Internet is a beautiful place and when you first land up on the internet, you want to explore everything. And inevitably, the first thing you want to do on the internet is earn money online. The reasons are simple. You think it's easy, it's faster, and it's better than the offline world.
And you have read many stories of people earning millions and millions of dollars on the internet. But it all comes to the basics.
Yes, there are many things from which you can earn money on the internet. And most of the time, it's usually what you can do offline, you can do it better online. And that's how you leverage and get more money on the internet. For example, if you are a consulting firm who consults people, who does consulting, then you can do the same thing, but leverage it and multiply it and give the same consulting to many people and earn potentially more revenue.
But the skill and the work you need to do are both the same on the offline world and the internet. And perhaps it is more in the internet world.
However, below are some of the things by doing which you should not earn money online.
Click To Earn
The first one is very simple. Earning money by clicking something. This is an age old scam and it runs on a very simple principle. It gives you a promise that all you need to do is click on some images or ads or watch this video and you will earn some pennies.
The thing is, you might earn money by doing this, but the result would be that you would earn maybe $1 for 10 hours of your time. And that is a simply waste of time and not a good ROI.
In many cases, the payout would be so huge that you might never reach the payout amount by clicking the ads and you just have wasted 10 hours of your time and earned nothing. So this is a very simple and basic way to get scammed online.
Mechanical Turk Jobs
The second thing by which you should not earn money online is by doing menial, low-rated tasks. These are some tasks which people want you to do for like $1, $2, and $3. For example, writing reviews on Amazon or going and commenting on a Reddit thread or something like that.
All these to get something viral because eventually they will earn money out of it and you're becoming the agent of fake things. The work you do and the type of work you do, the money you earn is not up to the point and you should really avoid doing such kind of thing online because it will not scale and only you will regret it.
You will focus all your energy on such kind of activities and you will not be able to do the thing which matters on the internet, leveraging your skill, upskilling, and making your portfolio, and so on and so forth.
Earn By Filling Surveys
The third type of thing which you should not try to earn money is by doing surveys. And you might say there are very legitimate surveys websites. Google also provides a surveys website in which you can earn points and redeem points and so on and so forth. And yes, this is a legit way of doing things.
But again, the surveys would be random. It would be maybe once a week and you might earn maybe, I don't know, $20 in a month. And it seems a good money, but the amount of patience and amount of filtering you need to do and maybe you will land up on many surveys, but despite that it will not be a good amount of money for you to spend so much time on a service.
Maybe it's something you do in a pastime, maybe once a month because you like giving surveys, but after a while it is exhausting and not the worthwhile use of your time.
So yes, it is a legitimate way to earn money, but since it is attractive because you are earning money, you will get trapped in these service things and you will not explore the real thing outside.
Of course, these are some of the things by which you should not earn money online and these are not necessarily scams, but there are websites which are scams and which are not scams, but either or, they are really not worth your time.
Alternative Earning Idea
So what is your worth of your time on making money online? And the simplest thing is that, go offer your consulting service. If you are a teacher offline, start teaching.
If you are a dancer online, start teaching dance, start showcasing dance. And go to the forums and try to build some clients and maybe advertise and just client, get some clients.
If you are not starting with a famous name or famous search, something, then you should definitely consider advertising. And of course, that is also a very difficult thing to achieve, but at least even if you spend maybe $100 on advertisements, you might get two to three leads and you might convince one to get your consulting.
And if you can charge them $150, that's a $150 profit for you. And then you can scale it. And if it fails, then you will learn that either your offering is not good or either your copy is not good or there is not much demand for such type of consulting in the market.
Either or, you have nice result for you, but this is all happening because you have some kind of.
Portfolio
What happens if you don't have kind of money and you still want to earn online? So there are there are some ways, but instead of diving into that, the best way I would suggest you to get a portfolio.
For example, if you are into consulting, make a website or make a portfolio on a free site even, and Keep doing projects which doesn't require a lot of money or very little money, and keep showcasing that. And eventually, someone or some people will land on it and maybe you'll get a gig.
But the best way would be that you keep trying in the internet online companies for a job, for a relationship, for a remote work, and that becomes your portfolio and because of that you can leverage and they can see your work and they can hire you.
And because it's a remote work, you either get the money or arbitrage, or you get to work on many remote companies at the same time and leverage your time and skills and make money.
So that's how you make the best use of your time and make money on the internet.