How to Make Money Online As Broke Beginner [$100 Passive Income]

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Do you know that you can make money online even when you are broke? 

Most people have the mindset that when a young guy is pressing a laptop, “he is doing yahoo” (a fraudster).

Meanwhile, there are lots of cool ways that one can use to make money online even when you are a broke beginner.

Over time we noticed that making money online is a secret.

 Until you discover those secrets, they will never work for you.

For instance, do you know that if you monetize your website with Ezoic (a contextual ad network), you will earn money for every single visitor that comes to your website?

Besides blogging, there are several other ways to make money online even when you are broke.

One of the fantastic advantages of online business (making money online) is that it is a remote job. 

You can work from anywhere in the world at your conducive time.

Without much ado, we will give you a detailed secret on how to make money online even when you are just new to the internet world.

Can you Earn a Passive Income and Make A Living From the Internet in any Country?

Today making money has become one of the most lucrative businesses in that people invest their resources, time, knowledge, etc.

It is very possible to earn passive income from the internet and make a good living out of it.

One thing about most of the legit ways to make money online is that it is “work once, enjoy forever.” What do I mean by this?

Let me use YouTube, for example, I have seen a single YouTube video that gained over 15 million views.

Probably the video owner spends days creating that video but he will earn money almost forever from that single video.

Meanwhile, there are secrets to all these things.

 You can own a YouTube channel without making any cent from it, while other YouTubers are making thousands of $$$ from their channel.

How Much Do Those Small Businesses Make on Average?

From our research, we find out that an average small business can make $1,000 to $5,000 per month while performing some tasks online.

Moreover, this is just for beginners, as gurus earn as high as $100,000 every month when they have gained lots of advanced knowledge on how to make money online.

Meanwhile, the niche you venture into when it comes to making money online matters a lot.

For example, someone can create a profitable blog and make money more than someone that creates an app (a developer). 

As I said earlier, making money online is all about knowing some hidden secrets. 

You can do what people are doing and they are making thousands of dollars without you earning even one dollar from it.

So beyond your zeal and passion, you need to know lots of secrets when it comes to making money online as a beginner.

30+ Best Profitable Online Business Ideas / Side Hustle To Start if You Have No Money

Below are the top recommended profitable online business ideas (side hustle if you wish to call it that) to start and earn passive income from your comfort zone. 

#1. Merch by Amazon

Merch is an on-demand t-shirt printing service that is owned by Amazon. 

This service is for people that are very creative when it comes to crafting wonderful designs.

Here users can create t-shirt designs and sell them on Amazon for free.

 Creators are not being charged for their designs, rather they are being rewarded (paid) when customers buy their t-shirts.

To get started, you need to, first of all, create your design, upload it to Amazon Merch, choose your desired colors and set your price tag.

Amazon is a very popular platform that will advertise your artwork to hundreds of thousands of potential audiences who will buy your design.

To join Merch by Amazon, go to https://merch.amazon.com/landing, fill out the short registration form and wait for the approval.

Moreover, interested users should have in mind that their application to join Merch can take from three weeks to three months for your application to be reviewed.

Here is the free resource How Does ‘Merch by Amazon’ work?

#2. Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is quite lucrative today and a lot of people (both web owners and non-web owners) are venturing into it.

Affiliate marketing simply means an advertising model where companies pay people that help them to promote their products.

Affiliate marketers (product promoters) earn a commission for every successful sale they made with their unique affiliate link.

There are lots of companies or affiliate networks where you can promote their products and earn a commission for a successful sale.

For instance, you can join Amazon Associates, ShareASale, CJ Affiliate, Click Bank, etc.

The above mentioned are websites that lots of companies use to monitor how marketers promote their products.

In affiliate marketing, you can earn commissions ranging from $1 to over $500.

 This depends on the product you are promoting and how much commission you will receive upon successful sale.

#3. Start YouTube Channel

I know that most of you have heard that you can make money from YouTube but you don’t know-how.

Becoming a YouTuber is one of the surest ways to earn passive income forever. 

You can create a single video about “how to” and in the next 10 years, people are still watching it because they need your guideline on how to do what they are looking for.

Currently making money from YouTube has become a bit hard as your YouTube channel needs to have a minimum of 1,000 subscribers and up to 4,000 watch hours, 

before Google can accept you into their YouTube monetization program.

To get started, you can watch tutorials on how to make money from YouTube video publishing.

#4. Become Micro-Influencer

Micro-influencer is a situation where an individual has gained a lot of audiences online.

 It can be a social media audience or any other platform.

If you have influence online, for instance, you have hundreds of thousands of TikTok followers or Instagram followers,

 Lots of companies will like you to advertise their products to your audience.

By doing so, they will pay you in exchange for your service. 

TheVerge posted of an individual like you and me “who charges $250K for posting a single Instagram photo on his Instagram account.” 

Hereunder, companies will contact you to promote their services if your target audience is related to their services.

Moreover, Micro-influencer is not really for everyone as you need to be very social on the internet. 

So that you can have lots of followers that will see third-party company products when you advertise them.

#5. Print on Demand

A print-on-demand business is a type of business where you create custom designs for a product and sell it under a brand name.

You’re already made designs, and will still be with you until a customer makes an order and completes payment before you can proceed to print the custom design for the client.

The print-on-demand business is quite popular for publishers and booksellers.

The print on demand is not just limited to books only. It expands across other products such as t-shirts, hoodies, coffee mugs, etc.

Print on demand is like every other product you purchase online, as you need to complete your payment before any product can be printed for you.

#6. Dropshipping

Dropshipping is a type of business that works on order fulfillment and this method, 

 or pattern of business allows store owners to sell goods directly to consumers even without storing them in their shops.

As a customer, when you order a product from a dropshipping store, a third-party marketer will deliver the products to you.

This enables the customer to pay any retail price that you as the manager of the dropshipping business sets.

The drop shipper now pays the suppliers’ wholesale price while the remaining is his profit.

You can successfully operate your dropshipping business online as a beginner.

Moreover, before you can start a dropshipping business as a starter, 

you need to register an account with a supplier who will be delivering goods to you at any time you have an order from your customer.

#7. Create Online Courses

Today online courses are selling at an amazing rate. 

For instance, when you go to Amazon, you can see an ebook novel that has thousands of sales.

You can brainstorm an idea on how to solve a problem and convert it into an ebook, then start selling it.

If you don’t know much about promoting your copy, you can register with Amazon.com as a publisher (Amazon Kindle Direct Self publishing) 

and you will be given a profile where you can upload your e-books and set your desired price.

For every successful sale, Amazon will send the money to your account.

As you can see, even without owning a website, you can easily create, upload, and sell your ebook to interested readers.

Depending on the value of your online courses and their purchase rate, you can earn as high as $10,000 a month without doing much work on it.

Quick Resource Guide ‘10 Steps To Creating A Wildly Successful Online Course‘

#8. Start a Blog

Blogging on its own is one of the best ways you can make money online as a beginner.

There are several platforms such as WordPress, Blogger, Jumla, etc. that you can use to create your blog.

Before you can start blogging, you need to own a domain name and purchase a hosting plan, where your website files will be stored.

Although blogging has so many secrets, when you discover those secrets, you can create engaging content and earn passive income even when you are sleeping.

Meanwhile, to make money from your blog, you have to monetize your blog with contextual ads such as Google AdSense, Adsterra, Ezoic, etc., or review products and embed your affiliate link to those recommended products.

#9. Publish Book on Amazon Kindle Direct Self-Publishing

Amazon Kindle Direct Self-publishing is a platform that allows authors (book writers) to self-publish eBooks and also paperback books on Amazon Kindle.

When authors compose their books; be it novels, guides, etc. 

they can directly upload their eBooks to Amazon, and once they have successfully uploaded their eBooks, 

they will appear in the Amazon Kindle store and people will be able to make purchases and download them.

As an author, you have every right to fix any price you wish to sell your book.

Meanwhile, you don’t need to make any payment to publish your book on Amazon Kindle. 

All you need is to create a free account with them.

Once you have successfully uploaded your books, you will just sit and watch how you will be earning passive income even while sleeping.

#10. Virtual Assistant

A virtual assistant is someone that decides to be self-employed and/or focused on rendering administrative services to individuals or companies. 

One amazing thing about being a virtual assistant is that you can work from any location (probably your office or your home) and still make money.

As a virtual assistant, some of the jobs you will be doing include scheduling appointments, making phone calls, making travel arrangements, managing email accounts, etc.

Moreover, before you dive into being a virtual assistant, you need to first identify your skills (the skills you are good at), 

decide the services you will be rendering and fix your price, get all the materials and facilities ready, 

search for a job (here you can look for jobs in freelancing platforms), create an amazing portfolio and start advertising your skill.

#11. Podcasting 

Podcast simply means a collection of digital audio files which can be listened to online or be downloaded as an audio file.

A podcast is like owning a personal radio station which will not cost you much as when launching a radio station.

A podcast can be hosted by a single individual or group of people who can lead the conversation, report news, or share stories from their homes.

Podcasts are usually hosted on streaming applications such as Spotify, Stitcher, iTunes, Google Podcasts, etc.

As a podcaster, you can advertise a company’s products through your channel and fix any price that you want.

If you are good at mass communication, then you may consider choosing a podcast.

Just as news and entertainment websites publish trends, you can as well publish trends in your podcast channel.

#12. NFTs and Metaverse

Just as cryptocurrency, NFT (Non-Fungible Token) and Metaverse are future evolution of the internet, and this is based on persistent and shared virtual worlds. 

Here people interact as 3D avatars digitally.

You can create your own NFT or invest in NFT assets that you can sell later when that NFT becomes popular.

The idea of NFTs and Metaverse is for those who have knowledge about cryptocurrency and how forex works.

Moreover, if you have a passion for it, there are lots of YouTube videos that you can use to get started or even create your own NFT.

The majority of popular cryptocurrencies we all know today started as airdrop or NFTs and currently, the owners are fixing any price just for a token of their coin.

#13. Online Tutorial Business

Online tutorial is just like every other tutorial class but the difference is that it is being handled online.

As we all know, there is not much barrier when it comes to running a business online. 

In your online tutorial class, you can have an audience from different countries; so distance will never be a barrier.

Online tutorial is similar to YouTube but the difference is that you are the owner of your platform and you can handle separate classes for a different audience.

To start an online tutorial, you will, first of all, know the basic requirements that you need, know who your audience is and what they need, choose a specific course and a teaching pattern, 

also choose the course model and the platform that you can use for your digital tutorials.

#14. Online Consultation service

Online consultation is a service that you render online.

 Meanwhile, you must have mastered those services over some period so that you can take care of people’s difficulties or challenges with ease.

In online consultation, you can render your services through video conferencing technology such as Zoom.

You interact with your students through your provided platform with their smartphone, tablet, or even PC.

So instead of people leaving their workplaces just to meet a consultant, you can assist them over the internet and they will pay for the service you render to them.

As the internet is almost becoming a home for most people, you can create a sweet office online where people can consult you for a service.

#15. Information Marketing

Information marketing simply means creating, promoting, and selling information products online.

 You can document a piece of information as an eBook, video, or audio course, and sell it millions of times.

For instance, if you are in graphics design, you can document a course on “how to achieve some design with a tool such as Photoshop” and sell it as a guide to those who want to learn graphics design online.

Information marketing is quite rampant among university students. 

They can create a course on a subject and sell it to interested students through eBooks or video documents.

So the information you created will be marketed as a product of high value and you will be paid in turn for offering such services.

As a creator, you have the liberty to fix any price for your product.

#16. Crypto Arbitrage /Trading

Crypto trading being a very popular online business today is quite lucrative and you can venture into it even with little cash.

Moreover, to get started, you need to create an exchange account.

 This is the account where you can store the cryptocurrency tokens that you purchase. 

Your exchange company will give you a personal wallet where you can store purchased coins.

For you to become a successful crypto trader or crypto arbitrage trader, you must, first of all, have a strategy for trading, know how to manage risks, diversify your crypto portfolio, know how to automate purchases and sales, etc.

Before you can make money online with crypto trading, you will also need a mentor. 

(you can learn online or from streaming platforms such as YouTube).

#17. Drop Servicing

Drop servicing is a service arbitrage or white labeling where a company sells services to clients and later the company will hire less expensive freelancers or agencies to complete the work or the service.

We recommend a drop service business as you can start with little or no money. 

Today drop services have become one of the most fantastic ways to make money online as a beginner.

Since the main contract is being received by top companies, you don’t have to worry about bargaining work since companies will hire you to complete the service.

Even if you don’t have the complete equipment needed to complete your service, you can hire a freelancer from places like Upwork, Fiverr, etc., 

and pay the freelancer from the money the company pays you for completing the service for them.

#18. Sell Software

Even if you are not a developer, you can hire programmers to create software for you, 

while you serve as a middleman that will promote and sell the software.

Moreover, selling software demands a lot of skill sets; here you can craft an idea and hire developers that will translate your pseudocode into a real application.

You can create software that can solve a real-life problem and set your price for every single purchase or subscription.

There are lots of platforms (eg codecanyon.net) where you can upload your software and promote it to reach a wider audience.

Hereunder, just a single software can fetch you passive income for more than five years.

You can sell or license the software to an intermediary such as dealers who can assist you in marketing and recommending your software.

#19. Transcriptionist

Transcribing simply means translating a recorded audio file of a video document into a text file.

 So you have to be very good at spotting every single scene or sound in a document to be able to master transcription.

The files that you can transcribe include focus groups files gotten from market research, phone calls, zoom calls, meetings, etc.

You can even use some tools online to reduce the stress of transcribing files.

Meanwhile, a lot of companies and content creators are looking for transcribers that can handle some of their transcription projects for them.

Creating a solid portfolio on freelancing platforms is quite a good head start if you want to make money online from transcribing.

With transcription, you can earn thousands of dollars doing the remote job from your comfort zone and also at your convenient time.

#20: Mini Importation

Mini importation as the name sounds is a type of business where you import goods in small quantities from different countries and sell them in your country.

Today there are lots of services that can help you to ship goods that you order from countries like China down to your country (e.g, Nigeria) at a very cheap rate.

In mini importation, you can purchase one product for about $15 and sell it for $80 in your country. Imagine the profit gap.

Moreover, before venturing into mini importation, you need to first all device a means of promoting your goods.

 It isn’t a must that you will own a physical shop.

You can even advertise on Facebook and make your sales as soon as your shipped goods land in your country.

#21. Flipping Website

Website Flipping simply means partnering with an already existing website that has been monetized, 

either by helping them to increase the amount of traffic that comes to the website or by helping them to make more money.

Your ultimate goal for doing all these tasks for the website is to sell the website and make a profit from it.

Today flipping websites is quite lucrative and profitable because the majority of individuals need a website that is well-known on the internet.

Imagine purchasing a website with a high domain authority of up to 96 and your goal is to use it as a blogging platform.

 By default, all your website contents will outrank people that even have good content more than you do.

#22. Create an App (Google Admob)

From the time that the android phone emerged, hundreds of thousands of individuals have been making cool cash just by developing an app and monetizing it.

In some instances, you can hire a developer for your app creation and integrate your Google Admob code into it.

This is one of the surest ways of making passive money online. 

When you go to the Google Play store, you will see some apps with over one million downloads.

Imagine if the owner of the app integrates Admob code into the app during creation and he has over 20,000 active daily users.

Common! In a day the app owner can be making over $100 without doing anything. 

This is why almost every app that you can imagine is in the Google Play store (that is for android users).

#23. Buy and Sell Domain Names

Over the past few years, almost every business is seeking an online presence.

 You can get involved in buying and reselling domain names. You can purchase a new domain that the owner wants to sell, 

modify the website by adding lots of value to it and sell it to people who are looking for an already created website.

Meanwhile, if you know about web development you can excel in this business, 

as you can purchase a new website with a poor design and increase its value by using solid amazing codes and sell it later to people searching for already designed websites.

To promote your services, you can use your social media account to get potential customers.

#24. Content Writing

Content creating is quite a broad and lucrative business that is paying well. 

One of the amazing pros of being a content writer is that it is a remote job that allows you to work from anywhere you want.

As bloggers keep incrementing, the majority of well-known bloggers hire content writers for their website content.

As a content writer, you have every right to fix the amount you charge for any content you create.

If you create content for foreign clients, you can charge up to $100 for just 1,000 words. 

As you can see, you can make up to $1,000 within one week as a beginner.

You can register with freelancing websites such as Upwork, Fiverr, etc. to bid for work from clients. 

There you can set your price – either an hourly rate or per contract.

#25: Online Surveys

Most times online surveys are called market search jobs –

 in the sense that you help companies to perform certain research jobs and they pay you for every research, you conclude with good feedback or result.

To a layman, we can define an online survey as taking a simple survey online while getting paid in exchange for your time, effort, and service rendered.

This is like a side hustle. 

The time you will use to login to Facebook and be linking pictures and commenting on posts, you can invest it to do a little survey online using your smartphone and earn cash from it.

Today there are lots of websites that pay people for taking a survey from their platform.

For instance, OneOpinion, which is quite a very popular online survey platform, pays up to $2 per hour to their users just for taking a little survey.

#26. Try Apps that you real Money

I don’t know if you have heard that it is possible to make money with some apps?

 Probably the app is designed for making transactions and the app developers benefit from every single transaction that was carried out on the platform.

Some of these apps can be loan apps or apps that one can use to pay bills, send money or recharge airtime.

So your job is to help them in promoting their app through your unique referral link and you will be paid for the task you are helping them to accomplish.

You can search online for “apps that make money” online and choose your favorite app that can earn you lots of money just by doing a simple task which is usually recommending the app to people.

#27. Sell Your Items on eBay

eBay being a very popular e-commerce website just like Amazon allows people to sell their products regardless of their country.

So you can create a digital product such as eBook, software, top searched images for companies, mockups, t-shirt designs, etc., and sell them on eBay.

Moreover, you need to have a product at hand before you can think of venturing into this business, as you are to sell what you have (probably what you have produced).

To get started, you need to create an account with eBay and set up your profile, then you can start uploading your products.

Note: You can set any price of your choice since the products are designed or were created by you.

#28. Freelancing

Freelancing is one of the most lucrative remote jobs that one can think of starting. 

In freelancing, you can almost sell every skill regardless of what the skill is all about.

With popular freelancing websites such as Upwork, Fiverr, etc. 

you can sell your skill and make cool cash just from the comfort of your home.

Moreover, in freelancing, you need to have an impressive profile and a good cover letter which will trigger clients to give you the job when bidding for work.

You can sell every digital skill as a freelancer. Some of the skills include web development, content writing, graphics design, transcription, app development, etc.

Some freelancers earn over $10,000 every month from some of the freelancing platforms that I mentioned above.

#29. Start Agency Marketing Business

Agency marketing is a type of service that is focused on the marketing mix.

 This means that the price of the product, the product itself, communication, etc. are needed for every successful sale.

Agency marketers assist companies to plan, design, and also execute their marketing activities. 

A full-service agency marketer can have access to even crafting a marketing strategy for companies.

If you are a beginner, there are lots of ways that you can use the online medium to promote your company’s products.

For instance, if you are into digital products, you can get involved in guest blogging and create engaging content in which the goal is to promote your company’s website or product.

Also, you can make use of social media handles either to create awareness through manual promotion or paid ads.

#30. Learn High Demands Skills

There are lots of skills that are highly in demand today. 

You can search for them online and choose the one that you have a passion to learn and master.

For instance, graphics design is quite a high-demand skill. 

You can work remotely for a company and your job is to handle all their graphic designs.

 This can range from graphics for branding and promotion, banners, product packaging, etc.

There is no fixed price for such work since you know your worth and what you need as salary or wages.

#31. Develop Problem-solving Entrepreneurial skills

When it comes to problem-solving, you have to be creative to be able to craft a solution to an already existing problem.

For example, you can learn how to recover a hacked Instagram account and people will come to you for your service.

Imagine if a popular artist’s Instagram account got hacked and people refer the artist to you?

You can bill any amount since all the artist needs are for his/her account to be recovered.

Conclusion

This guide detailed all the possible ways you can utilize to make money online as a beginner.

You can choose from our assorted high-demand skills and improve yourself on them.

Meanwhile, you should know that before you can earn passive income online, you need to invest some time in learning some of the secrets that are involved in making money online.