This is a guest post by Vijay Dee from SlumDogMarketer
When you are just getting started online, it can be quite intimidating and overwhelming with so much information available on how to make money online.
I have always felt that the problem does not lie in the lack of choice but in the abundance of choices available.
With so many products, courses and membership programs available on how to make money an online income, it is up to you to figure out what works best for you and what appeals the most for you.
In this article, I will tell you 5 quick and easy ways to start making money online.
1. Offer Services
Ask yourself what you are good at doing.
Are you good at writing or website design or graphics or web programming or data entry or voice over or video creation?
If you are good at any of these things, you can easily start making money by advertising your services.
You can advertise your services on Odesk.com, Guru.com, Craigslist, Rentacoder, Warrior Forum, Fiverr, elance etc.
While you are earning money from your gigs, you can learn internet marketing by investing the money you earn on your business.
Recommended to Read: Make Money Online By Bidding On Projects At Freelance Marketplaces.
2. Create a WSO
You can create information products and sell them on Warrior Forum as a WSO (Warrior Forum Special Offer).
This is one of the fastest and easiest ways to quickly generate money online if you can deliver something really good at the best price.
One of the questions that I get asked often is “I am new to internet marketing and I don’t know anything, how can I create an information product?”
You need not be an expert to create an information product.
First find out what the market needs.
For example, in the Warrior Forum, you can easily create a WSO containing list of profitable niches along with the products that are available in the marketplace that folks at the Warrior Forum can promote.
This is something that anyone can do without having any knowledge about how to make money online.
3. Create and Sell Information Products
You can quickly and easily create information products by buying high quality private label rights content. The key here is to leverage private label rights content and adding extra information.
A lot of online marketers make the mistake of merely using private label rights products as they are.
This is ineffective because there are thousands of similar products floating around.
What you need to do is to transform the private label rights product that you purchased into a better product. This includes rewriting the sales-page, designing a new e-cover and adding extra chapters to the e-book.
You can also use public domain content to quickly generate high quality information products. Public domain is not just limited to books and magazines. You can also find great pictures, audio and videos that you can sell online.
Recommended to Read: 3 Powerful Ways To Make Money Online With Private Label Rights.
4. Write Product Reviews
People are always looking for reviews of products before they buy.
Position yourself as a trusted source by writing high quality, in-depth reviews pointing out both the pros and the cons of the product.
By being completely honest in your review, you come across as someone trustworthy and credible.
In the process, you can recommend the best products and start earning affiliate commissions on the recommended products.
5. Offline Marketing
There are a lot of offline businesses that need your help and ability in getting more leads and customers.
You can offer a number of services such as SEO, website design, lead generation, Facebook marketing, content generation, link building etc.
However make sure that you know what you are talking about when you approach local businesses.
Your aim is not to make a quick buck here but to help your clients achieve what they are looking for.
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Great tips. Very useful for bloggers. I agree that you should figure out where you are good at so that you can apply it in Internet business.
I like the #3 Idea, selling information product. To be honest, I generated a lot money using this strategy, but you need to really have a great marketing strategy to make it happened. You have to put in mind things like what to write and how to reach your target market.
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Here is an interesting strategy that I was recommended. First take an existing PLR product and test the PLR salespage using paid traffic.
Figure out the conversion.
Then go back to your list of prospects and ask for their feedback regarding why they haven’t yet purchased the product. Incorporate the elements missing in the salespage and your product and test again.
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There are alot of ways to make money online for sure, like the ones you presented here. In my opinion though the best thing to do is to stick to on area, and be the best you can be in that area. Jumping all over the place will likely only slow someone from reaching their full potential.
-Jean
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If I had to vote for one, I would say that offering services is THE fastest way to earn money online.
I think many people read about “passive income” so much that they think that passive income starts from the beginning when, actually, the opposite is true…work comes first and passive income comes waaaaayyy down the line…
Great post, VIJAYDEEROCKS
Mark
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From the list you created I’ve found that #5 is the easiest to do since most local seo companies aren’t super competitive (unless you live in a huge metro). My metro area is 250k+ and in some categories Google can’t even find 10 local business websites to list!
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Basic information though and I didn’t like about using PLR to create product, though some marketer do become successful with them but to me PLR isn’t a very quality stuff, but like you said, adding and also recreating them to a new product is a better and also satisfying way to sell, and I agree with that, but selling is one thing, how about proof?
Selling something is one thing, but you also need proof and that’s biggest problem why PLR stuff doesn’t sell as much as before, because it is content that had been reuse for multiple times and unless you had success with those content, you will have a hard time selling it even if you create a whole new stuff in and also adding some extra stuff in.
Anyway, I like giving service as one of the best and also the top way rather then selling stuff you have no idea in because service are usually real, I mean it’s the results that speaks. So, it’s best to sell service
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As I said, if you are merely selling PLR products as they are, you are setting yourself for failure. The beauty of PLR is that you can use them in so many ways.
You can use them as content for your websites, create autoresponder series, give away reports to build your list and bonuses for your main products. The sky is the limit as far as what you can do with PLR.
You have to purchase high quality PLR and PLR that comes with a restricted number of sales.
Here are a few sites to consider.
1. Easy PLR
2. All private label content
3. PLR.me
4. Warrior Forum
5. Special Report Club
Most marketers just keep buying PLR and just let them sit on their hard drive. I will admit, I am guilty of doing that as well, but I have used parts of PLR products.
Marketers like Dennis Becker have built a successful business empire online by purchasing PLR/MRR rights from high quality products from marketers and selling them to his customers.
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Great article Vijay. I’d also add sponsored tweeting can be quite lucrative if you have enough followers.
Also sponsored posts. 
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You didn’t mention one of the most common way of making money online, “blogging” , if you get enough traffic to your blog you can sell ad space and have a nice passive income
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Hi Vijay thank you very much for your article! I couldn’t agree more, become a freelancer and do a WSO it’s the fastest way to make money online. I already prove it. It’s work
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According to my experience the best way to earn money online is launch your own blog,write posts related to your services,choose some keywords for your niche site and optimize your site under some keywords.Your site will appear in organic searches and you will get price of your choice for your quality work.
the method you have said may make money quick , but one cannot money right away without learning the online mode of business , seo and other techniques which in fact takes times . so the overall process is not quick
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I’ve done 4 Warrior Special Offers over the past year. All of them made money, but only one has done exceptionally well. You REALLY have to make sure you’re tuned in to what people want, and more importantly, you must stay at least a few steps ahead of what you ‘think’ they may want.
Today I make a living by writing and selling e-books. I don’t use PLR material though. I do a significant amount of research on my niches and write my own stuff. Yes, it’s more work. But I believe it’s way more profitable to have something totally unique.
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Some great ideas here (long live the warrior forum!) You’re so right about the amount of choices when you enter the IM world. It is easy to become overwhelmed and lost in an endless sea of information.
No amount of research and theory is going to fully prepare you for this line of work. The best thing to do is concentrate on one system and tweak it to work for YOU. Don’t leap around from one shiny scheme to another. Focus on making one thing work and expand from there. Immersing yourself in IM by ‘diving in’ this way really is the best way to soak up precious, practical knowledge!
Your all techniques are very effective but today it seems dream to earn online money as many people are moving in this field and a lot of patience is required in this field.
Now people are diverting their attention to earn from freelancing sites.
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Blogging is the best way to earn money online and now writing reviews is a good thing for newbies to start with and earn money online. great and useful post with many money making formulas.
Aside from those mentioned above I think freelancing is also a quick way to generate money online. LIke posting offered services in odesk. I’ve read good reviews about it though I haven’t experience it personally.
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These are some helpful tips. I have my own website, and I’ve tried many other ways of making money online, but for me, Fiverr has made me the most money of any other site I’ve tried.
There are tons of ideas and ways on how to make money online. We’re so lucky that there are means to make money online today. 10 years ago, we can barely see any online money making opportunity. The methods of online money making are pretty straight-forward. It’s just important that one does their due diligence before investing into one.
5 pretty basics way to make money online and I’d like to comment on #1 particularly. Most people who are looking to make money online have no idea how to go about doing and they usually get sucked in to some outrageous offer that no one makes any money from, except the person that is selling the offer.
It’s a shame that most people do not realise there is a huge market online for various services, article writing, graphic design, website coding and many others. OF course if you can do the above 3 things making your own site/blog and placing some affiliate links upon your site can prove to be very profitable as well.
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