There was this question I always asked myself years ago, “How do I earn money online?”. This question lasted in my mind with no promising answer.
Having realized that there was no answer within me, I was geared up to reach out to moms who work from home. And in order to extend my findings to other people in my former shoes, I came up with this article.
Yes! I know there are many people out there who are on the lookout for ways to earn legit money online while working from home.
Three questions always pop up in this category of people’s minds – How do I get started, how much can I earn, and how legit is the job? Worry no more. I have answers to these questions and more within this article.
Can we start?
How Do You Earn Money Online?
1. Blogging
I decided to make blogging the first on the list because it’s proven to be one of the most flexible ways to earn online with no limit.
You make money through blogging when people read your articles. And that is what I am trying to achieve as you read this article. Thank you!
Your work is to make people read your posts. If you have a good number of people who read your posts frequently, you’ll earn multiple streams of income. With your blog, you can also decide to partner with companies as an affiliate.
Check out my post on 15 Effective Affiliate Marketing Guides & Tips here.
How Much Can I Make?
To answer your question on how much you can earn through blogging, I know bloggers who make between $2,000-$100,000 and more per month.
2. Freelance Writing
If writing is your hobby, you can write to make money. I learned from a writer I once interviewed that a writer can make over $200,000 a year. Are you surprised like I was?
If you develop your writing skills and charge the right rate, you will make your money.
3. Proofreading
Some people find it easy to locate errors while reading. Some even pause when they hit a grammatical blunder in a write-up. If you find yourself in this category of people, it will be lucrative for you to venture into proofreading. As a proofreader, you can make between $1,000-$4,000 a month.
4. Virtual Bookkeeper
The role of a bookkeeper is to keep financial records for small business owners. In one of my interviews with a bookkeeper, I learned that she generates $2000 monthly. She started with no experience.
5. Selling on Amazon
If you know how to make a good deal, Amazon FBA will be a good program for you to make legit money. All you have to do is to look for good products in brick-and-mortar stores or online marketplaces and sell them on Amazon at higher prices.
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Amazon offers you the benefit of shipping your goods to your customers and is in charge of handling your customer service.
How much you can make depends on how much work you are going to do and how much time and resources you will input.
6. Teach or Tutor
These days, online teaching is one of the common ways of disseminating knowledge across to students and tutees. You can, therefore, key into this to make money if you have teaching proficiency in certain subject(s). You can make $10 to $50 per hour.
7. Social Media Managing
If you are always active on Social Media, you can turn the time spent on social media sites into making money. To earn money through this means, you have to sign up to post on behalf of other businesses. You should have it in mind that, to do this, it requires knowledge about the different social media platforms, merged with communication and organizational skills.
You can earn between $1000 and $10,000 monthly with this expertise alone. This greatly depends on how many clients you have.
8. Virtual Assistance
If you are skilled in the areas of editing, social media managing, graphic design, data entry, administrative duties and more, you should consider becoming a virtual assistant. Being a virtual assistant, you can make $25 to $100 an hour.
9. Transcribing
A transcriptionist listens to audio records and inscribes what he hears on paper or types it. If you are talented in listening to audio recordings for hours, you can choose to venture into this.
You can generate $7 to $21 per hour or even more.
10. Virtual Receptionist
By venturing into this, you answer calls and web chats for companies and consultants for smith.ia. Smith operates for 13 hours from Monday to Friday.
To work for smith.ai, you must be available for 4 hours every weekday. This amounts to 20 hours a week. The minimum working hours are 20 hours per week, while the maximum is 40 hours a week. Applications are only accepted for applicants from the US, Canada, or Mexico.
Payments and Benefits
Smith.ai pays per hour and the lowest pay is $10 per hour. Your pay increases with how long you have been with the company and your operational efficiency.
Their benefits are Insurance benefits (dental, and vision insurance), retirement plan, and cash bonus.
11. Life Coach
If you love helping people and have a passion for personal development, you can go into life coaching. Also, if you want to create a business of yours, you should also consider this.
How much you earn doing this depends on your target market. You can charge $47 if you are targeting low earnings and up to $300 if you are targeting high earnings.
Another factor that influences how much you earn is the type of coaching model you do. Is it one-on-one coaching or group coaching?
12. Dropshipping
Dropshipping is a type of business strategy where you find buyers for other people’s products from a dropshipping company. You do not need to buy nor see the products. When you find a customer, the product is being delivered from the drop shipper to the customer.
You make a profit by charging your customer higher than what the drop shipping company charges you.
How much you can make depends on how much effort you put into your work. You can make up to $10,000 on a monthly basis.
13. Graphic Design
Do you love to make designs or are you skilled and experienced in Adobe Creative Suite/Adobe Creative Cloud? You can turn all of these into regular income.
You can make up to $300 per hour depending on how experienced you are.
14. Travel Agent
If you love to travel or enjoy the fantasy that comes with helping people on travelling issues, you may choose to turn this into a lucrative means of making money by becoming a travel agent.
15. Search Engine Evaluator
The duty of a search engine or social media evaluator is to rate search engine results and social media ads for relevance. The benefit of this work is that it requires no training and you schedule your time off work. As an evaluator, you can make up to $14 per hour.
16. Customer Service Representative
As a customer service representative, you provide information about products and services. Companies now employ customer service representatives online. You can key into this to generate income from home.
Doing this, you stand to make up to $20 per hour depending on the company you work for. Below are the pay rates for some companies.
- Hilton: $10-$21 per hour
- Apple: $13-$19 per hour
- Amazon: $11
To get started, check out the above websites and apply to see the list of available positions.
Other Ways to Make Money
17. Earn Money Picking Trash
You can make up to $50 an hour picking up trash at parks for commercial real estate management companies. The clamoring aspect of this work is that you schedule how you want your work to go. You do not need to quit your current job. Do it as a side hustle and grow it.
You could make as high as $650,000 per year if you would concentrate on it.
18. Make Money Flipping Items from Flea Markets and Thrift Shops
The master flopper of the Flea market flipper, Rob, makes over $130,000. All he does is to flip items from the flea market and thrift shops. He does this on a part-time basis.
To start this work, you do not need a huge capital. Rob would recommend that you start with a budget of $20-$50 to find items. With this budget, you should be able to make $100-$300. After this, you can keep some profits to yourself and continue with the remaining funds.
19. Clean House
If you happen to be among the category of people who find pleasure in cleaning or you would just like to make money from it, this is a lucrative one for you.
Working part-time, you can generate up to $1000 per week. This also does not interfere with your normal day job. You can go into it on a part-time basis as well.
20. Cash In On Your Vehicle
Do you have a vehicle? You can rent it out whenever you are not using it. You can rent it out through sites like Turo and Getaround. If you are scared of releasing your property, you can drive it yourself with companies like Lyft and Uber. Another option is to use your vehicle to convey people to and off airports. You may earn $35 an hour depending on where you do this.
21. Sell Items Online
This is another means by which you can earn money online. If you have items occupying space that you are no longer using, you can sell them off. Sites like eBay, Craigslist, Gazelle, and Wallop are great platforms to show your unused properties to the world without even a shop.
If you do not have properties to sell, you can sell your friends’ unused properties and give them an agreed share of the income.
22. Create Crafts
If you are a creative person with the talent of creating furniture, accessories, jewelry, and clothing, you can decide to turn this skill into money by opening a shop on sites like Etsy. Sites like Etsy give you the avenue to make your creative talent known to the world.
23. Tax Preparation
There are business owners and individuals who need information on preparing their tax. You can help them with the information if you have knowledge of tax laws and regulations.
Although this has a specific season, there are people who make as high as $30,000 when the tax season comes. Experts in the business even earn more.
24. Rent Things Out
Apart from your vehicle which I mentioned earlier, you can rent any other item of yours out. You can rent out your items on sites like Zilot whenever you find that you aren’t using those items anymore. Apart from your items, properties like your parking space and drive-away can be released out at a cost. Airbnb also provides you with the avenue to rent out your unused room.
25. Baking and Catering
Do you have skill and interest in baking? This is a great skill you can turn into great income. Though the work may be hard to venture into, you should still not find it hard to cater or bake for small events like birthday parties, graduation parties, and even wedding ceremonies.
Find an aspect you are good at and stick to it instead of doing what you have no knowledge about.
26. Event Planning
You may be talented in planning events and enjoy the pleasure that comes with it. If so, venturing into event planning will not be a bad idea. Your duty as an event planner is to find caterers, entertainers, and venues for events. These events include birthday parties, wedding ceremonies, and more. You may consider focusing on a specific event.
27. Use Your Body
This does not mean that you should do illegal activities with your body. Modeling and acting are two of the several means of using your body to cash in money. Taking an art model, for instance, you can make between $20-$25 an hour.
28 Repair Things
Is there anything you can repair, such as a faulty light switch, a burst piece of plumbing pipe? If so, you can venture into it. All you will need are the required repair tools. There are a lot of people who started small and have gone big with it.
29. Resume Help
Writing a good resume is hard. Even if you think you have the required experience, you can still go wrong with it. This is a loophole for you if you are talented at writing.
Conclusion
While you’re considering earning a side hustle from home, you may want to start a website of your own (your virtual real estate), and earn financial freedom from blogging. As a newbie, I would recommend that you try out the WA blogging platform – the internet marketing and blogging community that has grown at a pace faster than the industry. You can read my review about WA through this link.
Hi Sierra,
It’s a fantastic resource for those who want to make money from home. Although, if I were you, I’d have added the number “29” along with the “legit ways to make money from home.” What it does is that it gives a hint that there are a certain amount of ways/methods mentioned in the blog post. Such tactics force readers to open the blog post and go through it.
Hey Hassaan, Im very much excited about receiving your visit to my blog! Yes, I’ve done exactly as you recommended. I’ve modified the title of the post in question “29 Legit Ways to Make Money from home” and it sounds awsome. Thanks for your awesome guide once again! Much appreciated!
Making money from home has become the new trend to most people and because the benefits attached to it is what makes it a great catch. The freedom that comes with working from home and not having to answer to anybody. I love everything shared here so far and it makes quite a lot of sense here. Thank you so much for all shared here
Thanks again, Nath! Of the 29 ways to make money from home, there’s none that hasn’t been tried and tested by many people out there and I have tried out some, of course. When you start making money from home, you will see no reason anymore to work for anyone again!
Sierra, this a nice, long list of legitimate ways to make money. The first 16 ways are of the most interest to me, because building an online business seems to be one of the most efficient ways to build a business of any kind. Blogging is the first on your list and that’s one the appeals to me.
How successful have you been at any of these online businesses? Which is your favorite?
Hey Garin, thanks for reaching out! Blogging helps you build your site and makes you stay ahead of the competitors so fast. It helps you make money online legitimately and passively without having to ever report to any boss. Research shows that websites with a blog get four times more traffic than websites without a blog. Thanks again for dropping by, stop by anytime!