--- title: 'How to Make Money Online in 2026' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=f-tcHZQ2QPY' video_id: 'f-tcHZQ2QPY' date: 2026-08-09 duration_sec: 703 channel: 'Venga Le Cuento' --- # How to Make Money Online in 2026 > Source: [How to Make Money Online in 2026](https://youtube.com/watch?v=f-tcHZQ2QPY) ## Summary This video reviews five popular methods for making money online from home, testing their validity and profitability. The creators share their personal experiences and research, revealing which methods are legitimate and which are scams, while providing practical tips for success. ### Key Points - **Introduction to Making Money Online** [00:01] — The video begins by discussing the benefits of working from home, such as time flexibility, saving on commuting, and the ability to earn in dollars, especially beneficial for those in Latin America. The creators aim to review various online money-making methods to determine their truthfulness and profitability. - **First Method: Paid Surveys** [01:05] — The first method reviewed is answering surveys for money. The creators tested platforms like Atapol and Timebox. They found that while these platforms do pay, the earnings are minimal, averaging only a few dollars a month. They also noted that surveys often reject users, wasting time. - **Second Method: Virtual Assistant** [02:48] — The second method is working as a virtual assistant. The creators explored platforms like ODW, where they found job offers ranging from $25 per hour to $1,000 per month. However, they noted high competition and the need for skills like email management, data entry, and a second language. They applied but received no response. - **Third Method: Amazon Reviews (Scam)** [05:25] — The third method, writing Amazon reviews for money, is exposed as a scam. The creators explain that job offers asking for sensitive data or upfront deposits are fraudulent. Amazon prohibits paid reviews, and the only legitimate way to review products is if Amazon selects you, which doesn't pay. - **Fourth Method: Shopify Store** [07:12] — The fourth method is having a Shopify store. The creators discuss various models, including dropshipping, print on demand, and affiliate marketing. They highlight dropshipping as the most profitable but note the steep learning curve and the need for advertising investment. - **Fifth Method: Freelancing on Fiverr** [09:33] — The fifth method is freelancing on platforms like Fiverr. The creators share personal experience, earning $400-$500 a month designing Instagram grids. They emphasize the importance of getting initial sales to build reputation, and mention a trick of buying your own service to gain first stars. ### Conclusion The video concludes that making money online is possible, but it requires choosing the right method and being aware of scams. The creators encourage viewers to decide which method suits them best and to share their thoughts in the comments. ## Transcript for many people who want to earn money from home, and it truly has many benefits, such as time flexibility, setting your own money on commuting if you have a physical job (working from home saves you that money), having quality time, and an important advantage is that you can also earn in dollars, which is especially beneficial if you're in Latin America 've recently seen videos and YouTube channels talking about ways to make money online. Many videos talk about remote jobs that how true are all these ways of making money online? With that question, we wanted to thoroughly review all those ways to earn money from home to see if it's really worth working there, if they are true, and above all, if they make money working remotely. In addition to that, we're going to show you how to do the process of working remotely, to earn money, and also give you tips to make it really work. So let's begin. The first way to earn money from home that we wanted to internet. We wanted to review all the pages that offered this thing of answering questions in exchange for money to bring you the best ones and to bring you the ones that actually pay. So we found two, Atapol and Timebox. mobile devices or tablets, so if you're not at home, it's a Timebook is indeed designed more for sitting in front of the computer and completing platforms will simply require us to register to use them, and we don't have to do anything else. They can directly enter to answer surveys in exchange for surveys are available at all times, and another advantage is that the minimum withdrawal amount is $3, which is not the case with other sites where the minimum amount is $15, and you'll take a little longer to accumulate that money to withdraw it. After about two weeks of answering surveys, we received $3.16 transferred answering these questions. However, considering the time invested versus the amount of money earned, starting in this type of work doesn't seem like a good option. On average, we'd only be earning a few dollars a month, which might seem like very little to some, and perhaps some extra income to others . But we also noticed reject you because market research and need to find the ideal client or the person in that field or within that spectrum who meets their requirements. meet the requirement and search criteria of those surveys. So it's very common for you to be removed from the survey or taken out of it at any moment, which makes you waste time. In summary, these platforms do earn money and deliver on their promises, but if you want to make money online and have a sustainable income over best option. The second way to earn money from home also appears in many of the voices we saw, and that is to be virtual assistants. It is the quintessential job for the first people who start earning money from home. Here too suited us when looking for work as virtual assistants and we found ODW. It is a platform where services can be sold in exchange for money, but it also has a section for applications or remote work, in this case for virtual assistants. To access these is register on the platform, and after that, it will ask us to have a resume or CV. Or we can also create a resume right there on the page in about 15 minutes by filling in all the information the platform tells us, and then we can have our profile ready to apply. The virtual assistant offers on this page range from $25 per hour or $ 0 per month, which we thought was a good price, because the work you will have to do as a virtual assistant will be managing emails, data entry, text transcription, or in some we obtained the profile, we decided to apply for this job offer, which was an artificial intelligence company that was looking for employees to manage emails and text transcription, and the pay was $1,000 per month. However, we realized that there are many applications of this type and that the competition is very high. Many people also want to work as virtual assistants, and the only thing that will determine whether you get hired or not is profile they are looking for. In other words, how much knowledge do you have in these data entry skills, email management , and even in a second language? So they're going to have a lot of competition. When we applied for this weeks ago, we haven't received any response, even after listing these skills and indicating a basic level of proficiency in a second language . So for the time being, we have this hold while we bring more page. However, from my experience, I worked as a virtual assistant in text transcription and data entry. And while there is a lot of competition, a second language is necessary , at least at a basic level. Personally, I put "basic level" in some of these job offers, but I Google Translate, since these types of jobs do not require grammar or second language. They are simply basic tasks that one can answer, "Yes, I time." And the truth is, they are super basic conversations that can be forget to subscribe, leave a comment below, what did you think of the video? The third way to make money online is one of the most frequently mentioned in these videos, but it surprised us a lot because it doesn't exist and it 's Amazon reviews. Many people claim to earn money by writing Amazon reviews, reviewing products on the site. However, we realized this could be a scam because there are many job offers saying that they reviewing a product. What happens is that these people will ask you for your sensitive data and also for you to deposit money so that they send you can review it and then they will pay you. And what happens in these cases is that they never send you anything, you paid and that's where the scam is set up . And the second thing we saw is that Amazon directly states that paying for reviews on its site is prohibited. The truth is that paid reviews, because it doesn't allow it in this to be a business is if Amazon invites you to review products and then sends them to you directly. But this is not achieved by your will; rather, Amazon chooses the people, customers, or Amazon users who have a good reputation within the platform and selects them to send the products so that they can write their reviews. So there's no application process for these kinds of jobs and you're not really going to make any money doing this kind of work. If you were to apply and be selected by Amazon to review products, they would free, and that's all. However, there is a way to make money with Amazon, affiliate marketing. You can create content on a platform and share a product link, and for every purchase made through that link, who gave you the link, will receive a percentage. But this is a different kind of experience, some knowledge, and also some kind of investment. So, in that respect, Amazon reviews do n't fit into the ways of making looked at to make money from home was to have a Shopify store. This is also one of the most common ways that many channels say you can make money with it, and that is by having an online store with the none of these forms are sponsored, no company paid us real opinion and research we did. There are four ways to to sell the physical products you have, whether it's from a business or a company, and sell them to people and set up your website there. The other is need inventory stock; you simply hire or contact a supplier who will ship the product directly to the customer. So intermediary between the product and the customer. The other way is print on demand, which is all these types of t-shirts, mugs, posters that company to be printed and then sent directly to the customer, but you will have to have the designs and directly manage the whole process of sending the customer's order to the supplier. And lastly, we also have through affiliates, which was something like what I told you about we wanted to explore further and realized that the real way, and the one that yields the most profit dropshipping. Basically, what we have to do with dropshipping is find a product on the website, create an account there, and then install one of the Shopify apps. These apps can be like those suppliers, and the supplier will let us see their entire select one of these products, create a website directly on Shopify, and start the sales process to our customers. will take care of shipping that product directly to the customer, good thing here is that you won't have to invest in inventory or stock, but you will need to invest in advertising because if you want to sell products, you'll have to show them. And Shopify also is currently for at least 3 months, but you should keep invest. And although it's one of the best ways to work from home, the learning curve for understanding marketing, finding a managing all this information is quite steep. So it's a good last way to earn money from home, which I've seen in many videos, and which I personally also have guides on this channel about how to work that way, and which was my first remote job, was working as a freelancer on platforms like Fiverr. Fiver is a platform where you can There you will have the opportunity to sell services such as making cards for birthdays or celebrations. You will have the opportunity to do graphic design, images, sell video editing, and also sell products such as voice-over work for some advertising segments. And personally, when I worked at Fiber, I was dedicated to designing grills for Instagram. It was a job that could earn me between $400 and $00 a month directly working with clients and people from all over the world designing grills for Instagram. The process to register with Fiber is completely easy, and manage your entire product or service. However, it will depend heavily on how you manage and sell it, and there are certain tricks to get your first sales in at least the first two weeks. What I did buy a service I was selling, which was precisely the design of these gained my first reputation, my first stars on Fiverr, and other clients could see that I delivered the work, that I had a reputation on the platform, and at that point, more and more people started coming. I have a complete guide to Fiber that I'm going to leave works and how to manage it. However, I'm working on a full Fiber course, so let me know in the comments if you're interested in this topic. There money online. We found these five, which are the main ones that appear in many videos, which many people review and say you can you to decide how you want to do it, what method you choose to earn money from home. Behind them I tell them that it is possible. I worked because it had flexibility in terms of time and schedule, so in the comments below. Well, don't forget that I'm going to leave my Instagram exclusive content that I don't upload here on the platform.