How to earn money on internet

  Online jobs for college students

Although students go to school for study, but beyond this they also need money for their daily needs. You may be thinking how one can earn that extra money while going to school. Yes you can. Nothing is impossible in this modern era. There are various ways
with which you can earn money on internet. These include part time blogging, full time blogging, paid surveys, freelance writing, data entry, online tutoring etc. Here we are going to teach you about some online jobs for college students with which you can earn some money for your daily needs.

        Why students need this

1. To pay the loan that students get for their study
2. To enjoy the weekends.
3. For the books they needed during their study
4. Beyond all these, it also encourage students that they can get job.

 Methods to earn money online.

     1.     Freelance Writing

Freelance writing is one of the most easy and widely used way to earn money on internetIn this, you are to write articles for a client and you will get paid.These pays depend on the standard set i.e. 1Rs/6words or anything else. Payments will either be fixed per word or per project or per standard hourly rates.

Great sites to find freelance writing jobs include:

1. oDesk
2. Elance
3. Craiglist (your city > jobs > writing / editing)
4. Freelancewritinggigs
5. Textbroker

2 – Online Tutoring

This is one of the best way for college students to earn money If you have good knowledge about studies, then you could be assigned as an online tutor. Here you will have to go through chats or video chats or any other to teach students and help them in their homework.

However, you may have to go through a pass test to check if you are able to get assigned as a tutor. Some sites also require you to have some minimal qualification such as Degree or Diploma or minimum grades in particular degree.

Great sites to find online tutoring jobs include:

1. Tutor.com
2. Homework tutoring
3. Aim 4 A

3 – Data Entry

As the name suggests, here you need to enter some data in websites and you will get paid for this. You may need to search for your clients to gather information for data entry. These Data entry work doesn’t always pay a lot, but it is simple work that you can do in your free time.

Great sites to find data entry jobs include:

1. oDesk
2. Elance
3. Amazon Mechanical turk (mturk.com)
4. ifreelance
5. Craiglist (your city > jobs > web / info design)

4 – Virtual Assisting

As the name suggests, you can be get appointed as a virtual secretary. i.e. you will have to perform the secretarial tasks such as scheduling the appointments, managing emails, making phone calls etc.The main thing is that you work at home from your computer and hence you need mot go to office. This would give you feel of 9-5 job where you work with one or two clients. You can work whenever you want.

Great sites to find virtual assisting jobs include the following:

1. oDesk
2. Elance
3. Guru
4. iFreelance
5. Craiglist  (your city>jobs>admin>/office)

5. Survey Taking

Sometimes you get fake emails about making money through paid surveys.Well these are not as fake as you think. There are many online surveys with which you can earn a little money.You can get different amount of money for different surveys, but you will have to prove that you can be trusted for the survey and the information provided by you is true.The note here is that money provided by online surveys is not very high.

Sites to find surveys are listed below: 

          Pinecone Research 

         Survey Spot 

         iPoll 

         My Points

6. Misc. Side Tasks online

If all else fails, what you can do is choosing a side task. This may include writing movie stories, dramas, articles, sharing a person’s website, promoting a product etc.

Things needed to work online

Before you get too excited about working your next online job, you need to make sure you are prepared to do this. First of all, a good internet connection is necessary to work online. Here are few things you will need to have job on the internet:

       A computer with consistent internet access

          Microsoft Office (Microsoft word, Microsoft Excel) or similar.

          A PayPal account

          A bank account to transfer money to or deposit checks into(necessary)

         An email account

          Skype (optional)

Although all of the things listed above may not necessary for working online but I suggest you to get them ready for any type of job you may get.This will help you to do any job without any delay.If you do not have computer of your own, you may use cafe or library to work online.You may also get a free version of Microsoft Office from your college or from your friend  to use on your personal computer. However you can also download it. Explore your options, and you could soon be making money from home.

Making money online will save you from having to take out excess student loan. If you already have student loan, this online earning may help you to get debt free as soon as possible. However there are various other ways to earn money on internet such as Google ad-sense etc. Even you can get enough money that you need not to find a job at any place but its not as easy. For this, you need to sit in internet, gain knowledge about various possible ways to earn and then you are done.