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title: '5 Ways to Make Money Online Without Experience in 2026'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=CsY6rIAUAVA'
video_id: 'CsY6rIAUAVA'
date: 2026-08-06
duration_sec: 1207
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# 5 Ways to Make Money Online Without Experience in 2026

> Source: [5 Ways to Make Money Online Without Experience in 2026](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CsY6rIAUAVA)

## Summary

The video presents five practical ways to make money online without prior experience, drawing on the creator's personal journey since 2020. It emphasizes taking action and leveraging free resources like AI and YouTube tutorials to start earning.

### Key Points

- **Print-on-Demand** [01:34] — Most profitable method; no upfront inventory, no social following needed. Partner with a supplier like Printify, create designs, and sell on platforms like Etsy, Amazon, or TikTok Shop.
- **Selling Digital Products** [04:31] — Create once, sell indefinitely. Examples: ebooks, templates, Notion planners. Use AI tools like Claude to create products. Niche down to solve specific problems.
- **Affiliate Marketing** [07:45] — Promote products via social media (TikTok, Pinterest) and earn commissions. Join Amazon Associates or TikTok Shop affiliate program. Consistency is key.
- **Freelancing / Virtual Assistant** [11:32] — Offer skills like design, copywriting, or social media management on platforms like Fiverr and Upwork. Learn skills for free on YouTube.
- **YouTube Channel** [15:02] — Monetize through AdSense, brand deals, and product sales. Start with a smartphone and free editing tools. Focus on providing value and consistency.

### Conclusion

The video encourages viewers to take immediate action, emphasizing that money loves speed and that anyone can start with free resources and a willingness to learn.

## Transcript

enough people are utilizing the ways to make money online. And if you're or you're just not really sure where to start, this video is for you. Because I have to say, if you've been kind of wondering where to start or what to do,
yet to use all these different things to cheating yourself out and missing out on opportunities while other people are jumping on them. And so in today's video, I'm going to give you some ideas
online. And a lot of these you don't need experience and I've been selling online since 2020 when I lost my bartending job and I utilized my time during the lockdown to look into ways to start making money. And I did the same
searching for ways to make money online through YouTube and Google. And so I let's take action because the only difference between someone that's making money online and not is the fact of taking action. And so many people don't
take action and I will tell you one thing, money loves speed. Money loves something even when they feel under-qualified, even when they feel and when they're completely terrified to start something new. And so look at this
something to get excited about because if other people are doing it, there is it, too. And if you are new here, hi, I'm Mack. I do make videos all over my money online through different business models and I'll link any helpful
tutorials I have that are relevant to this video in the description box below started, you can click one of those and watch a step-by-step tutorial. All first one that I talk about because this has been my most profitable way to make
about it is that you don't need a ton of money up front, you don't need a social media following, and you really don't need many skills at all, especially with today's day and age of AI and so many resources. So that is print-on-demand.
business model that I ever tried doing when selling back in 2020. What you can and your own e-commerce business selling custom products. You partner up with a print on demand supplier who has lots of different white label products
for sale. This can be a t-shirt, a tote bag, a mug, a sweatshirt. Their list thousands of different products and all you have to do is create an online store, link your print on demand supplier with that online store, and
then create custom designs to put on these blank products. You can then sync and list them directly on your website. And when someone purchases on your will print your custom design that you created onto that product, pack it up,
and ship it directly to your customer. Meaning that you can run a fully automated print on demand business from anywhere in the world. Now, pros to this business model is that you have location freedom. You also are going to be able
to run it from anywhere that you have Wi-Fi. And as I said, it's not going to require a ton of money up front. If you were to start a clothing business, a mug products yourself, you're going to have to hold inventory in your own home and
hope that you sell out, which is a huge risk. Now, take it from me, somebody that when I wanted to start selling on Etsy, I began making custom gift boxes. This is a great idea. It's a great business model on Etsy, but it is not
passive and it cost me a lot of money to start up. What I realized very quickly when I was making these gift boxes is by the time that I did everything and paid making very small profit and it was taking all day to do. And I knew it
jumped into print on demand where I can products without ever actually having to touch one myself. Now, with this lots of different platforms. I use Printify as my print on demand supplier.
bunch of tutorials cuz I talk about this a lot on my channel. And it's something over the last 6 years that I've been doing it. And it's an incredible model. So, I will say that if you're somebody that really likes to design, maybe
your own clothing store or accessories like sticker store, anything like that. you know how to use Canva, if you know how to use Kittle, or any type of art online site, you can absolutely make money with this business model. I won't
like obsessed with it, and I will leave a helpful tutorial, like I said, but are artsy, or if you've always wanted to sell products. It's way, way, way more hold inventory on products. And if
products online, it is the best way, and like I said, most profitable way to do experience. And you can also sell products on Etsy, or Amazon, or even TikTok Shop with this exact method. Now, next option, which is also very talked
about, but is very profitable, is selling digital products. Now, stay with "Okay, I've seen 10 million videos that talk about how to sell digital products and make money online." Yes, and I will tell you, everyone talks about it, but
only like 2% of people actually take action and start selling digital products. And I'm not going to tell you to create a $2 planner and try to sell that on Etsy and make money, cuz you won't, okay? That's the reality of it.
Now, while low-ticket or cheap digital products can sell, the ones that are really going to make you long-term money are ones that provide value and actually digital products can be something like an ebook, an e-guide, a template that
their own, or even something like a planner or a Notion tab that are super Gumroad. And a lot of people will also make the argument and say to me, "Okay, products, why would somebody buy mine?" All you have to do is niche down into a
specific target audience that's already buying, and again, solve their problem, and maybe solve it uniquely. And with today's day and age, as again, I say, in these fields. You can create a digital product on something that you
really know nothing about and still be profitable with it. Also, different ways to use AI using the new Claude models that are incredible to make different Notion templates and planner templates or even Canva templates that again sell
extremely well on websites like Etsy and Gumroad and others as well. Now, just for an example, this Etsy product here, which is a digital Notion template, is making a lot of money monthly on Etsy, and this person created this digital
incredible about a digital product is you make it one time and you can sell it indefinitely. Meaning, if you take one or two days to create a digital product and you price it around $20, if you sell that 30 times and you only made it once,
that is straight passive income that you are making. So, it's a really incredible don't have to be something that are faceless. It can be things like courses or digital webinars, where you actually physically teach someone something
you want to teach somebody how to cook a specific recipe or do a course on how to homeschool your child or how to draw. There are so many things, and you provide value to somebody. You just have to think about it. Think about your
And then look for people's problems and figure out how to solve them. And then Etsy or Amazon, those already have what people are already searching for without having to spend a ton of money
on ads. And I do have digital product videos below, which I will link for you on. The digital product market is incredible, and it is something that is something that is completely skyrocketing, especially since 2020, and
then is only going to become more and more popular as our technology advances. And even another argument is that people will say, "Oh, can't someone just create that on their own or use AI?" A lot of people don't want to. They want to buy a
version that you already created, and it's already done, and it's instant. People love things that are accessible and instant and save them time. So, definitely something I would consider as well. Next up is affiliate marketing and
with affiliate marketing, this has been around forever, but now I feel like it's course, affiliate marketing again being around for so long, there are a lot of ways to do it, but one of the ways in particular that I find so interesting is
through social media. Now, not just using your face as well, we'll talk create a social media account that still be profitable through affiliate marketing. Now, affiliate marketing gets
me every single day when I'm scrolling on TikTok or Pinterest because in specific, a lot of my feed personally is home decor or outfit inspiration and what you'll notice about these different types of TikToks or Pinterest pins is
that automatically it says comment for a link or link in my bio to shop my Amazon storefront. And what this happens is that person that made that video or made that photo is getting a commission every single time someone buys
that they talked about in that post. That's how affiliate marketing works. You partner with a company and then they give you a piece of commission every let's say you have a pin or an Instagram video go viral out of nowhere and then
you get 2,000 sales on that item, you're getting a piece of the pie from that so, it's a really great business model and I think I know that it's been more profitable than ever now with the social media being involved. And doing these
what you like. Maybe you're somebody that really likes recipes, you could different spices that you use or anything like that that can be sold on Amazon. To do this, you join the Amazon affiliate program, which you do have to
but in my experience, it was not hard to get accepted to. You don't have to like can start creating custom links and then again, if someone purchases from that custom link, Amazon gives you a piece of that commission. And this can add up
you see on your feed, people are making money from. So, if you're already scrolling and you're already spending so much time on social media, why not few examples of like these photo slide ones that do really well. Or, if you're
camera, you can make a lot that way as well. You can also create Pinterest you prefer to do it that way. What I will say, if you're going to do this, I would double down on it. I would spend a lot of time on it and schedule out posts
because consistency is what matters the most when it comes to affiliate you know, organic traffic on social media because it is free to post, it's because you don't have a ton of followers doesn't mean that you can't
Highly recommend it if you're somebody that maybe is interested in doing social media, but just wants to make money from that side and not like the brand side or also feel like this is a good time to mention the TikTok affiliate program,
which is incredible. I do believe that you need to have a certain amount of cuz I can't remember in this moment. So, that will obviously take time if you don't have the following yet. But, however, if you do choose to join the
TikTok affiliate program, you can basically promote lots of different products in your own videos with that clickable orange link from TikTok shop and you get paid when someone purchases. I know a lot of people who have made a
ton of money doing this. It's incredible. Like, I know this one girl, she's making like $300,000 a month just from showing different outfits and can purchase on TikTok shop. And when her videos go viral and then brands will
push advertisements on those and she earns a commission. It's really transparency, that is something where you're going to have to hustle. You're going to have to be a more of a creator or an influencer, but it is very cool
double down and you really like content and maybe you just don't know where to get started, go that avenue because there really is so much money to be made and I only see that getting bigger, especially knowing that TikTok shop
not taking TikTok down because I was stressed about that. Now, next week is something in a way to share your skills, but while doing it behind a screen, and that is freelancing or becoming something like a virtual assistant. Now,
people who are techy or have again a skill that they would like to share with someone. Now, this is very popular for designers or for people who do copy or if you just understand different tasks and are good and fast at them that
businesses or for artwork. There's so is really cool because there's a lot of different platforms where you can get in [clears throat] and people and get hired for specific jobs. Now, I'm somebody
that for my online business, for my YouTube channel, for my content, for my print on demand business, I utilize Fiverr all the time. And Fiverr is a freelance site that you can sign up to and be a part of a marketplace so that
when business owners are searching for different tools and tasks, you can pop up and show your rate and then offer that skill or business to them. So, for example, something that I've hired a lot out for is for design work. Then when I
want my logos done or when I want different print on demand designs that will take me a really long time, I like to hire an artist to have them create it for me. And then so many businesses do this as well. And you can do this for
social media. If you're someone that maybe you want to do social media, but media, you can create posts for businesses and do a social media different freelance sites like Fiverr or Upwork. And Fiverr does a really good
job about showcasing even when you are newer on the platform. I was actually curious about this because again, my channel is about how to make money in years back, I created a Fiverr account
for graphic design as a new seller to see if I was going to be somebody that Fiverr would push and get me actual clients. And I was very surprised that it did. It gives you an opportunity even if you are new, to really scale and
become a creator on Fiverr and help people with these different tasks. And as a seller again and having so many different friends in the content space and in the business and e-com world, that they do hire this out. A really
popular one is for web design or for landing page design. Lots of creators you're somebody that really understands even different things like interior designer mock-ups. There's so many
you're somebody that's like, I don't really know a skill that I could offer, what's incredible is you can learn anything on YouTube. I learned how to be a YouTuber from YouTube. I learned how to start my first print on demand
create my first digital product from YouTube. All for free. And so, if you things and watch it for free, you can absolutely master a skill and just utilize that time being to get good at the skill so that you can start getting
really incredible and something that I think a lot of people sleep on. I will probably more time consuming and less passive. Just depends on what type of in copywriting or writing emails or maybe you've done social media for your
job, you can also get side gigs doing that. You might not be booked out all the time right away, but it is something that if you start getting clients, you can get really good at it. I've hired video editors and photo editors and so
had really great success with it. So, definitely check that out if you're somebody that it feels resonates with. And lastly, I have to talk about one of my other favorite ways to make money online, which is YouTube. And before
you're like, I don't want to have a YouTube channel or that's so hard to do. how you make money from that. Every single creator that you've ever seen a single creator that you've ever seen a video from starts at zero. None of us
just join YouTube and immediately get, you know, a following. You have to work content to get that following. And honestly, that goes for every platform, somebody who has, I would say, a pretty good amount of following across all
like it. The money you can make on YouTube versus other platforms is incredible. Not just by like brand deals or through, you know, people buying from you, but in the sense of that YouTube actually pays you through AdSense. And
and an ad pops up, there might have been one in this video, that's because the creator is monetized and gets paid for the advertisements on their videos. And this is an incredible way to make money online, and especially through YouTube
because they actually pay and care about their creators. No shade to the other really grown a love and respect for YouTube because it is so much work to make a YouTube video, I will not lie, but, you know, will pay their creators
And sure, it does take time to get doesn't actually come from your subscriber count, it comes from your watch hours. And you'd be surprised that a lot of creators, they can grow their
honest, I started my YouTube channel in 2021, yes, 2021, late 2021, and it took actually start seeing the algorithm pushing my content. And sure, like,
and this and that, but at the end of the day, there's only a small fraction of people that will actually put themselves out there and actually start. And if you encourage you to. I have so many friends that will ask me about getting started
start when I have a camera. I'll start when I have a mic." And I always tell them the same thing. I'm like, "You don't need all of that." I filmed on my iPhone for the first year and a half without a microphone. The audio was
channel and see how bad it was, you can. And people still watched my videos. I have a video that hit 2 million views, and it was filmed on my iPhone with no microphone, okay? It's not about that. It's about if you're creating content
that people want to watch. And in my experience for my channel and there's channels you can start, but for my experience in my channel, it was teaching someone again a skill. There is so much power in being able to offer
because people love to learn from others. It's part of life. It's a part of just being a human, right? And we connect and can share our experiences to beautiful as like woo-woo as I sound right now. But I think that's so awesome
and I know people still watch YouTube. People are actively on YouTube. You're watching this video and it's one of the most watched platforms out there and especially for long-form content, right? Nothing will ever be out YouTube in my
game and I always encourage people to start and don't feel like, you know, who've been doing YouTube for, you know, years. It is a growing journey. You your videos for free in something like I think iMovie's free or CapCut. They all
know, just start editing. You don't need anything crazy. My channel had over 200,000 subscribers before I hired my first editor. Fully truth. Was it a lot all these fancy things and I feel like I need to talk about that more to like
everyone assumes that you need all X, Y, and Z to have a successful YouTube channel and that is just not the case. YouTube loves authenticity. People love more every day with TikTok and just people being themselves and being real.
just want to share your day-to-day. Maybe you want to share how to do hair. to do a YouTube channel and how to start like hair tutorials, but she's terrified you watch this, but she's terrified to do it and I'm like everyone is terrified
when they first started. I probably made 30 videos that I never posted before that one time I just finally was like, "Michaela, this is what we want." And I want to help people with and I'm going to talk about it and I don't care if
people make fun of me. And so with that being said, I feel like I'm drifting off but I want you to know that the money can be made is incredible. All right, so about today. I don't want this video to be too long, but I'm sure or I hope that
one of these things were helpful to you or inspired you or just get you the the wheels going. There are so many resources. We have AI, we have all these tools that we can really start anything we want. We have things like YouTube
said and learn anything in just a few minutes after watching a video for free. Thank you so so much for watching. Let me know what your thoughts are below. already. I do post lots of different videos on how to start these different
as I mentioned at the beginning of the video, all those things will be in the tutorial on one of the things that I talked about. If I have it, I will link it. Thank you so so much for watching. Happy selling and take action. Can't
stress that enough. Like I said, money loves speed and money loves people who loves speed and money loves people who act.