In today’s day and age there are many ways to make money online. There has been a lot of talk lately about selling items online via a business. Dropshipping is all the rage whether it be through Amazon or Shopify. However, how do you make money online without selling any products? Well, you can always provide your services. But you might say, there aren’t many skills that I possess which might be worth selling. Well, in this post, we will explore a handful of skills that anyone can easily pick up and monetize. We will show you how you can sell these services on websites like Fiverr and UpWork etc. So let’s dive into some of these services that you can learn easily and provide to customers.
Background Removal
The first service that you can provide is background removal of images. There are a number of people who are looking to remove the background from their pictures. In fact, once you have created an account on Fiverr and search for ‘background removal’, you will find hundreds of people offering this service. There’s nothing stopping you from doing the same.
If this is something you have never done before and are wondering how you can do it? Well the answer is simple. Just google for free background removal services on google and you will find numerous free online tools that will do this job for you effectively. You will simply have to upload the image to this service and viola, the service will do the rest. By simply performing drag and drop operations, you can start making money. You can also try out free tools that are available for download such as PhotoScissors.
SEO Audit Report
The next service that you can offer on either Fiverr or Upwork is selling SEO Audit Reports. What exactly is that? Well SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. Whenever people create a website with the intent of driving visitors towards it, they want to rank it on search engines. This basically means that whenever someone searches for topics related to their website on a search engine like Google or Bing, their website is served up on the first page.
In order for a website to rank well on search engines, there are a number of performance related parameters that need to be met. Most website owners are not aware of these and are willing to pay someone to audit their website and give them tips to improve their website. You can provide this service. All you need is the URL for their website. Once they provide it, you can type it into a free mobile app called SEO Check. The app will spit out the results of their website and give you all the areas of improvement. Just like for the background removal service, you can likely find many free services online that will give you a free pdf report for SEO improvements. Do make sure that the reports generated by these free tools don’t contain a watermark of some sort.
Commenting on Blogs and Providing Backlinks
A number of blog owners who want their content to get out to wider audiences, need to direct traffic to their blogs. One of the ways this can be done is via backlinks and comments. Backlinks are basically hyperlinks that belong to website X but appear on website Y. This way, traffic can be routed from website Y to website X. People offer their services on Fivver to comment about a blog on either other blogs or other websites.
This something that you can offer to do as well and earn some income on the side. Google and other search engines have these programmatic algorithms called ‘crawlers’ which are constantly crawling the internet to look at content. When links to a website appears in multiple places, the credibility of the said website improves. This is what helps the website appear higher in search results which in turn helps website traffic. You can help people rank their websites better by providing your backlinking services.
Become a Language Translator
If you know more than one language and are good at reading and writing, you can sell your services as a translator. You can post ads on Fivver offering your translation services and begin transcribing and translating content. Many companies and industries are looking to expand their international presence. As such they are often looking to translate their brochures, articles, books and other marketing material in different languages. Sometimes this is needed for their website or other custom needs. No matter what the requirement, you can come in handy and get paid for your service.
Service Arbitrage
Believe it or not, you can make money by getting someone else to do the actual work. The way you can accomplish this is by becoming the middleman. Here is how it will work. There are a number of websites where you can offer freelancing services. Fivver is just one of them, but there is also Upwork, Freelancer and Credo to name a few.
What you can do is search for a cheap gig on one of these websites (be it SEO optimization, article writing, digital content creation etc) and note down the service charges. Now go to another website and create an ad for the same gig at a slightly higher price. You can probably tell where we are going with this by now. You simply net the gigs on one platform at a higher price, have them completed at the other for a lower cost and net the profits.
Conclusion
So there you have it. A bunch of options to explore where if you are driven enough, you can easily pick up some skills (unless you already possess them) and start making some money. The services listed above can be monetized easily and can make you some quick money on the side. Check out more ideas like these to make money on the side here.