Working and making cash from home can be a dream, but it can also be a real thing. You can be cautious of the methods of making money by working at home, but they do exist. Here are some of them :
Buying a Home Business: There are four ways to buy a business. Buy an existing home business from a home business owner. Buy a franchise home business. Buy a business opportunity. Buy a direct sales business, which can include multi-level marketing. In terms of buying a business, one of the best values and potential profitability is direct sales. Unfortunately, there are many myths and misconceptions that prevent some people from considering a home business in direct sales. While there are MLM scams you need to watch out for, you can also avoid them with research. To be a direct sales success, it’s important to pick a company with products you believe in, and also to make sure you have a complete understanding of what’s involved. Avoid making common mistakes, such as not reading the contract or not loving the products.
Some companies like 1-800flowers.com outsource customer-service operations to third-party companies who then hire home-based workers or “agents” to take calls and orders. When you call 1-800-flowers, you may be speaking with Rebecca Dooley, a retired police officer and employee of Alpine Access, a major call-center service. When you dialed the number to 1-800-flowers, your call was automatically routed to Rebecca’s spare bedroom in Colorado. Alpine Access currently employs more than 5,000 work-at-home customer-service agents who take in-bound calls (there’s no outbound or cold calling) for dozens of companies. “This works perfectly for me because I can set up my hours around my family’s busy lifestyle,” says Dooley, who usually works 20 to 32 hours a week, depending on her schedule.
Get dressed. “I find that the most important thing for me is to keep a regular routine and to shower and dress every day as if I were going to an actual office,” says Jenifer Kramer, Principal of West Hollywood, California-based Jenerosity Marketing. Catherine Waldron, education specialist, with Enfield, Connecticut-based language curriculum company QTalk Publishing, agrees, and says she showers and dresses for work every day. “Getting dressed makes the home office more like a real office, and tells and reminds everyone, especially you, that even though you may be sitting on the sofa reading, browsing the Web, or talking on the phone, that you are actually working,” she says. See more info at Free Work From Home Strategy.
Another popular freelance platform is Fiverr. It’s similar to Upwork as you can get paid to do just about any task where the completed work can be delivered electronically and setting up a profile here gives you additional exposure to potential freelance clients. Fiverr gets its name from the fact the freelancers can charge $5 (or more) per gig. For select tasks, some sellers charge up to $10,000 per task. Now that’s a serious payday! Many Fiverr customers like to hire freelancers like you to design eBook covers, create company logos, write blog posts, create digital videos and audio recordings, and other tasks they don’t have the skills to complete. My wife and I have personally used Fiverr to hire somebody to create a book cover for a self-published book. One the gig is complete, you get paid.