Do you ever feel like chucking in your job and starting a work from home business?
While we wouldn’t recommend you did that straight away, it honestly has never been easier.
The Internet has made the world a much smaller place, and it’s possible to run a successful business without even getting dressed.
Here are five things you can do to get started.
Create your own blog
Do you have an interest in something you can write about? If so, then just do it.
Setting up a blog is easy – you only need an Internet connection, an idea, and a few bucks to pay for hosting, and you’re away.
Write about your passions and your expertise, and share it with the people you know who will be interested. Build up a community and a regular following.
Once you have grown your audience, you can set up advertising space and sell it to industry-relevant companies.
Of course, if it were easy, everyone would do it. But, it is possible.
Try affiliate marketing
Another option for your work from home business is affiliate marketing. This is when you act like a middleman between a product or service and get a commission every time you sell the product.
There are various methods of going into affiliate marketing, from using Amazon ads on your website to selling a particular product. Have a look at this Amazing Selling Machine review for an excellent example of this in action.
It’s almost like a franchise – you pay money for something, and, hopefully, it enables you to make even more money.
Teach English as a foreign language
In years gone by, teaching English as a foreign language was something only travelers did. These days, however, you can do it from the comfort of your home on a laptop.
Lots of people around the world want to improve their English, and there are plenty of services out there that can act as an intermediary for you.
They find the clients, you teach them, and you can earn anything from $20 an hour upwards.
Be a virtual assistant
Virtual assistants do anything and everything, and they are a cost-effective way for businesses to get stuff done. It’s easy to set up as a virtual assistant – and there is a big market for it.
You can expect to do things like filling in databases, researching competitors, and drawing up documents. It’s a broad church – and one that can pay well, depending on the complexities of the tasks.
Try it out – head over to this website for a great example of what a virtual assistant does.
Offer your services
There are a lot of online services out there where you can find one-off jobs. Fiverr, for example, helps you find clients who want to take you up on your service for $5.
It’s not high pay at first. But, as you find customers, they will often ask you to do more work if they are pleased enough.
And that’s when you can charge them something more suitable.
As ever, we would be keen to hear your ideas about making money online.
Let us know and get involved with the conversation below!
Hi Erik!
Your post is so timely as I just started my own Freelance business! I never thought about teaching English. However, I don’t think I have the patience for it. 🙂 I am looking into offering my own content and social media services but am not ruling out Virtual Assistance if the right gig comes along. I will give Time etc a peek.
Thanks for adding a few options to my list! Happy Monday!
Brenda
Hi Erik, You have provided 5 well thought out ways to make money online and many folks thinking about starting online will beneft greatly from your post.
May I add 2 things to what you mentioned for your readers to consider.
Re blogging this is an excellent source of future income but it will take time and a lot of effort to create some sort of regular income stream. you are correct it’s easy to setup your blog but building your readership takes a lot more effort including the ability to create headlines that attract and content that is “epic” and “entertaining”. Plus you will need to support other bloggers in your niche with constructive post commenting (just like I’m doing here with you) to establish your reputation and presence.
Secondly re affiliate marketing – this is probably the easiest way to get started online but far too many affiliate marketers may the big mistake of simply driving traffic to a product vendor’s sales page and hoping that page will convert and pay them commissions.
Smart affiliate marketers never do this. Instead of building up the vendor’s mailing list, they create thei own email list first. Then by being authentic, entertaining and sharing valuable content (like blog posts) the subscribers will come to know you, maybe even like you and hopefully learn to trust you.
Then with a list that you are continually growing and nurturing, you can market appropriate affiliate (or your own) products and services over and over again for years to come.
Great money making tips. I like the idea of affiliate marketing. Dedicating yourself to one source of income at once will help you reach new levels of success. Thanks for the advice!
Some great ideas – selling your services is probably the quickest way to get money as they tend to be paid for almost immediately. If you do that, be creative so that you’re not competing directly with the lowest cost people from across the globe.
Longer term, creating your own blog and using that for affiliate marketing can help smooth out the bumps, It’s one of those things that seems to take forever and a day to take off (mainly because despite what we’d like to think, our sites aren’t the only ones Google looks at) but is definitely worth persevering with.
Thanks for your suggestion, Selling or referring online software is also a great idea to earn money from home or create review website, provide your feedback and reaction on trending product and services,