Are you searching for online jobs for students without putting any investment? If yes, this guide is for you where I’ll be discussing about few tested and tried ways to make money online without much investment.
We all know the importance of Internet. It is not only a fantastic place to gain knowledge, but when used right,
you can also use Internet to make money like me and other full-time bloggers. Instead of wasting your time on useless chats on Facebook, and watching random YouTube videos, you can use it to make money if you want to make your time productive as a student.
What are the advantages of doing online jobs if you’re a student?
First off, making money is really fun. Once you are addicted to making money online, you will never go back to Facebook to poke your friends in your free time. Here are few more advantages of doing online jobs for students
- You don’t have to be a prolific writer to make money online (but having good writing skills help you make more money)
- You don’t need special skills to make money part-time
- Instead of using Internet for random chats on Facebook, you can make money in your spare time
- You can buy your own stuff without asking your parents or robbing a bank
Freelancing is the lucrative way to make money
When it comes to making money online, the first thing that struck my mind is freelancing. Not only the matter of fact I earned money from freelancing but it is also one of the proven ways to make decent income every month.
Here are few freelancing jobs you can try
- Programming
- Web development
- Design
- Writing
- Data entry
- Investment research
Although you can try few sites like Freelancer.com to start making money from freelancing as a student but I strongly suggest you to start a blog and create a strong portfolio for your desired skills to attract clients that pay you big amount.
Here are few freelancing sites you can try
How much can you earn from freelancing?
It entirely depends on your experience. If you have good experience (say 2 to 3 years in your field) you can ask for high amounts whereas if you are just starting out, start with $10 to 30$ per hour.
Become A Web Tutor
Are you interested in teaching others? Then try online tutoring. It gives you plenty of room to improve and money to make without putting any investment whatsoever.
Skills required to becoming an online tutor:
- Adequate English writing skills
- Sufficient skills to use Internet (and the ability to use different web apps)
- Passion towards teaching others online
How much can you make by becoming a web tutor?
It depends on your hour rate. Few sites pay each and every month where you have to work a min of 3 to 4 hours every day whereas few other sites pay on hour rate. You can easily make around $30 to $50 every day if you are good at what you teach.
Where can you start using your teaching skills to become a web tutor and start making money as a student?
Although there are hundreds of places are available online to sell your teaching skills, but here I’m listing only few sites that offer excellent features to its users. Do check out them.
- E-tutor.com
- Tutor.com
- Tutorvista.com
Article writing
Are you good at writing? Or do you have writing skills on writing any topic? If yes, article writing is for you where you can easily find clients to make money each and every day.
There are a lot of bloggers who need content writers so all you have to do is to find few blogger communities and search for content writing gigs. You can also start a blog and start providing your writing services to attract more clients who are interested in your work.
The money you make through article writing directly depends on the branding and writing skills you have. The better your writing portfolio is the better pay you will get from your clients.
Read better blogs like Copyblogger etc. to hone your writing skills to make more money from article writing. Make sure to improve your marketing skills to attract better clients who pay you decent amount for every article you write. Also deal in article packages instead of getting paid for writing one article. That way you will be able to make more money and also can offer huge discounts for your article packages to your clients.
Try micro jobs
Micro jobs are the newest trending jobs online that are helpful for anyone who is willing to put their free time to work on the services they are good at. The great thing about making money from micro jobs is that you don’t need expert level skills to make decent income every month.
Sites like Fiverr help you make money online without putting any investment. The best thing about making money online through micro jobs is that you don’t have to be an expert. You just need the basic skills at several fields to make a decent income each and every day.
Here are few sites that offer micro jobs for you.
Micro jobs can be anything here are few examples of micro jobs.
- Commenting on others blogs
- Creating covers for eBooks
- Photoshop skills
- Creating banners or logos
- Rating and reviewing videos
- Writing articles
- Signing up for websites
If you don’t want to start a blog or be good at one field and still want to make money online as a student, I highly recommend you doing micro jobs as they give you almost instant money.
Data Entry Jobs
If you are good at typing with no special skills and still want to make money online as a student, I recommend you to try data entry jobs.
Data entry jobs involves in Excel data entry, Word data entry, Electronic data processing, usual typing, transcribing etc. You can use sites like Freelancer, eLance.com etc. to find data entry jobs that are valid.
Make sure that most of the data entry jobs you find online are mostly spam websites where you won’t get any money even after finishing your tasks. So make sure to analyze the sites that offer data entry jobs. As most data entry jobs are not lucrative as article writing or freelancing, you can’t expect making more money from them.
You can also make money as a student by transcribing. Transcribing is nothing but listening to audio or video and simply making it into a text version. If you are really good at typing and have some basic listening English skills, you will make a plenty of money every day by transcribing. Moreover these jobs are really easy to find and you don’t any prior experience to make money from this service.
Blogging creates passive income
More people are now jumping into blogging because of one reason: blogging is one of the best ways to make passive income. That means you don’t have to work each and every day to make money online if you set up a profitable blog.
Although blogging is not a get rich quick scheme, but you can make really good money each month by providing different services, selling products and writing paid reviews etc.
Here’s a detailed guide on how to make money blogging, please don’t miss out this post if you want to make money from blogging.
The money you make from blogging depends on various factors like branding, content, promotion tactics etc. You can’t make money blogging if you don’t know how to sell your stuff. So make sure to learn how to sell stuff online without looking like a sales guy.
I’d strongly suggest you to use WordPress.org as your blogging platform as it is the widely used content management system in the blogging world (used over 18% of the websites worldwide). WordPress is also one of the perfect platforms if you are serious about making money online as a student. Just make sure to have some unique content, drive more traffic from Google and you will have plenty of ways to make money as a blogger.
Making money from photos
We all know the importance of design and photos. Visuals are one of the creative and most effective ways website visitors can get benefitted from. If you are good taking photos that mesmerize people or if you have good photography skills, you can make money online.
You don’t have to necessarily be a master in photography to make a decent income by selling photos online, having good photography skills can also help you make money.
Several websites like istockphoto.com etc. pay you some extra money whenever someone downloads your photos. So make sure to take pictures that are eye catching so others can instantly be interested in downloading your stuff. You can also start a photography blog and start making money by updating your photo portfolios.
Sell used books online to make money as a student
Whether you are of aware of it not, you can make money online by selling your used or old books. It doesn’t matter which category of books you want to sell, you can make money by putting them on sites like madbooks.com, book adda, even on the sites like OLX.in etc. The great thing about selling old books online to make money as a college student is that you can put a price tag of your own. That means you are the boss and has every right to get the amount you deserve on your books.
Here’s how this process of selling books works online.
Just upload the information of the books in the websites, contact the buyer directly and sell your books for the price you deserve. You can also sell books online by shipping the books through a good courier service (or you can also use registered post). The extra amount for this also be borne by the buyer so you don’t have to be worry about shipping charges.
What if you want to sell pdf files or eBooks online? You can use the same websites, create an account, upload your files and start selling. If someone’s interested in buying your books, you can make the amount you put.
Proof reading essays
Most people aren’t that good at editing or writing flawless contents be it online or offline. If you’ve the skills to write flawless content and if you’re really good at English, you can make money from proof reading services.
There are many sites like Elance, Guru, oDesk etc. can help you find proof reading clients so that you can start making money as a student in your free time. You can also contact the website owners to edit and proof read their articles and you can get paid for doing it.
Conclusion: Making money online as a student is not hard. You don’t require expert level skills to find online jobs that help you make money each month. Just focus on the topics you are interested in (say writing, typing or teaching others) and you are good to go.
A word of caution: Don’t make these jobs ruin your academic career. I know we all want to use online to make money, but if you are wasting your time on earning pennies, then it might spoil your career than helping. So focus on your study schedule, only use your free time to work on the above online jobs to make money as a student.
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