Sunday, September 2, 2012

10 ONLINE JOBS FOR STUDENTS

There are many good and free online jobs for college students that can help college students cover part or all of their college expenses. But, not every college student is qualified for such jobs.
Thankfully, there are also many easy online work for college students that most college students can do. Here are 10 work from home jobs for college students that are simply looking to make some extra money online without investment.

QuickRewards
QuickRewards is one of many reward based sites that are also known as GPT (Get Paid To) sites. This is a reward site where you can earn money for doing things that you probably do online everyday such as visiting interesting websites, playing games and even shopping. Yes, you can even get paid to shop!
Registration is free and you can start making money right away and best of all, there is no minimum required for cashing out and if you cash out via PayPal, you will get paid in most cases in less than a few hours.
That said, you can not count on QuickRewards or other GPT sites as a way to make a living on the web. With these sites, the most you can make is a little extra spending money which these days everyone needs and appreciates.

Amazon Mechanical Turk
Amazon Mechanical Turk is basically a micro freelancing site owned by the mighty amazon corporation. Mturk (as its also known as) is a micro job site where businesses post odd and small jobs that are very easy to do but computers can not do. These are tasks that can only be done by humans.
Most tasks pay ridiculously low, but at the same time, most tasks require only a few seconds to be completed. So, its a numbers game. The more tasks you complete, the more money you can make.

Paid Surveys
Another one of those free online jobs for college students, is participating in market research studies conducted by market research companies such as SurveySpot. Taking paid online surveys is an easy online job that college students can do to make some extra spending cash. Basically you get paid to fill out simple questioners about anything from the food you eat to movies you watch, clothes you wear and basically any product or service that you may use in your daily life.
Be warn though, there are lots of paid surveys scams out there that are waiting to rip you off. Remember, all legitimate paid survey companies are free to join. You can find a list of legitimate paid surveys sites here.

Data Entry
Data entry work is one of those easy work at home jobs that almost anyone can do including college students. It is simple, can be done from the comfort of your own home (or college dorm room) and it pays well relativity speaking.
As a data entry worker you are required to do some very basic but somewhat time-consuming tasks such as organizing documents into folders and entering information into spreadsheets.
You can find data entry jobs using one of many freelancing sites such as Odesk.com, Freelancer.com and Vworker.com (formally known as Rent a Coder).

Translating
These days lots of people speak a second language and many of those people are college students. If you are one of those college students who do speak one or more foreign language, you can make good money with your skill as a language translator.
Again, you can use freelancing sites like Odesk and Freelancer to find translation work. If you get lucky, you may get hired by a government agency in which case, expect to make real good money.

Virtual Assistant
Thanks to the ever-increasing popularity of the Internet and all the businesses that operate online, these days there is a never-ending demand for virtual assistant. As a virtual assistant, you basically do secretarial work but instead of working from someone else’s office, you work from the comfort of your own home right in front of your computer.
To find virtual assistant jobs, check out sites like Fiverr.com or even online discussion forums where webmasters and business owners look for virtual assistants.
Best Work From Home Jobs For College Students
Blogging
Blogging has become a huge success and these days almost everybody and their grandma are blogging. If any of these online jobs are made for college students, it has to be blogging. I mean, who has more stuff to talk about than college students!
Start a blog about whatever that interests you, be it your classmates, your life as a college students, your dorm room activities or what have you. Give people interesting reads and soon you will have loyal readers who will read every word you write.
Once you get to that stage, monetize your blog with ads and even your own products to make money.

Fiverr
This is another one of those online jobs that you would think was made specifically for college students. Fiverr is basically a micro freelancing sites where you can make money offering any kind of services you can imagine for a mare 5 bucks. It can be as simple as holding a sign next to a landmark in your city to as weird as writing a message on your toe nails and whatever else you can think off.
While most people may not be able to make a living on Fiverr, if you have a good enough gig that you can deliver quickly, you can be amongst many hundreds of people who are actually making a living working on Fiverr.

Tutoring
Tutoring online is a fantastic online job if you are good at it. There are so many people these days who are willing to pay others to teach them everything from math and science to web programming, physics and everything in between. You can find online tutoring jobs by taking advantage of online tutoring sites such as Tutor.com and WizIQ.

Writing
There are hundreds of thousands of websites and blogs that are born every single day and each and every one of these sites need fresh quality content on a variety of topics from health and fitness to finance, electronics, tech, lifestyle, fashion and everything in between.
If you can write decently, it won’t be that hard to make minimum wage or even make a living in some cases as a writer online. There are people who get paid $100 or more per every 500 word article they write. However, most people can expect to get paid under $10 per article. But as you gain some clients and show your skills, you can expect to make much more than that. Here is a list of websites that pay you to write.

These may not be the best online jobs for college students and many of the above mentioned Internet jobs may not help you make a full-time income online, but non the less, they can easily enable you to earn additional cash at a time when every penny counts. Not to mention, there are many college students who do actually make enough money online with some of these online jobs for college students.

26 WAYS TO MAKE MONEY ONLINE

                                                                                        
1.      Design Graphics
Web masters need headers, banners, footers, and ebook covers.
If you're artistically inclined build up a portfolio of your graphics and offer your services.I offer graphic design  of ecover to people who need my service and its advertised on my website. You can charge people to do this for them. You can buy the software to do this.
For a software that you can use in creating ecover and webdesign, simply send a mail to menog@menogdomain.com with subject as “graphics and web design software and I will reach you.
2.      Post on forums
It has been shown that people don't want to post on forums unless there are already posts. New forum owners pay people to post comments, start threads, and respond to other threads in an effort to get some forum action going.As the forum grows, the level of posting increases until paid posts aren't necessary.Forum topics have a huge variety. There's probably a forum for just about any subject.Usually a paid poster has to have at least some knowledge of the subject to post relevant comments. There can be a minimum word count for the posts.Posts of "I agree," "Me too," and "Thanks for the info," are too short and don't add anything to the discussion, so forum owners don't want to pay for them. Posting on forums doesn't pay a lot, perhaps as little as 10 posts for a dollar.To get started in making money by posting on forum, just visit google.com and type on your search bar “get paid to post on forum” and you will see a list of where you can start making money there.
..      Post on blogs
You can be paid to post comments on blogs much the same way you can be paid to post on forums.Pretty much the same criteria applies, the posts can't be too short and have to be relevant to the subject matter.To get the sites, just visit google.com and write on the search engine
“get paid to post comments on blogs” and you will see the vast places you can make money by just posting comments.
4.      Writing Articles for Pay
There are sites that pay for content. Most of the sites require that you post your article first and wait for a buyer to come by to purchase your articles.AssociatedContent.com buys the article from you. The pay is minimal from $3 to $5 per 500 word article.However there are occasions where Associated Content has paid up to $50 per article. The articles can be submitted on an exclusive basis, meaning they aren't and won't be posted anywhere else, or nonexclusive, which means you've used the article elsewhere.It takes a day or two for Associated Content to review the article and make the offer.You are not required to accept the offer and can withdraw the article.It takes another two days for the article to be published and then two or three days for Associated Content to make the payment to you. 
Websites that pay for articles: 
www.Associatedcontent.com   www.constant-content.com  www.helium.comwww.lifetips.com. There are a number of sites you can post articles, tips, or essays to.You get paid a share of the earnings of the ads that show up with your article.The more popular your article, the more views, the more revenue you can earn. 
Sites that share ad revenue with writers
www.flixya.com/
www.daytipper.com 
www.metacafe.com/ 
www.vume.com/ 
www.hubpages.com 
www.squidoo.com 
Forums 
www.SitePoint.com   
www.v7n.com 
www.webtalkforums.com/ 
www.talkfreelance.com/ 
 www.associateprograms.com 
 www.wickedfire.com/
www.im4newbies.com/forum/ 
 www.wahm.com/forum/ 
www.internetbasedmoms.com/bb/ 
 www.businessforum.net
5.      Pay Per Sale, Affiliate Programs, and Commissions
You're simply selling someone else's product through your marketing efforts, whether it's your blog or website, and you receive a sales commission when the sale is completed.Most of these products are informational, either an ecourse, software, or ebook. Quite a few of the affiliate products pay more than a 50% commission.The smart product owners offer banners, buttons, sales copy, and even articles that you can use to promote with.Clickbank.com is one of the most established programs.Commission Junction (ww.cj.com) is another source.
E-junkie.com is the latest and you can start promoting products here.
I have used e-junkie.com to generate great profit even by making $205 within 2 hours while in my life training in my Internet Business School Class.You can visit http://www.7dollargiveaway.com
All of the above make the payments to the affiliates so you don't have to worry whether the product owner will pay. PayDotCom is a program which uses PayPal as the payment method. The product owner makes the decision to pay the affiliates and has to authorize PayDotCom to do so.Many products offer their own affiliate program independently. Look for one with a solid history of payment.You can also become an affiliate of amazon.com to sell books and consumer products such as jewelry, televisions, or other consumer items. The percentage 11 commission is much lower, but sometimes the retail price is high enough to make up for it.
6.      Develop Your Own Product
This is the way you can make real money on the Internet which I have used severally and as you read, I am still making the bucks from Americans, Britons and Asians.People look to the Internet and the search engines to find information on how to cure a problem they have or find a solution.Develop a short report, 2500 words or so, a long report, 2500 to 5000 words, or an ebook  7500 words and up. You could also develop an ecourse that's a combination of emails, an ebook, chats, and perhaps conference calls. The report doesn't have to be Internet related. People are looking for cures for insomnia, crying babies, weight loss, stress reduction and many more problems. Resources:
7.      Develop Your Own Product with PLR
Buy a package of Private Label Rights (PLR) articles all on the same topic. There should be at least 4000 to 5000 words of material to call it an ebook.If the articles don't lead into each other very well, call the ebook 10 Tips to xxxxx-. Each article would be one tip. Use the title of each article as a chapter in your table of contents.Have a cover graphic made for the book cover. Private label rights material from a number of websites, such as Private Label Report.
8.      Record the PLR as an Audio, or record your own product as an Audio
That gives you two products for the price of one.  While I was doing my training, I was recording it and I sell how I made $205 within 2 hours while in training for only N5,000 so people can also use it and implement the same principle as I have done it.
9.      Get Paid to --- Take Surveys, Receive Offers, Read Email
First rule: Don't pay someone to find out information about the "Get Paid To" companies. There are too many sites which falsely represent that you will be paid cash for taking surveys, referring visitors, or accepting offers.Some of these offers require a credit card. You sign up for a free month of XYZ movies, get paid $15 for accepting the offer and provide your credit card number. If you don't cancel the offer your credit card will be billed, and you can't cancel immediately, or you won't be paid.Usually you have to reach a minimum level of earnings to receive a check or deposit to your Paypal account. And the minimum level is nearly impossible to earn. Some of the surveys can be completed quickly and some take an hour or so to complete.
Most of the money is made through referring other people, not through completing the surveys or accepting the products yourself.
But let me give you the reliable GPT sites: they include
 etc. You do not need to make a payment to start here.
10.  Blog Your Way to Beaucoup Bucks.
Blogging is a website (don't worry no website skills needed) that you update every day with posts about your chosen subject. Visitors can comment on your posts for others to see. You can run your affiliate marketing with your blog and you can also use your blog to market your business as well as add pay per click programs like google adsense.
Using your blog as a billboard
There are several websites that will pay you to post product reviews on your blog.
They are paid by the company that owns the products. The products can range from consumer durable goods, consumable goods, or just about anything you can think of.
The blog has to be approved by the company and has to remain up for a specified length of time. There usually has to be a qualifying statement that your post is a paid advertisement.
11. Using your blog as a review site
Another way to use your blog is to post product reviews of affiliate products. When someone buys the product you're paid a commission. You can post reviews of books you've read that are available on amazon.com and link to the books as an affiliate.  Visit http://www.blogmillionairekit.com and see a practical presentation.
12. Ads on your blog
If your blog has somewhat of a following in a certain niche and gets a reasonable amount of traffic, you can use pay per click (PPC) ads to generate some revenue. The more traffic to your blog, the higher the potential for click through and the more money you can earn. AdSense by Google is a very popular PPC company but there are others. You can also use a blog to sell products as an affiliate.LiveJournal.com, Blogger.com as well as http://www.wordpress.com are just a few of the free sites where you can quickly and easily set up your blog. Blogger will be used as an example to setting up your blog.
13. Sell the Blog
This is called site flipping.
You can have the ebook on www.makemoneyflippingwebsite.com
Set up a blog on its own domain using unique content. Ad affiliate programs, and AdSense revenue then sell the blog 
Get paid to blog



14. Submitting Links to Articles, Websites and Blogs to Social Networking Sites
Submit links to other people's articles, etc. to the social networking sites. The pay isn't terrific, usually no more than a couple of dollars per article. You'll have to set up an account at each site. Below is a list to get you started.With a bit of research you can find quite a few more. Offer the service on Digital Point the same as you would offer to ghost write articles.Setting up the accounts at the social networking sites will probably take a couple of hours.You need your client to tell you the url of the article/website, title, brief description or first paragraph of the article, category, and tags or key words.
Social Bookmarking sites
15. Posting Ads for other people
One of the free ways to drive traffic to your own site, or blog, is to post classified ads on ad sites. Craigslist is one of the most popular, and it seems effective, of the free ad sites. It is city specific, meaning you can only post your ad to one city at a time.But if you're clever and reword the headline of the ad, and the body of the ad, you can post to a number of different cities as long as you use a different ad for each city.You can also post ads for people and get paid for it. The pay is minimal, but the work doesn't take long after you've set up accounts at the different ad sites. 
Other Classified Ad Sites Include:
16. Squidoo Lenses
Think of Squidoo as a place where you can get a free one page - but it can be a very long one page – website. You can earn money on squidoo by selling affiliate products through Amazon.com, earning Adsense revenues and linking to your own products. You share the revenues you earn with squidoo.
Now go to http://www.squidoo.com  and get yourself a lens. Set up your bio in your bio module and link to your product or website in that module.
Now write a 250 to 500 word essay using your key word phrase at least three times. The essay should be relevant to your product or niche. In the essay, create a link to your product, affiliate product and/or to your website.
You might want to use a teaser phrase to encourage people to click on the link. Add a poll and an amazon module, then add another text module with links to your other products or affiliate products. Add a Google news feed module. Then another text module and finally end with a guestbook.This may sound complicated but all the modules are clearly explained and it's really a matter of point and click to populate your lens with interesting products.
17. AdSense
Google, through their AdSense program, offers paid advertising through the use of text linked ads placed on websites. These ads can also be placed on blogs. Advertisers hope to convince visitors to click on the text ad and visit their own websites through these text linked ads.
The advertisers pay Google for every visitor that clicks through. Google passes on some of the money to the owner of the websites where the click originated. This is known as PPC or pay per click. Savvy Internet marketers build websites on topics that have a high PPC with the sole purpose of earning money. Some of these sites known as MFA or Made For AdSense contain little or no redeeming content. The website's owner's intent is to place high in the search engines for a niche key word phrase. Say "Natural Cures for Whatever." People have a tendency to only look at the first page of results when searching. They click on the "Natural Cures for Whatever" site. When they arrive there is little information, so in an effort to leave the site quickly, they click on one of the text linked ads to navigate away. A better philosophy is to make the site content rich to attract visitors and establish a level of trust. The visitor feels comfortable and when they've found the information they needed they are more likely to click on one of the text based ads.Once your money is a minimum of $100, google will send you your cheque to Nigeria and you pay it into your domiciliary account and it clears within 30 days.
18. Set Up a Website and Sell the Site
Find a simple website template. Add content based around a niche. Then set up AdSense and choose additional affiliate products. Once the site achieves some sort of pagerank on Google, sell the site on Ebay. Pagerank is a value that Google assigns to the site that recognizes its importance. It ranges between pr0 and pr10. Or you can try the Warriors Forum www.warriorsforum.com/
Digital Point: www.forums.digitalpoint.com  or
Site Point, www.sitepoint.com  If you don't know html you can use www.wordpress.com  to set up a blog that looks very much like a website. You can also hire someone to do the coding for you. Another alternative is to use a wysiwyg what-you-see-is-what-you-get- program. Most of them are relatively easy to use.
19. Buy and Sell Domain Names
The trick is to select names that have a market, buy low and sell high. Think of it as online real estate.  I have sold several domain names for profit. You can use your paypal account.
Visit www.ppccshguide.com to know more about this.
20. Social Networking Sites
 Keep in mind the word networking is a verb, and that means action. Go to Myspace.com and set up a profile that reflects the product/website/affiliate product you want to sell.Keep the profile fun and interesting. You can also use the blog at Myspace to update your profile. You can add photos, videos from YouTube, and games. Then search for friends using your key words to find people interested in your product. Say you have a golf product, search for golfers.If you have a recipe book, search for people who like to cook. You can also join the forums at Myspace and look for friends that way. The advantage of having friends is that you can send bulletins to your friends that will automatically be posted at their Myspace profile and seen by all their friends. If you have 100 friends and they each have 100 friends, one of your bulletins can potentially be seen by 10,000 people.www.Ryze.com  is social networking site that leans a little more toward business. Again set up your profile with your links, then look for groups to join. The groups should be relevant to your website or products. Most groups have active discussions going on. Answer questions, ask questions and contribute to the discussion. You can make money by selling bulletins to advertisers, offering affiliate products or your own products to your friends.
21. Set Up an Ecourse With PLR or your own material.
 Set up a squeeze page (a web page that offers a bonus of some sort in exchange for the visitors name and email address) to capture names and email addresses in exchange for a free ecourse. The ecourse is a PLR ebook broken down into manageable segments from 250 to 500 words long. These segments are emailed every few days or so. Each segment ends with a pitch for an affiliate product that complements the ecourse. Ecourses can be on any topic from healthy dog food to weight loss, so don't think you have to limit yourself to Internet Marketing.
22. Distribute a Newsletter
Use a package of PLR materials that relates to your own list. Each week use one of the articles as the body of the newsletter. Include an additional article that relates to an affiliate product you think your list members would be interested in.
You make money by selling the affiliate products. When you have a substantial number of subscribers, sell advertising.
23. Sell Stuff on Ebay
Ebay is an auction site. Think of it as a huge online garage sale. You can find just about anything on Ebay for just about any price. Clean out your attic and basement, sell the kid's baby toys, outgrown clothes, and baby furniture. If you've inherited a set of fine china you'll never use, sell it.And of course there's always selling new merchandise that is dropped shipped, which simply means it's shipped directly from the wholesale source to your customer.
24. Become a Virtual Assistant
Assist Internet marketers and web masters with day to day tasks such as responding to email, providing customer assistance, and research.
25. Bum Marketing
Bum marketing is simply using articles you've written to drive traffic to a blog/website/squidoo page you've set up that sells an affiliate product, or your own product. The article is submitted to article directories and includes a bio box that has a little bit about you and the link to your blog/website/squidoo page. The tricks to BUM Marketing are very simple.
1. Use key words in the title of your article and in the article itself so people searching for those key words will find your article on the major search engines.
2. Make the article informative and interesting, but leave the readers wanting more.
3. Include a teaser in your bio box that entices the reader to click on the link to your website/blog.
4. Write enough articles using those keywords. How much is enough?
A rule of thumb is one article per day for the first month.
Article Directories
26. Set up a Membership Site
Membership sites are quite popular as a way to earn recurring revenues. Members sign up for a monthly fee. As long as they remain a member you get paid the membership fee. The fees can range from $5.00 a month to hundreds of dollars a month. The trick is keeping the content fresh so your members have a reason to stick around.