Last weekend there was a comment I made about how guys with unlimited internet connection can make some money on their free time.Skills that can make money include IT, writing SEO articles, Transcription, academic writing and affiliate marketing. I have a background in IT and that doesn't mean that you need the same to make some coin.
IT Skills:
Let me start with people with IT skills, there is a huge demand for people who can develop software for Windows, Web apps and mobile apps. The size of projects and expertise determine you pay grade. Even a noob who can install Wordpress or Joomla can have something to do. The pay for can be from $5 an hour to $100 an hour. Skills required are HTML,PHP, C#,Ruby,Python,Java and Java Script among other languages. With coding it's like speaking if you can learn one language as a mother tongue so to speak learning a different one is not hard. Where to get the jobs: Elance.com, http://www.guru.com/,https://www.freelancer.com/job/ and https://www.upwork.com/. To get the jobs available you need to create a profile which is more like a CV, pitch on the jobs listed and you get paid in USD. Pic below is from Elance.
SEO article Writing:
For all the grammar nazis led by @gashwin you can make anything from $10 for a page of 500 words. SEO stands for search engine optimization. Basically this is writing articles or blog posts for people with websites. There are some terms like keywords and keyword density, which you can google and find out what they mean before starting out on this. below is a screenshot of sites that you can start your quest from.
Academic writing:
This is a field that have made Kenyatta Uni students drop out of school and some graduate and have never looked for jobs or will never. The obvious answer is because they are minting big time. There are lazy ass rich white kids that just want to pass their exams and without sweating for it. This is something that I have not done personally but I know of people doing quite well. There is a learning curve to this on this likes citation of essays. The essays that you write can be for high school, under grad, post grad etc. Post grad thesis and essays can pay as much as $50 per page. Due to the pretty coin involved, the barriers of entry are a notch higher. The best resource is a facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/218593731566188/ which is by Kenyans. You can ask questions or be willing to be trained for a fee etc. That is not my field so I live it at that.
On transcription you can get to this other facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/kenyantranscribers/
P.S My gramar might not be perfect and I dont have the time to proof read, grammar nazis GTFO!
P.S.S I will talk of affiliate marketing in a future post in detail.
@Mzee mzima you are free to ask any question.
IT Skills:
Let me start with people with IT skills, there is a huge demand for people who can develop software for Windows, Web apps and mobile apps. The size of projects and expertise determine you pay grade. Even a noob who can install Wordpress or Joomla can have something to do. The pay for can be from $5 an hour to $100 an hour. Skills required are HTML,PHP, C#,Ruby,Python,Java and Java Script among other languages. With coding it's like speaking if you can learn one language as a mother tongue so to speak learning a different one is not hard. Where to get the jobs: Elance.com, http://www.guru.com/,https://www.freelancer.com/job/ and https://www.upwork.com/. To get the jobs available you need to create a profile which is more like a CV, pitch on the jobs listed and you get paid in USD. Pic below is from Elance.

SEO article Writing:
For all the grammar nazis led by @gashwin you can make anything from $10 for a page of 500 words. SEO stands for search engine optimization. Basically this is writing articles or blog posts for people with websites. There are some terms like keywords and keyword density, which you can google and find out what they mean before starting out on this. below is a screenshot of sites that you can start your quest from.

Academic writing:
This is a field that have made Kenyatta Uni students drop out of school and some graduate and have never looked for jobs or will never. The obvious answer is because they are minting big time. There are lazy ass rich white kids that just want to pass their exams and without sweating for it. This is something that I have not done personally but I know of people doing quite well. There is a learning curve to this on this likes citation of essays. The essays that you write can be for high school, under grad, post grad etc. Post grad thesis and essays can pay as much as $50 per page. Due to the pretty coin involved, the barriers of entry are a notch higher. The best resource is a facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/218593731566188/ which is by Kenyans. You can ask questions or be willing to be trained for a fee etc. That is not my field so I live it at that.
On transcription you can get to this other facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/kenyantranscribers/
P.S My gramar might not be perfect and I dont have the time to proof read, grammar nazis GTFO!
P.S.S I will talk of affiliate marketing in a future post in detail.
@Mzee mzima you are free to ask any question.