Stop Telling People How to Make Money Online During the Pandemic

Myths about making money online!

Saikeerthi Akkineni
Frugal Friday
3 min readMay 12, 2020

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I’ve been through a ton of YouTube videos and blog posts about making money online during the pandemic which straight up doesn’t work.

Let’s start with the first one, starting a YouTube channel

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I can’t believe that we’ve been suggested this as an income source right now. Youtube has made it difficult for new who wanted to make revenue through the platform with its latest regulations.

For creators to be eligible for channel monetization through Google Ad Sense, they must have a total watch time of 4,000 hours in the past 12 months of creating the channel with at least 1,000 subscribers. It is straight-up not very easy to meet these criteria. You need a lot of patience and keep creating consistently on YouTube to make some cash out of it.

Next Up, Creating a Blog

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Just like YouTube, blogging requires a lot of time to make a revenue out of it. There are various ways you can monetize your blog such as sponsorships, through Affiliate links, Ads and many more BUT you need the traffic to your blog posts for you to make cash. This is time taking just like a YouTube channel.

Affiliate Marketing, Selling E-Books and Whatnot!

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Of course, these require a minimum follower base too.

Finally, Posting on Medium

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Among all, Medium has high chances for you to make instant cash IF your article blows up. At least, there are chances, I would say.

It is quite easy to throw in content about How to Make Money Online but there aren’t any faster ways to do it. Every way requires a follower base which you can only build eventually by being a consistent creator on the platforms.

What do you guys think about it? Let me know down below!

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