Win Money Participating in Free Online Competitions (updated)

I round up this section - the 3rd part of the series (Making money from freebies, competitions and enrolling for free online courses) on 40 different ways of making money online with today's article.

I hope you find the links very useful.
This is just a guide, and not in any way exhaustive of all the links or methods to making money from freebies online.

• Making money in this part requires you preparing yourself to maximize the opportunities. 
• Read everything you can about the field e.g. Poker, Chess. 
• Register for free online and/or paid courses. 
• Network with other people (-Amateurs and Professionals alike) around you already making money there. Connect with people through email or physically in their homes/offices.
• Download whatever free apps you need to download. You will also get many free resources you can download online.
• Play as many times as possible with real people and the computer software.
• Keep practicing always.

I wish you all the best in any area you eventually decide to make money from.

3.      Play tournaments  on online gaming websites, including PS4, FIFA pro, poker, chess, reality TV/game-shows web competitions etc. The electronic versions of popular board games such as scrabble, chess, checkers, etc, can be played for free online by logging in with an internet-enabled computer system. Below are some of such websites where you can win some money too:

a)      Online games: There are a lot of websites that offer free online games called eSports. And there is even an International eSport Federation International e-Sports Federation that annually organize eSports competitions among participating countries, and they are hoping to one day include eSports in the Olympics. Some of them include: World Winner, Major League Gaming, Game Colony. Check out wikipedia’s full list of past and current big online gaming tournaments here. They have become so big that in July this year, ESPN televised DOTA 2 championship, “The International”.

b)      Poker: Poker has increasingly become very popular online, with the World Series of Poker (WSOP) being televised yearly by ESPN. It attracts millions of players from all over the world, and the finals take place in Las Vegas with total prize money of $10 million. Buy-in for such a massive tournament is in thousands of dollars.

WSOP has a weekly Sunday competition that has prize money of up to $2000.

Pokerstars.net claims to be the largest online community of poker players. You may need to buy-in to their tournaments with somw money though as little as $1-$10.  Check some of their poker competitions here. You can also learn how to play poker by reading their articles on poker education.

c)      Chess: you can find chess tourneys at ICC Chess competitions, Chess.com competitions, Chesscube tournaments    

d)      Reality TV and TV Game show web-based competitions: the Nigerian Talent website gives a lot of TV show opportunities to make extra money, check out their site. For most of the TV shows, you get to vote on the website or via text, and there are prizes to be won for voting. Who wants to be a millionaire Nigeria's online game competition does not seem to be functional anymore.

e) Sudoku and other puzzles: If you didn't know, there is a world Sudoku championship, which features individual and team competitions.
List of sites where you can earn money solving sudoku puzzles 

ACFX Forex competitions

4.      Enrolling for free tipster competitions, free forex competitions, free webinars/online courses:  
The Nigerian website Hot Nigerian Jobs has some cool competitions. Click the link to check them out.

I already gave a list of free tipster competitions in the article '5 ways of making money in the betting industry', read it if you haven’t.

And you can find free Forex competition at most established Forex brokers such as Instaforex and Alpari. Instaforex  has a whole lot of free competitions that will offer you the opportunity to win up to $50,000 in prize money. You can also check Forex Championship.

Generally, webinars are free. A Webinar is short for ‘Web-based Seminar.’ And it is also called a Web conference- online conference. It has become a very popular tool used in education- lectures and teaching, business meetings and other gatherings that involves audience members who are spread all over the earth who join in and ask questions, ‘actively participating’ in the seminar. For example, popular Forex companies use it in training or educating newbie Forex traders, thereby eliminating the need for physical meetings and the expenses it will cost to register or organize courses offline. Churches use it for their members who are away physically to be able to join in the service, as a form of webcasting, or for smaller group meetings.

But you may need to download necessary software before you can log into the webinar, or participate actively.

Some of these webinars are also used as a marketing tool to sell product and services to audience members.

You can get a couple of free webinars on Business, Education, Arts, and many other life topics here at Webex.

 Just search for free webinars in your chosen profession or field, and you will be shocked that a lot of companies already offer trainings and courses for free if only you will subscribe for it on their website.

There are a couple of online courses that are free too. Here are some examples: How To Geek, Coursera, Khan academy, Alison, Global Next and My Free Courses Online. The Saylor Foundation offers tuition-free online courses especially for college students.

Next we go see how people make money online by trading or exchanging web currencies. See you soon.

Update: I left out Online Trivia contests where you can play for prize money. Trivia simply means unimportant facts or details. And most TV game show such as Who wants to be a millionaire? are based on trivia. 
There are a couple of them but you can try these two: 

• World Atlas; I have been following this site since the days when I was preparing for Who wants to be a millionaire? especially the facebook page. You can win up to  $100 daily if you know your geography well.
• Mycashquiz website

The final ebook will definitely contain more resources (as I keep discovering new things everyday), and generally any thing these articles miss out. Thank you.