I have known about this place for years:
CafePress - there you can upload your graphic (even if it is just text) and they will sell verything from t-shirts to coffee cups with your image on it, and give you a piece of the sale. I had my hosting company logo on some stuff at http://cafrepress.com/crecon years ago!
There are a surprising amount of websites that will pay you to write for them. You don’t have to be an accomplished writer or famous personality to do this.
The first place I became aware of is Associated Content. Billing themselves as “The People’s Media Company” they will pay you for your original written content, video content, and slide shows. I have written several articles for them and they seem to be pretty good. How much will you get paid? They pay from $3-$20 per submission and also give you a performance bonus if your content gets a lot of traffic. This is a site that you can definately make more than minimum wage on.
Another site that I found is ReviewStream.com. They pay for reviews of pretty much anything. To quote their website:
You could review anything around you including: any products, hi-end technics, companies, hotels, politics, cities, stores on your street, or even your neighbors pets! We’ll pay you for all of the reviews. Did you visit a barbershop today? Review it and get paid! What about your shopping today? Review the shops you visited and get some money back in your pocket! Did you return from a vacation? Review the hotel and its staff, the car you rented, cities you visited, restaurants (including McDonald’s), fashion stores and street markets … everything!
They are currently paying $1.50 per review and 10 cents everytime your review gets a vote. I haven’t written for them but they seem worth checking out. (Caveat: They have some bad press online. See This article for example.)
Another way to make money is to focus your articles or reviews on a product that will pay you whenever someone buys through your link. This is often called Article Marketing and the easiest way is to look at Clickbank.com and PayDotCom.com for products to promote. Then write a review or article about that product, and submit it to one of the following locations with your affilite link or hoplink.
Places to submit articles and reviews that seem to get indexed by google quickly:
http://www.usfreeads.com/ - classified ads - have to pay a minimal fee to include a url
http://www.ezinearticles.com/
http://www.goarticles.com/
http://www.searchwarp.com/
http://www.wordpress.com/
http://www.squidoo.com/
If you don’t have a blog yet - get one! It is a very easy way to publish online - in a future post I will tell you how to use your blog to sell your own products - and there are many places like PayPerPost that will pay you to make blog entries in your own blog!
If you have or like to make videos Scott Kirsner has a list of places that you can get paid to submit your video. You can make videos from something as simple as CamStudio(free). CamStudio does have some quirks - the settings it comes with by default do not work. But with a few setting changes (I will address them in a later post) it works as well as software costing $600.00.