Generate Passive Secondary Income Online

With people looking to make a little extra money in the recession, it’s only natural that they’d look to the internet to try and fill that void. There are a number of opportunities to earn extra income online, and our site is looking to cover many of them. With this article, we’ll look at the paid to write website Associated Content.

AC has been around for a few years now, I believe since mid-2006, and has collected a large number of articles from many different sources or content producers. They specifically focus on localized content or articles about local news and events in someone’s hometown. Of course, they’ll accept just about any submission specific or general.

Money is earned on two fronts. You can receive an upfront payment for your work that ranges between $3 and $7 generally. More money is granted if exclusive rights are given to the website; in other words, they’ll have the online copy of the article submitted on the internet. On the flip side, authors get paid for every thousand views their articles create. It’s called performance payments and it allows for individuals to earn on their writing after it has been submitted. That pays out $1.50 to $2 depending on how long you’ve been with the site and how well your articles perform. They also payout using paypal, so be sure to have an account with them.

Like with all paid to write programs, the best way to go about making money with Associated Content is creating lots of articles. With on hundred or so keyword-rich articles, you’ll actually be able to make enough in performance payments for it to be worth your time. Plus, most of your traffic will come from search engines. With more articles in your collection you’re more likely that one gets noticed by people searching. The more people that find your article the more you’ll get paid… I think you see where I’m going with this.

Overall, Associated Content is a fine way to begin making your first dollars online. It costs nothing to join and you have the opportunity to make monthly residual income on previous work. It’s the perfect storm for the budding online writer.

Shopping online is a common pastime for more and more Americans these days. The same can be said internationally as well actually. Everyone is looking for a bargain or a very specific item and typically it can be found online. Why not get paid for something you’re going to be doing anyway?

Now you won’t be making an actual income by shopping online. Instead, you’ll be receiving rewards or a portion of the money from your internet purchases back. This is the same concept to credit cards with reward points and now I’m going to tell you how to double up the rewards by using the credit card and an online service.

The best site for this is Mypoints. They offer you points for any purchase you make online that can be redeemed, typically, for a gift card at your favorite stores. About 4% is offered for every purchase, so if you spend $100 dollars at Old Navy, then you’ll earn $4 towards a gift card from a store of your choosing.

This is what is called a “no brainer.” Not only do you not have to spend any money, but you’ll get money back two fold from Mypoints and a rewards card. While it isn’t a lucrative second income, it is extra money in your pocket from shopping your going to be doing anyway. Might as well take advantage!

If you’re a photographer the only way to make a true living is to sell your photos. Usually, however, you need some sort of media company clientele to really make a living at it or you have to live taking family photos and portraits. Shooting stock photos and letting someone else sell them online is an ideal way to make some money while trying to achieve from your photography.

There are a number of stock photo websites on the internet that host thousands of pictures from people around the world. They sell the photos to bloggers, media companies and other interested parties for a fee based on the size and the rights of the picture. The larger it is the more expensive it will be for the buyer. In exchange for the images, these websites will then pay the owners of the photo a majority percentage of the sale (typically around 50% to 75%). The remainder of the income will go to the payment processing and the other functions of the website.

Bigstock.com is one of the premier stock photo sellers on the internet. They offer package offers to website owners who wish to purchase so many photos per month. If you’re looking to sell stock photos on the internet, then I’d highly recommend looking at them.

All told, selling stock photography online can be quite profitable if you have a lot of it. It won’t do you much good if you only have a small handful of photos to display. The more images you have listed the higher the chances one will get purchased. Quantity breeds cash in this business. That’s not to say quality doesn’t matter, because it very much does, you’ll need a large variety of photos to truly succeed selling.

Everyone wants to make an extra income of to help ease the pain of their financial problems. Even if you haven’t been hit with money issues, earning a little more every month isn’t a bad idea. I suggest why not do this by doing something that you probably do everyday?

Reading emails for money is actually really easy to do if you know the right companies to go to. There are many scams on the internet and often it can cost you money. First, let me say if any company asks for money upfront than move on. Likely, they’re a scam and just want your credit cards.

Most trustworthy programs are free to join and participate. One such company is Dealsncash. Basically, they’ll send an email to you everyday they have a deal for you to check out. There is no need to purchase anything, though the option is there for you to do so, all you have to do is view the email and after a period of time click a button to confirm you’ve read the email. You’re simply being paid to view the email and nothing more. Dealsncash will send out on average about four or five a day for you to look at and get paid for.

Now, in all honesty, getting paid to read emails for cash isn’t going to get anyone rich; however, by viewing a few emails everyday you could easily be receiving a monthly twenty dollar check or more. It takes no more then five minutes a day to go through all the paid emails. Typically, you can simply open them up and minimize them to the toolbar. In effect, you get credit for viewing them despite the opposite being true.

With this in mind, I’ve joined another email reading website so that I can open up multiple emails at a time and make more money in this short time span. I joined Hits4pay with this purpose in mind. They work the same way as previously mentioned, although, Hits4Pay seems to be sending out a few more emails per day.

Another site you can use for reading emails for cash is MatrixMails.com. They not only pay you for reading emails but also clicking on advertisements and signing up for free programs.

Overall, getting paid to read emails is a good way to begin making a little money online right away. With only about five minutes a day it doesn’t take much of a commitment either.

Selling items on Ebay or other auction sites online has become a growing trend with the transition from the brick and mortar business to the internet. Some folks are able to provide their own products, either from their home or from yard sale in the area. Others help people sale their items online for a fee or a commission on the profits. Meanwhile, most everyone sell dropshipped items.

Drop shipping is the business of selling a product that a company has in warehouse and paying them to ship the item to a destination (the buyer). You make whatever amount of money you sell the product for.

Unfortunately, dropshipping business model is a very marginal one at best. Special care must be taken to insure that you’re getting a profitable cut from the sales price. That includes watching the wholesale product prices and the final prices vigorously. The fees involved with most auction site also need to be watched as they can easily cut into profits and ruin your margin.

In the end, it’s all about finding the cheapest price for your items and selling higher. Finding the best deals and dropshippers is important for that matter. If you’re ultra serious about getting into this business then you need to take a look into subscribing to World Wide Brands. They’re the premier destination for finding legitimate dropshippers in various categories of products. Basically what World Wide Brands does is compile a list of known companies and uses their services to test them out. In addition, other members will be using these companies and will give out the news if one goes rogue and stops delivering products.

Becoming a member of World Wide Brands is simply essential if you wish to sell on Ebay or the web in general. Not only do they provide companies that will ship products for you to sell, they also have give out lessons on how to properly setup and run this sort of business. It’s highly worth the investment to join the dropshipping business if you’re truly series about getting started.

Writing online for an income can be tiring work, particularly if you’re only making a few dollars an article. Making such a messily rate for a freelancer is simply unacceptable and a higher rate of pay is necessary. That is where Constant Content comes in. They connect writers with websites owners that are in need of content and are willing to pay a premium for it.

As a writer, you probably have created several pieces of writing that haven’t been used for a single thing. Perhaps you have a favorite hobby or interest that you like to write about that none of your current clientele is in need of. Well with Constant Content you can list this work, along with anything else you’d like to create for the site, for sale for buyers to find. Best yet you can set your own rate and most pieces seem to sell for around $20 to $40. All you need to do to earn money is to list your writings on the site and wait for someone to come along and buy the work.

A buyer comes into the site looking to get some content for the site. There are a few different kinds or licenses that they could be looking for. Full Rights, the most costly, gives them exclusive use of your article and the ability to pass it as their own. Usage allows for multiple people to use the article on their own sites and is thus less costly. When browsing articles, buyers only get to see a snippet or preview of the article. This is in order to prevent theft and other copyright issues.

If someone chooses to purchase your article, your paid a healthy portion of its worth. Over 60% will go directly to you while the remaining 40% goes to Constant Content to cover their business expenses. Not a terrible deal considering you didn’t have to track down new clients. In addition, a writer can use it to sell previously unsold material. Overall, Constant Content is a good way for new and old writers alike to make an extra bit of money from their writing.

One of the easiest ways to make some money online is by writing articles. The only problem with this is that usually you only get paid once for the initial investment of creating the piece. There is no promise of future income to be received for your work and that is a disappointment. Passive income and earning residuals is a great way to make money on previously done work.

That is where Bukisa shines. They offer you a certain amount of money (based off their “Buzz Index”, more on that later) for every thousand views that your article receives on the site. If you know a little bit about writing for search engines and keywords, then you could easily write an article for Bukisa, leave it at that, and let the site bring in the traffic and money for you. Additional, promotion can also take place on your part in order to get web surfers from other website to take a look.

The Buzz Index is what is used to judge how much you’ll earn from the site and it is supposed to be derived from the advertising dollars the site has. Essentially, the index is simply the rate of pay Bukisa is willing to pay members at a given time. Currently, despite the recession, they’re paying out about $3.42, which isn’t to bad considering.

I personally haven’t earned a whole lot through the site. So far this month I’ll make 50 cents from 2 articles. My results aren’t really surprising really. The key to most paid to write revenue sharing websites is having lots of articles. The more articles one has means the more one will make per month. And it’s also not too bad of a result considering I’ll likely make that same 50 cents each month doing no additional work. Just think if I sat down to write and promote some articles.

Reading emails can be a great way to begin making a nice secondary income online. Getting paid to look at advertisements or products that you don’t even have to buy is easy work that can be done while doing other things on the computer. For spending less then five minutes a day, I consider reading emails for cash a viable way to make a little extra on the side.

Hits4pay is one of the more well known and successful paid email programs out there and it is free to boot. Basically, they pay you to simply look at emails. No more and no less. Sadly, it truly is that simple. That’s pretty much all I have to say other than they’ve actually paid me. Keep in mind of course, you won’t be getting rich with this or any other paid to read email program but it could potentially be a nice $25 check per month depending on how many emails you receive in a month. Not bad for a couple minutes a day.

If you signup for the site, I have a tip to share. When you’re asked about your hobbies and interests during signup (which is used to determine the nature of the emails sent to you) be sure to select affiliate marketing and other business related subjects. These categories will have the most emails associated to them and they’ll be related to making money online so they should be of some interest to you as well.

Hits4pay also has a special internal email address, accessible through logging into your account, which is nice because you won’t have to worry about getting hammered with emails in your personal email.

If you’re a member of the Gamestop mailing list then it’s likely that you’ve received an email in the past about this survey site called u.talk.back. Basically it is an invitation for you to go ahead and join the site in order to receive rewards for filling out surveys. Generally, these are either magazines or gift certificates to select stores, such as Gamestop.

Surprisingly this is a very legit offer and service being held here, although it may not be worth it to you on the per hour basis. See some folks upon filling out their information get many invites to various surveys. They then qualify and complete the survey for full credit. Other folks may receive few if any invites and then not qualify, which lead to only receiving a small fraction of the maximum rewards. It’s a mixed bag depending on what you submit.

Of course, if you’re smart you would load up your profile with juicy info that advertisers want to know about. For example, under ethnicity list Hispanic descent (or something of similar nature) and be a student with a decent income. This is a highly sought after demographic that would result in getting lots of invites. They also have bias towards younger folks. With that said, if you’re a teenager u.talk.back is a better option then the other survey site Gamestop refers to e-Rewards.

All-in-all, u.talk.back is a true company that sends out their rewards when they are earned and redeemed. Don’t expect to get multiple rewards in a year however, they simply don’t send out enough surveys for that. But it’s nice to fill out a survey every once in a while and net a $50 gift card to Gamestop at the end of the year. That’s a nice Christmas gift to myself I’d say.