What are the best ways to earn from home?
As you’ll learn below, there are many ways to make money from home.
Some that are listed below include:
- Starting a blog
- Selling on Amazon
- Sell printables on Etsy
- Sell stickers from home
- Run Facebook ads for local businesses at home
- Sell Canva templates
- Becoming an online tutor
- Becoming a virtual assistant
- Writing an eBook
- Starting an online store
- Proofreading
- Bookkeeping
- Flipping items for profit
- Freelance writing
- Earn affiliate income at home
- Teaching English from home
- Write romance novels at home
- Becoming a transcriptionist
- Voice over act
Plus, much more! There are many ways to earn money from home using the internet.
Start a blog to make a living from home.
Okay, so this one isn’t an interview I did with someone else, it’s my personal story! I had to include it because it’s my favorite way to earn money from home. This is definitely one of the real ways to make money from home because I do it.
I created Making Sense of Cents around 7 years ago, and since then, I have earned over $4,000,000 with my blog and over $1,500,000 just in one year.
Blogging changed my life for the better, and it allows me to earn thousands of dollars a month, all by doing something that I love.
My blog was created on a whim as a way to track my own personal finance progress. And, when I started in 2011, I honestly didn’t even know that people could make money blogging!
I did not create Making Sense of Cents to earn money from home, but after only six months, I began to make money.
Blogging is quite affordable to start, and it’s easy as well.
Sell on Amazon to make money online.
Yes, you can make money by selling on Amazon! The world’s largest online retailer has many, many people who sell items and earn money from home.
Jessica Larrew, of The Selling Family, explains how selling on Amazon may be a possibility for you. She is a friend of mine, and I am blown away by her success!
In the first year that Jessica’s family ran their Amazon FBA business together, working less than 20 hours a week total, they made over $100,000 profit!
Jessica also has a FREE 7 day course that will teach you everything you need to know in order to start selling on Amazon. I recommend signing up for it now!
This would be a great side hustle or even new job, and if you want more information, click on the interview link below.
In this interview, we talk about:
- How Jessica started selling on Amazon FBA.
- What exactly Amazon FBA is.
- How to choose what to buy and sell.
- How much a person can expect to earn.
- The positives of selling on Amazon, and more.
Learn more at How To Work From Home Selling On Amazon FBA.
Sell printables on Etsy
Did you know that people buy printables?
Making printables on Etsy can be a great idea because you just need to create one digital file per product, which you can then sell an unlimited number of times.
This is something that you can easily do from home, and you don’t need any crazy equipment.
So, what exactly are printables?
Printables are online products that customers can download and print at their own home. Examples include grocery shopping checklists, gift tags, candy bar wrappers, printable quotes for wall art, and patterns. Printables are very popular because they can allow a customer to manage their household easier, be more creative, have what they need, and all they need to do is print it at their home.
You can sign up for this free ebook that helps you figure out where to start when it comes to selling printables on Etsy.
I also recommend reading this to learn more How I Make Money Selling Printables On Etsy.
Sell stickers from home
Another way to earn money from home that is related to the above is that you can sell stickers at home.
Yes, you can sell both printed and printable stickers online.
Stickers are currently extremely popular (and have been for awhile) and will most likely be for years to come. Stickers are used for so many different reasons, and you don’t need a ton of equipment to start a sticker business.
This is a fun stay way to earn money from home that you can start right away.
You can learn more at How To Make $1,000+ A Month Selling Stickers Online.
Run Facebook ads for local businesses at home
By running Facebook ads for local businesses, you can help small businesses reach new customers.
This is a skill that you can learn online as well.
Facebook is one of the largest advertising spaces that exists, so this is an area that will just continue to grow and be popular.
My friend Bobby Hoyt knows a lot about this topic. Bobby is a former high school teacher who has paid off $40,000 of student loan debt in a year and a half. He now runs the personal finance blog Millennial Money Man full-time, as well as a digital marketing agency for local businesses that he started in 2015.
I interviewed Bobby about running Facebook ads, where you will learn:
- Why small businesses need Facebook advertising to find new customers
- How you can find your first Facebook ads client
- How much you can make doing this type of work – the average is around $1,000 extra a month per client
Also, Bobby has a free webinar on this topic if this is one of the stay at home jobs you’d like to learn more about. His webinar (you can sign up here) will teach you how to start this business even if you’re brand new, how to find paying clients, and more.
Sell Canva templates from home
You can create Canva templates to sell and make money all from your home – and never have to ship a thing.
Creating Canva templates can be a great way to make extra income because you just need to create the templates once, and you can sell them an unlimited amount of times.
I recommend reading a blog post where I answer some common questions such as:
- What exactly is a Canva template? What is Canva?
- Can I sell Canva templates?
- How do I sell my designs on Canva?
- Who buys Canva templates?
- How can I learn how to make templates to sell?
- Can someone with no tech skills make a Canva template?
You can learn more at How I Make $2,000+ Monthly Selling Canva Templates.
Become an online tutor to learn how to earn money from home without any investment.
Are you looking for a flexible side hustle as an online tutor?
Course Hero is a website that helps high school and college students with course-specific questions.
Using the website, students connect with Course Hero tutors on a wide range of subjects and classes, which makes this a great side hustle for people with different educational backgrounds and experience.
Tutors earn an average of $3 for each question they answer on Course Hero. Earning between $12-$20 per hour, Course Hero tutors earn an average of $300/week.
Learn more at How To Make $300+ Weekly As An Online Tutor With Course Hero.
Become a virtual assistant to earn money online.
One of the most real ways to make money from home for free is to become a virtual assistant. This is something that so many people are doing nowadays, and I believe the need for virtual assistants will just continue to grow and grow.
Not only does the internet allow us to complete more daily tasks online, more and more people are working from home in fields such as blogging, social media, etc. This means virtual assistants are becoming even more in demand.
Online assistant tasks may include social media management, formatting and editing content, scheduling appointments or travel, email management, and more. Basically, you can get paid to do any task that needs to be done in someone’s business, but doesn’t need to be done by them.
My friend Kayla is a full-time blogger, virtual assistant, and project manager who earns over $10,000 per month while working from home. She is also the founder of $10K VA, her course where she teaches you exactly how to regularly earn $10,000 per month as a virtual assistant!
I interviewed her at How Kayla Earns $10K/Month From Home as a Virtual Assistant, and we talk about:
- How much money you can make as a virtual assistant
- How to find your first virtual assistant job
- How to become a virtual assistant
And much more!
Write an eBook.
Alyssa self-published her first book and has sold more than 13,000 copies.
She is now earning a great passive income of over $200 a day from her book ($6,500 in one month alone!).
She is also the creator of From Blog To Book, a course that will help you write, launch, and market your first book. I’ve already signed up for the course, and the expertise she shares is absolutely amazing. Some of the modules in her course include:
- Mapping Out Your Book Content
- Strategies for Writing Your Next 30,000 Words
- Where to Publish Your Book
- Tutorial: Getting Your Book on Amazon
- Design Your Book Cover
- Set Pricing for Your Book
- Create Your Marketing Plan
You can check out her super informative course by clicking here.
Learn more at How Alyssa is making $200 a DAY in book sales passively.
Start an online store.
Yes, you can start your own online store, and you don’t need to have tons of experience or a lot of money to do so. Many people start with no background – which means that if this is something you are interested in, then you should definitely read on.
I had the chance to interview Jenn Leach of E-commerce and Prosper, who explains exactly how to start an online store and make extra income.
Jenn is a corporate mom turned e-commerce store owner and blogger.
She started her online business a little over three years ago, and since then, she has developed and grown three successful online e-commerce stores earning an average of $19,000 per month.
She is super successful despite only spending around 5-10 hours per week on her e-commerce business.
Jenn Leach also has a course called E-commerce and Prosper that teaches you how to start an online store. She reveals her successful rinse and repeat formula to students in her course. It’s the same formula she uses to earn an average of $19,000 per month. In her course you will learn:
- How to start an online store.
- Winning e-commerce success tools.
- How to turbocharge your e-commerce success.
- How to start making money in THREE days.
Learn more about this at How Jenn Makes Over $10,000 A Month With Her Online Store In Less Than 10 Hours Per Week.
Grammar nut? Try proofreading for a living.
Have you ever read an obvious mistake and wanted to fix it?
Proofreaders look for punctuation mistakes, misspelled words, lack of consistency, and formatting errors.
You take content that other people have written and then go over it with a fine-tooth comb. You might be proofreading blog posts, print articles, academic articles, website copy, ad copy, books, student papers, emails, and more.
In one year, my friend Caitlin made around $43,000 by working as a freelance proofreader.
In her free 76-minute workshop, you will learn:
- Common questions about becoming a proofreader
- How to become a proofreader
- 5 signs proofreading could be a perfect fit for you
Become a bookkeeper to earn money from home.
Ben, founder of Bookkeeper Business Academy, explains how becoming a bookkeeper to make money online may be a possibility for you.
Ben helps people start and grow their own bookkeeping business with his online bookkeeping course.
And, guess what?
You don’t have to be an accountant or have any previous experience!
In this interview, we talk about:
- What a bookkeeper is.
- The typical clients a bookkeeper has.
- How much new bookkeepers earn.
- How to become a bookkeeper.
- The positives and negatives of bookkeeping, and more.
Learn more at Make Money At Home By Becoming A Bookkeeper.
Flip items for profit to earn money from home.
Have you ever found an item that you thought you could resell for a profit?
Melissa’s family earned $42,875 in 2015 through buy and sell flipping, and they were working only 10-20 hours per week.
Yes, just 10-20 hours a week!
And in 2016, she hit $133,000!
Some of the best flipped items that they’ve done include:
- An item that they bought for $10 and flipped for $200 just 6 minutes later.
- A security tower they bought for $6,200 and flipped for $25,000 just one month later.
- A prosthetic leg that they bought for $30 at a flea market and sold for $1,000 on eBay the next day.
She also has a great book called 5 Ways to Get FREE Items To Resell for Profit, which teaches you how you can earn money from home by flipping items.
You can learn more at How Melissa Made $40,000 In One Year Flipping Items.
Start a successful freelance writing career.
Becoming a freelance writer is one of the best ways to make money online.
A freelance writer is someone who writes for a number of different clients, such as websites, blogs, magazines, and more. They don’t work for one specific company, rather they work for themselves and contract out their writing.
If you want to learn how to make money online for beginners, this is one that many newbies start with.
My friend Holly from EarnMoreWriting.com (as well as the popular personal finance blog Club Thrifty) is a very successful freelance writer and has earned over $200,000 writing online!
Her freelance writing course includes nine video modules, several printable worksheets, and awesome add-ons, too. Here are some of the things you can expect to learn if you take her freelance writing course:
- Discover the #1 most important thing you can do to get paid writing jobs.
- Learn how to find beginner jobs and move up over time.
- Learn how price affects the amount of work you get.
- Learn which types of jobs help me (Holly) earn the most pay, and where you can find them.
- Find out which online platforms work best for finding paid work, and how to use them.
- Learn how to structure your work day to earn six figures or more.
Learn more at How I Earn $200,000+ Writing Online Content.
Earn affiliate income at home
For me, this is the top way that I earn money at home.
So, what is affiliate marketing?
Affiliate marketing is when you earn an income by placing a referral link on your website, blog, Instagram, Facebook, and so on and have people purchase a product or service through your referral link.
An example would be Amazon book sales, where you link to a specific book on your blog and try to get people to purchase the book through your affiliate link. Amazon and other companies want quality affiliates under their belt because they want all the help they can get to promote the products and services they are selling.
If you get someone to sign up through your affiliate link, the company pays you for promoting their product.
You can share an affiliate link with your audience in many different ways, such as:
- By adding an affiliate link to your blog (you can do this by inserting a link within a blog post, page, email, etc.)
- Sharing it on social media
- And more!
If you want to learn more about affiliate marketing, I recommend signing up for Affiliate Marketing Tips For Bloggers – Free eBook.
Teach English to earn money from home.
Did you know that you may be able to teach English online to children to earn money online and get paid?
VIPKID is a company that allows you to work from home, create your own schedule, and earn $18-21 per hour (many teachers are earning over $1,000 per month) all while teaching English online.
They are currently in high need of teachers, too!
This company has been featured on Forbes, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Woman’s Day, and more.
Here’s VIPKID’s teacher requirements:
- Applicant must have an undergraduate degree in any field.
- Any “formal” or “informal” teaching experience, such as mentoring, tutoring, coaching, or alternative education is fine.
- You need internet and a computer.
- Lesson plans, course materials, etc. are all provided by VIPKID.
- You should have fun teaching engaged children.
You can apply to teach through VIPKID here.
Write romance novels at home
My friend Yuwanda has found one of the most interesting ways to make money at home. She writes romance novels. In just one month she earned over $3,000.
I interviewed her here on Making Sense of Cents about how she earns money at home writing romance novels. You can learn the answers to questions such as:
- How much money she has made writing romance novels
- Her top tips to start writing romance novels
- Why your romance novels don’t need to be as long as you think (her most popular romance novels are under 10,000 words)
- How to sell romance novels on Amazon
Please read more at How to Make Money Self-Publishing Short Romance Novels on Amazon.
Become a transcriptionist to earn money from home.
Transcription work is a growing field.
In 2007, Janet started working from home as a medical transcriptionist. Shortly after that, she started a successful general and legal transcription business.
While running her business, the idea of creating a course popped up. Janet now teaches others in her online course how to transcribe online, while working from home as a transcriptionist.
In this interview, we talk about:
- What a transcriptionist is.
- How you can get started as a transcriptionist.
- What kind of money you can expect to make.
- The type of training you need, and more.
Learn more at Make Money At Home By Becoming A Transcriptionist.
Voice over act
What is a voice over actor?
If you are new to this idea, it may sound too complicated. But, that does not have to be the case.
A voice over actor is the person you hear but rarely see on YouTube videos, radio ads, explainer videos, corporate narration, documentaries, e-learning courses, audiobooks, TV commercials, video games, movies, and cartoons.
In 2014, my friend Carrie replaced her salaried day job to become a full-time voice over actor.
I asked Carrie some questions about this career field, such as:
- Who your typical clients may be
- How much money you can expect to make as a new voice over actor
- The positives of becoming a voice over actor
- How to find your first voice over acting job
- The equipment you need as a voice over actor
You can read my interview with her at How To Become A Voice Over Actor.
How can I make $100 a day?
Learning how to make $100 a day is a great goal to have. With the career and side hustle ideas above, you will be able to earn $100 a day.
For the jobs above, you most likely just need an internet connection and a laptop. Some are full-time jobs, and others you may be able to complete in your spare time.
You could be working from home by managing social media accounts, selling photography as a photographer, helping business owners by answering phone calls, selling on marketplaces, starting a Instagram, walking dogs or pet sitting on Rover, finding gigs on Craigslist, flipping domain names, selling items on Facebook marketplace, creating your own blog, hosting a garage sale, and more.
Simply go through the options above and see which ones you are most interested in learning more about.
I recommend reading How To Make $100 A Day.
How do I make an extra $1,000 a month?
If you want to learn how to make $1,000 a month on the side and how to earn money from home, then there are many things you could do.
This may include starting a blog, becoming a virtual bookkeeper, starting an online tutoring business, creating an online store, and more.
I recommend reading Ways To Make An Extra $1,000 A Month to learn more.
How can I learn how to earn money while studying?
If you want to learn how to earn money online as a student, then it is possible! There are so many online jobs these days, and there are many options for those who are still in school to be able to earn a living from home.
Please head to 16 Best Online Jobs For College Students & How To Start to learn more.
How can I earn money from home without any investment?
Fortunately, the make money online options above do not all require you to make any investments.
For many, you simply just need your own computer and an internet connection.
Others may want you to have a cell phone or a separate phone line for phone calls.
For the most part, though, home based jobs usually do not require you to have much when it comes to equipment. That is one of the great things about home based jobs and careers – you can get started quite affordably and easily as you don’t need anything crazy to get started. Chances are that you most likely have everything that you already need in order to get started working at home.
Can I work from home with just a phone or a tablet?
There are some jobs where you may be able to work from home with just a phone or a tablet (such as an iPad). I recommend taking a look at the list above to see what may be possible.
Of course, everything will be easier if you have a laptop or computer as well. This is simply because a laptop or computer is bigger and easier to work on.
How can I find work from home jobs with no experience?
There are many no experience work from home jobs that may work for you.
I recommend reading 20 Of The Best Entry Level Work From Home Jobs to see what interests you the most.
You may have to take some courses or do other types of learning in order to get started, but everyone has to start somewhere.
What jobs can I do from home to make money? How to make money from home?
As you can see, there are many ways to earn money from home. As a recap, some options include:
- Starting a blog
- Selling on Amazon
- Sell printables on Etsy
- Sell stickers from home
- Run Facebook ads for local businesses at home
- Sell Canva templates
- Becoming an online tutor
- Becoming a virtual assistant
- Writing an eBook
- Starting an online store
- Proofreading
- Bookkeeping
- Flipping items for profit
- Freelance writing
- Earn affiliate income at home
- Teaching English from home
- Write romance novels at home
- Becoming a transcriptionist
- Voice over act
Are you interested in learning how to earn money from home? If you currently make money from home, please share in the comments below and tell us all about it!
If you are new to Making Sense of Cents, I am all about finding ways to make money from home and save more money as well. Here are some of my favorite sites and products that may help you out:
- Cut your TV bill. Cut your cable, satellite, etc. Even go as far to go without Netflix or Hulu as well. Buy a digital antenna (this is the one we have) and enjoy free TV for life.
- You should know your credit score – Check your credit score with Credit Sesame for free!
- Answer online surveys to earn money from home. Survey companies I recommend include Swagbucks, Survey Junkie, American Consumer Opinion, Pinecone Research, Opinion Outpost, and Prize Rebel. Survey sites are free to join and free to use! You get paid to answer surveys, get gift cards, and to test products. It’s best to sign up for as many as you can as that way you can receive the most surveys and make the most money.
- Sign up for a website like Rakuten where you can earn CASH BACK for just spending like how you normally would online. The service is free too! Plus, when you sign up through my link, you also receive a free $10 cash back too!
- Save money on food. I recently joined $5 Meal Plan in order to help me eat at home more and cut my food spending. It’s only $5 a month and you get meal plans sent straight to you along with the exact shopping list you need in order to create the meals. Each meal costs around $2 per person or less. This allows you to save time because you won’t have to meal plan anymore, and it will save you money as well!
- Learn affiliate marketing. This is my favorite way to make money blogging. You can learn more at Affiliate Marketing Tips For Bloggers – Free eBook about how to make money with affiliate links on your website.
- You may be able to find freelancer work on Upwork, Fiverr, through your own website, work that is part-time, side gigs, full-tine jobs, and more.
- Start a YouTube channel. You can learn more at How I Grew From 0 Subscribers To Over $100,000 With YouTube Videos In Less Than One Year.
- I highly recommend Credible for student loan refinancing. You can lower the interest rate on your student loans significantly by using Credible which may help you shave thousands off your student loan bill over time.
- Rent out on Airbnb. This could mean renting out a spare room in your home, or finding property to convert to Airbnb rentals.
- Try InboxDollars. InboxDollars is an online rewards website I recommend. You can earn cash by taking surveys, playing games, shopping online, searching the web, redeeming grocery coupons, and more. Also, by signing up through my link, you will receive $5.00 for free just for signing up!
- Read 17 Best Online Jobs To Make $1,000+ A Month to learn more.
Have fun learning how to earn money from home!