Whether you are looking to supplement your income or want to make a full time wage online, here are 5 ways to earn money from home which we broke down for you in order to be as simple and successful as possible.
Need a good side hustle that you can start earning money from home right away? We got you.
All you need is a computer, some time and dedication to earn money from home. Like all things it can sake some time before you start to see results and have the time spent on creating leads to pay off. But the rewards can be very very lucrative and may even become a form of passive income to yourself.
Start brainstorming ideas on how you think you will be able to earn money from home and read up on the area of interest to get a better idea of where to start and which product or services will be in most demand. Being passionate about a niche may create more success due to you being more interested in that area.
Ways to Earn Money From Home
Sell Items Online
With so many people constantly shopping around for different items and deals online, selling some of your items over Facebook, Kijiji, eBay, or Poshmark is a great way to turn over some profit. All kinds of items are bought and sold everyday and they do not require a fee to post listings – making these platforms very user friendly. The best way to become successful selling on these sites is to be honest about what it is you are selling. Don’t go and sell items that are no good but claim to be in “perfect” condition. Trust goes a long way when selling on these sites. Always disclose the flaws or reasons for selling and you will be able to have great success selling.
Many people can create good side income from simply buying and reselling on these platforms, with some able to create enough for liveable income (this can be a lot of work though!). The money can be made if you know the value of items and find good deals accordingly. It’s worth mentioning that doing this side hustle is not a guarantee you will do well or earn more than your full time job, or make any money at all. It is a risk that you take when buying items and hoping to sell them for a profit, which is why you need to figure out what are popular or hot items. Example: if you’re buying a phone for cheap and find out it’s not working exactly right, you may risk losing all your investment. Make sure you are buying items that you will be able to resell and also make a profit on.
Pet Sitting / Dog Walking
Here’s a great way to earn money from home for all the pet lovers. Taking care of other peoples animals throughout the day or even overnight for a couple of nights is a very simple way to earn money from your home or the owners home. When a pet owner gets a pet they treat them just like a family member and would go to any lengths to keep them happy, which is why taking care of others’ furry friends can be so successful. You can list your services on different social platform to gather interest and clients and even charge what you want.
Dog walking is another easy way to make some money and start earning right away. There’s a few ways you can approach this type of work. You can either set up flyers around your neighbourhood, you can post ads to facebook or other sites and you can also sign up with Rover. How it works – Rover is a service that enables pet owners to find people who would be able to either walk their pet, watch their pet overnight, or pet sit during the day. Rover has been very successful in helping pet owners find the best solution possible for their pets to remain happy and less anxious when separated from their owner.
The more dogs you watch or walk the more you can earn. Rovers are paid for every half hour on average. If you were to walk a dog for 30 minutes you can expect to earn about $15-$20 and one hour walks can make you about $30, and rates re increased for all day or night care. It’s a brilliant platform to get started earning money while being rewarded with great company in many fluffy friends. Apps like Rover are the way to give peace of mind to the pet owner and a great way for pet lovers to share their love of pets while making a healthy wage. It really is a win, win.
Online Tutoring/ Online Courses
With online learning becoming a main source of education, tutoring online and selling courses online is becoming much more popular and easier to monetize, which opens up a whole new revenue stream for so many. Being an online teacher does not mean you have to teach general subjects like math or the sciences, although they are very common subjects that do need help. Where you can start is simply with courses or lessons on how to create a website, how to start a small business and so on. These are all teachable things that do require a lot of guidance for a lot of people because they are somewhat hard to navigate.
A great place to start growing an audience is through YouTube. You are not likely to make lots of money from the YouTube courses but this is a way to attract an audience and direct them to your other platforms where you can start charging money for some of your online courses. A couple of the best platforms to earn you money from your courses is Skillshare or Coursera. You can publish courses to these sites building off what you uploaded to your YouTube page. Sites like skillshare make it easy for you to start earning money with video lessons. Teachers earn around 0.5 cents to 0.10 cents per minute watched. So if you have ten thousand minutes of watch time, you can expect to earn between $500 and $1000. Many teachers have been able to earn from $200 in their first month and upwards to $3000. Anyone can be a top earner and it’s great because once you’ve uploaded your course you can simply leave it alone and let it earn money.
There’s other programs also like Kadama where you would be able to find projects for students and complete them to earn money for that specific task. There’s also the option to teach english as a second language (ESL), on a platform. In order to become an ESL teacher you would need a degree or certification in order to be qualified. As previously mentioned however, if you have a unique skill or even hobby you can share online these are ways to earn money from home by creating and uploading to different media platforms. The more you share your work the more you will get people visiting your courses who are seeking help.
Write and Sell an eBook Online
To build off the knowledge you may already have for online teaching, is to write an ebook and sell it using the many different marketing strategies. Just like you can use YouTube to promote your online courses, you can use it again to promote your ebook. Producing an ebook is very cheap and even completely free in some cases. In order to find great success and earn money from home, start with a subject that generally sells well. Romance novels are the top selling ebooks as well as self help, health, fitness and dieting.
Generally ebooks sell between $2.99 and $9.99 and the $3.99 is the most popular price point which ebooks sell at. You don’t need anything fancy to get started, you simply need a computer, find a publishing company (or publish yourself), and market and promote your book properly. You can also publish your ebooks on what you have taught from your online courses and lessons. Like many Youtubers have done, you can give a little preview of what you may be talking about in your ebook and provide links to your ebook courses to give better understanding of the step by step process you were talking about in your videos.
You can easily upload and sell ebooks on Amazon for a small fee, or you can directly upload ebooks to your website. To assist you in creating web designs, content, ebooks, social media posts and more an amazing tool to use is Canva. You can create and design everything you want for your book beginning with the cover, the templates and everything in between with the use of Canva. They make it super simple to get started and it is a free resource you can use, with Canva Pro unlocking much more useful tools for a fee.
Selling an ebook is a great way to monetize your income; your income becomes passive with sales. Once you have undergone all the hard work of creating your book, the next steps are to promote and upload the book on sites that can get you the sale (Amazon, Shopify, Payhip, E-junkie) the list goes on. You can upload your book to any of the sites you would like and it will help get the most out of your work. *Do your research when it comes time to start selling your book because there are sites that take a higher percentage of sales than others do and this can help keep more money in your pocket!
Offer Online Services
For most people making money online is truly a dream come true. However not everyone is able to put themselves out on the internet as a writer or a content maker, so let’s take a look at our next option. Freelance work. There are a lot of people who love these types of jobs because they can often be one time jobs or ongoing work. With no cap on how much you can earn, it all comes down to how much or how little you want to work. Freelance work can be found all over the internet with the help of sites like Indeed, Upwork, Flex jobs, Fiverr, there’s endless job boards you can search on.
The work you find on these freelance sites can often be bookkeeping jobs, proofreading jobs, freelance writing jobs, research analyst, customer service representatives, web design, social media content etc. All the work you can find will have a description of when they would need the jobs completed and how much the pay would be for these jobs. They can be completed at any hours of the day and can help supplement income or be a main source of your income. 31% of freelancers makeover $75, 000 just by picking up jobs. The more work you complete as a freelancer the more you will be recommended for higher paying jobs based on your past work. 48% of the workforce in the US are freelance workers.
Big corporations are turning to freelancers to outsource jobs to get due to the varying competitive rates, and option of a one time job. There’s always freelancers available for work who are highly specialized in their work and companies don’t have to pay out benefits, so in the long run the company saves a lot of money on freelancers. Freelancing does give you a way to earn money from home and that in itself is a huge benefit and the reason why most people would want to do it.
Bonus (Start a Website /Blog)
This can go hand in hand with passive income. Time spent initially generating marketing, leads and funnelling people to your site to buy your products, services, or a blog on your site you can create income that will keep growing from your consistent efforts. See this post on How to Start a Blog for a complete breakdown of the steps need to create your own.