7 Simple Business Ideas You Can Start from Home

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Nowadays there’s a lot of potential for extra income. There’s a huge range of jobs or tasks that can earn you extra money. Moreover, there’s a lot of possibilities to even start an online business. On the other hand, no matter what kind of job or activity you take, you will need to work hard to make results. That’s how success is made.

Nevertheless, there are many stories on the internet about people quitting their jobs for their online business or other online careers. Since we are living in a digital age where everything is within the reach of a hand, including information and knowledge of different skills, everyone can have a side job to earn some extra money. Moreover, there are even some companies that can hire you to work remotely. Here are some ideas about what you could start doing from home. Our recommendation is to use a management tool like Monday.com for your work, so you can organize better your remote work.

Become a Freelancer

If you have skills or knowledge in a specific area, you can use it to earn some extra money by becoming a freelancer. There are many people who are looking for someone who can create a marketing or ad campaign, write a project, analyze data or even make a Microsoft presentation! Most importantly, you don’t have to be a professional to help others. While you might not earn a lot from the start, but in time your reputation as a freelancer and your portfolio will grow resulting in more earnings.

Write an e-Book

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Writing and publishing a book is easier than ever. With many online tools, you will be able to solve all of the technical problems with releasing the book including editing, printing, and selling.  On the other hand, writing a book takes effort and time. Most importantly, one must have an idea for a story and a vision, how that story develops. While that is not for everyone, writing an e-book is a good way to earn passive income.

Open an Online Store

This business idea is widely used on the internet, as one of the easiest ways to make money online. While the logic behind owning an online store is simple and easy, in reality, it requires a lot of hard work and effort to make it successful. Nevertheless, if you have some t-shirt designs in mind that you like, you could try creating an online t-shirt business. All you need is a simple store, which you can make for free and without any coding knowledge with WordPress with a nice WordPress theme. Then you would need some plugins installed like WooCommerce and WordPress Booking forms like the ones CaptainForm.com has and have a marketing plan on how to attract customers. Moreover, you could create beautiful ads with your designs using t-shirt mockups to make things a bit easier.

Photo Editing

If you’re good with photo editing programs like Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop you can try to edit other people’s photos for them. There are many people who love to take pictures but hate editing them. Moreover, it’s easy to do it online with the help of platforms like Dropbox. All you need to do is to find the people who need your help using Facebook groups, freelance website or on other social networks.

Hold an Event

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Holding an event is not only a good way to earn some money, but make some new connections, exchange knowledge with others and of course have some good time. You can start everything from home, by brainstorming ideas, partners and activities for the participants. You can even write a project for a local municipality, NGO or any other public-sector institution. While it might require a lot of planning and time upfront, but it’s a nice job idea for the creative people out there.

Create a Course

If you think you have some knowledge or expertise that is worth sharing with others, try making an online course. The most amazing thing about it is that you only need to make the course once and then pick the best online course platform to sell your courses to get some money each month depending on how many people buy the course. Moreover, you can increase the sales by launching some digital marketing campaigns or by find someone who would do the job of marketing for you instead.

Start Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is a business that, simply put, is connecting products to customers. All you need to do to is to find affiliate programs, share the products and services with people and if they buy it, you get a commission. While it might sound or look easy, in reality, it needs a lot of effort, time and knowledge, which can be acquired through time and learning. Despite that, there are many ways and options on how to make a successful affiliate.

You can start a blog, YouTube channel, Facebook group or page, work with Instagram or YouTube influencers, make ad campaigns etc. With some research and creative ideas in time, you can even make it your full-time job.