Earning Money online conjures up a lot of different things in our collective imagination. Some people picture the good side:

A teenager going viral on YouTube and then bringing in millions in sponsors and ad revenue. Or a sly person who’s got a simple idea of doing business online, and expands it into a small empire.

And then there are the bad images: people in the “gig economy” working without benefits or stable pay.

These are things that do happen, but they are the extremes of a long spectrum that includes everything else in between.

This is a long list because there are a LOT of ways of making money online, and I want to give credence to the full range of possibility for internet income.

The items on this list concern all sorts of things, and be warned that there is a fair Amount of overlap. Some things are strategies for making money online. Other things are websites for selling stuff. Yet others are gig marketplaces, or sites that pay you to do this or that. It’s natural to have an overlap.

As you may have guessed, I am pretty experienced by now with earning money online, and I’d like to share my appreciation for all the wonderful possibilities and endless nuance the modern world has given us!

Ready? Let’s get started then.

Item 4: Sell your lesson plans

Let me be a downer first: this is something to be cautious about. Depending on where you live, there may be some legal gray area in buying and selling lesson plans. You’ll have to check out the specific regulations and rules on your own.

Additionally, this is something that won’t necessarily be a get-rich-quick scheme. Because you might not just be selling lesson plans, but lesson ideas, flashcards, activities and games, etc—as with many things, put in the work you feel is appropriate.

But there is certainly a market for this. As is the pattern with this list, you can sell on a variety of places, including freelance sites and to your own social networks.

One well-established marketplace specifically for educational resources is TeachersPayTeachers:

As the name implies, it’s really a marketplace of teachers buying and selling to each other, so it’s a great place for you to interact with peers and provide something useful!

Item 5: Sell your advice

This is a fun one—one thing the internet has made it easier to sell is advice. People have been selling advice forever, but where the internet has changed things is in allowing a lot more people to share advice.

To an extent, you can consider selling educational courses the same as selling advice. But here I kind of mean advice in the quicker sense.

Now one of the reasons selling advice online is something to consider, is that there’s a fair chance you’re already really good at something. And if so, there are certainly people on the internet who would pay to hear more from an expert on the topic.

And best of all, you don’t need to invest much to sell your advice. It’s low risk and relatively easy, though you’ll still have to put in the effort.

Before you search for an online marketplace, I’d like to point out that you can do good work selling advice to people in your network. These are people familiar with your expertise in an area and are more likely to pay up if they know the person.

However, if you want to use a marketplace, Clarity.fm is almost definitely the go-to. It’s a very simple setup: you get approved as an expert in something, and a customer will search the experts until they find the right one.

Then they’ll select a few times to work with you, and you have to get back to them within a certain amount of time—if it works out, great! You’ll have a call with them and charge a per-minute rate. They’ll rate you after the exchange.

But of course, feel free to use any other advice-selling platforms. The problem with Clarity.fm is that it’s only business-related advice—you wouldn’t be able to give a musician or creative writer some input, for example, unless it was business related.

Item 6: Win a naming contest on Squadhelp

Maybe you’re a professional business consultant who wants some extra cash. Maybe you’re good with words, and you want some extra cash. Either way, you can earn that extra cash by having fun with Squadhelp.

Squadhelp is a website dedicated to helping companies get named. Businesses can do two main things: first, they can buy names. Secondly, the thing Squadhelp is famous for—businesses can launch a naming contest.

In the naming contest, hundreds of participants (in this case, you) will pitch names.

The timeline is a little more complicated, but the short version is that after narrowing down the list and doing some audience testing, the business will pick a winner.

The winner gets paid. The business pays significantly less than if they hired a consultant, and you? Let’s be honest, it’ll be a solid amount considering all you did was pitch a name and wait.

Obviously, even if you’re phenomenal at coming up with names for businesses, you won’t win every contest. So this isn’t something to rely on by any means.

But hey, it could be a fun way of earning some extra cash on the side!

Item 7: Create/help create greeting cards

This is one of the more novel ways of making money online, but it makes sense when you take a second to think about it. How many premade cards do you see when you go to the grocery store? How are there different ones every few months?

Who comes up with all this stuff?

Well, potentially you. This could be relevant if you’re an artist for the obvious possibility of selling your designs. But you could also help create greeting cards if you’re a poet or general writer.

And if you can do both design and words, then why not? Sell both of your services to greeting card companies.

Now, different companies go about this in different ways. If you use Blue Mountain Arts, you’ll pitch poetry (or otherwise well-crafted, artistic prose) via email, and if Blue Mountain Arts likes it, you’ll hear back with further comments. They pay $300 per poem for worldwide rights and $50 for one-time use.

Calypso Cards will take messages/card text as well, though it doesn’t have to be poetry, and they are particularly friendly towards accepting art.

NobleWorks Cards will take both art and writing submissions, as will Oatmeal Studios. If you research on your own you’ll find plenty of other options, but these are some of the most famous.

Image Courtesy: Noble Works Cards

Pay will vary: sometimes it’s a fixed rate per type of accepted submission, as with Blue Mountain Arts. Other times you’ll be paid proportionately to the sales, but that’s rarer.

Helping to create greeting cards by pitching to companies is great for people with artistic or writing qualifications, but who aren’t looking to invest in their own infrastructure or to try starting their own business selling cards.

Of course, you can sell your own greeting cards, the way you can sell your own t-shirts or design prints. But for many of you, this will be an easier way of getting paid for your art/writing.

Item 8: Put ads on your lock screen

There’s no ambiguity about this one…here’s an item that can only get you money through the modern online world.

In short, there are several companies/apps that will pay you to view ads on your phone or tablet’s lock screen. Usually these companies are intermediaries and earn money from other companies seeking direct advertising venues.

Now I’ve got to clear one thing up right away: as far as I know, Apple does not allow these apps on the App Store. So this is only for the Android users out there.

Another thing: for the most part, these apps don’t directly pay you in cash whenever you view an ad or unlock your screen. Typically, you’ll get points that can be redeemed for a certain amount of cash.

Now, here are some of the most notable:

ScreenLift is less obtrusive compared to similar apps (smaller ads) and is fairly reputable.

You customize your lock screen a little bit in the app, and then use your phone the way you would usually. Whenever you unlock your phone, you’ll unlock a small amount of points (called Lifts) which can be redeemed for a payout through PayPal or for gift cards to popular retailers.

Fronto is another option, and is one of the most popular at over 9 million downloads. Since its launch in 2012, its users have redeemed over $5 MILLION in rewards. It’s a little more interesting than ScreenLift because your rewards change depending on how you swipe:

Swipe right to unlock your phone, and you’ll get a small number of points—the usual default amount. Swipe left, and you’ll engage with the advertisement/content, and earn significantly more (usually 10x more points).

The rewards will be either through good coupons, Amazon gift cards, or cash payouts on PayPal. Your choice.

Some other options: Slidejoy lets you earn similarly to the previous two, but gives you the option of donating all your earnings to charity automatically. S’more is simpler, and won’t give you extra points whether or not you engage with ads or view more ads than needed.

As you probably guessed, these are far from the only options. They’re just some of the few that are pretty notable.

I’ll give you one more quick tip on these apps: some of them can be used in tandem, meaning you can use multiple apps at once to increase your earnings significantly.

Of course, the amount you’ll earn isn’t much. People may make between $10 to $40 a month, for a rough sense of scale. But as far as passive income goes, this is as passive as it gets!

Item 9: Sell your hair

Is this weird enough for you? If not, great!

Yes, you can sell your hair online. And no, you don’t need to rely on Craigslist (though you’re welcome to, if you’re brave enough).

There are a couple of sites that are explicitly just for buying and selling hair. This isn’t exactly a way to make money “passively,” as you still have to do the work of selling, but at least you don’t need to manage any inventory—just let your hair grow and when you want to cut it, you can sell, too!

Now the most famous and reputable marketplace for selling hair is HairSellon (get it?!).

HairSellon doesn’t take any commission fees, and has lots of tips for helping you figure out how to precisely measure and describe your hair.

They even have a hair price calculator to help you estimate. Just make an account, post a listing, and sell to the highest bidder…easy peasy!

The other competitor to HairSellon would be BuyandSellHair.com. BuyandSellHair has been featured on a lot of press publications and is the only other hair marketplace of comparable size, traffic intake, and reputation to HairSellon.

You’ll need to pay a one-time listing fee of $14.50, which will last for three months. But that’s it—BuyandSellHair also doesn’t take commissions.

As you probably noticed, most hair listings go for several hundred dollars easily. The lower end is usually just over $100, and the high end can get close to $1,000.

So if your hair has been getting too long lately, why not earn a few hundred for the haircut you were going to get anyway?

Item 10: Win an interior design contest

Here’s a pretty quirky way of making money online: if you’re an interior designer, you can use your skills for some extra money online through interior design contests.

For the most part, you can find these only on a couple sites. One of those websites is called GoPillar.

GoPillar is fundamentally the same as Squadhelp’s naming contest, but it’s for interior design.

Someone launches a contest, which will then be available for any of the designers on GoPillar. If your designs are picked, you’ll win the contest prize and be able to work with the person requesting the design, thus also giving you a new client.

Another option is Roomstyler:

Roomstyler is similar in format and interface to GoPillar, but before you get too excited, these contests are not for money. They’re for fun.

So why bring it up?

Because you’ll have a profile that shows your contest wins. If you have a lot, it can be a unique thing to show a prospective client…or even a way of getting a client to discover you!

The other utility is in being a source of inspiration for your real-world design work.

Item 11: Use Appen

You probably haven’t heard of Appen, and for those of you who just want some passive or “easy” online income, that’s alright.

But for those of you who are looking at more serious ways of making money online, Appen is important to keep in mind.

So what is Appen? Take a look at the bottom left square in this picture:

Simply put, Appen connects online contractors to companies. So what separates it from a general-purpose jobs board like Indeed.com or a freelancer marketplace like Upwork?

Well, there are many similarities between the platforms, no denying it. But Appen’s contractors, unlike Indeed, are mostly virtual/remote.

And unlike both Upwork and Indeed, Appen’s contractors are primarily sought after for technology-related tasks by technology-related companies. Even when non-tech companies use them, it’s for something related to artificial intelligence.

Here’s another thing that sets Appen apart: there are a few types of tech-related jobs available, for easy pickings:

What does this mean?

It means that you can choose work that’s long-term and remote—basically a “job” job—or work that’s short term—a gig—or even work that’s extremely short term—a micro task.

But the unifying theme is that the vast majority of all these types of work can be done from the comfort of your home.

In short, Appen is a great way for finding remote work related to technology and AI, and for narrowing down jobs by time commitment.

Item 12: Be a virtual ESL tutor

Believe it or not, this one is actually different from the previous item. A remote ESL tutor is still a remote tutor, but the virtual ESL tutor market is surprisingly robust—enough to warrant its own placement on the list.

Now, I’ve actually done virtual ESL tutoring for a year, and it’s a surprisingly sweet gig. There are quite a few companies hiring for this work, many of them Chinese servicing Chinese students but not necessarily.

Not all companies need you to have an ESL teaching certificate, although it’s obviously preferred. If you have experience tutoring or any kind of English language credentials, that goes a long way.

Rates vary a lot, but on the lower end they tend to start at $12 an hour. A lot of Chinese companies start hiring around $16 an hour, and some can go up to $22 or more.

Here’s the catch: as an ESL tutor, you’d probably be working odd hours of the day. It could be really early in the morning, or really late at night. It definitely depends on where your customers are.

Now aside from using companies as intermediaries, you can also just find people who want ESL tutoring for themselves or their children and work directly with them. The benefit of this is that you’d be working within your own time zone!

Some of the big Chinese companies include: VipkidTeachers (pictured above), Landi English, DaDa, WhalesEnglish.

Some American ones include: iTutorGroup, Cambly, Vivaling, Take Lessons. But I’ll give you a hint—American companies tend to pay less than Chinese ones here.

It’s a growing field, can be fun (you’re dealing with cute kids, after all) and rewarding, and pays decently for remote work!

Item 13: Loan your stuff on Loanables or RentNotBuy

You can do more than lend money online. You can do more than sell stuff you own online. You can loan stuff you own online too!

Craigslist is actually a very popular site for this sort of local interaction, but it’s not dedicated to loaning alone.

One dedicated resource is Loanables.

It’s founded by nature enthusiasts who want to promote loaning goods, at least in part because it’s better for the environment. The policies on Loanables are very laid back:

Create an account, and post a listing. People searching for that thing you’re listing will be able to find it through the site. If the potential renter agrees to your rate, they rent it at that rate.

Easy-peasy!

Another prominent site for personal and household goods is RentNotBuy. RentNotBuy’s owners are similar to Loanables in that they treasure the efficiency of renting as opposed to buying.

RentNotBuy doesn’t have ads or listing fees—you just need to list your item at the price you want, and wait for someone to agree with it or negotiate accordingly.

The downsides of RentNotBuy and Loanables is that both sites are fairly hands off when it comes to disputes between renters and loaner. Luckily there is still a review system in place to add some credibility to each person using the site.

Item 14: Rent out your musical instruments on Sparkplug

This is a solid item because I can almost guarantee that most of you have never heard of Sparkplug. And I’m willing to bet a lot of you who haven’t heard of it can also make money on it without much hassle.

It’s fairly simple: use Sparkplug to rent out your musical instruments, equipment, and even space if you have it.

Musical instruments and equipment (and especially space) can be too expensive to own or even rent from larger companies. But someone in the area may be able to rent out their stuff, right? That’s where you come in.

Sparkplug is centered around people coordinating with each other in roughly the same region. In fact, Sparkplug tries to get you to meet the person you lend to—which is good, as you don’t want your equipment damaged—but you can opt to deliver instead.

You can get paid directly to your bank account within a day of the rental period starting. The renter will return your product after the agreed time, and you inspect it to make sure it’s in proper condition, and leave a review of the renter after.

It’s pretty simple and while it may be logistically easier for people in urban areas, that’s still a heck of a lot more people who can make money doing this than they would’ve otherwise. Oh, and it’s not just the U.S.!

Item 15: Rent out (or sell) your parking space

On the note of that new world we live in…yes, you can rent out your parking space online too!

So obviously this won’t apply to everyone. And there’s a fair chance that even if you have a parking spot, you won’t want to share it.

But if you do have a parking spot that you don’t use all the time, and you’re open to the idea, you might as well earn some extra cash over it. There are a few apps/sites you can use, but generally the gist is the same:

You sign up, and someone will select your spot if they need it. They’ll pay you to rent it. Some services may let you sell instead of rent. Simple!

JustPark is the most prominent of these apps, as it’s used by 3.5 million drivers:

So far, JustPark counts over £30 MILLION earned by parking spot owners. And yes, that is British currency…but before you worry, yes, you can use it in the US!

Pavemint is a competing service that is similarly easy and also very well-established and received. Plus, you can highlight special features like an EV charger, security camera, or anything else to highlight your space above everyone else’s.

Lastly there’s SpotHero, which not only lets you rent your parking space, but sell it!

Item 16: Use your car as a mobile billboard

Okay, so you don’t want to let someone else drive your car around…no problem. And you don’t exactly want to get out of your way driving people around either.

One way you can earn some income passively on your car is to let advertisers use it as a mini, mobile billboard.

There are a few different ways you can do this, aside from individually reaching out to advertisers.

Grabb-it is a startup that makes it very easy for you to turn one of your car windows into a screen:

And as they say, installation is free and you can still roll the window down! You can then drive as you would normally, or take extra care to drive around big events and shows in your area.

Another similar service is Carvertise, but it may not be “online”—at least with Grabb-it, you’re using the internet to make money and advertise while you go about your normal business.

With Carvertise, things are a little more in person, so I won’t get too into it: basically, you answer questions when you sign up and will be matched with a brand based on your answers. Your car will get a wrap instead of a digital screen, and you can choose between getting a full or partial wrap.

Then you just drive around with a big ad on your car and get paid every month by direct deposit. It does no harm to your car and will be professionally taken off at the end of the campaign.

Another service is MyFreeCar. It works effectively the same way, in that you get your car wrapped by the platform and paid monthly.

But hey, I understand that the latter two options may be a gray area of “making money online,” so I’ll leave it alone.

Item 17: Get free cash (or gift cards) for being healthy with Achievement

Achievement was a little more famous a few years ago, back when it was known as AchieveMint, but it’s still around today! And in fact, it’s a top app on both the Apple and Google Play app stores.

Here’s how it works: sign up on the website, or download the app and sign up there. Once you have an account, you can start connecting other health/fitness/lifestyle apps. There are 20 other apps you can choose from.

These apps usually are about meditating, walking, biking, keeping track of meals, etc.

You’ll use the apps you connect to earn points for certain things on Achievement. For example, if you walk a certain amount, you’ll get points for it on Achievement. These are usually milestones: for example, meditating for 15 minutes or an hour on an app will get you a specified set of points on Achievement.

Once you have 10,000 points, you can cash out:

Yes, it’s a very small amount.

The big question is probably how quickly you can earn those 10,000 points…and frankly, even if you’re dedicated to the app, it can take a while to get to 10,000.

So my word of advice: don’t install and use this app as a source of quick cash. This should be an added incentive in maintaining your health, a two-birds-with-one-stone scenario.

As you monitor and improve your health over time, you’ll naturally accumulate points and be able to cash in from time to time. Hey, if you’re already doing these sorts of things, why not earn some extra money for them?

Item 18: Get even more cash for being healthy with HealthyWage

HealthyWage is very similar to Achievement, but I figured it was worth separating them because they’re each unique and well established.

Check out how many times HealthyWage has been noticed:

So it’s not a rip-off by any means.

The key difference between HealthyWage and Achievement is this:

Achievement is about racking up points for different activities that are generally healthy, which can then be exchanged for money. But HealthyWage is much more direct. It’s about making bets on weight loss.

There are different bets and challenges to participate in, but the most famous one is the HealthyWager. You enter in the amount of pounds you want to lose, the amount of time you want to reach your goal, and the amount you want to bet per month.

You’ll then get offered a prize amount automatically based on those values, and if you win—you get it!

So it’s very different from Achievement in the directness of the “challenge” aspect, and the amounts of money. Your prizes will be usually be at least hundreds of dollars if you win (the shortest time you can challenge yourself is 6 months though), because your bet can’t go under $100.

Of course, you’re also buying into the bet (that’s just how it works folks!).

If you want to commit yourself to weight loss, this is a great way of doing it. Not only are you going to be more incentivized to pursue your weight loss goal, you’ll also earn money for something you wanted to do anyway!

Item 19: Watch and rate movies for money on Swagbucks

Okay, I’ll clarify first: Swagbucks could fit neatly into my pieces on surveys and focus groups. But it has a bit of a different format, one that’s a little similar to Achievement, so I’ve saved it for here.

Here’s the gist: on Swagbucks, you answer surveys. When you complete a survey, Swagbucks will give you a small amount of money—sometimes as little as $0.05 and sometimes as much as $35.

These are surveys effectively created and paid for by other companies, with Swagbucks as an intermediary.

As an added bonus, some companies that offer subscription services will pay Swagbucks users or give discounted prices in the hopes of getting them to subscribe for real. So you can potentially save on some things you might have purchased anyway.

But here’s the main thing I want to talk about: Swagbucks’ video and movie content system.

This is one of the things Swagbucks’ is known for. Basically, there are lots of videos you can watch:

Watch a certain amount of videos (usually video playlists, as you see above), and you’ll get a certain number of Swagbucks. Swagbucks can be exchanged for money, paid through PayPal.

Now, I know what you’re thinking: how many hours would I need to watch to get money?

It’s really not much. If you’re committed, you can consistently make $5 a day. So I strongly recommend not counting on watching movies on Swagbucks as a way of earning extra cash quickly—it’s just not time efficient.

The reason I’m talking about it in the first place, is that you can earn some extra cash while you go about watching videos to kill time anyway.

When you’re bored, taking a break from work or school, etc, you might watch videos online. Why not watch videos on Swagbucks and earn yourself an extra cup of coffee or ice cream every week?

Item 20: Review music for money on Slicethepie

If you love music, and you want to earn some money on the side for doing something fun and fulfilling, Slice the pie is a great option.

Slicethepie is one of the largest music review sites, with over 2 million reviewers at the current count. It has additional review categories, like fashion and phone accessories, but the music is really where the bulk of the work is.

Slicethepie is focused on up and coming artists. Here’s how it works: independent musical artists and record labels get some songs on Slicethepie. The reviewers will review it, and the artists and labels will get large amounts of feedback, which they need to appropriately improve or market the music.

One of the great benefits of Slicethepie is that you get paid directly in cash for your reviews. No need to bother with discounts or rebates or even points. You get paid per review, and the higher quality your review, the more you get paid.

Once you sign up, you choose what type of reviewing you’d like to do—in this case, music. Then you’ll start listening to songs and reviewing right away (you have to listen to at least 90 seconds of a track).

So how much will you earn? A very small amount. If you enjoy it, you can expect to do roughly $40 a month, but if you’re not doing it often, it’ll probably be way less. Note the minimum to withdraw is $10.

There are actually a few other sites that can get you paid for listening to music, but they’re less direct. You can check them out here, but they’re more oriented towards radio and points. As far as I can tell, Slicethepie is simply the best site for getting paid to listen to music.

So anyway, this kind of fits with some of the other items in this area of the list: it’s good because you can get paid to do something fun. It’s not a replacement for a job or really good for much extra income—but you might find you enjoy the work!

Item 21: Get paid to review software with SoftwareJudge and G2C Crowd

I already talked about running a review website and earn money that way. And as you can tell, I do review software on this site. But I’m not talking about getting paid that way (i.e, the hard way).

I’m talking about getting paid in a way similar to above—small amounts of cash for small amounts of work that is (hopefully) interesting to you.

In this case, the niche is software. There might be more sites worth checking out, but I’m only going to recommend two, to be safe.

The first one is SoftwareJudge.com. It’s very simple and to the point: get paid to review software. The software is posted on the home page as a sort of news feed or listing. The list of software isn’t enormous, but there’s still some to choose from.

The amount you get paid? It varies, depending on how good your review is. You’ll be paid at least $1. If you do good, the max you can net is $50. Now that’s actually some pretty decent money for a mass-review site.

Your review will be verified for honesty, by the way. Any plagiarism that gets detected will mean forfeiting payment. One of the nice things about a smaller site like SoftwareJudge, though, is that you have less competition and get a more personal feel from the site.

Downsides: you only get paid if you reach $200 minimum. If you have less, you can get freebies through SoftwareJudge, which is a nice perk for those who are interested. And it won’t take you months to get $200 minimum, so it’s not like you’re locked away from the money forever.

Now, here’s the BIG one, which everyone knows. It’s called G2:

G2 is, as you can see, used by millions of businesses, including some very high profile brands.

It’s fairly straightforward: write a review of the software. If your review is approved, you’ll get a giftcard, ranging between $5 to $10. It can sometimes be more, but that’s the usual range, and it’s usually for Starbucks or Amazon.

However, you can only earn up to 5 gift cards. So my advice? Write 5 reviews that get approved, take your gift cards (or sell them), and go. You can enjoy trying out some software and get something out of it!

Item 22: Sell older cell phones on Gazelle, BuyBackBoss, or OC BuyBack

Okay, I’ll admit that this is three things crammed into one item, but whatever: the gist here is that you can trade in your devices for money. Onto the show!

Gazelle is one of the biggest and most reputable sites for selling your old phone. It’s very straightforward and simple.

One of the major appeals of Gazelle is that you can sell a broken phone (within reason, of course).

Although Gazelle really specializes in phones, you can also sell back other used Apple products like iPads, iPods (yes!) or MacBooks.

To my knowledge, you can’t sell back non-phone tech from other makers, so no selling back that PC notebook you hate. However, as the picture shows, feel free to sell back your Android phones.

With Gazelle, you just have to make sure your item is actually on their site. If you don’t find that phone/electronic model on their site, you can’t sell it to them. Once you find your product, you answer some questions about it and they’ll generate an offer for you. If you like it, great.

Oh, and shipping is free!

BuyBackBoss is similar, and like Gazelle is mostly for phones. You tell BuyBackBoss about your phone (through answering an automated survey) and you get an offer immediately.

Shipping is free, as BuyBackBoss will send you a prepaid shipping label via email you just need to print. You can get paid by check or PayPal.

You can sell some other Apple devices—iMacs, iPads, iPods, Apple Watches—and the Google Pixel, but that’s it for non-phone products.

OC BuyBack is another efficient buyback site, but it’s a more open about what you can sell: you can sell 45 types of phone, 9 types of iPod, 17 types of tablets, 4 types of smartwatches, along with GoPros and AppleTVs.

You can choose to drop off your device locally, or you can ship for free. It’s basically the same as the other sites, but a smaller/less popular service.

Nextworth is the last one I’ll talk about, but it’s pretty similar to the others (free quotes, shipping, etc) so I don’t have much more to say. Except that it’s pretty reputable:

And one of the biggest buyback services, with over 12 years of business and 3 MILLION trade-ins.

Item 23: Sell clothes (and other stuff) you don’t use on Depop

Depop is another marketplace for small retailers.

Depop is fairly open ended. You can use it to sell a wide range of personal items, but it’s mostly focused on the selling of personal items and more creative, artistic types.

Depop does not extract any fees until you make money…but the bad news is that their fees are higher than most other platforms: at the moment, it’s 10% of the total transaction (including shipping costs).

In addition, there’s usually a 2.9% PayPal transaction fee…which is pretty common for marketplaces, but that means you’re looking at losing 13% of whatever you make. The tradeoff is that Depop is very popular, especially among younger people and Instagram users.

Aside from popularity, Depop is very easy to use:

Depop is familiar to most people for its use on social media—it’s usually used by people trying to get rid of clothes they don’t wear/want anymore, and its aimed at relatively small audiences (that seller’s followers, who are usually people they know).

So while of course, you can take your Depop shop as far as you want, the bar is a little lower—most shops are relaxed, ordinary pictures of the items. It’s one of the most informal and easiest to set up marketplaces around.

Item 24: Become a Usability tester

This isn’t an activity that exists in the “real” world and was converted to the internet. This is something that can only be done with the internet.

In short, people need to know their websites are good, and they are willing to pay people to explore their websites and interact with things to make sure everything works.

Sometimes there are companies whose job i