This has been quite the path! I want to share with you how this can be easier for you! You don’t have to go out and start using the “Google” for the answers.
As for our little story, we started this process trying to find some extra vacation cash. We were planning and quickly found that we didn’t have the extra funds available to save for a fun week away. It really sucked! It was depressing actually…We work so hard and should be able to go on a weeks vacation. So the investigation process started…
I kept asking myself, how are all these stay at home mom’s doing it?
The search started, warning there is a lot of craziness out there and confusing mumbo jumbo that just seemed scammy. It was in fact scams! Keep your eye open and trust your gut!
Thankfully there are legitimate opportunities out there if you’re willing to put in the work. Some take a little investment upfront, but it can be very lucrative if you put in the time and energy. As you get better, you make more.
A few things to think about before you get started
- What do you want or need to make extra each month? This helps you in finding the right opportunity faster
- $200
- $1,000
- $10,000 more…
- What do you like to do? Do you have an interest in? Narrowing this down will help you find your niche faster.
- Photography
- Writing
- Social media
- Organizational skills
- How much time a day/week are you willing to dedicate to the new venture? Decide how much time you are going to put into it and then start looking at your options. No matter what it is there will be a time commitment, so be ready for that.
- 1-5 hours
- 6-10 hours
- 11-15 hours +
Once you have these answers, here are 10 things that can all be done from the comforts of your own home and have the ability to bring in that extra cash.
1. Become a virtual assistant.
One simple way to make money from home is to help others complete tasks as a virtual assistant. If you're highly organized, effective communication skills and fluency in English, knowledge of popular web and business software applications, and can properly manage your time, then becoming a virtual assistant presents a low-cost entry point into the digital services industry. You can easily perform these functions as a remote worker no matter where you live.
Finding work as a virtual assistant can be easily done through sites like Upwork, Indeed.com and Remote.co.
2. Launch an ecommerce site.
Ecommerce is booming. While Amazon takes the lion's share, consumers are buying by the droves when they can scoop up great offers. In fact, some of the leading online marketers are using free-plus-shipping ecommerce and book funnels to make small fortunes.
Dave Woodward, co-founder of ClickFunnels, says that over one-third of their two-comma club (members who have a sales funnel making a million or more per year) are ecommerce entrepreneurs.
3. Affiliate marketing
Affiliate marketing presents a very low cost entry into selling products online. While you do need some type of audience to sell these products or services to, you could make a significant amount of money from home while doing it. Some products or services have very high earnings per click. That means, if you play your cards right, you could easily make a large profit on conversions by driving traffic to specific offers as long as you target the right interests.
You can find affiliate marketing offers on sites like ClickBank, CJ.com and Rakuten LinkShare, amongst many others.
4. Start a blog.
Blogs are quite possibly one of the best ways to earn a passive income, even while traveling the world. While starting a blog might be simple, and making money from home is definitely possible, you will need to put in the work and the effort in order to reap the benefits. Plant the seeds now to enjoy the harvest later.
However, once that blog gets going, generating an income and scaling out your business is straightforward. Simply produce more content and line up more offers.
5. Sell services on Fiverr
Fiverr has grown significantly since its inception. Today, it's a massive marketplace where you can sell just about any service under the sun. This is great if you're looking to make money online as a digital traveler or even while sitting at home on your laptop while in your pajamas.
6. Build sales funnels.
Every successful business has an automated sales funnel. Yet, so many businesses are completely unaware of the power of an effective funnel. Sales funnels provide automation in the sales process. They help you build a relationship with your audience and develop a bond with the consumer. There are plenty of tools you can use to build a sales funnel, but the world's most successful businesses often create custom-coded funnels.
While there are considerable technique details when it comes to sales funnels, understanding them today, right now, could set you up for a higher degree of online marketing mastery.
7. Build a side business.
There are plenty of ideas for lucrative side businesses that you could easily start from the comfort of your own home. While starting them is easy, actually putting in the work to market and grow those businesses is a bit more challenging. The hard part is seeing them through.
What types of businesses work best? Find one in any of the following highly-profitable three industries: make money online, diet and fitness or relationship and dating. Any business targeted to one of these industries can reap the benefits of massive consumer spending occurring every single day. While you can certainly sell products for other companies as an affiliate, creating your own, also presents significant upside.
8. Create webinars
Building out automated webinars is one of the most useful skills you could possibly have. People like Jason Fladlien, the world's most successful webinar guru who's done of $100 million in sales through webinars by only selling other people's products and not his own.
Webinars follow a specific template and format. If you can master that formula, you can quite literally dominate in this space. Find a great business idea or opportunity that you can sell that delivers massive amounts of value.
9. Social media management.
Social media management is a great way to generate an income from home. Considering the expansion of social media, businesses are jumping to find their way in front of prospects. However, most businesses haven't got a clue about how they can increase their exposure. That’s where you come in.
Building a social media management business might take some effort and time, but it's well worth it. You could charge a sizable monthly fee for each business to help manage their social media, allowing you to earn a full-time income doing this gig.
10. Create online courses.
One of the best ways to make extra money from home is to create online courses. Now, this does take an upfront investment of time. But, as any other passive income generating activity, you do the work once and get paid repeatedly for it.
Take whatever skill you have and find a way to build a course around it. Use sites like Udemy, Thinkific, or Jonathan Cronstedt's Kajabi to build those courses then begin marketing. You could also use ClickFunnels to create the entire membership course with all its functionality in one place.
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