Not ALL of those "make money online" schemes are scams...

1. Be your own eBay Quite a few people have become unhappy with eBay since it was discovered that they don’t pay all their UK corporation tax. Other people have more longstanding rifts with the website. Either because it looks a bit like homework or because they’ve received one low user-rating too many and have been blacklisted from the site after panic-bidding on ugly handbags and fake Ralph Lauren polo shirts and refusing to pay for their wares. Ahem. But with something as simple as a Paypal account and a Wordpress-based website, or even BigCartel.com you can create your own shop and sidestep eBay’s issues. Also, Facebook has its very own Marketplace. If you’re happy enough to upload photos of your dog in a jumper or your opinions on Romeo Beckham’s teeth to the website, it’s reasonable that you should use it to make a bit of money out of whatever craft you’ve got – from postcards to jewellery to woolly hats you’ve attached a fun bobble to. If you’re looking for further tips on this, our very own Hipster Tipster has done us a little how-to of selling things both on and offline. 2. A freelancer website/agency There are loads of websites out there which promise to make you money for nothing. But on Freelancer.co.uk or PeoplePerHour.com you can offer up your services to companies who will pay you for one-off projects. A bit like a people eBay (but a bit less like homework) you have an account where companies can see how well you’ve done on previous projects, rate you on the ones they’ve commissioned you for and find out how much you expect to be paid. You can also upload your CV so that potential employers can come across it. Freelance writer Robbie Wojchiechowski uses PeoplePerHour, and says it’s “mainly based at coders/web designers/graphics people, but you always get a bit of copywriting work come up on it.” The only downside, Robbie says, is that it is quite competitive: “It feels like it faces freelancers against each other where, really, we should all be helping each other.” But we figure this is just a blip in what is otherwise a good resource. 3. Remote tutoring If you’ve bagged yourself enough qualifications to show that you’re literate, not too creepy and capable of explaining what you know and how you know it, you could easily qualify to become an online tutor. Using Skype for both the interview and then any subsequent tutoring sessions you’re booked in for, you probably do have to get out of your pyjamas to do the work, but you’re not obliged to leave the house to go to work. Gigs might be sporadic or ongoing, increasing around the time of coursework hand-in dates and exam periods for SATs, GCSEs and A-Levels. On the plus side, you can name your own price, and because it’s good for the students to have a steady tutor presence, it’s likely that tutors are taken on for longer stints of time and that – unless you do anything really bad – once taken on, you’ll be taken on for a good wodge of time/pay. ENTER YOUR EMAIL IN THE TOP CORNER TO START MAKING MONEY ONLINE TODAY! http://www.gothinkbig.co.uk/features/not-all-of-those-make-money-online-schemes-are-scams