Want to Make Money From Home, Try These Small Business Ideas

Are you still wondering how you can earn a living working from home? Even if you have a 9-5 job, you can still work from home and earn some good money on the side. Circumstances have forced more and more people to work from the comfort of their homes in recent times particularly because of the covid pandemic restrictions. This trend is likely to continue into the foreseeable future. Remote work at home is fun, convenient, profitable and quite suitable for stay-at-home-mums in particular. So, if you are keen on becoming a home-based entrepreneur yourself, you may consider the following small business ideas for starters.

 
Content Writing

Anyone with the right skills and knowledge can write content for their blog or for marketers. Content is written principally to attract traffic to a business website. Content is hugely important for online marketing purposes because it is key to search engine rankings. Great content can be packaged in form of blogs, video scripts, and eBooks to attract prospects, leads and customers. Content writers can use existing content writing platforms like Fiverr or Upwork or go it alone on their privately hosted blogs. Whatever way you choose to write content, so long as it attracts traffic, it is OK. That is the traffic that will enable you to promote and sell products and to earn commissions if such products are from a third party product merchant.

Online Teaching/Tutoring

If you have the academic qualifications and inclination, you can teach subjects in any educational area online to earn money. Online teaching business is a perfect business to start from home. When people are generally restricted as in recent episode of covid pandemic, more and more people became interested in online school and home schooling. At such times, anxious parents usually arrange some form of teaching for their children and wards outside the traditional classroom education. That creates a lot of demand for online teaching. It is one job anyone can undertake from the comfort of their homes provided they have a good web cam, a good backdrop, microphone, and lighting backed by a decent computer and reliable internet connection.
 
Virtual Assistant Services

Most busy Executives these days require the services of Virtual Assistants, VA to help them out with routine jobs. If you have the temperament, great organizational, communication and detail skills, you can become a Virtual Assistant.  VA can be an excellent business opportunity for anyone who is willing and able to work for busy Executives. To do well, you’ll need to have unhindered access to a computer, the internet and a phone. VAs usually support Executives by way of a variety of routine tasks such as handling communications like social media handles, emails, phone calls and even Whatsapp and text messages. They can help their employers to schedule meetings and events, travels, hotel reservations, and any other routine administrative details.

Marketing and Branding

You can have a viable home business if you have a penchant for packaging and branding products or people. It is just like some sort of consulting or coaching business. To get known in this business, you can raise your profile through public speaking, writing articles, growing your following on social media or contributing to existing blogs and newsletters. It is simple to get started. All you need to get going is a functional Website, Logo, Business name, e-mail, Business cards, online stationery (for proposals and invoices), a cell phone and a good idea and you are in business for real.

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is one great way to earn income from home by promoting products for product merchants and getting paid commissions for your efforts. To get started, you need to select good products related to your business niche to promote through your blog content. With a good computer and access to the internet, you get going with affiliate marketing. Since advertising is costly, product merchants are always looking for affiliates to help promote their products as a cost-saving opportunity. That is where affiliate marketers get to be in business. All they need is to have a blog or a website where they can steadily promote products for product merchants. It can even be done through some sort of sponsored content with influencers particularly on social media. This way, affiliate marketers can build quite some profitable business by simply driving traffic to a business website. If clicks/sales are made from the website through the affiliate links embedded in the content, the affiliate earns a commission.

Web Designing

Web designing requires skills and knowledge of the computer and the internet. In the digital space of the internet, starting a web design business from home can be a lucrative business avenue. Most people are taking their businesses online, and these people need functional and well-hosted websites for that purpose. With an internet access and solid hardware and software that meet your needs, you can design websites for online business owners and make good money. If you can arrange good hosting for the website and help to optimize the content with relevant keywords, you make money too. Search Engine Optimization SEO, on the website is one skill set in high demand you really need. Through it, websites get high ranking on the SERPs of search engines and that helps such websites to receive good organic traffic from the search engines.

Selling Products Online

Yeah, you can do business out of an eCommerce store of your own. These days, many more people are doing a large portion of their shopping online. You can take advantage of that to sell your own products/services. It is up to you to sell whatever product/service you choose. You can do so through a number of online platforms like Etsy, Amazon Marketplace and the likes that may offer you free or low-cost slots for your online store. If you understand the platform you are using well enough and how to use it to sell your products/services, you can make good sales and earn income. However, you must make sure you have the right marketing strategy suitable for each platform and the products/services you are selling are in demand.

Transcription Services

The world is increasingly interconnected and there a lot of info out there that needs transcribing. Researchers, medical services/hospitals, journalists and even graduate students do need transcription services a great deal to help them with huge data that needs transcribing. This data may be in the form of audio and video. What the transcriptionist simply does is to listen or watch the content then type out the exact words spoken. This is often with time stamps to enable their clients use the materials in their work without too much stress. The main skill you need is the ability to listen well and type fast enough to get the whole stuff down for easy read. As a transcriptionist, you earn less if you work for a service than if you work directly for yourself. That is typical of most freelance jobs though.

Customer Service

Customer service is usually one huge headache particularly for big companies. Because the field is wide and varied, some companies are flexible enough to allow for home-based or remote work to handle their customer service. The service entails so much since you can never know with customers. However, in dealing with customers many companies usually need help to take orders from customers, answer questions, guide them through billing and a number of other activities that customers may spring up requiring quick handling. Good customer service operators get paid handsomely.