Making reasonable income from the internet as a Nigerian has always been a battle. This is hugely to the blacklisting of the country by major e-commerce and online business media owing to activities of online spammers and con artists.

Still Nigerians are hardworking and relentless people and many have struggled to find ways to earn living income online. One of the sweet advantages of earning income online is that you virtually minimize the cost associated with running a traditional business. The need for store and warehouse are eradicated.

However, in addition to the blacklisting issue more challenges that face Nigerians who wish to earn money from online business include power/electricity & high cost of internet access. Hopefully both are looking to stabilize and become cheaper in the near future.

So, as many people are curious to know, what ways can the average Nigeria employ to make steady and reasonable income online?

While there are seemingly many ways to make money online only a few are good for Nigerians and genuine enough. We actually settled for three money-making ways that are not costly to start and have the potential of decent income. Any online program or business promising thousands of dollars in under few weeks is most probably a scam and aimed at fleecing the greedy. The truth is that making money online doesn’t come easy (from experience). Don’t let anybody tell you otherwise.

Blogging

Blogging is a little difficult (don’t be discouraged) business. It will demand your passion. Create a blog to publish regular information on the area where you have passion.

In choosing a niche or topic for your blog consider
- Your passion/interest in the topic (because this is what will sustain you and keep you working even when there is nothing to show)
- The size of your target audience (are they big enough to make it worthwhile)
- How you hope to continue adding quality content to your blog.

These issues will have to be straightened out. Then comes the issue of promotion and marketing.

How do you get thousands of your target audience to read your blog?

You will have to create quality articles. Submit your blog to search engines (google is the priority). Promote through social media and forums.

When your blog begins to get up to 100 visitors daily you can add a couple of monetization steps to start bloggers today are making steady income through google adsense or any other advertising platforms like chitika.com,

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