Easy Ways to Earn $500 – The top best (and easiest!) ways to earn $500 or more very quickly from home. All legit, all helpful!
If you’ve ever wanted to find ways to make more money from home, you are not alone! So many people just like you are looking for ways to earn a little bit of extra cash each month.
The good news is that there are about a million different ways that you can earn money each month! And no, you don’t need to sell anything, join any MLM, put your kids into daycare or anything like that!
These are real ways that real people like you can work to make money from home. None of them are scams or are spammy and all are totally legit.
Find more ways to earn from home here:
- 30+ Real Ways to Earn Money From Home
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- How to Become a Virtual Assistant and Make a Full-Time Income Doing It!
- Make a Full Time Income From Home Proofreading
- Make $40,000 per Year From Home as a Bookkeeper
- How to Make Money as a Freelance Writer
- 5 Side Hustles That Pay For My Groceries (and More!)
Swagbucks
Swagbucks will pay for you to do things like watch movie trailers, listen to music, searching on their site, and flip through slideshows. Yes, it’s legit.
I’ve been using Swagbucks now for more than 3 years and I love it. I earn more than $30/month using Swagbucks for just a few minutes each day. It’s really easy to just idly do things on the site and earn gift cards.
It’s easy to use and won’t ever worry about giving out your private info. It’s easy to earn points and Swagbucks that all add up very quickly.
Just by using Swagbucks, I’ve earned enough money to pay for birthdays and Christmas presents. Seriously, it’s legit.
Find out the easiest way to earn Swagbucks and get a special bonus here!
Bestmark
We’ve all heard of secret shopping. But how about secret shopping online or over the phone?
That’s what I do with Bestmark. Sure, you won’t be a millionaire, but it’s an easy $30-40/week!
I only do the online or over the phone surveys an I can easily make $10 a day with just 15 minutes of my time. Once you get the hang of the calls and the forms, you get used to the routine so it’s easier each time.
Find out some more about Bestmark here and sign up to get started today!
Blogging
Before I even kind of go there, no way is this a “make money overnight” deal. Blogging is like a marathon where you earn more and more the longer you’ve been at it.
But the best time to start a blog is right now. Honestly! I still kick myself over not getting serious about my blog back in 2011 and then never writing another post until 2015. Thinking about where I could have been… yeah, I’m kicking myself.
So I don’t want that to happen to you!
The best thing you can do it START! Here’s what you will need to do:
- Grab a blog for $2.95/month and start writing!
- Learn how bloggers make their money.
- Make blogging into a habit and start wathing how other bloggers make their money.
- Put some of those practices into place on your own site.
- Add more and more streams of income to your blog (i.e. – making money using email marketing, affiliates, sponsored posts, etc.)
- Keep going and GROWING!
There are a ton of awesome blogging resources out there, but here are some of my favorites to start with:
- Here are great blogging freebies!
- How to Start a Profitable Blog the Right Way
- Can You Make Money Blogging in One Year?
- The Best Blogging Freebies!
- 10+ Incredible FREE Blogging Resources
- How Many Pageviews Do You Need to Make a Full-Time Income Blogging
- What The Heck Am I Doing?! First Month Blogging Lessons
Usertesting
Have you ever been to a website and thought to yourself “wow, this is just terribly laid out! Where is the thing I need on here?!” That’s exactly what you get to do with UserTesting!
On UserTesting, you review websites and help companies know if their websites are working. Yup, if you hate the way that a site is laid out, you can tell the company about it and they will pay you.
And, unlike a lot of surveys, this one pays you really well. It’s $10 per survey and each survey takes 5-10 minutes. From what I can tell, they have a limit of 3 tests each week, but that might not be the case for everyone.
Either way, $30 in 15-30 minutes each week means an extra $120 each month for less than 2 hours of work! Plus, each survey is at least $10. Some are even more, but they are for longer surveys.
Check out more about Usertesting here and sign up to get started here!
Survey Companies
It’s possible to earn a nice amount of money from survey companies. Again, you’re not going to get rich. But it’s a great way to earn money pretty easily.
There are a few companies that I prefer:
- Pinecone surveys (this one is tough to join, but totally amazing if you can get in!)
- Inbox Dollars – $.50 – $5+ per survey
- Opinion Network – $.50-$4+ per survey, up to 10 each day.
- VIP Voice – $.50-$5+ per survey
- Nielsen Panel (yes, like the “Nielsen TV Families” back in the day) – $3+ per survey
- Harris Poll – $1-5 per survey
- Zen Surveys – $.50-$5+ per survey
- One Opinion – $1-4+ per survey
- iSay Surveys – $.50 – $5 per survey
- Survey Junkie – $.50 – $4+ per survey
- Product Report Card – $.50 – $4+ per survey
A few pro tips on survey sites:
- Make a free Gmail address that isn’t connected to your personal email. You will get a lot of notifications of new surveys at all hours of the day.
- Sign up for as many of them as possible! You might get 15 some days, and others, you might only get 1 or 2. It all depends. But the more you sign up for, the better the chances are that you’ll get surveys that will make you money.
- Be honest! You never know what type of demographic they’re looking for.
- Don’t give away more info than you feel comfortable doing. If you feel like you’re giving away too much about you, stop the survey.
- Yes, surveys take time. Be protective of your time and only do ones that you feel are worth it.
Find out more about my favorite survey sites here: 7 Survey Sites that Are Actually Worth It
Selling on Amazon FBA
This is one of my favorite ways to earn that can turn into something full-time! My friend Jessica makes a full-time income selling on Amazon FBA, so I know that it’s totally possible!
Selling on Amazon is not as complicated as you might think. In fact, if you’ve ever been to Target and seen some awesome stuff in the clearance bin, you might have been looking at an Amazon gold mine!
Amazon FBA is easier than eBay because all you have to do is ship the product to Amazon and they handle the rest: listing it, pictures, sales, and shipping it to the customer. All you need to do is to get the product to Amazon!
Find out more about how you can start to use Amazon FBA for yourself here: How to Start Selling on Amazon FBA and Make a Full-Time Income
Proofread ANYWHERE!
If you’re the well-known grammar police amongst your friends and they always know that you’ll be picking apart their text if it doesn’t have proper punctuation and spelling, then this very well might be for you.
I had NO idea that you could turn your love of proofreading into a full-time income until I met my friend Caitlyn who makes more than a full-time income from proofreading. And what else is super cool is that she’d showing others how to do it too through her courses.
Get cashback apps
Love making money by doing…. nothing? Then using cashback apps is 100% for you.
How does it work? You download the app, use it on qualifying purchases, and then BOOM. You get cashback.
Yes, it’s ACTUALLY that easy. No, it’s not a scam.
I use Ebates all the time. Every time I shop online! And people always ask me if it’s a scam. It’s not. I just click the box from my extension when I go to check out and it sends me my collective cash back at the end of 3 months. I’ve made $1,200 this year!
- ShopTracker – Get $3 each time you buy something online
- Ebates – Cashback when you shop online at almost every store. $25 for telling a friend.
- Ibotta – It’s like couponing but on generic items and without spending any time at all clipping coupons! I regularly earn $10+ each week just on my regular trips to Walmart or Target.
- Checkout 51 – Just like Ibotta, you get cash back when you scan your receipt from basically everywhere you shop.
Did you know that you can stack grocery cash back apps? Yes, you read that right! You can use more than 1 grocery cash back app for the same receipt and make money doing it.
For example, you can use BOTH Ibotta and Checkout 51 on the same coupon product. It might only be $.50 but that’s more cash back than you’d have if you didn’t use them at all!
Check out more money-saving apps and websites here: Best Money Saving Apps You Need
Offer services online
That sounds shady, doesn’t it? But it isn’t!
There are so many people who are in need of people just like you who can do tasks online. These tasks might be as simple as editing emails for minor errors, or even by graphic designing.
If you have any skills like the ones below, you can find easy ways to earn money online:
- Ghostwriting and freelancing.
- Editing ebooks or emails.
- Creating logos.
- Coming up with company names.
- Creating PDF printables.
- Being a Pinterest VA.
- Being a regular VA.
And these are just a few! A good way to find things to do that will pay well is by asking yourself “what do people need? How can I meet that need?”
If you ever need some inspiration of things that people are selling or services that people are selling, check out Etsy and Fiverr. It always amazes me what people can do to make money on those sites, but it totally works!
There are many many many things that you can do to earn money from home, but these are all my top favorites ways to earn.
Maybe working from home is a dream that you’ve had for a while, but never thought you could do. The world is always changing and now more than ever, there are more and more chances for regular people to find great ways to work from home.
If you are looking for some more ways to earn from home, you can check these other ideas out for more inspiration:
- Side Hustles That Work: Make Money Freelance Writing
- 5 Side Hustles That Pay For My Groceries (and More!)
- How to Start a Profitable Blog the Right Way
- 6 Easy Ways to Make Money From Home
- Make a Full Time Income From Home Proofreading
- How to Start Selling on Amazon FBA and Make a Full-Time Income
- How to Become A Pinterest Virtual Assistant and Make a Full-Time Income
- Side Hustles That Work: Make Money Taking Surveys
- How to Work at Home as a Transcriptionist
- How to Make Money as a Freelance Writer
- Make $40,000 per Year From Home as a Bookkeeper
- My Jewelry Side Hustle That Makes a Full-Time Income
- How To Make $20 an Hour Teaching English from Home
Do you make money from home? Share it in the comments!
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