5 Ways To Get Rich Online Comment Now Follow Comments To cash in online you need to be a game-changer. When Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook, there was nothing like it. He is now worth $17.5 billion according to recent Forbes valuations. Drew Houston saw money to be made in online storage, and co-founded Dropbox, the web- based tool that hit $240 million in revenue in 2011. Eric Lefkofsky spotted the potential in Groupon and gave $1 million to CEO and founder Andrew Mason. This year, Lefkofsky made the Forbes Billionaires list with a net worth of $2.9 billion. There are still fortunes to be made online, and we have found a few ways to do so. YouTube has launched the career of many a musician, including Justin Bieber, the teen pop sensation who earned $108 million in the past two years. But have you heard of Karmin, the pop duo who signed a million dollar record deal after their Chris Brown “Look At Me Now” cover went viral? The duo, real-life couple Amy Heidemann and Nick Noonan, hit it big when the video gained over 68 million views after its upload in April 2011, propelling Karmin to a million dollar deal with label heavyweight Epic Records just a month later. “Brokenhearted,” the lead single from their debut album, has now gone platinum. You do not have to be a singer to become a YouTube star. If you are lucky, you could shoot a video of your child, pet, or a double rainbow that strikes a chord and goes viral. YouTube might then get in touch asking you to become a partner, meaning the site will run ads along with your clip and share over 50% of the revenue with you. The father of “David After Dentist” has made more than $100,000 from YouTube ads alone. As well as advertising, viral video celebrities can diversify into TV appearances, merchandise and even iPhone apps, as the creator of “Charlie Bit My Finger” has done. YouTube is not the only platform to launch the careers of millionaires. Sophia Amoruso, the founder of online clothing store Nasty Gal, started her business by selling vintage finds on eBay. After building a fan-base she outgrew the platform and created her own website. Nasty Gal is now worth $130 million, and is set to do $ 128 million in sales this year.

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GOTHINKBIG.CO.UK HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE ACHIEVE THEIR CAREER DREAMS Search Navigation NOT ALL OF THOSE “MAKE MONEY ONLINE” SCHEMES ARE SCAMS… Author: Sophie Wilkinson Date: Tuesday 8 October 2013 Tags: bloggers , Comedians , Creativity , writing competition Not ALL of those “make money online” schemes are scams… We’ve all heard of the fictitious single mum from the sticks who invented a miraculous teeth-whitening kit that’s gone on to earn her billions. And those few successful entrepreneurs who have skyrocketed into a world of door-to-door cab journeys, endless rows of boxfresh trainers, designer macchiatos delivered to the house and wallets bulging under the strain of £50 notes. But what about the people who actually exist and aren’t the next entrepreneur? Can they make money simply from sitting in front of their computers all day? At this time of year, it’s easy to feel like you might not have a lot of money in your pockets. And with January being one of those all-round depressing months where the idea of plodding the streets with CVs in the hope of retail jobs is just a bit too far-fetched, we’ve put together a lovely list of ways you can bring in money from the comfort of a computer (with a working internet connection). 1. Be your own eBay Quite a few people have become unhappy with eBay since it was discovered that they don’t pay all their UK corporation tax. Other people have more longstanding rifts with the website. Either because it looks a bit like homework or because they’ve received one low user- rating too many and have been blacklisted from the site after panic-bidding on ugly handbags and fake Ralph Lauren polo shirts and refusing to pay for their wares. Ahem. But with something as simple as a Paypal account and a WordPress-based website, or even BigCartel.com you can create your own shop and sidestep eBay’s issues. Also, Facebook has its very own Marketplace. If you’re happy enough to upload photos of your dog in a jumper or your opinions on Romeo Beckham’s teeth to the website, it’s reasonable that you should use it to make a bit of money out of whatever craft you’ve got – from postcards to jewellery to woolly hats you’ve attached a fun bobble to. If you’re looking for further tips on this, our very own Hipster Tipster has done us a little how-to of selling things both on and offline . 2. A freelancer website/agency There are loads of websites out there which promise to make you money for nothing. But on Freelancer.co.uk or PeoplePerHour.com you can offer up your services to companies who will pay you for one-off projects. A bit like a people eBay (but a bit less like homework) you have an account where companies can see how well you’ve done on previous projects, rate you on the ones they’ve commissioned you for and find out how much you expect to be paid. You can also upload your CV so that potential employers can come across it. Freelance writer Robbie Wojchiechowski uses PeoplePerHour, and says it’s “mainly based at coders/web designers/ graphics people, but you always get a bit of copywriting work come up on it.” The only downside, Robbie says, is that it is quite competitive: “It feels like it faces freelancers against each other where, really, we should all be helping each other.” But we figure this is just a blip in what is otherwise a good resource. 3. Remote tutoring If you’ve bagged yourself enough qualifications to show that you’re literate, not too creepy and capable of explaining what you know and how you know it, you could easily qualify to become an online tutor. Using Skype for both the interview and then any subsequent tutoring sessions you’re booked in for, you probably do have to get out of your pyjamas to do the work, but you’re not obliged to leave the house to go to work. Gigs might be sporadic or ongoing, increasing around the time of coursework hand-in dates and exam periods for SATs, GCSEs and A-Levels. On the plus side, you can name your own price, and because it’s good for the students to have a steady tutor presence, it’s likely that tutors are taken on for longer stints of time and that – unless you do anything really bad – once taken on, you’ll be taken on for a good wodge of time/pay.

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