How to make money online: 6 tips for beginners

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Now everyone wants to make money on the Internet. This article is about how to choose such a job so that later it will not be "excruciatingly painful".

Now it is "fashionable to want" to make money on the Internet.

True, no one knows how.

But the earth is full of rumors. Here and there we meet young people with red eyes, who, when asked about work with a grin, answer: "Unemployed."

Aha! You, well-fed and contented cats, do not look like the unemployed.

In this article I will tell you what their secret is.

And who are you?

Before starting to "teach", I will tell you about myself.

I've never worked in real life. Online only. From 19 years old.

Then my friend and I started by clicking on banners. The time was like that)) We made good money - about 100 rubles per hour for our money. We were happy))

In the 10 years that have passed since then, I have tried a lot:

• Rewriting
• Bookmaker offices
• Exchanges
• Poker
• Programming and selling your program
• Creation and sale of information products
• Partnership programs
• Promotion in search engines
• Finally, writing and blogging

Needless to say, I got a bunch of bumps? However, I am still not at the factory and it is the Internet that feeds my family all these years.

And from these cones, I blinded 6 tips that will definitely help you.

Council number 1. Look for work that will develop you

Yes, you can get a job as a clicker (they probably don't do that anymore). To become pawns in someone's dirty game. After all, you are not creating anything. Don't learn anything. And in general you are a pitiful sight. In fact, you are exchanging your time, your youth, for a pitiful penny. It's bad to be like this!

The work should develop you.

Don't be afraid to take on even the lowest paying job. If she gives you new knowledge and skills. If you work with interesting people. I myself often undertake such work for free. Although there is a fee, it is simply not material.

Take writing, for example. I write a lot. I write for my blog, write for Lifehacker, write for other sites.

The main rule is that I write about what interests me. About self-development. About gadgets. Let it bring very little money for now, but the more I write, the better I write.

The same advice is suitable for novice designers, programmers, and translators.

Council number 2. Look into perspective

A tip that is directly related to the previous one.

When starting to work on the Internet, think not about immediate profits, but look further - 1 year, 5 years, and so on.

Often people who have just opened their blog or forum come up to me, have posted 5 articles there and have already started thinking about profit. Which banner to put? How much will I earn? How to withdraw money?

This is absolutely flawed logic that will not bring you a dime.

It will take time for you to make some serious money on the Internet. Many. If you seriously work on yourself and your skills, then at least 1, 5 years.

Think about distant goals, about improving your skills, about gaining new knowledge.

And the money will come.

Council number 3. Self-study

The good thing about Internet work is that you can do self-study. Let's say you decide to become a designer. Available to you:

• Hundreds of PhotoShop Video Courses
• Hundreds of other designers' blogs and thousands of their articles
• Dozens of forums where you can ask a question and where you will be given a detailed answer

For any profession, information on the web is the sea. And to become a master of your craft, you need to study it ALL. And not just read it, but put it into practice.

Council number 4. Master time management

When you work on the Internet, you alone are responsible for when you start working and when you finish. Only you are responsible for your work schedule, for the number of breaks, etc. There is no longer a strict uncle who "kicks your brains" if you mess around. Add to this a lot of temptations and distractions: refrigerator, TV, computer games.

I know that not all people can work effectively in such free conditions.

Therefore, you just need to master time management - time management.

If you do not understand anything at all, then I recommend that you read 2 books:

• Time Drive by Gleb Arkhangelsky
• How to Get Things Done by David Allen. This book is more complicated and should be read at the end.

Remember: freelancers and time management are made for each other!

Council number 5. You will need 10,000 hours

If you constantly read Lifehacker, then you have heard about the 10,000-hour rule more than once. Its essence is that a person must devote 10,000 hours to any occupation before he achieves mastery in it. And skill also brings money.

10,000 hours or, more simply, to hell.

Yes, there were times, in the early 2000s, when people made big money on the Internet without making that effort. All niches were open. There were few sites, and there were even fewer people who could create something on the Internet. I myself was making good money then, with a very modest set of skills. I just copied what worked in the West.

But now are different times.

All the cream has been collected long ago. There are thousands of high-quality sites in RuNet. Tens of thousands of ambitious and strong freelancers from all over the "USSR".

New time demands and generously pays only for QUALITY and only SKILLS.

It is no longer enough just to be able to read the code. You need to be able to master programming. It is no longer enough to write any kind of text for search robots. You need to write for people to read you.

You have to become a master. Or, at least, constantly reach for it.

Council number 6. Start a blog

- Duc, I'm a beginner. What should I write about?

Write about this. Write about your successes and failures. Write in as much detail as you can.

A freelance blog is a powerful development tool.

Here, I'll just say that a blog will allow you to:

• Become more responsible. Before himself and before his readers.
• Track your progress.
• Retain important knowledge and techniques that you have developed. A blog is like a kind of notebook.
• The blog will add clients to you and increase the cost of your services as a freelancer. People who blog professionally are more likely to deal with people.

Where is the easy money?

They are everywhere!

Only not for you, but for real masters of their craft.

Master some Internet skill and easy money will regularly fall from the sky. Don't forget that the Internet is the fastest growing branch of our life. Look to the West and you will understand that we have far from exhausted its potential.

I want to give you an analogy from chess. Imagine that the master has sat down to play with a first-rate player. What do we see? First-rate: tousled hair, butt fidgeting in the chair. Puffs, sweats. Every move is incredibly hard. And what about the master? The master is chatting with his girlfriend, joking and only occasionally pays attention to the board, so as not to think about making the next move. And the result? The result is unchanged - the master will win.

Why is life so unfair?

We just do not see what is hidden behind this ease. We do not see the childhood of the master who was sitting at the board while the other guys were playing the ball. We do not hear the screams of the coach, who brought him to tears after a stupid defeat. We do not see all these countless tournaments, sparrings, computer exercises. Before us is only a frivolous genius, to whom heaven itself prompts how to walk correctly. But in fact, the “10,000 hour rule” only works.

The situation is the same with online earnings. Only the masters of their craft fall "for free".

Summarizing

• Look for work that will develop you
• Look into perspective
• Self-study
• Master time management
• You will need 10,000 hours
• Start a blog

Stop thinking about money, let alone "easy" money. Think about self-development. Read Lifehacker - there is a lot of this stuff!

Write in the comments

What advice would you give to a newbie who came to you with the question: "How to make money on the Internet?"