In this Nairobi life, nothing comes easy. Not jobs, food, housing even money itself is so scarce that people have resorted to mobile money-lending apps and the likes of Sportpesa… or worse, just being a thug or conman..
It might be a high time for better ways of generating money…Legally. If you’re tired of being broke and wondering how to make money online, these are easy online business ideas that will make you rich without even trying hard.
I bet you spend so much time on Instagram and other sites but you don’t exactly make money from stalking people, you know? For starters, these online businesses are probably easy to start but it will obviously take hard work and planning to put them into place. Check every idea and see if it’s something you can become good at, invest your time in it and see what it can do for you.
1. Start a blog and monetize it
The first step is to start a blog, be consistent with your content. Don’t just post random content every day, you need to post content that people can relate to. How does this eventually become money? When you get views, people start noticing and companies would like to sponsor and pay you.
2. Promote someone’s product for money
Basically the process of earning a commission by promoting somebody else’s product. How this works is that someone pays you a commission every time you sell someone’s product. You basically do sales online and get a commission.
3. Set up an E-commerce site
There are very many e-commerce sites and the best thing to do is make sure that your website stands out among all the very many that already exist. But by filling a unique niche and executing the right marketing techniques, you can make your e-commerce store a profitable success. Sell things that are not in the market and even if you sell clothes online find an interesting way to portray them using models or colourful backgrounds.
4. Become a Vlogger
Imagine being paid to talk? For starters, you can’t just start a YouTube page and start talking about nonsense. You need to have your own niche, talk about something that you actually love and that you can consistently post. YouTube usually pays you when you get good traffic and big companies may want to advertise with you because of the views you get.
5. Learn Facebook advertising
It sounds easy but it actually needs experts. Companies are usually looking for people who can boost their products by knowing how to advertise to the mass audience on Facebook. Once you do, you can reach out to businesses and offer to help create profitable Facebook ads.
6. Advertise people’s products online
If you have a good following you could use your followers as a selling point. You see how celebrities usually advertise people’s products online? They just post something about the product and they are usually paid because of the followers they have.
7. Be an online CV writer
If you’re a good writer then you can put your skills to good use by offering your CV writing skills. You can write good CV’s for people who don’t know how to do their own CVs and charge a good fee.
If you want to make money, you ought to make a decision and stick to the plan. Everything requires time, determination and commitment so if you don’t have it then you’re really going to be living an average life forever.