15 Best online businesses to start making money at home

Online businesses gained much more importance after this unfortunate pandemic arrived. So, why not to earn money online from the luxury of your home? You, me and everyone else want to start a home business and start it with least investment. Let me help you find your way to earn money online through your online businesses, right from the comfort of your home.

Earning online will get you rid of your nine-to-five job. But never leave your current job until you find some reliable source of income from the internet or establish your online business completely. 

Here are some ideas from which you might find your thousands dollars online business!

Here are the details you need to compare. You can choose one out of these to start a home based online business today!

Sell your digital product

start making money online through digital products business
start digital products business right from your home and start making money online

Can you make:

  • an eBook
  • a design
  • a photograph
  • a website template
  • an animation
  • a software
  • an app

or anything that can provide value to people and people often buy it on the internet? You can earn even if your answer is no! Because you can outsource. All you need is knowing about something that can provide some value to customers and you can outsource your product. There are thousands of eBook makers, designers, photographers, website makers, animators, software and app developers on freelancing platforms who can help you release your product. Once you developed your product, you can upload it on your website, Shutterstock, Envato, Play Store or any other platform that suits your product to sell. So, why not to upload a digital product on the internet and start making money online from home even while sleeping?

Start a niche website or blog

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Start making money online from home through your niche website today

You can start your own niche website or blog that people can read, get value, and watch some ads so that you can earn some online income passively. WordPress, Blogger, Squarespace can help you build a niche website or blog where you can showcase your talent of writing articles. You’ll have to do some SEO of your blog to start getting organic audience and once you are in search engine rankings, you are always able to earn some handsome amount of money passively. 

Grow an audience

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Be an influencer right from your home and start making money

Have you ever read this phrase (or similar) while watching some posts on Facebook, Instagram, twitter, YouTube or any other social platform: “Contains paid promotion”? You surely have! The courtesy: a big audience that page, channel or profile has. People search for big audience to promote their content where they find their target audience. Once you start a page, or profile that shows posts from some niche like fashion, weight loss related etc., posting about the niche will add into your followers. And the day will come when you’ll be earning from the paid promotions after the stakeholders contact you. The key is: keep posting regularly so that the stakeholders & your platform keep knowing that you are still active. 

Train online

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Teach or train online to start earning from your home

Have you got some skill that is teachable? You can see Piximperfect, Simplilearn channels on YouTube as a sample. You surely have some, find that out and start teaching it to others on the internet. Choose to offer it for free on YouTube and earn ad revenue. Or you can record all the lectures of the training and sell it on Coursera or Udemy. You can earn passive money online through teaching and training the people around the world. All you need is a teaching mindset, a skill and some pretty good English communication skills. When people start buying your courses and leave good reviews, your mission of making passive income online has started to observe success. The skill can be: 

  • Subject related grip
  • Art and crafts
  • Motivation about something
  • Fitness training
  • Web designing
  • App development

Or it can be as simple as having a grip on our very favourite “Canva”, people want to know more about it; train them as they don’t necessarily know it up to the full extent; although you may think it’s oversimple thing, but still you can tell people about its hacks and secrets to make their designs flawless. (Canva is just an example, you can find many simple things out of your specialities that people are searching to know more about these) 

Start a Provice

Provice means a combo of product and service, a term devised by me :-p Let’s see when it becomes part of Oxford Dictionary. Provice means providing a product with the service. You can start with a digital product with support at additional cost, like a website template with installation and customization, with an additional $10 or so. It adds to the credibility and realness of your brand. 

Pets Advice

All of us love pets. Don’t we? A lot of us have these as well. If you are one out of them, and have been keeping pets since long, you must have a lot of knowledge about these and you can start guiding people on YouTube, or can offer one-one sessions with your clients. You can also start a pets blog with healthy affiliate marketing revenue. 

E-sports

E-sport is a billion dollars industry and people are getting more into it. Stakeholders earn money through developing, publishing, managing, maintaining, hosting, streaming and playing. If you can do any of these tasks, you can earn for fun. You can play and stream games on different platforms. The biggest difference between gaming and other streamings is that gaming has more playtime and you don’t have to prepare and write the content or script, and you can livestream for hours without any prior preparations or editing. 

So, if you are passionate about gaming, convert this passion into dollars today! You can start with streaming the game on YouTube. As inspiration, you should visit PewDiePie channel if you haven’t already. 

Print on demand: A best online business

Customized gifts are the best to present to your loved ones. You can start selling print-on-demand products, and you don’t have to set up a complete print facility by investing a tremendous amount of money. All you need is logging in to a website like Teespring and setting your designs on the shirts or any item available for customization. Set up your storefront, a proper profile, and start sharing your products to your audience. Once someone will buy a shirt, you will get a profit that was set up by you during setting up the product’s design. It is such a great option to start earning passive income for free. So, don’t be too late and sign up for your store today!

Sell art and craft items

One of my friends sells Nail Art gift items and earns around 30k per month. You must have seen videos of 5-Minutes Crafts on YouTube. Aren’t these satisfying? If you are interested in doing such tasks, or you’ve command on some art, start selling your arts and crafts today. If it’s digital art, sell on Shutterstock, and if you are interested in crafts, you can sell them in your locality. People love these incredibly beautiful things. But don’t sell the items that are much fragile and damaged during delivery. 

Start drop shipping: a great online business

You can initiate your brand by dropshipping at start. All you need is having an agreement with some supplier who takes orders and packs the products on your behalf and sends the product to the customer and shares the profit with you. Just start with setting up a simple word press website and installing woo-commerce on it. You will get your profit like affiliate marketing, without being involved in the profit. But in this case, you are aiming to make your own new brand in the future. Just take care of the fact that the quality of the products is never compromised in dropshipping, so, always get affiliated with a trusted supplier. 

Start a digital marketing agency

Businesses need to establish themselves on social media these days because social media is influencing the entrepreneurs. So, businesses need some social media marketing agency who can market them in a best possible way to outrank the competitors. All you need is learning algorithms of social media advertisement and offer the clients to work for them. In the start, you can learn algorithms of only one social media platform and work for someone for free. If they like your work, they will hire you for their social media advertisement. Later you can assemble a full-fledged team to handle whole social media advertisements of companies. 

Make a “sustainable store”

Carbon footprint of the Earth is piling up day by day and we all should take care of it. Many of us are aware of the fact and prefer to buy the products that are labeled as Eco-friendly; these can be some thing produced organically at home, something that is produced from the leftover or anything that can help reducing the carbon footprint. The eco-concious audience will appreciate your efforts and will show it by purchasing your products rather than their non eco friendly counterparts. Think what you can do and start today. 

Do Foodpanda!

Can you or someone from your family cook in a way you’re left with licking fingers at the end? Why not take this taste to another level and get some bucks out of it? Sign up on Foodpanda today, fulfil thier standard requirements and start selling your skill of imparting finger licking foods! Not a bad business to start at home specially when all you have to do is cooking the food and handing it over to delivery person. 

Freelance: Best online business to start

Got a digital skill? Sign up on Fiverr or UpWork today and showcase your skills before the world. You can write for bloggers, design for brands, edit videos and photos for companies, coach somebody, compose a piece of music and the list goes on. Just be yourself and communicate in a professional way, and you will be the best in town. Freelancing is ever growing industry as more businesses want to lessen the nine-to-five employees in the offices due to the ongoing pandemic and hiring a freelancer reduces the expenses as well. Here is how you start freelancing on Fiverr today.

Help people buy the best!

Do you shop online a lot? Do you order a make up article each week? Are you fond of purchasing new shirts each day? Start reviewing these by setting up a blog and share your experience regarding these products you love to shop online and tell the people their pros and cons. It not only will start your ad revenue but you can refer the customers to the platform from where you have bought it and earn a profit share from the sales generated through your affiliate link for that product you have reviewed. 

Endnotes

Going through all this, you might have read about at least one home based business that knocked your brain and you know what’s the best? If you start that today, by knowing more about this on YouTube for free or any manageable resource, you can start and manage it well because it is the one you are interested in! Yes, believe me you can do wonders in that by starting that online home-based business today. Is there anything in the list that knocked your mind? If so, please tell me in the comments so I may write more about that. Or if you want to add to this list, you are welcomed in the comments section! All the best!

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