NEW AGE JOBS FOR MAKING MONEY ONLINE

I discussed freelancing jobs in my last posts which are essentially doing job on the net which are your core skills from years of education/work.

Now, we discuss the fun and more interesting jobs available on the internet for you to make money.  The best part being that for most of these you really don't need much 'technical/educational' prowess or "experience".  If you have a computer and a reasonably decent speed internet, and a fairly good command over English (for at least some of these jobs), you are on!

For the sake of convenience (and not to smother you with too many details at this point), I'm LOOSELY categorising them as follows.  Pl note:  there can be 'spillovers' from one category to the other:

1. PTC (Pay to Click) sites
2. Paid Surveys
3. Small Tasks
4. Writing Jobs
5. Article Marketing
6. Affiliate Marketing
7. MLM (multi Level Marketing)
8. Having a Website/Blog

Okay, that was a very general overview to give you an idea of what you are getting into.  Basically almost ALL the jobs you would encounter on this road of 'making money online', would fall into one or more of these categories.

Now, let me give you a categorisation based on skills needed for most of internet jobs:
1. Basic Computer skills (PTC, Paid surveys, most of the Small Tasks)
2. Decent level of English, and a flair for writing (Writing jobs, article marketing)
3. Network Marketing and writing skills (MLM, Affiliate Marketing)
4. Good level of subject knowledge, fair degree of command over language, a flair for writing, and a reasonable awareness of marketing techniques & SEO (Making a Website/Blog)

You would notice that 'a good command over Language (mostly English unless you are targeting other languages)' and 'a flair for writing' are more common skills needed for almost all the jobs on the net - from easy to the tough ones.  DON'T LET THAT PUT YOU OFF. 

The command over English basically translates to being able to converse decently in the language, NOT the ability to use flowery prose and complex vocabulary.  Similarly, a flair for writing is just that - a FLAIR.  You need not be in league of Shakespear and company - in fact far from that!  If you were in that category, I doubt you are going to get much traffic :) You should just be able to string together conversational sentences that grammatically too, would make sense.  Of course, there are exceptions here.  Some websites insist on getting a particular profile of professional writers and researchers; So, if you aren't in that category, you may miss out on these, but there are plenty others who don't have a very high threshold.

From my next post, I'll take you through each one of these categories, what they entail, pros and cons, and most importantly, HOW MUCH can you make from each of these!