How to Make Money Online

Nowadays there are lots of opportunities to earn money online. Whether you’re looking to make money online full-time or you just want to supplement your income, you have a variety of options to choose from.

Method Completing Tasks Onli  
1Take surveys. You can earn $50 to $100 per month in cash and products by taking online surveys. Find survey sites by searching for “paid survey sites” online. Sign up for several survey sites to increase your chances of being selected for higher-paying surveys. Register with an email address, and check your email often so you can respond quickly to survey offers.

1. • Most surveys pay from $1 to $3, and the surveys generally take up to 45 minutes to complete.
   • You might also get paid in gift cards, free products or by being entered in a sweepstakes.
   • Never pay to participate in surveys.
   • Look for a privacy policy displayed prominently on the site so you know that they are not selling your personal information.
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   Test websites. Remote usability testing means getting paid to navigate a website for the first time and giving feedback to the website owner. Most tests take approximately 15 minutes, and you can get paid up to $10 for each test. A test involves performing a scenario on the client’s website and recording yourself doing it. For example, you might be asked to go through the process of selecting and purchasing an item on a retailer’s website

   • You need a computer with a microphone, an updated web browser and a high speed internet connection.
   • Sites that pay you to test websites include User Testing, WhatUsersDo, UserLytics, UserFeel and YouEye.^[3]
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   Tutor students. Many families prefer the flexibility of using an online tutor. Depending on your background, you could be simply helping a child with homework or providing college-level support. You need to have your own computer and high speed internet. Experience required differs among companies. Some require “strong experience,” while others require a specific educational background. However, most companies do require a college degree.

   • Some companies assign students to you, while others post your profile on their site and let customers select you
   • You can make anywhere from $9 to $30 per hour based on your educational background and the subject you teach.
   • Sites that hire elementary-level tutors include Tutor.com, HomeworkHelp.com, Aim4a and Brainfuse.
   • Kaplan hires SAT and ACT tutors.
   
   

Method2

Creating a Niche Website

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   Understand how a niche website works. A niche website focuses on very targeted, specific information. The content must be specific, useful and interesting to your target audience. Successful niche websites get anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 visitors per month. You build content on a particular keyword, and you make passive income with Google Adsense or through affiliate links.
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   Find a profitable niche. Starting with your interests, write down as many niche ideas as you can. Think about topics people might search online. Ideas include passions (like surfing or body building), fears (like spiders or speaking in front of crowds) and problems (like getting out of debt). Do keyword research to see it others are interested in the topic. Find out if a domain name is available that matches the keyword 100 percent. 

   • Use a keyword research tool to perform keyword research.
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   Set up the site. Choose a website building platform, such as WordPress, Joomla or Drupal. Next, choose a domain name and web hosting for your site. The domain name is your web address. Web hosting is a service that connects your site to the internet. Once you have your domain name and web hosting, go to the control panel of your hosting account and install your website platform. Design your website by choosing and installing a theme.

   • Popular web hosting companies include Bluehost and WPEngine
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   Create content. Create content that people will find valuable and that will help you rank higher in the search engines. Keyword research can help you to find out what topics people are searching. Write content on these topics to improve your rank in the search engines. You cannot monetize without any visitors.

   • Use a tool like Market Samurai to do keyword research.
   • Put out advertisements to increase traffic to your site.
   • Create a marketing campaign using social media outlets such as Facebook or Twitter.
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   Monetize your site. Choose from several different strategies to monetize your website. You can have ads on your website and get paid when visitors click on them. Also, you can promote products, either your own or someone else’s, and get paid when people purchase.

   • With Google Adsense, you install some code on your site that allows ads to appear on it. You get paid when visitors click on the ads.
   • You can also sell advertising space on your website.
   • Affiliate marketing means that you promote products for your niche. A link or banner advertising the product is displayed on your site. If visitors click on it and make a purchase, you receive a commission.Score

Method3

Writing Freelance Articles

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   Consider your expertise. If you take the time to reflect on your experiences, you will realize that you have more knowledge about which to write than you might think. Begin by listing three assets that define you, such as your profession, a special hobby or a personality trait. Next, list three things that inspire you, such as religion, education or charity. Finally, list three of your dreams, such as getting married, traveling or spending more time with your children. These three lists should give you many ideas of topics about which you can write.
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   Learn principles of effective writing. As a freelance writer, much of your work will likely be published on the internet. The principles of writing for the web differ slightly than writing for print. The content must still be high-quality and well-written, but the presentation must be adjusted for the way people read online material.

   • Get to the point by using the inverted pyramid style. This means writing the conclusion first and then providing examples to support it.
   • Make your copy effective by being concise and using simple language. Aim your writing to an eighth-grade reading level. Remove unnecessary or confusing words or terms.
   • Include keywords and phrases that improve your ranking in the search engines.
3. Because of the low resolution of online text, readers tend to scan rather than read everything from top to bottom. Make your text easily scannable by breaking up text using descriptive headings and bullet points.
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   Find work. When you first start out, you may have to accept work writing about a topic you don’t find all that interesting. You must keep an open mind and be willing to accept work that may not be in your desired field. However, as you continue to write, you not only learn about more topics, but you also build your reputation. With time, you can be choosier about assignments you want to accept

   • Browse the internet for freelancing websites that hire contractors to do work online.
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   Get samples. When you first start out as a freelance writer, it can be hard to get work without any published samples. However, it is possible to get quality samples if you are willing to do some writing for free. First, you can publish content on your own blog or website. Also, you can write guest posts for someone else’s blog. Finally, you can write blog posts for free in exchange for a byline.
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   Write pitches. If you have located a client for whom you want to write, send pitches, which are topic ideas for articles. Write pitches that not only show your expertise, but also demonstrate your enthusiasm for the topic.^[21] First, read the publication to which you are sending pitches to familiarize yourself with what they publish. If applicable, identify a specific section and send our pitch to the appropriate editor. Also, include a brief summary of who you are.
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   Create a writer website or blog. A website not only demonstrates your technical ability, but it also creates an online hub that allows clients to connect to you. Keep the design of your website clean and uncluttered. Include examples of your work that demonstrate the kind of writing you do. Make the samples easy to find and to read, and make it easy for visitors to figure out how to contact you.

   • A blog highlights your technical ability and showcases your ability to write blog posts. Your blog can be about different topics than those you write about for your clients. In fact, it should be on a topic that interests you. Visitors will see that you can not only write, but you can also build an online community. A good blog has the potential to earn you many referrals for more clients.

Method4

Selling Your Stuff Online

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   Find items to sell. Purge your house. Set aside a few days or a weekend to clean out and declutter your house. Identify items to throw away, donate and sell. Categorize the items you want to sell. Different categories of items do better on different sites.^[25] You can also go out and buy items for selling online at a mark-up.

   • Books, CD’s and DVD’s sell well on Amazon.
   • Collectibles, high-end clothing and small electronics sell well on eBay.
   • Craigslist is best for generic items such as tools or toys.
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   Open sellers accounts. Create accounts on Amazon, eBay and Craigslist. These platforms make it simple for sellers to set up accounts. You generally need to provide some personal information such as your name and address, and you may need to provide financial information for processing payments.

   • Amazon sellers connect their checking accounts, and proceeds from sales are directly deposited into their checking accounts.
   • eBay will either send your payments directly to your checking account or will deposit them in your PayPal account.
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   Learn then selling guidelines. Each marketplace has guidelines that define what you can and cannot sell. State and federal laws also impact what items are prohibited. In general, you cannot sell alcohol, weapons, service contracts, animals or event tickets. Also, while not always prohibited, you may find restrictions on how you can sell items in some categories, such as art, gift cards and coupons. eBay, Craigslist and Amazonpublish these guidelines on their websites.
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   Research selling prices of items similar to yours. Look up completed sales or current listings of items similar to yours. Find the high- and low-end prices, and price your object around the median price level. If you want your item to sell quickly, price it at the low end. The condition of the item also affects the price. Items in poorer condition should be priced at the lower end. Also, consider how many listings there already are of items similar to yours. If many similar items will be competing with yours, you may have to set the price lower to get the sale.
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   Consider selling in lots. A lot is a collection of similar items that is sold in a group. For example, if you have a collection of books, magazines or similar pieces of jewelry, consider selling them all at once in a lot. You many not make as much money as you would have if you sold each item separately. However, the items will likely sell more quickly in a lot than they would individually.
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   Write a thorough description. Including more details increases the likelihood of making a sale. Since the buyer can’t see the object in person before purchasing, give them as much information as possible so they feel like they know what they’re buying, If an item is used, be truthful and upfront about its condition.

   • Proofread your description before publishing it.
   • Write a descriptive title that provides information about the product, such as size, color or design.
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   Add high-quality pictures of the item. Use several images that show the item from different angles. Remove all clutter from the background because it detract attention from the item you’re selling. Use natural lighting instead of a flash. Take close ups so people can see all the details of the item.^[31]
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   Provide excellent customer service. Answer any questions buyers post as quickly as possible. Be professional and courteous. Positive communication builds your reputation with buyers and gets you return business. Also, package your product well and ship it out quickly. Allowing an item to become damaged or taking too long to ship can negatively affect your reputation among buyers. Wrap all items, especially fragile ones, in appropriate packaging. Commit to shipping items as soon as you receive payment.

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20 Creative Ideas to Market Your Online Store

20 Creative Ideas to Market Your Online Store

Ecommerce marketing can be really tough. With the seemingly endless competition, reaching and converting high-quality customers can seem as challenging as summiting Everest.

That said, there are plenty of online stores (of all shapes and sizes) that are doing it and doing it well. What do they have in common?

Strategy!

They all have a solid ecommerce marketing strategy in place and use it to get in front of their customers every single day. It’s this ecommerce marketing plan that allows them to be successful in their market.

Do you have a strategy outlined?

I’m guessing it might be an informal set of ideas and notes, but don’t worry, I’m about to give you 21 creative ideas to help you market your online store. These aren’t your run-of-the-mill marketing tips. These are powerful, actionable tactics that you can begin implementing today!

By the time you’re done reading you’ll have everything you need to pump up your ecommerce marketing strategy and start seeing the traffic and conversions you’ve been dreaming about.

Creating an Ecommerce Marketing Strategy

I can’t stress enough the importance of having an ecommerce strategy. I highly recommend creating a document that outlines your ecommerce marketing plan and updating it regularly as you make changes to the way you market your online store.

The more you plan out, the more likely you’ll be to achieve your goals and reach the success you’re after!

What is Ecommerce marketing?

You may be asking yourself, “What is ecommerce marketing?” To put it simply, ecommerce marketing is the marketing of any business that is conducted exclusively online. In other words, connecting an online store with its customers.

Now that we’ve got that covered, let’s get to the good stuff!

20+ Creative Ideas to Market Your Online Store

#1 Add an Exit Intent Pop-Up

Let’s start with what may be the most important tactic you read today. Ecommerce email marketing is incredibly important, and you can’t participate without a list. Simply put, email marketing is the easiest way to start connecting with people who want to hear about your business.

So get to building!

Make sure you have email forms (strategically placed) all over your site, with landing pages that ask for them too! But one of the easiest ways to get started is to add an exit intent pop-up to your website. Capture website visitors that otherwise would have left your website. Of course, you need to give them a reason to subscribe or to provide an email address, so offer a free guide, discount, or another treat that goes in line with your brand.

If you’re not already actively building your list, this should be the first thing you add to your ecommerce marketing strategy. Also, check out this post on determining your email marketing frequency.

#2 Create a Series of Style or How-to Videos

The world of marketing (and just about everything else online) is turning to videos. They’re more engaging and typically more entertaining to a society with an ever-decreasing attention span. Adding videos to your ecommerce marketing strategy is becoming more and more important to brands.

Take the time to create fun videos that highlight your products, especially how to use them. How-to videos are some of the most popular pieces of content on the internet, and plenty of your customers are waiting to watch yours on YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, and more.

Capitalize on this newfound information by creating an engaging video that helps your customers solve a problem. Think about the questions that your customers will be searching for. Showcase your products in a fun and exciting way that answers those questions. Remember to be creative!

If you have a fashion ecommerce store that sells a variety of clothing—everything from shirts to shoes—consider doing styling videos. Share with your current and yet-to-be customers how to style your pieces or dress for a particular occasion.

Use any feedback you receive to improve each video as you go and do your best to replicate the success of those that drive the most views, traffic, and engagement.

#3 Capture Abandoned Carts with an Exit Intent Pop-Up

If someone takes the time to put an item in their cart, they’ve shown a great deal of interest in buying what you’re selling. They’re so close to converting, so make an effort to get them to complete their purchase.

For one reason or another, tons of shoppers leave their carts abandoned without completing their purchase. Which is why shopping cart abandonment recovery is one of the most powerful ecommerce marketing tactics around.

To capture some of your potential customers before they abandon their cart, add a specific exit intent popup on your cart page. For example: If a visitor adds something to their cart then goes to the cart page and then decides to leave the page a pop-up will appear offering them a discount if they purchase within the next 4 hours or day. You can set a percentage discount and time frame that fits your ecommerce store and this offer would only show up on the cart page.

It’s vital to include shopping cart abandonment recovery in your ecommerce email marketing, and your ecommerce marketing strategy as a whole.

#4 Send Shopping Cart Abandonment Emails

You can use smart remarketing tactics from CRMs like HubSpot to send highly customized emails to shoppers that have abandoned carts.This is where your ecommerce email marketing skills come into play.

If a customer has logged in, you can send them customized emails with pictures of the items they were interested in and customize the emails with their name, city, and more. These highly targeted emails are especially effective and could be the tactic you need to increase your conversions.

If you capture email addresses with a marketing automation software like HubSpot, you can target visitors who haven’t taken the time to create an account.

Are you beginning to see why having email conversion points without having to purchase is important? Ecommerce email marketing needs to be prioritized.

Remember to:

• Use their information – name, city, etc.
• Send emails early – within 24 hours of abandonment
• Send them often – every other day, up to 4 emails
• Persuade with social proof – customer reviews, ratings, etc.
• Send discounts – but not until the 2nd or 3rd email
• Give options – related items, etc.

#5 Get People Back to Your Website with Remarketing

Facebook, Google, and a few others give you the opportunity to track the actions of your sites’ visitors in order to optimize the way you market to them. A simple string of code can provide you with a huge amount of information on your potential customers

For example, Facebook allows you to create remarketing campaigns that show specific ads to visitors who have viewed particular product pages or left items in their cart.

If the shopper still hasn’t purchased them after a few days, you can boost the efficacy of these ads by offering them a coupon code in an effort to entice them back to your site.

The value of various pixels is beyond the scope of this post, but I encourage you to explore using the Facebook (or any other) pixel on your site.

#6 Work with Influencers in Your Niche

Influencer campaigns involve putting your products in front of an influencer’s (blogger, vlogger, etc.) highly curated audience.

For example, your fashion ecommerce store may send some of this season’s hottest products to a fashion blogger to review or endorse. Depending on the size of their audience and scale of their reach, you may be required to pay for the exposure.

Because the review is coming from a trusted source and being shown to people looking for that type of content, these campaigns are an effective way to expose your store to a new audience. Just make sure to work with influencers whose brand and audience are in line with your products!

Think about collaborating with bloggers, vloggers, Instagrammers, and other types of influencers for product placement, reviews, and giveaways. You may even consider creating an affiliate program and using influencer campaigns as a major way in which you promote your store.

#7 Create Highly Valuable Blog Posts

Blogging allows you to drive traffic, build a community, and engage with your customers on a whole new level. Creating content that is helpful, entertaining, and engaging will allow you to answer the questions your potential customers are asking and introduce them to your brand in a low-pressure environment.

Create guides that show off how your products are used in real-world applications. Make sure to keep it visually interesting and focus on creating highly valuable content. Quality over quantity is the name of the game.

Blogging creates ecommerce marketing opportunities on a massive scale and learning how to do it well should be a priority for an ecommerce store.

Consider this: 79% of companies that have a blog report a positive ROI for inbound marketing.

#8 Create Downloadable Offers

As you create content for your blog, you’ll be able to determine what your audience likes. Take that information and create more detailed, in-depth, helpful content that your visitors will love!

Your beauty store may want to create an ebook on “This Season’s Go-To Holidays Looks,” and include valuable information on makeup techniques, step-by-step tutorials, tips, links to other resources, and more.

Write an ebook that your current or potential customers would even pay for, then give it away for free…well, in exchange for an email. If done correctly, the return on your investment will be much higher! A downloadable offer is valuable for two reasons: it builds your email list and it provides value to your website visitors.

#9 Host a Giveaway

People like free stuff more than just about anything else in the world.

Imagine if you gave away a really cool product, or better yet, a collection of really cool products.

How much buzz could you generate?

Get people to share your giveaway on social media and your exposure will increase exponentially!

Giveaways allow you to put your brand in front of tons of new eyes and grow your ecommerce email marketing list so you can reach out to them in the future. Talk about a win-win!

#10 Get People Excited with Challenges

This is an amazing tactic specifically for fashion ecommerce retailers, but could also work for other ecommerce niches.

Your company could host a 30-day style challenge where you challenge your audience to create a new outfit from a certain amount of items. The items that you promote are great, sure, but they are also items that you sell on your online store. This is a win-win for everyone involved. You grow your email list because whoever wants to participate needs to sign up, you help your subscribers dress better and utilize their wardrobe, and you get to sell items from your ecommerce store as well!

You develop more than customers with a challenge, you start to develop a community, and build a trusted relationship along the way.

Talk about a creative ecommerce marketing strategy!

Check out #62 in this extensive “list of ways to generate leads” for more info.

#11 Launch a Facebook Store

Facebook is taking over the world.

Not in a scary, end-of-days way. More like they have 1.7 billion users and counting, and 1 billion of them are logging on every single day!

Do you think your customers are a part of that community? If you’re not nodding in agreement, just know that I’m doing it for you. So how do you get the items you sell in front of them in a place they are already hanging out?

You integrate your online store into Facebook’s platform. Some shoppers simply don’t like to navigate away from Facebook, so giving them the opportunity to shop directly from their comfortable interface eliminates pressure and can increase your exposure.

#12 Ask Customers for Reviews + Place Them Strategically on Your Store

Reviews from your customers are worth their weight in gold. Why?

Because they provide otherwise wary shoppers with a sense of trust, and trust is what ultimately gets people to buy. Reviews from real-life customers help to lower the barrier to buying.

A properly positioned positive review can mean the difference between a sale and an abandoned cart!

The social proof provided by customer reviews can be used to improve the efficacy of your email marketing, paid ads, landing pages, and more.

#13 Share User-Generated Content

If customer reviews are worth their weight in gold, user-generated content is worth its weight in unicorn hair.

When your customers post pictures to Instagram or upload videos to Facebook or YouTube, ask permission and repost them. Share them on your social media, blog, put them up on your fridge if you want. If they’re really good, you may even want to pay to promote them.

The more people that see the honest, positive feedback of an excited customer the better.

Sales are all about trust and ecommerce stores can have a harder time earning that trust without a brick-and-mortar location. This is especially true of smaller stores that most people don’t know. Use user-generated content to help people feel confident in their decision to buy from you!

Here’s an example of how Free People integrated photos from their customers.

#14 Create Power Posts – Onsite SEO

One of the best ways to boost your onsite SEO (and drive TONS of traffic) is by creating power posts. Power posts are massive articles that are full of useful information on a particular topic that relates to your industry.

What differentiates a power post is that it is a standalone resource that makes it easy for your reader to understand the subject without having to do any other research anywhere else.

One of the other defining attributes is that it’s better than anything else available on the subject. Longer, more informative, and SEO-optimized. It’s also really nice if it’s professionally designed and has great photo or video content to back it up!

Publish these power posts as unique pages on your website and they’ll start driving traffic as Google recognizes their value and sends searchers your way. You can also design these power posts into downloadable pdf’s that a visitor would need to provide their information to get the valuable and free pdf.

#15 Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are major shopping events in the U.S. If you’re based in the States (or your customers are), you need to create your own events around these days and promote them.

Deep discounts aren’t the only thing people look for on Black Friday. In fact, more brands are starting to create special package deals and unique items that are only available for one day. The more fun and unique your special, the more you’ll be able to stand out. Plus, you can throw some deep discounts on the stock you need to move and make it look like a super deal to all of your new traffic!

#16 Countdown to Christmas

Just like Black Friday, Christmas shoppers go nuts during the holiday season. This worldwide buying frenzy is something that you need to be a part of!

Find your best international shipping service if you haven’t already and promote a special for several days leading up to Christmas. A popular special is the “12 Days of Christmas,” but you can do anything you want. Just make sure to create specials that are fun and unique and you’ll drive shoppers that will likely buy much more from you!

Holidays make for an excellent excuse to shop. Make sure people understand that they need to be shopping your deals!

Also, remember to stay top of mind and send your customers discount reminder via email each day of the countdown.

#17 Create Pinterest-Specific Images

Pinterest is huge on visuals, and more visitors are now saving images from ecommerce stores to their Pinterest accounts. They are saving for various reasons: to purchase for later, for inspiration, or to share with their community. When someone pins an image from your website they share it with everyone, that is following them as well!

You want to create long portrait-style Pinterest-specific images, so visitors are more likely to pin from your website. (And it goes without saying that the image should be visually stunning, quirky, or unique in some way.)

#18 Create a Capsule Collection

Partner with another company, brand, or influencer that aligns with your brand and create a capsule collection. A capsule collection is a specially designed limited-edition set of items. This is a very creative ecommerce marketing idea and also very involved, so make sure that it’s a great partnership, and it’s a win-win situation.

This is fantastic for two reasons: you get to combine two great brands and use each other’s audience for promotion.

A huge capsule collection partnership example is Coach and Disney. Coach created a collection that appeals to an entirely new market, people that wouldn’t normally buy Coach products. Disney fans are hardcore and this partnership opened their eyes to the stunning stylings of Coach.

Talk about a creative collaboration!

#19 Upsell AND Downsell

If you’re already selling something, selling more items or items that match what the customer is already buying should be your highest priority.

Ecommerce marketing can (and should) be taking place all the time! Even right as your customer is about to checkout.

If you have a high-end version of what they are about to buy available, show it to them and let them know why you recommend it over the less-expensive version. Make sure it’s within a similar price range.

Just sold something? Even better.

Show them a few accessories related to that product by sending it to them with your thank-you email. If you’re feeling really generous, include a discount code to use on those items to show your appreciation for being such a great customer.

#20 Send Wishlist Reminders

Do you find that lots of your customers have products sitting in their wishlists collecting dust?

They put those items there for a reason, and you may just have to be the one who reminds them what they’re missing out on. Send them an email with a link to their list. You may even want to include a discount code to get them off that fence they’ve been sitting on.