How to Make Money Online from Home [3 Secrets and 5 Easy Jobs]
I’m sharing five jobs to make money onlinefrom home, two of which I’ve just developedso I know nobody else is doing them. In this video, I’ll not only show you howto get started in each of these and how muchyou can make, I’m revealing three secretsto all work from home jobs that will guaranteeyour success. We’re talking making money from home todayon Let’s Talk Money!Beat debt. Make money. Make your money work for you. Creating the financial future you deserve. Let’s Talk Money!Joseph Hogue with the Let’s Talk Money channelhere on YouTube. I want to send a special shout out to everyonein the community, thank you for taking a littleof your time to be here today. If you’re not part of the community yet,just click that little red subscribe button. It’s free and you’ll never miss an episode. I’m going to show you a graphic that shouldscare anyone still depending on a traditionaljob, an employer, for their income. So this shows two types of tax forms collectedby the IRS, the W-2 form you get from a traditionalemployer reporting your wages and the 1099form you get when working as a contract employeeor in that side hustle economy. And if this doesn’t immediately scare youthen you’re not looking close enough. The lines here are based off the number ofthese forms the IRS got in 2000 and you cansee that since that time, those W-2 formshave decreased. That means the IRS has been getting fewerof these traditional job forms each year,employers are hiring fewer of those traditionaltype of employees. But look at this line for the number of 1099forms collected by the IRS. It’s surged since 2000 and some estimatesput the contract economy as high as one-in-tenAmericans right now. This growth in online jobs, the gig economy,side hustles or freelance contractors, whateveryou want to call it. Where do you think these jobs are coming from?Getting started on one of the five onlinejobs we’ll talk about in this video or theothers we’ve highlighted on the channel,it’s no longer about making extra money. It’s not going to be long before all workis done this way, as a freelance work fromhome idea and getting started now is absolutelycritical to securing your financial future!So what I want to do in this video is coverfive ways to make money online and from homethat anyone can use, no matter what your experience. We won’t talk about blogging or startinga YouTube channel or anything like that. These are great income sources and I’vebuilt a six-figure income from them but Iwanted to focus on jobs anyone can start. I’m also going to be sharing three secretsthat will guarantee your success no matterwhat work from home job you choose so stickaround for those towards the end of the video. This first one is going to be a wide-openmarket because nobody is doing it, offeringdigital marketing and brand promotion at alocal level. I love this idea because it combines the offlineworld with the online. It combines a lot of different jobs peopleare doing but nobody has yet to put it alltogether. What you’re doing here is going to localbusinesses to offer digital marketing services. You’ll go online to blogs with a local audienceor review sites, anywhere your client’scustomers might hangout online. Then you’re going to write guest posts onthe blogs, leave reviews, engage in socialforums and social media, all to help promoteand manage the brand for your client. The separate pieces here; writing, brand management,advertising. These all exist already but nobody is combiningthat online service with an offline, face-to-faceand personal relationship you can build withthese local businesses. That online brand management and promotionis something small businesses desperatelyneed and they feel completely mystified byit. They know they need a solution, fear to theircore that they’re missing out and have noidea where to begin. This is a job that starts at $50 an hour andis something that will turn into a six-figurebusiness very quickly. Once you start working with a few companies,you’ll develop a resources list you canuse for every job in that industry. You’ll have already developed your listof restaurant and food blogs or forums orFacebook groups you can engage with for everynew client. Start locally here. Visit small businesses, put together a coupleof promotion packages you can offer at differentprice levels. After a year of this, you can start expandinginto different cities and start building yourteam to do the work. Now I want to get to those other four waysto make money online and the three successtips but I also want to get your opinion. Are you currently doing any kind of side hustleor freelance work from home or if not, what’syour biggest hurdle to starting somethinglike this?What is keeping you from getting started onyour work from home business?Just a quick question to see where the communityis on this one. Scroll down and tell us in the comments soI know what types of videos we need to make. This next one, I’m just going to call itbeing a book guru because I don’t thinkthere’s a name for it. One of the most consistent habits we see inmillionaires, without fail, is the idea ofmaking time for reading. In fact, research by Thomas Crowley foundthat 85% of self-made millionaires read twoor more books a month. That’s not only reading how-to books onbusiness but biographies, self-improvementand even leisure reading. Billionaire Mark Cuban schedules three hoursa day for reading and Bill Gates reads 50books a year. Reading more is something we all know we needto do…but how many actually do it?Your job here is going to be making it possiblefor people to get that knowledge without havingto crack open a book. This is going to be like a consulting or coachingbusiness but instead of trying to sell yourexperience or knowledge, you’re sellingthe experience and knowledge of Richard Bransonor Jack Welch or Bill Gates. What you’re going to do is read the mostpopular books; books on business, on successand mindset. I mean really study the books, take notesand learn the lessons. Then you offer one-on-one consulting and groupmasterminds explaining the books. Now this goes beyond just giving people thecliff’s notes to a book. You’re pointing out the biggest lessons,helping people understand how they can usethe information. Besides doing that consulting idea, you canput what you learn in a quick download orprintable to sell for another income stream. Your clients are going to be busy businesspeople, folks that know they need to be readingthese books and implementing the advice, butjust don’t have time. Finding clients is actually going to be easierthan you imagine on this one. You can write up short reviews of the bookson a blog and add a lead-in to your services. I think you’ll find LinkedIn is all youneed though to reach the business communityand those entrepreneurs that need this service. This next way to make money online is oneI’ve done for extra cash but can be a legitbusiness through flipping websites. Websites are the digital real estate of the21st century. Not only are people creating and developingwebsites just like you might develop a pieceof raw land into a hotel, there’s a hugeopportunity in taking neglected sites, rehabbingthem and flipping for a profit. You see, it takes nothing to start a website. Less than three bucks a month and you canbe online. Growing that site, knowing what it takes toget traffic and make it a legit business issomething entirely different. More than 90% of the blogs and websites outthere don’t last more than six months. People get frustrated and they give up, theyabandon their digital real estate. That’s where you come in. You pick these neglected sites up for nothing,rehab them to get some basic traffic and startmaking money, then flip them in three monthsfor a huge profit. I did this with a dating website I boughtin 2015 from another blogger. The site was making less than $100 a monthbut had legitimate content and I knew theblogger had genuinely tried to make it work. I bought the site for $500 and started boostingtraffic with regular posts and some searchengine optimization. I was able to increase income to $350 a monthwithin three months and ended up selling itfor $5,000 nine months later. That’s $4,500 on one site alone and I knowpeople that do this full-time, working onfive or six sites at a time. Flippa. com makes it easy to buy and sell websitesthough you’ll also want to get involvedin an online community of bloggers to pickup sites. Now this is something that takes a littlework to understand how to turnaround a sitebut there are a few things you can do to boosttraffic and income that will get you a betterprice. First is to get involved in a community ofbloggers, either one in a specific niche orjust general blogging. Look for groups on Facebook that are activein posting but not just spamming their recentarticle. You’ll learn a lot from these groups andthey’ll be an instant source for sharingyour articles. Don’t try to be on every social media platformfor your blog. You don’t need to jump on the newest platform,just focus on building a community on Facebook,Instagram and Pinterest at first by sharingyour posts and engaging with others. For new blogs with little Google traffic,this is going to be your biggest traffic sourceat first. Finally, make sure you diversify your incomeon the site. This is the biggest mistake I see with bloggerswhere maybe they rely exclusively on ads oraffiliate income. By doing some sponsored posts, printablesand even self-publishing, you can grow a blogto making a couple hundred a month very quicklyand it’s going to be more consistent. I’ve got an entire playlist of videos hereon the channel about starting and buildinga blog so I’ll leave a link in the videodescription below. Two more work from home online jobs and theseare my favorites of the group. First though, if you’re likin’ the video,do me a favor and tap that thumbs up buttonbelow. This next work from home gig is again takinga traditional job and bringing it online asa health and wellness coach. Health is taking a back seat to all the stressand the rush of our daily lives. Wellness is an even bigger idea that includesmental affirmations like confidence and self-worthand as bad as most Americans’ health is…theirwellness is stage four terminal. But you’re saying, there are thousands ofbooks and websites on all of this, from howto live healthy to self-improvement but we’reobviously not following it. What we need is a real person, someone tohelp guide us on that path and keep us onit daily. Now the biggest thing stopping most peoplefrom doing this type of consulting businesswill be those nagging little voices sayingyou’re not an expert. That impostor syndrome and fear people willthink you’re a fraud. Listen up folks because this is going to helpyou in any business idea. You CAN do this. You can become the expert and your personalexperience has more value than you know. Putting yourself on that personal journeyto turn your own health around, to build theself-confidence for success, that experienceis all you need to drive that transformationin others. People are going to relate to your story,your transformation, and they’re going towant to make it their own. Yeah, you might not be the six-pack stud inthe infomercials. You might not be the Miss America contestantwith perfect teeth. You’re a real person that has fought forthis change in your life and with the specialknowledge to make it a reality for others. Now with this type of business, one of thosesuccess hacks we’ll talk about later isgoing to be critical. You need to set up multiple income streamshere so you’re not just relying on thatconsulting. You can offer bi-weekly calls, progress trackingand guidance. You can do this individually or serving agroup. Even charging something like $15 a week perperson and you can easily get to six-figureson this type of business. One more way to make money from home beforethose three success secrets, becoming a virtualassistant. This one is wide open from basic admin tasks,organization and scheduling to specializedjobs. Now I know this is nothing new, there arelots of virtual assistants out there competingfor jobs…but why is it so hard to find agood one?Seriously, I have been looking for a goodassistant for almost a year and friends inmy blogger community, they are always lookingfor help. It is so hard to find someone that can dothis job well. That means, do it well and you can chargea premium for the work, from $20 an hour upto $35 an hour and more. You can find clients from some of the freelancingsites like Upwork and Freelancer. com but thebest jobs are found by engaging in Facebookgroups and just getting to know a group ofbusiness owners. You’re going to learn specifically whatkinds of tasks they need done and you’llbe able to get a job without competing ona global level. Now I want to reveal those three secrets tobeing successful in any online business. More than anything else, these three ideaswill help you get started and make money online. First is don’t think you have to be THEexpert in a topic to offer advice or havea business. I briefly hinted at the psychological phenomenoncalled impostor syndrome earlier where thosenagging little voices in your head say, “Whothe hell am I to be giving advice?”The problem here is that people let thosenagging little voices win. They let that fear of rejection keep themfrom ever getting started. Now this doesn’t mean you can just jumpinto any business idea, any topic, and starttalking like you know what you’re doing. You need to do your research, learn how thingswork, but I’m going to give you two verypowerful ideas here. First is to share your own personal storyand use that to help people create their owntransformation. For example, you might not be the world’sleading expert on paying off debt but you’vegot your own experience paying off your creditcards or budgeting or whatever. When you share your story, it helps peoplerelate. They can see that story as their own, learnfrom the mistakes and the successes. It becomes personal for them too and they’remuch more likely to follow the advice. This is so important, creating that personalconnection through stories. How many people read through how many millionsof blog posts every day about saving money?I’d bet that 99% of them fail at saving,fail at their goals, because those blog postsfail to use that personal connection to motivatepeople. So don’t underestimate the power of yourown personal story in being the expert. Also is to focus on a single transformationwith your customers. If you don’t have decades of experienceas a fitness instructor, don’t try to turnyour customers into Arnold Schwarzenegger. Focus on one thing you can do for them andmake that your business. For example here, maybe you focus on healthyeating and don’t try to be an overall health& wellness coach. Don’t try to bite off everything, tryingto tell people how to exercise and their dietand everything else. Learn how to drive that one transformation,that one goal. You’ll become an expert in this one ideavery quickly and you can gradually expandyour services into other parts of the topic. Our next success hack here is to develop multipleincome streams from your business. This one is huge and is something I see mostpeople miss. They focus on that one income idea, maybecoaching one-on-one or flipping websites andnever make as much as they could. The idea here is that in every business, thereare different ways to make money. You might not get rich on any single ideabut put three or four or five of these incomestreams together and you’ve really got something. I only net about two grand a month from self-publishingbut add that to another four grand from affiliates,three to four grand from YouTube ads and afew other sources and I’m consistently overten grand a month. All these income sources, they’re withinthat content creator, blogger kind of businessmodel so it’s not like I’m trying to jugglemultiple businesses. The core is creating information, I’ve justfound a way to repackage it differently anduse each of those as an income stream. For your own business, this might mean somethinglike creating short-guides to sell or full-lengthbooks. You can do one-on-one consulting and alsooffer group coaching. You can put what you know into a simple checklist,something people can buy as a download forthe main points. Our third business hack, and this is anotherone that so many online entrepreneurs miss,is really spending some time to develop amarketing plan. It is not enough to have a great product. There are thousands, hundreds of thousandsof great products out there, but they failas a business because they can’t get theirmessage in front of people. Getting your message in front of people, thatfirst step in your marketing plan, means somekind of distribution strategy. This might mean developing your own blog orYouTube channel. It might mean finding popular blogs or channelsin the topic and connecting with the ownersso they let you spread your message on theirsite. The other route here is paying for advertisingon these sites or through social media. But having that distribution isn’t enough,having a blog or channel isn’t going tobe enough to make your business a success. The second step in your marketing plan ishow to guide people through the buying decision,sharing your message and making it their own. This means creating what’s called a marketingfunnel. It’s a way of getting people into a process,maybe by collecting their email address, thenguiding them through the decision-making processto your product. We just don’t buy things we see advertised. We see so many commercials every day, we’reblind to it. We need that extra push to make the decision. So as a business owner, you need to capturepeople’s attention and get them on yourlist. You can do this with a freebie, so maybe afree checklist or download. Then you warm that potential customer up withemails sharing your personal experience withthe product or with client testimonials. You help them see how much better their lifecan be and then, only then do you presentyour product as a solution. Want to see the 10 highest paying jobs youcan get without a degree?Click through to the video on the right forthe best jobs in America with no college needed,some that pay as much as $85,000 a year. Don’t forget to join the Let’s Talk Moneycommunity by tapping that subscribe buttonand clicking the bell notification.