Create online products like eBooks, tutorials, courses, or sell products online in connection with your website or blog: Using your content to build your own blog can eventually lead to creating your own eBooks or a whole range of online courses. If people love what you’re writing about and want to learn more about it, you can create valuable information products for them to buy. We at ClickDo follow a similar path building online products to sell to our readers.
Publishing eBooks: Fernando and I have already published and sold some eBooks on Amazon (publish and list your book for £1.49 – £6.99 and you can earn up to 70% of the sale). You can learn more about publishing eBooks in this guide:
Steps to Self-Publish eBooks and Earn Online
Amazon’s Kindle platform has made it easy to publish your book at near-zero cost. From horror to how-to guides and everything else under the sun – if you know a subject matter, and have a good story to tell, which could even be your own business story, you can write and self-publish an eBook and monetize it. Linking your eBooks to your expertise and online presence makes sense as people can find you and your brand in various ways and on different online platforms.
eBooks can earn you rich dividends if they top bestseller lists. But that’s easier said than done, because if you really want to act as your own publisher, then you’ll need to possess the abilities of an editor, author, marketer, a publicist in one. While self-publishing is increasingly popular nowadays, with over a million self-published books in 2018 in the United States alone according to research, coupled with the fact that you can now sell your eBooks on online marketplaces where millions of people may come across your eBook, it may take you time to do so.
It is still worth pursuing because most traditional publishers may not take you on for various reasons and eBooks have a far lower barrier to purchase than printed books, both in terms of price and the time lapse between conceptualization, creation, and consumption.
Creating Online Courses: Manuela has published her first online course about SEO-friendly content writing on the popular online learning platform Udemy. Here you can set the price from $9.99, but you only receive a share of 50% for every sale. The more popular your course becomes, the more you can charge. If you want to publish your online course on an E-learning platform that offers a better return, you should check our fantastic SeekaHost University out!
It’s fairly easy to do as you set up your instructor profile and are guided through setting up your course, uploading your video tutorials and your curriculum, plus any additional learning materials. However, make sure you read the guidelines before even starting with recording your course as you need to fulfill certain technical requirements. And to make your video tutorials look professional it’s advisable to hire a video editor.
Once your course is up and running, you can market it by reducing the price and you should try and ask many students to review it so that you’re more likely to get more students in the future.
To promote yourself and your courses further, you could set up a website and share your own expertise, like SEO gurus Neil Patel or Fernando Raymond do. People will have to identify you as an expert in your subject matter and you need to carve out a niche for yourself as the e-learning marketplace is becoming very competitive. You can find more information on how to build an outstanding personal website here:
Steps To Build A Website From Scratch – Create A Successful Web Presence
YouTube is another passive income source by “receiving a percentage of the advertising revenue collected per 1,000 views” according to save the student. If your videos are very popular, you can become a YouTube star with your own YouTube channel such as Zoella, who posts beauty and makeup reviews and tutorials, which have made her one of Britain’s most famous influencers, also selling her own beauty products.
Gaming is another big-money generator!
For Minecraft fanatics for example there are many ways to cash in on their gaming passion and skill. You can’t earn money directly from the main Minecraft gaming website. Instead, you need to have a Minecraft game server where ideally, you’d invest a good amount of time and effort to maintain and construct the server and build a dedicated community by inviting players. Beginners can buy a Minecraft server from a reliable hosting provider like SeekaHost where you can read more about this in the SeekaHost Minecraft Server Guide. Try these money-generating avenues once your Minecraft server is up and running: Earn by streaming your Minecraft experience on YouTube: Build a YouTube channel and add a variety of content related to your gaming like expert tips, behind the scenes, etc. You can earn a decent income through the YouTube monetization scheme. Charge players for accessing your server: The charges should be based on the overall experience and use. You can charge a decent amount for an awesome world with great visual impact, expansions, mods, and more. If users like your Minecraft world, you can charge membership fees, where you could offer different packages depending on the play duration, features, etc. Create a “task-based” virtual currency program for players: Set up your Minecraft server so that players need a virtual currency to play games. You can allocate a specific amount of virtual currency based on the tasks they complete. These tasks could be linked to your business affiliates and advertisers, encouraging players to download their application, watch their latest ad, liking their social media page, subscribe to their email list, or participate in a market survey.
There are more advanced ways to earn with Minecraft, which you can find out about in the SeekaHost Make Money With Minecraft Guide.