Today I am going to share 7 awesome online jobs that allow you to travel around the world. Nowadays it’s becoming more and more popular to work online and travel around as a digital nomad. One big reason is that today it’s easier than ever in the human history. There are more than 3,5 billion potential clien…krhm.. people online which gives incredible opportunities.
1.Affiliate Marketing
One of the classical methods of making money online. Basically, affiliate means the following:
1.Promote products
2.Earn commissions
You can promote products on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, on your website/blog, on a forum or literally anywhere you want. But in my opinion, the best way is to have your own website where you can promote useful products for your readers and followers.
Choose a niche, for example, language learning. Build a website where you share tips and resources to learn new languages. Then you can promote products that have helped you or other learners to learn languages faster.
You will get the best resources by really being helpful and by concentrating on helping rather than making money. Of course, you need to think about the money thing too if you want to earn it but the main focus should always be on helping your readers.
If you want to become a successful affiliate marketer and earn a living online, I recommend heading to Wealthy Affiliate. It’s a community and a training center affiliate marketing where you will get full support to start your own online business (for free).
2.Blogging
Blogging is usually related to affiliate marketing because most of the time successful affiliate marketers are earning money from their blogs. But affiliate marketing is not the only way to make money with your blog.
You can also use Google Adsense and other ad services like CPM from Amazon. In that kind of services, you are earning money every time when somebody clicks your ad. They don’t even need to buy anything because only a click makes a commission for you.
However, those earnings per click are not usually very high. When you can earn even $1,400/sale or more with affiliate marketing, you will earn usually maximum $2/click. And most of the time is much less. Anyway, there are people who are making a full-time income with Google Adsense but usually, it’s not their only income source.
If your blog has lots of followers, you can earn money with hundreds of different ways. Different companies may offer you free products to make a review about them or you can have flight tickets to a paradise island for free.
3.Translating
If you can write and read two languages fluently, you can already be a translator. If you have two native languages, you can translate those languages, for example. On some websites, you would need to have a professional certificate to translate but definitely not always.
One great company is One Hour Translation. They have some requirements but not too strict ones. I made an application to work as a translator from Finnish to English or from English to Finnish. First, they rejected my request because I am not a full-time translator but after a while, they came back to me and accepted.
You can also work on Fiverr or many other marketplaces like Upwork. Do you know other great places on the Internet for translators? Let us know in the comments below.
4.Freelance Writing
You can work online as a freelance writer, translator, web designer, social media expert, musician etc. There are thousands of different freelance jobs but one of the most popular is definitely freelance writing.
People need content for their websites, blogs, social medias and many other places. I am hiring, for example, writers to my websites regularly. Fresh content makes Google rankings better and brings in more traffic.
It can take some time to build up your reputation as a writer but you can earn quite well if you can provide very valuable content.
Take a look at HireWriters. It’s a place where you can work as a freelance writer or buy articles from other writers. In order to become a writer there, you need to be a native English speaker. They seem to be very strict about that rule because they want to provide the high quality for their clients.
If you are not a native speaker you can always join Upwork and Fiverr which we already mentioned above. They are huge marketplaces on the Internet.
5.Teach Languages
You can teach your native language or other languages that you have also studied yourself. One of the great places to earn money is Italki. You don’t need to be a certified language to earn money from Italki. You can become a community tutor and earn money just by chatting with the other users.
You can also join as a professional teacher even without a degree but then you need to prove Italki that you have enough skills to do that.
One way to earn money online by teaching languages is to create a language learning website and promote useful products as we mentioned above. I can consider myself as a “language teacher” because I am teaching on my website how to learn languages easily and quickly.
Meanwhile, I am promoting products that could help people to reach fluency in their target languages. (By the way, I speak 4-5 languages fluently so I have some expertise on language subject).
6.Stock Market Investing
This method has been there even before the Internet but nowadays it has become much easier than ever. You can create an investing account in 10 minutes and start investing right away.
I am talking here about investing rather than day-trading because it seems that 99% of traders lose more money than what they are earning. When you are an investor, you pick up good companies and buy their stocks. Then your money is working for you.
You can also consider ETFs and other investment methods. If you are from Nordic countries like I am, I recommend joining Nordnet. I haven’t used stock market brokers for U.S. citizens. If you are from U.S., could you recommend some brokers?
7.Become a Youtuber
The Internet has opened lots of new opportunities and of the greatest is Youtube. You can reach millions of people through their platform and affect their life. Meanwhile, you can make a significant income with your Youtube channel.
On Youtube, you can earn money through Google Adsense, product promotions, affiliate marketing and with a hundred other ways. If you are interested, we have also written a full article about making money on Youtube.
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What are your favorite ways to make money online?
Affiliate marketing is really seems doable right now for me. But I am just starting to study about that. Hope to learn it soon as possible. But everything that I need is here in this forums. I’ll stay here until I learn it. 😀 Hoping to see a step by step information on how to start affiliate marketing.
There are lots of great step-by-step trainings that teach you to do affiliate marketing successfully. My #1 recommendation is Wealthy Affiliate and another alternative is Chris Farrell Membership.
Thank you for you reply. I just wanted a information that is written by you. And there is lot of steps you are posted here in your forums. So where will I start? I am getting interested more likely because of how you do your reviews. Feels like you can be so trusted so much :p
You can get started easily with the Wealthy Affiliate step-by-step training. I’ll send you a personal welcome message inside the community when you join.
Of the two jobs you list I do affiliate marketing through my own blog and I also love to research my own stocks and try and create another passive income stream this way.
I think the others you list are great ways for people to make money travelling. Anyone can do this if they apply themselves.
If you had to choose only one what would you say is the quickest way to make that extra money?
Thanks for this, really well done.
Hello!
Freelance writing and teaching languages are probably the quickest way to make money from this list. But the earning potential is not so good as in affiliate marketing, for example. You only earn when you are working. With affiliate marketing or with stocks you can make money even though you would be sleeping.
That’s why I don’t concentrate on things where I could make quick money but rather on things where I can make big money.
-Roope
From my experience and observation, I think more and more people now crave the freedom not just to travel but also to spend more time with family, just be able to be one’s own boss, and also avoid the work commute every day. The internet has certainly opened up a lot of opportunities and thanks for summarising them in your post!
Hi Daniel,
you really summarized many good reasons for becoming an online entrepreneur.
1.More time with family
2.Can be your own boss
3.No commuting every day
4.Freedom to live anywhere in the world.
However, many people are not willing to pay the price. Everybody who wants that freedom, needs to work their butt off.
Wealthy Affiliate training teaches how anyone can build their own online business. Freedom doesn’t come easily but afters hours and hours of work and discipline, it comes for sure 🙂
Wish you all the best, my friend.
-Roope
Hi there,
I have just read your article about jobs online with great interest and I firmly believe that we are in a great position to capitalise on this opportunity right now. As we go forward more and more people will be wanting to get out of that dreaded ‘daily commute’ and find ways of sustaining themselves and their families through an online business.
The “work from home” is the new buzz word people are mentioning nowadays. Its not just stay at home moms but dads are also availing of this phenomenon, the added bonus is that, when we are up and running, these opportunities allows us to travel as well.
Well done and best wishes,
Cheers..Phil Browne
Hi Phil,
I totally agree with you! Working “at home” is becoming more and more popular nowadays. The opportunities are better than ever in the human history. There are about 3,5 billion people online and the amount is growing every single year.
You mention one of the greatest benefits and it’s that if you work from home, you don’t need to commute daily. It takes about 1,5 hours every day for me to get to work and come back home in total. In a week it takes around 8 hours, in a month 33 hours and in almost 200 hours in 6 months. That’s crazy!
Imagine how much gasoline it takes in 6 months. Imagine how much work you could get done in 200 hours. Let’s say that I would do it for 10 years. Commuting would take 2,000 hours! That equals to one year of full-time work. In that time I could build a full-time online business.
Who would you like to do more: sit in a car going to work or build your own online business?
I think I will choose the latter. 😉
-Roope