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An extra monthly income is a real possibility within everyone's reach. In this guide, the main second jobs to be undertaken will be reviewed.

Earn extra money

Have extra income through a side business, or a second job, therefore working from home even if not full time, and maybe dedicating one or two hours of your time constantly, every day, it is a real possibility, currently within anyone's reach. Nor can we exclude the possibility that this second job could be a springboard for a new profession to devote to full time.

Start earning online, to reach sums that in the first instance cannot in any case replace a proper salary, albeit with a potential margin of growth over time, it is possible, but it requires knowledge and study of the possibilities that the web offers to users.

There are in fact different earning schemes that can be undertaken, e.g each of these earning systems is a real online job to maybe earn some extra money and, at the same time, try a professional path that could be not only new but also profitable. Without illusions and dedicating himself daily, with research, method and constancy, to the side business that he has decided to undertake.
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The main possibilities for extra income online

This guide, which does not claim to be exhaustive but is intended to be an overview of possibility of extra income online, the following activities were reviewed:

Engage in affiliate marketing

A first possibility of extra income online is given byaffiliate marketing, or affiliate marketing. It's about a relatively simple and linear business possibility, and consists of a few steps:

you choose one niche on which to focus, a niche that is considered profitable
you join the affiliate program of the seller offering the product or service for sale
are used own digital spaces, or even spaces provided by the digital seller, to start selling the product or service.

Each time a purchase by the user, those who have joined the affiliate program will be entitled to one variable percentage of earnings. Amazon, to give a more than macroscopic example, has long since developed its own affiliate program, which allows earnings with not exactly high percentages on purchases, but which can still benefit from the large sales numbers of the largest digital market.

The seller is able to know exactly how many goods or services have been sold thanks to gods tracked links. Amazon is certainly not the only top player to offer affiliate programs, they may also mention eBay e iTunes. profitable niches they are however different, and among these we indicate the health, fitness, beauty, hobby; but also the online banks and insurance.

Open an online store

THEopening an online store, which can also take place in an affiliation context, is a second chance for remuneration for those who want to earn some extra money. It does not require large initial investments at all and needs some formal steps to complete:

a legal form adequate, the opening of the VAT number and the choice of ATECO code More appropriate
theregistration at the Chamber of Commerce, the indication to the Municipality of the beginning of the activity, through the SCIA, a certified e-mail address, PEC
comply with certain information obligations such as GDPR, Privacy Policy and Consumer Code.

These bureaucratic steps are essential if you want to open a business on a digital platform. So there are further choices to be made, of a strategic nature, first open your own online store by commissioning an optimized site for e-commerce, because this is what we are talking about, or using resources that players such as Shopify provide to those who join their program.

Once you have a e-commerce site, here it is necessary to make strategic choices, which affect:

la choice of niche to devote himself to, also using survey tools, on searches by users and potential customers, such as Google Trends
drafting a business plan, to have a safe path to follow
the drafting of one marketing strategy and its implementation.

Engage in dropshipping

Extra income from home can also be a reality thanks to Dropship, which can literally be translated with the expression: unloading of the sale. This mode of online sales can be considered as one light, simplified version of the sale that takes place in a physical store.

If, for example, you decide to open a physical sales business and, to some extent, if you also want to sell online there are some unavoidable passages. Steps such as:

own a warehouse
have management software for goods
take care of packing, shipping and sales.

If you want to open a drop shipping business none of these duties must be performed by the seller. In fact, the sale will take place in these terms:

a user buys the product from the digital store
the seller turns to the dropshipper, i.e. the supplier of the product, who will take care of packaging and shipping
the user, who has now become a customer, receives what is sent by the dropshipper.

In simple terms the costs of the warehouse and the capital advance for the purchase of the goods to be sold are totally reduced, and shipments are the responsibility of the dropshipper. The seller basically takes care of sponsoring the dropshipper's goods.

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Learn how to build websites

According to data from the Live Stats site, which monitors almost real-time activities happening on the web, there are currently just under two billion sites on the web and they are published at least 5 million posts, or articles, per day.

These numbers indicate the absolute importance that websites still have in communication and sales, despite the apparent predominance of social networks. And what do you need to know, and do, to build a website? The intended use of which can obviously be multiple: e-commerce, as we have just seen, drop shipping, blogging or copywriting or, again, a site that hosts the services of the customer who commissioned it.

The premise is that it is not strictly necessary to know programming languages, such as HTML, PHP, JavaScript. Rather, you need:

Complementing website building is a skill that will be mentioned shortly: blogging, or more precisely copywriting.

Develop social media skills

Working in the world of social media means having skills that allow you to be:

social media manager, a figure who deals with thinking, organizing and assigning the various tasks of a specific social network, to achieve company objectives
community manager, responsible for managing the relationship with the social community. Fundamental role for there to be a healthy relationship between brands, users and customers
graphic designer, whose skills are extremely versatile, because they can be applied to any social network, not excluding websites
copywriter or content creator who work to create textual or visual content, essential for effective communication
an influencer, figure able to gather potential customers, and their attention, thanks to the authority of the niche in which he works
analyst, responsible for reading the data, capable of providing tangible results, and indications, on the communication strategies undertaken by social media managers.

Learn to develop applications

helps expand the brand awarenessbrand awareness
allows you to think and implement specific features and interactions for and with users
improves the quality of interactions
It allows get to the sale often faster than an e-commerce site.

Among the different languages that it is necessary to know, to develop applications, they are mentioned Java e XML, used for both PC and Android. The languages C# e Visual Basic, always for Windows environment. Or the language Swift, to develop apps in the iOS environment, therefore for Apple.

Furthermore, they have been designed and developed in recent years software that allows you to create apps without the need to know any programming language. These software are called appbuilder o app builder. They are applications that work in progressive steps:

we start from the development of design and home page
you work to enter the content, textual and visual, any maps, all of which can be shared via social networks
any add-on, integrations that allow you to have further, more refined, interaction possibilities with the user as in the case of a chat service, or push notifications for offers and events.

Develop and sell online courses

Each of the skills listed so far they can be the subject of training, and contribute to the realization of online courses. during i lockdown the FAD, Or the distance education, has seen considerable growth as, in more general terms, the entire e-learning sector.

Just the e-learning market, according to data arriving directly from the European Commission, is estimated to be valid over 500 million euros in Italy alone. There is therefore capital that is and will continue to be invested in this sector.

The steps for the development and sale of an online course, with which to start earning an extra sum, are soon said:

choose a topic to be treated. Topics that can be extremely varied, from vegan cooking to home workouts, from music notation to copywriting, from yoga to graphic design
targettizzare in the most refined way its potential customers, trying to understand their age, i social channels who adopt, interests, place of residence
develop, or commission the development of a website which allows, also thanks to the blog, to create a reference community
create free live events, to intercept new potential customers.

These moments converge on e-learning platform choice, so as to upload the videos that make up the course, and make this form of income, after the necessary running-in and optimization time, a source of passive income. Platforms such as Udemy or Coursera.

Create a blog

Writing is still a skill required by the market, including the digital market. It is not for nothing that we live in the full infosphere, therefore in the full age of communication. Earn some extra cash through writing in practice it means learning to communicate according to the principles of copywritingof persuasion.

Un blog, an inescapable component of a website, is the natural seat of digital writing. What then are the possibility of monetization through blogging? Once the reference niche has been chosen, which is recommended as vertical and sectorial as possible, you have the following two options:

first of all, after having created the blog within your site, you must have organized traffic that will reach the pages. Traffic involving social media adoption, social and search engine sponsorship, strategic use of email marketing
secondly, you will need a editorial plan with content created in advance and scheduled in their publication.

Once the blog will be accompanied by content published consistently and frequently, you will have various monetization options:

it is possible to earn through Google AdSense, Google's sponsorship program
you may have chosen to join a affiliate program
you can devote yourself to sale of info products, such as ebooks or audiobooks.
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Engage in influencer marketing

Be an influencer it's another way to earn extra money. Becoming an influencer, in fact, means be competent in a specific market niche to such an extent from influence users' purchasing decisions.

The earning possibilities of those who want to dedicate themselves to influencer marketing are different:

be brand ambassador, an activity that consists in dealing with content for a single client brand for an important period of time
publish sponsored content, after agreements with a brand
publish your own content on the channels of the client brand
share affiliate link o discount links, earning a commission for each purchase made by the user.

Selling clothes online

La selling clothes online it is a business that in 2020 moved only in Italy 3,9 billion EUR. This is a figure that should however be viewed in a context of growing trends. In this context, the choice to sell clothes online represents an opportunity for extra income that shouldn't be dismissed lightly.

Whether they are clothes made independently, therefore new, or second-hand clothes, the first action to be taken is choose the most suitable platform to sell clothes. Among the most used are:

Vinted
Of pop
eBay
Zalando.

It is also possible to enhance one's identity on the digital market to devise a brand for this, study a marketing strategy and open different communication channels: not only a site that functions as a showcase and ecommerce, but also suitable social channels to feed with dedicated content. Opening an online clothes sales business also means being an entrepreneur to all intents and purposes, with all the legal and non-legal obligations of the case: VAT registration, then take care of accounting, inventory management and shipping.

Selling food online

La selling food online certainly requires greater care and commitment, compared to an ecommerce dedicated to clothes, but it can represent an initial possibility of extra earnings which, perhaps over time or in the presence of investors, even in a context of equity crowdfundingit can become a job to all effects. The regulatory framework to be respected is given by:

il European regulation 1169/2011/EU
the legislative decree 114/1998 subsequently modified by the legislative decree 59/2010
the legislative decree 60/2003.

Once the due and appropriate legal obligations have been fulfilled, we can concentrate, also in this case, on the brand identity marketing strategy with which to intercept your target. And your target audience appears clear and distinct when you have one precise idea of food product to sell, through platforms like Shopify or using CMS like Magento. Food products such as: candies, foods in oil, dry sweets or seeds.

Sale of handicrafts online

I crafts, whether they concern clothing, design or furnishings, are another possible way to earn extra money, especially in cases where you dedicate yourself in a semi-professional or professional way to do-it-yourself. The legal aspect must always be taken into account if you find yourself selling with a certain continuity over time; therefore, compliance with the regulatory references indicated so far in the previous possibilities for extra earnings is valid.

Un value added, in the sale of handicraft products, concerns the care of the human factor: feed the community, on the site or on social networks, through a careful activity of branding and sharing of values, is an action that must necessarily be performed. Even the the packaging it can be an identity and loyalty tool.

Dedicate yourself to investments through equity crowdfunding

THEequity crowdfunding, referred to, is one new form of investment that does not require large capitals. You don't need, for example, 50000 euros or 100000 euros of savings. Even relatively small sums, such as 500 or 1000 euros, give access to this investment opportunity.

And more than earning from home, crowdfunding can be considered a real one possibility of entry into financial innovation. This form of “crowd financing” allows small savers, or investors, to participate in funding campaigns created by innovative startups and SMEs with a high rate of innovation.

All you have to do isopen an account on a dedicated platform, as is the case with resources4gaming, choose a campaign e invest a share of capital which, we repeat, does not have to be conspicuous at all.

Crowdfunding, which has spread as form of bottom-up financing during the credit crunch between 2007 and 2012, it is proving to be a viable investment option with relatively low risk. If the campaign hasn't achieved the set goal, the capital that has been paid in is returned.

In this way it is possible to enter sectors such as the sharing economy, or the Catering, to indicate two sectors that benefit from this type of financing.