The three wise men of making money online by telling people how to make money online are John Chow, Darren Rowse and Jeremy Schoemaker. There are others, but John Chow is probably the best example of using social media (Digg) as a launching pad for a successful money making blog.
The problem with this market is that buyers see price but don't hafe other information to make decision. Race to the bottom doesn't serve the need of producers or even consumers - razor thing margins leave no budget for innovation, only for the bare minimum. This breeds short planning horizon, and sometimes things just need to take more time.
Well, if there is a demand for a "clever" get-a-freelancer site, where focus is on qualifications and portfolio, and not down-bidding, the market should be providing one. Capitalism isn't just about down bidding :)
I'm probably going to need a remote, freelance Django dev or two soon, but I'm not too sure how to go about it.
I'm tired of such articles. A lot of people post such articles. Now it's sitepoint.
Of course, the best way to make extra income on the web is by telling others how to make extra income on the web.
thomasmallen, you hit the nail on the head.
AndrewWarner: yeah mturk does pay, but just for a hotdog once in 60 days. :D
Cash in on Your Photos
I need to be a photographer.
Help People Search
For cents?
Flip a Website
Damn! If my site was that valued to flip then why wouldn't I make profit from it?
Becoming an eBay millionaire is far from a piece of cake
that was under sell your stuff then why is the word 'killer' used in the title. The statement contrasts the title.
The only thing I saw that was of quality was "doing odd jobs" coz this works. Ex: compose music on sites like audiojungle and sell them. Or sometime back there was a rush to create a 1px ad site(even though we now know its real stupid) or to sell t-shirts.
I would say, trash common ideas some do something that you can. Hackers can code. Make your money from that. Can you make funky electronics projects (and do you love it)? Do them. sell them or make videos of those projects and put them up on some video site that shares revenue with you.
Not everybody can do freelance dev or design. And nobody wants t-shirts with your blog logo. I'll better go pick a new tee from the shop down the street.
And these "ideas to make money" actually have worked and there are leaders in those respective fields who make the most of the money and that's why its being posted. If you wanna make good money then find and do something unique and your idea might as well be featured on such an article a year later. You'll then be watching from your window and still making money while other copycats are using your idea(that would be decade old to you) and wondering how you made the money.
P.S: Out of curiosity, is it the official sitepoint HN account?
How about start a local business? As a web designer/developer it's much easier to sell a website to a local biz than it is to win a project on Elance for peanuts all the while competing against 75 huge Indian firms.
I know that doesn't quite qualify as making money 'online' but it's pretty darn close.
It is sad to see the idea that there are easy money to be made on the internet still reinforced.
I mean easy is a relative term of course, but I doubt there was anything easy about creating digg, google, or facebook, nor do I think it was a walk in a park to make any decent money generating website.
I think at some point we need to eradicate this idea that the internet is somewhat different than the real world because in my opinion it is not, it is simply a medium or maybe a platform but not a second reality.
There is easy money to be made online, just in small amounts. I made thousands with PayPerPost, hundreds with AdSense and hundreds more from a small collection of other services.
It's not money I'm going to retire on, but it helped pay the bills (my AdSense account pays my electricity bill every month) and for some people could mean the difference between keeping their homes and not.
