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19 Streams of Income You Can Add to Your Website
Did you know that when it comes to your blog/website, you aren’t limited to just 1 stream of income? You can incorporate multiple streams of income that compliment your niche and skills. Some of these can become passive income!
Here are 19 Streams of Income for you to consider adding to your site to begin earning more money:
1. Affiliate Marketing
This is recommending the products and services you use and love to your readers in your blog post. In return you earn referral fees from both digital and physical products, but the digital products usually pay a higher commission.
To learn more about affiliate marketing Click here.
2. Make Money on Pinterest
Another way to earn money from your affiliate links by pinning them onto your Pinterest boards.
Many affiliate programs won’t let you join without a website, so I suggest, if you haven’t already, that you create your own blog before you continue. You’ll be able to promote your links from your blog as well as on your boards.
Set up your website’s Pinterest page and add Tailwind to schedule your pins.
Some affiliate networks to check out are:
**Not all affiliate programs allow you to do this, so make sure you check their terms.
3. Ad Networks
If your site has a lot of traffic, you can earn money from pay-per-click and pay-per-view.
Networks to consider:
**Note: If you already sell your own products, you may not want to include ads on your site since they may lead your visitors to leave before purchasing from you, causing you to earn less income.
4. Solo Ads
These are email campaigns that you send to your email list in exchange for a payment. This is similar to promoting an affiliate product except you receive a flat fee rather than a commission.
5. Sponsored posts
A sponsored blog post is when a blogger gets paid to talk about a product or brand on their site. This can include writing posts, reviews, or agreeing to be a brand ambassador.
Product Sales
This category includes digital products, courses and memberships.
6. Write an E-Book
An eBook is a digital book that can be read on a computer or mobile device. There are a few of ways to earn money by selling your eBook. It’s also great way for bloggers to use their existing posts and turn this content into an eBook.
You can also use part of or the entire eBook as a lead magnet.
Your E-books can be sold through your
- blog
- website
- Etsy
- Amazon
A great site to use for transforming your blog posts into an eBook is Designrr
You can also purchase Done For You (Private Label Rights aka PLR) content to edit and turn into your own eBook.
PLR sites to consider:
7. Publish Books to sell on Amazon KDP
These include content books and low content books
~Content Book
Cash in on your knowledge and write a book based on what you know and from your experience. You can sell it as a paperback book or as Kindle. Your income from this stream depends on your niche and the amount of time you invest in researching keywords. Link these to your website. Use a portion as a Lead Magnet.
You can repurpose past content that you have written and organize it to create a book.
~Low Content Books
As the name implies, low-content books contain little to no text or images and are generally repetitive in nature. A few examples of books that fall into this category are:
- Journals and diaries
- Notebooks
- Daily planners
- Bullet journals
- Manuscript paper
- Coloring books
- Activity books
Also, you can use pages from these books (or the complete book) as a lead magnet to get people to your site.
If you feel you’re lacking design skills, you can purchase Done For You, PLR templates, fonts and designs to sell as your own. Just make sure you understand their licensing terms completely.
Some good sites include:
- Creative Market
- PLRplanners
- FontBundles
Other places to sell your books besides your site.
The easiest, but not the most profitable, is to publish through Amazon KDP. You upload your finished book to Amazon and they publish and ship your product. You will then receive a royalty check.
The other way is to have it printed by Amazon, Lulu or another printing company. The finished product is shipped to you and you sell on your
- Website
- Etsy shop
- Lulu
8. Design and Sell Downloadable Graphic and Designs
This is a great because once you design these and upload them to your site (and your Etsy shop), you’re pretty much done. Passive Income!!!
Here again, if you feel you don’t have the best design skills, you can purchase Done For You, PLR material, edit and sell as your own. Keep in mind to understand their licensing terms completely.
Sites to checkout include:
- Creative Market
- Fontbundles
If you have a knowledge of Photoshop, Picmonkey and Canva, you can create your own material.
9. Create an Online Course
Explore your strengths, skills and experiences then share what you know. People are willing to pay for your knowledge, skills and experience. You can create educational content around your area of expertise then turn this into an online course and be rewarded for it!
One of THE BEST places for you to create and sell your course is teachable.
They offer a powerful yet simple all-in-one platform with over 7 million students.
To learn more, Click here.
10. Sell Your Photos
Do you have the talent of catching just the right scene at just the right time?
Consider selling your photos online through:
- Shutterstock
- AdobeStock
- Bigstockphoto
- iStockPhoto,
- website
- Etsy
11. Create Printables
Creating Printables is a great way to earn passive income.
They include items such as:
- Printables (planners, stickers, party supplies, invitations)
- SVG Graphic Files
- Patterns
- Excel Spreadsheets
- Meal Plans
- Services
- Ebooks
- Planners
- Organizers
- Cards
- Lists
- Templates
Once you design it, you list it on Sendowl, Etsy, your blog or website and you’re done. Your customer just downloads the file and prints it.
Creative Market is great place to find templates and graphics to work into your designs.
Picmonkey and Canva are 2 of the online photo editing sites I work in when creating and editing my printables.
Service Work
Whether you’re relatively new to your business or you’ve been in business for years, service work can be the quickest and most reliable ways to earn income on your site.
Other business owners need your expertise and services.
Some services to consider:
12. Virtual Assistant
A virtual assistant, or VA, provides services to individuals, organizations or companies, but they work online instead of going into an office. There are many tasks that an entrepreneur might need help with.
With more and more people running their own businesses and realizing they can’t do it all, Virtual Assistants are in high demand!
There are so many tasks that a VA might be responsible for. Some of these include:
- Bookkeeping
- Research
- Article and blog post creation
- Designing
- Answering emails
- Organization
- Manage social media
- Content creation
- Website maintenance
- SEO and Digital Marketing
- Scheduling…
Put your strengths to work and become a sought after Virtual Assistant.
Click here to learn more about becoming a Virtual Assistant
13. Manage Social Media Accounts
If you have great social media skills this can be a fun job and you could be in high demand. Many blogger, entrepreneurs and organizations rely on social media to promote themselves but don’t have the time and/or skills to do the job well.
14. Freelance Writer
A freelance writer is someone who gets paid to write for a number of different clients. They work for themselves and contract out their writing services. These services include writing blog posts, website content ghostwriting, newsletters, email campaigns, press releases, product descriptions and more. If you love to write, this is perfect for you.
You can go to Upwork to find jobs. You can also create your own freelance business. Start your business by creating your own blog which will allow future clients to see you writing style.
15. Proofreader
You can earn $17+ an hour by becoming a freelance Proofreader! If you've got a keen eye for grammar, punctuation and structure, this would be an ideal a new job or to start a side-hustle for you. Proofreading is going over a piece of content with a fine-tooth comb. The main purpose of proofreading is to make sure there are no spelling, grammatical or typographical errors. Many of the errors are missed by word processing programs such as spell-checkers and grammar-checkers
Bloggers, authors, writers, students, professors, entrepreneurs, businesses, court reporters and anyone else who is writing material to be read by others, will be looking for proof readers.
To learn more about becoming a Proofreader, Click Here.
16. Website Design
If you have web design knowledge and skills, you could earn money creating and/or improving websites for bloggers, entrepreneurs and others. All businesses, large and small, need assistance with their websites but not all have the time and/or knowledge to do it themselves.
If you’re good with WordPress, you can reach out to bloggers who need help setting up their WordPress site or just need help updating and redesigning.
17. Graphic Designs
So many directions to go in with this talent!!!!
Graphic Designers Create:
- books, magazines, catalogs, newspapers
- letterhead, business cards, logos
- flyers, brochures, postcards, posters
- product packaging and labels
- apparel designs
- illustrations and clip-art
You can attract clients to work with and/or sell your designs through:
18. Coaching
As a coach, you focus on your client to help them tap into their own abilities to solve problems and inspire their creative process and success.
You can offer 1:1 service and/or memberships to get started.
19. Consulting
You have skills and experience and people are willing to pay your advice They want you to share your information with them so they can develop skills for themselves.
- You can offer 1:1 service
- Offer services to other businesses
These are some of the additional income streams you can add to your site. Of course, there are plenty more depending on your niche, but these will hopefully get your ideas flowing.
Which of these are you planning to add to your site to generate more money?
After you master one, I suggest adding additional streams of income.
What steps do you need to take to start incorporating them into your business?
You can do this!!! Your future you will thank you!!!
