The 4 BEST Ways To Make Passive Income In 2026 (For Beginners/Teenagers)

if you're a teenager or just someone looking for the cheapest way to start making money online right now then you're in the right place because I'm going to show you the four best ways I have found to make money online as a complete beginner that don't require any money to get started this first way to make money online is perfect for beginners and teenagers because it requires absolutely no Capital upfront to get started and as a bonus you can do this literally from anywhere in the world it's called print on demand or pod for short now pod allows you to sell things like t-shirts or phone cases or pants or mugs or hats all these things with designs on them that you made but what makes pod so interesting is that the designs are only printed on the T-shirt or the hat or whatever after someone has ordered the item from you that means that you don't need to create and store a bunch of these different products like a lot of these t-shirts or whatever you only have to print them on demand as orders come in from the customers this makes it much cheaper and easier for you to get set up and selling custom products and it allows you to offer a huge variety of different designs without having to keep everything in stock NOW the easiest way to get started with this is by using what's called Amazon merch on demand so you can head over to merch. com in order to get signed up for this now the cool thing about this program is that all you have to do with this is upload your designs and set up your products your product listings I should say Amazon then takes care of all of the rest so if someone actually comes and orders one of these products Amazon is going to print it and they are going to ship it to the customer so it's completely hands off for you after you actually upload the designs so here are some examples that I found so this is a t-shirt that says admit it life would be boring without me a very simple and plain T-shirt as you see it is part of Amazon's merch on demand program and this has over 2400 ratings so you know that this probably has somewhere at least 10,000 orders that have come through for this one t-shirt so all this seller did is they created this design once they uploaded it and it is sold about 10,000 times already just on repeat with amaz on printing it and shipping it to the customers for them here's another one again not too complicated but a little bit more complicated because it has this T-Rex and this is also part of the Amazon merch on demand program with over 4500 ratings here's another one that has 1,700 and here's a final one right here I found that says I'm not bossy I just know what you should be doing with over 1,00 ratings now if you're anything like me and you have absolutely no artistic abilities at all that's okay because a lot of these popular designs as I've shown you are literally just words on a t-shirt so you don't have to design anything and if you wanted to go the route where you're actually uploading some images or some designs like this one right here you can use AI art generators like mid journey to actually do this for you which makes it really perfect for any beginner or teenager looking to make money online now this second way to make money online that I want to talk about is one that I have a lot of experience with in fact combined my students and I have done eight figures worth of sales with this online business and as you're going to see pretty much any beginner can get started with it it's called eBay Drop Shipping Now eBay Drop Shipping is where a seller such as you you're going to list and sell products on eBay but these are products that you don't actually own it's kind of similar to print on demand but instead we're s selling physical products that aren't custom so what we're doing is we're selling the products on eBay and then we are purchasing the product from A thirdparty supplier or retailer like Amazon who will then ship their products directly to the buyers on eBay so the seller here you and I were basically acting as middlemen we're earning a profit on the difference between the price that the customer paid on eBay and how much we're paying for it on Amazon and because you don't have to buy any inventory up front you don't really need any money to get started with this and you can also do this one anywhere in the world so let me show you how this works so here's a product that's for sale on eBay it's this salad lunch container you can see what it looks like right here and this exact same item is being sold on Amazon for less money so what's going to happen is a customer is going to come here you see this one has already sold nine times so nine people have come here they've purchased this item during the checkout process they say hey this is

where I want the item shipped to this is my shipping address then all this seller did was they went ahead and purchased the item from Amazon and during the checkout process Amazon says hey where do you want to ship this to well they're not going to ship it to themselves they enter in the address that was given to them by eBay so the item is sent directly to the eBay customer so this means that you can really do this without investing all the money up front into buying a ton of these and having them in your house Amazon is now doing the Fulfillment for you and you get to keep the difference in price between how much you bought it for on Amazon and how much the customer paid on eBay now if you want to be successful with eBay Drop Shipping the only skill you really need to concentrate on is product research this means finding products like this the ones that people actually want to purchase and in my opinion the best way to do that is to actually spy on other drop shippers that are already doing that so to help me with that I have a software that I use called Zeke this is it right here and when you log in when you create an account you log in there's a lot that it can do to help you find products but I want to highlight one of the features right now that I absolutely love and that's here right on the dashboard it's called the trending drop shippers section you see that right here this actually shows you other drop shippers on eBay that are already successfully doing this so you can see like this seller has done $25,000 in sales in the past month this one has done 32 44 and the cool thing is that you can scan any of these seller stores so if I click right here this is going to scan their store it usually just takes a couple of seconds and down here we can see all of the products that they're selling so for instance this right here whatever these incense sticks are these have sold 33 times in the past month so what's great about Zeke is that it will actually sort it for us showing us the most popular products at the top we have this wallet that is sold 31 times in the past month this stretchy belt that is sold 28 times in the past month so now what you can do is you can go over to your supplier's website so let's say I want to use AliExpress for instance as an example I can come over here and we can look for these exact same products or similar ones it doesn't does have to be the exact same one so I can search in here for stretchy belt for instance and we can find stretchy belt for men something that's very similar to this one right here and go ahead and sell that one so this is very similar it has a very similar look so I can go ahead and list this item into my eBay store and I know it's probably going to sell because other drop shippers are successfully selling that and I'm able to see that directly on Zeke now one of the reasons eBay Drop Shipping works so well is because it allows you to offer a wide range of products without having to invest in the inventory up front it's really a great side hustle for beginners who are looking to get started with their first online business and while it does have its challenges if you know what they are and how to deal with them you can do quite well with eBay Drop Shipping as I showed you before from my students results now if you want to learn more about how to get started with eBay Drop Shipping and you want a guide to kind of help you with this I put one together for you this is my eBay dropshipping Secrets ebook this is completely free for you and inside of that there's actually a link to Zeke which allows you to try it for just $1 so definitely get this free ebook it's the first link in the description down below like I said it is completely for free the third way to make money online that's really perfect for beginners and teenagers who don't have a lot of money upfront to invest in a business is something called affiliate marketing now a lot of people believe that affiliate marketing is dead and doesn't really work anymore but that's just because they're doing it the old way that doesn't work but there's a new way to do affiliate marketing that actually does work so let me show you how that works now if you're not familiar with affiliate marketing this is when you get paid to refer people to a product so basically you tell someone like hey I have this really cool product I bought recently it's this massage gun and I absolutely love it if you want one too you can buy it by using my affiliate link if someone clicks on that link they'll be taken directly to the products website where they can then buy it and if they do buy it after clicking your link you'll get a small commission for referring that customer that's actually how I purchased this item I saw someone who was reviewing this I thought it was a good review I like the product I clicked on it I bought it and because of that the person who did that review now gets a small Commission because I

used their link and it didn't cost me anything extra to use that link now the simplest way to get started with this is by using something called Amazon Associates this is part of Amazon's program that allows you to refer products to other customers and you can get signed up for this for free by going to affiliate-program amazon. com and getting set up right here now once you have an account you can go to any product on Amazon and get a special link to it and if you give someone that link that is your affiliate link now the trick with this is to get people to actually click on your links and to actually find your links and that usually requires you to make some sort of social media content but that doesn't mean you need some sort of big audience so if you have a product you like this one you can just post on Facebook and say hey I've been using this massage gun I really love it here's my affiliate link if you want to use it as well or if one of your friends comes over and they use this and they say oh my gosh I really like this where did you get this you can send them your affiliate link it's really as simple as that if you want to scale it up though you do want to go a little bit bigger but like I said this doesn't mean that you need some sort of big audience let me show you some examples of what I mean I came over here at YouTube and I did some searching for fitness trackers I found this channel right here that only has 3,000 subscribers and yet this video where they review different fitness trackers has over 15,000 views and I'm willing to bet that before this video came out they had a lot less than 3,000 subscribers so what happens is that this relatively small Channel posted these reviews people came over here watched this video and in the description of this video are links to all of these products these are Amazon links the these are actually Amazon associate links so if I were to click on this and actually buy one of these products this YouTuber would actually make a small commission here's another one right here this person actually posted a video about their reaction to using those colorblind glasses for the first time this person only has a th000 subscribers and again I think before this video came out they probably had no subscribers and this video still got 2. 5 million views and in the description of this video is an affiliate link for the color blind glasses so this relatively unknown person posted this video and still manag to get 2. 5 million views and people are now clicking on their affiliate link and they're making money from this and here's another one right here this YouTuber only has 1. 5 th000 subscribers and this video has 11,000 views this is also for smart watches as well and you can see that there are affiliate links inside the description of this video so you don't need a huge audience to do this you can literally just post a video today that's only three minutes long like this person did right here and you'd be able to start making affiliate commissions from this and a lot of these videos people don't even show their face ever so this is really great for beginners people in college or for teenagers they're looking to make some extra money online relatively simply the final way that I have for you to make money online as a teenager or a complete beginner is what I call the online gig economy now you've probably heard of the gig economy already these are things like uber door Dash Uber Eats things like that the problem with those is that you usually need a car to get started with them and you have to pay for gas and the we and tear on your car but there is actually an online gig economy that requires no money to get started and you don't need a car for it either and this is where you actually do projects for people on demand the best website to do this on is fivr so if you come over here to fiverr. com you can see what types of projects people pay for here if you know how to do these different projects or you're willing to learn how to do them you can make money from home from your computer really anywhere in the world and you can do this on demand and you don't have to pay anything to get started with it so things like you can design invitations for people so people will say hey I need an invitation design for my wedding you can design that for them you can do product photography where they'll actually send you the product and you can take photos of it if you're good at photography rendering interior design you can do that here you can help people create branding for their

brand or their website like different logos you if you know how to design nfts you can do bottle labels a lot of these skills are actually very similar so if you learn one of them it can easily be transferred to other ones as well a lot of the more expensive ones on here include things like video editing if you're good at that you can also offer thumbnails you can offer app designs there's so many different choices on here of different projects that you can do for people and you can do this at your own pace whenever you have time to do it and again you don't have to pay very much to get started with this a lot of these skills you can learn for free by going onto YouTube and searching for how to get started with this so there you go those are four different ways that you can start making money online as a teenager or as a complete beginner this year as a reminder if you want that free ebook that I mentioned before my eBay Drop Shipping seers ebook make sure to click the first link in the description down below then if you like this video I'm sure you're going to love this one right here where I show you how to find the best products that drop ship onto eBay so make sure to click on this and I'll see you there in just one second