The 2 easiest ways to make money online

Now, let’s get something right

When I say “easiest” as seen in the subject line, I do not mean easy.

I am only using the word as a way of comparison to other ways of making money online

So, with that being said;

Last year, one of my old friends came to me because he was looking for a way to make more money

He came to me because he saw one of my ads online

So, based on what I know, I told him the 2 easiest ways for a Nigerian to start making money online as quickly as possible are:

(1) Online Freelancing (aka doing online jobs)

(2) Affiliate Marketing

Let me explain why:

If you are a broke person or someone with very little money to spare, then the way to go to start earning some money as quickly as possible is by doing online jobs.

This is also known as online freelancing

What you are doing here is to help businesses and individuals so some online jobs like writing articles, transcribing, graphic design etc and getting paid

With this, a broke person can start making $250, $400 etc a month very fast

$250 now is about N100,000

And all they need is a computer and internet connection

I have never done online freelancing before because it wasn’t available when I was just starting online

And I already grew past that stage by the time it was introduced.

I really wished it was available when I was still in school though

I would have made a killing with it working from the cybercafe (Lol)

Highly recommended for students, youth corpers and people who don’t have a lot of startup capital

I know it works because I can confidently point to at least 100 people who started this way and are now big boys

One of them is this ex-factory worker who now makes at least $1000 monthly part time as an online freelancer

By the way, I should also let you know that online freelancing is a bit competitive because anyone can join

But you can get an advantage if you learn from experienced online freelancers like this guy

The thing about online freelancing though is that your time is directly involved

This means you only get paid when you do jobs

No jobs, no money

And it has a ceiling on how much you can earn

It is very difficult to find online freelancers making more than $1500 a month

Read more about how you can get started with online freelancing here

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On the other hand, affiliate marketing is BIG and is more of a business than freelancing which is about jobs

Affiliate marketing is selling other people’s products and services for a percentage of the sales.

So, each time someone buys a product that you recommend, you get paid a commission

With a well setup affiliate marketing system, you still have to work but you can make money while you sleep and you can make far more money than online freelancing

You don’t really have to look far to see affiliates making $5,000 a month

And there are super affiliate marketers making as much as $2m a year online

You can literally become an affiliate for a HOST of things – digital products, physical products, offline services, personalized solutions, software, etc.

I prefer digital products though

The main skills required to become successful with affiliate marketing are traffic generation and marketing the products

It also requires some startup capital if you want to take it seriously which is what I expect of you

With affiliate marketing…you will need funds for things like:

– Domain ($10 a year)
– Hosting ($60 a year)
– Autoresponder (From $19 a month)
– Tracker (optional)
– Traffic (Depends)

That is like N100,000

The cost of domain, hosting and autoresponder can be lower or higher though depending on where you are buying from and the quantity.

For traffic, how much you will spend depends on how big you want to go

The reason why affiliate marketing comes ahead of models like information marketing or ecommerce is that with affiliate marketing, you don’t have to do anything about the product sourcing, creation or handling.

That is like 50% of your work done for you.

You only have to focus on marketing the products and getting your commissions

By the way, if you are just starting, you can make use of certain free traffic strategies to get rolling.

You can effectively promote your affiliate links and get start making money via:

– Whatsapp

– Facebook groups

– Twitter

– Instagram

Eventually, most people who start with online freelancing move on to other business models like affiliate marketing where they are able to make more money and have a lot of time to enjoy

If you are interested in affiliate marketing, you can watch this FREE training video