Despite what those Nigerian fellas would have you believe, the road to making money online doesn’t come with easy windfalls. Like any other potential cash source, you must choose your spots wisely and spend your resources efficiently to wring some extra pocket money from your endeavors.

Fabulously Broke put together a helpful guide to finding income streams online. Well, perhaps “income trickles” is a more fitting description.

Her selections include:

Surveys. Sites such as : (SurveyBounty) can be grinds, but they are honest organizations that will pay up if you put in the often copious effort.

Sell your stuff. If you’ve lived in the same place for any significant amount of time, odds are you’ve got a bunch of usable junk you’d like to get rid of. Hocking it online will almost always bring you more than the pocket change you could muster with a garage sale. There’s effort involved with posting sales, packing and shipping, but you can set prices that will make the costs worth your while.

Make stuff and sell it. If you’re crafty, you can turn your home into your own private sweatshop and foist your knickknacks to unsuspecting collectors of sweet nothings. You can make wallets, jewelry, decorations and the like with cheap raw materials from craft stores.

If you make money online, how do you do it and how much do you pull in?

How to make money online: part one [Fabulously Broke]

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