Answer questions on Quora.com

Quora.com is world's most famous questions and answer platform, it gets around 190 million unique visitors each month.

It's so popular nowadays that if anyone wants to ask a question or find an answer to any problem, Quora is the first website where they visit. Quora is a great place to connect with like-minded people, find some really cool advice and help others with your knowledge.

In the following sections, you'll uncover different strategies you can use to leverage the authority of Quora to make some handsome income online.

Does Quora pay you for answering questions?

No, Quora doesn't pay you for answering questions. But there are other indirect ways in which Quora can help you a lot in making money online.

Suitable For

People who love to read and write
People who like to answer questions

Skills Required

Expertise in any area of interest or domain

Time Required To Get Started

Almost instant, just register on Quora, create your profile and start answering questions.

Tips

• Start with the mindset of helping others Start answering questions on Quora with the aim of genuinely helping others; it will help you to bring out true natural answers.
  
   
• Whenever you see a question try to interpret what the question-asker really needs then ensure that your answer provides it.
   
• Only answer questions regarding your domain of expertise; this is the prerequisite for writing any good answer on Quora. If you have expertise in your domain, then you can easily provide best answers based your education, training, experience or insights.
   
• Write neatly and make it easy to digest When you'll write an answer not only it will be read by the asker but also by thousands of other people who are finding the answer to the same question.
   
• Hence write your answer in standard grammar, use proper punctuation, avoid spelling mistakes and ensure that it is readable by users with different levels of reading proficiency.
   
• Avoid unnecessary long answers; keep your answers compact and precise, try to answer any question within 2-3 paragraphs, use professional writer's rule of including 20-25 words per sentence and 2-4 sentences per paragraph.
    
• Provide references; try to include images, videos, and links to external references in your answer when necessary.

• Images and videos help to prove your point clearly, and external references help to improve the credibility of your answer.

How To Monetize

Drive traffic and do affiliate or email marketing

• If you have your blog or niche website, then Quora can help you get massive high quality targeted traffic to your blog.
• To do this find questions in your niche which you can answer, then write high-quality and valuable answers.
• High-quality answers will gain you more upvotes, views and get you more traffic to your blog.
• At the end of your answers add a reference link to the relevant posts on your blog to get traffic, also add the URL of your blog in your profile bio.
• You can use affiliate marketing to monetize Quora traffic. Promote niche affiliate products on your blog when someone buys that product from your link you'll earn money.
• You can also build a targeted email list from Quora traffic and then promote affiliate offers via email marketing to generate a recurring income.

Sell eBooks/online courses

• The traffic you get from Quora is highly targeted, if you can write a niche specific eBook or create an online course which provides the solution to the problems people face into a niche, then you can earn handsome amount of money by selling it.
• For example, if you are a skincare expert, you can write a helpful eBook explaining various methods to make skin look young and glowing and sell it on your blog.

Sell your services

• If you offer any services like freelance content writing, web development, SEO, photo editing, etc. Then Quora can help you land in great clients and make some serious money.
• I have personally seen many people who get regularly hired from Quora and are making big money.
• People from various backgrounds read your answers on Quora, if they found your answer really valuable and helpful, they will contact you and hire you for their projects.

Start a blog

Being a blogger is one of the easiest ways to earn money from home. Unlike any other job, if you are blogging from home. You don't need to work 9-5.

You can work at any time of the day with ease. But beware blogging takes time before it starts making money for you.

So I suggest you jump into this field slowly. If you have a day job, don't quit it. Start part-time with your blog.

Once it is on the stage where it is earning you more than your comfortable limits, then it's the best time to turn into full-time blogging mode.

Suitable For

People who love to write and would like to share their knowledge and expertise with the world.

Skills Required

Ability to express knowledge in writing with simpler yet efficient way.

Time Required For Starting A Blog

The time required depends upon your level of expertise if you are an expert you can easily start a blog within few hours. For a complete
beginner, a day or two would be sufficient.

Tips

Start a blog about something in which you are really good at. For example, if you love traveling and you have visited a lot of places then start a travel blog. Always try to limit your blog to a particular domain. Don't put content on multiple domains in one blog.

For example, writing about recipe tips on a fashion blog. Keep your blog specific to one domain only.

• Using your experience and expertise try to create a unique and phenomenal content. Try to give a lot of value to your readers. Write about something that will make a difference in your reader's’ life.
• Listen to the readers of your blog. Try to solve the problems they are facing. Always reply to their comments. Make them feel better.
• Be committed to your blog. A blog is like a relationship. Give it some love, and it will flourish. Ignore it, and it will die a death. There's no point in being half-hearted in your blogging efforts; if you don't care about it, why should anyone else?
• Think about content, style, the tone of voice, audience, etc. Look at the people who are already doing what you're planning to do.

Ask yourself the following questions

• How will I stand out from the crowd?
• What can I say that hasn't already been said?
• What's my unique selling point?
• Why do I want to do this?

Be professional in the way you handle and grow your blog. Don't criticize other brands, bloggers or people. Remember what goes around comes around. You don't want something you've said to come back and bite you one day.

Be open-minded and willing to collaborate with other creatives. You'll meet some fantastic and awe-inspiring people.

How To Monetize

You can monetize your blog by recommending products or services related to your blog's topic either by writing an informative article or placing banner ads on your blog's relevant pages.

You can earn handsome commissions when a person buys a product recommended by you. Another way is you can place Google Adsense ads on your blog. More people click on your ads more money you will make.

Sell A Video Course On Udemy

What is Udemy.com?

Udemy.com is an online learning marketplace. Udemy has a huge list of courses in everything from programming to yoga to photography and much more.

You can create a course in the text, audio, and video formats. Every course is available on demand and students can learn at their own pace, on their own time and on any device.

Suitable For

People who like to teach, explain and solve problems.

Skills Required

• In-depth knowledge of any domain of your choice.
• Ability to express knowledge in easily understood form.
• Ability to create and record high-quality videos.

Time Required For Creating A Video Course

Depends on the scope of the course, the number of modules included and time required for preparation.

Tips

• Pick a topic in which you are specialized in. Study the courses relevant to your topic and see how many people are interested and have actually enrolled in the courses.
• This will give you a rough understanding of the people who are interested in your topic and willing to invest in your course.
• Study the other available courses and find out the things which you can offer that will make your course much better, different than other available courses.
• Identify your audience level and then create the course content. For example, you need to first decide whether your course is for beginner level or expert level audience. Then accordingly you need to create your course content which appeals to the right audience.
• Make sure your course title and description are optimized for appealing your target audience. Try to answer the frequent questions that your audience asks in your course description.
• Deliver at least 80% of your course in video format as it is the most engaging way of interaction. Also, keep the length of each video lesson between 2-10 minutes.
• Build a rapport with the audience, and engage. You can always do quiz ups between lectures to make it engrossing and interactive. 

How To Monetize

• Udemy gets a lot of daily visitors so there is a good chance that your course will get noticed and people will enroll in and you will start earning money.
• You can even start a small blog on your course-related topics and promote your course.
• More people sign up for your course more money you make.