There are several ways to make money online.
1. Zearnings.com - A Social income earning community. Users earn money through activity points which can be redeemed for cash through Paypal or Bank wire (100 points = $10 ; 1000points = $100 ; 10000 points = $1000 etc) Earned points can also be used to pay for ads on the website (
http://www.zearnings.com)
While registering with Zearnings ensure that your email address is same with your Paypal email, they only send money to user's email on file. Also you will find it difficult requesting bank wire for your points if you do not have account with your names on file, they only bank wire to account name and country that match user's profile.
2. Google Adsense - It require you to have a website or youtube video and traffic, I prefer a Youtube video upload because it is quick, upload an interesting video about your daily life, and animal zoo and monetize your video with google ads.
3. Web design - If you are good in web design you can make money online through freelancer.com , they have more than thousands of jobs and the Indians are smiling to the bank with it. It require that you have a Paypal account for payment, you can earn up to $200 minimum per design.
4. Web hosting - This is an area where African needs more input right now the Indians enjoy the largest share. Usually require small investment of $200 to get it running, you don't need to know anything about computer, design or hosting, the only qualification you need is entrepreneurship , hunger to succeed and ability to promote your hosting business in your immediate environment. visit
http://www.i-webdesigner.net to set up hosting business.
5. Online Auction - Online auctions are shooting up in Africa, it is a good tool to start a small online business, most online auction are completely free to list your item and they charge a 1% when your product sells,
http://www.nairaauctions.comOnline auction allows you to do drop shipping. You don't need a warehouse or a shop all you need is a phone with a camera, take a picture of a product list it online when sold, purchase and deliver. It eliminates your endless wait for capital. the introduction of digital currency Bitcoin has open the doors for online business to shoot up in Africa it is a border-less, bank-less and government-less payment system. And most online business in Africa like Nairaauctions accept bitcoins.
6. Agents & Affiliates - Agent and Affiliates are a good way to make money it an existing platform, most online business desire trusted Affiliate to represent their interest continent wide. And usually pay you for zonal dragnet or client within different countries, start by introducing yourself and informing them what you have to offer. Some of the online business accepting Affiliates and agents are:
Afriquebooking.com , Afriquemodels.com ,
Facebook Friends - Most people have 5,000 facebook friends that are potential clients for online business, most online business will pay 1cent per friend. which amounts to $50 and all you need to is post a link of their business online facebook page, usually you will have to do it continuously for 2-4weeks to ensure that the message gets to all your facebook followers, if you do this for 4 websites in a month that is potentially $200 every month. The process is same write them and introduce yourself and post a link to your facebook page, usually they will require that you add them to your facebook page to enable them monitor the progression.
Internet Marketing - This is where the juice is Facebook and Google is an example of how power internet marketing is, Online businesses want to be seen, they want to be able to reach a larger audiance. All major search engine Google, yahoo, Bing have a ranking formular if you are able to decode the formular you are rich! Although seach engines like Google alternate their formula yahoo is relatively stagnant.