16 Proven Ways To Make Real Money On The Internet

One of the most common things I get asked is, "Jeremiah, what are some ideas for making money on the internet?"

I've always made money and helped people make the most amount of money through a combination of courses, events, and coaching around a specific niche topic that people need help with (usually to make more money). 

I've been in this "industry" for 17 years now, so I know exactly what it takes for people to start making more money, especially using the internet.

So here is my list of ways that you can make money on the internet:

1.) Courses, Coaching & Live Training Events

This one is funny because I just mentioned above that that is what I do. When you get some experience making money on the internet, one of the best ways to make even more is to show others how you did it! So yes, this is huge!

You can also coach on teach on a variety of topics, not just how to make money!

A track record is crucial because it lends credibility to you. When you've done something, and it's something others want to do, you can always sell people the opportunity to be mentored by you on how you did it!

Courses, coaching, and events are the model that I like using, a combination of these. This type of business can scale big, especially when you add writing and publishing to it - the sky is the limit. I've seen many people make $10-50MM a year doing this, and then usually, they will take a portion of those funds to pivot into other industries to serve their target customer.

So if you can help others get results with the information you already know, they will pay you cash. You can use my business as a model for that and do what I do (really)!

2.) Freelancing Services

This is probably one of the fastest ways to start making money on the internet. There are always people looking for services; you just have to know how to network and get in front of them. They are everywhere!

You can learn a new skill (take any of my courses, for example) and then start a business doing the skill you learned for other people and charging them for it!

This is the fastest way to make $15,000/month on the internet very quickly. You only need 3-4 full-time clients to create a stable 6-figure income!

Learn a skill, then do it for other people.

The skill ultimately has to be in demand. And that's with anything on this list. If there's market demand for what you offer, your goal will be to find people to pay you for it.

3.) Ecommerce / Sell Physical Products

If there's a market demand for a physical product, and you can find the people who want that product, you can sell physical products that you ship out! You'll want to figure out how to either manufacture (the hard way) or outsource the manufacturing (easier) or dropship (easiest) the product. The less work you have to do and the better margins, the more money you can make. This could also include network marketing products that you believe in as well.

4.) Affiliate Marketing

Some companies want you to help sell their products for them and are willing to offer a commission for doing so! You can earn money by finding as many people as possible who want these products and getting them to buy. I made $750,000 in revenue one-year doing Affiliate Marketing!

This is a great way to sell if you don't have a product or service. This is also similar to commission-based sales and network marketing, except it's a little more straight forward. You get a specific link online that people sign up with, and you get credit for each sale that goes through your link.

5.) Virtual Assistant

This is similar to a freelancing job, but you are assisting someone virtually with specific tasks. You are not on location physically but are assisting either a CEO or a manager with tasks they need to be done! This is very lucrative, and you can get several full-time clients to earn an excellent full-time income doing VA work!

6.) YouTube

You can set up a YouTube channel on a specific topic and talk about what people are interested in watching. As you get viewers, YouTube will pay you, tho you have to get a lot of viewers to make any significant money, which is why endorsements and selling your own products are still the best way to make money online.

7.) Blogging

Blogging is a great way to make money, and you can even run ads on your blog or direct people to other products that you promote from your blog. Ultimately, there are only a few things that you can do to bring in cash online, and then there are hundreds of methods to promote and market those things. You're either selling products or services for yourself or someone else.

8.) App Development

If your app has a paid subscription model and serves a need that people want, you can get thousands of users paying you a small fee and making an excellent income!

Digital apps are a great way to make money, but you do have to innovate. 

There's also the challenge of getting users for your app with marketing and advertising (this is ultimately the challenge for all of these ways to make money).

9.) Writing (For Yourself or Other People)!

This is an activity that you can do either for yourself - and sell books or ebooks, or you can write for other people (service-based, freelance or ghostwriting) and make good money that way! If you learn to write sales copy, you can make even more money because you are helping the person you're writing for make a lot of money. Sales copy is specific writing that gets people to buy products and services and is usually measured by the result it brings in, not the hours worked.

10.) Sell Things Around Your House

This is one of the most common ways to make some money online that few people think about.

Selling products around your house on eBay is extremely easy, as well as Facebook marketplace.

If you need some cash fast, selling things you have around the house is a great place to start.

Most people can find $500 worth of stuff to sell in their house (it might not be things you want to get rid of, but you can if you need to) in a pinch!

11.) Social Media Management and Consulting

This goes back to the freelance ideas I mentioned above. Right now, many people need social media, and they need help creating content or even coming up with ideas. A great way to make money is by helping people with their social media online.

12.) Design Work

Again, in the freelance category, you can do design work for other people. Canva.com is a great website to create designs for people. You can customize designs off this site, or places like graphicriver.net, doing work for people's design needs!

13.) Upwork or Fiverr

Again, in the freelance category (you might notice a trend here), you can pick up gigs to do work for other people on these sites with skills. You may have to learn some new skills, but people will pay you money online to do freelance jobs through these sites!

14.) Uber/Lyft

This is sort of online because it uses an app. If you have a 4-door car, you can make money driving people around on these services! I know some people who've supplemented their income doing this, and it's still a viable option for many people on the side to make some extra cash!

15.) Lead Generation (Add Sales Nurture As a Bonus)

If you can help businesses generate leads online, they will pay you for these! As a bonus, you can help warm the leads up and get paid a pretty high price for hot warmed up leads that you talked to and nurtured.

Generate hundreds of these for multiple clients, and you can make a lot of money online doing this!

16.) Online Community

You can create an online community and charge a membership fee to be a part of it. This can be around a variety of topics. If you can help others who all share things in common and provide a valuable resource in the paid community, people will pay money. We're helped build online communities above 4000 monthly members and generated seven figures this way for clients.

As you can see, there are so many ways to make money on the internet, and these just scratch the surface!

If you need help building a business on the internet and getting more sales, check out my brand new course, "Irresistible Offers That Sell" where I show you how to create marketing and sales offers that bring people to buy from you: jeremiahkrakowski.com/irresistible-offers-that-sell

How To Manifest Financial Abundance (For Skeptics)

When things aren't going well financially for us, it can be very tempting to get emotionally depressed about our situation.

Unfortunately, this response, as natural as it is, only serves to worsen our situation.

I've experienced this several times in my own life. I've also seen first hand the power of abundance-minded declaration in my life - and the lives of several wealthy multi-millionaires that I've been around in my life.

I'm blessed to have spent much time with multi-millionaires who have been mentors in my life. I also am blessed (yes, I said blessed) to experience the lowest of low financial situations. The fact that I've lived in both extremes and seen both extremes, I think, gives me a unique perspective on this stuff.

It seems crazy - that declaring financial abundance in your life would produce positive finances, but I've seen it first hand.

I used to be a huge skeptic of this stuff happening for me.

I was raised that "word of faith" and "speak it into existence" was a scam!

I used to be an "I only eat what I killed" type person and tied my self-worth to my work - and the results I produced.

Sadly, I was faced head-on with the reality of abundance-minded thinking when my faith was tested. I struggled to pay bills - and this was when I discovered what abundance-minded thinking meant.

When things aren't working out well for you financially, and you're struggling to pay the bills, the best thing (and most challenging thing often) you can ever do is to declare an abundant financial future.

This is where faith comes in. There are versions of faith, too, I've discovered.

There's what I call "cop-out" faith - where on the outside you declare abundance, but on the inside, you're just as pessimistic as before - nothing has changed.

Then there's what's called "surrender faith" - where you give up 100% of all need to control how things turn, and you release your life into this level of faith.

Surrender faith is the kind that works. Cop-out faith doesn't because it's deceptive and a lie.

When we surrender the need to control everything in our lives to a higher power and give it up to God, we open up the flow of abundance into our lives.

You have to have real hope, real belief, in the face of all odds - in the front to a "reality" that is 100% opposite of the situation you're experiencing.

When you do this, and you combine that faith with action (faith without works is dead after all as well), this is where abundance manifestation happens.

Let me paint a picture for you of two situations:

1.) You can take massive action towards creating finances in your life - and be complaining about your reality. You will stop the flow of abundance. You will limit yourself to your belief and complaint level.

I never used to believe this. My wife is the one who taught me this first hand.

2.) As soon as you take massive action while DECLARING a financially abundant future, that's when random checks come in the mail.

My wife and I were struggling to pay our bills. We started having random checks appear in our bank account to cover what we needed every month (they made sense, but they were timed so ridiculously crazy that I KNOW for a fact it was from the declarations we were making).

I used to be a huge skeptic of this "speak it into existence" type stuff. I'm a firm believer, you can either choose to slow down the flow in your life, or you can choose to hop on the train, all aboard, and start declaring your future.

You can take all the best actions to produce financial results. Still, suppose your mindset is crap, and you're continually declaring death and destruction over your financial future. In that case, you will manifest struggle in life. That might be the life you've had up to this moment in time.

It matters whom you keep your company around as well. It matters whom you let speak into your life as well!

When you do your best, take the best actions towards financial results. You start declaring massive financial abundance; it opens a flow in your life that produces tremendous financial results, far greater than pessimism and negativity ever will. Even if "technically" all your actions are the same... The abundance mindset produces far superior results.

When you align your mind, body, and spirit in your goals' trajectory and declare a positive financial future, things come together for you.

I know that no article will "convince" you of this, it wouldn't have convinced me back in the day as well, but I want to invite you to try it out - take a risk and see what happens.

Will it be hard? Yeah! Is it worth it? 100%

5 Psychological Triggers That Make People Buy Anything

When selling anything, we have to tap into the emotions of the buyer. 

There are triggers that all humans have that determine why they purchase. There are also several reasons that people use that decide whether they will buy from you or not.

The most significant factor of why someone buys from anyone is trust. Without trust, you can kiss any chance of selling something to someone goodbye.

The trust doesn't have to be in the right way either (they could trust you for bad reasons)... People have to trust your word. It has to mean something.

When you can build trust and authority with your target customer, you can get them to buy from you based on these five main triggers:

1.) They want to avoid pain

This is a massive trigger for why people buy—the pain of wasting time, the pain of struggling, the pain of making mistakes. The pain of feeling lonely, sick, tired, or even living somewhere they don't want to live.

These are all factors that play into why people buy. It's also one of the most powerful reasons. If someone can spend money to make the pain go away, they will continue to do so for a length of time (sometimes, this can even turn into an addiction).

If your target customer is in a painful situation and you help lead them out of it - that's a good thing and a win-win for everyone!

2.) Fear

Many people buy because of fear. Fear of being unliked, fear of going broke, fear of missing out. 

Fear is a factor that can be tapped into at any time to get people to buy. 

There are real fears people have, and if we can help alleviate those fears by people buying from us, we can get them to buy anything!

Fear can often be used to manipulate people, so be aware when you notice fear is being used to manipulate buying decisions. I personally would rather not do this in sales, but it is a powerful trigger none the less; there's no denying that.

3.) To feel pleasure

This needs no explanation. People spend money when something makes them feel good. And they will continue to do so as long as they feel good.

There are many industries based on pleasuring people - including the food industry. When people eat certain foods, there's a significant release of pleasure inside them that they will come back for more later.

As a business owner, if the experience of working with you is pleasurable and positive, you can expect a repeat customer. That's how humans work! On the flip side, if you leave a bad taste in someone's mouth (and boy, I've been guilty of this myself over the years) - even if you have the best product or service, you'll often lose that person for life.

4.) To make or save money

This one is just a no brainer. People will spend money if it saves them or makes them money. It's considered an even exchange - an investment.

Anytime people can feel certainty (or just no downside) to save money or make money, people will not hesitate to pull out their credit cards.

If you can be someone with integrity and help people save or make money - you'll never struggle to make a profit and have wealth around you!

5.) Save time

This one is one of the most significant factors people spend money on. Time is the only finite asset people have! They can always make or save more money, but people can't get more time back.

So if you can offer people a sure path to save time, they will spend money without thinking about it.

Saving people time is one of the best ways to make a profit. In fact, billionaire investors have pointed to time savings as one of the biggest factors that determine a company growing to a billion dollars. If you can provide convenience - and remove a step in the process of an ordinary task - you can market that to millions of people easily!

If you sell people something that saves them time - or gives them time back (say as a service provider) - you can bet you'll make more money!

Conclusion:

Knowing these five triggers is important for this one reason... People buy for selfish reasons. You always want to be aware of these triggers whenever selling anything. If people can trust you in these ways, and you can provide solutions to the problems they have - the sales process becomes almost automatic for you!

I've seen many people with incredible products or services talk way too much about what they are selling and not enough about what the customer cares about. The customer profoundly cares about these five triggers. If you can frame your offer in a way that gets people to connect with you emotionally, and you can tap into these triggers, you can lead people to buy from you!

In my brand new course, "Irresistible Offers That Sell," I walk you through creating offers that your target customer can't help but say yes to! I've distilled 17 years of my experience selling thousands of products online for you to follow and increase your sales online quickly! The course is less than $100 and has a 30-day money-back guarantee (so you have nothing to lose).

If you want to start to get more sales in your business, grab the course now: jeremiahkrakowski.com/irresistible-offers-that-sell

When Your Goals Seem Too Hard, Try This

I often meet people with so many dreams and ideas. Still, they convince themselves that accomplishing them is outside of the realm of possibility for themselves.

I used to be someone who did this. I had 1001 explanations and reasons for why I couldn't take action and was stuck in my situation.

Then, I realized it was me, myself and I, between my own two ears keeping myself stuck.

You see, I was choosing to believe that doing the things I needed to do in life was too hard for me.

I argued that my situation was so special and unique that it was impossible to break through and break out of - and I would tell people this!

The truth is, I was convincing myself of this because I wanted to feel the pride and pleasure of being so unique that I had no possibility of a breakthrough.

I played a mental game with myself, where I had to convince myself that my dreams were impossible.

Are you telling yourself that your goals are impossible?

Are you arguing for your limitations?

Have you convinced yourself that your situation is so unique and special that reaching your goals is too hard?

As long as you tell yourself, things are too hard, that will be your reality.

You have to change your language and start to choose to do things, even if they seem hard.

Things are only hard as long as we convince ourselves they are. Once we ask, "how can I figure this out," and start taking action, they instantly become easy.

You have to shift your perspective out of "it's too hard" and into "I can do this."

Label yourself as able and ready to accomplish everything you've ever dreamed of.

What benefit do you get for arguing FOR your limitations? What payoff are you getting for saying that things are so hard?

Really honestly ask yourself this.

Once you find this, you might discover a feeling of self-worth or identity that you found in the struggle. Maybe you've lived your life "in the struggle" for so long that things happening quickly for you seems bad, impossible, or even criminal!

Everything that you are experiencing in your life is because of a series of choices that you've made.

You have a choice, to either reject this fact, dance around the merry go round once more for another year, two years, 5 years 10 years (I've seen it happen, people convincing themselves for 10-20 years why they can't change their life) - or you'll choose today to do something different than you've done up until this moment in time.

What is your choice? Are you going to keep arguing for your limitations, or are you going to ask yourself, "How can I break through to the next level, regardless of how I feel right now?"

Once you make that choice, the whole world opens up for you.

You can either choose to stay stuck or move forward.

What do you choose?

How I Stopped Overthinking And Started Taking Action

The first step is always the most challenging part. We sit around thinking, "what should I do" - and then get stuck in more "overthinking."

I've found myself caught up in this cycle more often than not. I have so many big ideas, but getting started has been the most challenging part.

Here's how I broke that toxic cycle and how I believe you can as well!

When we get started towards our goals, nothing can stop us. But the most challenging part is getting started because of a series of human issues that most people experience.

I believe that once you get this, you will experience a massive breakthrough in your life! You will become an unstoppable force of action taking like I've become lately! I know you will!

I'd love to hear from you in my #GrowYourLife Facebook group about how this goes: facebook.com/groups/growyourlife

You can also schedule a free 15-minute call with me at jeremiahkrakowski.com/freecall .

1.) Realize that inaction is addictive.

This will be a hard truth for some people: The anticipation of taking action is addictive.

The POTENTIAL of action, the potential of doing something, is extremely addictive. We love having "potential" almost more than success.

This is why we hoard things and don't use them. This is why we don't take action. 

We prefer the idea of taking action over actually doing anything because of chemicals in our brain that get us high off potential!

They have found that people are more addicted to the potential of doing something more than actually doing it, and it's a very human thing. So you have to break this addiction on purpose.

Realize: there's no benefit from sitting around in your potential and doing nothing. You have to use what is inside of you and start to do something.

A big part of this addiction is the overthinking cycle!

2.) Break the overthinking cycle and get started!

When we sit around overthinking, we wire our brains to think that we are doing something productive. We are just sitting around daydreaming.

I believe that brainstorming and daydreaming in small amounts can be extremely productive. In large quantities, however, it can be the most toxic, unproductive thing that ever happens!

It becomes idle thoughts at that point!

Here's a hack that can help you break the cycle: take action 90% of the time, and reward yourself for taking action with SMALL brainstorming sessions.

So now, you can give yourself small doses of that addictive cycle (yes, not all overthinking is bad).

That good feeling you get from discovering potential - and thinking of new ideas - you can give to yourself in small doses.

It can be extremely healthy that way. You will be taking action instead of just thinking about ideas that you have. Then you will reward yourself with thinking of new ideas after you take action!

3.) Action is the only way that dreams come to life.

When we get started, instead of overthinking, we end up manifesting what we dream of. Those things that you've spent hours daydreaming about can only come to reality when you take action!

You have to realize that the only way you will reach any goal you have is to start doing something.

Start taking action.

I don't mean burning yourself out or striving to the point that you experience health challenges at all.

I also don't support using guilt and shame to motivate you to take action. Don't ever feel ashamed that you've been stuck in these cycles, do better next time.

Start to take action.

4.) Take ownership of why you are where you are.

Ultimately, it would be best if you took ownership of why you haven't moved forward. The only reason you've been stuck where you are is that you've chosen to stay here!

The only reason anyone is stuck is that they've chosen to be right where they are.

No one else is to blame for why you are where you are today - except you!

Might bad things have happened to you? Sure. But it's your responsibility to pick yourself up and choose to do something differently. You're the only one who will help you grow out of what happened in your past.

The book Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink was instrumental for me in changing this cycle of blaming everything else around me.

You are not responsible for how other people feel, and other people are not responsible for how you feel!

It's time to step up and take ownership of your life instead of trying to blame things outside of yourself for it.

5.) Action beats fear.

Just because you are afraid doesn't mean that you should listen to that fear.

If you've been fear-driven for a long time, you have to be intentional not to allow your fear to keep you stuck or afraid!

It's time to get up and stop letting fear keep you in a prison of your own thoughts.

When we take action, we look fear in the face and tell it that it has no more power over us.

This may be the most challenging thing we do in our entire life! But it's the most worth it!

Do the thing that you're scared of while you are afraid. It may even hurt to do it. When I started taking action, I would get stomach aches, and my head would hurt while I took action! Now, those manifestations don't happen anymore!

6.) Figure out what you're really scared of.

The only reason we don't get started taking action is usually related to a hidden fear, deep below the surface.

In the book "The Big Leap," Gay Hendricks talks about four reasons main of us limit our actions:

1.) We believe we are inherently flawed, so we don't get started until we become "not flawed."

2.) We are afraid of outshining other people, so we shrink back and don't get started until it's safe.

3.) We fear the pain that success might bring, so we avoid getting started because of the believed pain.

4.) We fear that if we move forward, we will be disloyal to those who brought us to where we are today.

Most people have 1-2 of these things, but most never have all 4.

When you can identify which one resonates with you, you can usually trace it back to some experience that told you that you shouldn't get started.

You've allowed it to keep you stuck up until this moment in time. It's time to change those limiting beliefs. 

7.) Forgive the past and move forward

All of us have had challenging experiences. In the end, we have to forgive the past, both ourselves and other people - and realize that what happened before isn't going to happen again.

This doesn't mean that we go back to the same situation or even trust the people who hurt us. Boundaries are critical to have.

It means that we no longer allow our past to keep us stuck, and we are now moving on. 

Our past pain has been a comfort zone long enough; it's time to move forward!

We must not stay stuck and in inaction simply because things didn't work out perfectly last time.

It's time to get up and take action!

In conclusion, once you grow in these areas, your entire world opens up to you!

You may experience the same cycle again - but when you are AWARE of the issues, you can break the cycle a lot more quickly next time!

Don't allow the trap of perfection - and the need to do everything perfect keep you stuck. Things happen. Keep moving forward!

Don't beat yourself up when the cycle happens; instead, be thankful that you get an opportunity to do better this time!

Start taking action and get started today. That's where the magic happens.