How long have I been blogging?

Guess.

1 year? 2 years, 3 years?

No! I have only done this for 1 year. And over the period I have moved from earning just $19 on my first week of working online to now earning a little over $3,000 a month.

And guess what else?

I ain’t doing anything you can’t do?

Everything I do can be done by anyone willing to put in the time and commit.

In today’s post on – online jobs that pay – I’ll share with you 9 different gigs that I did in January 2023 to earn 300,000 shillings.

I hope you find a thing or two you can do on this list to earn money too.

1. Blogging.

Time and again I have said in this blog that blogging is the heart of my business.

If I am not doing the 17 other gigs on this post, I pay my bills with blog posts.

And contrary to what most people believe, anyone can own a blog and as a matter of fact, it is very cheap to create one.

With just a few dollars for a domain and a hosting package, you can start your simple blog from home, work for yourself, and earn.

The alternative to working for yourself is hiring someone to create content for your blog.

Interestingly, I also write for other websites as part of my online jobs. I can write for you for at least $30 per 500-word post.

If you want to start your blog and don’t know how to begin, please take some time to read this DIY guide that I wrote for blogging beginners in 2019. I hope it helps.

Also Read: – How to Build a Website With $59 And Sell for 300,000 Shillings in 5 Months. 

2. Options Trading.

When I am not blogging then I’m probably on an options trading site trying to double my income.

Sometimes I win other times I lose but oftentimes, I’m in the money.

If you don’t have an options trading site and you’d love to also make money trading online, open an account with Olymp Trade (the most popular options trading platform in Kenya).

Or Expert Option (the options trading platform which accepts direct Mpesa deposits in Kenya)

3. Forex Trading. 

Forex trading is also a great way to make money online. However, you will need to learn before you can earn.

Unlike options trading (online jobs) which only requires that you tap/press/click the red button on your screen to sell an option or the green button on your phone to buy an option; Forex trading will require that you also set take profit, stop loss among other important actions to facilitate your trade.

If you’d like to trade Forex and you don’t know where to start, download my Free trading eBook here.

It is a comprehensive Forex guide for beginners. It should help you with the basics.

Trade with XM Forex.

4. Affiliate marketing.

A huge chunk of the cash I earned online in January came through affiliate marketing.

Interestingly, I only run 4 affiliate programs on this blog and each is just as profitable as the other.

Here are examples of commissions earned on this blog through affiliate marketing in 2024.

Begin creating your website with Bluehost to start promoting affiliate products and earn commissions too.

5. Google Adsense.  

Unlike all the other best ways to make money online that I have listed in this post, google Adsense pays me peanuts.

However, it is the only reliable, trusted, and arguably the only platform for making money online never disappoints.

Despite the payouts being small, Adsense pays on time and is a great way to make money every day, forever.

Below is an example of earnings from my Adsense account – payment for January being €133.18 or 14,794.59 Kenyan Shilling.

Do you want to start your blog to earn with Adsense, start here.

5. Social Media Management. 

Social media management is another interesting small online job that I do with this blog.

I help create content consumed on social media, I schedule, analyze, and represent many small businesses in Kisumu as their sole voice across a myriad of social media channels.

For this, I charge as little as 20,000 shillings depending on the simplicity of the task and up to thousands of shillings depending on the complexity of the projects.

You can visit our offices in Kisumu – K-City Market, shop number 75 for more insights on social media management.

Alternatively, drop us an email at [email protected].  

6. Search Engine Optimization. 

Search engine optimization or SEO is the process of improving the quality and quantity of web traffic by making twerks on websites or web pages to increase their visibility on web search engines.

A quick one, how did you get to my blog?

Did you type my URL (Joon.co.ke) to get here, or did you search for a Keyword e.g. Olymp Trade, and get my website on the first page of Google?

If you came in through Google then that’s precise because I have optimized my website to hold the position it holds on Google, number 1.

The best thing about SEO is, that when done well, your traffic will keep increasing consistently even when you are not online.

Have a look at the stats below to see how Joon.co.ke has grown over time. courtesy of a good SEO framework that I have in place.

If your website is struggling with traffic and you’d love to grow each day as we do, reach out for help at [email protected]  or hit my email at [email protected]. 

That’s not to say that you can not do your SEO, you can do it for your website or as part of your side online job.

If I can do it, why can’t you?

7. Web Design. 

Much as I have written tens of DIY guides on this blog to help you design your websites from scratch, I’m still open to helping you and your small business with the website design process.

In January 2020 I helped design two websites.

I charge as little as 15,000 shillings for an out-of-the-box website like mine (joon.co.ke) and slightly above 90,000 shillings for a custom-made website with multiple features.

No hidden costs.

8. Pay Per Click. 

Pay-per-click marketing is a way of using search engine advertising to generate clicks to your website, rather than getting those clicks organically (often, through Search engine optimization).

As digital marketers, we make money on Joon when we help online businesses create effective ads that run on Google.

An example of a pay-per-click ad is the first text you see on Google when you search for something. Often distinguished with a bold Ad text preceding the advert.

Do you want to promote your products on Google and you don’t know how?

Contact us at [email protected] or visit our office in Kisumu, Kenya. K-city shop number 75 to discuss this opportunity.

9. Thought Leadership.

As a serious business in your field, you’ll want to be recognized as an authority in what you do.

But how do you get this recognition if you don’t seek it?

Good question.

The simplest answer is, to use thought leadership marketing to position yourself in the market.

Thought leadership is about providing the best, deepest answers, to your customers’ biggest questions and in the formats, they like to consume.

You can relay your answers through videos, photography, branding, copywriting, landing pages, blogging, eCommerce sites, and websites.

All of which we do at Joon.

Do you want to engage your business in thought leadership marketing?

Contact us at [email protected] or visit our office in Kisumu, Kenya. K-city shop number 75 to discuss this opportunity.

Conclusion for Online Jobs That Paid Me 305,867.51 Shillings in 2024. 

There are thousands of online jobs which you can do to make money online. Some are just as easy as the ones you see in this post.

Others though,

You’ll need to get some basic training to do it. Be sure to check out Udemy for free and paid online courses.

Enough skills at Udemy should help you get more online jobs in different fields.