Top 10 Skills To Learn For Online Money Making

Making additional money online has never been this easy. All you require is a stable internet connection and some spare time. 

But for that to happen you need to learn a skill online, a skill that can be sold online to make income. This skill can be from any number of different skill types, but there's a skill for everyone out there.

Online Income are of two types, active income and passive income. Active income is in which your getting paid for working actively I.e its based on hourly or normal job wage and on the other hand passive income is the one in which you get paid repeatedly for one time job I.e investment and rentals are a example of passive income.

Some of the most common and easy to learn skills that will guarantee you passive or active income are as follow.

1) Social Media Marketing

These days everybody has an account on  any given number of social media platforms. Social Media Marketing is essentially the use of these existing social media accounts to market your services or products. To make money just learn how to grow on social media through paid or sponsored content and sell these services to any company or brand that wants to increase its social media presence organically.

Most companies and brands are now making their social media handles, so they can establish their online presence. 

Given this recent phenomenon, there's a lot of money to be made from Social Media Marketing.

Once you've mastered you can switch to digital marketing, which also happens online. Digital Marketing is a superset of a Social Media Marketing as there are multiple other branches and categories of Digital Marketing. Digital Marketing is ever increasing field with still room for huge growth.

2) Website Development

The name of this skill might indicate that it involves something technical or specialized, but it's not that difficult. You can learn the basics in a few days or weeks and start your website development business next. 

As more and more people join the internet the demand for website development only increases, it's a useful skill to have that can potentially make you more money than your normal day job.

These days there are platforms and website that make your own very website for you for very little money.


3) Content Writing 

Content Writing is any writing that has a specialized niche. A niche is a category of sorts in which your topic falls under. There are many number of niche to choose from.

Content Writing only requires specialized knowledge in any given field. This knowledge is already present on the internet and in most cases its there for free. The second that will be required is to learn SEO and the usage of Keywords. 
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, and this method is used to rank your website, blog or a article inside a search engine so as generate more traffic to your website, blog or a article.

The market for content writing is an ever-increasing one that has very few hurdles to entry.

There's a job for beginners, intermediates and experienced writers that makes this online industry probably one of  the best place to start for newbies.

 4) Data Entry 

This requires only the skill of copy-paste and typing/attention. Multiple businesses employ this skill holder for entry-level jobs that are often short and require only days of work or sometimes even less than this. 

Data entry won't get scaled to full-time business but for an individual, it can provide some extra cash on the side.
Folks who give jobs of Data entry don't ask for any prior experience so once you've made your mind for online money making, data entry might be the best place to start.

Data Entry jobs are a best way to build your portfolio for large and mega projects down the line. These small and relatively low paying jobs will give you a experience that will help you later.

 5) Content marketing 

Content marketing a process of promoting and distribution of media to consumers using the web, it's a practice that aims through which content consumers can  find the suitable audiences. Through content marketing, content creators can avoid of hassle that's usually associated with growth particularly on a competitive social media platforms environment.

This is the usage of online sponsored tools that boost content to a larger audience. This happens because the user gives money to a platform to boost their content.

Many brands, companies and websites employ middlemen that do this task for a paid commission. Increasingly, there are specialized offices for this type of task in offices of large and small companies and brands. This is a relatively new source of online earning but this will only grow with time.

6) E-Commerce 

E-Commerce is the online buying or selling of goods and services over the Internet. This form of business dissolves the constraints of time and distance that the physical business has to face in the real world. This skill involves the most learning among listed on this list, but there's material available online for any problem or hurdle that may occur to you. 

On the positive side this form of online
skill might bring you the most money. E-Commerce is normally carried out via already established,global platfroms but it can be also done on individual basis.

Business that conduct E-Commerce do it by commerce exchanges which happen either as business-to-business (B2B), business-to-consumer (B2C), consumer-to-consumer or consumer-to-business.

If you're part of this chain at any level you're in a business of E-Commerce. E-Commerce is a well established online industry and if you learn it well there's a lot of money to be made.

 7) Podcast

A podcast is essentially a long, detailed discussion about any topic between more than one person. Podcasts have increasingly gained popularity on social media platforms. To earn money you have to get views on whatever you're discussing.

This model of income is based on an ad generated revenue. Time and some money to buy equipment for podcast are the only two things you need to inevitably excell in this field.

It's not necessary to host your own podcast where you're a podcast host, there's are multiple skills that are required for a good podcast to exist. One is scriptwriter, these individual write the introductory, conclusionary part and all of the questions that the guests ask to the guest who's being interviewed.

Second is a camera technician, audio support and if it happening in a studio than studio support crew.

These days there business and services that run one's podcast on their platforms and pay you accordingly.

8) Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Marketing is the process of sharing a link of a certain product to your social media accounts. When someone's clicks on the link and buys that certain product, platforms gives you a certain  predetermined commission for that said sale.

Through affiliate marketing we act as a middle man and not as a salesman. Affiliate Marketing commission varies from company to company per product and the type of product sold.

9) Content Creation

Content Creation happens using social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok or Snapchat just to name a few. On these platfroms, content can be in the shape of pictures or videos.

People on social media that are on social media are paid by brands, companies and other organisations for their promotions.
This type of paid promotional on social media is called 'Sponsored Content".
This is a indirect way of generating a income from social media platform.

Second way to earn through the social media platforms is by direct method, in this method the platform gives you money for giving viewership and ads to the platform.

10) Editing

Editing on the Internet can be of three types, one is editing of the text that one has written. Proof Reading, double checking comes into this category.

Second category is that of image editing and this might be the most famous of it all.
Pictures can be edited using numbers of free or paid website, apps or platforms.
Professional Image Editiors much more money with lot less workload as compared to their contemporaries.

First type of is image editing which is done by removing unwanted objects in the pictures among many other tasks. These unwanted objects can be blurre spaces in photographs.Highlighting a certain feature/shape/pattern while minimising focus on unwanted object is also very important to image editing. Processes like rotating and cropping, correcting for lens aberrations, sharpening or softening the image, making color changes or adding computer graphics to the image are also a important part of image editing process that every editors should learn to do. Applying fitler is also done in this process.

Video editing is a process of manipulating  video in a way that captures viewers attention. This form of Editing is usually done in various steps, one them is post is pre production which includes getting the logistics ready — other is post-production which includes tasks like colour correction, giving text tittle to your video project, changing /editing background, adding and mixing of sounds etc.

Video Editing is a recent phenomenon that has caught on with a newer social media users. This skill like image editing can be learned through free or paid website, app or platform using Internet.