Easy Ways To Make Money

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What are easy ways to make money? I would define easy ways to make money as things you can do and get paid for that require little time or effort. Even better are fun things that you enjoy doing anyway that you can make money doing. In fact, this is how many successful businesses get started. A hobby sometimes grows into something that produces income. For me, making a bit of money makes a hobby more interesting. Here are some easy ways to make money:

Make Money Blogging

Blogging meets my criteria for an easy way to make money. You can write about anything that interests you, and you can make money from advertising and you can get commission from selling products from links on your blog. You can spend as much or as little time as you would like working on your blog. Blogging is a good example of a hobby that you can do for fun, or you can monetize your blog and start making money. One great thing about blogging is that you can write a blog post once and continue making money from it for a long time with no further action on your part. This concept is called passive income and is an easy way to make money.

Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk)

You can get paid working for Amazon as a Mechanical Turk (MTurk) worker for doing simple tasks online such as taking surveys or completing simple writing assignments. Other types of Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) available include entering information from business cards and evaluating images for their content and the emotion that they convey. Getting paid as an MTurk worker definitely requires some effort and the tasks are not the sort of thing you would do for fun. But you have complete flexibility to work when and where you wish. As you complete MTurk tasks and gain qualifications, you are allowed to work on tasks that pay more, increasing your ability to make money.

Find Garage Sale Bargains and Sell on eBay or craigslist

Another easy way to make money is... buy low and sell high. Find bargains at garage sales or auctions and sell them at a profit on eBay or craigslist. This plan works best if you specialize in a certain type of item so you can easily identify things that you could buy and sell at a profit. You can also hunt for bargains at thrift shops and Goodwill stores. With the popularity of eBay, it is getting harder to be the first to find that great bargain. As with other easy ways to make money, there is no time commitment or obligation- you can pursue this as a hobby and make money when you want.

Buy Cheap Bikes, Repair, and Resell at a Profit

It is not hard to find cheap bikes or even get bikes for free. Retro bikes are in demand. If you are willing to spend some time and effort finding good used bikes that are valuable brands or styles that are popular, you can make some easy money without working too hard. If you are mechanically inclined, you can even fix up old bikes and sell them. Many older bikes need only simple repairs such as new tires, brakes, and lubrication. If you handle only one or two bikes at a time, you don't need much space to work on the bikes and store them while you are selling them. For a large item like a bike, it may be easier to find local buyers on craigslist since shipping is not required. If you have a rare bike, you can find a larger group of potential buyers on eBay.

Sell Digital Photos Online

If you enjoy taking digital photos, you can turn your hobby into easy money. There are several sites on the internet that purchase digital photos for stock photo collections. Advertisers and publishers can view your photos and may decide to purchase them or pay licensing rights to use them. If you are taking high quality pictures anyway, you might consider offering them for sale.

Sell Garden Produce or Baked Goods at a Farmer's Market

Farmer's markets are getting really popular as a place to buy vegetables and other food. If you enjoy gardening or baking, why not sell some items at a farmer's market? Most people who have a garden end up with more vegetables than they can eat themselves. There is probably a farmer's market not far from home, so selling items there could be an easy way to make money.

Sell Used Books

You can buy used textbooks cheap and sell textbooks online for a profit. Textbooks have a lot of potential for profit. You can find used textbooks for sale on eBay or amazon and sell them to a textbook buy-back service for a profit. I would say this method of making money is not as easy as some of the others mentioned- it takes a lot of work and is not necessarily fun to search through book listings trying to find titles that can earn you some profit. Plus you'll need to receive the books and ship them to the buy-back service unless there is a local textbook buy-back service in your community.

Sell Handmade Items and Crafts on Etsy

Etsy is an e-commerce site for selling crafts and homemade items. If you like to make craft items, you may be able to make a casual business out of it by selling crafts on Etsy. You will need to photograph and describe your items and ship them to buyers. If there are craft items you enjoy making, this could be a fun and easy way to make some money.

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