“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn

I know this topic has been used and reused, talked and blogged many times. In fact searching google with the words “is making money online possible?” gives 63,200,000 results while “is earning money online possible?” gives almost the same number.

So therein lies the same question. Is it really possible to do it? To earn money online and get from rags to riches? The answer is YES. Just like earning offline, people can earn money online too but it also takes time, effort and hardwork to do it.

Earning money online is like a full time job. Do not get brainwash and excited with people saying “join us and earn thousands of dollars in just 4 mins”. It is most likely a scam. Check the program first to avoid scams. There are many ebooks and programs that do teach a person how to earn online but how do you know which one to choose? Don’t just rely in testimonials since there’s a big probability that it’s a fake.

10 ways to earn money online

1. 1. Sell your own product. Why else would e-bay be successful? Your junk might be someone else’s treasure. I’m not saying you can only sell junk items in e-bay.  I’m saying join in the bandwagon and sell your stuffs online. You can sell in sites such as e-bay or create your own online shopping store in your own site.
2. 2. Affiliate marketing. If you don’t have your own products to sell, why not sell other people’s products? Get a commission for every sale you do. Clickbank and Paydotcom are affiliate product networks. Just sign up and choose from countless of digital products you can market and earn commissions from. Unfortunately Clickbank doesn’t allow Philippines in the affiliate sign-up form.
3. 3. Take advantage of the next big thing. There are many companies coming up with new stuffs online everyday and people joining in the next big thing. For example a company creates something like twitter, it booms and pretty soon many people are creating and selling plugins for it, selling e-books telling how to earn money from twitter and so on and so forth. If you’re that first person to jump in, you might be surprise with what you can earn.
4. 4. Paid-To Stuffs. Paid to click, paid to blog, paid to write, paid to join, paid to post in forums, paid to surf, paid to take surveys, paid to search or even paid just to be online. There are many programs like these. Be careful when joining though. If some programs are asking for personal details, double check the program.
5. 5. Create a blog - Here is how most bloggers earn online. They start their blogs. If they have a good number of visitors per day, earning this way will be very profitable. Bloggers can combine paid-to-post and advert income this way.

• • Sign up for third party ads programs such as adsense, bidvertiser, adbrite and others. 
• • Sell ad spaces directly from your site. 
• • Sell links. Text-link-ads, kontera and others. Just be careful because google penalizes those sites who sell links.

1. 6. Be an Online Gamer – Who said being a gamer is only about playing and loading real money for bytes? farm gold, sell online, tester, tournaments
2. 7. Market yourself - if you’re a good writer, then hire yourself. if you’re a good programmer then create a program, plugin. If you’re a good designer, design logos. etc. If you’re a good singer, sing your way to you tube. if you’re a good cartoonist, draw a caricature, if you’re good with html, create blog templates. are you tech savvy, provide a tech support, are you good with seo, offer your services.
3. 8. Forex - Simply means foreign exchange. It is the buying and selling of currencies around the world. Everyday the foreign currency exchange rate changes so if you were able to buy a certain currency when it was priced low and then sell it when it’s high, then you have gained some profit.
4. 9. Turnkey - These are customizable websites that that are ready to use. For example, a turnkey item mall which sells digital products. You start a turnkey site which means the site template is done and products are ready to sell. Then provide the domain name and hosting, put your affiliate IDs, adsense account number, and market it. 
5. 10. Money changer – Many Filipino online earners have real money and virtual money. Since most payment processors don’t allow direct withdrawal to Philippine bank accounts, you can offer to become a money changer for a certain fee. 

Bonus: Bookmark this site. We’ll be tackling some of these ways in the future.

Getting Started in Earning Money Online

Before everything else, you might want to get yourself an account where you can send and receive money online. How can you earn money online if you can’t receive them right? There are also many virtual money facilities or payment processors. Sign up in one or both of these common payment processors to get started.

• Paypal – is the most common way of sending and receiving money online. Many online merchants use it and the fact that you can withdraw your paypal money to Philippine bank accounts makes it more appealing. Click the banner below to sign up for a Paypal account.
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• Alertpay – works like Paypal but it is not as famous as the former. The good thing about this payment processor is that PTC (paid-to-click) sites and other similar paid-to sites use Alertpay. The bad thing about this is the fact that AlertPay to Philippine bank account withdrawal is not available right now. Click the banner below to sign up for an Alertpay account.
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Look at it as baby steps. Pretty soon you will also learn and earn money online just like what we’re doing now. Good luck!