In 2005, I mistakenly stumbled into a seminar where a 500L medicine student of
Lautech was teaching “internet business opportunities”.
That was the first time I heard the phrase “make money online” and I immediately
realized that this is an opportunity that could change my life forever.
“How on earth does someone ‘make money online” I wondered, as I am certain
many people too are wondering even now.
Well, 15 years later, not only do I make money online, I have built businesses
that have done millions online.
I created this short report to help many people avoid some of my mistakes and
get into the right path.
So, let’s get into it.
First of all, if you want to truly, really “make money online,” there are 3 things you
must get right so you don’t waste your time, money, energy and
effort.
- DO NOT go to Google and search for “how to make money online in South Africa“.
If you do so, you are going to be led down an evil path filled with scams, pyramid
schemes, half-baked, time-wasting activities, and despicable human beings who
masquerade as “online entrepreneurs”.
99% of people who go this path end up never escaping this maze.
DO NOT DO IT!
2. To make money online, you MUST have something for sale and you must
learn how to sell it online.
You can’t cop out by transferring your responsibility to sell to someone else, ala,
“do it for me” or think other people will make you rich by “helping” ala MMM.
Don’t be dumb. You do not “make money online” in a literal sense. You do so by
offering something of value, a product or service, in exchange for money.
3. You must choose something real, something that can grow and you must
have the discipline/patience to learn and do work to grow it.
Get it?
Now let’s talk about the different things you can do to make money online and
what you should run away from when you hear “make money online”.
I’ll start with what to avoid with a long spoon. Engaging in them is like dining with
the devil and using a short spoon.
NEXT, PLEASE AVOID THESE 6 MODELS:
- Online surveys – purportedly, you simply respond to surveys and you get paid
a certain amount.
If it was that simple, trust me, everyone will be doing surveys right now and
smiling at the bank. It is a lie.
2. Get paid to read emails – this one is so dumb I don’t even know how people
believe it.
3. “Oil and Gas investment” – also masquerading as “online investment
programs” aka, invest =N=100,000 and get paid 40% every 30/60/90 days.
There are currently new ones making the rounds now.
Who are the shit people who invent these things? And who believes all that shit?
4. Cash Gifting programs – a.k.a MMM and its many cousins (oh when I was in
Russia, I found Mavrodi’s house. If you lost money in MMM, I know where to find
his mother, just kidding.)
5. Online MLMs – pyramid schemes disguised as network marketing
opportunities.
If they have no real product and focus on recruiting new members, it’s bullshit, it’s
a pyramid and it will come tumbling down.
And oh, if their “product” is a bunch of ebooks/courses, the same applies.
6. Basically, anything that promises you’ll make a lot of money doing very
little to no work.
It’s mostly shysters and scammers who promote those things and I don’t care if
it’s your trusted cousin telling you to join in.
Avoid them all.
4 Best Ways To Make Money Online in 2022 – For the Average Nigerian.
Now Let’s Get Into The Real Ways to Actually Make Money Online.
Once again, please understand that you are making money online by using the
internet to reach people who are interested in something, a product or a service
you provide and they will pay you.
The internet is simply the medium.
So, below is my list of 4 Legitimate and Effective Ways You Can Use to Make
Money Online in 2022.
Read through each part carefully and choose the one that fits you.
#1. Freelancing/Consulting
The first way to make money online as an Average Nigerian is via freelancing/Consulting.
This is where you provide skilled tasks to businesses and entrepreneurs.
Online Freelancing is probably the best way you can use to start making money
online without any capital.
That is because all you are doing is helping our businesses and individuals with
certain tasks like:
- Social media posting
- Audio/video transcribe
- Translations
- Graphics design
- Web design
- Content/Article Writing
- Voice Over
All you need is a skill in a particular area or subject – graphic design, social media
marketing, copywriting, sales.
And you can quickly learn many of these skills.
Business owners buy these services like clockwork.
All you have to do is to go to one of the online marketplaces where you can get
these jobs.
The most popular one is known as Fiverr.com
Fiverr is the world’s largest online freelance services marketplace that connects
businesses with online freelancers.
Don’t let the $5 jobs fool you, it’s merely a starting point.
People charge as much as $10,000 to do jobs there.
Then we have others like – www.99designs.com and www.UpWork.com
On these sites, you can sell skills ranging from graphic design to writing, to social
media marketing to copywriting to programming to sales, etc.
It’s incredible what you can do on these sites. Check them out.
By the way, if this is what you want to do, my advice is that you get the guidance
of someone who has been doing this for some time.
The best program about online freelancing that I can vouch for right now is this
one called Freelance Money Pot by Ajeigbe Moruf
The guy who created the program has hundreds of positive testimonials from
students.
#2. Affiliate Marketing
The second on our list of how to make money online as an Average Nigerian is via Affiliate Marketing.
You might have heard this term before.
That is because affiliate marketing is an industry valued at over $300 US Billion.
Affiliate marketing is an income model where you make money by selling
someone else’s product for a commission.
Basically, you get a link that recognizes you brought the visitor, and when they
buy, you get a cut which can be anything from 5% to as high as 90%.
It is a really effective way for complete newbies to make good money online.
The main thing is to get sales for the product you are promoting and you get paid
a commission for it.
Let me quickly tell you how I used this to make N25,000 recently.
What I did was to go to an affiliate platform known as expertnaire.com.
Maybe you have heard that name before.
It has been around since 2018.
So, I picked a product on Instagram marketing, grabbed my affiliate link for that
product, and went ahead to post the affiliate link on my Twitter page along with a
small blurb.
3 days later, I checked my emails and I saw an email from Expertnaire.
The email congratulated me that I had just made N25,000 commission from
selling that product.
This is the email I got.
This is exactly what is meant by getting paid a commission per product sale.
Here, I got paid 50% (which is N25,000) for selling this product.
There are many people making as much as N100k a week with this model by
posting their affiliate links on their Whatsapp status, FB pages, Instagram pages, etc
And you can even take it a step further by running paid adverts.
Anyway, If you are interested in this business model, you can get started simply
by going to expertnaire.com to sign up as an affiliate.
However, if you really want to succeed big with this, like all things I will advise
that you follow the guidance of an experienced person.
In this case, I am going to recommend 72IG WhatsApp Income Blueprint + Implementation Program B22
This program helps you to start making money with affiliate marketing within 30
days and without spending any extra money on adverts or anything.
Click here to get the 72IG WhatsApp Income Bluprint + Implementation Programm
#3. Information Publishing
The third way to make money online as an Average Nigerian is via Information Publishing.
Information publishing is a business model where you publish and market
information on a topic that people are looking to learn/master.
You can publish a step by step guides/courses on virtually any topic as long as
people have an interest in it and are ready to pay for it.
The topics can be money, relationships, business, travel, education, health,
food, jobs, etc.
It’s a really neat way to make money.
One of my businesses does this and it’s extremely profitable with incredible
margins.
You can deliver the information products digitally or physically or in person.
Information publishing is a really big business.
There are 3 major steps to it.
- Start by deciding on a topic that people will buy.
- Package or Create the information into a product.
- Create a System to market the information product.
You Can Sell Information in Various Formats
- You can sell it as a simple ebook in PDF format
- Also, as a video
- You can sell it as a full blown course
- As an audio
- As a webinar, seminar or Teleseminar
- You can sell it as coaching
- You can sell it as a membership content
If this is what you like, you should look at Jonathan Melody’s IBM program.
Jonathan was able to create a N30m a year income from creating and selling
information products online.
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#4. Importation/Ecommerce
Finally, the fourth way to make money online as an Average Nigerian is via Importation/E-commerce.
E-commerce is all about 3 things:
- Searching for physical products that solve problems for people or help them get closer to their desires.
- Buying the products at the lowest cost possible, importing them to Nigeria.
- And using a genius marketing method to sell them for a good ROI.
If you are going to run with this business model, make sure you do not run it like
a lot of people.
Run it as a proper business.
Start with a huge and profitable audience/market. E.g. Fitness, babies (Moms),
Women’s fashion, Skincare.
Look for challenges people have in that market.
Find products on Aliexpress that solve those challenges – In fact, you will even
come across many products on Aliexpress that fix challenges you do not know
about.
Buy the products for the lowest cost you can find (You may have to use an agent
or other sites for this)
E.g. Some products that sell for N$2 a piece can be gotten from 1688.com for far
lesser.
Create a marketing system that allows you to pull in people who are interested in
the type of products you are importing. You can advertise using Facebook,
Instagram, Youtube, Google, Blogs.
Sell to them
Sell to them repeatedly
If you decide to take this to another level, you might even create a brand name
and find companies that can help you create products with your brand name
printed on them.
But you don’t have to start with that.
You can start importing with at least N50,000 or even lower.
“However the most important factor is for you to ONLY import products that
people really want to buy.”
Personally, I don’t import products until I have advertised it and gotten proof that
it is a product that will sell.
That is when I go ahead to buy it.
Ecommerce requires a capital of at least N50,000 to get it started.
If you want to go with this online model, please get the 10X Ecommerce
Training by Jonathan Melody
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Conclusion
All the 4 make money online models I shared in this short report can be executed
by the average Nigerian.
If you have zero money, zero connections but have skills or are willing to learn
one then does freelancing/consulting.
If you have access to some very helpful information that people will be willing to
pay for, then you should consider getting into Information Publishing.
If you simply want to promote products without dealing with customers, Affiliate
marketing is the way to go.
If you’re not the writing type or you want to sell something you can
touch, E-commerce is great.
If you notice, I left out Blogging as a way to “make money online, here’s why.
That’s because blogging is extremely hard and for most starters, it isn’t an
excellent choice.
To do it, you need a ton of patience and discipline and in any case, you still need
to incorporate Information Publishing, Affiliate Marketing, Consulting, maybe
even E-commerce for a blog to be profitable.
It’s like wanting to eat a boiled egg but you put the egg inside “Moi Moi” first and
then cook it before eating. Why not just boil the damn egg?
Blogs aren’t profitable by simply starting up and putting an “advertise with us”
page up.
And thinking a blog will survive by simply running ads is foolish.
That’s it. Hope you enjoyed the report.
Cheers.
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