Finding easy ways to make money fast is something I hear about a lot.
How do you make extra money from home that anyone can do, no matter if you have a high school diploma or a college degree?
Writing online is the BEST way to earn extra spending money. All things online begin with writing content. If you’re a great writer, why not use that skill to find ways to make that extra $100 a day?
In this post, I share with you 24 ways to make money fast.
A lot of them focus on your writing skills, while others focus on your blogging skills and even your marketing skills.
And even if you’re in debt or just quit your job (or just fired!), this list may help you out in making $200 or more in a couple of days.
Now, when I say fast, I don’t mean immediate.
Some of these ways are shorter than others, but when you think about your parents and how they may have lived paycheque to paycheque, making money fast online is….fast, even if it’s a few months or more!
These ways are essential to help you make money online. Okay! Let’s get to it!Easy Ways to Make Money Online (and Offline) in 2021
This will be your #1 way to make a living online. I’ve been blogging for five years now and I even have more than one blog. Why? Because blogging can help you make money fast.
A lot of these ways won’t happen unless you start a blog. I have a handy and easy tutorial on starting a blog for your business, so make sure to check that out!
If you’re unsure about what a blog is – a blog is a way to express your thoughts and teachings online. You use a platform like WordPress.org to have a self-hosted blog.
With a self-hosted blog you can start making money online.
After you created your website, you can pick a WordPress theme and create pages on your site. For this site I have an About page, Courses page, Contact page and Blog page. Every blog should have an About page and a Contact page.
If you want to start using your blog for easy ways to make money, you will need a Privacy Policy and Disclaimer page. This is a legal page letting users know how you are using your blog to make money (i.e if you will use affiliate marketing or start an email list for example).
You can use a free template to get started!
With your pages and theme set up on your WordPress blog, you can start writing blog posts for your audience. This blog can serve as a way to market your service and it can be a way to blog for an audience.
For example, Elizabeth of Worth Writing For is a Writeto1k student. She has a parenting and mom blog, but also offers her freelance writing services.
So, think of your blog as your online platform to try monetization strategies as well as support your online writing business.2. Get Paid for Guest Blogging
Another fast and easy way to make money in 2021 is to start getting paid to guest blog.
Guest blogging is when you have your blog post on someone else’s blog. For example, FreelancerFAQs is a contributor blog. Writers pitch their blog topics to me and if I accept them, their post is published on my blog. While I don’t pay for that content there are hundreds of contributor blogs that do pay for content.
How do you find places that pay for guest blogging? There are many blogs that round up sites that pay. You can search for that term in Google to help you get more ideas for guest blogging.
Once you find a place to pitch to, make sure you read the blog content and get to know their style of writing. From there you can craft a pitch that’s more personal since you’ve read their blog.
Once the owner accepts your pitch, they may also tell you about their payment process. Some blogs only pay for traffic. So if your post gets lots of shares, then you will get paid accordingly. Other sites, pay for your writing only, but some may take months to pay you.
Usually magazines and publications have a longer payment schedule, so don’t be alarmed!
One thing to remember when pitching your blog topic is to not switch topics after you’ve been approved to write the article. The blog owner approved your pitch topic, so you have to deliver that blog topic to them to get paid for your writing!3. Ask Around
An easy way to start making money fast is to just ask around. Friends and family may need some help with various writing opportunities like:ResumesEmail newsletterAdvertisementEvent invitations
Make sure to ask anyone! Students in my Writeto1k course have had success asking at their child’s school!
The school playground! My BEST job came from a school playground contact.On a school bus while on a field trip… I was talking to the English teacher, and he asked me did I enjoy the play the students saw… well the conversation lead to me eventually talking about my freelance business. Turns out, he needed someone to edit his thesis paper for his master’s degree.
School is a great way to find work since there are many teachers and even parents to ask! You might get editing work, copywriting work or even resume writing work.
So, before you drive away after picking up your child from school at the end of the day, stop and talk to the teachers or principals or other parents and see if they need some freelance writing work!
Okay – job boards are places where content marketers and business owners post for writing jobs.
I used job boards to help me find writing gigs and it’s an easy way to make money.
Most job ads start around $40-$50 a post and if you can show your value and worth to potential client, you can get paid more. While there are scams in job boards, just know that most ads are good quality ones.
The best job boards are ones that have new gigs every day. I personally have used this one as it’s been the fastest in helping me find the exact writing gigs I want.
When pitching to job boards, you can craft your pitch more personal by searching for the business that posted the ad.
Get to know their content and what they are selling. You can even find them on Twitter or LinkedIn to get even more information about that specific business.
And one more thing – make sure in your pitch email to mention where you saw that ad as a way to help that business owner know which platform gave him the best conversions (and to help you see which platforms gave you the most gigs).5. Do Affiliate Marketing
I use affiliate marketing on this blog and on many of my other blogs.
If you don’t know what it is, affiliate marketing is a method where you promote a product, service or tool to your blog audience. You get a link to promote that product on your blog or on social media.
If someone clicks on your special link – and buys – you get a commission.
The easiest way to make money is to start using Amazon affiliate marketing. They have thousands of products that you can promote on your blog. To help you get started, I have a video that walks you through how to make your first affiliate sale.6. Use Past Clients
Congrats if you are already making money online as a writer! That’s a big feat! What you can do know is leverage the clients you already have for more work and income.
Referral business is the best way to gain high-paying clients and boost your income to help you work from home. Bloggers online have network of other bloggers doing the same things.
Those other bloggers probably need writing too. If you can get in your client’s circle, there will be no shortage of work. This has happened to me several times and it’s a passive way and easy way to make money fast.7. Use Other Freelance Writers
Now, what if you don’t have any freelance writing clients? What do you do then? Well, why not use other freelance writers?
They may need to sub contract work or they may have jobs for you!
Other freelance writers can also help you with your writing skills too. Both of you can edit each other’s writing or help improve each other’s writing!
In any case, you have to think about this as not a competitive industry. Other bloggers or other freelancers can help you with making money online.8. Start Another Blog
Did you know that many successful bloggers have more than one blog? Yup! Last time I checked, I have five active blogs that I’m either writing for or managing.
Other blogger like Create and Go have two blogs – their health blog and their teaching blog.
If you want, you can have a writer website – like I do – and then a personal blog like I have with Twins Mommy.
Many writers are Online Shop creatives and we all have different ideas floating around. Use that inspiration to start another project as a way to make money fast. With a second blog, you’ll know what to do and do it quicker, giving you an edge to others who just started their first blog.9. Cold Pitch
Cold pitching is the idea of finding a business online and pitching directly to them that you’re a freelance writer for hire. This business isn’t actively seeking a content writer, so your email is a cold email.