Updated Real Beginner guide on how to start making money online from the comfort of your room in Kenya and get paid via mpesa, paypal, western union, or Bank Transfer.
The number of internet users keeps increasing daily. People are becoming increasingly aware of the amount of money they can generate in a click of a mouse. However, getting a job online is in not that easy if you have no person to guide you.
Just like any other business, making money online is not without a host of challenges, and only a few succeed. Do not believe it when someone tells you that you can become a millionaire in a day without putting in much effort.
Making money online is not a one-day-get-rich business, but you can make good cash if you are hard-working, committed, honest, and patient.
Before I introduce you to ways of making money online, be aware of the following:
Writing is a process of putting down well-thought responses to suit a client’s needs, not a matter of recording already-developed thoughts. Since it’s not possible to think about everything all at once, most experienced writers handle a piece of writing in stages. You will generally move from planning to drafting to revising, but be prepared to return to earlier stages as your ideas develop (more info on how to write a quality article available at www.kenyayote.co.ke).
Writing is the best way of making money online. It is also the most genuine way of making some cash online. I say it is the best because it does not require any investment at all if you have a computer and can access the internet.
You can either decide to be a news writer, academic writer, sponsored review writer, content writer, or SEO writer. Below are some categories of writing:
It involves conducting research on a given topic. If you want to be an Academic writer or content writer, you must be familiar with academic writing styles (APA, MLA, HARVARD, CHICAGO). You must also be aware of plagiarism and how to avoid it.
In order to get an academic writing job you need to apply and do a simple test to be allowed to be a writer for an individual or a writing company. Some of the best academic writing companies that offer jobs to writers that I have personally used include:
Content and SEO writing does not have strict rules like academic writing. The best websites that pay writers to write for them include;
This involves writing reviews about a particular product. Companies that pay Kenyans for writing sponsored reviews include
This involves writing for a site and then you get a certain percentage of money that is generated whenever people click on adverts placed in your written content. This is one of the best ways of making money online because it involves using another website which means it is not must for your own website or blog.
Some of the sites that pay Kenyans through content revenue are:
Making money online through affiliate programs is similar to making money online through referrals but the difference is that for one to make money online through affiliate programs, the person he has referred must make a purchase. You are normally paid some commission out of the purchase of the product. I call this online hawking.
For instance, if the person you have referred purchases a book worth 600. You will be paid about 200. It is one of the best and most genuine ways of making money online. However, the only problem with making money online through affiliate program is that it takes time for one to make a purchase.
Some of the genuine companies that pay through affiliate marketing are
Facebook is one of the best platforms for generating money online. Some of the best ways of making money online using Facebook are;
You can buy expired books sold in the streets, scan and sell them online for a good price. Fiction, poems, and love books sell well. You can as well take your time and write your own ebook if you are literature.
Some of the websites where you can sell ebooks are;
Although a blog is a type of journal, it is a public writing space rather than a private one. In a blog, you might express opinions, make observations, recap events, have fun with language, or interpret an image so long as what are you writing is original.
Starting a blog is a simple A B C affair. You need to come up with a unique name or title that you will give your website or blog. For instance, my website name is www.kenyayote.co.ke It is up to you to decide your name but remember that your website name must not resemble another website’s name.
The costs of starting a blog differ depending on the host company. It is like the price of a commodity that differs from store to store. Averagely, the charges of hosting a website for one year range from ksh. 2,000 to 6,000. Remember domains have different prices, mostly determined by their endings; such as ac.ke, org, com, net, info, and edu (for example, www.kenyayote.co.ke, www.kenyayote.ack.ke, www.kenyayote.org, www.kenyayote.net, and www.kenyayote.edu). It is up to you to choose how you want your site to end but take the pricing into consideration. The term host means the company that will give you permission to run your website. It is just like a business license.
Some of the companies that offer Webhosting services include;
Bluehost is the best for international hosting. Kenyan hosting companies have issues with fast-growing websites. Their capacity cannot accommodate heavy resource-consuming websites like eCommerce websites or classified sites. And if they support, they are too costly. Go for local hosting if yours is a small personal blog. Read our detailed review of our Bluehost hosting experience.
It is among the best web hosting companies in Kenya. If you are a newbie, I encourage you to host your site with sasahost. Their customer service is excellent. If you are hosting a site for the first time, they are always ready to assist you.
It is also among the best web hosting companies. The cheapest price of hosting a website with kenyawebexperts is ksh. 1,000.
You can also open a free blog with Blogger.com, WordPress.com, Tumblr, among many others. Nevertheless, a free blog won’t be as good as a premium blog.
Like there is a reason for starting any business there is also a reason for opening a website or blog. There are many benefits of having a blog or website. But the major benefit is the financial gains that you get from your website. Websites with high traffic like Standardmedia.ac.ke, nation.africa, the-star.co.ke and Tuko make thousands of dollars a day through advertising.
Most websites normally begin to generate revenue through ads after six months but it also depends on the quality of your work.
If you have no idea which topic your blog should talk about you can use the topics listed below;
Some online companies that pay for advertising in your blog are listed below. However, remember some will not advertise on your site if the content or posts are not original or if your site has low traffic.
Companies that pay for advertising on your site ;
Read more about monetization and the many ways through which you can monetize your work.
