The topic of today is how to make money online in South
Africa? Do you ever have a question like this for yourself? If so, let us make money online South Africa. I am
glad that I am going to be able to help you and share with you many ways in
which we can try and make money online in South Africa in the comfort of our home
(meaning we will be making money from home).
There are many ways to
make money online in South Africa which is the reason I made up this
content for you. However, it is advisable that one knows that I business
requires consistency and investments to start running smoothly.
I will share the many ways in which will make money
online and explain how you can implement the business. Also, will provide you
with relevant links to get started with your online business.
Here Are 20 Ways to Make Money Online in South Africa
As I said, I will be sharing with you how to make money
online in South Africa and also linking to the important links that will help
you get started and you can get started for FREE.
1. Become a Blogger
A blogger is someone who writes content online through a
simple website blog. These writers sometimes write as a hobby, but their
content makes them money through monetization and affiliate marketing.
Monetization; they monetize their content with
advertisements if you may check in this article there are ads running, I am
making money through those ads.
Affiliate marketing; you get paid when you direct someone to
a particular link to buy a product then you earn commissions. I will explain it
in-depth in this article as we go.
To Become a Blogger, Start with Blogger, WordPress, and or SquareSpace. Here you can start for FREE and
continue hosting at an affordable price.
Note: For Hosting, I will provide you with three
Hosting providers that you can choose from to buy a domain for your blog. They
are as follows, BlueHost, HostKing, and HostGator.
2. Start a YouTube Channel
Did you know that YouTube pays revenues for content or video
creators who meet their criteria? This pays them through Pay-Per-Click and
Pay-Per-Impressions models. So, starting a YouTube channel is a great way to
make money while ins South Africa. I have seen many channels that o blowing it
out (like those who share Amapiano Mix and TV stories).
To make money with your YouTube channel you will need to
have at least 1000 Subscribers and 4000 watch hours for your videos.
If you need help building your YouTube Channel go to Fiverr, Upwork, and or People Per Hour. You will find a different freelancer who will love to help you to
get started.
Note: We all want to create a successful YouTube channel,
right? Then to grow your Channel Subscribers and watch hours’ use the following
best providers; VidIQ, TubeBuddy, and Video Marketing Blaster. They will help you to grow your channel
fast.
3. Drop-shipping
Drop-shipping is a business model that you might have not
thought about before, and of course, you are wondering how this business model
work. Here is how you buy a watch for $5 and you sell it for $10 and you earn
$5 commissions. To sell the product you can use your website and or use Facebook
advertising. You can also sell through email marketing if you have enough email
lists. There are many ways to sell for drop-shipping.
There are sites that are for Drop-shipping. And of course, there are many websites for which you can join to start your drop-shipping
business drop-shipping, I will only list three of them which are; Alibaba, AliExpress, and Worldwide
Brands.
Note: You do not buy products first, you promote the product, then when someone wants it they pay you and give you the address for delivery, then you take the portion of the money paid for the product and direct the merchandiser to the buyer's address. That’s all.
4. Affiliate Marketing
This business model is popular. Here you only promote links
to buyers and when the buyers make payments using your unique link you get paid
a commission. Affiliate marketers are like Drop-shippers but they differ in
that a Drop-shipper must buy products for the buyers and while the Affiliate
Marker will just need to promote unique links that sell a product then when
a buyer makes a purchase they get paid too.
To get started as
Affiliate Marketer while in South Africa go to Affiliates, ClickBank and Digistore24.
Note: To become a successful affiliate marketer or
even drop-shipper you need the traffic to your products and or unique links
(meaning you need to market the products). Use this Niche Marketing Kit to help you get started.
5. Become a Freelancer
A freelancer is someone who specializes in a particular
job without going to an office for that job. They typically work from home. This
kind of job is applying your expertise to help others or your clients online
while in the comfort of your home. Freelancers can be web designers, writers, social media marketers, etc.
There are multiple websites that one can join for FREE and
make money as a freelancer online in South Africa. To become a freelancer, you only need a fast internet connection and a
computer. Get started on; Fiverr, Upwork,
and or GetBlend.
Note: You get paid when someone buys your services
through their sites. You can go and check out how others are doing it in
the above links. To join is FREE and you get a charger per service you offer to
your clients.
6. Join CPA Marketing
CPA Marketing stands for Cost Per Action, meaning you market
a particular service and you get paid when someone completes a particular
action. This action includes providing cellphone numbers, banking details,
and or email sign-ups. Yes, there are companies that will pay you for finding
customers that just sign up for a Gift Card and supply their email
addresses. This is why it is called CPA marketing.
Here are the sites
that you can join to start earning with CPA marketing. Use one of the best
sites that I recommend here; CPAGrip, CPALead, and OfferVault.
Note: Here you just need to be good with marketing
to get people to sign up or provide their email addresses, and you will get
paid. To join is FREE also.
7. Be a Tutor Online
A tutor is someone who helps or teaches learners with a
particular subject or modules at a particular time frame. Tutors vary in
their expertise; you can find a tutor that teaches their children while in
contact while others are making it online. You will only need software to be
able to communicate with your students. As long as you are good with a
particular module you are good to go.
You can apply
Tutoring skills in a variety of fields. You can even sell your online video
courses. Use the following sites to begin; ShareSkills, Sell your Lesson on PayHip, and or do contact Tutoring at your
open space. This is how to make money online in South Africa.
Note: The choice is yours, there are many sites
where you can sell your lessons, or you can just create a space where your
students will come to attend your lessons.
8. Write or Create e-Books
E-books are a great way to share knowledge with readers. An eBook
can be given for FREE while others make money selling eBooks online. Through these
eBooks, you can provide some information in which you can direct your readers to
CPA Lead and or Affiliate Marketing magnet to the targeted audience to make commissions
with, while at the same time you selling the book. Really, an online business is
as broad as you might be thinking.
Did you know that
you can sell e-Books at your own price? Here are three sites that I suggest
that you sell your eBooks on; Amazon Kindle Publisher, PayHip, and or Blurb.
Note: It is not only the sites that will sell
eBooks online only, but they are also still many that you can find online. You are
advised to use Sqribble to create your eBooks. This will help maximize your online eBooks
business.
9. Complete Online Survey
Is this Online Survey the first thing you heard? Yes, you can
make money online by completing surveys. They are tons of sites that are
looking for people who can join and complete surveys for them to have a better
understanding you’re their services, products, and or new apps they have
created. Other sites pay in real cash while others pay in gift cards that can
be used in the shops to swipe.
You can search most
paying well online surveys on Google. I will only give you a few of them. Complete
online surveys here; Univox Community, PrizeRebel, and Surveytime South Africa.
Note: I do not recommend that you do only online
surveys while they are still other business that needs South Africans to join and
help them to review their new app that has come out. They pay very well. Join Here! You will get paid to review apps.
10. Sell Stock Videos and Photos
Stock videos and photos are videos and photos that are used
by most bloggers to place them in their blogs. These videos and photos are
copyrighted and free and Google won’t punish you for using them as you paid for them.
Yes, Google is very streaked when it comes to just posting a photo or video on
your blog that you do not own. So, that’s why many online creators buy these
stocks. So, you can become one of the people who sell stock videos and
photos.
Sell your stock
videos and photos in Twenty20, Shutterstock, and Adobe Stock.
Note: Here you can still charge the stock videos
and photos of your own at your own price.
11. Do Drop-Servicing
This is one the other way in which we can answer how to make
money in South Africa. Unlike drop-shipping where you have to get customers
interested in a particular product and ask for their information in order to
buy the product for them and earn a commission, in drop-servicing you tell your
customers that you are a digital marketer, then when you get a customer, you
will find someone who is good with digital marketing and hire them at cheap and
sell those services to your current customer with a large amount of money. This
is how you drop service.
To get started use
sites like; Fiverr, Upwork,
and or People Per Hour. Even
if you make research, they will recommend these sites for you because are rated
to be the best service providers.
Note: In the above sites you will check services
that you want to tell your customers that you are good at, then market yourself
either on Facebook. When you find a customer, you can go to Fiverr to hire a freelancer to complete the job for you.
12. Modeling Online
There are online
sites that need you to participate as a model regardless of where you are from, this
model gets tipped tokens as they perform online. These tokens are bought by
your audience and used as tips for you. So, if you want a career or love
modeling you can join the sites. Last time when I checked 1000 tokens is
$50.00. This is a great start for people who enjoy playing around with a camera
(webcam) in the comfort of their homes.
If you want to start an online business as an online model
you can go start at this Agency. This website is for adults. Take Classes online to learn Pole Dancing
today.
Note: This site is for adults and you will be
performing as a webcam model. You can perform your moves with your audience
privately.
13. Start an e-Commerce Store
What is an e-commerce store? If you know any online store
that sells books whatsoever, we call that an e-Commerce store. You can sell digital
products or physical products. One of the e-Commerce store examples is
Takealot.com, I am sure you are familiar with the store. Now the obstacle would
be where to start as this required some technical skills, however, there are
tons of sites that have freelancers that you can hire to build a store at
a particular price.
To get started with your e-Commerce business you can hire a
freelancer at; Fiverr, Upwork, and or People
Per Hour. There are still
other sites that have freelancers for this job. I just mentioned three of them
only.
Note: e-Commerce store will need you to have
skills in marketing. You will need to market your store to get traffic. You can
learn marketing here!
14. Become a Social Media Influencer
If you are a social media person, you might have noticed
that there are other business pages that have millions of followers. These people we tend to call them influencers as every time they make a post is seen
by thousands of thousands of his or her followers. These social media account
owners can make money online by promoting other people’s businesses. Brands can
approach them for this kind of business and pay them.
To become a social media influencer, you need to have social
media accounts, like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, or YouTube
Channel. Then all you need is to build a relationship with your audience or followers. Provide them with
valuable information so that they can follow you.
Note: Building followers or what we can call subscribers
is not a simple thing, it requires consistency and providing your audience with
valuable information. If you need help with growing your subscribers to your
YouTube Channel use TubeBuddy, VidIQ, and Video Marketing Blaster.
15. Create a Website Tools
I believe everyone knows what website tools are! However,
let me just explain what a website tool is… website tools are a website that
is designed to help people reach their goals or solve people’s problem, like
reducing the size of a PDF file, downloading a Facebook video, and or Reducing a
JPG file size. This website's tools make money through monetization and a
premium option. Look at these FREE WEBSITE TOOLS for example.
Creating a website tool is not simple, you will need a
budget that will pay freelancers to get the job done for you. They will assist
you all the way and suggest ways in which you will need to make money using
these website tools. Hire a Freelancer at Fiverr.
Note: Website tools are one of the tools that Google
recommends and they can generate thousands as people will come back for the
service of the website tool frequently.
16. Do AdSense Arbitrage
AdSense arbitrage is a process of
buying ads for your blog website cheaply and earning high revenue through
Pay-Per-Click and Pay-Per-Impressions through Google ads. You just create a
simple blog that you will put Google ads in it and drive traffic to the blog
post. When people see and click the Google ads you making money.
You can start by creating a FREE website blog using Blogger
and proceed to a hosted site once your revenue increases. However, most people
love to create this kind of a blog using WordPress as it has many plugins to
create a great blog site. The choice is yours where to begin.
Note: This kind of blog cannot be monetized with
Google ads only, you can also monetize it with ads from Adsterra and other
alternatives that will pay you well. You can also apply affiliate marketing to
that blog.
17. Start Trading Online
Trading is one of the trending topics in the way people make
money online. There are many trading platforms that you may find online. Some
offer a FREE bonus sign-up. I have personally made over 100 euros using a bonus
that I got from my brokers as a sign-up BONUS.
Here I will only give you two brokers that will give you a
bonus for a sign-up. You can make research and look for other brokers that
will give a bonus for you to get started. The brokers are; Axiory
and XM
Note: I have found a tool that was made for
traders, which will help traders with signals. It will provide you with
the necessary actions that you need to follow to make money. This tool is
called BOTS Live Trading Room and you can TRY it HERE for FREE!
18. Buy and Sell Domains
This is not a popular business model. However, I heard that
lots of people are blowing it up by simply buying and selling domain names. There
are businesses that buy these domains as they want domains that existed before
and have backlinks already.
To get started you can head over to Godaddy, Namecheap, and Flippa. I do not have enough experience,
but I think if you make proper research on this business model you will
crash it and win it.
Note: You can buy domains on Godaddy and Namecheap and sell them on Flippa. As I said, I do not have enough research on
it, go and make proper research and I believe you will win in this business.
19. Register your Car on Indriver, Takealot, Uber or Taxify
Do you enjoy driving and making deliveries? Did you know
that people are making a living just by registering their vehicles to deliver
for other companies like Takealot? Yes, if you enjoy driving and own a vehicle
you can start a business with the mentioned companies like Taxify.
To start is simple, you just need to own a car, then
register with Indriver, Takealot, Uber, and or Taxify. Submit
all the relevant documentation that they will need and you might get approved
to get started.
Note: How to make money online in South Africa
driving? You can hire a car if you don’t own a vehicle and get to the business
with it. Go to Avis
to Rent a Car and hire a vehicle to start rolling.
20. Sell on Gumtree and or Facebook Marketplace
Do you have a used item that you no longer use and the item
is still in good condition? Why don’t you list it on Gumtree or Facebook
Marketplace and sell it? This is another way to make money online as you are
selling out the items that you do not longer need them. Unlike putting them in
a garage that takes up all your garage space. Yes, sell them.
To start selling used items you simply go to Gumtree and or Facebook
Marketplace and price tag them with the price of your value. That’s it…
Note: These sites (Gumtree and Facebook
Marketplace) will charge you a
portion of money so that they can drive targeted and real traffic to your
listed items. You know it, business requires a small investment to get running.
What Are Marketing Strategies
For all of the above-mentioned ways to make money online in South Africa and or in any country,
they will some of them may be started for FREE without a budget. But others will
require a small budget for marketing them to reach the targeted audience. For
example, if you already have a big following on social media, it could be easy
for you to drive traffic to your affiliate marketing, CPA marketing, and or
blogging business. However, it is normal that a business to survive if they
have marketing strategies.
I will try to share strategies that you can follow to make money online with your desired business. To market your business use:
Search Ads;
For search ads, you can do it with Google Ads and Bing Ads. These kinds of ads are ads that you see before the search results on Google Search Engine or Bing Search Engine.
Native Ads;
These ads are great as they appear in other people’s blogs as blog posts. They don’t appear as ads, however; they indicate that they are “prompted content” or “sponsored content”. If you are interested in native ads consider using Facebook Ads, Adsterra Ads, Taboola Ads, and MGID Ads.
Pop up Ads;
If you have noticed in other blogs post, they tend to come out pop-ups that advertise something to your eyeballs. They want you to click on them to visit their promoted products. These ads are great and drive massive traffic. To use Pop-up Ads, start with Adsterra Ads.
Display Ads;
These kinds of ads are mostly shown in news blogs. Even in this blog that you are reading, they are appearing. You can use the ads to drive traffic to your offers. If you like and want to drive traffic to your business using display ads, consider starting with Google Ads and or Bing Ads.
For the above-mentioned marketing strategies, you will need
to have a lead magnet to capture your audience contact details (Email addresses and or cell numbers). This
will help you send emails and SMSs and tell your audience about the offers and
discounts that are available in your business.
I will try to give a few lead magnet tool websites that you can use to capture your leads. Trust me this website will create a great landing page to capture the emails and the cell numbers of your audience. They are as follows:
Note: To better excel in these kinds of
advertising, you will need to watch tutorials on Udemy, Alison, and or YouTube as they are many
videos that will teach how to strive the digital marketing… You can even hire a
freelancer on Fiverr to do the marketing for you.
What is Needed to Get Started?
I believe you might be wondering what is needed to get started with the online business I have shown you above. You do not need more things to get started. To become a successful online business owner and learn how to make money online in South Africa, you will need:
- A Good Internet Connection (Paid Monthly)
- A Laptop or A Computer (Preferably i3 upwards)
- Small Budget Per Month (To Better Market Your Business)
Note: For marketing, if
you have a big following on social media you are good to promote your business
with your followers for FREE.
Conclusion
I believe I have covered all the
information (on How to Make Money Online in South Africa) you needed to
begin and start your own online business in South Africa from the comfort of your
home. Yes, it might have left others out. If you have any other ideas, you can
share them with us in the comment section. When I said done again I found that
you could be looking for Trending in 2022 Work From Home Online Jobs and you can get them HERE today also and get started.
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
- How Much Can I Earn Online as A Beginner?
The estimated amount of money that you can make is from $65 to $100 (meaning you can make around R1000 to R1500). If you are consistence with your business you can make more and live by working online. There are people who are making a living out of their blogs and YouTube channels.
- Who Is Eligible to Start?
Anyone who is interested in starting an online business can start. However, some of the companies will require you to have at least 18 years old. But you can start your business at any age then monetize the business when you meet their criterion of age and still win. Start today, no matter how old you are and you will thank yourself as time goes. Remember, business require time to grow, in that way you will be giving your business some time to grow.
- Can I Start Right Away?
Yes, start today. Be consistent and be willing to learn by watching other people on YouTube on how the win it. Also connect with people who are icons in the business of your desire to learn from them.
- Is The Money Taxed?
Yes, they will tax you and also the bank charges will apply. But that cannot stop us from making money online. We should not worry about the tax as the companies will deal with that. Just proceed making money online. If you are unsure about the taxes of a company read their privacy policy, terms and conditions to learn more.
