How to make legal money like a Yahoo Boy in Nigeria

One of the things that are chasing the Nigerian youths is the need to make money and to feed the family; in this article, we will discuss how to make legal money like a Yahoo Boy in Nigeria.

Lol, don’t get frick, by the way, Yahoo Boys, the Nigerian way of calling internet fraudsters lavish their money and makes you think you can’t make such an amount of money legally.

Guy, there are thousands of ways to make legit money online; when you discover them, you will be surprised that some of these points you are familiar with but don’t know they are lucrative.

1. Sell Your Photos

Check, do you have photo skills or live in an area where images are in demand? Stock photography websites are huge repositories of photographs, covering almost every possible subject you could imagine.

So how does it work? Photographers can upload their images to any one of several huge databases, allowing magazine editors, designers, or any organization with a website to buy them. And the beauty of stock websites:

Photos can be sold any number of times—so you can continue to make money without any effort. Photography Sites to check out include Shutterstock, Photoshelter, and Getty Images.

2. Make Money with Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is one of the most popular ways to make money online. Throughout the years, its popularity has gone up and down, but it continues to prove to be a stable way to make money online. The best part about affiliate marketing is that you can be an affiliate for nearly any company, from Shopify to Amazon to Uber.

Affiliate marketing allows you to earn a living by promoting other brands. If you’re a savvy marketer, you can earn a commission from sales by promoting retail products, software, apps, and more.

While earning a commission may seem small, keep in mind that you can be an affiliate for several brands and include several affiliate links on a single blog post.

3. Create Your Own Blog/ Set-Up a Web Development Business

Do you have an area of expertise? Share your advice on a blog. If travel is your area of expertise, think about what you have to offer: Are you an expert in luxury travel or budget travel? Can you share advice about certain activities like cooking or dancing? The more specific you get, the easier it’ll be to attract an engaged audience and to earn money with your site

There is enough material available online to help you put together a website. This includes choosing the domain, templates, layout, and overall design for your website.

Once ready to service the visitors with the relevant content, sign up for Google Adsense, which when appears on your website and is clicked on by visitors, helps you make money. The more traffic you get on your website, the more will be the potential for higher earnings.

For the tech gurus, do you know how to create web and content development? You can offer these services to anyone via online tools that make developing beautiful websites a snap. Some resources include WordPress, Weebly, and Joomla.

4. Learn FOREX and Crypto Trading

Whilst this isn’t necessarily an easy way to make money, investing your time to learn Foreign Exchange( FOREX) and Crypto Trading can be a lucrative step to your financial freedom.

Although you may suffer significant losses if you don’t take the knowledge seriously when you learn risk management involves, you are saved.

5. Create How-To Videos

Some of the things that are search most on Google and Youtube are those “how-tos”. If you have a crazy skill the world needs to read or view be it: cooking, sewing, driving skills, writing, etc. You can make money by teaching people how to do the things you know best. It just requires consistency.

In recent years, YouTube has grown into the go-to source for all manner of video courses and guides. One thing you must know is to get to know the phrases that people search for.

To find potential search phrases, start typing “how to [your topic]” into YouTube’s search bar and notice what phrases are generated in the auto-fill dropdown.

Make sure to use the same keywords when you write your video title, description, and tags.

6. Tap Into the E-Book Business

The e-book business is a great way to earn money. You can create your own or find a book that’s already been published in print and license it to publish online.

You can pay the author 8-15% royalties based on net sales or a one-time payment for the online publishing rights.

7. Farming and Living Off the Land

Nigerian youths nowadays don’t know that farming can be one of the most fulfilling lifestyles they can embark on, But many might dismiss it as too much hard work, or too expensive to get started.

That may be true overseas, but here in Nigeria some opportunities will make it easier than you think to live off the land—and you can make money while you’re at it.

It could be as simple as creating a veggie patch to feed the family and bring in a little extra cash at the local farmers’ market. Or you could oversee a large acreage of land that turns out big profits.

8. Turn Your Interests Into a Podcast That Pays

Podcasting doesn’t have to be complicated.

With a microphone, laptop, and free recording software, you’ll be up and running. Plus, podcasts don’t need to run every day (once a week is best) and are better when they’re short. There are several ways to make money from a podcast.

The most obvious is commercial sponsorship, but you can also use it as a platform to advertise your own products or services.