Online income source generation is one of the biggest trends that hit the work industry in recent times. There are a number of ways one can earn online. Some require hard work and dedication, while others may need only talent on your part. Not all methods, however, will suit everyone. There are various factors you need to consider before deciding which is the most suitable method for them, such as your time, the amount of hard work you are willing to put in, et al. You may have heard numerous success stories on the internet on how some people made millions, while you may also have been made wary from even more stories of failure. Whether you succeed or not depends on what method you choose and how well you are able to understand the tricks of getting the most out your experience.

1. Blogging

Blogging has been around for a long time, and one of the safest routes to online income success. Content creation is always one of the top ways to earn income online. Trending topics in trend now are usually entertainment, tutorial videos etc. There are many free blog hosting sites such as Blogger, where you can monetize your blogs and earn money from them.

2. Creating Online Videos

Videos are much in demand today, with millions of videos uploaded every day on sites such as Youtube, Vimeo etc. You can monetize your videos,or sell products, etc. through videos.

3. Create your own Website

This method requires some investment on your part, and hence it may not be for all. However, if have a great idea which you think will fetch you considerable traffic, go ahead with this option. It might turn out to be one of your permanent source of income. Once you have a website with thousands of pageviews daily, you can join many advertisement platforms, or directly sell ad spaces on your website.  

4. Selling Products Online

There are 2 ways to approach this step: sell products locally, or digitally (online). If you  have a lot of stuff you no longer need, you can always auction them off via sites like ebay, etc. The other option is to sell your digital content: photos, logo designs, website templates, etc. are really hot online selling products in the market. 

5. Freelancing

Freelancing via the internet is a safe option if you don't know what step to choose. There are a number of online sites for freelancing. Jobs are posted, you can bid on them, and get paid when you complete the jobs. Some sites include Freelancer, Odesk etc.

6. Selling Talent Online

While this may be similar to freelancing, there is a slight difference. When you sell your talent, you tell the potential customers your talent, your price, and other details before hand. Customers won't post jobs, but when they have a certain job in mind, they would look at your profile or portfolios, and then decide whether they want to hire you or not. You can create your own website for displaying your portfolios, or sign up for sites such as fiverr.

7. PTC sites

PTC refers to Paid to Click Sites. These are sites which give you money for watching or clicking advertisements. They may not be as rewarding, and initially may not give you great results, but if you can build up a good affiliate network for yourself, then you can enjoy the most of it. Even if you are not great at referrals, you can get good amount of cash as side income. The number one site at this moment is Clixsense. There are various ways you can get paid on this site: Surveys, viewing ads, completing offers, tasks etc. Surveys pay a lot of cash in 5-10 minutes of your time, while ads are consistently shown and are more frequent than surveys.

8. Rewards based sites

There are sites like SwagBucks, where you can do a variety of interesting tasks, and get points, which you can redeem for rewards, and if you are looking for only money, then there is an option for Paypal cash as well.  SwagBucks is most famous for its search and win program as well, where you simply search, like you would in any other search engine, and get rewarded with points. Apart from search, there are surveys, which again give you a lot of points, playing games, watching videos, shopping even. Give it a try, there are numerous tricks over the internet on how to make the most out of it.

9. Online Surveys

Apart from the above offer sites, there are sites entirely dedicated to surveys, and they pay you directly for surveys. These sites have a lot of surveys to offer, in contrast to most of the sites mentioned above. Some survey sites include Global Test Market, Valued Opinions etc.

10. Develop Apps

This one requires very in-depth knowledge of creating apps for different platforms. Although there are many free app making sites, they usually have limited templates, and may be good if you only have a basic app in mind. There are however a plethora of sites to teach you app development and programming, if you really want to explore this possibility. 

We will be updating with more options, and reviewing the above mentioned sites in future posts. If you have tried the above mentioned ways to earn income already, tell us about your experience in the comments!

This post is about Clixsense, a PTC site and its review. Clixsense is a "work from home" site, and is listed in another of our blog post - (link). For starters, a PTC site is short for Pay to Click. Users are paid to click or view advertisements. There are a plethora of PTC sites, but most of them are either scam, no longer functional, or the payouts are very less. 

Features of Clixsense

One of the most important feature you should look for in any website is does not require any fees for registration. Their may be some premium features that come at a price, but make sure you know what are you losing out on by being a free user. If any website asks you for any fees during registration, or the products offered for free are not enough for you, it's a scam or you are simply wasting your time. In this matter, Clixsense ranks better than most sites, because it is free to use. Of course there is a premium plan, but you can join that once you have earned enough, and you can buy the premium plan simply from what you earned as a free user. If you don't want to buy the premium account, you can still earn pretty decent amount as a freeloader.

What makes Clixsense better than most PTC sites is that it has more to offer than simply ads. You can complete surveys and offers, play the Clixgrid game if you are feeling lucky, or earn through its referral programme. You can find the details of the various programs offered below.

View ads:

You can earn anything between $0.001 upto $0.02 on a single ad. Clixsense updates your ad page with new ads very regularly, so you never run out of ads an hour.  If , let's say you click on 10 ads worth $0.01, it would take 5 minutes (exactly), and would fetch you $0.1. 5 minutes and $0.1 - do the math yourself. The earning potential is huge with this program.

Viewing ads on Clicksense is actually the easiest way to make money online. The more ads you click, the more number of ads you get, and also more ads with increased pay per click.

Complete Surveys:

Surveys are our favourite. They give the maximum payout - $1.50 for just five to ten minutes of your time! The payout isn't always $1.50, but there are hardly any surveys that pay less than $0.3. Surveys don't store your personal information, they only need to know your opinion on products or services, or anything in general, for their marketing research purposes.  Usually the seats or the number of participants is limited, so the high paying surveys quickly fill up. To ensure you are not screened out just because you weren't fast enough, we recommend you to install the ClixAddon, so that you are easily notified as soon as a new survey is available. You can view active surveys from dashboard also, if you don't want to install any extensions. 

Offers:

Clixsense has a lot of offers like getting cash incentives for downloading free apps, purchasing subscriptions.

Crowdflower tasks:

You can earn unlimited money from CrowdFlower tasks, a crowdsourcing service that enables you to work on small tasks giving the opportunity to earn some extra cash. 

Clixgrid games:

Try Clixgrid if you are feeling lucky. You can get paid up to $10 by playing this game on Clixsense. The game is simple - just click anywhere on an image. 

I have been scouring the internet for earning income online, and I have come across a lot of sites, which I intend to review in my blog. Today, I will write about one such site, namely Swag Bucks. It's a US based site that gives you free coupons, gift cards, even paypal cash nowadays, for simple tasks such as searching the internet, surveys, watching videos etc.

Is it a scam?

No, it is not. In fact, it ranks as one of the best rewards site. It has been up for quite a long time, and has proved to be genuine.

Ok, but is it still worth my time?

That depends on how much time you're willing to invest, and how much expectations you have from this. And also, on your location. If you're from the USA, or UK, (or even Australia, or Ireland), Swag Bucks has a lot of opportunities for you. But if you're not from one of those countries, you still have hope, (if your country is listed in their site, that is. I know India is also included now, so yay! for Indian users). For further explanation of time-money dependence, I'll explain it better, in terms of how you can actually use this site. Simply read on the following section.

How can I earn those rewards and gifts that you're talking about?

Swag Bucks uses a token system, called SBs, or swag bucks (literally), which can be redeemed for those gifts and rewards. On signup, I remember getting 150-200 SBs for simply roaming around the site for 5 minutes. There was a signup bonus, an email confirmation bonus, Swag Button installation bonus, Information completing bonus, etc. So you are good to go immediately after signup. Next, we have the regular tasks, such as surveys, watching videos, offers etc. These offers and tasks are all listed on the home page of Swag Bucks. So, if you're interested, or have time on your hands, do check them all out. 

You may have heard at a lot of places why people dislike surveys. They get disqualified early, there is hardly any survey that matches their profile etc etc. But these surveys are one of the highest paying tasks in the market. You get straight 50-100 SBs for just one survey. 2-3 more surveys and you're ready to redeem your first gift card. So, it's worth a try. What's more, if you click on a survey, and are disqualified, Swag Bucks gives you 1 SB for trying. Also, one tip for all those upset with the survey system. Surveys are there for companies to gauge a product's relevance in the market, the interests of customers, get a whiff of the trend in the market. If your profile has "Clueless Teen with No Interest in your brand" written all over, then you are definitely not going to get those 100 SBs. Be smart, show your best picture, and give a reason through your profile and answers on why the company should be interested in listening to your opinions. 

The easiest task on Swag Bucks is to search and win. Keep searching using Swag Bucks, whether you're searching on the site, or on the Swag Bucks search engine. It gets you 5-20 SBs daily, at any random time. 

If you're one of those who believe in luck and lottery, then there's an option of Swag Stakes, which is kind of like sweepstakes. Another one is the hourly random winner, where each hour a random user gets 1000 SBs. The catch here is that the user is not notified, so you have to stay on the site every hour. Many lucky winners claimed their prize when they were picked, but mostly users were unaware and lost their golden chance. There is however, a remedial to this : Swag Hourly, a twitter account posts hourly swag winners, so if you want to get notified when your name is announced, check on this account for more details.

Another thing, if you like to shop, you'll get rewarded substantially from this site.

I'll tell more tips and tricks soon, so for now, sign up and tell me your experience in the comments section!!!