Top 5 Ways To Make Money Online (Build A $1 Million Online Business)

 

These are the best 5 ways to make money online and build a profitable online business in 2022, which has the potential to be scaled to 7-figures. So after thousands of making online money strategies that we talked about on my previous blogs and the How to Earn Money Online article. 

I am finally going to address the 5 best online businesses you should start in 2022. These are the businesses that I'm either running right now or have run in the past. So I know they work, and I know they have a massive potential to make you money online. And it's vital to choose the right online business from the start because it doesn't matter how hard you work on a business or how much time you spend on it. If the business doesn't have the potential so it's important to choose some of the five that we will talk about in this article. 

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Faceless Youtube Automation

The first online business on our list will be faceless youtube automation. It's basically making money on youtube without making videos and showing your face. You know how big YouTubers, for example, graham Stefan, he's a massive finance YouTuber, and he's making millions of dollars every single year from his youtube channel. 

But the thing with that is that there's only one Graham Stefan. There's a limit to how many videos he can film in a day. He can't really scale that business that much; obviously, he is making a lot of money, but he can't really scale it to a point where he doesn't need to film videos all day long and can make the same amount of money that he is making. But if there is someone else creating the content for him. He can scale a theme of people that creates videos, and he can just run that and operate his youtube channel as a business and not as a creator, and that's how faceless youtube automation actually works. I'm currently running like that's probably my primary online business.

I have different youtube channels where I'm not showing my face; I'm just getting other people to create the content for me. Then I'm just making some money from other revenue brand deals, affiliate marketing, CPA marketing, and all of that great stuff. I actually have like lots of different tutorials in both this and the main channel where I talk about how youtube automation works and how you can start that business from scratch. So I guess you've seen some of those. If not, you can go over to the channel and watch them. They're usually titled like how you can make money on youtube without making videos, and I tried to explain it in detail. Obviously, it can't cover every single step of the process in a 10-minute long video. 

But you can just get an idea of how the business works because it's a really lucrative business. And I feel like it's one of the best online businesses in 2022, and it's actually pretty pretty simple, like there's not much to think about it. Yeah, I also do want to mention that you don't actually have to start paying from the start. You can actually start a business for free because you can get free online resources and create the content from stock footage, videos, photos, and stuff like that. And you can also see that inside of those tutorials, and I'll show you exactly how to do it step by step. Also, we're absolutely free, and later on, you can actually scale the business by hiring someone else to do that for you. But from the start, you can do it yourself; it doesn't take that much time and effort, but it's going to be absolutely free.  

Affiliate Marketing

The second online business on our list is going to be affiliate marketing; this means that instead of you creating the product and instead of you creating like the sales page delivering the product doing the support and all that stuff, you can actually take someone else's effect, someone else's sales page and just promote it as an affiliate and earn affiliate commissions when someone buys that product or service through your affiliate link. For example, you can even promote amazon products even though I do not recommend that because they only pay like a couple of percents like maybe three to four percent per product sale, which is pretty low, which is a significant difference.

For example, you promote like a lamp on amazon that costs like ten dollars, so you don't have the lamp. You don't have the inventory; you're not going to ship the lamp, you're not going to do customer support, you're not gonna talk to the customer. All you're going to do is grab the link of that lamp and share it like with a friend or a family member or someone else on the internet they click on your link. If they purchase the lamp for ten dollars, you will get two dollars. Just for referring that person or three dollars for referring a person, and there's a lot of different ways that you can promote those products. 

A lot of people will tell you like if you google like affiliate marketing, the number one advice would be just to run paid ads to affiliate marketing offers which is something that I highly do not recommend because the cost of advertising on like Facebook or google or youtube is just rising year by year. It's not worth spending that much money to promote affiliate offers. There are many different ways you can do it, and also like combining youtube automation with the previous online business and affiliate marketing is a lot better. Because not only do you get free traffic, so you avoid paying for like Facebook ads and google ads, but you also are being paid to promote those products by youtube because you earn ad revenue from those views.

As I said, I would never recommend promoting amazon products and physical products. Because there's also like a limit to how much you can sell. If it's like a physical product because there's an inventory, but if it's a digital product, there is no limit because there's no inventory and the commissions are usually a lot higher for digital products they go for like 40 to 50 or sometimes even 75 percent, so that was the second online business.

Drop servicing

Let's talk about the third one the next online business on our list will be drop servicing. Just like dropshipping, In Dropshipping, You drop ship physical goods, and in Dropservicing, you drop-ship services. In my opinion, this is probably the best online business that you can start in 2022.

Drop servicing means that instead of dropshipping physical products, you can drop services like Fiverr and other freelancing platforms so if you've ever been through Fiverr or upwork. You've seen that people are selling services like logo design services and video editing services, and they're selling them for like $20, $30, $40, or $50. But what you can do is find clients who will pay more like you can create an agency and charge more for those same services.

But instead of you completing the service yourself, you can outsource it to some freelancer and Fiverr. So let's say you sell a $5 you sell a logo for like $50, and then you go to Fiverr and find a really good logo designer and a graphic designer to create a logo for you for like $25 keep $25 profit. Just as a middleman, so basically like drop servicing services from freelancers and freelancing platforms like Fiverr. This is actually an online business model that I've been doing in 2018-2019 and somewhat of 2022, and it was good. I also have some old blogs and videos that you can read and watch on my blog and YouTube channel.  

Personal Branding

The next on our list is going to be something that I'm doing right now, and that's having a personal brand, so as much as I like running like anonymous online businesses like faceless online businesses including faceless youtube automation, affiliate marketing, and drop servicing and all that great stuff having a personal brand is extremely important especially in 2022. Because it opens so many doors and can actually make you money in so many different ways, and it's also amusing like as you can see.

I'm out here having fun worldwide, like every single week or every single month. We are traveling to a different place. We are meeting new people, we are having fun, and I'm also building an actual business while doing all of that, so I feel like having a personal brand is one of the best ways you can start one of the best online businesses you can start it's not the easiest one soon this list. Affiliate marketing is the easiest online business that you can start with no previous experience, but having a personal brand is also extremely important. You can monetize it in so many different ways.

It doesn’t matter if you build it on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Pinterest or any other platform as long as you have.

Selling Digital Products

It's good I know the last online business is actually tied to the previous one, and it's selling digital products with your personal brand. So I personally sold a course last year and actually made over 70 lakhs by selling a digital product by selling. A digital course and selling digital products is also really good because there's no inventory once again. So you don't have to have a physical product. It obviously takes a lot of time and effort to craft that digital product. But I feel like it's way more worth it because you can sell it unlimited times. There's no limit to how much digital products how many digital products you can sell, and that's how I was actually able to build that one line of product to scale that one line of product to over a million dollars in over a year and a half or something like that so selling digital products can be extremely profitable in funding.

As long as you have somewhat of a personal brand, it doesn't need to be a massive personal brand, like even if you have just 1 000 followers or 1000 subscribers or 1000 friends on Facebook who are really interested in a specific thing. For example, I built a tribe of people interested in making money online and traveling the world like I'm doing. So by doing that, I was able to attract those types of people and sell a product related to that thing they are all interested in. Once again, you don't need a massive following, and you don't need a huge social media presence. Even with just a couple of hundred or a thousand followers, you can still build a profitable online business.

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So those are the best five online businesses you can start in 2022. We have faceless youtube automation, drop servicing,  affiliate marketing, personal brand, and selling digital products.

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How To Make Money Online: The New Creator Economy

Want to make money online? It’s no secret that influencer marketing has become a massive industry, thanks to people like the Kardashians. But these days, glitzy digital influencers are out. Creators are in. Equipped with a lot more gravitas, this new generation of creators is working to create a more positive internet culture. The New Yorker explained it best in a recent essay on the topic: “’Creator’ is a term with a more wholesome air, conjuring an Internet in which we are all artisanal blacksmiths plying our digital craft.” 

According to experts, there are more than 50 million content creators out there, working in the digital space and making money online—through photography, writing, video, podcasting and more—and all contributing to the new creator economy. One of the architects in the space is Gigi Robinson, a 23-year-old Gen Z digital nomad who is helping redefine this new digital world from the inside out. When Robinson was 11, she was diagnosed with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome and Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, forcing her to give up her passion for competitive swimming and find a new hobby: photography.

Robinson has translated that passion into a bonafide online money-making business. She is the founder of It’s Gigi, a creative media company focused on making ethical and intentional content for brands like Best Buy and Spotify, where she hosts a GenZ live audio show on Spotify Greenroom called “Everything You Need Is Within.” In addition, she has grown a healthy social media audience on Tiktok and Instagram, where she shares tips on mental health, chronic illness, body image and more. She also regularly lectures on social media literacy and branding to global companies (Meta, Reuters Pharma, Yahoo, Her Campus) and universities (UCLA, USC, UMass, FIT, Baruch). 

Meet Gigi Robinson, a 23-year-old Gen Z digital nomad who who helps teach people how to make money ... [+] online.

©Gabrielle Robinson

Most impressive of all, she does it all while traveling the world as a digital nomad. “I am able to find inspiration anywhere I go—all I need is my phone, my camera, my laptop, my hard drive and a microphone,” says Robinson.

Here, we caught up with Robinson to find out how she built her brand, how she has scaled in an ethical way, how she travels with a chronic illness, as well as her tips for how anyone can make money online in the new creator economy.

Origin Story: During high school in New York City, Robinson won award after award for her photographs, including Scholastic, the Dedalus Foundation and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. When she got to college, she needed to make extra money to help pay for rent and school loans, so she used her photography skills to start a side hustle as a content creator. “I had over 10 different brand ambassador roles, meaning I represented, created content, was an event planner and an overall face on campus for brands like Abercrombie & Fitch, Timberland and Smashbox,” says Robinson. 

Creating a Business: “I got a BFA in graphic design and photography and am currently working towards my MS in integrated Design, Business and Technology from USC. I wanted to translate the learnings from my degrees into my career as a digital nomad and creator,” says Robinson. “I decided to combine my skills of critique and critical thinking and apply that to storytelling through digital mediums and social media platforms. Now, I teach others how to do the same.”

My Mission: One of the pillars of Robinson’s brand is to help other people feel less alone, whether it’s a struggle with mental health, chronic illness, body image or career. “My diagnosis inspired me to become the person I wished I had to look up to during the rise of social media,” says Robinson. “I’ve committed myself to making content that showcases positivity and confidence across platforms. I focus on how we do things and not what we do.”

Social Media Literacy: Robinson’s interest in social media literacy was sparked in 2020 when companies began posting their responses to social causes including Covid-19, the BLM movement, Asian hate crimes and antisemitism. To her surprise, many influencers were more focused on the paycheck from brands while brands were focused on engaging in conversations around ethical content creation. “This sparked a flame in me, so I started teaching others how to cultivate community across social platforms by creating meaningful content that creates impact,” she says.

Gigi Robinson is a digital nomad with a chronic illness that doesn't hold her back.

©Gabrielle Robinson

Traveling with Chronic Illness: “As someone with a chronic illness, there are a lot of benefits to traveling and working remotely as a digital nomad. When I first embarked on my journey traveling with two suitcases (one with clothes and toiletries, the other with gear), I resisted acknowledging my chronic illness as a disability because I was ashamed of it. It took me a few years, but I eventually shifted my mindset from ‘What if someone judges me for being wheeled through TSA to the gate’ to ‘What if I don’t have any pain during my flight.’ And that was the moment where I realized that accommodations are only there to help me.”

The Benefits of Travel: “Changing my scenery significantly helps my mental health, but also my physical health,” says Robinson. “Putting my body through traveling allows me to experience places, cultures and climates where I feel best. When I feel my best, I am able to do my best work.”

Working and Traveling: “One of the best parts of being a digital nomad is that I am able to delegate tasks to my team while I am traveling. We are completely remote and spread out across the country,” says Robinson. “I send off my content once I have the raw footage and let my team do the heavy lifting for me when it comes to editing and posting. This lets me focus on another pillar of my brand—public speaking.”

Getting Started: “When you are brand new to social media, you have to test out what will work and what kind of audience are you trying to build,” says Robinson. “You should do research to calculate and predict who that might be and create content for that demographic based on your product or business. If you don’t know where to start, begin by making a list of the top 100 creators and 100 pieces of content that resonate with you and your niche. Write out why and then generate a list of things you can write about or make graphics, photos or videos about. This list will evolve as you grow, but that’s the whole point: You want to grow.”

Better Done Than Perfect: When Robinson is coaching people on social media strategy, her top piece of advice is: “Have a better-done-than-perfect attitude. If you spend too much time ideating, you may never actually execute. You just have to start posting.”

Goal Setting: “When it comes to goals, I try to accomplish them within a reasonable amount of time and remind myself that my journey is different than other creators,” says Robinson. “It’s easier said than done but you have to be patient.”

Success Check: “I like to write down or create a deck with everything that I've done in any given week or month if I feel like I'm not accomplished to remind myself how much I'm actually doing,” says Robinson.

Robinson's number one tip: Have confidence in yourself.

©Gabrielle Robinson

Make Money Using Linkedin: Robinson uses Linkedin not only for networking, but also for content creation. “The best way to make money on Linkedin is to network with people in your industry that may post opportunities, and reach out to people you may be able to work for. As a creator, I have successfully landed several partnerships by being connected with campaign managers, influencer and PR managers of companies that I wanted to work with,” says Robinson. “After establishing a good rapport with these managers, I take a shot and ask if they have any partnership opportunities. This could be done for any industry or for any role that needs to be filled—not just the influencer industry. Linkedin also has a team of creator managers (expanding rapidly right now) that invite and guide people that are already somewhat established with content goals and ideas. The managers are there to support creators and help them achieve their goals in expanding their professional presence.” 

Use Live Audio: “Live audio is a new form of communication that most of the big social companies are investing in. Think of it as the new form of Snapchat Stories. When that first came out nobody thought it would stick on other platforms, but now it’s the norm. Now live audio conversations are dominating social platforms modeled after Clubhouse, including Twitter Spaces, Facebook Audio, Spotify Greenroom, Linkedin Live Audio and more,” says Robinson. “Live audio rooms are where someone can host conversations on the previously mentioned platforms. The best part: You will often be in a room with thought leaders and have the opportunity to ask them questions.”

Podcasts: “To start a podcast you need to figure out what your competitive advantage is and how you are going to distribute your message,” says Robinson. “Anchor is a free platform that allows you to upload audio tracks, cut, edit, add music, make a cover photo and distribute your show across streaming platforms through an RSS feed.”

Recycle Content: “Take the omnichannel approach: Anything that you have written can be repurposed into content to post across all of your social channels (Tiktok, Instagram Reels, Snapchat Spotlight, Youtube Shorts). By doing this, you establish your personality or business across the internet,” says Robinson. “Everyone used to say that you should stay true to your niche on each platform and avoid reposting content. The truth is not many people are going to remember every post you make. Plus, if it was a best performing post, you never know who may have missed it the first time.”

The New Resume: “I personally believe that websites and social media accounts are the new resume, therefore you should have one singular place that displays your best work. I have found a website to be the most professional because it can showcase different content pillars in different mediums. For example, on my website I have a breakdown of the work I have done to talk about chronic illness on Instagram, body image on Tiktok, my podcast and an entire section where people can book me right on the spot.”

Making Money With Video: “You can find a way to monetize any niche of video content. For example, with food you can use tools to prep the food. For skincare/product/lifestyle it could be something as simple as unboxing or doing a voiceover. These are potential niches that a brand partner would sponsor through a paid promo. Stick with it, stay the course, build a niche and it will come.”

Keep Your Videos Short and Scrappy: “You don’t need a 4K camera, a set with gorgeous lighting or professional editing—you can shoot right on your phone, edit in a free app (Inshot, Videoleap or Splice),” says Robinson. “All you have to do is make something snappy in the beginning, keep the viewer’s attention and repeat it. Post everywhere. And keep the videos short: three- to seven-seconds. Crazy, right?”

Parting Words: “If you are starting out on social media, my number one tip is to have confidence in yourself,” says Robinson. “When you don’t speak about your business and your work, you won’t grow, people won’t recognize or see your work, and therefore you will not get opportunities to make money online. Even if the video gets zero views, stay the course and continue posting—you never know what is going to go viral and land you a partnership.”

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Top 5 Ways To Make Money Online-2022

Top 5 Ways to Make Money Online and Build a Profitable Online Business in 2022, which has the potential to scale to 6 digits. Our discussion of how to make money online followed thousands of online money-making strategies. YouTube Automation Affiliate marketing Drop servicing Personal campaign Sell digital products.

Finally, I am going to talk about the 5 best online businesses that you should start in 2022. There will be enormous opportunities to make money online by having these businesses. It is important to choose the right online business from the beginning because it does not matter how much you work for a business or how much time you spend on it. If the business is not possible, it is important to choose a few of the five that we will talk about in this article.

YouTube Automation:

The first online business on our list will be YouTube automation. In essence, you can make money without putting your face on a video. You know how big YouTubers are, for example, Graham Stefan, he's a huge finance YouTuber, and he's making millions of dollars every year from his YouTube channel.

But the thing with it is that there is only one Graham Stefan. In one day, he can only shoot a certain number of videos. He can't really scale that business so much; Obviously, he's making a lot of money, but he can't really measure it to the point where he doesn't have to film all day and make as much money as he can. But if there is someone else, it creates content for him. He can scale a theme for people who make videos, and he can just run it and run his youtube channel as a business and not as a producer, and that's how faceless youtube automation actually works. I am currently running in a way that is probably my primary online business.

I have several YouTube channels where I'm not showing my face; I'm just taking other people to create content for me. Then I’m just making some money from other revenue brand deals, affiliate marketing, CPA marketing, and all those great things. I actually have lots of different tutorials on both this and the main channel where I talk about how youtube automation works and how you can start that business from scratch. So I guess you saw some of them. If not, you can go to the channel and watch them. They are usually headlined how you can make money on youtube without video, and I have tried to explain it in detail. Obviously, this cannot cover every single step of the process in a 10-minute long video.

But you can get an idea of how the business works because it is really a profitable business. And I think it's one of the best online businesses of 2022, and it's actually as simple as not having too much to worry about. Yes, I would also like to mention that you don't have to start paying from scratch. You can actually start a business for free because you can get free online resources and create content from stock footage, videos, photos, and the like. And you can see inside those tutorials, and I will show you how to do it step by step. Also, we are absolutely free, and later, you can actually measure the business by hiring someone else to do it for you. But from the beginning, you can do it yourself; It doesn't take much time and effort, but it is going to be completely free.

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is going to be the second online business on our list; This means that instead of supporting the product and providing those things instead of creating the product and making it look like a sales page, you can actually take someone else's influence, someone else's sales page and promote and earn it as an authorization. Affiliate commission is when someone buys that product or service through your affiliate link. For example, you can even promote Amazon products, although I do not recommend it because they pay only a few percent, such as three to four percent per product sales, which is quite a difference, which is a significant difference.

For example, you advertise on Amazon as a lamp that costs ten dollars, so you don't have a lamp. You have no inventory; You’re not going to run the lights, you’re not going to help the customer, you’re not going to talk to the customer. All you have to do is grab the link to that lamp and share it, like a friend or family member or someone else on the internet clicking on your link. If you buy a lamp for ten dollars, you will get two dollars. Three dollars just to mention that person or to mention one person, and there are many ways you can promote those products.

A lot of people will tell you that if you like affiliate marketing, the number one piece of advice would be to run paid ads only on affiliate marketing offers which is something I don't highly recommend because the cost of advertising on Facebook or Google or YouTube is only increasing year after year. It is not worth spending so much money to promote affiliate offers. There are many ways you can do this and it is great to combine YouTube automation with previous online business and affiliate marketing. Because you not only get free traffic, you avoid paying for ads like Facebook ads and google ads, but you are paid to promote those products through youtube because you earn ads from those views.

As I said, I would never recommend promoting Amazon products and physical products. Because there is a limit to how much you can sell. If it is like a physical product because there is an inventory, but if it is a digital product, there is no limit because there is no inventory and the commission is usually much higher for digital products they are 40 to 50 or sometimes 75 percent, So this was the second online business.

Drop servicing

Let's talk about the third one which will be the next online business drop servicing on our list. Just like in dropshipping, in dropshipping, you drop physical goods, and in you give drop-ship service. In my opinion, this is probably the best online business you can start in 2022.

Drop servicing means that instead of dropping physical products, you can opt-out of services like Fiverr and other freelancing platforms so that if you ever stay through Fiverr or Upwork. You see people selling services like logo design services and video editing services and they sell them for as little as $ 20, $ 30, $ 40, or $ 50. But all you can do is find clients who will pay more as you can create an agency and charge more for the same services.

But instead of completing the service yourself, you can outsource it to some freelancers and Fiverr. So let's say you sell a $ 5 you sell a logo for like $ 50, and then you go to Fiverr and find a really good logo designer and a graphic designer for $ 25 to create a logo for you. Keep 25 profits. Just like a middleman, so basically drop servicing services from freelancers and freelancing platforms like Fiverr. This is actually an online business model that I am doing in 2018-2019 and somewhat in 2022 and it was good. I have some old blogs and videos that you can read and watch on my blog and youtube channel.

Personal campaign

Next on our list is going to be something I'm doing right now, and it has a personal brand, so I like to run anonymous online businesses like Faceless YouTube automation, affiliate marketing and personal brand services like Faceless online business with drop and all that Great things are very important, especially in 2022. Because it opens so many doors and can actually make you money in so many ways, and it's just as fun as you can see.

I'm having fun here worldwide, like every week or every month. We are traveling to a different place. We're meeting new people, we're having fun, and I'm building a real business while doing all this, so I think having a personal brand is one of the best ways you can start a great online business. This list may soon start to be the easiest. Affiliate marketing is the easiest online business that you can start without any prior experience, but having a personal brand is also very important. You can monetize it in different ways.

Sell digital products

It's good that the last online business I know is actually tied to the previous one, and it's selling digital products with your personal brand. So I personally sold a course last year and actually made over 6 million selling a digital product. Selling a digital course and digital products is also really good because there is no inventory again. So you don't have to have a physical product. Obviously, it takes a lot of time and effort to create that digital product. But I think it's more valuable because you can sell it unlimited times. There is no limit to how many digital products you can sell, and that's how I was able to actually create one-line products so that one-line products can be sold for more than a million dollars over a year and a half or so. Can be extremely profitable.

As long as you have some personal brand, it doesn't have to be a huge personal brand, like you have only 1000 followers or 1000 subscribers or 1000 friends on Facebook who are really interested in a particular topic. For example, I created a tribe of people interested in making money online and traveling the world like me. So by doing this, I have been able to attract such people and sell a product related to the thing that they are all interested in. Again, you don’t need a huge following and you don’t need a huge social media. Presence. Even with just a few hundred or thousands of followers, you can still build a profitable online business.