Have you got skills or experience that could be valuable to others? The internet has opened up a global audience to which you can provide helpful advice, guidance and specialist knowledge in return for payment. There are a vast range of skills that are in demand and what’s more you can make money online for just a few hours work if you know where to look.

Become An About.com Guide

About.com is an excellent online knowledge base that provides information, guidance and advice on a wide range of important subjects. It is managed by the New York Times and is highly rated. They are constantly recruiting new “Guides” which are individuals with specialist skills or extensive experience in a specific area. They are constantly looking for individuals who can write on categories including; fashion, gardening, employee rights, animals, business, financial planning, hairdressing, cars, food and hundreds of other popular topics. Your work would be seen and read by a globe audience of online users and what's more, anyone can apply.

What’s involved?

Simply apply for one of the current categories listed on the about.com site here. You will need to state your experience and list any qualifications or previously published articles that might be relevant. About.com are not looking for professionally qualified writers, but experience and knowledge in a specialist subject is far more important to them.

You will be informed of the outcome of your online application within eight weeks. Successful About.com guides undertake a short online training course that gets them up to speed with the basics of how to use a Content Management System, which their site is based upon. This is a really user friendly system that allows the content you create to be uploaded into the About.com database and published on the net. Once you complete this short course you can get started creating your first knowledge lead articles.

What are the Rewards?

About.com guides are as successful as they want to be. The more high quality articles you produce the more money you can earn from your efforts. Because About.com is such a highly rated site by search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN the information in their web pages usually appears quite high up in search engines, meaning that any articles you right will have an instant large online audience (usually of many thousands or hundreds of thousands of visitors). About.com guides earn a share of the advertising revenue associated with the pages of content that they create. So for example if you wrote 100 high quality articles on your specialist subject in a 12 month period, your chances of earning a substantial monthly income will be a lot higher than another About guide who writes 10 articles.

Potential Earnings of between £100 and £500 per month.

Become A Kasamba.com Guide

If you have a specialist subject, specialist skills or experience in any sector you could also earn money by providing information, guidance and advice through Kasamba.com. Kasamba.com is basically a virtual office, that is an office that is run online. It provides you with access to a huge pool of online visitors looking for advice or information.

All you do is register with the site and then upload a detailed background profile of yourself and your skills, qualifications and experiences. You can then start advertising your skills through the site and create your own client base. You get to decide how much you charge per minute or hour, for your skills and there is also a live chat section in which you get paid by the minute to provide advice to online users, which can be extremely lucrative.

You can provide advice all manner of subjects and Kasamba do not specifically recruit certain skills, why not give it a try? Visit Kasamba.com now.

Potential Monthly Earnings: £200 - £600

Make Money As An Online Life Coach.

Life coaching has become an increasingly popular subject. The role of Life Coach is to help facilitate change in individuals covering a wide range of subjects, from personal finance, education, work life balance, spirituality and every other conceievable aspect that affects our day to day lives. Anyone can train to become a Life Coach and there are some excellent courses available which will provide you with a recognised certification in life coaching. Whilst Life Coaching often takes place face to face, you can also undertake coaching sessions online with great effect.

All you need is your own website, which can be created for only a few pounds or alternatively create a free blog with blogger.com and advertise your life coaching skills through this medium. Many Life Coaching sites now offer coaching sessions via email, web cam or messaging services like MSN or Yahoo Instant Messenger. Technology is so well developed now, you don’t even have to leave your house to utilise your skills, help support positive change in individual's lives and make money online.

Many life coaches charge between £15 and £40 per hour, so you can see that only working for 30 mins at a time can be a very lucrative way to make money online and undertake a personally rewarding career .

Potential Monthly Earnings: £300 (based on 20 hours work a month at £15 per hour)

Resources

The Home Learning College offer an excellent home based Life Coaching course which leads to an ASET certificate in Life Coaching. It costs £200 but this includes all the materials and online support from a qualified tutor. It requires you to complete 7 written assignments to demosntrate your learning. You get support for up to 12 months, but the course can easily be completed in 6 months. Having personally completed this Life Coaching course we found it very good.

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