--- title: '5 Real Ways to Make Money Online' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=e_il7P-oCds' video_id: 'e_il7P-oCds' date: 2026-07-15 duration_sec: 563 --- # 5 Real Ways to Make Money Online > Source: [5 Real Ways to Make Money Online](https://youtube.com/watch?v=e_il7P-oCds) ## Summary The video presents five proven and sustainable ways to make money online, emphasizing that while many digital businesses fail, these models are worth pursuing if approached one at a time. The speaker covers agency services, software as a service (SaaS), e-commerce, information products, and affiliate marketing, offering practical advice for each. ### Key Points - **Introduction to Sustainable Online Business Models** [00:01] — Many digital businesses are not sustainable; the video shares five proven models worth investing in, regardless of your background (programmer, designer, content creator, marketer). - **Sponsor: ManageSide 247 for Real User Monitoring** [00:26] — ManageSide 247 provides real-time monitoring of web/mobile app performance, showing load times, latency, errors, and differences across browsers and regions. It helps identify bottlenecks like large images or slow API calls. A 6-month free trial is available. - **Model 1: Agency (Selling Services)** [01:45] — The most direct model: offer skills like web development, design, branding, advertising, or automation (e.g., N8N) to clients. You can start immediately as an individual. The challenge is defining a service and finding paying clients. Scaling requires moving from freelancer to agency. - **Model 2: Software as a Service (SaaS)** [03:06] — Build a web-based tool that solves a problem (e.g., invoicing, task management, analytics, web scraping) and charge a subscription. Highly scalable but complex: needs a functional product, customer support, updates, and retention strategy. Best when born from understanding customer problems through service. - **Model 3: E-commerce (Tangible and Digital Products)** [04:12] — Sell physical goods (clothing, gadgets) or digital items (templates, licenses, software). Key is automating sales and delivery. Options: custom code, CMS (WordPress + WooCommerce), or platforms (Shopify, Amazon). Choice depends on technical skill. More important than the store is knowing what product to sell. - **Model 4: Information Products** [05:29] — Create courses, guides, or learning communities and charge for access. Works well with an existing audience. Can be automated and scaled. Platforms: Teachable, Hotmart, LearnDash, Gumroad, Lemon Squeezy, Patreon, Discord, Circle. Requires real value and trust. - **Model 5: Affiliate Marketing** [07:04] — Promote others' products and earn commissions. No need to create or support a product. Use social media, blogs, newsletters, or YouTube. Affiliate programs: Amazon, AliExpress, Walmart, eBay for physical; PartnerStack, Impact for software; also Hostinger, DigitalOcean, Notion, Canva, and education platforms like Udemy. ### Conclusion The video outlines five proven online money-making models—agency, SaaS, e-commerce, information products, and affiliate marketing—each with different entry barriers and scalability. The key is to choose one, focus, and execute. ## Transcript heard a lot about making money online being easy, but the reality is that many digital businesses are not sustainable or are clear or proven. So today I'm going to share with you five which in fact many of you already know, and which are worth investing your time in as long as you do them one at a time. Now, it doesn't matter if you're a programmer, designer, content creator, or marketer. Ultimately, find online fall that I'm going to mention. Coders. A user's experience does not our test or development environments. Sometimes real world a user may experience slow application loading, very specific devices. And the worst part is that many times we don't even find out until complaints start coming in. So with Manage Side 247 what you monitoring, which allows you to see in real time how your web or mobile application behaves in the hands of users. You get clear metrics on load times, latency, frontend errors, and differences between browsers. This includes information from different operating systems or you might find that it runs smoothly in Chrome , but the response time skyrockets in Safari, works well in Europe, but there are delays in Latin America. This very specific bottlenecks such as large images, slow IPI calls, or JavaScript code that gets stuck. And not only frontend performance with what's happening in your backend infrastructure to understand if the problem is your code, the server, or the network. This improving what really matters: your users' experience. And we already means more retention and less frustration, so I've included the link in the description so you can try C247 for 6 months free of charge without needing to provide a credit card. Number one, agency. Sells services to clients. The most direct model, and the one that everyone eventually reaches, is to offer your skills to companies, entrepreneurs, or even other people who don't have a company. service include web development, design, branding, advertising, and these days they also offer a lot of automation using One of the most popular, for example, is N8N. Another thing you can you can start immediately; you don't need to create any company or anything like you can simply offer them as an individual. But something you do need to work on is clearly defining client who is willing to pay for that service, which is the most difficult part. And once you build a customer base, then you can scale it up to become that many don't move up to an agency, but instead remain as a freelancer or someone offering services only, which is difficult to scale because you're always dependent on your time and at some point you simply wo so, that's the fastest way to generate income, and you can also learn the services online; that is, learning how to create a website, design in a program like Figma or Adobe Illustrator, or learning to Canva, for example. But the most important thing is to generate clients, create clients, and also understand the real needs of many businesses solution. Number two, software as a service. Build software and charge by subscription. Software as a Service, or SAS, is the creation of a tool that solves a problem and is usually hosted on the web. Now, what kind of problems? Well, you can offer, for example, a system that invoices or manages tasks or offers analytics, or you can do web scraping of certain sites and offer that data that you scrape through a subscription. The good thing is that this model is highly scalable because your software can be sold thousands of times 's also one of the most complex to start because you need a functional product, sometimes you need to provide customer support, constant updates, and also a user retention strategy . The best software is born when the creator also offers a service and understands the customer's problem three, e-commerce. When we talk about e-commerce, we could be referring to selling something both tangible and digital. Tangible assets can be clothing, gadgets, or accessories, and digital assets can be templates for a program, licenses, resources, or some type of software they have developed, or project that they can sell. The key is to automate the sales and delivery process. Now, you can create an e-commerce site with your own code, which is more difficult, or you can use a CMS like WordPress combined with a plugin like WoCommerce and in a few hours you'll have your online store. Or even easier is to use a platform like Shopify, ETI or Amazon and start selling from the first minute you register. Now, each they write all the code, they have total control of the site. When they use a CMS they have some control, but they would already be selling and their site is much more customizable. Now, choosing it depends more on your some software; I recommend you go for a CMS. If you know how to work with code project before, then build your own online store and it will be much easier to modify it over time. And if they don't know anything, then it's best to use a third-party platform. And well, e-commerce is ideal if you're interested in marketing, logistics, or brand building, but it also depends a lot on the much more important than creating the online store is knowing what product to sell, digital product you've seen that many people need but can't find easily. Number four, information products. When I talk about an model in which the product is you and your knowledge, where you can create a course, a guide, or a learning community and charge for access. It works especially well if you already have an audience or even a reputation. And this applies to any topic, although it's not mandatory, way. The challenge lies in offering real value, structuring the all, maintaining the trust of those who are part of your closed community. The great thing about information products is that they can also be easily automated and scaled because once you record your content, you can sell hundreds of this you can develop your own platform or you can also use platforms like Tchable, Hotmart or Learn Dash for example, which allow you to have a complete school, manage subscriptions and a cut. Or if your idea is to sell templates, ebooks, or tools like Gunroad or Lemon Squeey, which work very well . And if you want to create a closed community, you can use sites like Patreon, Discord with Stripe. Or there's also a platform called Circle, or even They also offer a kind of premium newsletter that you can offer to your largely based on those who already have an audience and require the ability to offer something. Number five, members. Here you don't need to invest in anything, you don't need to create or support a product, you just have to convert it into sales and from those sales you will receive a share. For example, some people create advertising on social networks like YouTube or TikTok, and when someone buys something, they receive a commission from do it through a blog, a newsletter, or YouTube. And from there you could also place links where for each sale you can also keep here is to create content or advertising for others. The issue now is offer other people's services. And well, to be able to do these affiliate programs you sell physical products, you can use Amazon affiliates, AliExpress affiliates, and Walmart or eBay. Or if you want to get an affiliate for a software tool, there's also Partner Stack or Impact where, if you have any kind of digital product and want your affiliates to earn money, you can also use them. Or there are also platforms like Hostinger, Digital, Ocean, Notion, Canva, Wickflow, which offer you the opportunity to subscribe to these platforms, and this also applies to education platforms like Udemi, Cursa, domestica or Skill Share, to name a few. In you can earn money. Obviously there are others too, but I've already mentioned those in another video. That's all for the comments or in the description. I've included a link so you can join the you'll find other developers. If the link is broken, you can go to fast.df/discord or df/discord for faster access. I'm leaving my Twitter interesting development and programming resources in general, my Instagram every day, my TikTok where I share short and informative videos, and my main channel where I share opinions and news about new trends. I've book personalized consultations. Thanks for watching and see you next time! Thanks for watching and see you next time!