How to Get Rich Online
If you’re after a long-term way to make money online with sustainable income-producing results, the truth is that learning how to get rich online it isn’t as difficult as it might seem.
For many years, I worried about how I would make enough money to survive. Now, I spend more time enjoying the journey to wealth instead.
Very few people who didn’t have money before don’t just wake up one day and become wealthy. In fact, being rich is a choice that you make and a way of life that you must commit to every day.
It took me a long time to get to where I am today as a full-time internet marketer. What finally changed things for me was that I figured out how to get rich online realistically.
While I haven’t yet achieved super-rich status, my mindset when it comes to money has changed drastically.
So how did I do it? How can I possibly teach you how to get rich online?
Here is how I got rich online:
Just in case you don’t really have a lot of time to read this post, all you need to know about how to get rich online is the following:
- Realize that you have to make better choices with your money and start believing that it really is possible for you to be wealthy.
- Start saving and investing today, even if you can only afford to put away a few dollars at a time. Your future self will thank you.
- Get educated about personal finance and learn how to grow your income online regularly and invest ahead of the crowd.
- Focus on making more money every day and take time to celebrate the small successes.
You CAN Get Rich
Although it might be hard for you to stop thinking about how difficult it is pay your bills every month, you need to know that things can and WILL change. The first thing that needs to change is your mindset about making money.
The best thing that I can recommend for breaking your poor relationship with money now is to start researching how people in a similar situation to yours overcame their money problems.
Perhaps, you’ll need to research how to pay down debts, get rid of your student loans or simply learn how to put away more of the money that you earn every month. Whatever your major issue is with money, write it down, and start figuring out some solutions.
An easy way to do this is to simply search for “top personal finance blogs” in your country and start reading some of them to see if there are tips there that you can follow.
Instead of reading the news every day that simply repeats how difficult it is to earn money and survive financially, you can start focusing on realistic solutions to your problems.
Invest in Yourself
Saving is important, but it is only one aspect of achieving wealth. Cutting out coffee from your favorite coffee shop might save you a few bucks, but it is not going to dramatically change your life. While there is a limit to how much you can save based on your current income, there is no limit to how much you can earn.
There are many ways to invest your money so that it works for you. The types of investment you choose should align with your risk tolerance. Some popular options for investing include:
- Stock market
- Real estate
- Starting a business
However, above all the most important investment that you can make is in yourself. Not every investment has to start with buying something. Instead, start to surround yourself with people who have the same life goals in mind.
Continuing to hang around people who are stuck in dead-end jobs or simply don’t believe that wealth is possible in this lifetime is not going to help you achieve your goals.
These people will crush your dreams and keep you from exploring new ideas.
While you might not want to get rid of everyone from your life that doesn’t support you because they are your family or your close friends, what you can do is find a mastermind group or online business meetup in your area so that you can start to meet new people who do have what you want in mind.
Start Your Online Business / Side Hustle
If you are wondering how you can focus on “making more money every day,” it’s easy: start your own online business.
From my years of experience in running my own business, I’ve found that doing the tasks that I need to do every day to grow my business has naturally caused me to focus on new ways to make money.
However, the sticking point for many people seems to be in getting started in the first place.
Starting a side hustle is one of the fastest ways to get started in business. By utilizing the skills and talents that you already have, you can easily start generating a steady source of income on the side.
And the best part: you don’t even have to quit the job that you already have.
To start a side hustle, just choose from these options:
Affiliate Marketing. By referring your website visitors to buy products online, you’ll earn commissions on every sale with affiliate marketing. Read this post: New to Affiliate Marketing? Here’s What’s Making Money in 2018.
Become a Customer Service Agent. You can work as a call center agent online by signing up with companies that offer remote work at FlexJobs. These jobs will allow you to work from home and all you need is a quiet place to work and a headset.
Become a Freelance Writer / Virtual Assistant. Get paid to write content, set appointments, do online research, and other small tasks for a variety of clients. Find freelance virtual assistant and freelance writing jobs on freelance marketplaces.
Become a Translator / Interpreter. Translation and interpreter gigs can be found at many sites online including Acclaro, OneHourTranslation.com, Rev, Lionbridge, and Indeed.
Blogging. Blogging can be very profitable especially if you can deliver a unique perspective and are committed to finding new ways to monetize your blog traffic. Read this post: 5 Proven Ways to Monetize Your Website
Craigslist Gigs. Craigslist has a specific section dedicated to short-term gigs. Check it daily and apply to new gigs as they are posted.
Create and Sell Online Courses. Teach someone a skill you have already mastered by creating your own online course with Udemy. This will create a source of passive income since you only have to create the course once and it will be sold over and over again.
Get Paid Advertise on Your Vehicle. According to Wrapify, you can get paid up to $500 to “wrap” your vehicle with an advertisement and drive it around town while the app tracks your trips.
Graphic Design. Join freelance sites such as 99 Designs, crowdSPRING, DesignCrowd, and others to create logos, banners, brochures, and other designs for clients.
Paid Online Surveys. Taking surveys online is easy and you can earn cash from online surveys daily. Read this post: 5 Sites That Pay You to Do Almost Nothing.
Provide Travel Agency Services. If you have experience in the travel industry, apply to FlightFox and become a travel expert providing corporate travel services to clients.
Publish an eBook With Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. If you love to write, start publishing your work with Kindle Direct Publishing. Amazon makes it easy to self-publish your work so that you can start making money online from your writing.
Rent Out Your Car. Using Turo or Getaround to rent out your car is a great option for making money from a spare car that you’re not using.
Rideshare. If you have free time every day, you can earn cash by driving people around. Lyft is currently offering a $500 sign up bonus. If you sign up to drive with Uber, you’ll get a $200 signup bonus.
Sell on AliExpress or set up a Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) business. Create your own ecommerce dropshipping business to earn passive income. With a dropshipping business, you don’t have to worry about stocking or shipping products.
Sell on Etsy. Make your own crafts and post them for sale on Etsy, a popular craft marketplace.
Sell Gigs on Fiverr. Selling gigs on Fiverr is a popular option for a side hustle because you can sell all types of gigs. There are even options for automating your gigs so that you don’t even have to create a new product. Learn more here.
Sell on TeeSpring. TeeSpring is a t-shirt fulfillment site that allows people to sell custom t-shirts with little risk. All you have to do is design t-shirts that people want to buy, share the designs on Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram, and start making money. You don’t have to buy t-shirts or ship anything.
Short Term Rentals. Rent out a room of your home or a vacation property to earn monthly income with Airbnb, VRBO or HomeAway. This works especially well if your property is located in a popular tourist destination.
Teach English. If you want to have fun while getting paid to teach English to kids, try teaching English online. With many sites like, VIPKID, lesson plans and course materials are provided. You can also try other sites like italki. Finally, you can also make your own courses and publish them to Udemy or YouTube.
Of course, you will need to do a bit more research to figure out which side hustles work best with your lifestyle since this is not an exhaustive list of ideas. But once you select something that you think will work for you, you can start building right away.
Reinvest Your Money
Now that you have a viable plan for turning your finances around, you’ll need to grow your money.
As your side hustle grows, start to automate it so that the business continues to pay you again and again even as you sleep.
You should also take the money that you make and reinvest into a business venture that earns your passive income so that you are not simply replacing your day job with a side job. Soon I will create a post that talks all about how to set up your passive income streams.
Essentially, there’s no magical solution to getting rich online. However, what most people don’t realize is that every rich person has a system for creating and maintaining their wealth. Now’s the time to find yours.
How will you get rich? Share your journey so far in the comments below!
Freelance Content Writing is a great way to earn money online. I have earned up to 3k per month by writing content for my overseas clients in the comfort of my home.
I truly appreciate your honesty and the integrity with which you operate. I find that honesty attracts honesty. THANK YOU for your guidance and I am sending you loads of appreciation.
Currently I am a customer service agent in a BPO company and earning a little more than the minimum wage in our country. I have been watching lots of tutorials and have been reading lots of reviews about it just get ideas and knowledge about it. Thanks for your posts as well, I’m gonna start reading it and for sure it will contribute to the learnings I got because I really wanna do affiliate marketing.
Some terrific ideas there.
Everybody should invest in themselves and even if they are afraid of leaving their job and becoming self-employed, they should at least have a side-hustle.
I am a beginner and new to this field. But one thing I kept on reminding myself is to be patient. Indeed, we can’t become rich in an instant.
I’m committing myself to learn more about online jobs and improve more my skills. All I need now is more knowledge and experience.
As a crafty person I don’t feel like there is much money to be made in selling handmade items. I’ve tried, I sell for profit and I do make money but it’s simply not worth my time when worked out on an hourly rate. It becomes mundane and ruins any passion once had for the hobby.
I see how this could be a challenge. Perhaps the issue is that you are selling the wrong product? Instead of making the items yourself, how about you try dropshipping instead? With dropshipping, you can still give your creative input in designing the items but you don’t have to make them yourself anymore. Let me know your thoughts on this.
Thank you for this very informative post. I have been looking for ways to make money online because trying to hold a full time job at my age outside the home is getting tiresome. I wish to begin blogging full time and monetizing my blog.
You have offered some very good tips that I will consider. Working online at home and being my own boss is my dream job. I like the thought of choosing my own hours to work. It will offer me more freedom and time for other important things.
This has some really good advice! I’ve found that doing paid surveys is the easiest way to earn a couple quid, plus you don’t really have to do much. Freelance writing has also been a really great way for me to earn money and improve my writing skills at the same time.
Creating online courses sounds super interesting! I’ve never really heard that you could make money off something like that, so I’ll make sure to look into it.