18 Realistic and Simple Ways to Make Money from Home in 2021
- Dec-24-2020
- Bilal Uddin
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It literally only takes a laptop with an internet connection, and you can find a way to make money from home as a side income or even help you to quit the 9 to 5 rat race.
However, most people have the misconception that only people who are associated with the digital or ecommerce industry can earn from home.
Well, that’s so not the case.
From starting an online business to teaching, everything can be done from home.
To answer every concern, I have mentioned some legitimate and realistic ways that anyone can follow to make an extra $1000 by working from home.
Here I have mentioned 18 realistic ways that can help you to make money from home fast.
1- Start a Dropshipping Business from Home
4- Sell handmade products on Etsy
6- Dropshipping from Amazon to eBay
8- Earn from freelance writing
10- Become a virtual assistant
12- Become an Instagram Influencer
In this post, I have divided these 18 ways into 6 categories for your ease.
So, let’s begin
i. Make Money from Home by Selling Online
Starting an ecommerce business from home seems like an ‘easier said than done’ job; however, some online selling methods are viable enough to start from home.
1- Start a Dropshipping Business
If you are following our website for a while, then you’d probably know how much we love the dropshipping business model. It is one of the accessible ways to start making money from home fast.
For those who are not familiar with this ecommerce business method, let me give a breif definition;
Dropshipping is ecommerce business model that allows the seller/retailer to sell the product online without keeping any stock.
The customer comes to the retailer site and purchase the product, then the order is directed to the supplier and the supplier delivers the product directly to the customer.
Sell the product on your store for at least 2 to 3 times the supplier’s rate to earn massive revenues.
What do you need to start a dropshipping business:
i- A laptop/computer with an internet connection
ii- An ecommerce platform (Shopify recommended)
iii- A specific niche (Learn to Find a Niche)
iv- Find a supplier (List Dropshipping Suppliers)
v- A trending product to sell (List of Trending Products)
vi- Social media marketing expertise (Learn Social Media Advertisement)
Let me be honest here; the most challenging part here is to get a profitable return on advertisement spend (ROAS).
Social media marketing is crucial to learn to get a visitor to your store and generate sales.
You can either learn social media advertisements yourself or hire an expert in this field.
Check out these 11 Facebook Audience insights hacks to generate sales in just 60 minutes.
Use These Useful Resources to Start your Dropshipping Business from Home:
2- Sell Print on Demand Products
Print on demand business is a branch of dropshipping business where the seller/retailers work with the print on demand service/supplier to customize and sell white-label products.
Numbers of print on demand companies offer several white label products such as t-shirts, mugs, doormat, shower curtain, etc.
You need to submit a design to be printed on these products and publish the product on your online store or ecommerce marketplace such as Etsy.
When a customer buys your product, the POD service customizes the product with your design and delivers it to the customer. You earn the artist’s price as profit.
You have a couple of options to start your print on demand business from home.
1st Option – Sell on Print on Demand Marketplace
In this method, the print on demand company offers a dedicated marketplace where you just need to customize the product and upload it on the marketplace. On each sale, you will receive the markup as a profit.
Almost all print on demand marketplace is free to join so you will earn money on each sale without investing anything.
2nd Option – Create a Print on Demand Dropshipping Store
Here is how it works:
- Select a niche (e.g., coffee, fishing, etc.)
- Create an online store (Shopify recommended)
- Create a Design
- Integrate a print on demand app (List of print on demand Shopify apps)
- Upload the customized products
- Market the products on social media
The process is much similar to the dropshipping business model. To start a full-fledged print on demand business from home, I would recommend the second option.
Check out These Helpful Resources to Start Print on Demand Business
- Print on Demand Business Guide
- 10 Unique Print on Demand Products
- Proven Methods to Design Your Products
- Sell 25,000 Print on Demand Products in One Year
3- Flipping Products on eBay
First, let me explain the concept of flipping.
Flipping products means buying an item for a good/cheap price and sell it on higher profits. On eBay, this method of earning has more potential than any other ecommerce platform.
Since eBay works on a bidding price model, it becomes easier for the eBay seller to find out some unique products at a cheap rate and sell it for a much higher rate on eBay.
Most flipper finds items on thrift shops (mostly vintage items, brand-name clothes, or furniture) and lists them on eBay. Many flippers started this as part-time home jobs and ended up leaving thier day time jobs.
Hairy Tornado, a YouTuber as well as an eBay flipper, manage to sell a used Ralph Lauren shorts for $100 on eBay that he bought for $1.25 from a thrift store.
So, assign a day or two in a week, check the thrift shops or garage sales, and find some unique items to sell on eBay for higher profits.
Check out These Helpful Resources to Start eBay Flipping:
4- Sell Handmade Products on Etsy
Etsy is a perfect place for creative people and artisans to make serious money from home. It is the best marketplace to sell handmade and DIY products. Many Etsy sellers have managed to create thier own brand store by working from home.
If you love crafting, then you can easily find a relevant audience for your product on Etsy.
Here are some popular ideas that you can try to sell on Etsy from home.
- Handmade jewelry
- Scented candle
- Crochet items
- Organic skincare products (scrub, soap, etc.)
Are you interested in trying to sell on Etsy? Then do check out these useful resources.
5- Sell Second-Hand/Used Clothes
Second-hand clothing business is booming online and is expected to become a $51 billion industry by 2023—the majority of women who shop online prefer to buy used clothes than the new one.
So, if you have a closet full of unused clothes, then it is time to declutter. Clothes are one of the most purchased items online; you can easily find a potential customer for your used clothes so that you can make some extra money from home for free.
You would not find it difficult to sell out the used clothes if you know the right place to approach.
Best Places to Sell Used Clothes:
1- Thred Up
4- Leprix
6- eBay
All of these platform are free to join for selling.
Useful Resources:
6- Dropshipping from Amazon to eBay
This is a trick to make money from home fast. Here is what you need to do in simple words:
Look a product that is cheaper on Amazon → list it on eBay → a customer orders the product from the eBay store → order the product from Amazon and enters the eBay’s customer information → earn the markup money as profit.
This is a legal dropshipping method, but it is risky. Ecommerce marketplaces do not prefer this method, but it is one of the easiest ways to make money from home fast and legally.
However, the major question that arises here is; how can we hide the fact from customers that this product is not coming from Amazon?
Here is the catch.
Mark your Amazon order as a “gift,” so Amazon will send the product without any packaging or branding so they would not find out its real origin.
That’s how you can make money from home fast!
Want to try out this method?
Check out this Useful Resource:
ii. Make Money from Home by Working Online
One of the best and the most conventional way to make money from home is to get online work. If you have a laptop, internet connection, and a payment gateway (e.g., Paypal), you can easily earn money from home.
7- Take Surveys
Become a part of a study and get paid.
I know you must have heard this method thousands of times, but you cannot ignore the fact that this is a legitimate way to earn extra money from home by working part-time.
Multiple platforms are available that genuinely pay money for completing a survey. I, myself, have tried some of these platform and get paid handsomely after completing small tasks.
These survey sites are an excellent platform for earning some side income by spending a few minutes a day.
Here are some legitimate survey to make a side-income from home.
Requirement: Minimum age of 13. Must be the resident of the USA, Canada, or Australia.
Answer some basic questions and set up your profile for free. You will receive the assignments/survey based on your expertise and answers that you provided. The survey could be conducted via phone interviews, questionnaires, product testing, or subjective responses.
Requirement: Minimum age of 13. Must be a resident of the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, Germany, France, Spain, or India.
Swagbucks helps you make money by doing everyday things that most people already do online daily such as watching videos, playing video games, and filling out survey forms. For each task, you will earn points that you can redeem in the way of gift cards of Amazon and Walmart or the form of cash from Paypal.
Requirement: Minimum age of 18. Must have a Paypal account.
This platform is ideal for professionals as well as students. You can find several research surveys from beginner to advance level. You need to apply for the research that seems best for you, and then the researcher will send you an invitation via email to set up time.
8- Earn from Freelance Writing
Writing is one of the highest-paid jobs globally, and the ideal job that can become a full-time career by working from home. Most people have a misconception that you have to be a born creative to become a professional writer.
That’s not at all true.
You only need expertise in some fields, and you can become an expert writer in a particular niche such as finance writer, medical writers, cryptocurrency writer, etc.
However, the question rises here on picking freelance writing gigs since the competition is pretty fierce.
Where to Find Writing Jobs
So, here I am mentioning some platform that can help you to land your first writing gigs easily.
Writing Job Boards
Twitters Account for Writing Jobs
Freelance Platforms
Check out This Useful Resource to Become a Freelance Writer
9- Become a Transcriber
If you have good listening skills or understand multiple languages, then transcriber is the best way for you to make some extra money from home.
The transcriber job is to listen to an audio or video and convert it into text. This job does not need any qualification, just a good listening power to do the job faster.
However, converting the audio into text could cost alot of your time. Sometimes it takes hours to transcribe a 10-minute video.
10- Become a Virtual Assistant
This is one of the easiest ways to earn from home. You do not need any specific skills or qualifications to become a virtual assistant.
iii. Make Money from Home with Content Creation
11- Start Blogging
12- Become an Instagram Influencer
Find a niche → identify the niche’s problem → provide a solution.
- Publish promotional post/story
- Promote affiliate products and apps
- Sell your course
- Sell your products
13- Start a YouTube Channel
I know the stats are not huge, but our channel was dead. Since we started posting weekly, it quickly showed positive results and gained us, 52+ subscribers, in just 28 days, not bad, I guess!
Useful Resources:
iv. Make Money from Home by Working for Amazon
14- Mechanical Turk
15- Amazon Virtual Location
16- Merch by Amazon
v. Make Money from Home by Testing Websites
17- User Testing
vi. Make Money from Home by Teaching Online
18- VIP Kid
Related Article: 29 Ways to Make Money Online for Free
Wrapping Up:
Bilal is a passionate content creator and digital marketing enthusiast who loves to find hacks and creative ways to produce prolific outcomes in strategizing content. Bilal is also an avid reader who loves to read mysteries in his free time.