Believe the hype! Making money online is one of the most lucrative things to do today and you don’t want to be left behind on the craze. It takes time, research and smart work to make a dime online. These are some of the easiest ways you can earn a living online.
These are legitimate methods on making money online in Kenya.
1. Working as a Freelancer
The largest chunk of Kenyans making money online do so through freelancing, you become a service provider. There is a huge demand for the craziest of services you have seen or imagined.
If you can draw, have a beautiful voice to make some voice-overs, web design, graphics, writing fiction or academic papers, there is always someone somewhere looking for your service.
Freelancing is a faster option to start making some money on the internet. It is not as complex as setting up your own business – just creating profiles on some freelancing sites, familiarize yourself with them and begin to provide your services.
2. Creating a Blog
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This is one of the best-known ways for anyone who is looking to make money online in Kenya and with an advantage. You can work from home and you don’t have to work on it every day.
With blogging, you need to create good content that will make people visit your blog. You can then make money by simply display ads as well as receive a commission on advertised products that your readers buy. It is what we call Website Monetization through affiliate programs.
3. Producing content
Another way for those who are wondering how to make money on the Internet is the production of content for third parties.
Content Marketing is a strong trend in digital marketing and many companies do not have a structure to generate content for their blogs so they need third-party labor.
If you are good at writing and have notions of SEO – Search Engine Optimization for Search Engines, this is a very interesting option.
So how is content marketing helpful, well a company like Smart Kenya has a blog and we update our blog regularly with content related to what we do? We use the posts to market ourselves as it has been proved a blog is a very good way to generate traffic to websites.
You can also get paid to manage a Facebook page, creating relevant content to fans, seeking greater engagement with the audience. You can write texts, create photos or illustrations, share videos, finally, produce the most diverse content.
4. Creating a virtual store
E-commerce growth in Kenya is a fact. The market has grown 25% on average over the past five years and gives no cooling signal.
First, you need to know what to sell on the Internet. Give preference to niche markets to avoid competition from major players in the market. To succeed in this business, it is best to do good research on e-commerce to have an accurate idea of what to do in this segment.
5. Creating info-products
Another way to make money on the net is by creating info-products. An info-product is any kind of digital information that can be sold or otherwise made available in the form of downloadable file online.
These days, the development of infographics is one of the best-paid ventures online. That’s kind of content that quickly spreads on the internet, getting the fruits of viral publicity purposes.
You can create various types of info-products that can be developed as e-books, online courses, manuals, textbooks, and software. This type of activity can be performed in a home-based model since it does not require physical space for production or storage.
With the tools available on the internet for dissemination of any type of digital product, writing eBooks can be a very lucrative business. One good way, for example, write an ebook and publish on Amazon.
You provide your materials for a store that has millions of customers and they pay up to 70% of royalties by direct wire transfer to your account. You can write a guide on anything or a thriller set in the 50s.
Not only that, you can write technical texts, reviews of products, stories, articles, advertising copy and the more you know or like. There is a demand for all this on the Internet, especially for those who speak English.