Recently, everyone has been spending more time online than offline, whether it is to socialize with people, or just to pass time. Since there is so much time spent online daily anyway, why now use this as an opportunity to make extra money? The methods I will talk about don’t even require a desktop or a laptop. All you need is a smartphone and access to an internet connection. Here are five ways to make money using your phone:

1. Instagram: Instagram is one of the best places, not only to start a business online but also to market anything. There are three methods to make money on Instagram:

a. Selling Shoutouts

: First, you need to grow your Instagram account, once you have managed to do that, go to Buy Shoutouts from Social Media Influencers

and list your account. You can also go to http://influencercart.com. These websites are marketplaces that you can benefit from.

b. Sell Products: You can sell products of your own, or sell affiliate products. Instagram has a 56% more engagement rate than Facebook and this makes it the perfect place to sell anything.

c. Flipping Accounts: http://Fameswap.com is a website where you can buy and sell Instagram accounts. You simply create a new account, grow it to 1000 followers with some engagement and then sell it on Fameswap.

2. Blogging and Monetizing Your Blog:

Using your mobile, you can start a WordPress website or a Blogger website for free and with free hosting as well.

3. Providing Remote Support:

This means providing consultation over your mobile, technical support, tutoring…etc. There are websites like: Skooli Tutors Online, … etc. All these websites can help you teach online with your mobile.

4. Working as a Freelancer:

Freelancing is basically using your skills, education and experience to work with clients online. All the methods mentioned above can be freelancing tasks since they are things that you can supply.

On Fiverr, you can provide consultation gigs, manage social media accounts, provide writing services... etc.

5. Application Testing:

A lot of people are developing applications for mobiles and they want someone to test it before releasing it to ensure there are no bugs and that it’s working on different types of mobile phones.

UserTesting: The Human Insight Platform gives you the opportunity of earning 10$ per 20 min testing an application.

As you can see, there are many ways for you to make money using your mobile

 phone, all you need is some motivation and an internet connection.