Creative

Printify

Turn your designs into products and sell them without ever touching inventory. With Printify, you create custom designs for t-shirts, hoodies, mugs, phone cases, posters, and hundreds of other products. When someone buys your item — whether through your Etsy shop, Shopify store, or other marketplace — Printify prints and ships it directly to the customer. You keep the difference between the retail price you set and the base production cost. There are no upfront costs, no minimum orders, and no risk. Top sellers on Printify earn thousands per month in passive income.

Teachable

Turn your knowledge into income by creating and selling online courses with Teachable. You build your own branded school, set your own prices, and keep up to 97% of your revenue (depending on your plan). There's no limit to what you can teach — from photography to coding to cooking. Courses can generate passive income long after they're created. Beginners can start on the free plan, and top creators on Teachable earn six figures annually. Payouts are made via direct deposit or PayPal.

Toptal

Toptal is the gold standard for high-paying freelance work. Unlike platforms like Upwork or Fiverr, Toptal vets all applicants heavily, accepting only the top 3% of talent. In exchange, you get access to premium clients and significantly higher rates — developers typically earn $60–$200+ per hour. If you have strong technical, design, or finance skills and can pass the screening, Toptal offers some of the best-paying remote freelance work available.

Udemy

Udemy is an online teaching platform where you can find courses on anything, learn new skills and get ahead of the competition. Creating and selling an online course on Udemy is actually quite easy. Simply signup to be an instructor. The do the following steps. 1. Plan your course, 2. Record your video and 3.Build your community.

Skillshare

Have experience in a topic? Become a teacher on Skillshare. Skillshare teachers earn revenue based on a royalty system. Each month, 30% of Skillshare’s total Premium Membership revenue goes to a royalty pool for teachers.Teachers are paid from the royalty pool based on their share of the minutes watched by Premium students (both paying members and those in free trials) across the platform each month. For example, if a teacher's classes receive 5% of the minutes-watched by Premium members, that teacher receives 5% of the royalty pool. Because we are a subscription service, the size of the royalty pool and the number of minutes watched on Skillshare fluctuates from month-to-month. On average, first-time teachers earn $200 in their first month on Skillshare, with top teachers earning upwards of $3,000! You must get a minimum total of 30 Premium minutes-watched across all of your classes within a month in order to receive a payment for that month. Please note, minutes watched by students through a free class or through a free access link do not count towards royalty payments.

istockphoto

When our customers find the imagery they want, they purchase a license that allows them to download your file for their personal or commercial purposes (based on the terms of the content license agreement). Customers can use your imagery in advertising, marketing, apps, websites, social media, TV and film, presentations, newspapers, magazines, books, and product packaging, among hundreds of other uses. For each license a customer purchases, contributors earn a royalty, which is a percentage of the price paid by the customer. Earnings can differ, but, the more content you have in your portfolio that customers need, the more opportunities you'll have to gain earnings.

99designs

99designs is one of the world’s largest online design marketplace, connecting designers and businesses from all over the world. It also provides designers with an opportunity to earn income and build their portfolios. In fact, 99designs has paid out hundreds of millions of dollars to designers, so you can definitely see the income potential there.

YouTube

Make money creating a Youtube Channel were you upload unique content for you subscribers. In Order to monetize your YouTube account, you need to meet the following requirements. You need to have 1,000 subscribers on your YouTube channel. Your videos have generated 4,000 Watch Time hours over the last 12 months. You comply with all YouTubes policies and guidelines. You have an AdSense account set up.

OnlyFans

Make money selling content to your "fans". Only fans is used by a hosts of content creators from genres such as physical fitness experts, videographers, musicians and other creators who post regularly online.

RedBubble

You design and publish t-shirts, phone cases, and about 20 other mixed products, with each sell netting you a few bucks. They are based in Australia, and do pay-outs once a month on the 15th via PayPal. You do all of the uploading and just wait for people to find it with keywords or searches. Great if you are artistic or know how to use any creative software

Upwork

Signup for Upwork. Fill out the job type you’d like to do, the specific areas in which you’re skilled and your level of expertise. Use the search feature to submit work proposals for jobs in your area of expertise. Proposals should include an introductory letter, your desired fee and answers to questions the client included in the posting. You can also send examples of any work you think would be relevant. Upwork takes a cut of your earnings. The fee structure is a sliding scale based on the total amount you bill with a client over time, so the more you work with a client, the smaller the cut taken. You can expect Upwork to take. Upwork freelancers can get secured payments via PayPal, direct deposit or wire transfer.

Fiverr

Udemy

Udemy is an online teaching platform where you can find courses on anything, learn new skills and get ahead of the competition. Creating and selling an online course on Udemy is actually quite easy. Simply signup to be an instructor. The do the following steps. 1. Plan your course, 2. Record your video and 3.Build your community.

Skillshare

Have experience in a topic? Become a teacher on Skillshare. Skillshare teachers earn revenue based on a royalty system. Each month, 30% of Skillshare’s total Premium Membership revenue goes to a royalty pool for teachers.Teachers are paid from the royalty pool based on their share of the minutes watched by Premium students (both paying members and those in free trials) across the platform each month. For example, if a teacher's classes receive 5% of the minutes-watched by Premium members, that teacher receives 5% of the royalty pool. Because we are a subscription service, the size of the royalty pool and the number of minutes watched on Skillshare fluctuates from month-to-month. On average, first-time teachers earn $200 in their first month on Skillshare, with top teachers earning upwards of $3,000! You must get a minimum total of 30 Premium minutes-watched across all of your classes within a month in order to receive a payment for that month. Please note, minutes watched by students through a free class or through a free access link do not count towards royalty payments.

istockphoto

When our customers find the imagery they want, they purchase a license that allows them to download your file for their personal or commercial purposes (based on the terms of the content license agreement). Customers can use your imagery in advertising, marketing, apps, websites, social media, TV and film, presentations, newspapers, magazines, books, and product packaging, among hundreds of other uses. For each license a customer purchases, contributors earn a royalty, which is a percentage of the price paid by the customer. Earnings can differ, but, the more content you have in your portfolio that customers need, the more opportunities you'll have to gain earnings.

99designs

99designs is one of the world’s largest online design marketplace, connecting designers and businesses from all over the world. It also provides designers with an opportunity to earn income and build their portfolios. In fact, 99designs has paid out hundreds of millions of dollars to designers, so you can definitely see the income potential there.

YouTube

Make money creating a Youtube Channel were you upload unique content for you subscribers. In Order to monetize your YouTube account, you need to meet the following requirements. You need to have 1,000 subscribers on your YouTube channel. Your videos have generated 4,000 Watch Time hours over the last 12 months. You comply with all YouTubes policies and guidelines. You have an AdSense account set up.

OnlyFans

Make money selling content to your "fans". Only fans is used by a hosts of content creators from genres such as physical fitness experts, videographers, musicians and other creators who post regularly online.

RedBubble

You design and publish t-shirts, phone cases, and about 20 other mixed products, with each sell netting you a few bucks. They are based in Australia, and do pay-outs once a month on the 15th via PayPal. You do all of the uploading and just wait for people to find it with keywords or searches. Great if you are artistic or know how to use any creative software

Upwork

Signup for Upwork. Fill out the job type you’d like to do, the specific areas in which you’re skilled and your level of expertise. Use the search feature to submit work proposals for jobs in your area of expertise. Proposals should include an introductory letter, your desired fee and answers to questions the client included in the posting. You can also send examples of any work you think would be relevant. Upwork takes a cut of your earnings. The fee structure is a sliding scale based on the total amount you bill with a client over time, so the more you work with a client, the smaller the cut taken. You can expect Upwork to take. Upwork freelancers can get secured payments via PayPal, direct deposit or wire transfer.

Fiverr