Other artists use Etsy to sell at, as it is geared more towards handmade items, and have found that it works well for them. Etsy is more of a storefront with fixed prices, rather than auction sales like eBay is. Others use eBay to get rid of items they no longer need around the house, and can find that profitable, too. I had a friend who lost a lot of weight, and sold her “fat” clothes on eBay, and did very well with that. Children’s clothes also seem to sell well.

Another thing I do to make money online is working on a site sponsored by Amazon, called Mechanical Turk. Workers there are paid for questions they answer, surveys they take, and small projects they complete for various sources–humans doing the work that people think computers are doing, basically. The pay is not great, but if you have spare time and want to earn a bit of spending money, it’s a great way to fill those empty hours and make some money at the same time. You might only be paid 1-3 cents for answering a question, but you can answer many questions in an hour, generally, and if it’s just time you would be sitting around watching television or surfing the net, you might as well get paid for it!

Other options are licensing photographs you take–there are various businesses that will work with you to license your photos with companies and pay you royalties for their use. One of these is Getty Images. You might have the ability to write or design web pages for other people; this is a growing need but some training is needed.