In this article, I'm going to be sharing five ways to make money online. This can be interesting because these are all going to be related to Shopify. These are all going to be ways you can make money online from anywhere in the world as long as you have an internet connection, these can all be lifestyle businesses, meaning they can make you money while you do whatever you want from wherever you want. They don't take a huge injection of cash or a huge team.
So let's get right into the first one, which is, I would say, the easiest entry or the one that people might feel less intimidated by if they're just getting into making money online.
1. Become Shopify Partner.
Become a Shopify partner. What does that mean? It means you can make money by referring people to use the Shopify plus. Now, the reason that this is a good starting point is that Shopify is hands down the best e-commerce platform in the world. So if you want to refer people to use it, YOU KNOW, you're referring to the highest quality product, and you're sending people that are going to have a great experience, and they're going to be taken care of.
Now, the way this works is you sign up on shopify.com to be a partner. They give you a special link. If people click the link, and they sign up, they get a free trial. After the free trial, if they want to stay with Shopify and start paying you, earn commissions, the commissions you earn will vary based on what tier or what level of Shopify service, that person you referred signs up for. Now, if you're thinking well, okay, that's easy enough to sign up, but how can I actually have people who find my referral link click.
Some quick ideas would be to start a YouTube channel and on that YouTube channel review Shopify, review Shopify apps or create tutorials, showing how to do different things within the Shopify platforms. And, in the descriptions of those videos, post the link that people can go to sign up for your trial link. In addition to that, you can start a blog, basically, take your YouTube content and put it there. And if it is quality content, people will find it, and they will click it. And when they sign up, you will earn commissions.
Now, something else that's pretty cool about this opportunity is that there are plenty of related products and services that Shopify store owners need. And these are also products that you can promote via your distribution chain. Again, whether that can be YouTube or your blog. So anything that these business owners need, you can also review, and you can also create tutorials for when people find them. They can click your links. You can earn more commissions, a great way to make money online by really tapping into the Shopify customer base and the Shopify ecosystem.
2. Become a Web Designer
The second way you can make money online with Shopify would be to become a web designer. And you might be thinking, that sounds crazy. The companies that offer web design services are well above me, YOU KNOW, leaps and bounds beyond what I'm capable of. And that probably is true, but I'm not talking about building sites for 30,000 or $50,000. I'm talking about starting with a basic skill set. So slightly knowing your way around Shopify themes, knowing your way around basic code edits. I'm talking about having an eye for design, so understand color palettes and how things work together. I'm talking about having at least a basic understanding of conversion rate optimization so that you can build stores. People will actually buy from and if you can do that if you can package that up and offer that as a service to new store owners, which by the way, the most recent number I can find was that there are. 3.7, 5 million Shopify stores are active, and that number just continues to grow.
So whether you're building a store from the ground up for somebody that just signs up for a new Shopify trial, or if you're taking somebody's basic site that maybe they messed up when they were trying to do. And turning it into something that works. This is a service that you can offer as a web designer, even without too much experience. Of course, you start at low prices for that service, but the more you do it as you build up a customer base, as you get better and better, then you can start charging more and more and making even more money online via Shopify. And you might be thinking, that sounds good. But even if I could offer this at an entry-level starting price. How would I ever find people whose stores I could work on? I just listed out some ideas here, but really quick brainstorm.
There are tons of Shopify, Facebook groups where Shopify store owners hang out and look for support and look for help. Join them. You can go to Shopify as your own forum and look for people asking for help. There, you can make an account on upwork.com and bid on jobs. Shopify has a subreddit that is extremely active. If people want help, you can reach out and offer your services, to get started. And I would even recommend going on Craigslist and posting in the service's section there because again, there are almost 4 million stores on this platform and there are a ton of people looking for help. You could be the one that offers them the help, and that can help you to make money.
3. Become an Email Marketer
The third way to make money online with Shopify would be to become an email marketer. Again, I keep saying it, but there are close to 4 million stores already on Shopify. And most of them are doing nothing when it comes to email marketing, which means they are not actively building email lists, they are certainly not actively sending out promotions and content, and They are not building that relationship and earning more revenue from that email list.
So what can you do, if you have the skills? I would say that being an extrovert, you can reach out to a lot of people. And if you have copywriting skills, you can write good emails, and you can reach the store owners. You can offer email marketing as a service, and the way you make money is through two different models. You can choose. One of them will be a fixed price they will pay you per email campaign. Another one would be revenue share, so if you use Klayvio to send emails for a Shopify store when people buy, it will track how much revenue comes from those emails. So you can do a percent of the revenue generated per promotion, you, right. And another way would be. Fixed fee plus commission earned any of those work. Great.
And again, there's a massive audience of store owners that want services like this now, for how you could find them what I just said for what design applies to this as well. But in addition to that, you can use a website called built with.com, and it'll show you when you type in Shopify, which stores are using. Shopify to power their storefronts.
4. Become a Media Buyer
The fourth way you can make money online is with Shopify. To become a media buyer, specifically a Shopify media buyer, right in e-commerce focused the media buyer because with things like Facebook ads, Instagram ads, Google Ads, and everything that entails being ads, TikTok ads. And we can just keep going on and on and on. And on the vast majority of these close to 4 million, stores are not even coming close to tapping into the potential of what they can get from paid traffic.
So you can offer paid media as a service where you manage ad accounts for Shopify stores. The way you make money with this is you charge fixed amounts, and then you earn a percentage of ad spend. And it's just a great way to help Shopify store owners make more while you earn money online as well. Again, this can be done from anywhere in the world, as long as you have internet.
Now this one, the skill level is more advanced because I don't want anybody to do this. And this is true with, I mean, same with email marketing, but don't offer yourself as a media buyer. Don't offer that service if you're not actually good at it if you don't have that skill set, you're going to be spending real companies' money on ads. They're using their money for the ad spend. And if you can't do it, don't offer it. Unfortunately, some companies, do that, and they just burn bridges right away. And they're back where they were on day one, YOU KNOW, a month after burning some bridges, losing companies, some money, having nothing to show with it, and looking for another opportunity. So don't be that guy or girl.
5 Build your own Store at Shopify
The fifth and final method I will share for making money online with Shopify is building a Shopify store using the drop-ship lifestyle model. No skills are needed. Here is everything that we just covered in one to four. A bunch more, but that is all covered in the drop-ship blueprint. Step by step, I lay it all out for you. So it's all learnable.
Now I will say, even though, again, one to four, you definitely can do, and you'll make money doing them. My advice is if you're going to build something real online, go with model five, and build a store using the drop-ship lifestyle model because what you're doing here is using all of these skill sets, and you're leveraging them to have the highest potential upside to be being able to make the most amount of money to be building the store that you can sell for a lot of money one day, should you choose to do so? And you'll be building something that will continue to generate revenue for you over and over again. And you'll be using your skills to get the maximum return because the profit is yours. If you own the store.
So if you're going to choose one, I say, go with option five. If, for some reason, you don't want to do that. One through four, again, are great ways to make money online this year. You could do them from anywhere with an internet connection, and you don't need to work 40 hours a week to be. So as always guys, I hope you got value from this one.
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