Making money online has become easier than ever before in the history of humanity. The interesting part is that, the bar keeps lowering with every new discovery and invention. In the speed of light, social media has made young people millionaires overnight. If there is any truth to come to terms with in this 21st century, that is, with the right skill, one can literally make fortunes online. In this article, I share with five (5) skills that can make you huge sums of money online if mastered and sold well. In no particular order, they are:
Graphic Design
In a world where every business is going digital, the need for branding and publicity designs cannot be emphasized enough. A mastered skill in how to design logos, flyers, banners and publication designs will make you indispensable in the online job market. With a good graphic design skill, you need just a laptop, design applications like photoshop and a safe place to put your skill to use. No facncy gadgets. Moreover, artificial intelligence has make design interesting since images could be generated online with ease whilst complicated designs could be generated with a single prompt.
Ready to get started?
You need the following:
- A PC with at least 4GB RAM
- A stable internet connection
- Design applications like Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator among others.
You do not need all the fancy gadgets to get started. All you need is determination backed by a burning desire to make money online. Start now because your future self will be glad you did.
Website Design
Just like branding designs, businesses organizations need online stores to sell their items, websites to showcase their services to drive sales, increase their revenue and profit. A skill in designing static website, online stores and e commerce websites will give you an edge to connect and work with bigger organizations. To design website, you have two options to choose from:
Working with content management system like WordPress, web flow etc. or learning to code the website from scratch using programming languages such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
As a beginner, working with CMS will save you a lot of stress since you will use the drag and drop features of the page builder to develop premium and fully responsive websites.
A well-functioning laptop, a stable internet connection and the right tutorials or course are all you need to get started to become a website designer.
Check the library for our article on the roadmap to learn website design in 30 days for next steps. Good luck.
Video Editing
Since everyone is becoming a content creator, very business going online, and businesses shifting from traditional adverts to online advertisement, the demand well edited video to serve these purpose has skyrocketed.
Video is one of the most profitable digital skills one can learn because, it opens you to other complementary skills such as photoshoots, photo editing and retouching among others. With good planning, you can set a photo studio within the shortest possible time to make real cash. Learning video editing demand high level concentration and attention to details but the effort eventually pays off when the skill is fully mastered.
To get started, you need a PC or laptop with a minimum of 8GB RAM, a stable internet connection, and video tutorials from YouTube or a well-structured video editing course as well as editing software like Adobe Premier pro, Davinci Resolve etc.
Ads Creation
Since the discussion on digitization isn’t over yet, let look into creation of social media ads from individuals and businesses. Online ads are takin over the traditional adverts so a mastery of how to set up an ad to generate the right leads is a gem. Lean to run Facebook, Instagram, X ads and get paid for it.
You can also use same skill to promote your own services. Google ads also offers a wide range of audience to connect to through online ads. Luckily, you need a smartphone and internet connection to get started with social media ads creation whilst you need a laptop with internet connection to run google ads effectively.
Affiliate Marketing
Whoever learns any of the above skills need to learn affiliate marketing as a complementary skill. As an affiliate marketer, you job is to promote and sell products of other people for a commission on each sale.
A graphic designer who do not own graphic design training course can register for an affiliate plan to sell the course of another designer for commissions. The same applies to a video editor, an ads expert and a website designer.
To affiliates make up to 4 figures monthly from affiliate marketing so it’s a gold mine if approached well.