1. No-risk matched betting Hands down the quickest way to make alotof money (well, without breaking the law). Lots of students have genuinely made £100s from this technique. It’s completely legal, risk free, tax free, and anyone can do it. It works by taking advantage of free bets regularly offered by betting sites through ‘matching’ them at a betting exchange. Matched betting eliminates the risk (you are betting bothforandagainsta certain outcome). This leaves you being able to squeeze out the free bet, which can be as much as £200! Multiply this by how many betting sites there are and you can quite easily come away with a profit of a few hundred pounds. Owen walks you through how to make your first £15 profit (using a real life example) in this gem of a guide to matched betting. If you know of any better way to make £30/hr sitting at home, please let us know! 2. Online surveys Credit: Julio Marquez – Flickr.com An increasingly popular way for students to make money is to fill out online surveys in their spare time. Research companies are always recruiting new members to answer surveys and test new products. For a few minutes of form filling, you can make a couple of quid which is paid as cash or rewards. You can bag up to £3 ($5) for some surveys! A few good ones to try are: Toluna, Vivatic, OnePoll, MySurvey, SurveyBods, The Opinion Panel, Valued Opinions, YouGov, iPoll, Global Test Market, Hiving, PanelBase, Harris Poll, Opinion Outpost, Your word, Pinecone, IPSOS, New Vista. Also sign up for Swagbucks which rewards you for surveys as well as simply surfing the web, watching videos and playing games. Update:See our new full guide to the best paid online surveys! 3. Paid for searching the web Interested in earning cash for doing what you already do online? This has to be one of the easiest methods of making money online without really any effort or change in your behavior. This innovative idea by Qmee.comrewards you for searching in Google, Bing or Yahoo. You just install a simple add-on to your browser and when you conduct a search there may be a few sponsored results alongside your normal search. Each Qmee result has a cash reward attached – if you are interested in it simply click on it and collect your reward. The best thing is there is no minimum to cashout – our first one was just 72p wired to our Paypal account. You also have the option to donate it to charity. Sign up now for free and start earning from your own searches! Click here to start. 4. Social Investment Networks The historically hard-to-break world of investing in stock markets and currencies has been cracked wide open. Today there is no need to be a fat cat or fund the yachts ofWolf of Wall Streetstyle stock brokers. You can do it all yourself with the help of online market trading platforms. Having spent many hours researching this new opportunity, I’ve been experimenting with the two biggest platforms: Plus500and eToro.com. Both offer free practice accounts, and Plus500 also give you a free £20(without depositing) which is worth taking up. Overall I prefer eTorowith over 4 million users worldwide. It was recently featured in theBBC 2documentary “Traders: Millions by the Minute” and theFinancial Times. One of the best things on eToro is the CopyTraderfeature. This lets you literally see, follow and copy the investments of other top performing traders. Follow George’s complete guide to trading on eToroto learn more. I think $200 is a good amount to get the most out of the learning curve by trying out a few different markets. If nothing else you’ll learn a great deal about various investments and industries. Warning: trading can be volatile and you can lose money, so don’t throw your life savings into it! 5. Sell your notes If you don’t mind sharing your notes with other students it’s a great way to generate a little extra cash. There are sites out there that you can upload your notes to, along with your price, and then when another student downloads them you get paid. Sites like Notesaleare free for you to list your notes but tend to take a cut of your profit in order to handle the marketing etc so that you don’t have to go out there and promote your notes yourself. You will most likely have to upload PDFs but it’s worth it for the return and you can submit handwritten notes but you’re likely to make more money if they’re typed up. 6. Review websites & apps for cash Well it seems like you’re pretty nifty with a web browser, so perhaps it’s time to turn pro and browse websites as a paid and fun job! Introducing UserTesting.com– a new platform that pays everyday people to review all kinds of websites. Each review takes around 20 minutes and bags you $10 (£6.50) via Paypal. Simply sign up here, complete a test review and look forward to receiving websites in your inbox. 7. The ‘Disney Vault’ secret To keep demand high across generations, Disney Studios carefully restrict the supply of some home release classics. They are locked away in the ‘vault’ for 8-10 years before being released for a short unspecified time. Buy them in this window at normal retail price and you can turn a nice profit when they go off sale for another decade or so. For example, in 2011 you could buyBeauty and the Beaston Blu-ray 3D for just £24.99. In just a couple of years it was on Amazon for a staggering £74.99! Importantly, not all Disney releases are subject to the vault and only the true classics will maintain such demand. Right now there are just 2 titles out of the vault which I would recommend snapping up. They are Bambi Diamond Edition Blu-rayand Cinderella Diamond Edition Blu-ray. 8. ‘Get Paid To’ sites Similar to making money from online surveys, GPT sites reward you in cash and vouchers for completing various offers or activities online. The most popular sites today are Toluna, Swagbucks, InboxPoundsand PaidOffers. Exciting update!We’ll soon be launching our own GPT service for our readers. Invites will be limited and UK only, please join our mailing list if you’re interested in hearing once it’s live: Subscribe 9. Start your own website If you’ve ever seen the film The Social Networkthen you’ve most likely had your brain spinning as to what website you can start-up to make you billions. And of course there are lots of stories out there about successful students who have started a site while at university, or even bought a domain name and later sold it for 1000s. In fact,Save the Studentis one such example of a website started at university by Owen Burek in his first year, which has since grown into a full-time and successful enterprise. Read Owen’s 4-step guide to setting up a websiteif you’re interested in finding out more. It’s really not that difficult to get started and there are plenty of opportunities to make money online. 10. Write and publish a Kindle eBook If students are good at anything, it’s researching and writing. With the Amazon Kindle store,anyonecan publish an eBook and make money. And the Kindle app is now available on almost any device (laptops, iPads, smartphones and yes, Kindles) so your global market is huge! List your book for £1.49 – £6.99 and you earn 70% of the sale. Considering Amazon is the ultimate selling machine (and remember people are looking to spend), that is a fantastic deal. The key to success with eBooks is to create value, and write non-fiction. Simply bundling information you have researched and complied on a common problem (eg. ‘secrets’ to finding a job) and then presenting it in an easy to digest format (an eBook) justifies someone spending a few quid on it. Another big tip is to have a great cover designed so it stands out, and once your book is live on the Kindle store it’s really important to get some reviews so it shows up higher in results. Encourage readers to leave an honest review at the end of your book. The best thing about this lucrative idea is that once you’ve invested the time (say 20 hours), you’ll earn a passive incomefor years to come! For a step-by-step guide to publishing and earning with eBooks, see “ How to write a nonfiction eBook in 21 days“. 11. Affiliate marketing If you’ve got a good presence on social media or perhaps you even have a blog or website, you can start bringing in money immediately by promoting all sorts of companies, products, services and offers online. Sign up to an affiliate network such as Affiliate Window, check their offers blog or browse the merchant listings to find something you think your friends would be interested in, grab your affiliate link and share it. If someone buys (can be within up to 90 days) using your link you’ll make a nice commission. To take it a step further, set up a website ( read our guide) or a topical Facebook page and invite all your friends to join it and post your affiliate offers on there. 12. Mobile phone recycling Credit: CannedTuna – Flickr.com See how much you can get for your old mobile phone using our in-house mobile phone price comparisontool! Maybe ask your parents if they have any lying around too. You can get some good money and help the environment by recycling mobile phones with certain companies listed on the comparison tool. But be aware: you won’t always get the quoted cash since it depends on ‘condition’. We recommend Mobile Cash Matefor the fairest and highest payouts in most cases (they sent us a £203 cheque for an iPhone 5). 13. Become a ‘Clickworker’ The Clickworker.comconcept is based on ‘internet crowd-sourcing’ where businesses advertise specific, scalable tasks they need completing quickly. And for us, it’s an easy way to make fast cash from our couch. There are a variety of tasks, but most commonly they involve mindless data entry, web research or form filling. You are rewarded and paid in cash (via Paypal) for the work you do, and you can choose for what and when you work. Give it a go. [If you’re US based, also try Amazon’s ‘ Mechanical Turk‘]. 14. Claim tax back Many students work part-time or during the summer months, and others will be on placements or paid internships. More often than not, if you are a student working during the year, you will be overpaying income tax. Why? Simply because few students reach the personal tax-free income allowance each yearbutare put on an emergency basic tax-code by their employers meaning tax is being paid when it shouldn’t be. Use our student tax-back service to help you reclaim any tax you should not have paid. Just enter your details in the calculator hereto work out what you may be owed. Otherwise for more information read our guide on claiming tax back here. 15. Get cashback when shopping I earned this much in 2 years This is not only a way to make money but also to save money as a student. If you look at it in a different way then you are making money with every purchase you would have made anyway, whether it be 10% or 0.5% cashback. There are a number of cashback sites out there which pay you the commission they otherwise would have earned. We recommend signing up with Top Cashback, Quidco.com & Swagbuckswhich are free and offer the best selection of retailers and exclusives. 16. A part-time job A part-time job is the obvious first choice, opted for by most students looking to supplement their student loan. It provides a pretty steady flow of income and can enable you to gain valuable work experience. However, depending on where you live, jobs are not always easy to find. Check local classifieds, our student job search, student job websitesand your university careers service for vacancies. It’s also worth signing up with the Graduate Recruitment Bureau, a free service which will match you with both part-time jobs or graduate opportunities. Read our guide to finding a part-time jobwhilst studying for more tips. 17. Gigs on Fiverr Fiverr is now the world’s largest marketplace for people to make money selling small services (known as ‘gigs’). What you offer could be absolutely anything, from writing and translating, social media posting, playing pranksand teaching to creating music, voiceovers and short video clips for people all around the world! The default price is $5 (hence Fiverr..), but you can attach extra services to gigs for more money. Whilst it might not seem like much, it can quickly add up and there are plenty of examples of people making a really good living from the site. The key is to get a system in place which minimises the time spent on each gig. Butthere is another way to profit even more from Fiverr for potentially far less work. How? By simply reselling gigs elsewhere. For example, find a decent logo designerthen reply to jobs on Elanceor even local classifieds. A $5 spend can easily become $50+, and it’s repeatable! If you’re not interested in selling at all there’s SO much good stuff you can get done for yourself. Have a browseand get inspired! 18. Review music for money If you love music, make it your business by reviewing unsigned bands and artists online for cash with Slicethepie. It can take a while to build up your reputation but some users of the site have said that they earn £40 a month. This may not sound like much, but if it’s something you enjoy then it shouldn’t be hard work and is another thing for your CV. Money you earn will be in $US but anyone can sign up and review. To get started, head over to Slicethepienow or read our quick guidefor more info. 19. Sell second-hand course books One great way to make money is to buy other students’ text books at the end of the year, and then sell them just after freshers’ week – when the new intake of students know that they need them! You can either advertise on campus or list them online very easily on Amazon.co.uk Books Trade-In(just bear in mind they take a commission on books sold). For more tips on selling items online click here