At Home Business Ideas
The following is a list of 10, at home business ideas that you can do and where you can learn how to earn income online. These are not the only ways to make money online, there are thousands of possibilities and if you are creative, you could come up with your own ideas. This is just a short list of some business possibles and they are here to get your creative juices flowing. The great thing here is that no matter what business you decide to do on your website, Wealthy Affiliate can get you up and running. Just check out this page. Ok, let’s get started.
Data Entry
If you have knowledge or are familiar with things like databases and spreadsheets, then this could be a business for you. You could offer your services to do data entry for various companies and charge them a fee for the service.
Data entry is just that, entering data into a database or spreadsheet or some other similar package. You can find companies that are looking for data entry people at sites like Upwork (one of the biggest), Freelancer, Toptal, Elance, Craigslist (and yes u can find paying work here) and Guru to mention a few. Your data entry service that you provide can be very lucrative.
Tutoring
Tutoring is exactly what it says. You tutor people. You can tutor K-12 students, college students or if you have knowledge or a particular skill set in a given field you could tutor/train other company employees (in the same field), on how to improve the performance of their jobs or create videos on how to use various software packages. Companies pay big money for services like this.
You could also travel and still be able to tutor your clients, with virtual classrooms, as long as you had an internet connection. You could create videos showing/teaching how to do something and post them on Youtube or sell them directly to companies, schools and various other institutions based on the subject matter. Here again, you can use companies like Upwork, Freelancer, Toptal, to search for possible tutoring opportunities.
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate Marketing is a great way to earn an online income. It is very popular in the digital marketing industry. As an Affiliate Marketer, you market other companies products and/or services.
You will need to have a website and then you will need to find various companies whose products would complement the theme of your website.
You need to find companies that have Affiliate Programs and then sign up with them.Once they accept you they will give you a link with a code that is unique to you. You place this link on your website and when your visitors click on it and buy a product you receive a commission from the sale. Pretty simple.
For a more in-depth look into Affiliate Marketing go ahead and click this link.
Freelance Writing
If you enjoy writing then this could be a possibility for you. Freelance writers produce text in exchange for pay. Freelance writers write for many different types of businesses. Like writing for magazines, books, product reviews, resumes, technical writing, and much more.
Some Freelance writers will stick to a specific “category” like say “Politics” or “Technology”, others will write on a variety of subjects, basically whatever their clients require.
Copywriter
A Copywriter is someone who writes for companies and produces advertising promotional materials. If you are creative and imaginative then you might enjoy this line of work.
Copywriters produce the text that you find in advertisements, on billboards, in catalogs, to name a few. There are many different forms of media that require copywriters.
There are many articles on the web that explain how to become a copywriter and with a little research, you should be well on your way.
For a more in-depth look at Copywriter the go ahead and click this link.
Travelling Photographer
So you like to travel. Well, all those beautiful travel photos that you take can earn you a supplemental income online.
You can market your photos to online businesses that do advertisements, travel brochures, photo galleries and much more. You can also sell them to local hotels and vacation resorts or sometimes trade them for free stays and other complimentary offers.
You will need a good quality camera for this, though. With this opportunity, you can then pay for your travels with your photos.
For some more detailed information check out this link on Photography.
Hosting Ads
If you own your own website you can monetize it by hosting ads like Google Adsense and Amazon’s Native Shopping Ads. These types of ads actually change depending on the visitor to your site. They will see ads that are pertinent to them only. Pretty cool.
You would sign up with these companies and then select the style of ad you want on your site and they will give a specially coded piece of code, unique to you, and you would add this to your website. Then when your visitors click or buy through the ad you will receive a commission. Another pretty simple solution to monetize your website.
Email Marketing
Email marketing can really promote your business. Email marketing is when a company sends a message to a group of people by use of electronic email. These messages can be advertisements, fundraiser notifications, sales or business requests, solicitations, to name a few.
This builds trust and customer loyalty and promotes your product.
Basically, any email that you send to a customer is considered email marketing. You can build an email list and then send advertisements, promotions, updated information, and much more to them.
Video Blogging
Video blogging is just like Blogging except that you do it via a video as opposed to typing. There are many ways to Video Blog. You can create videos for training, traveling, educational, informative, product reviews, and much more.
You could then post them on YouTube and as you gain subscribers you will start to generate income. You could also sell your videos directly to the consumer (depending on the content) and create an income online.
For some more detailed information check out this link on creating a video.
Product Reviews
Product Reviews can be a very lucrative online income. You would create a website dedicated to products reviews in any of the thousands of types of products out there.
Here you would contact a given company/business, explaining to them what your website is about and then review their products.
As you gain trust, loyalty, and authority in your customers (people reading your reviews), and you recommend the product, then you can have a link on your site that they can click to buy the product and you will, in turn, get a commission. Some businesses will pay you directly to review their products as well. Some will even allow you to keep the product.
Some Final Thoughts
So these are just some possible ways to supplement your income online. As I said earlier, if you are creative you could come up with your own at home business ideas. The great thing is that at Wealthy Affiliate, you will be able to launch any one of these possible opportunities and have all the training and support to make you successful in your online endeavors. So go ahead and give them a try it is free and requires no credit card.
If you have any comments or questions, please leave them below and I would be glad to help and respond back to you.
Moon
April 5, 2017 @ 9:49 pm
Hello, thanks for your top 10 tips, I am trying out affiliate marketing now and expect to see some results a few months down the road, I guess this is one area where I would not get instant earnings, rather, it is a long-term process. Video blogging is another area which I am interested in but lack of knowledge and skills is holding me back now, I hope to see some information on your site regarding this 🙂
Carl
April 6, 2017 @ 10:02 pm
I am glad u found the article informative. It is definitely in the plan to post an article on Video blogging in the near future here. Yes, the process is long and hard work, these are not “get rich schemes”, besides which I believe anyone saying they can make u millions in a few weeks is more than likely a scam in my opinion. But yes, there are 1000’s of ways of making money online if u are willing to put in the work. Check back again soon and there will more new information posted here. Wealthy Affiliate can teach u these ways and how to set up a successful online business and the starter membership is free. Give them a look or check out my review of them in another post here on my website.
carl