Some other platforms offer Amazon Gift Cards, free stocks and much more.

This, in my view, is the best method of rounding up one’s earnings without much effort and in a legal manner.

Regardless of anything you do, starting to evaluate this activity will allow you to have additional income almost for free.

Pro

E’ facile, soprattutto se usi dei servizi che ti spiegano le condizioni in maniera semplice, ma anche se volessi farlo da te non avresti troppi problemi a capirne il funzionamento.

E’ legale e puoi aprire dei conti a qualche parente per guadagnare ancora di più (apertura e chiusura dei conti sono gratis per il 99% delle volte).

• economico
• facile
• legal
• we can have our relatives do it

Cons

It is not easily scalable, as we would need a very large following and several registration codes (to be used when we reach maximum income from ours).

During the year it can have some beautiful months and be flat in others.

• Not easily scalable
• Fluctuating throughout the year

Affiliazioni

Earning with affiliations means creating content with links attached. When the user clicks them and completes a certain action, we earn money.

The main example is Amazon. If a user clicks one of our links and buys that product, we get a small percentage of the transaction.

Difficulty	High
Skills	blog/Youtube/Telegram ecc.
Time	Low
Earning	little (with Amazon)

The difficulty

The difficulty, is quickly stated: finding enough traffic. There are a myriad of strategies, the main ones being:

• Writing targeted articles
• Attracting people on Telegram
• Make YouTube reviews

Writing targeted articles

To use this system, one must use special services that analyze traffic, such as ahrefs or ubersuggest (which are chargeable, 110 $ and 35 $ respectively).

Once you have found poorly searched and uncompetitive keywords, you will need to write articles with the sole purpose of attracting users and getting them to click on links that go to Amazon.

If we write 10 such articles, we will potentially generate 1500 users. Obviously it’s not linear and it’s not that simple, but the basic idea is what I just described to you.

Attracting people on Telegram

As you may have guessed, you just have to have a lot of imagination. There was a time when Social Good (I don’t know if you’ve heard of it) offered an attractive sign-up bonus, but then it never paid out.

The official Telegram group was flooded with users from all over the world asking for explanations.

An Italian guy, whenever he saw someone with a local name join, would send him the link to his Telegram group saying that he was collecting all the Italian users of Social Good.

In doing so he attracted many people and after a while he stopped talking about Social Good and started offering all-around affiliate links. Brilliant idea.

YouTube Reviews

YouTube reviews are now the order of the day, and there are landmarks that can hardly be undermined.

In any case, it is an interesting solution if we want to test products that are unknown to the masses but are of interest.

Personal advice: if you do reviews to make money from affiliations, remove the ads. You just risk the user abandoning the video before time. To try to get too much you may end up with nothing.

Alternative methods

A good way to increase earnings would be to use platforms other than Amazon. But this is difficult as you are only accepted if you have a certain number of users per month and if you can prove that you produce content of a certain level.

So Amazon still remains the best choice for those starting out, especially if we go to consider Bounty.

These are very large one-time fees that we are paid when a user completes a registration.

For example, if you register for the free trial of Prime, we receive 3 $ (Amazon source).

It may not sound like much, but given the percentages it would correspond to a 150-200 $ product purchase.

Pros

We can start our adventure in the world of affiliations with zero investment. In fact, we can simply create a Telegram or YouTube channel and talk about items or services.

Once the keystone is found, on how to present links, it will be all downhill. It is a used and known method that will also do very well in 2023.

In addition, people know that this is how it works, and they don’t mind clicking on the link as a “thank you” for well-done content.

• no start-up costs
• with a little imagination it can be done well
• always works well
• people expect it

Cons

Especially if we start with Telegram, we will first have to build a large user base. Given that the percentage of people who respond by taking action is about 1 percent, below 1000 users is difficult to make interesting numbers.

If we add the fact that Amazon pays little and tends to lower commissions without notice, we understand well that we have to do the right thinking to have a sensible return.

Unless we find deals with platforms that pay us really well.

• Need to create a user base
• low percentages
• high competition

Doing arbitrage

Arbitrage means exploiting market inefficiencies to buy an asset and resell it shortly thereafter generating a profit.

Difficulty	Low
Skills	Resourcefulness
Time	Little
Earning	May vary

I tried to do it with LEGOs, finding them at a discounted price in a store and then reselling them on eBay. A gain of $ 30 on an investment of $ 89.

This activity can be done with objects, international currencies, or cryptocurrencies.

Just find a commodity that is traded all over the place and find two places where the price varies dramatically.

An example would be buying an iPhone at Mediaworld on Blackfriday and reselling it on subito.it at a premium price shortly thereafter.

Pros

We can do this online, when we go to the truck stop at a store or by checking the price trend of Bitcoin on an exchange.

The positive aspects of refereeing are:

• quick gain
• reduced capital
• Can be done anywhere, anytime

Cons

There is little risk in this activity, but we must always be alert to understand market trends and try to predict them.

The negative aspects of refereeing are:

• continuous study
• we need to find a seller
• we have to do the exchange by hand (if well physical)

Becoming a ghostwriter

Making money from ghostwriting means writing content for someone else following his or her directions and without being able to take credit for the creation. In fact, it will be as if the client wrote it.

Difficulty	High
Skills	Writing, customer care
Time	Very much
Earning	Average

The difficulty is high both because we have to find customers, which is difficult in the beginning, but also because what we deliver must be liked, must have no errors, and must meet the requirements.

If you enjoy writing and want to interface with others, this activity is worth considering. I’ve seen a ghostwriter (Flavio Leone) go from writing 20-30$ articles (even for me) to requesting over 100 $. And now he is starting to work on his own.

So the growth, if you work well, is rapid.

The income is unfortunately average, at least until we make a name for ourselves. On average for articles on the 700 – 1000 word mark we are around 20-30$ for low to medium quality.

This article, for length and depth, could be paid at least 300$ (more likely 4-500$).

One of the offers I found, for 4000 words (about the length of this content) is 800$ as you see below (source Fiverr)

For the sake of completeness, I state that I am writing this myself, since in my opinion the personal touch is always felt and makes a difference.

But you can address your proposals to those who do not have time or excessive demands.

The main sites for finding clients are:

• fiverr
• upwork
• freelancer

When the wordpass does its thing, you might start getting direct requests, and that would be a nice step forward.

Pros

The fact that we start with a suggestion from the client means that we immediately eliminate the biggest block, which is the initial idea. We can always refer to him for some clarification, without getting lost in the meanders of the Internet to look for reliable information to add.

We will also have a deadline, which will push us to finish the work on time. Which is very difficult if we have to write the content for ourselves or for someone who is not paying us.

The pros of this activity are:

• we have specific guidance on the topic
• we have a deadline

Cons

Dealing with customers, especially in a creative field such as this, can lead us to misunderstandings or dissatisfaction.

We must be able to keep the customer at bay so that they stay at their port, but indulge them when we think they are right.

By not using our name for creations, no one will begin to know us and as a result we will never build anything solid for our future. We will always depend on others.

Finally, it is very difficult to be appreciated, due to cutthroat competition that tends to sell out to bring home the customer.

We need to maintain very high standards (and also prices) in order to thrive and differentiate ourselves from the crowd.

The cons of this strategy are:

• customer relationship
• we don’t build anything
• poor earnings

Selling services on Fiverr

Earning with Fiverr means leveraging the platform to make your skills available to someone in need, for a fee.

Difficulty	Average
Skills	Our knowledge, fantasy
Time	Low
Earning	Little

On Fiverr we can offer GIGs (that’s what the services offered are called) of all kinds. There was even a native who recorded audio messages of all kinds by reading them with an absurd accent.

If you have fantasy and willingness to put yourself out there, you’ll find bread for your teeth here.

My advice is to throw yourself into absurd services that you think no one wants. Maybe you’ll make a splash and find growing customers.

CertainlyI do not think it is a good idea to go and compete with other vendors offering inflated services that have now reached a very low price point.

The useless always pulls, and it can be overpriced. Whereas if you offer something that can be compared to others, the market will make the price.

Pros

Because of the endless user base, it is very likely to find someone who is interested in what you offer. Clearly if you do something international and not related only to Italy.

Users can sign up to receive your deliveries periodically, so you have a secure cash flow. Which never hurts.

Fiverr’s pros are:

• marketplace very big
• gigs are always evolving
• recurring payments

Cons

Competition is really fierce, in fact to start you will need to put the minimum price ($5) in order to receive bids.

For commissions, however, quote from the official Fiverr website

Beginning March 2021, service fees are 5.5% of the purchase amount. For purchases under $50, an additional fee of $2 will be charged for small orders.

Committees of fiverr

And we will pay for them as well as the buyer. Therefore, after a while it makes sense to find direct agreements to continue the collaboration.

Since you cannot send email addresses or cell phone numbers via message, the common practice is to attach to the message a text file with something like “contact me at…” written inside.

I did this, after I realized that the user was trustworthy I would immediately take action.

Finally, know that if you receive negative feedback for any reason, you are job dead. Just so you don’t put too much pressure on yourself!

Fiverr’s shortcomings are:

• high competition
• high commissions
• feedbacks are crucial

Using cashback services

Earning cashback means getting back a percentage of what we spent on a product or service.

Difficulty	Low
Skills	Internet
Time	Little
Earning	Low

This strategy will not earn us exciting amounts of money, but if used consistently throughout the year it can get us to the end with an interesting crunch.

Using cashbacks is a way of life, which the sooner we implement the better.

I use BuyOn, which offers a wide selection and thanks to its Chrome add-on alerts you if the site you are browsing offers cashback.

As you will see below, they range from Booking to Adidas and many other sites.

Ovviamente più spendi e più ti rientra, essendo che sono spesso e volentieri in percentuale. Io, senza accorgermene, sono arrivato a 84.56$.

Il limite minimo di prelievo è 50$ che puoi richiedere via PayPal o bonifico, e come vedi sono necessarie parecchie settimane per vedere il proprio saldo riconosciuto.

Per utilizzare questo strumento basterà:

• andare sulla piattaforma di cashback
• cercare il servizio
• premere il link che ci manderà al sito relativo
• portare a termine la transazione

Pro

Non costa nulla e ci fa guadagnare qualcosa su delle spese che avremmo fatto in ogni caso. Si può utilizzare in pochi click e il riconoscimento dell’acquisto è intuitivo.

I vantaggi del cashback sono:

• gratuito
• piattaforme ben fatte e mature
• utilizzo immediato

Contro

I guadagni tendono ad essere bassi (anche se su Booking spesso son aumentati al 5%) e i tempi per vederceli accreditati possono essere di più mesi.

Also, the minimum withdrawal is 50 $ (at least on BuyOn) and sometimes the transaction may not be recognized.

The limits of earning through cashback are:

• low earnings
• long recognition time
• minimum withdrawal
• transaction sometimes not recognized

Selling online courses

Making money by selling online courses means creating video content where we delve into concepts that we go on to sell on special platforms.

Difficulty	Average
Skills	writing, editing video, many other skills
Time	High
Earning	Low

Of sure you have knowledge or expertise that many people are looking for and would like to learn more about.

The problem is always just one: finding the right marketplace to match supply and demand.

For online courses, Udemy is the place.

Once registered on the platform we will need to create the course, upload it, choose a price and start selling.

Put like that is obviously too easy, but that’s the basic idea. And creating your first course by investing the right amount of time in it can let you know whether there might be a follow-up or not.

You are acting in optics as an MVP (Minimum Viable Product), so you create something just enough to land on the market to see what the response is like.

If no one considers you, try to change angles or themes. Whereas if they start buying it, it means you’re on the right track and you need to start deepening the concepts.

The course below, published in 2019, has been sold 17,595 times at 19.99$ and lasts one hour (source Udemy).

This means that it has brought in over 300,000$ in revenue to the creator.

Of course all numbers and comparisons are to be taken with a grain of salt, but you have to admit that these numbers are interesting and you certainly have something to share!

Or…you can learn it! Any excuse is a good one to improve and always know new ones.

Pros

By having a marketplace like this one, one of the most difficult parts is already solved. In fact, users will be able to find us without any problems.

Also, if the course starts to grind out sales and positive feedback, it could become a kind of passive income.

Clearly you will need to go in and edit and add content over time, but with very little effort.

The beauty of online courses is:

• Marketplace enorme
• Recurring sales
• Passive gain
• You continuously learn

Cons

Taking a course (I know this well) takes a lot of time, patience and skills. And you also need to be able to explain them to others in an understandable way.

After all the work, by the way, the course may not even sell because it is not of interest or because there are better offers at better prices.

But let’s face it, if it were easy and worked all the time, they would do it all.

The negative points of selling online courses are:

• Many skills and knowledge needed
• It could be a flop
• A lot of competition

Writing and selling eBooks

Making money from writing eBooks means writing a book, uploading it to Amazon, and offering it for sale to anyone interested.

Difficulty	High
Skills	Writing, Editing
Time	Very much
Earning	Low

If you like to write for yourself, this method will blow your mind. In fact, nowadays to publish our work online will only take a few clicks (after you have written it).

Amazon provides us with a very powerful tool, which is its AmazonKDP platform. In here we can go in and upload, edit and manage all the books we have published.

Below you can see my account, where some of my books are listed.

To give you an idea, each one is about 7-8000 words long. Once you convert and upload it, it will be available for purchase.

If you begin to understand the right themes and strategies for headlines and description, you will begin to sell with some consistency.

Below you can see the example of a book that from September to December 2022 earned 25.59$.

It may seem like pocket change, but if you start writing 1 a month? The avalanche of earnings will overwhelm you as early as the end of the year.

If you want to, you can start to learn more about artificial intelligence to help you write content or even have them write it themselves.

In this case, the service I recommend is Jasper.ai (7-days free trial included).

My advice

At this point will come the most important part. That is, you will have to make it known to the public. Amazon provides 5 days in which the book can be freely downloaded.

I recommend that you do two 2-day sessions and one 1-day session, spaced a few weeks apart, where you put it free and talk about it with as many people as possible to get it downloaded and get a positive review put on it.

This maneuver is fundamental to its success or failure. So it would be preferable if you already had a community or group that could support your campaign.

Another key action, is to subscribe to KPD Select. By doing so, the eBook can also be read via Kindle Unlimited, which will be your major source of income.

Pros

If he starts selling, he can generate an attractive passive income. A contact of mine has had a periodic monthly income from a book he published of 500$ per month for 3 years.

The nice thing is that he didn’t even write it, as he is a kind of agenda-organizer. He bought the English template and all the rights, translated it and put it up for sale.

Publication, as mentioned, is easy and having an eBook for sale can also make you gain credibility as we can put it on LinkedIn for example.

We would certainly salvage in the eyes of recruiters.

The advantages of writing eBooks are:

• Passive gain
• You can hire a ghostwriter
• Ease of publication

Cons

The writing time, as with any book, is high. Mine took me five days working on it all the time.

Despite all the effort you’re going to put into it, this eBook may not sell no matter what you’ve done.

Trying to make money from eBooks will confront you with these cons:

• High writing time
• May not sell

Selling photographs

Making money online by selling photographs means uploading pictures of ourselves to platforms that allow other users to purchase them for use as they see fit.

Difficulty	High
Requirements	Smartphone
Time	Little
Earning	Low

When a client purchases the right to use the photo, we receive a royalty from the platform.

The good thing is that we can sell it again and again, unless exclusivity is purchased (which of course comes at a very high cost).

As you see below we can choose different licenses, depending on what we are going to use them for.

The most expensive is 189$ which allows us to use it for marketing campaigns. If we consider that this photo appears in the first position writing panorama with the moon and the fact that it was taken in 2008, we understand that it could potentially have earned its creator a lot of money.

The market is constantly evolving, and now you can make money even selling feet pics, so don’t just fossilize on the pretty views.

How much do you make selling photos online

I take my cue from the commissions on Alamy.com to figure out how much money is made doing this activity (source the official site).

The basic tier is to receive 20% of the sales price excluding tax. When we sell 250$ worth of products over the 12 months we switch to the plan that gives us 40%, so we double the earnings against a really minimal number of sales.

Finally, by selling over 25,000$ per year of images we get to earn 50% commissions.

If we can figure out how the system works, insert the right descriptions and hashtags, selling 10 photos per month with the basic license we earn about 20$ per month.

Which double when the bracket is exceeded.

The best platforms to sell photos

Untangling this world can seem difficult, so below is a list of the most reliable and used sites at the moment.

The 5 best platforms for selling photos online are:

• Alamy
• Shutterstock
• iStockphoto
• 500px
• Adobe Stock

Pros

Very often we come across breathtaking panoramas with dreamy colors that would not disfigure as a Windows background.

Until a few years ago, it would have been unthinkable to capture the moment without a camera, but thanks to the quality of today’s smartphones we can take home amazing shots in just a few seconds.

Combine this with the fact that there are many platforms selling stock photos, and we understand that we can potentially upload dozens of photos every day and focus on quantity rather than quality.

Registration and uploading are free and you only earn money if you download.

An additional benefit is artificial intelligence, which could help create photos for us to put up for sale or could help us edit those already taken to make them perfect.

The points in favor of selling photographs are:

• Many platforms present
• We always have the smartphone at our fingertips
• The upload is free
• Artificial intelligence

Cons

This market has been around for decades and we are not inventing the wheel if we start posting a myriad of photographs to try to sell them.

So we will have to contend with great competition and a very high quality of published products.

For this it would be necessary to make adjustments in post production to increase the beauty of the image.

Keep in mind that the difference between a photo taken with a cell phone and one taken with a mid-range reflex camera and a good lens is still abysmal. I have both and trust that it shows.

Finally, the artificial intelligence could make these sites osboleti, since images of any kind can be generated in a few moments simply by typing a request to a bot.

The cons of selling photographs are:

• High competition
• Need to do post production
• Quality difference with professional cameras
• Artificial intelligence

Open an online store

Making money with an online store means selling items and shipping them to the buyer’s home.

Difficulty	High
Skills	Capital, network and a lot more
Tempo	Very much
Earning	High

It is the dream of many to be able to make a living running a store that ships goods online. We do what we like (we hope), touch goods daily and buy in industrial quantities.

It’s like compulsive shopping for items that you can resell while making a profit.

I have worked for 3 years in this industry and I must say that it is very nice and motivating, when the business is established.

You have good cash, in that you are paid right away and the more you have the more you are able to extract discounts from suppliers or better terms that allow you to increase your margin.

The problem comes when you have to start from scratch. At this time, then competition is sky-high, although the range of services is really high and we can put a professional e-commerce online for free.

One of the basic building blocks, in my opinion, is passion. This will help you find the best products to resell and, most importantly, get you accepted by the various online communities that deal with that topic.

Then let me know what you think in the comments!

The platforms for selling online

We can create our own e-commerce and put up for sale as many items as we think, but we will not have much visibility.

I recommend putting listings on other portals that bring in thousands of users a day to allow us to have a fair flow of users.

The most popular platforms for selling online are:

• eBay
• Amazon
• Etsy

Pro

If this venture is successful and the business starts going strong, earnings will be very high.

In this YouTube interview Federic (Youtuber and founder of ta famous Pokemon card store) claims that in one year of business he has earned as much as the previous 10 years spent making videos.

This makes us realize the potential of online sales.

The strong points then are:

• If it works, the gains are high

Cons

If no one knows you, you have to spend to earn.

This means that yourinvestment for advertising on Google and Facebook will reach unthinkable figures, even 2-3000$ per day during fire periods like Christmas.

If you are structured they will come back to you with interest, otherwise you risk going under. Worse, if you don’t have those capitals you can forget about having sales.

Then you will have to opt for Plan B and become a celebrity in that area (as Federic did), create a community and launch the site.

You will also need to have many skills in logistics, finance, organization, marketing and more.

This makes it impossible to manage on our own and forces us to find partners or collaborators who will require other outputs.

Finally, you will need a warehouse to hold all the goods, with associated forklifts and mandatory fulfillments.

The cons of selling online are:

• much capital needed
• horizontal skills
• difficult to do alone
• storage needs

Monetizing a site or blog

Earning from a site or blog means monetizing traffic through banner ads that appear to the user or other more advanced methods.

Difficulty	High
Skills	writing, seo
Time	Very very much
Earning	Medium

I practiced this activity until a few months ago and then changed strategy. In any case, it remains a good way to have income without having too many worries.

In fact I had come to earn 70$ in one month with 15,000 users only to plummet below 20$ the following month due to a change in Google’s algorithm that penalized me.

Below you can see how the entries were progressing, which I was getting very excited about.

Then everything faded away, but the thing to understand is important and is one:

If I arrived at that result by running the blog on my own, without a modicum of skills and writing random articles, what could I have achieved by acting with some knowledge?

For this very reason I invite you to try it, but I anticipate that it is not the method that can make you the most money. In fact, with affiliations you can make much higher figures, but you need a lot more skills.

To start this is really a good method. Also it is totally free, in fact we can set the blog where it is free and the AdSense have no cost.

Pros

Google upon crossing the 70$ earnings threshold makes us a transfer at the end of the next month, and this is really good. In fact, receiving the money at 30 days is a condition that not everyone can offer.

It can be activated for free and you can manage the number and placement of advertisements independently and with just a few clicks.

Finally, as already mentioned, I made it too. So you can do it too.

The advantages of this method are:

• immediate payment
• free
• everyone can make it

Cons

I started earning a penny a day for 30 days straight after 3 years of starting the blog.

So put your heart in your mouth, it’s not a sprint but a marathon. No matter how well you do, unless you are an SEO guru, for the first year you are unlikely to have a decent number of users on the site.

Don’t get demoralized and keep writing.

When Google begins to trust you and ranks you on the first page (if you have written the correct articles) then the first gains will come.

Clearly if you get something wrong, the first update of the algorithm you may see your numbers reset.

As a final thing, the site will be full of banners and pop-ups, which I have never been able to stand.

The weaknesses of monetizing a blog are:

• it takes years
• at the mercy of google
• the site will be full of advertisements

Print on demand

Earning with the print on demand means creating items (t-shirts, mugs, etc.) with eye-catching graphics that are printed at the time of order.

This way we will have no costs and won’t have to worry about anything since the platform will take care of everything.

Difficulty	low
Skills	graphic skills
Tempo	Little
Earning	Low

I first tried it when I created the Diventerò Milionario t-shirts and was impressed.

The delivery time (outside the fire periods) is very fast (one week) and the quality of the item is really high.

Below you can see the detail of the t-shirt I created.

To test it, I wore it three months almost every day by washing it often, and the shirt is perfect and the graphics are still there.

I could sell it as an heirloom!

The best print on demand platforms

I use printful and I do very well, but I haven’t tried the others so you can let me know your opinion if you use them.

In any case, they are all famous and globally used platforms, so whichever one you choose you will be fine.

The top 5 print-on-demand platforms are:

• Printful
• RedBubble
• Spreadshirt
• Teespring
• Printify

Pros

We can start by signing up for the platform, trying and trying again to create quality graphics and when we are satisfied with the result we go ahead and synchronize our items with the various sites where we would like to sell them (eBay, Etsy, personal e-commerce, etc.).

That is all we will need to do, since following payment the system will autonomously send the various package tracking notices and handle all the logistics.

In recent years I have noticed a dramatic increase in the quality of the products and the whole system behind it, so we can call this industry mature.

People expect it and no longer care what it says on the label, they just need the product to be what they want and they will be happy.

The advantages of print on demand are:

• free
• quality platforms
• widespread in the world

Cons

Using all the same suppliers, competition tends to be high. Much less than in other industries, since graphics vary and no two products will ever be the same.

If we sell them on our platform, therefore, we will make waves. Because the product will have our brand and be inimitable.

Whereas if we go to Etsy or eBay selling generalist graphics, we will have to pay attention to different but similar items to our own.

And someone might notice our success and copy us by lowering the price.

The seasonality and trends rule, making it necessary to constantly adapt to what the market demands.

Finally shipping times, for obvious reasons, are elevated. Especially during congested periods such as Christmas, when everyone uses them so much.

The negative points of print on demand are:

• competition
• you live by trends
• high shipping time

Dropshipping

Making money from dropshipping means selling goods that will be shipped by someone else, saving us all the logistical organization

Difficulty	Low
Skills	Marketing
Time	Enough
Earning	Low

To carry out this activity, we can use platforms that directly offer this service or contact some websites ourselves and ask them to cooperate in this regard.

Getting started with making money with dropshipping starting from scratch is very fastif you know the steps to take. Lucky for you I have deepened them in the article I linked above.

I, when I was buying and selling LEGOs, had found a good e-commerce that had great prices and the products were in perfect condition.

After buying from them a couple of times, I had asked if it was possible to dropshipping and they had replied that there was no problem.

Just specify it and inside the package they would not put the receipt, which in case of need I could download from the website and turn over to the user.

I didn’t waste a moment and immediately found an interesting product. I put it up for sale on eBay and before long it was already sold.

I placed the order from the site and had no communication from the customer, who was consequently satisfied.

Since then I stopped following this activity, partly because I had to constantly check that the product was available, otherwise I could not order it.

Platforms that do this for a living, on the other hand, also handle this automatically and instantly synchronize the number of pieces available.

In return for this they require payment of a fee, which may be fixed monthly or a percentage of the order (or both).

How much does dropshipping cost

This can start from about 50$ per year for a basic service, which can be useful in figuring out whether the activity interests us or not.

Up to more than 1,000$ per year for the complete solution that allows us to scale the business.

The best dropshipping platforms

It is difficult to find generalist platforms that dropshipping.

Usually each specializes in a particular area to ensure better service.

• newcart.it
• dropshippingxl.com
• mediatoys.shop (toys)
• griffati.com (designer fashion)

Pros

We have the advantages of the online store without having to manage any warehouse.

In fact, there are many platforms of all kinds on the market (specialized in certain brands or generic) that for a monthly payment manage everything themselves, including synchronization of remaining stock.

We need to think “only” bring in users and convince them to complete the purchase.

This can be done through third-party sites (eBay, etc.) or with our own platform.

If we find the right product and the right user base, sales will start coming in regularly and we can invest the capital to scale the business further.

Having a little insight, one can put items for sale on different marketplaces such as Facebook or subito.it, to increase the pool of interested people and diminish competition.

Since the management is totally delegated, moreover, we will be able to carry out this activity as digital nomads anywhere in the world.

The strengths of dropshipping are:

• ever-improving platforms
• recurrence of earnings
• With a good idea, it is still valid
• we can do it anywhere

Cons

If something is easy to do, is free and makes money, rest assured that competition will be through the roof.

So we cannot consider it a passive entry that when it is set will go by itself.

In fact, there will be the professional users who will always discover new methods to sell and make the most of this service.

We need to discover them as soon as possible and stay up-to-date on new trends or platforms that are released.

If it’s not something we have in our blood and we don’t like it, it could become a full-time job, and that I don’t know how good it is. Also because the margins are really low, since the price lists are pretty much the same for everybody.

In addition, the merchandise that the platform puts up for sale is shared with everyone else. So if one manages to sell everything, even I will go out of stock even though I have not received any orders.

Finally, to sign up for many platforms, it is necessary to indicate your VAT number, otherwise we will not even be able to consult the price list to get an idea of the prices.

The issues of dropshipping are:

• Competition
• Margins
• Shared goods
• Check commissions
• You need vat number

Earning with social networks

Earning with social media means monetizing the attention of the people we manage to reach.

Difficulty	medium
Skills	perseverance
Time	very
Earning	medium

This activity can be done in two different ways: by choosing first the preferred social and then understanding how to monetize it, or by deciding first our business idea to then go to the platforms that best suit our needs.

Below I briefly discuss the main socials, but in each you will find the detailed link to the full description of all the methods currently available.

Telegram

I was skeptical as well, but since analyzing all of the methods for earning money with Telegram I have realized that it is something absolutely doable.

After all, by creating a channel we can share information and content with many people completely free of charge.

Often it is enough to do some press reporting instead of others, so we won’t even have to worry about creating content ourselves.

The trick is to be as vertical as possible on a single topic, so that you can predict with enough accuracy the behaviors of the subscribers and the materials that people most value in there.

Instagram

Instagram is becoming the most popular and widely used social network and is reaching the number of active users of Whatsapp (source status).

This means that within it there are an ever-increasing number of people who spend whole days enjoying its content.

And who are we not to jump in?

Understanding how to earn money with Instagram will help us get to have an appreciable second income, even if it does not currently propose such innovative earning methods.

TikTok

TikTok seemed to be a platform created only for generation z, where they could post photos of ballets and things of dubious usefulness.

Instead, as the number of registered people has increased, so has quality content. By necessity, since these certainly have the main purpose of monetizing as many people as possible.

There is still a lot of market available, but you have to be willing to do your homework by staying up-to-date on all the innovative methods of earning money that the platform provides such as the TikTok Creator Marketplace.

Pros of earning money using social network

Subscription to all social networks is free, as is the use of all tools to analyze data on the behaviors of people using our content.

So we can start the venture even simply for fun and games and gradually make it something more serious and profitable.

When the community is high, the earning possibilities will become many and you may even think about doing a mix of some of the methods seen in this article.

Finally, when you have created something of value, you can easily switch most of your subscribers to other platforms to diversify your sources of income and increase them.

If you are on Instagram and you open a TikTok profile, you can do a story and tell followers. You will certainly have a much faster growth than doing it all in organic.

The advantages of earning money through social networks are:

• It starts for free
• It is a territory yet to be explored
• Opportunities arise daily
• We can make combinations of many earning methods

Cons of making money with social

Attention is a rare commodity, and on social media we can find plenty of it.

The problem is that we are not the only ones who know this, and we have to fight on a daily basis with people as motivated as we are (maybe even more so) who want to draw people’s eyes and consequently sponsors’ eyes to them.

There are two classic alternatives: working steadily and for years, always studying and improving, or venturing something innovative becoming viral.

In the latter case, the gain doors will open wide in no time, and it will be up to you to keep them at perte as much as possible without getting your head handed to you.

The downsides of earning with social networks:

• Competition is high
• We must first create a following and followers
• We need to study to understand the market and how to move

Bonus Method – Earn Free Amazon Coupons

The various current account or service platforms often and frequently offer free Amazon Vouchers to those who register or perform certain transactions.

These opportunities often go under the radar because no one can notice them in time and only a few people take advantage of them.

Come back and read it periodically as you will find interesting tips for rounding up your earnings.

With all the products you can find on that site, a gift card is like having cash by now. You can use it to buy food, drinks, clothes, shoes but also less basic items (Apple Watch, iPhone, etc.).

Concludendo

I hope you found this list of methods for earning money online from home useful. It is not a complete guide, just a quick description of the various possible methods.

The idea was to point out tested and working methods that allow you to have a second income by doing something different that does not require too many hours or too much effort.

Then of course it depends from person to person what they may or may not like. I, for example, do not like matched betting. There are, on the other hand, a myriad of people who practice it with interesting results.

Let me know in the comments which method you liked best and if you would like me to deepen some particular topic with a dedicated article.