Are you looking to make some extra money every month to pay your bills?
Are there any real work from home jobs?
Yes, there are
If we look around, there are many opportunities out there.
This post contains 15 ways earn money from home that anyone can try.
1. Freelance Writing
People are visiting websites for information and websites need contents. Websites owners normally look for freelance writer to write their contents when they choose not to write the contents themselves.
If you enjoy writing, you will be able to earn quite good money here. Some experience writers earn full time income.
2. Become Virtual Assistant
A virtual assistants helps individual or small business owners taking care of various tasks online. This includes answering email, moderating blog comments, managing social media, schedule meeting and many more.
For virtual assistant job, you can find your own clients or look for companies that hire.
There are many companies that hire virtual assistants, Upwork , Fancy Hands, Zirtual and many more
As a virtual assistant, you can work at anywhere you like.
3. Telecommuting Customer Service
Helping companies in answering customer phone calls with answers to their questions.
Many big companies like Amazon, Home Shopping Network and many more are hiring work from home telecommuting customer service specialist.
Here are a few companies and online job board that offer remote customer service positions
4. Live Chat Customer Service
This position is similar to the telecommuting customer service, the only difference is that the live chat customer service uses type messages in answering customer questions.
There are increasing number of companies uses live chat to support their customers. This is getting more popular as there are many people who prefer live chat to using the phone.
You will be able to find this position at the same places I mentioned above.
5. Become a transcriptionist
A transcriptionist listens to audio recording and puts it onto paper. For this position, you need to type fast. You’ll make good money doing this.
The audio recording could be anything from interviews, medical files, court hearings, college/university lectures and many others.
Below are companies that hire transcriptionist
6. Start a YouTube channel
You can start a YouTube channel today on any topic you want.
There are many ways you can make money with YouTube channel.
- Advertisements
- Sell your products
- Direct traffic to affiliate links
- Attract sponsor to advertise on your channel
Do you know that there is a YouTube channel with a kid opening toys is generating A Million $ income per year?
7. Social Media Freelancer
Many people are on social media these days. You will be able to get a social media job and helping companies and individuals who do not have time for that or who have no idea how to do it.
Some companies and job boards that hire social freelancer are
8. Translator
If you speak more than one language, you could apply for a translator job. The job involves translating of text or speeches into a language that the audience can understand.
Below are some of the best websites offering translation jobs online:
9. Take Photo
If you like taking photo, you can sell your photo online and make some money.
There are demands for photo and images for websites development.
Below are a few online sites you can sell your photo
10. Test Websites
Companies are paying internet users to surf their website and give opinion on the functionality of the website.
11. Taking Online Surveys
Taking surveys is definitely not a way to earn a full time income but this is an easy way to earn some extra cash.
- American Consumer Panel
- Inbox Dollars
- Opinion Outpos
- Pinecone Research
- Survey Club
- Swagbucks
- Vindale Research
12. Participate in Paid Research Studies
Companies are always conducting research studies on their products and technologies. The results collected help them build better products for their consumers.
Paid User Studies always looking for people to participate.
13. Blogging
If you have a passion that you like to share with people, blogging is good for you. Even if you do not have a passion for anything but you are good at research for information for certain niche on the internet.
You’ll be able to help many people in that particular niche.
You do not need to be a writer. You just need to share information to peopleonline. It is actually hard to believe that blogging can generate full time income for anyone. You’ll need to put in hard work (for some of you,it is a FUN work) and time.
If you need money fast, this is not the right choice.
However, you can incorporate blogging into your daily life by spending few hours a week doing it.
You might be interested to know what are some ways to make money blogging.
14. Building Websites
There are many ways to make money from building websites
- Build websites for individuals or companies
- Sell products on websites
- Blogging
- Website for sale
Building websites is not as complicated as you think.
You can actually build a website without any knowledge of computer software coding.
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15. Affiiliate Marketing
What is Affiliate Marketing?
Selling other company’s products online and earn a commission. If you are blogging and you have a website, you might want to try this.
You can learn affiliate marketing here for free.
Final Thought
As you can see above, there are plenty of opportunities out there. There are literally thousands of ways to make extra money. You simply need to keep your eyes open and not be afraid to try new things.
People look for online jobs because of the many advantages including flexibility and convenience of working from home.
The 15 ways earn money from home listed above offer flexibility that you can choose to work around your schedule.
Do you find any of these jobs a good fit for you?
If you have any questions or information you need, please let me know.
I am glad to hear from you. ?
This is an awesome list. There are some in here that I would have never even thought of. I have recently got into blogging and affiliate marketing and it has been so fun. Which ones do you like the most? Do you do more than one? I think it would be pretty fun to try th live chat support. I would have never even thought of doing something like that.
Thanks for all the awesome suggestions.
Thank you for stopping by. Actually when we look around, there are many opportunities to earn money from home.
I’m happy to hear that you’re enjoying blogging and affiliate marketing. This is what I’m doing right now. Blogging and affiliate marketing have brought in some good money for me. Besides this, I build websites for my clients.
Live Chat is a good one to try since we are working with computer 🙂
I wish you success in your blogging and affiliate marketing.
Thanks for writing this article on 15 ways to earn money from home. I must say, am really impressed with all the ways you mention in this article.i hope many find this information helpful ,there are many work from home like you said but finding the right one that you feel comfortable with can be challenging at times but what I always advice since there is so many to choose from, is to do more findings and research on each of them to know the best to choose from.
Thank you for stopping by and leaving your comments.
As we know there are many work from home jobs, your advice to do more findings and research in choosing the best one is helpful.
I absolutely love what I read in this insightful article because it is full of great information. This is fascinating and interesting to me.
Your article has given me more insight about working from home conveniently.with my affiliate marketing, I would love to add blogging to make it big in online business. Thanks for the review, it’s really informational. Best regards
Thank you for reading and leaving your comments. I’m glad that you find the article useful.
To add blogging into your affiliate marketing will definitely beneficial to your business.
I wish you success in your affiliate marketing business and blogging. ?
Wow. There is a lot to digest here and some really great leads to earning money from home. I work full time and am looking to make some extra money on the side but the time I can commit fluctuates greatly each week and the time of day that I can commit is also in flux.
Of the options listed, what in your opinion may provide the most flexibility with scheduling and weekly time commitment?
Thank you for stopping by.
You are working full time and your work schedule is not fixed. In my opinion, freelance writing, social media freelancer, test websites, taking online surveys are good for you. You can work on your own schedule.
If you are looking to earn money from home for long term, you can start to learn how to build website and learn affiliate marketing.
Let me know which one have you chosen. Good luck 🙂
Honestly, I have learned and upgraded my knowledge level through the ideas I have gathered from this awesome article. In fact, i just bookmarked this piece of work to serve as a reference point for me. There is nothing more interesting as having time freedom to work on your pace and actually make money doing that . All you outlined in this article are highly resourceful. Thank you.
Thank you for reading and I’m glad that you find the information helpful.
I did not realize at all that Amazon hired for work at homes, that’s amazing and definately a trustworthy company unlike the tons of scams out there. Every one of your companies listed are genuine companies and no one should have any fear working for them. I think it is really tough to find the good guys out of the hundreds of bad guys on the internet, and you did a fantastic job with the list you provided. Truly impressive, and I didn’t even realize about some of the types of work you mentioned. You mentioned Swagbucks, I must say when I was in a really bad pinch (not so long ago) I relied on Swagbucks to make money for food. There is a bit of a wait to make enough, then wait for a gift certificate and it is like you said not a lot of money, but it sure pulled me through several times. I love Swagbucks still use it for my online shopping and purchasing gift certificates. Every bit counts! Nice article thank you.
Thank you for reading and sharing your experiences working with Swagbucks.
I agree with you that there are many bad guys on the internet. They never pay you for the jobs you have completed for them. Try Amazon, you may find some job that fit your schedule.
For long term, earn money from home doing Affiliate Marketing is a good choice.
I hope you can make some money from the information I shared in my article.
Good Luck 🙂
There’s a lot of scam sites out there trying to trick people into giving up their hard earned money promising riches from working at home. These are some great ideas to find legitimate work at home opportunities. I’ve heard of quite a few of these but becoming a transcriber is definitely a new one for me!
Thank you for stopping by and leaving your comments.
Be careful when looking for work from home job. Only work with legitimate company that will pay you for completing the job and most importantly never required to pay any joining fee.
Hey Christine,
I really like this post. You really outline practical ways to earn money online. Do you have any estimates on how much someone can earn in each category? I would assume that there is a huge variance… I’ve heard of some millionaire YouTubers to YouTubers who make part-time income.
I think my top favourite methods that you’ve posted about are: (9) Taking photos, (13) Blogging, (14) Building websites and (15) Affiliate marketing since those seem to be the most passive forms. I’m sure YouTube is probably one of the best as well.
Thanks for the great summary here!
Thank you for reading and leaving your comments.
How much one can earn from any category, depends on the amount of work done and the company offering the job.
You heard it right. Some YouTubers makes millions of $ and some not making much. It all depends on the topics and the audience. If you start a YouTube channel, you never know how far it will go….
If you choose to work on any of the passive ways of making money, I wish you good luck and much success.🙂