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By Jordon Cox
I get it… money is tight. Lockdown is having an effect on everyone’s pockets, but everyone has a phone/laptop. Why not use it to make extra cash?
Earning money on the web could not be easier, and it’s very satisfying earning from your sofa! Here are my top five tips:
Banner adverts popping up when you’re reading something online is incredibly annoying. The solution couldn’t be more perfect.
You can replace adverts when searching the web with feel good images of pugs and beaches – and get paid in credits every time you view them.
Gener8 ads is a browser extension that is a must have for your computer. Vouchers for Amazon and Netflix, as well as charity donations can be claimed from using it.
If you have a decent social media following, you can turn it into cash through sponsored posting. Posting a story or tweet promoting a company can pay you anything from a few pounds up to £100s, depending on the size of your following.
Apps on your phone such as Tribe and Manifest will give you cash for posting about their campaigns. The highest paying ones have to be pre-submitted and negotiated on price before accepted.
While the shops might be closed, you can still send your old tech in a box to a reselling website like CEX, to exchange for either a voucher or cash. You’d be surprised at how much you get for things.
If you have an old Mario Kart Wii game in its original box – you’d get £13 in cash. Old Wii remotes get you £7 in cash. GTA 5 in its box gets you £11 for Playstation and £9 for Xbox One – the list goes on.
It’s worth checking the prices for your old tech to see if you have a gem in your old stash. My old Wii and Nintendo DS games fetched nearly £100 in cash.
If you’re a music buff, you can listen to brand new music and submit your opinions on it for cash. Slice the Pie is one of many review websites which can earn you some extra cash.
For every review you leave, you’ll build up some cash. The more in depth your reviews are, then the more you’ll earn. Although you earn cash in USD, you can withdraw in pounds via PayPal at a $10 minimum.
If you’ve been attending classes and written notes for school/university, you could sell them to fellow students for cash.
Websites such as Nexus Notes and Stuvia will let you upload your scribbling during lessons and set a price that you want to sell them at. If a fellow student downloads your notes, you’ll get some cash (minus commission).
The notes you submit have to be to a certain standard (there can’t be doodles and lines everywhere), but you can rewrite the badly written ones!
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Money for Life work in partnership with the Money Advice Service, an independent organisation set up by government. Money AdviceService provides free, unbiased money guidance across the UK to help people make the most of their money. If you have a question or need help, you can chat to them here.
