8 Quick Money-Making Online Business Ideas You Can Start Right Now

8 Quick Money-Making Online Business Ideas You Can Start Right Now

Are you living from paycheck to paycheck and keep having more months at the end of your money? You need an extra income generating hustle to help you earn more and stop relying on your salary.

8 Quick Money-Making Online Business Ideas You Can Start Right Now
The internet has limitless opportunities to make an extra income. Photo: UGC
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The internet has opened the world up to us, making it easier to create a business.

With just a website and a simple pay by link, you can reach anyone in any location in the world and receive payments directly into your bank account.

Here are the most popular money-making online business ideas to get you started instantly. The best part is that most, if not all these ideas have the potential to make you big bucks, and you needn’t have to validate them before you start.

1. Sell online courses

8 Quick Money-Making Online Business Ideas You Can Start Right Now
Selling online courses is one of the ways anyone can make some extra cash. Photo: UGC.
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There’s a whole slew of courses online that people offer for free but most people would gladly pay for courses that offer rich and valuable information to help them grow. You can leverage your expertise, create a course and start making money out of it or teach people online.

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Not sure how to get payments through the web? Co-op Bank’s e-commerce solution makes it easy peasy for you.

Just get a Co-op Bank account, create a Pay By link, share the link with your customers or embed it on your site, and get paid! You’ll get notified when payments come through and the money goes straight into your bank account.

2. Bug testing

8 Quick Money-Making Online Business Ideas You Can Start Right Now
If you are tech-savvy, then bug testing is for you. Photo: UGC.
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If you’re tech-savvy than most, you can build a platform to crowdsource resources and expert skills to handle bug testing for software companies. It has a solid chance of turning profits and can be a lucrative income boosting method.

3. Video producer

8 Quick Money-Making Online Business Ideas You Can Start Right Now
Many content creators use their fil-making skills to make money online. Photo: UGC.
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Lots of content creators are always looking for great video producers with video filming or editing knowledge. In fact, that’s why YouTube does so well right now thanks to the plethora of content creators cropping up all over the world.

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Sell your skills to content creators or brands, or even sell video editing services and production workshops at a fee. Remember to create your Pay By link, and share it with your customers to get paid faster.

4. Translator

8 Quick Money-Making Online Business Ideas You Can Start Right Now
Translating is also one of the easy ways to make money online. Photo: UGC.
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Are you gifted with more than one language, but you don’t want to be a linguistics teacher? You can be a translator for brands or businesses online who need their websites localized or collateral translated when they’re venturing out into different markets.

Most of these companies bill per word, so create a good pricing plan for yourself and start making money from the languages you already know. You can also hold language classes online with foreign students across the world and make even more cash.

Create your Pay By link, and share it with your customers so your money goes straight into your bank account.

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5. Customer service agent

Do you love helping people but don’t want to sit in an office or call centre all day? You can become a remote customer service agent and assist people at a fee from your own living room. You can do this via email, chat, video or phone and other available ways. It’s a great way to save the day but also make lots of money in the process.

6. Private chef services

8 Quick Money-Making Online Business Ideas You Can Start Right Now
Using online platforms, you can become a private chef and make some extra cash. Photo: UGC.
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Can you cook up a gourmet meal in the shortest time possible? If this is one of your passions, there are lots of opportunities to turn it into a decent money-making venture.

Set up your website, create a Pay By link to receive payments from customers, and join other platforms that encourage cooking enthusiasts to make more cash out of their passion. You can even start online cooking classes and sell your courses.

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7. CV writing

8 Quick Money-Making Online Business Ideas You Can Start Right Now
If you’re a wordsmith and know what employers look for, you can make money writing CVs. Photo: UGC.
Source: UGC

Can you deliver winning CVs for clients? Most people are struggling to find jobs because their CVs are drab and lack enough oomph to sell their skills to potential employers.

If you’re a wordsmith and know what employers look for, charge people to help them spruce up their CVs or resumes and highlight their best qualities to recruiters.

It’s a pretty sweet place to start your online business, and you can sell slick CV templates to help job hunters notice your clients faster while yielding great results. Add a Pay By link while you’re at it to ease receipt of payments from your customers.

8. Self-published author

8 Quick Money-Making Online Business Ideas You Can Start Right Now
As an author, you have a whole world waiting to read your genius stories or wisdom nuggets online. Photo: UGC.
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If you’re the next John Grisham or Danielle Steele, and you’ve got a few manuscripts lying idle in your drawer, try publishing yourself online. Publishers may not have received you well or maybe demand so much to get you out there, but online, you have a whole world waiting to read your genius stories or wisdom nuggets.

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Use online tools to help you start publishing and push your work out there. It’s a great way to earn residual income from writing novels to guides and recipe books too! Not sure how to receive payments? Co-op Bank’s Pay By link is a wonderful e-commerce payment solution to help your customers pay easily and quickly, and you get your cash right into your bank account bila worries.

Whatever skill you have or idea to start making quick money online, make sure you get the basics like a good site, great content and a Pay By link to receive money. All these make for a great customer experience, so your clients just keep coming back and you keep smiling all the way to the bank!

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Racheal Nyaguthie (HOD Human interest) Racheal Nyaguthie is an accredited journalist in Kenya and is currently the Head of the Human Interest Department at TUKO. She has six years of experience in digital journalism, having previously worked in Tuko's Current Affairs desk as a senior politics and current Affairs editor. Racheal was also a recipient of the AWiM Women in Politics Fellowship programme, where she investigated the experiences of Kenyan women in politics. She is also a WAN-IFRA Women In News 2025 Fellow. Email: racheal.nyaguthie@tuko.co.ke.

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