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The web offers plenty of ways for you to earn extra cash – here are 10 of our favourite money-spinning ways you can use your own skills or resources to make money online!

Earning from the web.

SELL YOUR OWN ARTWORK
Amateur painters and aspiring photographers can make money by selling their artwork online through the Easyart Academy. You pay a one-off fee to list each piece (a single slot costs £5.95) and then earn 20 per cent commission on any prints that you sell. The pictures remain on display indefinitely. You could also tryArtGallery.co.uk, which doesn’t charge you to sell your artwork online.

DESIGN YOUR OWN CLOTHES
Spreadshirt lets you create and sell your own customised T-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts and more. It’s free to set up a ‘spreadshop’ and there’s no contract or minimum orders to worry about. Just create some designs and publicise your shop. You can choose how much to sell the items for.

SELL YOUR CREATIVE WORK
Lulu lets you self-publish content you’ve created yourself. Although the main focus of the service is on books(printed and digital), you can also create and sell your own calendars, CDs and DVDs. There’s no set-up cost or minimum-order limit. You choose how the finished product looks and can set your own price for it, too. Lulu offers all the tools you need to sell your creations worldwide.

SELL YOUR PHOTOS
If you take decent photos, you can make money by selling them through  a stock photography site. You’ll get paid every time somone downloads or buys one of your images. Try submitting your snaps to Photobox Pro Gallery, iStock and BigStockPhoto.

GET PAID TO LOSE WEIGHT
If you’re overweight – by which we mean seriously overweight – you can earn pounds by losing them. Weight Wins is an NHS backed-scheme that motivates dieters with a cash incentive. You need to pay a joining fee and a monthly subscription (£45 plus 12 lots of £10 on the cheapest plan) but you can still turn a tidy profit if you’re successful.

SELL YOUR HOMEMADE GOODS
Creative types can sell their homemade goods, such as jewellery, artwork and clothing, to shoppers worldwide at websites Etsy and Dawanda. Etsy charges 20 US cents for sellers to list and sell items in the marketplace for up to four months, while Dawanda charges no listing fees but takes 5 per cent commission on any item you sell.

SELL YOUR HAIR
No, seriously. If you’re bored of having flowing locks and want a much shorter style, you can sell the unwanted length via TheHairTrader.com. Most of the sellers (and buyers) are American, but there are British listings. You can choose how much to sell your hair for or offer it to the highest bidder. Successful sellets usually receive offers of between $200 (£130) and $2,000 (£1,300).

RENT OUT A ROOM
If you have a spare room in your house, you can rent it out to someone who needs a place to stay for the night. Crashpadder lets you list the room, along with information and photos, and set a price. People can then book it through the site. You can choose to be paid via Crashpadder, or accept cash when your guest(s) arrive. Bed&fed also lets you advertise a spare room plus breakfast – it charges £70 to feature on the website and the maximum you can charge is £35 per person.

SELL YOUR OWN MUSIC
If you make your own music, you can sell it through OOiZiT.com. If you become a OOiZiT premium member you can upload an unlimited number of tracks and the site lets you set how much you want to charge per track (although there is a 79p minimum level). Membership costs £9.97 a month but you get to keep 100 per cent of the royalties and qualify for the UK charts.

USE YOUR WRITING SKILLS TO WRITE HOLIDAY REVIEWS
If you’ve been somewhere interesting for your hols, you can earn money by writing a guide to the destination for SimonSeeks. If people read what you’ve written, and then click through to the advertising links on the page, you’ll receive half of the net revenue. Holiday guides need to be between 400 and 1,000 words in length.

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