7 Weird Ways to Make Money Online: From Walking to Selling Hair
7 Weird Ways to Make Money Online
Introduction
Hey guys, Justin Bryant here from Self Made Success. In this video, I’m going to show you seven weird ways to earn extra money online. These are things you probably never thought would work or that you never would have thought to even look for. If you want to make a little extra money, I’m not saying these are going to allow you to quit your job, work full-time, and retire early. These are just strategies for making a little extra money. I’m going to give you a few different places you can go, apps, websites, and things like that to get this done.
1. Walking
The first weird way to make money online that you probably never heard of is walking. You can download this app called Bitwalking. The app is for Android devices; it’s currently not for iPhones, but you can download it here. It allows you to sign up for free and start walking, and you get paid a certain amount of Bitcoin for every step that you take. Bitcoins are an online currency that can be converted to your native currency. You build up your balance by just walking around, so it’s basically promoting healthy living and pays you for something we all pretty much have to do anyway.
One little life hack you might do with this is if you work from home, you can get a cheap treadmill for about $150-$200 on Amazon and put it under your desk. You want to get the kind that doesn’t have the big screen and big handles. You put it under your desk, and you could walk as you work, and you’ll work off about 10 miles of walking a day just from working on your computer that way. You don’t want to walk any faster than, say, 2 miles per hour, but just doing something like that will get you extra exercise, and you can make a little extra money on the side using this Bitwalking app.
2. Sell Your Friendship
You can literally be someone’s friend for a few hours and get paid to do it. So if you’re an outgoing person, if you’re somebody who likes people, likes to meet people, you can earn up to 50 bucks an hour just by going to concerts with people, going to a basketball game with somebody, going to a wedding with somebody, or you know, people who want to meet new friends or people who just don’t want to feel like they’re alone when they go to a family event or another event that they have to go to. You can rent out your time to be a friend with those people, and you can make quite a bit of money doing that.
You would go to rentafriend.com to register and get started doing this and learn more about it, but it’s a funny way to make extra money, and it’s a legitimate thing. So you can make money being friends with people, and you can sell your friendship.
3. Create a Business Inside a Video Game
If you’re worried about the risk of starting a business online, you’re worried about how much it’s going to cost, or how it would be to get into real estate or sell used cars or start an internet-based business, if you want to start a business and maybe you like playing video games, you can cut out a lot of risk and play a game like Second Life. You can go to secondlife.com; you can sign up, join for free, and you have your avatar, your character that you create, and you can live a life on this online video game and do all kinds of different things. You can do real estate, you can be a rock star, you can do art, you can educate your character, you can make them start a business, and there’s been someone who, and this is just one person, but she made over a million dollars selling virtual land, doing banking and fashion on Second Life. Her name is Ailin Graef, and you can read about it; I’ll have a link to this article for you. It’s fascinating, but she made over a million dollars by exchanging her Second Life money for dollars or euros or however she got paid.
The thing about it is every Linden dollar you have in the Second Life currency can be exchanged for real-life money. Now, of course, it’s not dollar for dollar; you have to make a lot more money in the game to get $1, but you can treat it like a second real-life type thing, and it’s all virtual, and it’s in a game, and you can sell real estate and all kinds of stuff. So if you’re interested in that kind of thing, I have a couple of videos you might want to watch. One is called “How to Make Money Playing Games,” where I give you a lot of options for different sites like Second Life and some apps and stuff that will allow you to make money playing games.
Another one, just as more of a futuristic version of Second Life, you might want to look into is called Entropia Universe. You might go to entropiauniverse.com, and it allows you to do a lot of the same stuff, except it’s more like it has a little more combat and things like that that might be more like a traditional online game, more like an actual video game instead of an actual virtual reality type thing like Second Life is. But you know, in Second Life, you can start a business; in Entropia, you might mine resources and make money on there doing different things as well.
4. Put Ads on Your Phone’s Lock Screen
You can put ads on your phone’s lock screen. This is something that everybody can do if you have an Android phone. Apple hasn’t quite gotten there yet with theirs, but not yet as of me making this video in March 2017. But what you can do is get one of a few different apps. One of them is Slidejoy; another one is Fronto. What you can do is it puts ads on the lock screen of your phone. So when you tap to open your phone and right before you swipe, you’ll have an ad there instead of just another background image. So when you swipe it, then it goes to your normal lock screen where your background image is, and you can swipe and put in your code or scan your thumbprint to unlock your phone. So it just adds one little second to unlocking your phone, and by doing that, you get paid for having ads on there, and you can also refer other people to use these apps.
You might make a few extra bucks a month from just having the ads on there, and then you might make a few dozen extra dollars or even more getting your friends to use it too. So it’s just a thing that you can do with your lock screen, which is otherwise pretty useless on your phone. It’s basically what it looks like; I’ve used them, and you just have a big ad. It’s usually typical commercial-type stuff. You swipe it one way to read more about the ad; you swipe it the other to get to your lock screen, and it doesn’t matter whether you click on the ad or how many times you open your phone. It’s not something that matters; it’s just something that pops up and allows you to make a little extra money off of the advertisers.
5. Lose Weight and Make Money
You can lose weight and make money doing that. When it comes to making money and adding a little motivation to losing weight, that is a great combination. You can motivate yourself not only to look and feel better and be healthier, but you can make money doing it. I’m going to show you three different ways that you can do this. One is with an app called GymPact. You can download it for both iPhones and Android devices, and it allows you to set goals and reach those goals and get paid money to reach those fitness goals. Okay, so you can get that for either device.
Another one is HealthyWage, and some of these you can, you know, be like a professional weight loser by gaining a little weight and then losing it by going against other people who bet in this competition, and they bet in these competitions whether it’s your friend or you do one against an actual community of people on the site where you can earn up to $10,000 to win, and you can make money doing that from the prize money depending on what place you get in the tournament of who can lose the most weight. So it’s fun, it’s a competition, you get healthier, you look better, and you can make money. You know, you look at all these competitions where they see who can eat the most hot dogs or who can eat the most pies or whatever; this is like the opposite of that. It’s a competition to see who can get the healthiest in the fastest amount of time.
Another one that competes with HealthyWage is called DietBet. So you might go to dietbet.com to check them out, and what they do is very similar. If you want to lose, you know, 10% of your body fat or whatever it is, you can compete against other people, you can create these events, and you can compete against friends and family and others to get your weight off and make a bunch of money. You can make thousands of dollars off of this. So what happens is you typically have a pot; you have a certain amount of players in the pot. The more players, the more money in the pot, and when you lose a lot of weight, if you’re one of the top weight losers, then you can make thousands and thousands of dollars. So you bet a certain amount, you might bet 30 bucks, for instance, and then the pot will be thousands of dollars typically. This one’s $83,000, for instance, and the winner gets the majority, of course, but those in second and third as well get some money. So that’s just a cool way to make money in a weird way most people wouldn’t think of, but it kills two birds with one stone by helping you get healthier too.
6. Sell Your Smartphone Photos
You can sell your smartphone photos that you just took with your friends or at a party or on vacation, and you do not have to have any qualifications as a photographer. You don’t even need a camera; all you need is your smartphone. So you take photos all the time, I’m sure I do, pretty much everyone I know takes photos on their phone because our cameras on our phones are so good now, why wouldn’t you? And it allows you to go back in a few years and remember some of the big moments of your life, and you can take these photos that you’ve taken, maybe you were at a resort on some island or something, and you took a picture of the beach while you were there because you thought it was a great photo, you can take that, put it on the app, and sell it right after you take the photo. So it’s an interesting thing to do, and you can become an amateur photographer right then and there just by having an app on your phone.
One of them is called Foap. They have an iPhone and an Android version, so you can sell your photos on here, and you can make $5 for each download. So it’s $5 you can make for each download; you can sell each photo for an unlimited number of times. You can see which photos are popular by using the explore feature on there, and that will also tell you what kind of photos people like to buy. So and then they can use that for whatever they want to use the photo for, but you get $5 per download, which can add up if you take a lot of pictures. One of their competitors is called Clashot. Clashot allows you to shoot, publish and sell your photos on an app on either your Android or Apple device as well, and by doing this, you can make money. You set the price of your photos between 50 cents to $80 on these photos, so it’s not just a specific $5 every time, no matter what, like it is on Foap. The thing is, and somebody, it goes through a sale platform called Depositphotos, and when you get sales, you know, you make the money, whichever it is that you had the price set at. So then you can deposit that money, but Clashot, Foap, they allow you to take the photos from your phone and sell them right away for direct download to people.
7. Sell Your Hair
You can sell your hair. You can, if you have a lot of hair, if you have long hair, typically women do this more than men, of course, because, you know, if you show up cutting off a foot of hair, you can sell it to people who make wigs; you can sell it to people who make hair art, believe it or not, there is hair art out there. A few places you can do this to sell your hair and calculate how much your hair is worth. One place is hairsellon.com, and they have a hair price calculator. So you can select your hair length, thickness, color, and they just ask if your hair has ever been cut before, which is what virgin hair means, and then you can calculate your hair value and sell it on this website.
Another place you can sell it is called hairwork.com. So people sell hair for hair art, and it’s kind of like a Craigslist for hair, I guess you would say. It’s a very simple website where you can sell hair, and as a case study, you can read about someone who sold their hair for $82 on eBay. So people on eBay even buy it, so that’s three places you can sell it, but you could read here about how they did the starting bid, did at least 15 inches of her hair, got 11 bids and sold for $82. So it’s a weird thing to do, but you know, if you’re about to get a haircut, you might as well make a little extra money off of it if you’re going to be doing it anyway.
Conclusion
So other than that, that’s it for this video. If you’ve got something, if you feel like you learned about a few weird ways to make money that you didn’t think of or a few places that you can go, like apps and some of the other websites I mentioned that you never heard of, please like and subscribe so I can create more videos like this for you. Also, if there are some other weird ways to make money that you’ve done before that I didn’t mention or that you want to talk about or you want to let me know what you thought about the video in general, let me know in the comments. I’m always looking for feedback to improve these videos. I’m always looking for other suggestions from people like you to add to the content that I have on here to help the audience, and then all of the links, resources, show notes, and related content to this video will all be on one page on selfmadesuccess.com for you. You can go there on the website to find it; it’ll be under the same title as the video, or you can find it in the YouTube description.