7 Best Money-Making Websites To Earn an Extra $1,000 Per Month — Image created by author with Canva

For something that I know, a lot of beginners all over the world are looking for the best money-making websites that will help them make money online for free. That’s exactly what I’m here to help you today to find entirely free websites where you can make money without having to spend any money to make it. No hidden subscription services, no hidden fees, nothing like that.

However, bear in mind these websites, are not going to make you a millionaire overnight. But as you’ll see, through taking action, people have built up an income stream on these websites, including passive income, that now earns them a full-time income which I think is pretty cool.

So I’m hoping that this article is going to motivate you and smash some of those mental roadblocks that you may have been having, where you think things like, oh, you need money to make money, or you need to live in America, or you need a credit card. Because you know what, those myths, are not true. What you actually need is to take action. So, let’s get started now because most of these websites can be used worldwide.

#1. Redbubble

So what is Redbubble and how does it make money? Well, it is a website that allows you to make money by creating and selling custom products online. It lets you create things like T-shirts, phone cases, that sort of thing. But how do you make them?
Well, it’s simple. Once you create an account, which is absolutely free, you can start uploading artwork and designs to products literally in less than a minute. No credit card is required.

You can choose which products you want to list and sell with your artwork online, and you can customize your products, choose what color they would come in, what style, and then your own custom product description and title. Then when a customer purchases one of them, such as this T-shirt, Redbubble’s production warehouse will print your design onto a T-shirt, package that T-shirt up, and then ship it out to the customer automatically, without you having to do anything. In this industry, we have a name for the service. It’s called print-on-demand.

And as you can see, once you’ve created and uploaded your designs onto the products, it’s an extremely passive source of income. With Redbubble, they pay you a commission on each product sold with the standard commission rate being 20%. Because they pay you out as a commission, you never have to pay any fees, and so selling is free.

You may be wondering, sure I can create a T-shirt to sell, but what about traffic? Don’t I have to pay to advertise my T-shirt? The short answer is NO. You know how people come to eBay and they search for products that they want to buy. eBay has invested lots of money into advertising, to say the least. And so now it’s so well-known that it’s what you would call a destination website. People come here and buy products each day, and so most eBay sellers make their money just by people searching for their products.

Well, Redbubble is the same. It’s a destination website. People come here looking for products that they want to buy. And so most Redbubble sellers make money through free traffic that they get to their listing via the search bar. Now onto objection number two, what if I’m not a graphic artist? To make money on Redbubble, you don’t need to be an artist, and I’ll prove it to you right now.

You can hire a professional to make a design for you, and then you will be able to replicate this design and make one that looks extremely similar using the free app Canva with open-source commercial licensed fonts. This will take you less than five minutes to do because it’s literally just text.

#2. Skillshare

Another great website to make money online is Skillshare. Normally, people go on this website to pay like $10 a month to get access to all their video classes. So, for example, if I wanted to learn how to make a cake, I could just type that into the search box, and boom, I’d be given a bunch of free video classes I could watch. And here’s what most people don’t know, this class was just made by some random guy because anyone is allowed to make a Skillshare class and start making money with it. And on average, new teachers make between $100 to $2,000 in their first month, which is pretty cool, but that’s not the best part.

The best part is that, once you put your classes up, all that money that you’re earning, is passive. And remember, that is how much they earn in their first month with their first course. Imagine what happens when they go and create multiple video courses. It all adds up. And once your class is live, you don’t have to do anything and that is how people have been able to make over $50,000 a year with Skillshare.

#3. Udemy

Udemy is another website that also lets you sell your courses. Unlike Skillshare, which is a subscription service, here, people buy your courses individually. Because of that, earnings on Udemy do tend to be higher. it is estimated that about 40% of classes have made over $5,000. I actually have a friend that makes about $20,000 a year with one course which is pretty amazing. However, you might be thinking, I don’t have any skills, and “I’ve got nothing to teach. How could I make a class and then sell it?

If you go on Udemy and type in Photoshop, you can see that lots of people want Photoshop tutorials, and guess what, you could make these for free. Most of these tutorial videos are just a mixture of talking over slideshows and talking over screen captures of people doing the editing inside of Photoshop. You can go to YouTube and type in Photoshop tutorials and you will get a bunch of tutorial videos. And you know what you can do, you can take the popular topics and videos, recreate them yourself, and then go and list those videos on Skillshare and Udemy. So you see, you don’t need to be a Photoshop guru.

If you want to double down and even make more money, once you’ve made your Skillshare and Udemy courses, sign up for the Adobe affiliate program and get your tracking link, then put your link in the description of your Photoshop tutorials, and tell people that they can click on it to get a free trial for Photoshop. And each time someone buy’s Photoshop or one of their Adobe products, you will get an 85% commission on their first month’s subscription.

#4. Shutterstock.

On this money-making website, you can sell photos and videos that you take stock footage. And do people buy this? Absolutely. People spend lots of money on stock videos and footage. I know people that make thousands of dollars passively each month off their portfolios. The way that they make it though isn’t by selling photos. It is by selling videos that are in 4k and these have the highest royalty commissions. So if Shutterstock sounds like something that you like to make money from, then I highly recommend focusing on 4k videos.

#5. Merch by Amazon.

Amazon has its own print-on-demand service too that works just like Redbubble. You need to submit an application and I do recommend Googling best practices for submitting an application. But if you’re accepted, you get access to the print-on-demand service. All you need to do is upload a piece of artwork or design, and Amazon will create these products for you, and you can create an Amazon product listing that people can find just by using their search engine.

You can set your own price, add in your own title, and description, and fully edit your listing. Now, some people use Merch by Amazon as a source of side income, and others use it to earn a full-time income. Just like with Redbubble, Amazon is obviously a destination website, So they take care of the marketing for you, and bring in the customers. And just like with Redbubble, it’s commission-based so if you were to sell a T-shirt for $10.99, Amazon will take their fees and pay you the difference.

So you don’t need to pay for the cost of producing a T-shirt to sell it. Amazon takes it out of the product price. And so how do you get your commissions? Well, Amazon pays them out into your bank account, and that includes a Payoneer account.
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#6. Fiverr.

Now if you don’t know what Fiverr is, it’s a place where freelancers can offer their services in the form of one-off gigs that people can buy. It’s free to create and list a gig selling your services. So, if you’re a freelancer, this is a great website to make money online. I personally use Fiverr and I have spent some money buying people’s gigs over the past years, so I know a lot of money can be made here,

#7. Instagram

There are a lot of opportunities for people to earn money online with Instagram. I have a friend who made over $20,600 from free organic Instagram traffic from one page with less than 40,000 followers with a specific niche. And he built that page just by posting great niche-specific content. He didn’t pay for any ads. The way he monetized it was by creating an ebook using this ebook creator tool. And then next, he created a free two-week trial on ClickFunnels, and he made a mini website that sold his ebook.

And you know what? You can actually sell products with ClickFunnels and pay nothing over their two-week trial period, which I found pretty cool that they don’t make you upgrade early if you actually try to sell things. Another way to make money on Instagram is by becoming an influencer for brands to promote their products on your page and then charging them for it.

Conclusion

Making money online takes time and dedication, so don’t expect to become wealthy overnight. Also, for best practices, choose one strategy and double down on it. Do not attempt to use all of the above strategies at the same time, as this will result in failure.

7 Best Money-Making Websites To Earn an Extra $1,000 Per Month