7 Legit Ways for Students to Make Money Online (No Experience Needed)

Discover 7 easy and legit ways for students to make money online. Learn how to earn extra income, gain experience, and achieve financial freedom from the comfort of your own space

7 Legit Ways for Students to Make Money Online

Have you been contemplating on how to make cool money online at home without necessarily being stressed? If yes, then, this article is for you. Read till the end and take note of detail points.

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 Become a Chegg Tutor

Earn money online by becoming a tutor on Chegg where you will be facing students on webcam and can teach various subjects such as Engineering courses, Mathematics, Science, Humanities, High School, Test Prep, and lots more. It’s actually, less stressful.

Become a YouTuber

You can start your YouTube channel easily, upload quality videos, let people watch them, and when your videos cross the criteria of becoming a YouTube partner that is, 1000 Subscribers and 4000 Hours of watch time in less than 12 months, ads will be enabled on your channel.

Further, you will earn money based on your location, content quality, and lots of other factors. Or you can also become an influencer based on the specific content you create. You can be an influencer on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc.

 You can upload videos related to technology, singing, cooking, tutoring, motivation, etc, whatever you like. You can create videos from your mobile, camera, or screen recording. But remember that, create quality content.

Fill online Surveys

You can earn money by answering questions asked in the surveys. The timing of the survey will depend upon the questions asked, it will be between 5 minutes to 20 minutes or something. You just have to select an option in the question asked and you are good to go. It will earn you $1 to $20 depending on the length of the survey.

You can not completely rely on these sites or survey sites but it’s good to do this instead of just sitting and doing nothing.

Earn from Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is an answer to how to earn money online without stress. Here, you are helping customers to buy products via various online merchants like Amazon, Flipkart, CJ, etc. Just at the comfort of your home.

You can create a website or provide your affiliate links on social media platforms, visitors will visit your website, will click on the widget/links displayed on your website related to the visitor’s product search on Google, and boom! Visitors will get the right product and you’ll get a 4% to 10% commission on each product bought through your link.

However, you should not forget to check the eligibility criteria of each affiliate program. Further, you also must have some users or followers on your website or social media to send targeted users to make the purchase

Earning Money from Freelancing​

If you really need a serious income, you can opt in as a freelancer where you can do work for different people online at your convenience and  timing. There are many websites in which I’ll recommend you to sign up on any of these – Fiverr, Freelancer, and Upwork which gives you the opportunity to display what you have got in you.

You can as well register Virtual Assistant, Graphic designer, VFX Editor, Video Editor, Sound Designer, Content Writer, etc. Set your amount for the services you are providing. People will reach you for the service and you get your money after work is done.

Earn Money from Blogging

In addition, big bloggers like Neil Patel, Harsh Agrawal, who started blogging several years ago, and now they are a millionaire.

Blogging takes time for you to earn money but it could be the most stable and permanent source of income. If you maintain consistency in blog for like 3 to 6 months, your first income will surely to generate. And you will be proud of yourself.

Also, you can use various means and methods to monetize your content like AdSense, Affiliate marketing, Sponsored posts, direct advertisement from company owners and business owners.

Although it might take time to understand the whole concept of blogging as after writing an article, you need to familiarize yourself with SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to rank your article so that when anyone searches anything on Google related to your article they can easily find it online.

To start blogging, you need to research on relevant (niche) or topics that had values. There so lucrative niche you can cash from. These include: health, auto reviews, cooking recipes, finance, or technology, education, etc. These are highly profitable niche you can think of, if you really want to venture into blogging. Other means in which you can make urgent money online are;

Taking Paid Surveys online

Did you know that you can earn good money online for taking free paid surveys online. You don’t really need to do much. All that is required of you is to take the survey and get paid. That’s all. You can also get cash offers for trying new products and services, downloading apps, signing up for websites, watching videos and online

Conclusion

Rather than staying idle doing nothing,  you can start with Freelancing and Blogging. No doubt, it will take time but once you have a good command of the services you are providing and have good knowledge. It will pay you.

If you don’t really know how to go about or where to start, we are always here to guide you. Keep visiting our site for more details. Similarly, don’t hesitate to try other ways of making money from online platforms.

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