The MoolahNinjas Toolbox

Freelancing

Freelancing is basically working for a client, which can be an entire company or individual, on a per project basis.

Right now, there are hundreds of the thousands of job opportunities online for skilled freelancers.
Thousands of people with in-demand skills are making money without ever setting foot in an office or waking up to an alarm clock. Freelancing has empowered individuals across the globe and created a new way people can earn a living.

Launching a lucrative freelance career is now easier than ever. There are dozens of freelancing platforms to choose from, each listing thousands of jobs that will pay you TODAY.

Important Tools

Trello: For project and client management. Trello lets you work more collaboratively and get more done. Trello’s boards, lists, and cards enable you to organize and prioritize your projects in a fun, flexible, and rewarding way.

Screencast-o-matic: To document your tasks and processes with a free screen recording program. They don’t believe that video recording and editing should be difficult, or cost a fortune.

HelloSign: To send and store electronically signed, legally binding documents on your computer.

Gmail: Is a free email service developed by Google. Users can access Gmail on the web and using third-party programs that synchronize email content through POP or IMAP protocols.

Google Drive: To create, share and store documents that are automatically backed up with every change.

Further Resources

Stop Thinking Like a Freelancer: The Evolution of a $1m Web Designer by Liam Veitch: Learn about scaling a one-person freelance job into a multi-million dollar business
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz: On negotiating with clients and dealing with difficult
How to Make Money Writing: The 3 Best Ways by MoolahNinjas: Writing is one of the easiest skills to start freelancing with. In this guide, we break down how to do it

Blogging

Many people start blogging, or publishing written articles online, for fun as a way of expressing themselves. They do it as a hobby and don’t expect anything from it.

But, did you know you can make thousands from a blog and most of that can be passive income, or money that comes to you while you sleep?

We know it sounds too good to be true, but we’re here to tell you that with some work, it’s definitely possible.

THOUSANDS of people have quit their jobs to start blogging, earning thousands of dollars while travelling the world and having a LOT of fun in the process! If you’re passionate about something, have opinions you’d like to share with the world, and are ready to invest some time, blogging is right for you.

Important Tools

SiteGround: Our recommended host and domain provider. In most recent data, it reports servicing more than 1,800,000 domains worldwide. It provides shared hosting, cloud hosting and dedicated servers as well as email hosting and domain registration.

Instagram: The most popular social media platform now. We recommend you make your profile now to take advantage of the wave! Users can browse other users’ content by tags and locations, and view trending content.

ElegantThemes: Home of our recommended premium theme, Divi, along with hundreds of other useful plugins, tools and more. Elegant Themes isn’t just a company, it’s a community, and they cling to the community-centric values that have guided us over the past 11 years.

GoogleAnalytics: A web analytics service that tracks and reports website traffic, Visualize information about your blog including your visitor demographics, what people are searching when they land on your page and your most popular pages.

Amazon Associates: The easiest affiliate platform to begin with. It is not the highest paying, but it’s a great introduction to the world of affiliate marketing. Provide consumers the convenience of referring them to a trusted site where they can purchase products you advertise.

Plugins

WordFence: All-in-one security for your blog. Keep it safe from hacking, malware and more.

YOAST SEO: Fully-featured plugin that helps you improve your blog posts’ SEO in real-time while you’re editing them inside WordPress.

Contact Form 7: Simple and clean plugin to put a “contact me” form on your blog.

JetPack and VaultPress: Provides security and automated back-ups.

Easy Social Sharing: Make it easier for people to share your content to their social media, exposing you to more potential readers.

UpdraftPlus: Allows you to back up your blog to cloud services so you can restore it should you have any issues, intrusions or errors.

Further Resources

Youtube

Imagine being a self-made celebrity. You wake up every day to an audience of thousands of people begging to watch your latest video. You earn thousands of dollars in sponsorships, affiliate sales, and adrevenue. You get to travel anywhere you want and get paid to show your adventures off to the world.

It might sound like a dream, but it’s the reality for tens of thousands of YouTubers. The video sharing platform has made modest celebrities out of regular people just like you, and all they had to do was talk about things that interested them.

YouTube is now the world’s second largest search engine (3 BILLION searches per month), and tens of millions of people use it daily for entertainment, life advice, and even relaxation. With just a little knowledge of analytics, marketing, and videography, you can make a full-time living, expose yourself to the world, and build a huge following all from your smartphone.

Important Tools

VidIQ: Plugin for your browser that gives information about any video posted on YouTube, including views, keyword scoring and more.

Fiverr: Freelancing platform where you can hire anyone from graphic designers to help you make channel art, to virtual assistants to transcribe your videos.

Canva: Free online drag-and-drop graphic creation tool. Comes with pre-built in templates for YouTube thumbnails.

Further Resources

Instagram

You scroll through awesome pictures on Instagram everyday. You’ve heard the stories about people being paid to travel and getting sponsored by awesome brands…and you want in.

You want to learn how to make money on Instagram, but figure it takes too much time, it’s too hard, and it’ll never happen.

It worked for them, but it can’t possibly work for you, right?

Want to know something crazy? It turns out that as long as you have a strategy and know which methods to use, making money on Instagram is both EASY and FUN!

Important Tools

LinkInBio: Because Instagram doesn’t allow you to put clickable links into individual posts, the only place you can add links to your website or products is the link in the bio. This works when you are sending people to a single page, but if you have multiple pages you want people to visit, LinkInBio really helps. It gives you one link, and when someone clicks on it, there’ll be a list of pages people can choose to visit.

Hashtagify: Hashtagify helps you find ideas for Hashtags so you can use them efficiently rather than just randomly guessing. It lets you research what’s trending on various platforms and then search by your particular niche keyword. It’s much easier than using Google Keyword Research and is much simpler to study given the visual output it uses.

Kicksta: One of the key things you have to do to successfully grow your Instagram following is to consistently engage with people, and this can be hard to do on your own. Most people hire an assistant to help them, but it’s not necessary. Kicksta automates the process of targeting your ideal audience, increasing your engagement and your followers.

Canva: Canva is a handy app that allows you to edit photos and graphics. What’s great about it is that it comes with set templates for different platforms, including Instagram. You won’t have to worry about getting the right dimensions because the design elements are already set up for you! It’s easy to use and perfect for beginners.

Hootsuite: Setting up your Instagram posts in advance makes it so much easier to put out content consistently, and there are many tools you can use to plan ahead and have everything set up. We recommend you look into Hootsuite for this.

Gleam: Gleam is one of the best apps for Instagram. It’s perfect if you want to start hosting contests and other interactive events with your guests. The app lets you add an Instagram widget to your website for instant following or directing attention to an Instagram post.

Magisto: Magisto is an app that makes creating video content very easy. Creating videos for Instagram can be intimidating and Magisto takes out a lot of the guesswork.

Copy Trading

Freelancing, blogging, YouTube and Instagram are not your only options if you want to harness the power of the internet and make money online. Those are great methods for creative types, but what if you’re more analytical? What if you enjoy processes and tasks? What if you want to be an investor?

If that sounds like you, then we highly recommend copy trading. Copy trading is something that allowsyou to take part in the stock market without worrying about having all the information on markets and buying shares. It is when you invest your own money and copy the exact trades other traders make in the stock market.

It’s actually considered one of the smartest and most innovative ways to make money online. If you do it right, you can even build massive wealth!